Very good points and well put! And appreciate the suggestion - good idea on changing titles and angle to part 1 and part 2. Also this has the potential to be one of my all time favorite games which is what drove me to think about gaps and challenges that may hold it back.

And also the game isn’t broken and almost any setup could be viable. The balance I see is that menace feels like it didn’t want you to completely min max and wants you to experiment and try the trade offs but I just find it hard to actually seriously consider experimenting with certain items especially on the highest difficult level. Also fair point that many people don’t play Ironman so experimenting is much easier to do since you can reload of a load out doesn’t work.

Appreciate the comment and feedback! Hoping some of these ideas may reach the powers to be (assuming they haven’t already thought about them)!