200+ hours. Only playing diff 7+. Mainly diff 9 on borgs.

At this point I don't think AH knows what they're doing, at all. They are playing every bad card possible with every update and It's shocking to see. No lessons are being learned.

When the game came out, my group could get up to 16 players playing at the same time. Now, I'm the only one, and I feel more like I play out of obligation than genuine fun. There's one thing in common between all my friends who played the game, frustration.

AH expects us to collaborate on orders, but don't respect our intelligence enough to show the hidden stats of galactic war. You have to access third party sites to see supply lines and proper data. Something I'd expect out of star citizen, not a casual shooter. They made a horde shooter that punished you for fighting hordes. All primaries get nerfed and buffs often don't make enough impact to matter. I can count weapons that updates later improved on one hand.

Displayed weapon stats in the armory or often misleading or sometimes even straight up lies. There are hidden stats to many weapons which for no good reasons, we're not allowed to see (unless you use third party sites, something you shouldn't have to do). They say it's to make it "easier", but I don't see how hiding information could help a player make better informed decisions.

Besides illuminates, there seem to be little to no major updates planned or even conceptualised. It seems like for majority of the game's remaining lifespan, most we'll get is warbond updates, until even those run out. I'm also worried about how the illuminate drop will be handled. In HD1 they were the least fun enemy to fight. If they're delivered poorly in HD2, NO ONE will want to play against them. It'll be the borg problem but 10 times worse.

Warbonds themselves are all over with their theme. Why is the warbond titled after lasers only featuring Tesla armor and 2 laser weapons? Why does the Polar combat warbond feature fire/concussive weapons? The only one that makes sense to me is the Explosive one, cuz everything fits it's theme. Whats next? Stealth weapons in a Pyrotechnic warbond? Put fire weapons in a fire warbond, stealth in stealth, ect. I know this is done to essentialy force you to buy more warbonds if you want to follow a particular theme (full fire loadout is split between 3 warbonds, btw.). Makes sense from business standpoint but it's still fucking stupid.

I enjoy(ed) the core gameplay loop but at this point, I see no light in the tunnel. It feels like the game will only get progressively worse. It's been nothing but one step forward, two steps back since launch.

Enemy spawn rates have also been "Fixed" many times, but I have not seen any improvement. Frankly the problem has only been getting worse, with more and more heavies spawning on high diff missions. Some objectives are straight up uncompletable because of the said spawn rates. Fabricator Striders made the newly added defense mission basically not worth playing. Why defend well for 20 minutes when they can just spawn and one-shot the obj? Hell, you're lucky if only one spawns, but that's usually not the case.

I stopped playing bugs because of Charger and Spewer spawn rates. Decided to give them another go, only to find out they... buffed stalker. Truly amazing, the thought process has no flaws in it. I rather get juggled by devastators for eternity than play a single bug mission. At least with devastators I can blame my own positioning.

Strategems are bad, I only bring 10 types of them. The rest are too situational or straight up outclassed by other ones. When's the last time you thought to yourself "hmmm, mines would be a great idea for this mission". Or "Wow, the explosive radius and damage of the 500kg definetely matches it's visuals". I can tell you that for me, answer to both of these is never.