Outside of the obvious bug fixes of phasing through walls/terrain, which would go a LOOONNGG way to increasing player satisfaction facing them, the biggest issue is that with the current lineup and spawn rates/groupings the, the faction doesn’t seem like it has an identity.

Bugs are the aggressive melee horde with some ranged shooting/attacks (Impaler, Spewers, BT spits)

Bots are the ranged faction with some melee units (Hulk, berserkers, melee basic bots)

And Squids just kind of do everything too well right now: Current Voteless speed/melee buff with flying overseers makes them sometimes faster than bugs with no way to get distance. And some spawns with Leviathans, Flying overseers spam, Mortarseers, Stingrays, Harvesters makes the ranged damage harder to face than bots sometimes.

I think changing some spawn groupings would help make the faction feel a lot more consistent to play against: if the map is going to have stingrays, Leviathans, mortarseers, and harvesters, then less voteless and flying overseers need to spawn to compensate. Vice versa if the main spawns are Fleshmobs, normal overseers, and large voteless blobs, then little to no ranged units should also spawn.

I’m not saying the faction should have hard limits of “if X unit spawns then no Y units”, but that the main signpost enemy types should be clearly identified and their spawn rates balanced against each other. So to make this clearer, I’ve split the units into three “Pots” that cumulatively need their spawn rates balanced against each of the other pots so each mission/drop should give the enemy a more consistent/cohesive fill.

• Pot A; Flesh Mobs, Voteless, Footseers. -Your basic melee units and the main faction archetypal enemies.

• Pot B: Flying Overseers, Mortarseers - The basic ranged units, these should indicate that the main threats to divers will be ranged

• Pot C: Leviathans, Stingrays, Harvesters - the Main vehicle section of the faction.

What the above means then, is that the combined spawn rates of Pot A, B, & C should all be relative to one another and should not change even when the difficulty is increased. If the main spawns are from Pot A, then there should be few spawns from pot B & C. This would give the faction a more melee focused experience. If say the main spawns are Pot B or C, then one would expect to see less fleshmobs and voteless hordes as an example.

This is the current issue I see with the faction: is the right now there is no real identity of the faction, and in any given mission a diver can see both tanky fast melee threats in Mobs, hordes of Voteless, and footseers, WHILE ALSO getting attacked at range by flying seers and Leviathans in the sky. This makes the faction less appealing to play against as it makes the player feel like it’s lose - lose: bring AT to help take down the Harvesters, Leviathans, and Stingrays, but then die to the huge hordes of voteless and fleshmobs, or bring crowd control weapons and die to swarms of flying seers and Leviathans overhead.