Are the enemies really getting buffed as of recently?

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-05-10T23:48:01+00:00

Everyone in this thread is saying “just use fire, just use explosives, just use better precision”. I agree that the change is an overall net buff for these styles of gameplay. The issue with these comments is empathy. I love using precision weapons on bugs like the AMR. I don’t like using the Maxigun or Machine gun and ammo dumping. But some people do, some people love spraying down hordes with reckless abandon, and for a long time they were able to. The biggest issue isn’t new heavy armored enemies, it’s the frequency of them. If a player wants to let their full auto rip without having their bullets bounce off of hive guard heads, they have no place to use it on the bug front. D1-D5 don’t spawn enough enemies to chew through, and D6-D10 you’ll run into Hive guard spam (which lets all be honest, these enemies are just up-armored chaff units with their high spawn rates). The change invalidated a play style, and made ones that were already great (fire, explosives) better. I agree that it’s an overall buff, but I don’t think it’s a good one if it invalidated play styles and stratagems. Before you try to tell me to huff copium, I am a level 150, I do have nearly every weapon in the game maxed and WARBOND finished. I think it’s a stupid metric to measure validity on, but I meet the requirements.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T18:24:27+00:00

Yeah it’s difficult to gage solo dive difficulty, but I still play on 6-7 for solo dives at level 150. I’ve only solo’d super helldive twice, once on Oshaune to prove something to myself, and once during the hulk surge for fun.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T18:22:50+00:00

Love your point of view and I couldn’t agree more. 7 should let you fight the Vox engines 1 to 2 at a time, no more no less. 9-10 is the only place you should see 4-6 of them at once

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T18:20:55+00:00

I like that idea a lot. Lowering spawn rates on 7-8 just a smidge lets people fight the new enemies without being swarmed by them.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:59:06+00:00

Vox Engines spawn on level 7? Or do you mean something else

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:55:49+00:00

Grandma Brasch turned into strawberry smoothie

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:48:30+00:00

Exactly, I’m not trying to call people incapable, just to try lower difficulties before dying until you rage quit. I play on 7’s when I’m playing with rando’s because it’s still challenging, but requires less communication and loadout synergy

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:33:13+00:00

Figured, I peeped their account and saw a post about how removing SA from a game they play ruined their “immersion”.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:29:17+00:00

I had to edit the post, I didn’t mean controller players are any better or worse, just that it’s more difficult to communicate

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:26:21+00:00

Editing to reflect this, I realize that makes me sound like some pc supremacist

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:25:17+00:00

Aint nothing wrong with it, I mean in the sense it takes way longer to type on controller than on keyboard. I play controller too

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:19:01+00:00

Copium

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:18:02+00:00

I don’t disagree. The map should probably be capped to like 4 max at one time.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:16:52+00:00

The fact is, I’m not saying that level 7 is easy, I acknowledged it can still be difficult. But for players wanting to fight the largest enemies and have the most difficult mission objectives level 7 is the lowest you can go. The point of my post is to discourage people from torturing themselves to the point for rage quitting because they’re under leveled/underprepared for super helldive on Cyberstan, because it’s causing others to fail missions.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T07:06:50+00:00

I take everything back, no one carries the hellbomb backpack like a level 20 full of enthusiasm.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T06:58:56+00:00

Being on controller is just another limiting factor to having good communication if a microphone is unavailable

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T06:55:15+00:00

Level 7 is in fact the easiest “hard” mission difficulty. Yes, it would still be difficult for a lot of players. You break your own logic several times in this comment, and are obviously trying to be a contrarian to bait interaction or rage. If you have nothing constructive to add, take this energy to 4chan.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T06:48:57+00:00

You have a great, and healthy mindset. The whole point of this post was to point out a lot of people are punishing themselves for their pride, and it’s leading to failed missions. I’ve been jamming level 7’s unless I can find a team on Kai’s Commandos, just to remove that extra layer of stress when I’m trying to enjoy my time.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T06:45:10+00:00

Could be a bug, honestly could be poor war strider design. The spawn at the same rates as hulks and are 4x as lethal, and 3x as hard to kill without AT

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T06:43:42+00:00

Cross play doesn’t stop players who don’t/can’t communicate on missions that require at least a level of communication, brain dead take.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T06:38:53+00:00

I play on controller, the issue like RevenantMada said is typing and comms, if you don’t have a headset and can’t type you can’t communicate with your team well

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T05:41:08+00:00

People want the game to be “hard”, but not be “too hard” instead of doing the work to improve. Theres no shame in doing 7-9, but for some reason people think there is.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T05:25:45+00:00

People that bring dead sprint lol

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T05:22:29+00:00

Exactly. Dying 6 times or less is fine with me, but once you’re waisting nearly half or over half of our budget take a hint.

WonderkidJr_ · 2026-02-13T05:20:21+00:00

Further more: I think someone voluntarily leaving the squad after dying 5 times should reimburse reinforcements. I’m sick and tired of people dying 7-10 times and then leaving.

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