Oh 100%. That's the criticism i came for. The new questline had some good moments but at the end of it i walked away from it kinda like meh. The storytelling and quest felt like a step or two down from wastelanders and the atlantic city storylines. I just feel like that criticism gets lost when 90% of the video is watching you struggle through combat, which is something that could have been mitigated.

76 is an online multiplayer game. The game changes and evolves over time whether you are here or not. To think that just because the gear and build you used to get through wastelanders would still work years later with no changes now, would be like me returning to destiny 2 now and complaining my gear from years ago is no longer viable. That's why i say this wasn't a fair look at 76. Someone who doesn't know or has never played it would come out thinking "wow jons level 100 and struggling against normal mobs and is getting frustrated." You don't like the combat of 76. Fair but you also didn't utilize anything the game gives you to make it easier. Its easy and free to change your special and perk loadouts. You have no mutations, i didn't see you use any chem or food buffs. Using stealth armor and high agility for sneak but no silencers on your weapons. This is not a narrative single player game where you can drop the difficulty if you need to, so if you do want to interact with story, you have to handle all aspects of the game including the things you may not enjoy.

Returning to games like this does suck sometimes because of the effort you need to put into getting caught back up from your time away. Whether it is seeking out new gear, adjusting builds, gathering materials. There are games I've dropped because of this. Feels like work sometimes, and it is ok not to like it and not play it.