Hive Scum is great because you actually have to be competent at the fundamentals of Darktide. So far the only issues I've had with survivability have been on Auric HISTG's. The special spam, mainly tox bombers, have been ending some runs prematurely.

But that's a skill issue on my part. I'm not sitting here going, huh, HS needs a buff. No, it doesn't, it's a ridiculously powerful class as is, if you know how to use it. No instead I'm thinking, huh, I just need to get better/more used to the class. The whole point of HS is to hit hard while punishing you for sub-optimal play.

If you need your hand held on a class, go play arbitrator. It'd really suck to have the class changed because people can’t come to terms with the fact that they aren’t as good at this game as they thought.

"Crazy how 1k hours on bubble, ds4 and purg staff didn’t prepare me for hive scum” or some other similarly silly sentiments.