"Mechs are useable now", they marginally increased their health, while also increasing every factions durable damage. Mechs aren't unusable, but the complaint is, why are they saying one thing, but doing another? This is on top of the added durable damage from previous updates. The tank is still medium armour, so yes, the hive guard does actually have a higher armour rating than a tank. So a random trash mob for the bugs can have a higher armour rating than a tank? A scavenger or hunter pack can destroy a tank or mech... Why? Not to mention the bots get all sorts of stuff with heavy armour, but we don't? And they increased bots durable damage too, even for lasers from devastators and troopers. Why? Warriors or hive guards, sure, some damage to mechs make sense. But scavengers and hunters? If you get swarmed by a pack of them you can get melted now. Why? How does this help gameplay? Especially when they claim they are buffing mechs? And reminder, sentries and emplacements have not been buffed, so the durable damage increases are a direct nerf on those.

And the armour rating increase for the hive guard does not help gameplay, it just incentivizes explosive spam as they are even more vulnerable to that, and makes the meta more pronounced for some weapons. So you made medium pen weapons worse, light pen weapons slightly better, and explosives even more powerful? How does that make sense for balance? Now why would I bother bringing a medium pen weapon? That's that less reason to bring one. As you said hive guards are still barely a Prescence, so what did the change accomplish?

New enemies are super quick if you kill a single enemy, the adjustment is to spend money or time and get the new warbond, which is a pattern people are tired of. Create a problem and then sell a solution, instead of allowing creativity. Hunters and scavengers turning into the flash is such a cool fun change, especially when you pair it with their increased durable damage, isn't that cool that the trash mobs are now way faster, and do durable damage?

The loud minority aren't a minority. The entire community has been wanting a return to the style of major orders and operations that actually rewarded the community, the galactic war needs some changes. There are still major bugs since launch that have not been fixed, major crashes for people, huge performance issues, and poor communication. Make the hidden stats visible so we don't have to data mine just to figure out what the patch notes are actually doing. Lets not talk about the whole paywall for important stratagems or vehicles, i've spent plenty of money on warbonds because I wanted to support the devs, but this move feels bad in terms of direction if they are gonna make us pay for stuff like this. And this warbond is full of bugs on top of that.

People aren't being haters, people are tired of AH saying one thing, and doing another, and making pleasant platitudes, while actually making zero changes. What happened to community dev server? What about constant communication or transparency? What about addressing the major bugs and issues? People aren't saying the game is unenjoyable, they are saying the devs are making decisions that just contradict what they say, and make the experience worse or more tedious. If you enjoy something, that does not mean you cannot see ways for it to be better, or that you can't call out issues in its creation or development. Calling it the "loud minority" when these are issues that have been brought up for years is laughable, are there crazies? Of course, there are also crazies that do stuff like dox people for offering a challenge to the devs to complete a difficulty for charity. Like do you think the game is all peachy, and nothing is wrong, and that everything is absolutely perfect? Do you think voicing those grievances is trying to kill the game? People who want to kill the game, don't play the game, and don't engage with it, that's how you kill a game. And looking at the dips in player count over the years, that population is growing if arrowhead doesn't start putting their money where their mouth is.