Bullet Sponge Enemy's. It's too much since 2.0.

[Pizzicata]

It really ruin the pleasure of the fights. Every enemy is like a small terminator. It's just a shield against shield fight. Even in normal. It doesn't any difficulty, It just ruin the fun.
I like 2.0 but this ruin everything to me. I stopped playing it.

[Pizzicata]

Originally posted by Larco:

I'd agree enemies are v bullet spongy at very hard but at hard or normal, combat's pretty snappy for me. Are you sure they're not bosses (skull guys?)

combat still easy. but unpleasant. I like a robocop against robocop. It's just take more time to kill and make look the weapon like ♥♥♥♥. Lower weapon should be effective too. Not only iconic.

[Azjaran]

Originally posted by Pizzicata:

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

Get a shotgun and a sniper rifle. Enemies are easy to kill. If you think enemies are bullet sponges, your weapon choice sucks.

i don't wanna play this way. I like pistols and assault riffles.

For Pistols you kinda have to play Stealth and then you can 1-Shot 1-2 Bars Enemies. Only 3 Bars Enemies need way more Hits, so best thing you can do is to change to a Revolver. I wouldnt use a Assault Rifle atleast on Very Hard

[Rhapsody]

Originally posted by Pizzicata:

I like pistols and assault riffles.

There's a few good ones, but some of them, including iconic ones, are a trap.

Pistols work best if you have good classic FPS type of aim, where you fire from the hip and aim for the head. I love the sound that Deadeye headshots make. They also make for the best stealth weapons with their good headshot bonus, high damage per shot and decent armor penetration. Use Reboot Optics for additional headshot multiplier or use Sandy for more precise aiming. It's a bit high risk high reward because every miss hurts you bad with low capacity of handguns. Tamayura and Nue have best damage per shot but some rapidly firing pistols can out-DPS them.

Assault rifles and SMGs largely use same perks but I'd say ARs win in most situations. You'll need to upload lots of Reboot Optics, Overheat, control hacks or similar to get the most out of high RoF of SMGs, but there are some neat iconic ones like Raiju which should be pretty good off the bat. I'm not specced for those guns, but I used the iconic Kyubi slotted with the re-usable Firecracker mod (from Chimera Core) that turns its bullets explosive. Doesn't work with ricochets though, so plan accordingly. To make the most out of ARs, though, you really need the capstone perk Salt in the Wound. It will double the damage you deal for every 7 hits you land so it's pretty important. Another good thing about those weapons is that you also get access to dash perks, which is one of the best new features.

[Pizzicata]

Some people seems to not understand that it is not about difficulty. For me the difficulty is the same. I don't like the fact that some gun are so ineffective while upgraded are.
It just add time to the fight not difficulty. I'm playing CS-GO online so this IA is nothing but it's not fun at all compared to 1.63 for the fights.

[JmZ-x-]

Skill issue, your build is bad.

[FuriousGreg]

I'm playing on Hard and at first thought the enemies were a bit bullet spongy but if you pay attention to where your shots are landing you can see pretty quickly the difference between body shots vs extremities, even with upgrades and skills. This BTW makes sense in this setting where not only the PC but NPCs often have extensive body mods including armour. I've also noticed the enemy AI is using first aid and other inhalers way more than pre 2.0, again similar to players.
Overall though even Hard feels only a little harder than Normal, so I'm going to try bumping to Very Hard except maybe for bosses... we'll see.

[valium]

SMGs got nerfed pretty substantially, which is what is making you think everything is bullet spongy. Might also be using a weapon with pax on it, find waaaaaaay too many of those, reduces your damage by 20%.

I am one-shotting skull enemies with The Order on my short range brawler and 2 shotting mobs and 4 shotting skulls with my gunslinger using revolvers, on very hard.

[Pizzicata]

Originally posted by JmZ-x-:

Skill issue, your build is bad.

you didn't read me. I'm in the begining of 2.1. With NCPD missions in Watson.
please read before comment it's about skill because i'm talking about the fun of the game.
I not the only one to complain about this change.

[Pizzicata]

Originally posted by valium:

SMGs got nerfed pretty substantially, which is what is making you think everything is bullet spongy. Might also be using a weapon with pax on it, find waaaaaaay too many of those, reduces your damage by 20%.

I didn't put mod but yes they definitly changed something. I found the fights boring as ♥♥♥♥ now

[valium]

Sucks to be you then? I think this change is much better, you need to actually participate in combat now rather than just face roll everything.

[Im Indeep]

I'm running with a strength/tech build with gorilla arms and shotty. I have been playing on normal difficulty and I gotta say I'm blowing right through crowds of enemies. Just finished Phantom Liberty, and the big fights were a breeze on Normal. Really made me consider upping the difficulty.

[midori]

your build sucks

[valium]

You should, very hard feels great. You are a wrecking ball, but so are the enemies. Need to actually play in a way to keep yourself alive while murdering everything.

[Pizzicata]

Originally posted by midori:

your build sucks

read again the whole topic

[Pizzicata]

Originally posted by valium:

Sucks to be you then? I think this change is much better, you need to actually participate in combat now rather than just face roll everything.

bro what is this comment. I'm not the only one disapointed with this. If you like it good for you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShouldIbuythisgame/comments/16pg61h/sib_cyberpunk_2077_20_bullet_sponge_and_general/