Silent Nerf?

[Bubble O Bill]

Did they Nerf or silent Nerf the operations mode? Absolute has become way to easy even before the prestige system is in. Barely get 3 extremeis spawns and hardly any terminus spawn. Across all modes normal spawn rates are down. Hopefully this isn't how they're going about trying to make people not crash

[AjaxAmias]

Absolute will be corrected in update 8. Let's see what will come out of it.

[Zurf]

i do agree, absolute is a total joke now
in addition being able to farm Prestige points outside Absolute make this game so easy
at a point that s against the spirit of the lore

[DD The Pumpkin King]

That's what happens when you increase the lvl cap from 25 to 29 alongside a multitude of other buffs.

As someone mentioned, 8.0 has Absolute itself getting buffed alongside the horde mode so looking forward to it. Comes out June so the wait isn't too long.

[Voldo]

Yes, really really excited im fine with them making it a little bit harder. Prestige perks and the numerous balancing adjustments in the past made it a bit to easy in my opinion.

But i don't understand what the op actually means with crashing.
Does he mean mentally crash out, or in terms of technical limitations .?!

[Glockwork]

Power creep; happens to all games. Honestly I think the hardest this game has ever been is when they first released Lethal Difficulty balance wise.

[zmanbuilder]

Originally posted by Glockwork:

Power creep; happens to all games. Honestly I think the hardest this game has ever been is when they first released Lethal Difficulty balance wise.

I liked the gimmick it used to have, though the devs have stated it is returning via mission modifiers. Eventually....

[Perturabo]

no, people just got better at playing, like we've been saying is possible since the first whimpers of weakness permeated these forums. Its not hard, it just takes getting good at.

[- Ðemünhel -]

Originally posted by Perturabo:

no, people just got better at playing

....

[DD The Pumpkin King]

Originally posted by zmanbuilder:

Originally posted by Glockwork:

Power creep; happens to all games. Honestly I think the hardest this game has ever been is when they first released Lethal Difficulty balance wise.

I liked the gimmick it used to have, though the devs have stated it is returning via mission modifiers. Eventually....

I'm looking forward to it coming back. While they should always be optional, I like mods that force a playstyle change.

[DD The Pumpkin King]

Originally posted by Perturabo:

no, people just got better at playing, like we've been saying is possible since the first whimpers of weakness permeated these forums. Its not hard, it just takes getting good at.

I get what you're saying....but I witnessed someone die in a 1vs1 against a nid major from full health.

[ioridracu]

If its not hard enough for you brother why not handicap yourself? Like playing with only bots or randoms without prestige levels? I don't like three Zoes or two or more bios. Its just a mess after a point. Especially if you play with randoms or bots. I have seen Majors with guns kill armor and brothers in minutes. I've seen 10 majors swarm one brother and stun lock him. I've seen teleporting flame throwing, curb stomping heretics with sorc backing just as the brute shows up... So if Absolute is to easy maybe you should try to handicap yourself? As a game Dev the balancing act is you want new players? You gotta make it balanced, you want to retain older players you gotta make new content and challenges. While still producing other projects. I will ask do you want Three lectors followed by Three Ravs again? with a bio jumping on in with wave after wave of guants on the field?
Why don't you guys even recommend a game mechanic you'd like to see to make tougher? Like the mechanic where you gotta stay close together or lose your armor? When that came out I thought it was ok. Kinda foolish but ok, yet everyone was upset about it. Why not a handicap mechanic where you turn the game up to level 11 for yourself mechanic. Where you can't use stim's, or get more then 4 ammo reups? Or where you can choose to not have a gun at all and instead just a single melee weapon? Or even better yet play as a guardsmen?