Hard Difficulty makes the initial sky drone fight impossible

[Thaecrasis]

If you start on Hard, after the drones use Expose Weakness a couple times, they all deal 180+ damage per hit, and wipe you out easily, and have 3x the health as on normal; whereas on normal difficulty, the fight is completely fine, with them dealing like 50-70 damage and dying quickly - why is there such a ridiculous change in enemy stats between normal and hard?

(Though at the very least even if you lose that battle, it lets you continue as if you had won)

[jafferduo]

My video on Hard Difficulty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAiPv9Z5ZMA&pp=ygUQc2t5Ym9ybiBycGcgaGFyZA%3D%3D

The first battle can be won.

[Thaecrasis]

They seem to be be really nerfed compared to when I was fighting them - they definitely weren't doing 20 damage to me. And I wasn't joking about the 180 damage either, they killed Sullivan in 3 turns once they reduced his phys resistance.

[jafferduo]

Originally posted by Thaecrasis:

They seem to be be really nerfed compared to when I was fighting them - they definitely weren't doing 20 damage to me. And I wasn't joking about the 180 damage either, they killed Sullivan in 3 turns once they reduced his phys resistance.

That's not nerf, it's because I use "Guarding", and also "(chance to)block" the attack.
I still take ~180 damage from one of the hit.