Inconsistent difficulty.

[[JTF] lockecole]

I have a beef with this game now. Inconsistent difficulty.

I play on Suicidal and there's no real issues. It pretty much plays as intended.

I couple friends and I wanted to play, and just have a chill time, so we dropped down to challenging. At first, everything went smoothly as expected. But as -soon- as we were ready for extract, all hell broke loose.

We had 17 minutes to get to extract. We spent 5 of that TRYING to push out. But the bots kept sending wave after wave after wave. We literally could not move, and kept getting killed.

Finally, there was a pause in the waves and we started advancing towards extract, but then the waves of bots started again and we got pushed back. One of us got out and started to get ahead, planning on calling us in when we died, but then a patrol with a Hulk literally appeared in front of him, killed him, and then disappeared after he was dead.

Then two of us managed to sneak out, staying far apart, but then I randomly exploded. There were no bots around me, there were mines, it was a wide open plain...and I just spontaneously exploded.

This was harder than ANY match I've had on suicidal, and it's 2 steps down from that difficulty. This kind of thing has happened multiple times, where the difficulty is inconsistent with the level you're supposed to be playing on.

It went from chill, fun, with just the right hint of challenge for what we were looking for to an unfun slog fest. Like, literally, all the fun we were having was sucked right out.

If this had been happening on suicidal, I could understand it.

[zepehphor]

100% me and my friends have noticed this too, though with bugs. a 6 was harder than the 7s we had played, and the 9s we've been doing honestly have felt better than when we played 7s.

im not entirely sure why, but i think it has to do with enemy tiers and how much spawn at each difficulty. less big enemies in exchange for more hordes is not necessarily easier, is my guess, though it can depend on your playstyle, loadout, and skillset. nevertheless, this in my guess, is what results in the difficulties feeling out of order.

[Mana Burst]

I was in a match much earlier today, went great through most of it.. then we got to extraction and the waves seemed endless, medium difficulty but we were getting swarmed to such an extreme it was insane, and then a tank rolled in on top of it all. so many bots, didn't even know tanks could spawn in medium or what but that was the first and only one I've seen so far.

[Soppothetoppo]

If possible i can recomend you to clear the map completely before extracting. I have noticed that i had a much smoother experience with extraction if map is cleared. Ofc it's better to do so before you finished the main objective.
I might be wrong but this is how my experience was.

[ÐåŕķMệşşịäħ]

Simple fix: Wear a shield generator pack along with light armor and just run away.

[tom tomorrow]

Difficulty isn't meant to be consistent. That's the nature of the whole game master aspect.