New illuminate units are a mixed bag

[Exactly 150 Snails]

The new "abomination" thing is just bad. It's a massive and meaty. too meaty. It is honestly one of the worst cases of "bullet sponge" i've seen in any recent game. No feedback, no real "counters" just spray bullets into it until it stops moving. Last time we had something like this it was called a "Tank" and was a once in a while boss enemy in L4D... and unlike the L4D tank, this one is just a dumb brute that causes a lot of knockback and ragdoll (because even more sources of ragdolling where needed..). - 3/10 would not sponge again.

The new "stingray" flyer. What is there to say? mix of Medium and heavy/tank armor makes this thing very hard to consistently damage. It has way more health than anything that flimsy looking is ever supposed to have and all it does is turn the game into a knock-off darksouls. What makes this worse is that the "marker" that shows the bombing runs only appears about 40% of the time. And ofc it does not make it better that the map can spawn more than 1 at a time. - 4/10 would rather play darksouls again.

New "grenadier"/arty overseer. Genuinely fine, albeit a bit lazy copy+paste from the bile spewer. Not much else to say. It is an overseer that lobs grenades at you. - 7/10 would bombard again.

[Unix]

The abominations do indeed suck. Not sure if I just need to find the right weapon to deal with them, or need to get better at aiming, but... I agree, they are pretty boring bullet sponges.

[Hallowieners 🍩]

The wasp is pretty good at taking them out. But you have to shoot all their heads with a regular weapon which can be challenging.

[ah, salmonn]

1 shot rocket, ez

[Aethrys]

I rarely if ever need to take out the Fleshmobs. The release blurb said they're a failed experiment, and their combat ineffectiveness reflects that.

[St0rmFury]

There's a similar enemy in the first game called the grotesque (cyborgs). They're basically unarmoured meatbags who just charges at you in a straight line. Good thing is any weapons work on them, bad thing is they can take a lot of punishment.

[Zockgunn]

HMG can be a good way to quickly bring them down (though I agree their HP matches their girth as you will need to dump well over half of the mag just keep on eye on the hit marker cause if it stops popping up and the thing is still standing STOP SHOOTING IT) Orbital Rail Cannon can also quickly 1 tap them as well.

[Excalibrrr]

My gripe with them is that they look silly. They just flop around and wave their arms in the air. It's weird.

[Valcrist]

♥♥♥♥ that faction tbh

[Zedonova Nova]

I was expecting a well designed floating tank on the iiluminate side...not a bullet sponge.

[Vathe]

I've been going with the flame pistol for the fleshmob. It gets the job done pretty quick.

[Harmania]

I think the abomination can also be understood as a very literal mixed bag.

[Drunken Weirdo]

Cluster missile blasts fleshies, the Manta that killed Steve Irwin takes a while to charge up and strafe the area, look up or down and you can dodge it, Distant Wort Wort is okay because he aint doing too much damage or else whiners would strike him too.

[★Jaw★]

Originally posted by Zedonova Nova:

I was expecting a well designed floating tank on the iiluminate side...not a bullet sponge.

An actual tank would be fun to fight. Make the Illuminate feel more like an alien army than...some weird necromancer BS thing

[🌠Deusgo]

Originally posted by Unix:

The abominations do indeed suck. Not sure if I just need to find the right weapon to deal with them, or need to get better at aiming, but... I agree, they are pretty boring bullet sponges.

You can shoot the faces to kill them auick

[AnemoneMeer]

Just got drowned in Fleshmobs on a flag objective on difficulty 4. Can't complete the objective until they're dead. Can't kill them because I physically do not have enough bullets and stratagems to kill them.

They're not a problem if they're spawned in small numbers. When the entire horde in fleshmobs, the game becomes an unfun slog.