Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

This was one of my favourite Survivors-like games, the whole aspect of mining out the environment added a layer of strategic depth that most others don’t have. But after this update, I think I’ll be taking a break until certain balance changes have been made. This was already one of the hardest Survivors-like games out there, yet for some reason, the game suddenly became even harder after the latest update. I’m unsure of what exactly has been done, as there’s nothing in the patch notes about enemy or difficulty balancing, but I’m suddenly dying a lot more on my challenge 5 weapon masteries. Either all the bugs health has been increased, or the spawn rates for grunts have increased, or both. I suspect the latter. Certain weapon masteries at challenge 5 feel impossible. Take the Bulldog as an example; a slow fire-rate gun with no AOE capabilities (other than piercing) and fires at the closest enemy. Trying to kill the Twins variant of the Dreadnought, or any ranged elite, is insanely difficult to do now for two reasons: 1) They will hide among the horde of grunts that have accumulated over the course of the stage. 2) You are constantly surrounded by grunts, especially as the threat level raises, meaning you will be firing in almost every other direction, rarely hitting the bosses you want to kill. Keep in mind, I’ve got full legendary gear equipped, all fully upgraded and at least at level 91, and all meta levels fully upgraded too. So this isn’t just a “level up and get better gear”. I was doing just fine before the update, but now the end game seems way way less doable. Tldr: Game went from a pretty decent challenge to “pray you get insanely lucky”. And I’m not even sure if I’m just hallucinating all this because they didn’t mention anything about this in the patch notes.

I've mostly played in Early Access. Since they released I've restarted the game and must say I don't like the direction after 10h+ additional playtime. The focus on items is way too over the top. "It's supposed to be hard" - yeah. But the hardness is too much of a grind. I don't want to grind 5 hours just to get a few better items so I can do the next gate without having perfect rolls and weapon synergies. It's way less fun than it was before. And it was already hard, being hard is not the problem. The way too high focus on item scaling is what makes this way less fun than it was before. I like the new modes, I like the new weapons, etc. But with this much of a hard on on "grind through the difficulty" I dont enjoy it as much anymore. C'mon, Its not an MMO, im not here to grind 5 hours to get marginally stronger. Its a bullet hell