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  • This “just git gud” way of thinking is infuriating to me.

    The exact reason I prefer bots over bugs (worded in more general terms than my other comment in here) is that bots have a wider range of weaknesses that you can work with, while bugs force you to play in a specifc way with a specific loadout that mitigates the bullshit Oshaune throws at you; they’re easier more often, but I’d rather play bots without AT at diff 10 than bugs with anything at diff 7.

    Even the ayys, despite all the frustration they cause, give you avenues to work around your loadout’s limitations, while on today’s Oshaune you NEED the stalwart, you NEED a cheat AT (ultimatum or thermite), you NEED the supply pack for the otherwise non-cheat AT, you KINDA WANT the railcannon to dismiss roaches before you use the second stim, you DON’T WANT a primary that isn’t fully automatic or without good ergonomics.
    I’ve seen that setup in every single game I’ve played on this Oshaune campaign.

    Imagine if all bots had the same precision and accuracy players have, they only fired at you when confident they would kill you, and the game had some sort of neural network - trained in real time on the entire playerbase - coordinating their movements and reinforcements dedicated to most efficiently spawnkill the entire team within the first 5 minutes; would you say “I’m having fun!”, or would you say “this is the 125th time and 5th mission in a row an armored strider launches a rocket perfectly timed to explode at my feet as soon as my helldiver or my teammates’ is out of the pod and becomes vulnerable, fuck this shit”?
    The game would be realistically impossible to even play, and according to the hard=fun logic it’s a good thing, right?

    I’ve played Selaco on Admiral difficulty with the Hardcore and Hard Boiled modifiers - “this was a very hard challenge, and it was exhilarating”.
    I’ve played Halo 2 on Legendary many times - “I love this game with all my heart but my 100% carbs diet is more balanced than this piece of garbage, and it’s not even too difficult if you know the META.
    What makes today’s Oshaune like Selaco, rather than Halo 2?