Hello. I'm Coatl. I've been playing been playing this game for a while now, not quite as early as closed beta but I managed to make a debut in open beta.
What I've noticed patch after patch that slowly, but surely, SK is turning into some mindless hack-n'-slash when facing unbelievably nerfed enemies.
One that you guys are particularly aware of are the Alpha Wolvers.
Before an unwarranted patch these suckers use to chase you with 3 lunging bites and if you tried to block all of the chomps, your shield would break on the second or third bite and you may or may not have taken a direct chomp with your shield shattered.
After the patch the Alpha wolvers are as threeatening as scuttle-bots. They don't fallow you anymore with their bites, so you could easily jump to the side and continue slashing at them with your toothpics (which we didn't have before either). Sometimes I even play chicken with them and parry to their sides at the last moment to give myself a sense of accomplishment in fighting alpha wolvers; sometimes it works, it usually doesn't though. I feel as if the whole Beast family (which only comprises of wolvers and chromalisksz) are not even something to take seriously. They are too easy to be taken seriously. You never see someone in the forums going, "damn wolvers made my whole team wipe", or "wolvers are too hard QQ". No. On the contrary, they are too easy to ever be mentioned in the forums. You simply slaughter them, and not a word of them gets mentioned afterwards.
Another thing is menders. They are MORE of a joke now than they were before. They won't provide a challenge for you, if anything they will just make things take longer but it isn't exactly harder per say. The only time they will ever be on the challenging side is when twenty mecha knights/greavers/devilites spawn in one small room (I'm talking about the arenas) and you are faced with a dilemna in which you both have to kill them fast enough before the rest of the monsters kill you. But besides situations like these, menders are just a monster that can't defend itself from your disinterested cuts and slashes.
And now we have retrodes being nerfed. As if they weren't nerfed enough. They were patched so that their long-fire laser blast takes longer to release after the initial beam. Unless you are not paying attention to the screen, you won't get hit by these often seeing as how they take too long and are too predictable. Retrodes are just about as easy as the slags in FSC; they're as slow as slow can be. This HP buff just makes me frown a bit, after seeing all the enemies that have been nerfed.
What's next OOO?
You going to nerf trojans?
How about the rocket puppies? Will they fire in a straight trajectory next?
For senior members who have reached tier 3 and have nearly all the weapons/sets they would want, the challenge provided to us is the only thing that keeps us going. I'd personally like to see OOO stop nerfing enemies and if possible start buffing a lot of them.
TL;DR
omg dis gaem 2 ez QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
Psssst... you should look at the new arenas thread. Or maybe not, you will rage even more. And +1 to your rant.