Future 2 Threshers have been nerfed within the fashionable FPS sport, based on an replace from Bungie. The highly effective flying Cabal ships had been a burden to gamers who complained about their means to one-shot Guardians since Lightfall’s launch simply over three weeks in the past. Theshers’ projectiles can search targets, which made it almost inconceivable for Future 2 gamers to take cowl from or dodge them, leading to near-guaranteed dying.
The Bungie workforce applied the adjustments as a part of Future 2 Hotfix 7.0.0.6. The patch notes comprise the road, “Mounted a problem the place Cabal Threshers had been doing extra harm than supposed.” Based mostly on Bungie’s alternative of phrases, it seems the airships had been inflicting further harm resulting from a bug, and the workforce by no means supposed for them to be as highly effective as they had been. Nevertheless, their excessive harm output annoyed gamers trying to finish actions on Neomuna and have become the topic of quite a few memes suggesting they had been far too highly effective.
Threshers signify one in every of many issue points gamers have complained about within the sport over the previous few weeks. Gamers proceed to share their frustrations with Legendary Misplaced Sector issue. Whereas a latest TWAB famous that Bungie could be easing Misplaced Sector necessities to earn Future 2 Guardian Ranks and the workforce has additionally improved Unique loot drop charges in response to the criticism, Bungie has but to deal with their total issue.
Earlier than Lightfall’s launch, Future 2 sport director Joe Blackburn shared that the Bungie workforce could be making the sport harder in response to participant suggestions that some actions had been too straightforward. Nevertheless, the adjustments have additionally led to backlash from gamers who had been glad with the sport’s simpler issue, as they are saying the Mars Heist: Battleground Dusk and missions such because the Legendary secret ‘Avalon’ mission from the Future 2 Vexcalibur Unique quest are too difficult.
Bungie guarantees a mid-season weapon balancing replace, which might doubtlessly deal with participant suggestions that major weapons don’t really feel viable in lots of PvE actions. Extra viable weapons might make the content material simpler for weaker and newer gamers.
Nevertheless, Bungie has but to deal with these different issue challenges within the multiplayer sport. It’s too early to inform whether or not adjustments such because the Thresher energy change within the hotfix will affect participant retention. Nonetheless, Guardians have made it clear that when it got here to adjusting the sport’s issue for Lightfall, the builders’ try at steadiness amounted to a swing too far in the wrong way.
In case you’re nonetheless contemplating whether or not or not Lightfall is for you, you should definitely take a look at our Future 2 Lightfall assessment, in addition to an inventory of all of the Future 2 courses – together with the Stasis and the Strand.
