Bring the orbital precision strike, thatll take out any tank in one hit and pre patch it had a 90s recharge time. No idea what it is now, but i pretty much always bring it.

If drop ships would drop them further away, I could see them being a menace, but when they drop right in front of you, a quick orbital strike or thermite is all it takes

A bit worse, the missile precision is better and there are 3 missiles per salvo; additionally, they move and they can shoot in a straight line AND, unlike with the two other tanks, you're still perfectly unsafe if you get close and prone.

Couple all that with the fact that mortar shells really have to hit you dead-on to one-shot you, while the tank's missile have ~ double the AoE and knockback. Supposedly they nerfed them a bit, but I can't tell the difference from three weeks ago.

The rockets are much slower moving and a lot easier to see compared to mortars, and a single orbital strike or thermite is all it takes to destroy them

I think the problem was their balancing strategy was largely nerf based and their design vision was primary weapons should suck against most things. That's how it felt anyway. Like most guns weren't viable and they kept nerfing the viable ones until they felt noticably worse but still noticably better than other options.

I really don't understand their vision for the weapon landscape - most assault rifles felt bad compared to the laser rifle variant, most shotguns felt bad besides one pump and one auto and then they nerfed both of those so I haven't taken a shotgun in some time, and a sniper or semiautomatic has never felt good as a primary despite being what I'd normally gravitate to.

Half of my play time is taking something like the auto cannon or the Quasar (before they were nerfed) and using them more like my primary weapon.

The slots don't have identity because of this imbalance and the weapons within those slots don't have meaningful decisions because they fit either check some boxes - A) can harm most things B) is efficient at harming most of those things - or they don't.

In a game where part of their business model is releasing a couple of new guns every month I've used 90% of those weapons less than 3 times because they immediately feel bad at the highest difficulties.

So this new patch is, to me anyway, a blunt way to improve all guns and all viability - seemingly because they dont know how to do it any other way.

It's more like giving power back since the player weapons were constantly nerfed in each patch. The fun drops when all your weapons stops getting the impact one expects. * But I think they are also competing with Spacemarines 2

If you played the game in its previous state, you'd see that it was sorely needed. :)

In my opinion, absolutely not. I had a lot more fun before the patch. Sure, you can go higher difficulty but it's just not the same.

The weapons are more fun to use, but the game became too easy because of it.

It seems like they buffed the weapons and nerfed the enemies at the same. I think they should've only done one of two.

High level difficulty missions should remain very difficult and challenging, now they mostly feel like that used to be 3-4 levels lower with some exceptions.