Finally said screw it and Pugged Gold...

Agreed, all I've done is PUG, and it's been mostly cool as long as everyone helps on objectives. Normal waves are easy enough to clear and the kits feel a bit more effective somehow.

Exactly Sket. Things just seemed to work better.

Maybe this is by design, who knows.

Suspicion only.  Right now, I just had a sample size of one.

But it went very well.  Surprisingly so.

Gold against Remmants and Outlaws are very easy with a half-decent team and I don't think it it much harder than silver. Againt Kett, however, gold is way more difficult and I find it hard to believe the average pug player can do it.

I have been leveling up my characters fairly evenly and got a bit of a late start in the game so I have stuck to bronze, played a silver last night and we wiped on last objective round (devices).

I've pugged a couple of gold matches given my limited time with games right now and it definitely wasn't too bad. The kett game was pretty rough, but I can confirm that outlaw gold felt as easy at kett silver.

enemies don't scale hard in this game, but their composition does.

Gold just has a lot more of the powerful enemies, you can almost consider the difficulties waves of progress, bronze is 1-7, silver is 8-14, and gold is wave 15-21. Although the first waves overlap somewhat.

This is what makes kett so much harder, anointed are everywhere on gold. The ascendant is also on every wave, and he pushes you right into these kill zones where the heavies just tear you a new one.

Raiders, on the other hand have mediocre special units, with the hydra easily dealt with, and no other real damage dealer makes them a lot less lethal when you get pushed around by the beserkers. If you added a couple anointed to their waves they would absolutely wreck you. They have a lot of space denial, but don't have anything to punish you for moving around.

Remnant has the destroyer, which absolutely forces you to move, and observers do an adequate job of catching you out, but they do not kill nearly as fast as anointed, which lets you get away more easily to recuperate.

As a sniper, I gotta say ok, whatever, as long as it's not Remnant. I can't reliably score weakpoints on those bastards.

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