Good things about patch 1.09

I gave up 100% on maxing URs.

I will enjoy this game till I max Rare.. then move on for sure.

There is no point using UR character below XV compare to other XX characters... and I will never get them to XV... 

I have all of the UR characters unlocked, but have never played any of them.

I just find it completely irksome that some of their skill points are hidden behind more cards, cards, cards.  Refusing to play them is sort of my... personal protest, I guess.

To be honest.. Most UR characters were still as good as other character at Rank I...

Not with patch 1.09 change though.. missing 29% power damage, melee damage and combo damage.... Not even comparable...

When did you ever need UR characters or weapons?

Nobody acted like they needed them. They wanted them. Why wouldn't you want to try out every kit in the game at it's max potential? Why is any of that going to change?

I never said they weren't the best. I said you never needed them.

yeah I dropped down to basic packs and after 100 packs have capped out 2 chars ot xx and they are way op'd for silver no need for boosters just equip gear item and can solo so long as its not a hack objective against kett (for some reason theres always a lag bump around the 2 minutes marker into kett mission that finds you jump from full health + shields to dead inside the hack point)

but otherwise I went from lucky to survive a silver game to killing everything with a tech or biotic combo .... I don't even both shooting guns half the time now XD

I liked most of the balance changes but the RNG bullshit is too much.

One thing good: they fixed the combact mastery challenge.

Assassinations are only 3 targets now, which is better.

FWIW - this is the approach I've taken to this new reality.

I'd already given up the idea of ever having a fully maxed manifest, but instead set my goal to max everything through rares - and I had achieved that. I then turned my attention to doing the various challenges, and had completed a few of them. It was interesting using weapons I'd never otherwise use, and I got a lot better with single-shot snipers, even learning to (sort of) quick-scope. So - that's been good for me in some ways, and I've been doing most of it on Silver.

Along comes 1.09 and it's boatloads of bloat.

My new plan was to get common and uncommon characters to XX, which I've completed. I also have a few variant uncommon weapons. I'm not going to put myself through the process of trying to get all of the uncommon variants - the vast majority of the weapons in this game are things I'd never choose to use, and only use to complete the specific challenges.  I've no interest in having 30 more copies of a weapon I don't care to use, anyway.  Even the base vanilla weapons, pre-variant versions, had an awful lot of bloat imho.

In the process, I did get quite a few higher-rarity cards, e.g., I got quite a few uncommons while buying basic packs and several rares while buying advanced packs. Also, RNG seems to be heavily weighted toward character cards; I got all of the uncommon characters to XX and very few variant weapons. The side benefit of purchasing all of those basic and advanced packs is that I now have more consumable supplies and boosters than I've had in a long, long time - lol.

So now, I think I'm back to buying Premium Packs - and believe it or not, there's even a bit of good news here. Instead of mostly consumables (when you don't get any URs), I'll actually be getting rare stuff again.


As someone mentioned in another thread, the new hack mechanism would be much more conducive to player satisfaction and success if the enemy AI would prioritize going after allies elsewhere instead of parking themselves right on the hack circles. Also, if cobras were actually useful.


I think you know the names of the leads - and they are the ones who approved this shitfest, regardless of whose idea it was.