The greatest tragedy of the great 1.09 anti-Gold difficulty buffening...

Yes, this is a tragedy. You act as if people had problems with other aspects of 1.09. Not sure where that is coming from.

I've been buried under a bunch of cards that got dumped on my head. Trying to dig my way out. Why do you ask?

Cry beam Snap freeze evolution doesn't do shit on platinum. Maybe if I pair with a batarian scrapper I could get a feed if I concuss something they've frozen. Its so bad I went back to cry-trap on the HEng.

I've never actually tried the cryo-trap. I do remember reading, though, that it lets the cryo-beam prime in AoE without taking the AoE evolution (which lets you take the armor debuff evolution). Wouldn't that be fairly decent in platinum?

Gold is far too easy now and the lower difficulties must be severely affected - the added ranks should scale with difficulty. I occasionally feel like gold when levelling up but gold is no longer gold now it's more like silver plus. It no longer adequately prepares new players for platinum and it feels weirdly unsatisfying like someone in your game is using console commands... I miss having a proper gold difficulty.

These forums entered "Pepperidge Farms remember" phase pretty quick.

IMHO, MEAMP has always been easy to play, and no skill or learning curve required. Sure it was a mess at launch, but the final product is clear; its for casuals. In a way, it makes a perfect sense, profit wise, as they are enlarging the pool but still damn EA and bioware, and their frostbite engine for ruining Mass Effect .

On the other hand, ME3 was accessible for all players on bronze, with a little challenge on silver, but gold was hard for new players even when geared up and using some of the special guns. To clarify, I remember when I started me3 in 2013, I was fortunate to get, from the very beginning, the hurricane and harrier but was never satisfied playing gold, cuz I thought it was difficult, even thu I wasn't too bad myself on bronze and silver. Many, if not all, of the reasonable players who didn't want to be useless on gold or higher, pugged bronze and silver for months.

On MEA, however, it was only a matter of 4 or 5 days, when people became regular gold players who can contribute well and even top score, me included.

Sure it can be tedious but not hard.

I still play a gold or platinum MEA game a week or every two weeks and continue to be amused by the difference I see between me3 hardcore play and this game's casual appeal.

And since I don't post much but I have on this thread , I'd like to say that I'm still surprised with the platinum composition; I don't see making the game more tedious (platinum) is an introduction to a more challenging fun experience.

And thanks to those missile glitchers we have nerf nukes now.
Well, speedrunners share some of that blame tbf

Couldn't agree more.

Weren't we all complaining about enemies being too bullet-spongey nearly three months ago (on account of our powers/weapons being too weak)? Now everyone is upset everything dies too quickly. This is too goddamn hilarious

Gold is much harder in the avg pug game now than it was before simply due to the objective waves. Sure changes make it so you can kill mooks standing in a row waiting to be killed faster but I've had more wipes and fails than previous to 1.09 due to objectives.