Is it just me or have enemies on platinum got way more cuntier since Thursday?

Surprisingly.. even for the host..

Hey......this happened on gold last night as well. Extraction zone, ran in and cleared out the two snipers and things looked solid and all of a sudden a krogan appeared 'poof!' out of nowhere and caused major havoc.

Also some enemies seem faster to me, the outlaw cow that has the reflect barrier is very tough to hit in close quarters as she is be bopping all over the place.

I am going to make fun of Bioware by taking their words out of context which they hate, but:

19 May 2017

What is the design philosophy around the ‘dogs’ that spawn behind players as soon as the player takes cover (in this cover-based shooter) or engage a boss unit?

I wouldn’t say that we spawn Adhis and Wraiths behind the player intentionally. I suspect part of this is potentially not seeing them spawn elsewhere, and they’ve flanked the player. This is potentially especially true of the Wraith if they are cloaked when they approach the player. I’m not aware of any AI logic that prioritizes Adhis or Wraiths to attack the players while an elite enemy is in combat. My guess here is that as a player you’re likely paying attention to the elite enemy as the primary threat which allows the Adhis or Wraiths to go undetected until they are in their melee attack range.

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The part about not intentionally spawning enemies behind you, could be true. Spawn mechanics may be sufficiently complex / poorly documented that Bioware is not sure what happens. Like, they didn't intend to spawn enemies behind you (not a design goal) but some other interactions are causing that to happen.

The part about "not seeing them spawn elsewhere, and they've flanked the player" is funny. Enemies will poof into existence behind of (or in front of you) whenever they feel like it. They don't need to move in to flank you -- they can spawn into flanking position!

This is very true. I killed an Adhi and watched a new one respawn in front of me directly on top of where the last one died. I was like "yep, that just happened..."

I thought those Berserkers seemingly appearing out of nowhere smashing my face in was just me not paying enough attention (which could still be a possibility since stuff can get a little hot once in while on Platinum).

Well I'm at least happy I wasn't hallucinating. Or maybe we all are 'seeing things'. 

Just like those times I shoot those Annointed dead, and yet they walk. I shoot them again, and they keep walking, slowly turning around, spinning up their 100% accuracy Soneds, and poof! They're gone. 
Or when I get teleported back 10m everytime I try to walk up some ramp, or just being held back by an invisible force.

The game is playing tricks on y'all! 

I would love to see a hack for hack which either removed it from the game (like it was possible in ME3) or made it normal again (Slow hack that requires teamwork, without having enemies interrupting it). Currently it is just broken. Not solvable without distracting and letting an infiltrator hack, sometimes not even then if the target is in the middle of the map.

git

gud