u/Fear_Sama

Each time the above happened, Arrowhead were COMPLETELY oblivious to just how broken the spawns and the impaler ranges were. How many times do they need to repeat the EXACT SAME MISTAKES that ANY kind of playtesting their game by actually playing it until they learn?

Out of ALL the bugs they encounter, this is the one they SHOULD have the most experience with and check before every major update, but keep making the EXACT same mistakes every time!

(Actually, the only time spawns weren't broken were the predator strain, the factory strider surprisingly enough, the fire bots, the jump pack bots, the appropriators, the spores both new and old. But none of them had big monstrous units like the ones mentioned above. Bar the shriekers. And the units mentioned in this paragraph were mostly reskins. Most weren't brand new units.)

And AH wonders why so many players do not trust them.

Edit: I omitted the new super speed from the revised gloom bugs from their gas to bring up the point about pre-updated gloom bug unique traits.

Each sub faction should feel unique. Not overlapping.

Arrowhead has ALREADY done that since launch with fire bots, jump pack bots, cyborgs, predator strain, rupture strain, appropriators. That's 6 new sub factions over 2 years.

The bot sub factions have none of each other's unique traits.

In fact, the updated spore burst strain is the FIRST sub faction to not only steal another sub faction's most unique defining trait, but also surpass it.

This is just awful designing with what feels like ZERO thought put into making it unique from the others and breaks the previous design consistency with the other sub factions in the game.

The rupture strain dig after you. The predator strain zooms after you. The gloom bugs need their own unique way of getting to you without borrowing from the others. AKA. Completely obscure your vision with each kill. Like a mini spore charger.

Still want super fast bugs? Then go fight the predator strain, or heck. Combined the gloom and the predator strain on the same planet. We've already seen the devs combine the fire bots with the cyborgs on the same map for the past few months.

In other words, this is just poorly thought out at worst. Trying to make things difficult for the sake of making it difficult without focusing on what is FUN.

You already have SUPER SPEED with the predator strain!

Because if you want to give the players something fun, they'd try to do something new and novel. Hell, Arrowhead have been BANGING ON about NEW and Novelty in their warbonds. So why the hell didn't they do that for the updated spore burst strain? Because the only new thing in that sub faction was the ragdolling AOE from the spore burst titan's spit.