Future 2 Threshers are lastly nerfed, thank goodness

Future 2 Threshers have been nerfed within the standard FPS recreation, in accordance with an replace from Bungie. The highly effective flying Cabal ships have been a burden to gamers who complained about their capacity to one-shot Guardians since Lightfall’s launch simply over three weeks in the past. Theshers’ projectiles can search targets, which made it practically inconceivable for Future 2 gamers to take cowl from or dodge them, leading to near-guaranteed loss of life.

The Bungie group carried out the adjustments as a part of Future 2 Hotfix 7.0.0.6. The patch notes comprise the road, “Mounted a difficulty the place Cabal Threshers have been doing extra harm than meant.” Primarily based on Bungie’s selection of phrases, it seems the airships have been inflicting additional harm as a result of a bug, and the group by no means meant for them to be as highly effective as they have been. Nonetheless, their excessive harm output annoyed gamers making an attempt to finish actions on Neomuna and have become the topic of quite a few memes suggesting they have been far too highly effective.

Threshers signify one among many issue points gamers have complained about within the recreation over the previous few weeks. Gamers proceed to share their frustrations with Legendary Misplaced Sector issue. Whereas a latest TWAB famous that Bungie could be easing Misplaced Sector necessities to earn Future 2 Guardian Ranks and the group has additionally improved Unique loot drop charges in response to the criticism, Bungie has but to deal with their general issue.

Earlier than Lightfall’s launch, Future 2 recreation director Joe Blackburn shared that the Bungie group could be making the sport harder in response to participant suggestions that some actions have been too straightforward. Nonetheless, the adjustments have additionally led to backlash from gamers who have been glad with the sport’s simpler issue, as they are saying the Mars Heist: Battleground Dusk and missions such because the Legendary secret  ‘Avalon’ mission from the Future 2 Vexcalibur Unique quest are too difficult.

Bungie guarantees a mid-season weapon balancing replace, which may doubtlessly handle participant suggestions that major weapons don’t really feel viable in lots of PvE actions. Extra viable weapons may make the content material simpler for weaker and newer gamers.

Nonetheless, Bungie has but to deal with these different issue challenges within the multiplayer recreation. It’s too early to inform whether or not adjustments such because the Thresher energy change within the hotfix will influence participant retention. Nonetheless, Guardians have made it clear that when it got here to adjusting the sport’s issue for Lightfall, the builders’ try at steadiness amounted to a swing too far in the wrong way.

In case you’re nonetheless contemplating whether or not or not Lightfall is for you, make sure to take a look at our Future 2 Lightfall assessment, in addition to an inventory of all of the Future 2 courses – together with the Stasis and the Strand.