Is this what the developers consider fun?

[BJWyler]

I've had the same problems everyone else has. I'm new, my ego level is only 1100, and I can only survive when solo now. The new scaling system, sounds like a pretty cool idea, but in practice it is pretty painful.

Forget about arkfalls, tried doing a major and died 16 times before going into the pit. There was a pile of player bodies just sitting at the entrance getting insta killed by nades. There were a couple 5000+ ego players around, so it boosted the mob levels through the roof. No one's fault, we all want to get in on the Majors and I don't think anyone expected it to become so impossible.

I've had to switch to Volge weapons to be able to get kills when near other players now. I rather dislike Volge weapons, they're bright, they're slow, and they obscure your vision. Skitterlings, the smaller ones, instead of taking 2-3 bullets to die, now take about 50-60 if using an ego 1100 assault rifle and another player is near.

Maybe this update has made things a bit more challenging for those who had hit the previous EGO cap, and that's a good thing, but it's made things horribly difficult for those of us who hadn't hit that cap yet. Last night was very discouraging and I found myself not wanting to play. I hope things get better, I was beginning to enjoy this game.

More than a bit more challenging - I'm 5133 and died nearly a dozen times in a MINOR arkbreak with a full complement of people before I finally said to hell with it and logged out before the thing was finished. It just was not worth the effort at that point.

[edn]

I'm at 4565 and it ain't no joy ride either. It seems that the new scaling system is meant to give everyone a big pain in the butt, and I'm not going to go into the amount of enemies that start spawning. This patch has taken the fun factor out of the game.

[Festival]

The Arkbreaks are indeed pure comedy gold. You can just laugh (and type snarky comments in chat) when you get one-shotted before you can even move by a couple dozen rez-point-camping enemies. Over and over and over again...

[Bonehead]

I've played a lot on the test server and now a few hours on live and I can see it has potential. The trouble I'll talk about in this post is how uneven the scaling is. It has no smooth edges. Playing the story line one site will be stupid easy and the next will be bullet sponge city. I answered a call for help from a newb trying to do kinship on his first playthrough and found it at threat level 10. He and his friends had no chance. I was buffed to 4750 and it was taking me 5 to 7 minutes per mutant. I can do that without having to extract by doing the normal stuff (using cover, running for my life, etc) but it is not fun, it is tedious and frustrating.
How does a player with an ego less than 100 end up on a main mission set at threat level 10?
To me, this seems broken.

[TAG]

Baby boom generation wants everything without any effort.

[Bonehead]

Baby boom generation wants everything without any effort.

Says the guy who got busted printing scrip at the extra life vendor.

[BJWyler]

Never mind - not worth the effort.

[Storm58]

I really like the changes. Grease up the gears and do a little patch work and this will be one of my favorite games.

[K Ron Spliffs]

Not as hard if your 5k ego using 5k ego guns.

[Storm58]

Says the guy who got busted printing scrip at the extra life vendor.

If that's true, that's kinda funny...

However, Devil's Advocate here, he DID have to put in work to do that.....................