My experience with patch 4.1 so far

tl;dr: bolt weapons need a stronger buff. Substantial difficulty still feels challenging. AI teammates are still pretty much useless.

Amazing work from the devs to come up with hotfix so quickly after the last patch. It does show that they care about the players and want the game to continue to have the success it has had so far. Please keep up the great work.

Now to the issue at hand. I just ran three operations on substantial just before work. I have to say that it did not felt easy at all. It was challenging and fun but bordering on the annoying. It took me two times to clear inferno on substantial solo with a lvl 25 tactical and a master-crafted auto bolt rifle (wanted to test the buffs). The level of difficulty did not feel akin to what it was when patch 3.0 dropped. It felt more difficult. Allow me to elaborate. During the first attempt I ran into five ranged majoris for the first encounter. Fine, no big deal. By the time I got to where we find our first dataslate, I was running low on ammo. Then comes out a carnifex. Sure, why not. I managed to kill it and drop down to the swamp. At this point, I’m out of ammo. In the swamp the game throws at me a couple more waves and two zoanthropes for good measure. So at this point I’m dead. Cool, let me try again.

The second attempt feels just as challenging as the first. During the first encounter, I ran into 10 majoris at least. About three or four of those are of the range variety. I push through. By the time I get to the prometheun facility I’ve killed at least 50 majoris and 2 extremis. Felt a bit much for a “revised” substantial difficulty. Anyway, the operation continued at that pace. By the time I finished the mission, I had killed 570 enemies (at least 100 of them were majoris), 6 extremis (4 of them were zoanthropes) and a neurothrope.

Sorry for rambling on, but I just wanted to get it out of my chest. All I wanted to say was that the difficulty still feels unbalanced. Yes, I enjoy the myriad of enemies but when your weapons still don’t feel strong enough, those enemies can be a chore. I also want to say that I’m at least average at the game. I completed 6/7 operations on lethal. I have around 140 hours on it and I absolutely enjoyed most of them. I’m prepared to receive the downvotes and the hate for making this post, but I felt I should at least voice my opinion. I’ll continue to play this amazing game and I hope the devs continue to support the game and release new content.