last time i played, which is admittedly a long time ago (before the previous devs went silent/left), it was tedious and frustrating. The former is because the mode just takes to long for how little reward it gives, the frustration is probably largely derived from me not being able hit anything for the life of me (the players that do enjoy this mode probably can atleast reliably hit stationary targets, presumably), but some things that i remember p1ssing me off about this mode:
1. The AI partners are worthless jobbers. They start dieing not even 10 seconds into the wave when we're not even haveway through (do they even use the upgrades?). So suddenly 3 or less players are facing enemie groups intended for four players.
This could probably be slightly alleviated by having "any mode" include this mode. Some players might not even know that this mode exists.
2. The bosses are pretty much just normal mechs with ridiculously buffed stats (not just hp, but atleast also firing rate, especially the boss rocketeer at facility having a seeker that has redox-gun's firing rate), which i find to be both boring and unfun.
This mode probably needs unique boss drones with proper attack/behavior patterns. But that will have to wait at least until the devs have an animator/modeler and can start making extensice code changes to the game, not just the server stuff(in which case the mech balancing for multiplayer modes should take precedence, anyway).
3. The suicide drones (bomber, emp). The fact that they can just fly to you (as opposed to being affected by gravity like the a.i. mechs) means they can easily hit you, which is REALLY bad with the emp, since that one disables your weapons. And even if you kill them before they actually hit you, their explosion can damage/disable you anyway if they were to close. And the fact that it will be MULTIPLE suicide drones in rapid succesion in later waves, ESPECIALLY during the later boss waves, just ruins this mode for me.
Honestly, just making them much fewer, especially the emps during boss waves, might solve this for me.
This mode really needs some work.
Edited by BismutZornisse, 09 May 2015 - 08:21 AM.