Grendel missions have just been hosed by this update

[Kitsushadow]

Consider that you have to cut through shields, then armor, to finally damage health on most corpus robots. You can only do native damage, which removes being able to mod for shield penetration, and you can't mod for armor, either. The 20 minute survival provides 13 capsules during its duration, which means the player needs to make up about 500 seconds of air from somewhere during that time period. And with the now-suddenly more robust shields and armor, the chances of pulling that off are ridiculously tiny.

While the Grendel missions were in theory meant to be performed as a group, no one plays these missions anymore. With no one to run the missions with, you have absolutely no other choice than to attempt all three solo. With predictably impossible results.

Do you think you could revisit the missions, maybe? In light of these new changes, it's literally impossible to solo the Grendel missions. And given how unpopular these missions are, the odds of finding a full team to run them with you are so vanishingly remote, it's insulting.

[Jiminez_Burial]

7 minutes ago, Kitsushadow said:

it's literally impossible to solo the Grendel missions.

Though I don't disagree with the rest of the post, you'll have to provide A LOT more evidence as to why they are "literally impossibly".  The excavation could be easy (just a bit slow) and when talking about survival, lockers/crates + loot abilities give oxygen so the player making up around 200-300 seconds on kills would be more realistic (and I'm differentiating kills from other sources since killing is the only thing changed by the update).  The defence mission is where your "literally" statement will live or die, and I'm almost certain that there's someone out there that could solo it. 

[ShortCat]

8 hours ago, Kitsushadow said:

Consider that you have to cut through shields, then armor, to finally damage health on most corpus robots. You can only do native damage, which removes being able to mod for shield penetration, and you can't mod for armor, either. The 20 minute survival provides 13 capsules during its duration, which means the player needs to make up about 500 seconds of air from somewhere during that time period. And with the now-suddenly more robust shields and armor, the chances of pulling that off are ridiculously tiny.

Cannot stand behind this reasonsing. The only 2 armored Corpus units are Bursas and Oxium Osprays, not that it matters since armor is actually less agressive now. Even without mods, there is gear with innate Toxin damage. Revanent works really well. Preparation is key to success.

 

8 hours ago, Kitsushadow said:

While the Grendel missions were in theory meant to be performed as a group, no one plays these missions anymore. With no one to run the missions with, you have absolutely no other choice than to attempt all three solo. With predictably impossible results.

On the other hand, this is a real problem.