I've lived on this shit since the DLC dropped and have played way too much. I've got synergy with my builds and it feels like a brand new game. Shout out to Ubisoft Massive on an amazing job reviving a game many left for dead.
Game is worse:
1) Hard difficulty is the new Challenging difficulty
2) Challenging difficulty is the new Heroic
3) Legendary difficulty is basically suicide without a full team (that have good stats and/or builds)
4) Legendary difficulty took a group of great players almost 1 hour and 30 minutes to get through and that is doing alot of backtracking to funnel the enemy AI through choke points in the map.
5) After doing the above there is no guarantee of god roll items or exotics. Imaging sitting through a mission for almost 2 hours for nothing or no reward for your efforts.
6) Enemy's are now more bullet spongy than ever. Your 1.4 million armour counts for nothing as an enemy dog or elites can rip through it with ease while you're DPS wittles away at their armour.
7) Even high level tech skills are useless. I had a seeker mine build that did upwards of 1.9 million damage literally not even remove 1 bar of armour on elite enemies. Same with the single seeker mine. They have become useless to use. Anything higher than Challenging difficulty is useless for skill builds and more reliant on DPS and talents that stack or replace armour.
There was also an exploit in the game that could get you to shade level 100 within an hour by doing target practice missions throughout the map. Massive warned people of account bans if they took advantage of it. Now its patching that too.
Massive is out here patching things left and right like a leaky boat. They also patching clan vendors and Cassie Mendoza which was giving out god roll items left and right.
There are some good stuff that's right this time like the new gear and how easy you're able to identify good gear from bad ones and the new re-calibration system is amazing but there is alot broken with the game currently and people are frustrated, myself included.
It is far from awesome.