Still broken

Thank you! I'd been away so long I forgot how to do that!

Do feel free to take comments such as these to one of the other thousand posts you are poisoning. This one doesn't need the drama.

HK. I just wish he had more dialog. Love his commentary.

This is where I get it: We are going to treat Star Fortresses as a different topic from Companion balance. The initial difficulty level for Star Fortresses are clearly story content, meaning, we expect all of you to take part and enjoy them while earning new Contacts. This hasn’t changed. The difficult mode for Star Fortresses, though, we feel is a challenge that players should aspire to achieve, and not something players should easily do without gearing up their character and increasing their Companion’s Influence level. That is clearly stating do different levels of difficulty.

I thought the damage mitigation was already scripted for this 4.0.3 patch? Seem to recall reading that the last week, but with so many forum posts, I can't be positive.

Thank you for your opinion that my choice was idiotic. There is a common saying about opinions. I will leave you to look it up and apply it. I'm also not too proud to ask so: Exactly how does one respond to a post in the Dev Tracker forum and get it to show here in General Discussion?

This was in the message post: You can find the exact changes coming in tomorrow’s patch, below So I would say yes, Tuesday patch will have the rebalancing.

I just went back and reread this: Star Fortresses Which leads me to Star Fortresses. We are going to treat Star Fortresses as a different topic from Companion balance. The initial difficulty level for Star Fortresses are clearly story content, meaning, we expect all of you to take part and enjoy them while earning new Contacts. This hasn’t changed. The difficult mode for Star Fortresses, though, we feel is a challenge that players should aspire to achieve, and not something players should easily do without gearing up their character and increasing their Companion’s Influence level. We obviously set an expectation Heroic Star Fortresses were going to be similar to [Heroic 2] content, but that was not our intention. As a result, we are going to change the “Heroic” nomenclature for Star Fortresses to something different. We’ll let you know what we decide the new name will be soon. In addition, this will allow us to balance Star Fortresses independently of Companion power, but still make it challenging without making it impossible for many players. So, in conclusion, or the tl;dr for the internet savvy: We will be increasing Companion power. It will not be as powerful as before, but the changes will be significant. Heroic Star Fortresses will get a new moniker to denote that it’s a different type of challenge. And we will balance Star Fortresses independently of both Companion power and [Heroic 2]s to ensure they are tuned appropriately. My interpretation is that there will be story mode Star Fortresses intended to be soloable by all. The current 'Heroic Star Fortresses' will have a name change to differentiate them from the planetary H2+ missions, and be scaled to be completed by 2 or more players, or soloed as a challenge by well-geared veteran, as in knowing all the skills/strats/skills player and his/her companion.

Me'thinks you are confusing hyperdrive, with hyperbole. Read the details, it isn't going back to 4.0 levels.

I'm sure that there will be those who feel as you do. Just as there will be those who feel the opposite and quit because of the buff being applied. If you would prefer to play games from another development studio, I wish you enjoyment in them. But moving to undo changes to bring the game in line with the changing playstyle of customers and attempting to find a middle ground between the two extremes is a good sign.

Perhaps not a lot, but distinguishing them from the 'normal' planetary H2s will be a good help.

Ges, Don't abandon all hope. Jump to the Dev Tracker and read the changes.

The explanation for what changes are being made is posted in the Dev Tracker. I would like to thank Mike for the clear explanation, not only of what changes are being made to the Companions, but of what exactly the goal is for the (formerly) Heroic Star Fortresses.

Then perhaps you should take the referral link out of your signature?