Horizon Forbidden West players aren't impressed by nerfs to legendary weapons
The latest Horizon Forbidden West update nerfs a number of powerful weapons, and fans aren't entirely thrilled about balance changes in their single-player game.
Horizon Forbidden West update 1.09 released earlier this week. Among a number of fixes to quests and other world activities, one note reads that developer Guerilla Games had "rebalanced several combat mechanics." According to community manager Chanté Goodman, that included a lowering of base stats for legendary weapons and armor that would bring them closer in-line with other weapons.
That change quickly proved unpopular. In a post yesterday, Reddit user ignimbrite said that nerfing the base level of the legendary weapons was "mildly irritating," but far more frustrating was the decision to limit the stats of even the upgraded versions of those weapons. They complained that they'd had to grind dozens of resources for the upgrade, but that now it was barely better than standard gear, asking "literally why, it's a freaking single player game ya dorks."
Similar sentiments were put forward in another post, where user CommanderCuesta called on Guerilla to lower the weapons' upgrade costs if the studio was set on limiting their damage: "Although we love fighting huge difficult machines and having the satisfaction when toppling them, having to kill dozens of them for a single weapon (that were just nerfed, mind you) takes and otherwise thrilling activity and transforms it into two painful choices we as players must make."
CommanderCuesta argues that players who want these legendary items will either have to lower the difficulty to farm the resources - robbing themselves of the challenge - or simply grind against the monsters for hours thanks to their less-effective
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