@Chickencowlord: Fighting the easiest enemies I haven’t even come close to dieing, and am always alive with 100+ HP. When I fight the Xtreme enemies my chances are severely weakened to around 50/50, which is what I’d expect from the Xtreme enemies. I think people in general are forgetting about “standalone” weapons (weapons that aren’t defaults) and are sticking with a default-oriented house to battle with, which just doesn’t work here. There are many strategies you can use to beat these new enemies, such as a DoT setup, EP draining setup, a stunning setup (using the Trophy Arm to lower immobility resist + stun is a fantastic one-weapon strategy), and if you have honestly tried every weapon combo with every mecha combo and you still can’t beat any enemies on normal (a fact I find hard to believe), you can always rip out a Katana and equip it with high-level weapons to do the dirty work. Yes, there is luck involved in the battles (there always is), but I don’t see it as being the deciding factor in who wins, at least on the normal battles.

That said, the new enemy/exploding battleground is quite nice, and the head seems like it could work well on my secondary. Besides that, the new NPC has a very interesting backstory, something that has been lacking recently, and I’m looking forward to how Zargon turns out. As Peanut said, it’s a good start.