health is nerfed even harder on Dominating which imho was unwarranted. I have 117 HP iirc at level 15 and anything can one shot me or one round me if they catch me with a CC. Fucking disgusting.
That's not true, hard and dominating have the exact same health modifier. You can compare numbers at
http://underrail.info.tm/build/ (hard, lvl 15, 3 con, psi empathy, no hp from gear/consumables = 117) Your HP couldn't be any worse than that.
Maybe you should play on hard instead, I think I'd be more fun for you. You've spent a week posting about your struggle with the difficulty and your tone doesn't sound like you're enjoying it very much.
I have already fixed that mistake in an edit before you posted.
I have finished hard with my PSI Sniper. Easily. My gripes are also shared by many others. Like shoving down the new ubar mega monsters down our throats from as early as Silent Isle which is still early game. My character is well optimized, it went through 4 iterations so this is not a problem.
What is a problem is the over the top HP bloat with ridiculous amount of damage. This is double grating when you fight alongside companions and cannot save them because they are completely ill equip for the challenge, both item wise and AI wise.
And the new monsters are utterly ridiculous. Even at level 15 with maxed Sneak and Detection I am still not even close of getting the jump on the new Death Stalker. Greater Coil Spiders seem to have Detection over 9000 because they detect you as soon as you get into range even with Cloaking Device on and one shots you even through shield.
New Psi beetles have fucking Psi Cognitive Interuption which one shots and PSI user with low HP. It is utterly retarded to give that skill to them and then have them fucking everywhere. I spotted 6 at the bridge you need to cross to find the corpse of Terry Baker. There are like 4 at least on Silent Isle. There are around 8 in the cave north-east of Zaman's lair.
So no, I will not return to Hard. It is too easy at this point. A lot of Dominating is not even hard, just obnoxious.