I wouldn't mind autocannon as it has some drawbacks. The shield generator is just silly, seeing people run around swarms of enemies getting "hit" to no effect. I think at the very least the player should still be staggered. And the rovers are a cheap (gameplay-wise) method of dealing with mobs that would be better attributed to team loadout. They should have to "recharge" much more frequently.
I have 30 hours in it and I think maybe 15 of those were quite tedious. The game is very close to being a 9/10 but it easily drags into a 6/10. They need to refine a lot of the weaponry and monsters to make them more enjoyable to fight. The higher difficulties aren't more challenging due to skill requirements, they just add stupidly hard to kill enemies you're forced to call a laser in to nuke. The early game promises a lot more than the late game delivers when every level is effectively identical and enemies become so dangerous you can't really fight them in a fair way any more. The robots just nade you or make your base gun worthless so you can't do shit but spam your special weapons and call downs. It seriously limits the player options increasing the repetitiveness.
The Quasar apparently is mad overpowered and is probably gonna get nerfed :/
If/when they nerf it, I'll be curious to see how they go about it. I tested it very briefly on a solo easy mission and it is basically an infinite ammo Expendable Anti-Tank with a four second wind up and small cooldown period. There could be no enemy dropship that survived if I were in the vicinity.
My usual loadout has been the Eagle Airstrike, Expendable Anti-Tank, Autocannon, and either the gatling or autocannon sentry. If they make the cooldown too long then the EAT is still better. I litter the entire map with EAT's all mission long. Plus I can dump two into a bile titan's face faster than the Quasar can.
For 'primary' weapons the scorcher works well on bots with its splash explosives, can two shot striders to the faceplate, the JAR Dominator which is allegedly explosive, cannot, but it has a higher damage throughput but needing to blast the legs is tedious. Both work a treat on the berserkers and if the kamikazi jetpack bots get in your face you can groundshoot to avoid dying to your own round or the jetpacks explosion. Autocannon is a solid pick for bots but its somewhat finnicky, have to target above the weakspot, two shots hulks, can groundshoot chaff, and works well on most, takes up a backpack and has moderate reload. Bots are almost blind and deaf so you can disengage and dive into concealment then work around to get out if you finish an objective. Stun grenades can lock down groups but leave you with limited means to deal with fabricators, can call down a resupply at the doorway for it to drop the bugger, most explosive weapons can deal with them but the angle can get screwy, or wait for bots to open the doors and use explosives there. AMR isnt awful now, but it lacks quite a bit of authority that most other stratagems bring.
Completing the final main objective quadruples enemy patrol spawn rate, you should always do side stuff before it, on the way to main objectives.
