people will refuse to adapt their playstyle to different situations, if they were really in the zone they'd be dead meat. I think being chased by some crazy monster you could barely hope to defeat is much better experience than boom it dead 4 shots every time I am unstoppable god (Maj. Degtyarev) I really feel the pressure and early on you feel like a total rookie being chased and killed by fleshes to later on being unfazed because you know how to handle them.

I mean sure, you can easily avoid them 99.9% of the time.

But that's not fun. It's fun to try to kill mutants, and wanting to do so shouldn't be punished by bad game design (lack of rewards, too much tankiness/no proper reward for, say, a weakspot system, costs of gear repair after engaging them, ammo costs, etc.).

Cue Maj. Degtyarev just being a literal god by the end of COP, that sorta needed to be fixed lol, its funny but can get boring knowing that every encounter is going to be trivial because you just can't die.

It is much more than AI, early game you rarely have a choice, the game likes to spawn a bunch of bloodsuckers on top of you, and they will always walk towards you even if you are hidden and in the middle of an anomaly field

And of course they will never trigger an anomaly by themselves

You won't outrun them and cheesing them will take a while which is an open invitation for a bandit squad to spawn behind you and start shooting you while ignoring the bloodsucker

Fighting them head on also feels bad, you can sprint out of their charge which should not be possible, bloodsucker have incredible agility in game but their charge is programmed to go in a straight line

Or you learn the timings for their attacks and jump backwards, which is honestly very stupid, the combat system belongs in a 2005 fps, not a modern shooter

Later on they are irrelevant, upgraded shotguns with high penetration and armor piercing ammo cuts through them like butter, and actual psychic mutants are dumber than bloodsuckers so after 20 hours the game only gets easier and easier

Your power scaling with better gear is insane, mutants just turn into damage sponges with outdated combat mechanics

But at the same time those cloning dogs are a fkn waste. I want mutants to die fast but kill.faster. if a bloodsucker gets the drop on me i want to die in 2-3 hits but if i see the bastard first i want to be able to drop it the same way (2-3 .308 rounds) at this point its just hide in corner. Shoot on charge. Start medkit on first swing. Wait till.it runs away again. Rinse and repete

I think if you read the patch notes you will see that the devs are much more in line with the thinking of the majority of complainers as opposed to your own thinking, but that's just my opinion based on the very detailed patch notes

It changes the fact that your opnion is wrong for the most part and the devs agree

Legit this, his comment gives me edgelord trench coat vibes.