Maybe I'm alone on this, but I hate these things. I do not find these things fun to deal with. They just feel like an pesky annoyance and I believe the game would be better off without them.
EDIT: I guess I should do proper feedback and explain why I dislike them. Despite their lightweight nature and constant peppering of low dps, they are unnecessarily bullet spongey if you don't have any explosive or area damage options on you.
You have to make the choice between spending extra time and ammo to knock out the drones first, then you can shoot them, or you can shoot them directly and the drones chase you to self-detonate on impact. You can't crit while they have drones, so either way, if you lack area of effect damage (or perhaps a high rpm), you just have to spend extra time and ammo to take them out.
If I could re-work them, I would make the drones have aim assist, but the core have none, making it really hard to hit the core, but easy to hit the drones. If you manage to take out the core before the drones, instead of going to you, they spread out and attack everything nearby, friend or foe. I would also allow overkill damage on the drones to spread evenly amongst the others (i.e. if you kill one with something like an auto rifle, you'll likely need to hit them all, but hitting one with a bow will probably knock the rest down to half).
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Edited by Ferus Lux: 9/18/2025 9:31:42 PMSpreading out and attacking their own defeats the whole point of the Vex. Terrible suggestion. I think re-tuning the health would be enough tbh.
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They really cannot stop making annoying enemies, ever since the Scorn with their immune phase it seems every new faction or "update" to existing enemies is to kill them twice or only in specific ways.
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Imp swarms > mini screebs
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If you can get them all with an explosion they aren't so bad, like with Mint Retrograde or a Heavy GL or something. That said, they're overly aggressive and like to just get in your face which makes dealing with them that way dangerous.
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A fast auto rifle with incandescent and subsistence does a decent job of them.
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Since we get stuck in reload animations they should add reload animations to all enemies to make them feel our pain.
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I would still be happier if they literally removed everything from edge of fate on and just reverted to a backup where I lost any and everything since it dropped and just went back to how things were.
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This is a goal to create annoying enemies and mechanics because of it make you feeling ... something! And they dont care what do you feel - they got your emotions. Mission completed.
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There's got to be enemies that suck. And yes ... Imp Swarms kinda' suck, lol.
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If I remember correctly it was a modifier a while back and they removed it but cuz it was horrible and now they reintroduce it and it's still horrible I don't get it..... They want us to play the game but then they go out of their way to make the game painful to play
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Same! If their presence is just to annoy the players like some of the stupid mods then Bungie has succeeded.
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Oh you're definitely not alone. They're so annoying. In lower level content they're manageable but in master and up it's just stupid
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I hate screebs more. As an avid sword user-those things just ruin the fun….Bungos main aim it seems?