Is it just me (and my fleet's) opinion, or is the Hive Elite (Space) almost impossible? I mean, we beat it but it was at a significant cost of time and frustration (and repair components!) and... any word on it being balanced?

Mixed feelings generally, but if anything needs to be toned down it's the respawn timer.

They should NOT have given the Borg uber-powers and one-shot kill weapons if they weren't going to make the respawn timer less punishing.

I've stopped playing Hive Space as a result, as quickly grew bored of the double punnishment one receives for being one-shot-killed more than once and having to sit around in respawn limbo for X number of seconds to pay for my 'mistake'.

Try to think back to Season 5 launch... People said the same about every (elite) STF out there...

Yes, some minor adjustments were made, but in the end, all it really took was a good strat, and people working together.

I say wait a month, run it regularly, and then take a stance on the topic.

My fleet and I almost hit the optional in our first run, so it can't be super hard... Hard yes... But not impossible.

Yea i don't want to see more Nerfing in the game i want to see Players getting smarter about the game play, quit dumbing the game down, payers need to smarten up.

I hope it's not being toned down. If it was as easy as the other STF elites there would be no reason at all to advance in the reputation system and to buy the new gear. Look at it as a STF made to match the new abilites and gear.

I think it could use some tweaking with regards to the invisi torps flying around, but really it isn't the death sentence it's made out to be. That said, it is absolutely unforgiving of even the slightest mistake. In ISE if one person blows a gen slightly too early, that's not too big of a deal if the rest of the team has decent dps or there's someone with good CC skills. In CSE someone with repulsors can compensate for a cube or two being taken out early or out of sequence. But if you aggro the entire mob of tac cubes at once in HSE then it's pretty much guaranteed that the team will wipe and wipe quickly with little chance of salvaging the opt.

No. We need it as a benchmark

Spawn - die from a one shot - Spawn - die from a one shot - Spawn - die from a one shot - ............

Yea its great fun. Not!

I say keep it as it is... minus the Queen's one-shot richocette gun.