I hate the hop strategy

[BezKa]

By hop strategy I mean equipping the armor that creates a shockwave upon landing, selecting the rest of your equipment to become Power class, and spamming dodge around enemies to create rapid shockwaves that damage everything around you.

Sure, it's funny, but playing in multiplayer with people who use it is so boring. They're stealing kills (rip 'shield/healing from focus kills' powers), ruin any sort of strategy (why bother finding a rhythm when the mass of enemies is stunned and rapidly dying, then disappearing so you have to race to get any hits in before the next wave gets decimated) and the game ends way too fast no matter the difficulty. And if they get hitstreak teffra power, they can buy everything in Hot Topic so it doesn't matter how much teffra you got.

Idk what the solution to this would be, but I would appreciate some host tools- like options to ban certain pieces of equipment. Cause I can understand when I'm joining a game that people play however they want to play, but when I'm hosting I'd prefer to keep the people who ruin the fun from doing it, and banning players seems like an overkill for this- even though I did it before and will keep doing it if no other way to avoid it appears.

[HeatAndRun]

In my humble opinion the snortoise armor is kinda balanced. Its advantage is the survivability because dodge become attack, while the dps is not that high. (without the big schemer power) This armor was definitely the meta stratedgy before the Bonechill Quarry came out, but since there're more and more pieces of equipment being introduced in recent updates, I think not so much people are using this armor these days than the past. So I suppose time will solve this problem.

[BezKa]

I still stand for allowing us some lobby moderation. There might not be many people using this strategy, but I don't want to play with anyone using it, and still think banning players is a bad solution to that.

And more equipment might solve the issue, or make it worse- all these people now wear torchfly armor that gives bonuses when standing near enemies if I'm not mistaken. If more armor comes that just so happens to work really well with hop strategy it might make more people use it, not less. But who knows what will happen, I'm nor going to make any grand predictions.

[HeatAndRun]

I also agree that there could be some kind of lobby configuration. If public matches can have titles like DST, it would be more welcomed to communicate the progression and desired goal of the host. Imagine a random newcomer who just bought the game joins the public match in Nocturne Grove's 5th super frenzy level.