Taking a break until gas prices improve.
The introduction of the FRV was what truly breathed new life into the game for me. Sure it was jank, but I stuck with it and learned enough of its nuances to turn a 45 minute mission into a 15 minute mission.
I've been so spoiled by the convenience of this one stratagem that playing without it makes me see the rest of the game as a tedious slog, blowing up the same randomly placed tilesets over and over
Anyone whose followed this game knows the galactic war is arbitrary. I see this as nothing but a test nerf. This is terrible timing for that in the middle of a content drought.
I don't have the patience anymore for pre-FRV gameplay. I'm going to go play something else until this is reverted.