Predator Strain actually makes the game hard.

I am a strict D10 diver and I've had no issue whatsoever filling with random squads since D10 was released and completing pretty much every mission. Take some sort of AT weapon, incendiary breaker, grenade pistol and call it a day. The Predator Strain makes this so much more difficult. The amount of horde clearing capability you need to have is ridiculous. Having stalkers and pred hunters rush you out of every bug breach while chargers are running around is making me use more stims and dive more than i ever have before. I've still been able to complete the main mission sometimes, but extracting is genuinely like playing high-round Balloons Tower Defense with the nonstop breaches.

Before pred strain you could kinda run whatever loadout you want on D10 and get away with it. I would even run unconventional and "bad" weapons or stratagems and do fine just to spice it up, but with Predator Strain there has to be some sort of coordination with loadouts or you're cooked. Please keep doing this AH it actually makes you feel like you as a player are being sent deep into enemy territory and fighting against all odds.