I love the marines in the game, they have a lot of personality and can hold their own. However I think they either tank too much damage or something because sometimes they rip through Banished better than Chief can on Legendary. I don’t want them to be too weak of course, but it is hard to imagine Humanity was losing when I see 4 marines take on like 15 Banished by themselves.
I feel like it would be really cool if the marines were slightly nerfed, but you could find ODSTs just as strong as the current marines, maybe every marine squad you find might have an ODST or two, that would both help the weaker marines hold their own and also not completely wreck Banished without assistance. Maybe 1/4 marines is an ODST with the current marine strength, and tweaking marines to be slightly weaker?
I know asking for things to be added to Campaign like this would be unlikely to happen, but it would both fill that craving to see our favorite ODST soldiers and also fix the balance/inconsistency with the Banished strength vs Marine strength. After all that would feel much more natural.
My perspective is from Legendary, and I don’t know what easier difficulties are like. But I have seen a single marine take on a Golden Elite solo and take 2 sword slashes, barely winning with a shotgun. Don’t get me wrong, it was really cool, but it also shows just how strong these soldiers are and how much more sense it would make being an ODST doing something like that!
Let me know what you think <3
tldr: Replace 1/4 marines with an ODST and slightly nerf only the marines. At least on legendary.