Sine I really like the universe of 40k as well as the XCOM games, I thought this would be a match made in heaven.
It has all the elements of a great game, with the gameplay, customization, story etc.

But my god the difficulty spike in this game ...
I mean its actively working towards making your play sessions into pure frustration.

I restarted the game on normal difficulty 3 times before giving up and starting it on easy to get past 300 day mark (game has a time advancement mechanic).
But the thing is that it didn't help. You are locked into 4 team squads while the game just swarms your map with enemies groups that have increasingly more units per squad, as well as higher tiered ones.

Meanwhile my guys can barely recover from one mission tot he other before getting hammered again.

And if you get missions with a timer on them, it becomes borderline impossible as objectives are placed randomly too far away from one another and you, with more then enough enemy units in your way, and expects you to just rush with no regards to your units well being, that either results in a win with your whole squad in critical condition, or running out of time.

I'm constantly out of resources, as the games random events constantly keep my ship and crew on the down, as well as punishing with stupidly long research and repair timers, to make sure I feel like I haven't progressed at all.

I can understand wanting to provide a blood pissing challenge to those who want to take part in them, but we have 4 difficulties, and easy on this would pass for a hard in any other game.
I mean how hard is it to allow the fully casual player, who just wants to enjoy the gameplay, setting and story without to much of a fuss?

I'm burned out by the need to constantly have to revert to old saves.

Sine I really like the universe of 40k as well as the XCOM games, I thought this would be a match made in heaven. It has all the elements of a great game, with the gameplay, customization, story etc. But my god the difficulty spike in this game ... I mean its actively working towards making your play sessions into pure frustration. I restarted the game on normal difficulty 3 times before giving up and starting it on easy to get past 300 day mark (game has a time advancement mechanic). But the thing is that it didn't help. You are locked into 4 team squads while the game just swarms your map with enemies groups that have increasingly more units per squad, as well as higher tiered ones. Meanwhile my guys can barely recover from one mission tot he other before getting hammered again. And if you get missions with a timer on them, it becomes borderline impossible as objectives are placed randomly too far away from one another and you, with more then enough enemy units in your way, and expects you to just rush with no regards to your units well being, that either results in a win with your whole squad in critical condition, or running out of time. I'm constantly out of resources, as the games random events constantly keep my ship and crew on the down, as well as punishing with stupidly long research and repair timers, to make sure I feel like I haven't progressed at all. I can understand wanting to provide a blood pissing challenge to those who want to take part in them, but we have 4 difficulties, and easy on this would pass for a hard in any other game. I mean how hard is it to allow the fully casual player, who just wants to enjoy the gameplay, setting and story without to much of a fuss? I'm burned out by the need to constantly have to revert to old saves.