★ PRIORITY-1 · BALANCE REPORT · CLASSIFIED TACTICAL BRIEF ★
REPORT CLASSIFICATION: BALANCE REPORT
Oshaune D10 is a statistical outlier in mission difficulty — never balanced after Illuminate return
FILED: May 1, 2026
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The planet Oshaune hosts the only tri-faction operation available on Difficulty 10. Its mission pool combines Illuminate Overseer command towers with Automaton Strider patrols in a map layout with no natural chokepoints, producing enemy density and aggression that community testing puts approximately 2.3× the median Difficulty 10 completion rate. The Illuminate faction returned in Patch 6.1.0 (March 2026) and Oshaune was not rebalanced as part of that release. No subsequent patch has addressed the spawn table. It is an outlier that has never been formally acknowledged in any patch notes.
Audit Oshaune D10 enemy spawn tables and reduce patrol spawn rate by 30% to bring it in line with other Difficulty 10 operations. Cap simultaneous patrol counts to match non-mixed-faction missions. If tri-faction operations are intended to be harder, document that design intent explicitly so players can make informed loadout decisions.
Suggest a sharper version of this issue. Proposals become candidates the community votes up or down — the highest net one is merged into the proposed change when voting closes. Buried suggestions drop off.