But soon, we'll get some magical modules that will uncheat them. Then, they'll be strong. Then, the community will whine. Then they'll be weak. Then we'll go back to sleep.
Yeah, I know, I'm a very positive person ;-p
They have an effect that caused hound pack missiles to bounce off. Some may have impacted and blown up. But zero visible damage from multiple engineered apex hunter vessels did anything but get chased away. Including corrosive weapons and the like.
Sandro specifically said we would be under foot with the Thargoids. Which means we are the bugs. We buzz and annoy them. But we are the ones that get squished. Not even wings of ships have done anything remotely harmful to the Thargoid vessels and their drone swarm.
Now we also do not have the 50% mitigation to the 'unknown' damage type. (cough-caustic-cough)
Pack hounds dont bounce off - they just regen realy fast - I suspect you may be firing too close and they aren't armed yet. The Tharglett swarm is quite good at taking packhounds on a merry chase - but, that's usefull as it takes them away from you.
And I tried the 50% mitigation before it was pulled - did nothing (perhaps why it was pulled).