Let me tell you something about Striders. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate them

Let me explain:

They're annoying as ♥♥♥♥.

Let me further explain:

There is a certain part in the story, Chapter 11: Follow Freeman!. Specifically the battle at the Overwatch Nexus. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate it. See, after fighting at the top of the roof, you need to make your way down the building and basically leave the region of the Overwatch Nexus. Simple, right? Wrong. There are now ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 4 STRIDERS WAITING FOR YOU PAST THE WALL. First time doing it, I just straight up wing it, run through and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ die. Second time, try the same thing but a little faster and die again. Third time, I run through but try and take some cover, unfortunately, one Strider decides to target me instead of the 5 other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shooting at him, and kills me. Now, at this point, I'm starting to get a little mad, theres only so much of this I can take, Valve. Fourth time, I decide to try and kill the Strider with my rocket, shouldn't be that hard right? I mean, there's an ammo box so I can just rain fire on him. Yeah, no, doesn't work. For some reason, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are made of titanium and take, roughly, 10 rockets to kill. However, I did end up killing one, but only for ANOTHER ONE to spawn in less than a minute. To which, it ends up killing me. Fifth time, I now have a strategy, run into the battlefield, grab rockets, run back behind the wall and shoot over said wall. It was a solid strategy, and I was willing to commit to it, yeah but ♥♥♥♥ me I guess, because after doing it for a little bit a Strider spawns behind me and give me the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ back shots of doom. At this point, I'm tired, it 11:00 PM and I can't deal with this ♥♥♥♥. So I go to bed and re-think my life choices.

Day Two:
The next day I had the horrible decision to try and play It again, yeah, what do you think happened? Death every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time. Oh yeah, did I mention that I was at 67 health with no armor? OH PLUS THERES NO HEALTH PACKS FOR ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MILES. Well, there IS a health pack, on the other side of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ no mans land. After my, maybe, 25th try at this, I stop, pause the game and really try and think about what I can do. After thinking for a bit, I end up going back to strategy number one: run and hope you don't get hit. It was really the only thing I could do, If I stayed in spawn then a Strider spawns behind me, If I try to fight them another one spawns, and if I try and hide, they'll eventually find me. So I unpause, and try it again, the first few times it fails obviously, but the fourth time trying it again, I make progress. I get to a little area with a hole in the ground and save immediately. Above the hole is where the health packs are. So I climb out and try to go into the building, but of course, a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Strider sees me and opens fire, I get hit a lot but I don't die, and actually end up making it inside the building on 14 health. I sigh in relieve, I finally ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ made progress. But, my tranquility doesn't last long and I get sniped by a Strider through THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WINDOW. Thank God I saved, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Christ, I hate it here. Long story short, I ended up making it through that section and leaving with 2 broken keyboards.