So I, like many faced 500 crushers and 5 million wretches (with a healthy amount of flesh dudes) and found it extremely difficult to complete objectives as a team, let alone solo. However my perspective has permamently changed today thanks to this exosuit that just works.
Wretches? As long as you continue moving and dont let them pile up they get crushed by you and damage dealt by them is negligible, they also get flung to stratosphere sometimes with shield swing and get one tapped (usually) lol. Crushers? These dudes dont even stand a chance as shield blocks literally every single attack bar ones from behind, staggers them with a swing and basically locks them down. Unrionically flesh dudes were the largest problem as they dealt damage by wailing around infront of my shield (idk how lol), nothing a few swings and a shotgun from breakthrough cant solve.
Overall even with 2 of the people being newbies in this rando team I was able to quite succesfully lock down hordes upon hordes of these beings, giving my team time to run away, complete objectives or give them time to prepare as I hold the entrance to extraction.
I've quickly learnt to not use shotgun to kill crushers as aiming for the head is extremely hard+spread is horrendeous on it, so its best use was for aiming between multiple crushers, firing once and watching as they get staggered for a good 2-4 seconds, extremely good crowd control to put it simply.
Overall I'd suggest people to try this out lol, completely changes the "constantly run away while dodging 500 crusher swings" with being the teams tank and give everyone a breathing room as they do the objectives with only 4-5 crushers and a dozen or so wretches to deal with instead of dozens of former and hundreds of latter. Its also extremely fun, really suits the "Breakthrough Exosuit" name. Legit felt like a dreadnought from 40k
Wanted to share this cause its both a fun option and a really good one for vote snatchers that I (like many) used to either get annoyed at the spawn rate of enemies or find it too difficult (I find it fun though)