Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-1915363-20160530025709/@comment-25167983-20160531072435

Having watched some of the salt of E-7 hard, I decided perhaps wisely to lower the difficulty on E-7 after clearing everything else on hard. While there was definitely the chance that I could have cleared E-7 on hard... the fact that it relied so much on luck really was the deciding factor for me (I have terrible luck in sorties). I wasn't too miffed about not getting the hard mode medal though since completing my ship collection was my main objective (a mission thankfully completed).

Overall though, this event seemed to require a lot of luck to fully clear. The devs might want to alter some game mechanics in our favor if they intend to continue escalating the event difficulties like this...