This was compounded by Rass Ordo, the unchangeable temporary Companion given upon starting the Flashpoint being stuck at an Influence Level of 1. First of all, the trash mobs were markedly tougher than they should have been, and the imbalance was even worse with the bosses. Initially, the difficulty balance was completely broken, with the Flashpoint being exceedingly difficult even in Story mode.
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The recently launched game update 6.2.1 introduced a suite of over 30 tweaks and bug fixes to Spirit of Vengeance alone, following multiple hotfixes since the launch of the Flashpoint in December 2020. It eventually becomes clear that the coup has been orchestrated by someone called Field Marshal Heta Kol, who fundamentally disagrees with the way Shae leads the Mandalorians, and formed a splinter group called the Hidden Chain. Your task is to go to all three attacking vessels, detach the boarding tubes and slay the leaders of the clans that turned on you. Upon arrival, it becomes clear that three rebelling Mandalorian clans have harpooned and boarded it. The Flashpoint comes to heel when Shae informs you that her flagship, the Spirit of Vengeance II has run into some problems, and asks for your assistance in retaking it.
At this point the Mandalorians are both our allies, and a powerful force to be reckoned with, which means internal strife or outright civil war weakens your allies while also endangering the whole galaxy which is still struggling to rebuild after the oppression of the Eternal Empire finally ended.
Shae Vizla, the current Mandalore, is struggling to keep the united clans united and turns to the Alliance Commander - that's us - to help clear things up. In Spirit of Vengeance we get a lot of story, since this is setting up the next major on-going plot thread of the game now that Tenebrae/Vitiate/Valkorion is dead for good (or is he?). Even those Flashpoints that do not have a Story difficulty setting have plenty of narrative framing to explain why you and three other heroes are murdering your way through a fancy new environment.