As the title states, I reached the first boss, the big goo man with the purple shield, and I could not damage him in any way. His shield absorbed all of my damage and seemed to have a timer ticking down, but no matter how much I pelted him, after the timer ran out, he would just stun me and restore the shield completely. I thought maybe you have to damage the shield a certain amount before the timer, but as I said, I absolutely spammed my strongest moves and nothing ever worked. Is there some trick to this...

Please make the difficulty more balanced so that even solo players can enjoy the game properly.

Giga pud on nightmare seems completely unkillable for certain characters on solo, and I have yet to actually break his shield. I feel like the shield timer should scale with number of players? Unless it already does. Not really sure I like the mechanic where progress is not guaranteed no matter how much damage you do anyway especially since the boss is completely nonthreatening offensively, but at the very least I feel like there should be a lot more leeway for solo. I've been at this for awhile and it isn...

If we could rebind heroes to hotkeys 1-3, like an RTS almost, instead of having to do that extra bit of thinking of "okay I'm on my healer, so I need to mouse wheel DOWN instead of UP to go to my tank"

I have the demo, go to the map to select the mode I want, but there is no indication of where you go to start playing. If I talk to the only NPC there all they do is tel me to wishlist the game.