Annoying difficulty in NG+3

[north fractal]

Title sums it up. I'm forced to use the military machete because the health of enemies is inflated so much. Using a 713 dmg weapon, I need to hit volatiles roughly 10 times on normal difficulty. The new explosive throwing knives barely scratch virals, let alone harder infected.
All I want is to kinda revert the ng+, or atleast have an option to change the difficulty more in depth. Kinda like Borderlands OP levels, where each ng+ is a new level.
Is there a way for me to get rid of the horribly inflated health, or do I have to start a new save and miserably work my way up to the state my main character is in to even have fun playing the game?

[hearty fractal]

Stop playing ng+ so many times?

And I don’t think there is a way to stop the inflating health but turning the difficulty down to easy

[north fractal]

Yeah that wasn't something I thought about back then, the last time I started a ng+ was gut feeling update. But there's no way to go back, which is what I want to do. Switching to easy doesn't change their health much. Just amount and damage

[paper star]

They have finally patched the military machete. So it cannot be repaired.

[hearty fractal]

Me to

I’ve done story like 8 times

[hearty fractal]

The carnage hall one

?

[cinder stream]

ng+ does not stack. ng+500 is the same as ng+1

[north fractal]

Really? I remember zombies being easier to kill in ng+1 even though my weapons dealt way less damage.

[cinder stream]

the games balance as a whole has changed. but ng+'s do not stack and get harder and harder no.

[north fractal]

Honestly, all I want to do is be able to kill volatiles and other special infected without hitting them 11 times with weapons that are considered op.

[cinder stream]

I dont know if they have removed it yet. but they did make a change at some point where volatiles cant be killed without a minimum of like 3-4 hits

even if you hypothetically had a 99999dmg weapon

[north fractal]

I also feel like legend levels didn't do much for me too, even with max in every stat I feel weak against enemies I shouldn't have trouble with

[cinder stream]

on hard with gear and weapons and legend max I 1 tap biters and sometimes virals

in ng+

[north fractal]

They changed it with community update 3, "you can now overpower volatiles with something something weapons"