Enemies have 2 states.
When they reach the 2nd state (their model will have blood covered on them), is when they become vulnerable to almost everything and barely dodge.
That's good to hear.
NGS2 netcode was 50/50, if you had a bad connection, you're fucked. If you had a good connection, it was like playing offline.
NGRE...you're always fucked no matter what haha