I was just curious about something - was this issue ever resolved?
My personal experience with this issue was in VMA, specifically, any stage with archers. In stages 5 and 7 especially, archers hit ridiculously harder than before the patch. It seems like all other damage is intact from prepatch. I've never been able to achieve the same scores as pre patch. I never used beast trap in vma, and I'm now running bound armaments, as opposed to pre patch.