Famous quotes Edition>Update 10.0 patch notes:https://community.focus-entmt.com/focus-entertainment/space-marine-2/blogs/260-patch-notes-10-0>August Community updatehttps://community.focus-entmt.com/focus-entertainment/space-marine-2/blogs/253-august-community-update>Year 2 Roadmap:https://i.imgur.com/61HZRF3.jpeg>Where to get the game:https://www.focus-entmt.com/en/games/warhammer-40000-space-marine-2>Lore Stuff:https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page>For jolly cooperation with your battle brothers (Can also post codes for jolly coop/PvP. Edit Squad -> Invite Menu):https://steamcommunity.com/groups/sm2general>Workaround with matchmaking (not finding players, only 2/3):Back out to the main menu and re-enter battle barge.>Datasheet showing hidden difficulty modifiers for each difficulty (for easier damage reference):https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1kVvYgDBoAan98W3IjAM6ERdq-QfkCsaVvXKF5g_Q9sU/htmlview>Spreadsheet useful for damage calculation:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzX5LzOD8NZyOTV-BUyL8kWoLEpt-skM/>/sm2g/ Dude Wall - Compilation of Dudes:https://dudewall.github.io/dude-wall/>/sm2g/ Phantom Links Chapter Lore:https://rentry.org/ChroniclesofPhantomLinksPreviously on the Battle-Barge: >>537894706
>>538021964>Everyone hates this helmet and shits on it so hard it gets abandoned and SW get different helmet upgrade sprue>Saber still includes it into the gameFor what fucking purpose? Not even GW would want them shilled, you can't buy those
Honeymoon period is swiftly dying, I see.>Power Axe is a whiffle bat>Chaos Spawn designed with the gayest Elden Ring movesets imaginable>Pyreblaster blinding everybody>Half the Stratagems are pure aids
>anno domini 2025>still can't use duplicated classes>still can't search for an open lobby with your class freeand I'm gone again, checking back in 2026
>>538022736>still can't search for an open lobby with your class freeThat was literally a thing added months ago. Matchmaking will always search for lobbies lacking the class you're playing.
>>538022694the worst part about flamer is you cant see indicators
>>538020561sm2 trannies will seethe and rage at trvkes
>>538022878>guy clearly doesn't play the game>you still reply to himit still occasionaly happens when someone else connects faster than you
>>538022736It's only going to get worse when Techmarine launches, because everyone who's still playing will gravitate to him in order to level him up, and Saber will give some absolute dogshit excuse as to why they can't change it
>>538023082You are just bad at the game, it's ok, but just keep yourself in tranny tide or something.
>>538023153M-maybe class stacking will be unlocked alongside Techmarine release?
We need a 40k game set during the legion wars, either strategy or rpg based. Pick a traitor legion, make your own warband, kill your bitter rivals, and conquer worlds. And no, I don't care about the new chaos vs chaos pvp mode in this game.
>>538023618We're playing named characters, lore dictates that it's impossible. Please understand
>>538023697it could be post legion wars, youre just rummaging around, attacking outposts, warehouse planets, salvaging spacehulks, planting cults and infiltrators
>>538023491ah yes the cuck response. now go and pay 40 dollars for the next 5 skins you'll get this year like a good boy. and keep spamming that parry button, after all it's 95% of the game
>>538024030I'd be fine with that too. I'm just sick of ultramarines >:(
>>538022263Fuck Saber and fuck this slavic shit show.>Cheated in 2000 AccoladesI am never touching strategems again get fucked.>Sorry, NOT SORRY
>>538024347>Cheated in 2000 AccoladesHow?
>>538024347Already got the bypass working? Nice. I've been on the lookout for one too. Once I get it it's bye bye to stratagems. If they don't value my time I don't intend to value any amount of work they put into making this grindfest.
>>538024347EAC bypass doesnt work any more. Try again.
>>538023985This is bullshit obviously. All Marines can change equipment as need, they are fucking marines trained in a variety of weapons, in an addition to being Space Knights. Straban could squeeze into Phobos armor and go Vanguard and Decimus become a Sniper if need be. It's mentioned few times during this game story even.All that is needed is an option to select your Character separately from Class.The actual issue is in some of classes abilities not being designed around stacking of them. But honestly it's only really a problem with a Banner and an Auspex scan. And a meager one at that. They fucked up conceptually by forcing class restrictions on a design stage, but if they patched in class stacking in some update closer to release then they would have balanced it all until now to a reasonable state already.
>>538024347no man you dont understand the game is perfectly fine and fun you dont need to cheat in currency youre just bad at the game>>538023985uh actually it's named *ultramarines* character, ok? praise guilliman
>>538025170It does thoughever. It's a matter of properly editing hex values in the executable so that you patch out the detection of modded files.
>>538025325>>538025170Link to the bypass?
>>538025170Lol mine still works and always will because EAC has a critical flaw when booting.>>538025153My suite is buggy but ironically they coded Accolades in as research points. Editing them gives you Accolades instead. So no update needed.
Brothers, I've been having some issues with running the game recently. The game is crashing at random moments, it looks like it's a matter of shaders or graphics related bullshit since it blacks out the screen and all the windows that are opened in explorer which I need to reset afterwards.I'm comfortably above recommended specs and so far SM2 worked just fine. Nothing even changed in my system and crashing started occurring randomly only recently and I was wondering if anyone else was/is dealing with similar crashes, and perhaps found some solution?Any help would be much appreciated.
For Space Marine 3, I would personally move away from the concept of classes, and instead shift to a resource-based loadout system. Weapons and even armor patterns are weighed based not only on their damage and utility, but what they cost in relation to other pieces of gear. The Bolt Pistol would actually get used when you take 2-3 expensive items and suddenly have no space BUT for said Bolt Pistol.
Would I have an easier time completing the weekly Hard Strategem if I leveled up a bit more? The invincible Lictor seems to have a ton of health and I'm only lvl 5, prestige 4 though. We got fucked when a Carnifex spawned with the invincible lictor, and Zoanthropes blasting us with the fucking green shits on the ground.
why is every horde shooter general filled with mentally ill people who hate their developer
>>538026248Proof?
>>538026279check temps>>538026369lictor is not that big of a deal if you know how to fight a lictor, it will stick to one person, the main problem is you cant see anything, and theres nothing you can really do about that other than killl things faster, because you cant ping things in the darkness to find them
>>538026403That applies to all gamers
>>538026540Yeah, I looked at those. Temps are fine: GPU/Memory, CPU etc. - everything is working perfectly. No spikes, transients. Nada. Like I said I never ran into that issue before and no other game, especially newer ones post 2023, cause any issues. I've seen one post on Saber's forum with the exact issue from a year ago, but support didn't bother to reply to the guy. I guess I'll try to clear shader cache and force the game to rebuild it. Maybe this'll do something.
>>538026540We were in an enclosed area after the first drop down. Tons of majoris, a Carnifex, the invincible Lictor and Zoanthropes were outright fucking us. The majoris that shoots and leaves behind the green shits on the ground were everywhere so we were thoroughly fucked.
>>538026403I never played other horde shooters but there's about a million reasons to hate these ones. Maybe you just have dogshit for standards.
>>538026649it really doesn'tpve players are uniquely egotisticalmaybe it comes from feeling like you're playing against "the developer" instead of anyone who can check your unearned ego but people who main pve are weirdly retarded
>>538026403>mentally ill people who hate their developerThat's basically every general, except gachaniggers who should hate their dev but have stockholm syndrome
>>538026403autists playing those games obsessively constantly want more and no developer can meet their demands fast enough. And the longer you play the game, the more issues with it you see. Which is why you then get "2000+ hours in game - not recommended" reviews.This isn't even exclusive to vidya. GW can't meet demand on their products either, they can't produce stuff in enough numbers to satisfy their consumers. And the more mini ranges they have, the worse it gets. And they have to create new minis alll the time too, which then means they have even more stuff to constantly produce. To make matters worse, they don't want to produce their plastic in China, only in bongland, by paying bongland wages and recently got cucked by a bat on top of this.
>>538027974>they don't want to produce their plastic in Chinathats a good thing, because that means they understand that the chinese will steal their mould as they do with everything
>>538027974>they can't produce stuff in enough numbers to satisfy their consumersdo you believe in food shortage in africa too?
>>538026248lil gup got caught in a lie and doesnt want to talk any moreso sad
>>538028578No, I just have no intention of showing you how so you can report it out of spite.This is not my first rodeo, kid.Enjoy your accolades grind. lol, lmao.
Do we get anything for Absolute on the new Operation? Or have they abandoned the system and are throwing it all into Accolades?
>>538028987>my bypass will always work>if i tell you my bypass will not work any morewhich one is it
>Have to play on Wifi due to location of fibre ports compared to office.>Black Templar champion and customisation finally release>Can update all my BT and update my wall dudes>Some fucking finook in my semi rural area uploaded CP AGAIN!>Cannot upload images again for who knows how long...FUCKING PEDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>no generic color variants for the hatchet>[sad magpie noises]
Would've been nice to get a version of this helmet without all the bling. Not sure why they insist on making every gear fit for captains, chapter masters and champions. Make some shit for the lower level guys.
>>538029415It works because they clearly do not understand the obvious, core weakness. Its not super secret squirrel shit either, just minimal competence would have caught and fixed it years ago.>"Post it buddy, don't worry I wont report it so it can be looked at the and loophole closed!"No, you fucking retard. Fucking normalfag doesn't understand OPSEC that is unavoidable now due to faggots like (You) being bootlicking cocksuckers and salty.Its not 2002 and people could openly post exploits etc and forum users would STFU.We have redditfags everywhere white knighting for these incompetent fuckwits.Keep trying to bait me though. (You), cannot make me mad.
>>538029505is loli cp
>wont post proofmmhmmm yep
>People leveling/no passive perks on the weekly hard stratagemFUCKING TOURISTS GET OUT OF MY GAME
>>538011985>just want vanguard champ dlc for the wolf pelt pauldron>$8 on sale>just want assault champ dlc for the glove>fucking $10I'm at least glad I didn't buy the white scar dlc considering they added gloves for phobos classes (my favorites). I could fuck with the grieves too, but that's still too little value for $10.
>>538027313pvp players complain toobattlefield players constantly shit on diceleague players constantly shit on riot gamesI can go on and on
>>538030724>white scars commonly have two leather gloves>the heroic leather glove is only for sniper and vanguardThis is so retarded. Like the same person who decided to give the champ weapon skin to a weapon the actual champ skin can't use.
>>538030115>OPSECbro this is a video game, not a revolutionary movement
>>538030190Either that or something else illegal 4chan blanket bans an area and ISP from uploading images for a couple months
>>538030894That is why you will never leave the currency mines. Sucks to suck.
>Imperial Fists effectively get 2.5 cosmetic releases>Still yet to see one since patchMight have to start running one myself.
>>538030783it's not the same lolthere's more of a back and forth, impotent bitching is recognized as impotent bitching more often. the adversarial relationship with the developers isn't really there as often. it's more often directed towards players which makes sense
Codes?
The power axe is really fucking shit. What were they thinking.
>>538032986No codes, everyone already beat Absolute Vortex and Hard Inferno stratagem
>>538033719Sure they did
>/sm2g/ says power axe sucksUhhh..are you sure?
>>538034327he said it's a parry device which i meanparry game
How to instantly improve your experience> turn off crossplay> dont play with assaultnigs
>>538034327its good on bulwark with the shield bash melee dmg buff perks
>>538034576How do you use the new bulwark shield dash?
>>538024164Yes I will :)
>>538034762You guard and do a heavy attack
>>538034327impressive. very nice. now lets see our guy's clip.
>>538030891>sniper salamander champ>$10 for only half a pair of gloves>added a fucking mark 7 helmet with all the trimmings but STILL no phobos helmet>couldn't even let bulwark wear DA champ's tabardMan, I fuckin hate Saber.Was really hoping we'd get that tabard on assault and tac. I know that was pretty heavy cope considering their dumb fucking class silhouette autism when there shouldn't even be classes. Bulwark robes not being available on bulwark is fucking outrageous though. The bullshit restrictions are making less and less sense.At least they have lifted a lot of them since release, but we're still so far from how it should've been at launch. It's crazy to think that this game got delayed almost a full year. Should've gotten delayed like an actual full year on top of that.
>>538034762
>>538035213
they didnt test this weekly hard strategem did they?
>>538034404> turn off crossplay> dont play with the sudden and inexplicable influx of new Ultramarine playersWeird...
>>538035750Black Templars*Fixed it for ya
>>538035213>>538035429Holy shit, /fhg/ is back?
>>538035430It's perfectly doable. Just need 2 other players who focus and bring their bestGood luck)))))
>>538035430Feels like they didnt test half of the stratagems
what the fuck is this? some kind of iron losers warband? i thought he was a DG until i saw the other pauldron was yellow.
>>538037691that's the beauty of it - because they are temporary, they don't need to. They can just claim they wanted them to be extra hard today/this week:^)
>>538026362What would be the concequences of a high-cost build or a low-cost build? I like the idea though. Makes you feel as if you're equipping proper wargear as opposed to simply fitting guns/melee in slots.
this is genious
vanguard shoulderpad options suck
>Assault>Pyreblaster HeavyYup, time to leave.
> make awesome chaos skins> only useable in pvpbut why? this is so nonsensical and the devs avoidance to anything for chaos is cringe.
>>538039428GW said no to that
>>538037404its really not.
>>538039512literally fanfiction because its easier to blame Faceless GW than dev laziness.What was there excuse for no chaos operations? oh yeh MUH Voicelines
>>538039972I mean I did it, I saw other people running around with phase blades, so they also did it.What's your excuse?
Man I dont understand tyranids whip parry window. These shits are bullshit desu.
>this weekly isn't doableit's absolute with two modifiers man that's not literally impossible make
>>538040557You cannot parry the followup after the first attack if you fucked up the first parry. The third attack needs you to mash parry on both fencing and balanced when the animation of the attack starts, not before.
>>538036285Nope, I have seen more UM last 24 hours than last 2 months.There is an uptick in BT due to the champion skin release but not more than DA when they had theirs. I did not notice an increase in anyone else on release though but that might be DA came first and then everyone kind of got over champ skins due to locked cosmetics.Still I have not seen any WS, SW, Sallies, or BA since patch.
>>538040149Good thing the mods exist to fill the gap
I hate every single Assault player
>>538037404what feeling is this video suppposed to convey again?
>>5380424601. play assault yourself so that you don't get matched with them2. .......3. PROFIT
>>538030649I joined a game, shitters died at the start, then i did it with the bots.
MAGAZINE INMAGAZINE OUT
>>538032298Hello.
>>538042982WHAT IS THE HOLDUP?
>>538040703good evening saar, very good english
Codes? xj9bf
>>538043402Why do Imperial Fists use Jotaro's hand symbol from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
>>538042982He and autismo Straban are the only 2 marines in that squad with personality
>>538044583Straban is literally me
>>538044024at this point you should probably specify what you would like to play, this game is getting to many modes
Any codes for Hard?
>>538043402looking good, brother
>>538045813We make our genefather proud, brother.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAA
When I get home from work, I'm going to show you guys just how goofy the Fists look when you're not cherry picking from one or two specific companies.
>>538042982
Straban,
>>538034327>>538033629The axe really is the "Fight back, nigga, fight back!" -weapon. Great at interrupting enemy follow up attacks (Carnifex, whip Warrior) with your riposte attack, but pretty shit at everything else.They really need to boost the non-riposte damage though, because it's laughable how long you may have to chip away at a single Majoris if they don't attack back enough for you to punish them. Maybe give it another special feature too, because it's kinda boring if the counter attack is the only special thing about it and the rest is just normal looking attacks that don't look or feel special in any way. I can't even tell which attacks are light or heavy because it's just this whirly dance that drags on. Almost as if the weapon wasn't quite fully baked yet.>(My) TOP PICKS TIERPower fist, Power Sword, Chain Sword>OKAY TIER (won't pick them normally if given choice, or could use buffs)Thunder Hammer, Combat Knife, Power Axe
What's wrong with Assault, why is it looked down here?
>>538048530It’s the designated incel class
>>538048530It's great. Literally my favorite class along with Tactical.Maybe the class perks feel a bit more situational compared to something like +15% universal melee/ranged damage or healing, but eh.
>>538048530people are afraid to learn how to play the game.
>>538043402n-nani? I...is that you, Sigismund?
>>538048530hes not the meta for rollslop aoe damage healbot meltabomb spamheavy is mandatory since his plasma is so overpoweredtact is needed for auspex and now hes a grenade vender.that only leave one slot, vanguard and bulwark are both heal bots
>>538048530>worse at melee than tactical, vanguard and bulwark>worse survivability compared to every other class besides tactical>worse at mobility than vanguard and now bulwark>no proper ranged weapon It's sort of neat for boss nuking and horde clear in siege, but that's about it. Outside of siege, enemies don't reach the same density, even on absolute, so you're kinda stuck not always having access to your jump pack ability.It's just not a good class.
>>538049331>Outside of siege, enemies don't reach the same density, even on absolute, so you're kinda stuck not always having access to your jump pack ability.Nonsense. I'm teabagging enemies half of entire operations. I just finished 6 operations on Assault and as long as you have the "recharge on kill" and don't focus on single target jump damage (niche or straight up noob trap), you'll be able to obliterate a anything bigger than a group of 5 enemies with the rampant jumping or at least weaken them up for easy pickings.
hi guys, i'm getting an issue on Demerium (last planet in the campaign) after the thing with Leuze/Imurah activating the artifact, I have this green swirly effect all over the screen and it's kinda hard to see throughit won't go away with time, if i go to the battle barge, if i quick out the game and return, if i switch off/on the ps5, etci've checked other gameplay online and they don't have this issue ( https://youtu.be/4_hevAlY7_A?t=2935 ), does anyone know how i can fix this? thank you!
>>538050021>if i quick out*quit outsorry, typo
>>538049331I am not sure why, but I started assault right after maxing Bulwark at launch. I have now played more assault than anything else and it is my strongest class. I can play vanguard as well as anyone else that does not autistically main it but I cannot carry on anything else like I can on assault.I am not humble bragging either - I have seen you guys and others I play with complain about assault constantly for a year. I can tell I am more potent in melee as vanguard/bulwark/tac but my - for lack of a better term - 'muscle memory' is now tied to power sword/chainsword/hammer + plasma, which I only ever use for gunstrikes, interrupting a call in, or peppering a boss.
>>538049971I am not saying you cannot finish operations on it. I am saying that out of all the classes, assault is objectively the worst.
>Desperately want to make a squad of Lamenters>Now I know Champion Skins can be cut down and used individually (mostly) I have to wait till the BA one comes out MAYBE by Dec due to my autism...
any codes?
>>538042982WE BLEW IT UP
>>538050660YOU MANIACS
So whats the move for Vanguard? Grind the Relic Axe or grind for the Xenophase blade?
Just got carried on Inferno Hard by a GOAT Heavy and Vanguard, what should I buy first?Combibolter or helmet?
>>538050308In my personal experience, I get rougher time on the average with Bulwark, even though you have the heal and utility, because:- People are stupid with the healing opportunities and it can be extremely frustrating at times- You don't have a good options against Zoans/Neuros- You can't quickly tie-up major ranged threads in melee like Assault and Vanguard can, so when the corridor is full of Warriors and barbed wires, you might be in more trouble- You can't kill hordes of enemies like Assault and Vanguard (melta or jump teabagging) on demand, as the lightning fields and parries are not good enough substitutesThat being said, all classes are good when you build them right.Yes, I have everyone and everything maxed out that wasn't rolled on this newest patch.
>>538051416>Combibolter or helmet?what are the helmet's stats?
>>538051416hodl until saber buffs the heroic weapons 6 months from now
>VortexI'll never touch that shit ever again. Fuck chaos.
How do I grind the power axe, pyreblaster and pyrecannon?Play Substantial or Average first?
>>538051629Just get carried in ruthless
>>538051765instructions unclear, got wiped after embarking on a mission with a level 10 melta heavy and level 25 vanguard without a team perk
>>538051629Personally: 1st and 2nd tier weapons with Average difficulty.3rd on Substantial, maybe sometimes Ruthless if the EXP gap means the difference between 1 or 2 runs.4th tier: skip Ruthless and just go Absolute, unless you are inexperiencedThe idea is that while I could do harder difficulties with a lower tier weapon, it's just anemic when your weapon hits like wet noodle.>>538051765You don't get much exp if you don't actually use the weapon. And it's boring to either use a weak weapon and hope to get carried. Besides, if your operation fails because everyone else was hoping you to carry them, you'll end up spending more time than simply grinding on the matching difficulty and rarity.
>>538052349>>538052309>>538051765Which map is the fastest?Inferno or Decap? Is it true that Ruthless, Lethal and Absolute have double Terminus spawns now?
>>538052349Fact: weapons receive the same amount of XP per mission regardless of if you actually use them or not You can bring a weapon and literally never use it and it will receive full XP
>>538051309Vanguard doesnt get the powersword
>>538052467>double Terminus spawnsIt's true.I just rotate the Tyranid-only operations for variety.>>538052545The last time I tested that exact strategy it didn't work. Are you absolutely sure, or was it patched?
>>538052545>You can bring a weapon and literally never use it and it will receive full XPi did this once and got zero exp. i had it equipped the entire time. i think yo udo need some kills. and another time i used a green weapon the entire run and then swapped it for the finally, and the green weapon only got like 10% of the exp
>Zoathrope beam is still a fucking messWhy the fuck haven't they fixed this?
>>538052545You are mistaking mission EXP (character levels up), for weapon EXP, which is separate.
>>538051497>People are stupidThat's a people problem not a class problem>You don't have a good options against Zoans/NeurosAs opposed to assault? Powerfist btw, same damage numbers>You can't quickly tie-up major ranged threads in meleeJust shield dash now makes you faster and deadlier at that than assault>You can't kill hordes of enemies like AssaultYour powerfist? Also yeah no shit, unlike assault and bulwark a vanguard has a primary weapon >all classes are good when you build them right.Except Assault is the worst>Yes, I have everyone and everything maxed out that wasn't rolled on this newest patch.I hope everyone in this thread does
>>538052545You have to kill at least one enemy for that to work still.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING SHITTERS OMFG
>>538053057>Just shield dash now makes you faster and deadlier at that than assaultThat's not how you catch up with the enemy ranged majoris in a hectic massive wave.First of all, your "dash" turns into a crawl when you are being shot at.Second, you can be shot from behind and you might be surrounded.Third, you can't just walk over all that barbed wire when there's a carnifex, 3 warriors and a zoan on your ass.>Your powerfist?Your powerfist can't do the bigger charge attack in a high intensity scenario, the one that actually hurts. Melta can since it's instant activation AoE with big interrupts. Assault jump attack is invulnerable in air with the prestige perk, so he absolutely can.
assault is easily one of the best team players with his jump pack, you can stagger everything from just about anywhere. i always ground pound melee extremis off my allies. he deals the most damage with a block build, but you can play a gunstrike build with balanced and farm armor. heavy bolt pistol with +35% ranged damage perks is almost as good as a primary against ranged enemies and thropes
>>538051416what weapons did the heavy and vanguard use?
>>538053643>"dash" turns into a crawl I should've worded that better. This patch added the shield charge/dash thing that is super fast, has ranged immunity on charging and does a shitton of damage while being spammable. It is actually fucking stupid and I feel like they're going to nerf that into the ground.
>>538026403People overwhelming love Arrowhead and their no bullshit live service model
>>538053971You mean the dash attack then. But that only goes so far still, I'm talking about going distances covering half the battlefield almost instantly, not some one-dash-and-you-are-there distances. Especially over obstacles and masses of threats.
>>538054084/HD2G/ Has been in perpetual revolt for more than a week now.
The progression system is moronic. It was plainly obvious that people would run the highest difficulty with the new weapons, and they'll do it with the new class too. Then slapping in a new currency on top of that.I hope for SM3 they remove the gear grind, its stupid. Give us no classes, no gear grind, you unlock the power axe when you hit the level to unlock it but a power axe is a power axe.
>>538053921Multimelta and bolt carbine/melta rifle in the ending platform.
>>538054368>hd2g/hdg/ has been frothing over how good the new update and warbond is. Reddit is getting posts from the devs and everyone praising them and even discord the trannt shithole that it is is in support of the update. It turns out when your live service model is simple, good and generous people love it. And not a convoluted fucking shitshow that SM2 is because its a clusterfuck of progression, maps, modes and difficulties.
>>538022694I had exactly the same thoughts, those delayed attacks on chaos spawn are peak rollslop soulshit, the power axe does fuck all and the pyreblaster sucks dick, I did some decent damage with it on a hellbrute though but its useless vs anything else but bosses
>>538053057>That's a people problem not a class problemNta but no. Its the game devs job to make a game that players enjoy and is sensible. They never should have made Bulwark a medic class. They also should have removed his heal but didnt. Now Bulwark being a medic is a core mechanic which the game is based around, as is vanguards insane team heal. Both are idiotic choices which has horrifically fucked up the games balance. The lead designer for SM2 is running outdated game design principles.
>>538022736>BuY iT WoUlD bE BroKeN to hAvE MultipLE ClAssesShouted Saber, ignoring the fact the game is, fundamentally, broken already. And ignoring the fact that people want to have fun in a video game.
>>538042982SHOOT ME AGAIN AND I WILL TAKE YOUR ARM
>black templar champion pack>no mark x with laurels I was up for buying it if I could recreate one of the cooler spacemarine tabletop models, but that's a bit of a miss
>>538055469the bulwark/knight version, not the regular mark x I should say
SM2 newfag here.Game is on discount, am tentatively considering buying it.I don't overly care about the campaign, I've already watched someone else play it. I'll likely still play it, but is the game worth my time outside of it?My first impression was ages ago, where the game looked like parry QTE rollslop, which is why I never bothered with it. Someone else recently told me my perception was dated. Is this correct? How different is it now? Is the combat more than roll roll press button on glowing baddie?Can someone link actually representative and good gameplay of high difficulty content? I haven't followed the game and don't know what to look out for when it comes to clickbaiting jewtuber faggots.
>>538057007It's too grindy for new players, only buy it at 80%+ sale
>>538057007If you really like loading screens, then buy it.
>>538055081How is it good against bosses but bad against everything else? If you're doing good damage to the boss then you should be doing good damage to other enemies.
>>538057007Yeah most people play because of the coopParry timing is still an important part of the gameplay, combat was never about roll into qteI dont know about "high level" but here's a webm
>>538057342>dodge on red>block on blue>automatically shoot crosshair>execute on red enemyThis is literally QTE.
>>538042982GOOD TALK
>>538042713i dont know try asking a woman
>>538057007>parry QTE rollslopthats one play style, its the intended way to play. there is another playstyle with block weapons where you block a couple attack then plow through the enemy. then the third way of playing is with over powered charge up weapons that kill everything like the plasma or the power fist. its just fun being a space marine though, the gameplay isnt that bad.
>>538057725Genuinely retarded
>>538057725>literally QTE.I wouldnt call it that, QTE generally imply a sort of cinematic environment, a context in which pressing such a button have a special effectIn this case it's more a case of reactive combat, but yeah, in essence that's being melee is about in this game, hit and dont get hitOr, you could play ranged
>>538057068>It's too grindy for new playersHow bad is it, really? I don't mind grinding for one class and a couple weapons, or however the progression system works.>>538057342>>538057857Thanks for the video(s), and yeah, what >>538057725 said is basically what I'm not overly excited about.I like co-op, and if that's what people play it for, that's great, but how relevant is actual teamwork? Is there any direct synergy that reward playing together, or is it just everyone playing singleplayer next to each other? Because I don't imagine that kind of block/dodge/parry stuff to reward co-op all that much, excluding what you said about big chunky charged ranged weapons that just obliterate whatever enemy is currently tangled in a parry animation or whatever. Which doesn't sound too bad, but neither does it sound very exciting to me tbdesu.>>538058567>Or, you could play rangedYeah, just first impressions wise, I might want to avoid melee and lean more into ranged. If this is good and viable, that might just be enough to convince me to give the game a try. Again, thanks for the video.
IDK dude I am not really feeling this.
>>538058771>I might want to avoid melee and lean more into ranged.You can't really do that. The game will swarm you with enemies and make you walk into ambushes to force you into melee on a regular basis (10+ times over a 30 minute level)
>>538058771>actual teamworkthe classes are suppose to cover each other's strengths and weaknesses. but you can help as much as you want. as a sniper you can set up executes for teammates. assault can always jump in and help anyone. a couple classes can heal. you can always provide covering fire or jump in melee with your battle brothers, or focus fire terminus or extremis. actually any class can "heal" if you help set up an execute and let your teammate take it.
>>538058771I dont think the game is grindy at all personally, you get the essential really fast, the only people "grinding" right now are doing so for the superendgame variants or the prestige perks, which are completionists tierNot sure what you mean by teamwork but you can reanimate your friend, classes have special teamperks that affect the whole team and there's boss battlesI'm not a big fan of ranged myself but it can be fun, you can never be 100% ranged tho, you'll have to learn melee one way or another
Hmm. Balanced relic axe is kinda nice on light attacks. With a little bit of boost you could call it a beast even.Only use heavy attacks to break guard, really. Or maybe some crowd control, but light attacks might do that too to an extent.
>>538059953>health stays at 100%bullshit
I give up on the weekly hard stratagem. It's too hard.
>>538059583Yeah no, obviously. But if I'm not permanently stuck in QTE hell, that's fine. I'm not fundamentally against it or anything.>>538059612Thanks for the video again. Yeah, that looks fun. What you said also makes sense.>>538059695That's what I figured, also. Don't really care that much about super endgame related stuff since I don't even know how much I'll like the game in the first place.I ended up buying the game, maybe I'll like it. Price is low enough that I won't be mad if I end up dropping it. Any advice on specific classes/weapons to focus on if I enjoy leaning heavily on the co-op aspect, support abilities, healing? I obviously don't expect support slut gameplay, inb4 anyone suggests that. Anything I should avoid?
>>538060651we tricked another one boys
>>538058771It's not that bad don't listen to him. Within a day of playing you'll get a class and weapon fully maxed out.
>>538058874give him the wolf helmet. become the dragon
Can you even equip a bladeguard veteran with a power axe? It sure feels stupid to have a space knight carrying a board and a hatchet.
>>538061702The Ultramarine Bladeguard in the Secret Level episode, Sgt. Metaurus, carried an axe.
The vortex beast even on ruthless is fucking impossible with random retards, they literally die in the first 20 seconds.
>got kicked out of party for the first time in 9 months, despite carrying and teamplaying well without tarryingI can only wonder what prompted that. Never know with these patch week players...
>>538054760Bull fucking shit.Its literally been a house on fire with the only non bitching being the 'MED PEN FAGS' vs 'LIGHT PEN FAGS'.
>>538062618did you step out of the circle?
>>538060651>support abilities, healing?the healing is locked behind perks in the perk tree. bulwark has an active heal, when you drop you flag you and anyone about 10 feet near you restores all contested hp. in this case they need to know to do damage to heal. and vanguard has a perk where you passively heal when you execute an extremis enemy, but this is only really good on the highest difficulties that spawn lots of high level enemies to heal off of. the most over powered weapon in the game is heavy's plasma, and then the power fist. but just use what ever you think looks cool or you like to use, you can do well with any weapon.
>>538063070Capture circle? No.
>haven't played since 8.0>trying Hard Strategem>Neurothrope deletes everyone as people joins in at the first gate>twiceIs the "skip everything" because of the Lictor? Is the Neurothrope at the hill crest after opening swap scripted or just bad luck? Is this skipable by pressing the gate button?I didn't think I'd really need any warmups, this just feels a bit weird.
>>538038628Back after a good nap. I think the benefit of a low cost build would be, depending on how many of those resources you had leftover, you could instead invest into team buffs. So let's say you're rocking a stock Battle Brother>12 resourcesTacticus (2)Bolt Rifle (2)Bolt Pistol (1)Combat Knife (1)Frag Grenades (1)You've used 7 out of the 12 resources, so with 5 remaining, you can instead invest in passively helping yourself, or the squad with perks of various power levels. These are purely examples, I find it much harder to weigh perks than weapons and armor.>Per: Passively regenerate 1% of ammo every 2 seconds (2)>Team: Resist a fatal blow once per mission and then heal to 50% HP (4)
>>538064701I think the biggest problem is that the stupid lictor doesn't really despawn. It goes away for about 30 seconds then it's back jumping all over the place.
>>538064701>Is the "skip everything" because of the Lictor?no its because people are retards that try to speed run
>chaos power axe is a chainaxeNice. Actual chainaxe ever becoming an individual melee weapon deconfirmed then I guess.
so is the power axe good
>>538066564Feels good and stylish to use, but it's a little simplistic, underpowered, and its gimmick move is just rendered unusable if you use the block variants since its tied to parries.
power axe would be really good if it did like 25% more damage and had an energy wave on its heavies like knife does
>>538067227>>538067293am i going to have to level is to gold and show everyone the chad way to use a weapon as usual? i was looking at the perks, what happens if you speak into continuous heavy spin attacks? can you one shot minoris?
>>538067436The minoris take like 3 hits on the heavy attacks.
>>538067436>continuous heavy spin attacks90% of your hits will miss because the hitbox on the heavy attacks is REALLY bad
>>538067436>The weapon is only good a relicSounds fantastic. Bravo Sabre.
>flails around and farts everywhere
>>538067801That’s how every weapon has been from the start of this game’s launch
>>538068587t. doesn't play the game
>>538068998Are you retarded?
>>538069785Have you played the game?
>marksman carbine is secretly the best weapon in the game>they keep buffing it
axe feels like shit. feels like a bunch of the spinning knife moves that you avoid
>>538070649Are you gonna try and pretend that the most common complaint about weapons in the first month or two here wasn’t “yeah it doesn’t get good until relic tier, you have to grind”
>>538071719Powerfist vs Chainsword. Chainsword is awesome all the way to relic. Powerfist is a chore.
>>538070989it really isnt
>>538070989It's a Mini-Stalker. It's a fantastic high powered ranged option for Vanguard if you want to reserve grapnel launcher just for the AOE finishers. His access to the Inferno Pistol also covers your ass in horde situations.
>>538072493i use it on sniper, never played the nig
>>538057007The campaign is great. The online parts are bad (play HD2 instead)
>>538071607>people criticising modders for just adding reskinned weapons>Saber does the sameJust give the modders the source code this is embarrassing
>>538070989I agree its fantastic but holy fuck is it annoying to use a semi-auto with a 40 round magazine
>>538072604>Using the Marksman Carbine over the Stalker or Las on SniperI mean it's good, but not that good.
>>538062836Thats just banter you retard. The actual update is fantastic and /hdg/ has been raving about it since it dropped. The game also went from 40k to 350k players.
>>538057007It's peak 7/10, a good game marred by some questionable design decisions, but the gameplay loop keeps bringing you back.
The heroic knife is awful, you’d need closer to a 1000% increase to make the first light attack do real damage. It should have had a unique shadow stab that made you invis for free while charging it or something with a cool down so it can’t be spammed.
is there a vortex beast guide?
>>538073165Heroic knife that has god-tier stats but it disables your primary weapon. Just a knife and bolt pistol against the world. Would've been kino.
>>538073001its kino. this webm was before the buff. ill try it again after playing with the flamethrower
>>538074002Can you share your sniper build with us, brother?
>>538074002Sniper is why I think balance in this game doesnt matterShit is broken as fuck but nobody play him
>>538074402this is my set up. i like instigator too, but its not as good as carbine, the only thing is has is armor on head shot kill. both instigator and carbine will cause your grenade every 30 seconds to go off compared to bolt sniper. i still take bolt sniper for boss arenas or to just have fun.
>>538075437Thanks, brother!
>>538074793He's a very painful class to level up, even moreso to Prestige. But almost every build he has is retarded strong.>Las Fusil - Ammo Variant>Max headshot damage>Max ammo capacity>Max charge rate>+75% damage on cloaked headshot>Equipment rechargeFucking WALKS the game.
>>538076134np, its the most annoying sound in the world though
I tell you what, boys, the flamer is fucking amazing. I think it may be the secret sauce to scare off the invincible lictor with all the DPS it can dish out with the damage over time. I refuse to call it the GW name because fuck them and their stupid copyright names. Can't wait to try the heavy flamer with Straban.
>>538077354Just a shame it trades firepower for annoying fucking everybody. Genuinely flashbangs people so they can't react to enemy melee attacks.
lmfao
>>538077354Heavy flamer is good but not as good as Tac flamer I feel The flamer is amazing because you can light shit on fire and then lay into it with your chainsword, so you’re dealing damage over time on top of melee damage + being able to parry/block/whatever, especially if the have the weapon perk that makes you do +20% melee damage to burning enemiesWith Heavy you can light stuff on fire but then you either have to try and smack them with the gun or stomp, which is poor damage even with the melee perks, or just shoot them with your sidearm It’s still really good just not as good as what Tac can do with it
>>538078068Tactical also runs faster even when hipfiring. Even that's a boon over Heavy having to slow down.
>>538037174God, you gave me a flashback
Does anybody have the Heroic bolt pistol? I'm interested because every class can use it
>>538079708I do. It's garbage. All the heroic weapons seem bad.
>>538078373is there any point in aiming with the flamer
>>538079708someone posted this. looks like they copy pasted the instigator shot pattern. you can click the normal bolt pistol faster
ive decided that im clearly not good enough to beat hard strategem and will make do with normal i guess.funny how i can get the hard mode siege stud helmet but this is too much.
>>538080608strategems are going to require actual teamplay or specific builds for them that are different from normal operations/siege mode buildsthe skill of rollslopping and dropping meltas doesn't transfer to having entire mechanics radically altered
>>538079708>>538079929I go by rule of cool, it looks cool, so I'm going to get it first. Looks like an OG bolt pistol.
>>538080828yeh.... so im not going to do that. I look at things from a time vs effort viewpoint and that 150 currency is not worth the time investment.
>>538080828And it's also simply not fun
>PBQFXTrying to beat Vortex on Absolute
>>538025185This was true to a point for firstborn but primaris are all hyper specialized in certain roles as individuals.Firstborn usually fought in each role over their service in the chapter but an intercessor is just an intercessor from graduation from scout to death.
>>538037174For Honor General spiritually lives on in all Bulwark players
Is Pure Flame worth it? How much direct damage accounts for Pyrecannon anyway?
>>538066416God I fucking hate us being primaris locking us to primaris weapons, the aesthetics are such a downgrade.
Alright, newfag here again >>538060651For the campaign, any specific difficulty I should play on?Does the hardest difficulty adequately prepare me for the multiplayer, or does it just make boss fights annoying?In general, how different is the difficulty between the story mode, and the multiplayer? I'm obviously jumping into the campaign first so I know what the fuck I'm doing, but while I'm confident in my abilities, I'd rather not have boss fights turn into a slog. Again, assume I have no frame of reference.
>>538083073You can play on the hardest difficulty you are comfortable with. If you run into problems and die, you can return to the base, change your difficulty and try again from the latest checkpoint (and not from the beginning of the mission).
>>538064701The lictor is really weird, he tanks a FUCKTON, even auspex marked i gunstriked him 5 times and we fucking pummeled him as 3, i was using my beefed up power rakes, dude doesnt give a fuck, good thing is that his moveset is easy to read and he barely does the unblockable attack.
We need a lot more Stratagems like the Mission Timer and For the Emperor! = Attack Boost over shit like "this class is unplayable" and "dodging a ranged attack? Get fucked with some damage anyway."
>>538083073Play it normal, the hardest difficulty in the sp is retarded, you have no perks or weapon tiers, every enemy is just a bullet sponge and the bots are useless, just play it normal and enjoy.
So the horned spawn have crab claws that are all about large delays between telegraphs and the actual swing with the leap and the clicking while the hornless, bigger winged ones have whippy tentacle arms for disjointed hitboxesand also some kind of AoE blast thing that i'm not sure which one it belongs tonot too bad, they're relentless fuckers though
>>538083073The campaign is just for familiarizing yourself with the basic mechanics, it's missing a lot of the content and depth of operations and it's maximum difficulty is two steps lower.
>>538083265>>538083473Alright, thanks for the advice, and yeah, that sounds about how I imagined it. I'll finish my food and then do normal to start with.
>>538083446Why anon, don't you like playing with fog of war while the AI can shoot you from across the map?
>>538082480While I know it is true it is still complete retardation. Real world militaries 'warrior' tiers ala non grunts are multi certified across all kinds of weird shit and are heavily encouraged to learn new non combat focused skills like mechanical engineering.Even then there are Green Berets that served with mortar teams and others that speak 4-5 extra languages and only very particular forces like Navy Seals lack multi non combat related skills by doctrine.Marines do not burn out in 20 years and should have extremely broad skill sets. I am not saying they should be able to build a titan from scratch but, again most of them come from chapter and legion cultures where combat was not even their main focus day to day. Black Templars are the exception and it is a lot of what makes them distinct to say Ultramarines that spend a fair bit of time governing and mediating, Fists building and organising, Salamanders actually crafting new gear and maintaining their own is a hop skip and a jump to vehicle repair and maintenance. After all you need to know how your enemies stuff works to be better at breaking it. Even Blood Angels pursuing art and culture while also hiding from the populace due to their time of the month and so on.Primaris and their organisations is such a shit show
>>538083073I recommend hard difficulty until you get to the last chaos missions and then switch to normal.If you are playing friends, then +1 to the difficulty level or it will be likely way too easy (unless they are very unskilled/newbies too).
>>538083613I mean, even original marines were required to serve as a tactical, devastator, and assault in order to progress to a higher promotion. There was no leader in any major chapter who didn't know the exact job of everyone under him. GW has just grown more pants-on-head retarded lately
Speaking of chaos spawn, I know it has been said before but I love the way it illustrates the scale between normal humans and marines.>darktide characters have a chaos spawn bossfight, and while it's the small hp fight, he's still dangerous and takes a moment to put down>my bulwark parries it twice and then throws elite hands to put it down as part of an execution in secondsPlaying darktide enhances the feel of power the space marines give, now especially with comparable enemies like chaos spawns. I just wish we didn't feel so flimsy at higher difficulties
Wow sniper vs chaos is absolute shit now because spawn take no fucking ranged damage.
>>538083973the spawn in sm2 are clearly smaller than the actual monstrous infantry chaos spawn of vermintide/darktide
>>538082792>On Heavy?I would say so since its most of what you will be doing. I do not rate it on him. Heavies version should have twice the range or twice the stagger. He suffers from all video game 'balanced' flamers that enemies that should be crumbling into a puddle of flesh and molten metal or going insane from the pain are just going to gap close and chunk him. So now you are blind on a guy with the worst melee capability.>On Tac?You can just pepper for the burn then go ham in melee and wreck stuff. Focusing on DoT damage means you can kill Tzaangors with one puff and effectively ignore them otherwise.
This feels oddly familiar in this day and age
You should simply not be playing hard stratagems unless you are max prestige and running whatever your healing/tanky perks are. Crazy that they made something this hard for an otherwise casual shooter, but stay the fuck out if you are leveling anything.
>>538083446Sadly there probably isn't going to be any changeshttps://community.focus-entmt.com/focus-entertainment/space-marine-2/forums/6-general/threads/48486-stratagem-modifiers-it-s-cohesion-all-over-again?page=1#post-229477Non-stop cocksucking and people defending Saber for some of the most horrendous game modifiers I think I've ever seen>Oh it's meant to be challengingPeople don't seem to grasp the difference between challenging and cheap difficulty.
>>538080295With Heavy, if you hipfire the flamer you get a wide, really short cone of flame that only goes like 6 feetIf you sight in you get a narrower, much longer range stream of fire On Tac I can’t tell a difference between the hipfire or aimed fire yet
>try to melee enemy>immediately launches into unstaggerable combo, have to back off and play simon says>try to shoot enemy>takes 5 trillion rounds to put them in stunned stance unless you're using one of the dev's designated good weapons
>>538084669That doesn't magically make ranged spam on the hard weekly somehow less shit. I can solo Lethal, I struggle a little on solo Absolute but with a team I've never had a problem. This weekly is horrendous, I keep dying to Biovores and Zoanthropes hiding in the fog of war in a different zip code.
>>538084748The best part is the "shroud of darkness" modifier is just the darkness effect from the tomb in obelisk copied and pasted. It's so lazy. Also the fact that everything gets that weird desync bug too on hard makes it really annoying.
>>538083936It was;>Scout - noobs who are just qualified to start>Devastator - ok you have the 'gear' but no experience, hang back and support the guys that do and learn>Assault - Critical close support but you are not leading from the front, yet>Tactical - The start of veterancy and where you draw high ranking chapter members from>Terminator - Usually very high veterancy, first companyThen it was just about chapter culture etc except BT/SW/DA e.g who all ignore codex organisation yet ironically still had similar cross skill and duty ranks where you are promoted to more responsibility based on capability AND experience.Primaris by comparison are organised like the fucking separatists droids from Star Wars who are made for a roll and are physically incapable of anything else, Yet GW and BL writers insist Primaris are the IMPROVED version. it does make sense and Guilliman of all the characters in universe should have had a fit about it.What a fucking waste of geneseed, time and material putting raw recruits (even if they are space marines) into roles they have not fucking earned, and can not perform properly. It stinks of refuse from 'modern' morality where the idea of merit is a heresy...>inb4 muh Byzantine ImperiumNo, fuck that. The Astartes are supposed to be apart enough from that shitshow in order to (barely) keep the Imperium alive. Its the Guard that makes do in spite of the Administratum.
I hate ranged terminators so much it's unreal.
>>538086497Nigger they gave you the shield charge move for this specific scenario.
dont talk to me or my son ever again
>>538086760I love that little backpack nigga like you wouldn't believe.
>>538086643Here's how that would play out>charge at one terminator>the one I charged does melee rocket barrage and chunks my health>second one does ranged rocket barrage and chunks my health>third one is still shooting me with his assault cannon and chunks my healthHave you forgotten ranged terminators just spam rockets on themselves when you get close most of the time?
I just noticed in the patch notes that the ABR was buffed an extra 20% damage. Is that enough to make it good?
>>538087034lol no.It has been buffed a total 120%+ since launch and its still shit.
>>538087034>>538087124>Auto Bolt Rifle:>Base damage increased by 25%.>Added damage falloff curve from distance. After 20 meters, weapon damage falls by 25%.>Headshot damage coefficient increased from 1.15 to 1.25 for all versions.Even after all this it's still shit? What about compared to a bolt carbine? It has higher pen and range.
>>538086643>shield charge 1, maybe 2>instantly does PBAOE cyclone missile spam while his buddies shove their soulreapers up your ass
>>538087550The carbine is the only automatic bolter that is actually not horrible, it does decent damage at point blank if you only get headshots.
>>538087550its fine if you also use +15% team perk
>>538087550It still won't beat carbine but this is a change that it needed. Just get a little bit of everything from other bolt rifles. A bigger issue is of course it's perk trees.
>>538087550It will never be good unless they allow ammo upgrades for bolters and even then it will not be allowed to be better than other bolters.A real world example is the 9mm SMG. Very popular for decades - its pretty irrelevant now. The Auto Bolt Rifle has no niche and exists due to the Primaris shitshow.
>power axe heavy attack does as much damage as the light attack - if both hits handMan... What a doggy weapon
>>538086497And this is why having gap closer melees is important (but you also need teammates to be alive for that kind of encounter).It's pretty much game over or run for your life if you are the only one left.
The hard Vortex stratagem is simply not worth doing. none of them are really, 30 points per day is an awful incentive and people will not do these past the first few days post-launch.
>>538088216Well.. yeah. Space Marines are wolfpacks. Not Rambo's like Custodes.
>>538088206Don't use the heavy attack unless you need to break a defensive stance. The devs have had enough of people ignoring light attack combos so they made a weapon almost exclusively for it.
>>538088206the heavy attack is for chaff clear, not single target
>doing pretty well in hard stratagem>neuro shows up>does the close range blast that you can't dodge if you're too close>didn't realize it was doing it since it can range outside of the 30m draw-distance>instantly downs me and another guyWelp.
>>538088367Maybe people would use the light attacks if they FUCKING DID ANY FUCKING DAMAGE.
>>538088342>Not RamboThose are Catachans.
>>538085352You’ve never been in the military and it shows
>>538088367Problem is the heavy attack seldom lands both hits due to poor forward momentum, and the axe is very short. I also don't think making it deal as much as the sprint attack while having neither speed nor reach is the right call.
>>538077354After testing, the flamer is the perfect counter to the lictor. Now I just need to survive the mission.
>>538088367>The devs have had enough of people ignoring light attack combosHave they considered buffing light attacks for other weapons instead?Powersword is a great weapon, but only for heavy attacks and power whirls. Speed lights seem to deal zero damage for example.
>>538085352Primaris are organized like great crusade era legions, where you had your line troopers (this time intercessors) and everyone else was a specialist in a separate unit.
>Vanguards or Bulwarks queuing the 'don't play this class' affix>Bulwarks who are too cool to take healing banner>Heavies taking ammo capacity perk on the affix that doubles ammo anyway>Fresh players still leveling who don't even have a team perkHere's your hardcore game mode, sir
>>538088416Yep, welcome to why this mode is a joke.
>>538089745ThisIf this were an intelligent dev, every single light chain from start finish should be able to 100-0 all Majoris enemies.Chainsword 4-chain combo a Nid Warrior? Execute state on Absolute.Heavy attacks should deal extra damage, yes, but should be primarily for breaking guard stances, interrupting enemy attacks, or dealing with groups. Light attacks should outright be superior in terms of single target DPS.
Pyrecannon is awesome against Tyranids, but against Chaos? Not so much...Yes, you can kill the rabble, but you are better off taking Multi-melta/Plasma/HB against Chaos. And against the Chaos marines themselves it's pretty awful. It's hard to keep up the sustained fire that you can do much easier against Tyranids.
>>538088427On axe, it does more than the heavy attacks at least, esp. with the perks.
>>538091358The light attack deals 100% damage, like any other melee weapons. It's only the better option by comparison, but it's not good at all.
>>538091758Yeah, but it's the best option if you want to use the axe.I recommend waiting till they buff the damage and fix the Block axe riposte. Then it will be a much more formidable weapon that I'd use on the regular.
>Power Axe riposte puts you far enough away to always guarantee a grapnel after a gun strikeAlright, you can stay on Vanguard.
>>538092103I love it against Carnifexes too. You can immediately do the riposte on the first swing. Normally you'd get immediately punished by the 'Fex for doing that, but since you are so far away, you'll just avoid it and can punish the 'Fex instead.
>>538086497use the damage perk
>>538092103>>538092475>>538042982WHAT NEEDS GRAPPLING
>>538092592now try it against three spamming missiles at you alone
This is not winnable.
>>538093441Yeah I gave up too, dailies roll over in a few hours thank god. I think the issue is that the map is too new, people are still learning it and the boss fight is hard no joke. Can't learn a map, new enemies, and a new boss on Absolute Plus difficulty. Perhaps in a few weeks it'll feel better.
>>538093841What are you actually supposed to do for the vortex beast when he just jumps around like a retard and shoots orange lasers everywhere
>>538094240Pray that you live
>>538093441what does that mean? it only affects the vanguard class?
>Add melee chaos enemy>Its attack pattern is janky and the indicators are comically off>Add new chaos boss>Trying to melee it during the half of the fight it spends putting on a light show will just outright kill youChaos might actually be even worse now that you have these gibbering hambeasts standing on your toes and getting in the way of dodging the ranged spam. Impressive.
Why does this shitass fuck game constantly disconnect
>>538094327It means you are, for all intents and purposes, not allowed to play Vanguard. Bulwark has a similar stratagem active right now, I assume each class has one in the rotation.They did this instead of making those classes fully disabled from queuing those stratagems, I'm curious why they didn't do that instead.
>>538094562because someone will want to make some custom lobby where they run it anyways to show how good they are
>>538094412The devs are genuine retards who went for the Elden Ring route of delaying attack so comically far back that the indicators are worthless.Indicators should always be right as the attack is about to hit, and then just disable the damn blue indicator on Absolute. That way you can learn the attacks on lower diffs and then have to respond proper. Reds should be kept because they mostly signify ranged attacks that you often wouldn't eyeball while mid-fight.
Once people figure out Spawn attack patterns and get used to them, they’ll be much better received
Give Tactical the Axe!
>>538095269Can they make it good first?
Do you guys play with Cross Play on or off? Why or why not?
>>538094863Yep. They could also just play on lower difficulty so they get used to it's moves. They're really not that bad.
>>538095679If I play with crossplay off I never get players so I just leave it on.
>>538095679If you want to use an invite code you have to have it on. Otherwise I leave it off.
>>538095781Yeah, I mean Elden-Ring tier delayed moves like the huge leap suck at first, but once you get used to it and you learn you can just magdump it for 4-5 seconds before the attack actually lands it’s a non-issue, same with the Ravener’s mega-delayed slither lunge
>>538094863>most of the enemies in the game train to to watch for telegraphed attacks and react to markers on time>chaos spawn either throw out constant attacks with no telegraphing or marked attacks where the markers provide no timingIt's bad game design primarily because it's inconsistent with the rest of the game.
>>538094412nids confirm themselves as the best enemy yet again
>>538095974The Ravener has had a mega-delayed lunge attack since day 1 If you parry on the blue indicator you’ll get hit by it The Helbrute has similarly delayed melee attacks
>>538095941Yea. I really like these fuckers. My issue right now is they're very dark so it's hard to see what they're doing at times, especially when there's a lot of them.
>>538095974The blue light has never been an indicator for any timing. It's just an indication that the attack will most likely do heavy knockdown (except the sword of warrior back jump slash and one or two of the melee terminator attacks). The timing was always animation based.
>>538076440If you pick max ammo you cannot pick rate of fire build
Space Marine 2 just loses the power fantasy of being a named Space Marine on higher difficulties.
>>538096793The issue is there's no consistency. Either have the indicator at the start of the attack with a notable delay, or have it at the end right when it's about to hit. The entire purpose of the indicator is to give you an instinctive response "out" when you're knee deep in shit, but that's feel on its ass as more enemies have been added. The Enlightened Tzaangors are especially shit because they have a horrible mix of "on response" circles and "extremely delayed" circles.
>>538097136Anon there are two +15% charge rate perks right there in the tree.The max charge speed Las itself is dogshit, you're getting more brief DPS (overkill) at the cost of 12 additional shots. Meaning you also get way less ammo back from your sidearm over the course of the mission. The max ammo version when buffed to 30 rounds gets 4 shots back from a sidearm kill, the max fire rate version gets 2.
>>538096793The blue indicator was always quickly followed by an attack by most enemies, not delayed by seconds.
No codes?
>>538097616I’m gonna be entirely real with you I just play with the discord It’s better than randoms and it’s usually better and always faster than posting a code
>>538080608>ive decided that im clearly not good enough to beat hard strategem and will make do with normal i guess.Just get carried, happened to me.You need a Vanguard with Extremis heal, no underleveled player and no Assault teammate PERIOD. Tacticals need to spam auspex on the main Lictor especially if they can't parry and also carry Steady Supplies. Bulwarks need the banner heal. Bolters and sniper weapons are useless, all the Vanguards I've seen carry Melta rifles for shitter control and the Multimelta/Pyrecannon is useful for Heavies over the Heavy Plasma and Heavy bolter. If you spawn double Terminus you're fucked and should reset.
speaking as an autist who beat siege to 25 with a br and a dadbro random, i can verifiably say hard stratagem is shit even after beating it because it has the same issue as late wave siege, you just run into too many fucking enemies to deal with at once at you can just be downright fucked if there's a particularly nasty combo of nidders around, and the lictor doesn't help at all while this happens
The only real difficulty in this game is playing it with bots and not being able to get yourself carried by 3 meta builds.
>>538090229>Bulwarks who are too cool to take healing bannerOn Absolute and Hard Strat they deserve to get kicked.>Heavies taking ammo capacity perk on the affix that doubles ammo anywayMuch better perk over Bonds of Brotherhood.
>>538097616Everyone beat Vortex and Hard already, if you still can't beat either with randoms stop wasting your time and just join up with the official Trooncord.
>>538090229the lead designer on sm2 is a fucking retard but he was right about wanting to remove the healing banner perk.
>>538098189You don’t need the ammo perk if the mission is giving you double ammo doofusAt this point you can spray at everything and not run out of ammo, the ammo perk has 0 value at that point
>>538097149>>538098087They need to add 2 more Space Marine teammates to compensate for the spawns
>>538098438Oh if you're talking about the mutator dailies then you're right.I never take off ammo capacity and haven't played that dailies.
Message combat is bad because the game rewards placidity>Enemies become far less aggressive if you just stand there>They won't start attacking for the most part until you start swinging/shootingTurns the whole game into parry/dodge slop.
Vortex fucking sucks. It takes forever to get to your first ammo refill and chaos sucks in general
>>538098692>message combat
>>538098816map is simply too large and has too many segmentsthese slav devs keep pushing for longer missions when all people want is another inferno/decap for farming
Have the devs ever stated that chaos is supposed to be harder than tyranids? You compare chaos spawn to melee warriors and the power gap is insane.
Holy shit the Lictor on this week's Hard Strategem is a faggot
>>538099123The devs do not communicate in any way other than the occasional vodka fueled schizophrenic ramblings of the lead designer, who never says anything logical.
>>538099123Vatniks don't care about feedback and even complain when players easily beat their mapsThey jacked off to players not beating hard Inferno
Should I take the chainsword first or is the combibolter the best first Heroic pick?
>>538099703The chainsword is unspeakable garbage, the combibolter can't be as bad.
>>538099703They are all bad. It doesn't matter.
Is dude wall still around, I would like submit my green marine.
>>538098087The fact that the lictor can spawn during terminus fights and be a fourth extremis during a wave is the nail in the coffin.>fighting neurothrope>lictor spawns and chases you into the sphere when the neuro is doing the power waves>knocks you outside and the wave kills youI'm about at my wit's end with this.
>>538098975New phone, autocorrect is doing my fucking head in.
>>538099962WAAAAAAAAGH/10
>>538099787Power sword is nice
>>538100018It can and will also spawn on "safe" zones like the lift section and the safe rooms.Anyone taking a wee and disappearing for a minute or two is at risk for a wipe.They overtuned this Lictor, its a HP sponge that eats up too much ammo and focus firing for it to temporarily disappear only for it to reappear almost immediately again.
>>538100086I wish tactical get the axe too to complete the set.
>>538100264No. It would be nice if you could pick its defense type and it was at least 6 speed.
>>538100264Too slow.
>>538100390>its a HP sponge that eats up too much ammoFrom what I've seen the flamer can scare it off, but the problem is it blinds everyone else in the process.
>>538100390IMO the invincible Lictor shouldn't actually fight you, it should exclusively do the wall pounce grab and then fuck off for a minute or so when it's pushed off.
I've never seen a dev this shat on since HD2, Steam even banning pro-Ukraine drone bombing threats over these devs lmao.
>>538100747>blinds everyone in the process Not my problem If you don’t know when to parry every enemy attack based on sound cues alone at this point you’re behind the curve
>>538101374It's that frustrating middleground where the devs are on the brink of multiple really good ideas but fuck them up in the most dumb ways possible. You're left looking at a perfect gem get fucked up as its chiseled by an incompetent.
Pyre on Heavy is actually good, why are you guys saying it's shit?
>>538102443Everything on Heavy is shit
>>538097249It really isn't a big deal. Most enemies are predictable anyway. >>538097554Not really. You just have to learn each enemy's moveset. Its animation based.
>>538102443because its a gun that wants to get into melee on a class that doesn't particularly like being in meleeof course its good everything on heavy is good (except the HBR lol) but that doesn't mean its great like it can be on tactical who can stack a DoT while also smacking in melee
I think I may be playing too much 40k.
>>538102487>everything on heavy is shit>>538102591>everything on heavy is goodThe dichotomy of /sm2g/
>>538101374They had a year to figure out how to improve the combat and in that time they have done very little. They clearly have no idea what the actual issues are with gameplay or balance and the only way you arrive at that point is if you do not play your own game and rely on community feedback and pick rate vs win/loss spreadsheets.This really should not be a shock to anyone. Game designers are typically completely clueless, but SM2 is more unfortunate by the devs also being Russian.
>Goaded my PS5 only friend to buy the game again on PC to play with our other mateHe is doing the tutorial mission right now hehehehe no more pugs for me!
>>538082637>>538037174>>538079456DAUBENY
>>538103759RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH
Uhhhhh, why can't I get the modifier for the overhead slash and the move followup from back step power attack at the same time at max mastery points???? Is there a way to get the overhead slash at all without being the follow up from the back step slash of the axe?
stop bring Assault to Chaos. fuck the fuck off.
Just had some faggot yell at me for lagging behind as soon as I spawned into the game
>all of the Heroic weapons are bad>hard stratagems are an overtuned untested dud with terrible currency rewards>timegated acquisitionThis patch sucks, nice anniversary vatniks
>>538105673Well then catch up idiot damn
>>538102504The timing for minoris leaps, tyranid warriors, rubrics and terminators all have blue markers pretty close to their actual attack, nothing has marked and unmarked attacks nearly as delayed as chaos spawn.
>chaos spawn winds up>pause>pause>pause>pause>swings
>>538105954>Morgot charging his stick bash attack
>>538105880The Ravener being a notable exception of course
Who's ready to completely not touch the game when the friendly fire modifier comes on.
>>538106342I have a World Eater fit ready for the occasion
>>538106342Are you kidding? I’ve got a Marines Malevolent Heavy ready just for the occassion
>>538106342[Laughs in Marines Malevolent]>>538106453Not Iron Warrior?
>>538105954FOUL TARNISHED
>>538106240Chaos spawn windup also has like twice the delay of the ravener slither.
>>538105880>minorisThey have no timing at all. You can be as early or as late because they will enter a sync kill animation as soon as the blue marker shots up>terminatorWhich one? The gun one has a very fast attack after the blue marker. It's on the opposite end of something like the ravener>ravenerYes>lictorHas a very fast one if he ambushes youMy point is that it's all animation based. And it's true. Whether it's fast or slow is irrelevant - it's just to show you that the attack will likely knock you down. Just learn the timing, it's that simple.
>>538106240but thats an extremis, relatively rare, not a basic mob, if the spawn was an extremis it wouldnt be worth complaining, special mob is special>>538106915except that that only works when its a one on one, if youre in a mosh pit and that attack is coming off screen you dont know if thats some tzaangor shank or rubic kick or its a chaos spawn leaping across the room. and this doesnt address the fact is has a lot more moves than a regular majoris move
>>538106915>most blues indicate a heavy attack to follow shortlyYes, that's my point.Markers are supposed to draw attention to an enemy that's probably in a massive swarm is about to attack you. It's pointless if it's so delayed that a bunch of other enemies have time to throw out multiple attacks in the time it takes the marked enemy to attack.
>>538106845Functionally irrelevant, you learn when the actual parry timing is based on the animation and magdump it until it lands in both cases In the Spawn’s case you just get to magdump it for longer
>>538106342Have faith "brother"
>>538107875yes, but that only works if you can see the animation, not when its coming from off screen
>>538106342>>538106716>>538106757You better fucking believe it.
lol
>>538108347I agree, but I mean if it’s the spawn you’ve got 5 years to turn your camera around and look at it even if you parry when you see the blue indicator
>>538107195That issue is the same for all factions. The problem is poor positioning. You want to keep enemies all on your screen. Sure the spawn has a problem where when there are a lot of them it's hard to see what's going on, so they might change their spawn rate, but the fundamental problem is poor positioning.>>538107801And my point is whether it's shortly or not-so-shorting after is irrelevant, because you know they are attacking and that's plenty enough. It's seriously as simple as recognizing the type of attack learning the timing.
>>538109781none of this addresses the problem
>>538109781>The problem is poor positioningThe system was made specifically so that you could react to enemies without seeing them but saber sucks at implementation. That's why minoris out of your field of view leaping at you still make a blue marker and can be immediately parried.
Is it just me or are the early waves of Hard Siege hitting way harder?
>>538110084Because the problem is skill issues when it comes down to it. I didn't want to say it but your complaints regarding when the blue mark shows up is nothing more than that. It's poor timing and poor positioning. You could say yeah the spawn is hard to see in the dark and when there's a lot of clutter and I'd agree, but that complaint of blue marker is simply a skill issue.
>>538110404Yea, there are only 1-2 blue marker attack variation from enemies as well. They usually the easiest attack to parry usually.
>>538110404no, because thats inconsistent with the rest of the game, if the game tells you to go left 99% of the time, why would you assume to go right at the end
>>538110404What's the point of the blue marker if it doesn't indicate an incoming attack?
>>538108436He looks like he kills Salamanders
>>538110750Well, we're all bleeding today, brother. And those civilians had it coming.
>>538110603>>538110698Are you arguing this from the perspective of a brand new player or a veteran? Cuz sure, I wouldn’t blame the new player, I’d blame the devs, for them being caught off guard by an attack not matching the blue marker, but a veteran just learns the animation and when to parry. The veteran has no excuse.
>>538110698But it does?
Anyone else having issue where their power axe doesn't gain EXP?
>>538110603Because I play the game and I know it has nothing to do with the timing for my parry or dodges. Seriously, how many hours are you in that this is an issue?>>538110698But it does so what's your point
>>5381115703-5 business days later in the chaos spawn's case
>>538111570It indicates an incoming attack no better than the mere existence of the enemy being an indicator it will attack you at some point.Yes, obviously the chaos spawn over there is going to attack me eventually, I know that, the blue marker being so disconnected from when it attacks defeats the point of the blue marker.
>>538111835it's crazy you can parry immediately, realize it was a chaos spawn, wait through the recovery period, then parry again succesfully, the windup is so long you won't get punished.
>>538112034Yeah, it seems like a badly designed moveset, especially for this game.
>>538111830>>538111417are you retarded, because you dont seem to understand what the problem is
>>538112034It almost seems bugged, and something that would have been addressed had this been on the PTS first. Would not be surprised if the blue flashes are patched in the future.
>>538112413The problem is it's not a problem for everyone. Are you autistic? Why don't you show us which attack you have problem with then?
>>538112413It’s not a problem for anyone who’s seen the attack more than 5 times, which means it’s not a problem period Delayed attacks are not inherently a nad thing regardless of what you read on /erg/
>>538113135>>538114570>arbitrary inconsistent game design isn't bad guys>so what if it renders the mechanic pointlessYou should work at saber.
>>538082480Primaris™ still can change equipment, still are trained in a variety of weapons and start as Scouts. In campaign last mission Titus considers deploying in Gravis™ armor. And during one of the earlier ones in idle talk one Marine reminds another to take a flamethrower with him. Intercessor™ Marine can take plasma and join Hellblaster™ Squad or Infernus™ Squad or any other as needed. This is why we have "Tactical" as a class here instead of all those Aspect Warriors. Marine could start combat as an Aggressor™ in Gravis™ and then as his armor take damage he could strip into Tacticus™ configuration and then into Phobos™.Lore issues are nonissues at all. All that is really needed is a character selection tab above classes. So you can simply choose if you want to play as Straban or Decimus and then separately select a class. Low effort solution would simply disable some voice lines. Higher effort one would make few separate banter options. Like teammates bullying Deciums if he is forced to be an Eliminator™ while he seethes about being forced to be far away from melee.
The distribution and balance of these modifiers is psychotic.
>>538115440It’s inconsistent because the timing of when the attack actually lands varies per attack? That’s wild, to get rid of inconsistency across the board they should make every enemy attack have the same timing, same range, and same damage. Actually get rid of unblockables entirely, that’s too inconsistent. Boss mechanics will have to be reworked, the Carnifex melee swings should all have the same timing so they’re not inconsistent. Also our weapons too, we should probably have every gun do the same damage so they’re all consistent. After all, inconsistency is an inherently bad thing, and we shouldn’t cherry-pick and should get rid of it wherever we find it.
>>538115826The majority of blue markers appear immediately before a parryable heavy attack, the tutorial basically trains you to reflex parry on blues with warriors and hormagaunts.
>>538115826You are extremely disingenuous or extremely stupid.You should work at saber.
If unmarked attacks can be heavy hits that hurt just as much as marked attacks and blues also are not a reliable timing indicator then they're pointless.There just shouldn't be blue markers at this point, only reds.
>>538115791>to take a flamethrowerJames Workshop, your Pyreblaste™r?
It's annoying to learn on the spot but aside from that I don't really know why you would want blue to be an auto-timed parry every single time. It turns it into a QTE.would you prefer anything not auto-timed to just be an unmarked attack?
>>538116515The blue markers actually just serve to obfuscate that other attacks can be parried as well. Several of the people I've played with have found out through me verbally telling them, not through the gameplay itself.>>538085352For most chapters, assault comes before devastator. Basically a way to let the new recruits finally let out their anger and weed out the ones that are too reckless. Then devastators, to teach them patience and restraint.
>>538117245You sure? Pretty sure its the other way around with only certain rowdy chapters going Assault first. Marines learn by watching their seniors so the natural starting point is Devastator.
terminator armor is unfathomably uncool outside of the space hulk setting where part of the coolness is it seeming like kind of a shitty option against such an extremely mobile enemy that kills you instantly regardless
>>538117406>>538117245>>538085352Progression between roles varied by chapter.
>>538117406I'd have to double check my old DA codex when I get home I guessBut that's story I've laid to memory at least
>>538115948But there were always exceptions? Ravener? How about the lictor who's attack is literally like frame 8? Are those not exceptions enough for you? For real this is a non issue. >>538116082Skill fucking issue. Get fucked.
>>538117410I disagree.
>>538117410you are unfathomably gay
>>538118234and then the guy takes off his helmet and reveals his disproportionate, nonsensically tiny head
>>538083073I don't think the game does a great job of teaching you the mechanics unless you're already used to vaguely similar games. Even max difficulty in SM2 campaign is pretty consistently fair and do-able if you understand how the game works but there are things that will feel weird at first
Fucking hell, I can't go through one operation without crashing. The game cocks up even when I'm editing my marine. What's up with this vatnik coding?
For the love of god somebody carry me through the hard mission. I've been trying literally all night and we all die before we can even get the melta charges planted in the hole. That was the furthest I ever got.
>>538118887What region
>>538116904The point of attack markers is to tell you what you need to dodge and alert you to attacks outside of your field of view.For markers to adequately serve the purpose of alerting you to offscreen attacks all marked attacks must either have a long enough windup to redirect your attention or the marker must appear within the parry/dodge window.
>>538118350rule of cool lil brono one cares, it's fucking 40k
>>538119215that's the point mancalgar doesn't look cool he looks like a cosplaying kid tac marines look cool
>>538119256>looks like a cosplaying kid you're playing a videogame ad for a kids toyline.
>>538119420good thing I didn't think terminator armor looked cool as a kid
>>538118110>there are exceptions>the game asks you to do the opposite of what it trained you to do in the first placeYeah, that's called bad game design. In this case because it's inconsistent.
>>538026403This is all of /vg/, content gamers don't come to 4chan
>>538118935I'll have to do it tomorrow, but US east. I've tried for the past four hours and I've got nothing.
>>538119523>the game should only ever present the exact same situation to you and never put a variation on it under any circumstances or it's buh buh bad game design sounds fucking terrible it's rough for a game like this but only because the difficulty model of absolute (which seem like afterthoughts in general to a degree) is "don't take hits at all" so learning how the new enemies operate differently is game-losing trial and error
>>538119523>THIS specific type of inconsistency that I don’t like is bad because I say so>every other type of inconsistency is fine because I say so Cherrypicking
>>538116082It’s called Reductio Ad Absurdum dingusIf your argument falls apart because of it (it does) then your argument doesn’t hold any weight
>>538119769Learning how they fight is irrelevant. Explaining things to you is painful.What do you think blue markers are for? The point is blue markers serve no purpose for a variety of reasons.There are unmarked attacks that hit just as hard as blues so blue markers are not useful for indicating heavy attacks.Most blue attacks come out immediately after the marker, some come late, the chaos spawn's comes ridiculously late. So they're not useful for indicating timing.If the timing isn't tight then it's also not a good marker for an enemy winding up in a crowd.These problems combined also makes blue markers bad at indicating attacks coming from enemies you can't see.But the developers clearly originally intended that markers cover all of these points, they just don't play their own game and can't design a coherent combat system without the hands on experience they don't have.Chaos spawn simply highlight how dysfunctional the marker mechanic is with their extremely unusual and overtuned moveset.
>>538120353>every other type of inconsistency is fine because I say soPoint to the post that says this.
>>538120451It's creating a strawman and disingenuously arguing a different point.
>>538120653spawn also has too many moves, one of them needs to be trimmed, between the succ, thunderclap, and the smoke screen which can go into 3 other moves
If saber added a blue attack that was actually an unblockable dodge would it not be a problem since you could just learn the moveset and react accordingly?
>all balanced No fuck off devs, the only balanced weapon I can tolerate is the fist because it can still one shot with the follow up and gives me a safety net against multiple lictors which I find very uncomfy to fight with the block fist.
>>538120653I just don't practically find it to be an issue most of the time. There are already exceptions to the "blue is an instant attack" 'rule' at launch, and having timing variety between enemies is easily more worth preserving than turning the game into a reaction QTE. The blue light says "there is an attack coming, watch out" and that's all I really need it to do 9 times out of 10.
>>538121431>The blue light says "there is an attack coming, watch out" and that's all I really need it to do 9 times out of 10.And this is worthless because there are plenty of unmarked attacks of equal severity.The attack marker system is fundamentally broken. Blue attacks should just not be marked.
Also you know that if an enemy launched into a delayed attack WITHOUT a blue marker people would be bitching about that too- and if you gave it a unique marker, there wouldn't be any point to having a delay. It just seems like a nothing complaint to me. MAYBE you could give a unique marker specifically to minoris jumping from offscreen since that just homes in on you from five miles away.
>>538121665>Also you know that if an enemy launched into a delayed attack WITHOUT a blue markerEnemies already do this.
>>538121772as a starter? The chaos spawn combo followup where he stands there, twiddles his thumbs, flexes his claw then swings comes to mind but I dunno
>>538121990The webm posted above demonstrates a standalone unmarked lictor attack that is over two seconds long before impact.Gaunts have a highly delayed unmarked attack.
Which secondary weapon has the highest gunstrike damage?
>>538122326heavy bolt pistol iirc
>>538122326wrong question. You're looking for plasma pistol, which doesn't have the highest gunstrike damage, but due to AoE deals more total damage than other pistols.
>>538122161okay, but the spawn literally has the indicator time out and for a full 1 or 2 seconds before it actually hits you
>>538122514No, I'm looking for which secondary weapon has the highest single target gunstrike damage.
>>538122684Yes??
>>538122693i think the general perception is that the HBP's damage boost isn't big enough to justify it
This really opened my eyes on how fucking bad the player base is.
>>538121075>the succ>tyranid warrior red pull attack just pulls you in without doing damage>chaos spawn red pull attack pulls you in and takes most of your health through armorThis enemy is obscene.
>>538123395you forgot the part where its wide as shitand im pretty sure the whip does damage
>>538123357>the quote is "with great power comes great responsibility">don't give any power>don't give any responsibility>just increase the incoming damage by 300%>healthbar is not linear so hp doesn't matter anywaywhat did saber mean by that
>>538122693okay, have fun playing the single target shooter game.
i think it's true that balancing weapons with absolute in mind would fuck with campaign, which has low majoris/extremis enemy counts compared to it from start to finish and you have no real need at all to instagib majorisperhapsably you just balance campaign and PVE separately pretty sure they already do that anyway. would making absolute its own ecosystem be too severe? desu I think this game's combat systems are kinda fucked for extreme enemy counts in general, kinda turns into parry sim any way you slice it
>>538124334you just buff the variants, the campaign doesnt use them
>>538120653Blue attack are mostly gap closer attack from the enemy. They indicate that enemies that were way out of range will try to jump attack onto you
>>538124565Plenty of unmarked attacks do that too.
>>538124334Campaign and operations already have wildly different balance due to the lack of weapon quality, no fencing and blocking, and many weapon types not being present.
>>538119420>children's book>look inside>Entire story is a Necron curbstomp, with one of the protagonists dying
>>538124565One of the warrior's blue attacks does precisely the opposite of that.
Looking at the heroic leather gloves, they're too thick to be worn alone.They're leather gloves purpose made to be worn over power armor.That's extremely silly.
bruh
I will NOT play on ballbuster mode solo just to get the xenophase a week earlier.
>>538125739that's perfectly reasonable.
>>538124970I said most, the double warrior backdash swing is the only exception, but maybe because the start up animation is not clear without the blue
>>538123625The whip pull does two armor pips but close to zero health damage.
>>538124970>>538125990It is the only exception but it is perfectly acceptable as an early parry catcher because the pattern is recognizable with only a single attack happening at first. That first attack is enough to get the player's attention, so it is now on him to watch the warrior for its backstep windup.
i like playing UBGL, should i still take acuity over extra ammo?
flamethrower (both) fucking SLAP and the people now learned to just light dudes on fire and then melee, devs should do something about the visibility dough
>>538125990The blue whip combo and terminator blues aren't really long gap closers either.It's not consistent enough to assume the developers intended it to be a trait blue markers indicate.
You know the biggest problem with great responsibility?It doesn't tell you who the target is.
>>538128004I think blue are just attacks that dev expect players would have difficult to recognize.
>>538128226If that was their only purpose it wouldn't provide an indicator for off screen blue attacks.
>>538099775It can be depending on the ammo count and range for the melta.
>>538128393Well .. off screen attacks are kinda difficult to recognize right?
>>538128958All off screen attacks are difficult to recognize but not all off screen attacks are given a marker.
Anyone wants to set up a private PvP lobby to unlock Chaosnigger armour?We don't need to play, just kill each other long enough to unlock each class' Chaosnigger armour.Just good old gentleman's agreement.
Who's the asshole piling 12 foot tall stacks of gargantuan tomes the size of a man's chest in the middle of the hall?
>>538130870not posting any photos, but I feel attacked.
this game is such shit sometimes
>>538132909Imagine if you were playing any other class and couldn't just tap your ability to get that all back.
Pyreblaster and Pyrecannon are too good against TyranidsCombibolter is very useful against Chaos
>>538133831How much ammo, damage, and range does the melta have?
>>538134286My bolter perks take the top build then bottom, 13 Melta ammo in total and 185 normal bolter ammo.Every ammo box gives +3 Melta ammo, a crate refills everything. It also does the same damage as the normal Melta rifle but without the perks obviously.
>>538124334Campaign doesn't get balance updates, the occulus carbine still doesn't have a scope in it.
>>538124056>healthbar is not linear so hp doesn't matter anywayI hate this shit so much when games do that. Like oh thanks bro, I didn't want to have any idea how much health I actually have to plan anyway. Like what the fuck is the point of an hp bar if you're going to do that?
How is the burst bolt pistol? Looks cool on paper but the ammo looks on the low side
>>538134507How much does emps vengeance give back?
>>538135542Don't know, I never ran out of ammo and only used the melta to wipe out mobs and Chaos spawn.
>>538135432apparently its dogshit, and apparently the chainsword is also dogshit, which is disappointing.i have no idea 1st hand tho im not good enough to beat the hard weekly.
Man, I feel like trying to use the heavy attacks on the paxe at all is just a noob trap at this point.They're only any good for fighting minoris, except the range and damage is still terrible even against them. If you decide to fight a horde of minoris with this thing with the heavy attacks, you're gonna steadily lose chunk after chunk of your hp as you knock back barely 1/3rd of them at a time for maybe half of their hp while the rest devastate you.Kind of a fuckin meme weapon. It's fun to duel eliter enemies with the fancy parry shenanigans, but it could use a buff.
yeah absolute feels sorta bad but literally everything below absolute (including lethal) bolters feel pretty balanceda slight bolter damage buff would be ok but i think if you want a a big overhaul to how combat is handled better off doing a clean slate in SM3
The Hard Weekly Stratagem feels like fucking bullshit. This is straight cock and ball torture. And I'm still more irritated by these smug fucks that have a lucky run and act like they stomped it because they're so good. This shit is 100% luck based, and I'm not sinking 5 hours into one fucking mission. Accolades need to be way fucking higher for dailies because the Hard Mode dailies aren't any fucking easier than the weekly, and the Normals giving 5. Fucking F I V E accolades is insulting.
>>538139820can't you just not play the game for a week? there are other things
>>538125329Oh you're fine. You're about to get a Blood Angel champion pack soon.
well bros?
>>538139886That's what I've been doing. The top 1% can keep huffing their own farts while a Tyranid kicks them in the balls for 4 hours, but I'm not doing any of this shit until they stop acting like the game needs to be so bullshit. We're a year away from just "Dante must die" mode, where any instance of damage kills you and motherfuckers will sit there and defend it.
>>538139820It's not that bad.The hard dailies are worse. Suboptimal state, armor malfunction or great responsibility are effectively impossible.
>>538140527ackchyually the instantly death mode in dmc is called "hell and hell"
>>538140531It is that bad. When just about every account of people beating it is "Yeah it took me 2-5 hours" that's not ok dude. That's ONE fucking mission, that is not ok.
>>538119215>Rule of cool>pic posted had fucking kitty earsNah, Terminator armor is gay and lame.
>>538140527I finally ended up beating it myself on a lucky run, but yeah I agree this is getting pretty absurd with what they want us to do with only 3 marines. Let guardsmen spawn on all missions for fuck's sake.
>>538139820can't you just post a code and just be done about it? we used to carry underleveled anons on lethal with cohesion. surely it couldn't be that hard?
>>538140486Got everything already. See you in the next patch Brothers.
Very cool saber.
>Had to dress up my dude to justify the Combi-Melta>This is after months of being a plain battle brotherNot gonna lie, the white veteran helmet has really grown on me.
>>538141196KWAB
>>538141653I have become more battle brother than I ever could before with the plain skull breastplate. Definitely look the part of an earlygame DOW2 marine now.
>>538140531Armor malfunction plus ranged terminators is a very likely instant team wipe.
>>538124334I'm pretty sure sp has a separate category of weapons
>>538141151cohesion you just need to stick together, what are you doing when you are going to get gangraped by ranged mobs, especially zoans from the fog of war?
>>538119420Multiple children die in this book one of them melts
>>538139820your right but anons here want to pretend like they are some god gamer. i doubt the devs even tested this weekly hard
>>538147305>testednigga this shit's just gonna be:>while modifiers < 3>modifiers.add(random.choice(weeklyModifiers))
I wish saber would just remove heal banner.It's a massive crutch, it's too valuable to justify using any other perk they could possibly ever make, everyone expects you to have it and it's not available 90% of the time you're playing bulwark if you're going for prestige perks.I fucking hate it so much, why did they have to be so stupid to make such a thing in the first place.
>>538149223heal classes and abilities are always a mistake in games desu
>>538149223Same. Without the heal banner the cooldown is actually really fast. You can drop a massive dot at pretty much every horde spawn on absolute. If you place it in a good spot it can clear an entire wave on its own or kill an extremis.The heal perk just makes people hold the banner until they are dying when they could have gotten more value and possibly taken less damage by having it off cooldown more.
Chaos still unfun to play against. Back to nids.
>remove heal banner and vanguard heals>extremis executions give 15% HP back to you base like for everyone >terminus gives 30% And then never add more healing abilities ever again
>>538150630also remove all the ammo regen perks and add a universal 5% ammo regen on majoris+ kills
>>538150630Majoris executions should give you some amount of health, like 2 or 3%.
>>538104743its the running attack
>Queue up for the hard strat>Get a run in progress>Full health carnifex, 3 lictors, and a million gaunts and warriors>One teammate dead dead, no second teammate or bot
>>538150630You do that and the game becomes immensely easy, then to compensate saber will add some retarded modifiers like double health on all enemies or some more FoW bullshit.
>que hard stratagem>lvl 1 bulwark>lvl 7 vanguard with melee champIf you are low level don't que this you fucking retards.
>>538150630>>538152091The problem with the game is it wants the Doom/Bloodborne aggression mechanics but doesn't lean far enough into either.>Contested health>But you can be staggered in such a manner that it's impossible to recover most if not all the health you lost>Many forms of attack, mainly melee, don't recover enough cHP so it's a net loss when trading to even small attacks when they're en masse>This is also compounded by melee not doing enough damage to hordes outside of Chainsword shoulder spam (which also creates a safety net around you thanks to the colossal AOE knockback)
>>538141196UHUHU GONNA BASH
>>538152786The problem is the discord retards that want a muh difficult game while just making it retardedly tedious (see stratagems), the devs shouldn't be listening to these idiots, simple as that.
>>538153275I dont think they are listening to anyone considering most of the weapons are still unusable.
>>538153275It's possible to make a difficult and challenging game, but Saber keep falling into the trap of cheap difficulty over engaging difficulty. Engaging difficulty would be, for example, creating clear attack animations, and then on higher/the highest difficulty, removing the markers.>All basic attacks follow the classic pause > swipe>All guaranteed knockback/grab attacks involve some sort of sound cue like a roar, scream, laser beam, or charging gun soundThe markers should be for normal and casual gameplay. People who get good at the game should be smelling attacks through pattern recognition.
>>538140486I just bought a 1-month CH sub and gave myself a bajillion accolade points and bought them allCombibolter > knife > Heavy plasma > Xenophase blade > Cholera teeth > bolt pistolOnly the Mk7 laurel helmet is worth buying, I wish there was a version without that stupid little skull
>>538154268>CH who?Does the knife do anything different? Its perk sounds useless.
>immortal lictor gangraping me from spawn to finish and nobody else hitting him
>>538154721>immortal>still has a ton of HP to make it go away for a bit>comes back almost immediately with no timer>shows up during massive waves>shows up during Terminus spawns>shows up inside safe rooms and the lift near the end>players eventually just speedrun and run away because they can't or don't want to parry and melee for shitTerrible design, the slav who approved of this needs to die in Ukraine.I bet they'll have a Sorcerer version that also does not die and will keep reviving Rubric Marines or a Terminator that chases you around.
>>538154972>shows up during Terminus spawnsJust got it twice at the first stage with a neurotrope, I was recovering with both allies dead, then he just shows up and rapes me while the neurotropes spams ranged abilities from beyond the map
does the power it feel like the power axe discharge and slash momentum should be swapped, because i dont feel like youre able to keep up the damage boost and why would i break up by whirl slashes to make a dodge attackand i dont think riposte is working correctly? because im prettyi able to do the overhead strike after power backstep without the perk, also you dont gain enough distance to hit the target you just parried after the backstep which is kinda weird
>>538155283If you get a Neurothrope spawn or a double Terminus spawn it's reset time.
>>538057178Its trueThis is trueIts a low commitment weapon so it's good>ChaffSweep them, or go heavy stance and sweep since it seems to increase range>MajorisAim at their feet until they're quite bright, switch to melee at any time, it's very good>ExtremisAim at their feet because your team needs to see the telegraphs>BossesTop dpsWhite flamer overperfrorms at purple diff and never runs out of ammo, I imagine gold class is nuts
>>538155831Third time now, first stage, neuro + lictor + extremis lictorlol
>>538155810Go to the hospital.
>>538155906yeah I noticed that, purp flamer is also power 3, relic one is power 6
>>538125329>he paid blue mana for THISaaaaay
>>538055081>pyreblaster sucks dickYou are brain dead.
>>538155975maybe you should because you might have autism
What are the best weapons to take for Vortex? I fucking hate everything about this gay ass mission, from beginning to end.
>>538157435fire
Beat Inferno hard as a Vanguard with two decent teammates, swapped the meme grappling hook execute with the Majoris heal along with the Extremis healCarbine is useless here, I switched to the Melta rifle as a gaunt cleaner since there's FOW anyway. Even with the ammo version the sustain is far worse than any of the bolters but bolters are uselessBulwark was great at healing everyone's HP and using the banner to revive teammates, Heavy with the pyrecannon is also insanely good at mulching Majoris+ enemiesTook me about 30+ tries with randoms, almost went full Discordtroon since I keep hearing players there are decentGot Carnifex very early on and a Neurothrope spawn in between the elevator section, died twice against the NeurothropeFinal section had double Zoanthropes and Ravener spam plus the Lictor never took a break, they need to nerf this motherfuckerI guarantee that these devs playtested Normal but not Hard, the spawns and damage values do not scale with an unkillable and overtly persistent Lictor>My observationsTacticals need the 50% recharge Extremis scan, grenade regen (there's only a handful of games where I've seen a Melta bomb though) and the parry on auspex perkI'm 50/50 on plasma weapons for both Tactical and Heavy, they take time to charge up and that means getting murked in melee and I've seen both classes die 4+ times in a failed runAssault needs to fuck off and go away, after the 5th loss I simply left games that had Assault on them; conversely there are a fuckton of underleveled shitters out there most of them Bulwarks with the BT champion skinLas Fusil and sniper weapons in general are useless in Inferno hardFor Heavy, take Bonds of Brotherhood over extra ammo
>>538157470But then you have to deal with fuckass boss which doesn't let you get close to it at all
>>538157759just swap before you get to the boss
>>538055081Pyreblaster is literally one of the best weapons in the game.
>>538157435why tho? i like the visuals, it's probably the closest we'll get to boltgun warp sections
>>538157629I would figure Assault would be at least sort of useful since you can't see shit past 3 feet anyway
>>538157629my same thoughts, melta is really good there
>>538157435Never melee the Vortex BeastAvoid the Vortex Beast lasersDodge the Vortex Beast purple farts, on its last legs the Vortex Beast will keep farting every second Always shoot the purple tentacles that the Vortex Beat spawnsWhen the Vortex Beast hits 10% health it will turtle up and summon reinforcements who will rush towards him to heal itself like that campaign mission, it'll turtle for a few minutes before getting back up againThe mission is too layered and too largeAt least Chaos spawns die faster than Warriors
>>538157987Because it's ball crushing and unfun. Fighting endless terminators and chaos spawns is retarded
>>538158073They need to give it more ammo or buff the damage up a bit, I believe it has never received updates because the devs think its a "noob" weapon which is fucking stupid
Power axe has some kino executions to bad it sucks dick for the most part.>catching a gaunt midair and slicing it in half animFeels so good
Which routes gents?>Pyreblaster/PyrecannonTop or bottom or hybrid>Power axeTop or bottom or hybrid
>>538158473Well the game shifted from having ruthless swarm you with small enemies, which were the most dangerous and easiest cleared with the melta to absolute swarming you with majoris and extremis, making the minor clearing a simple matter of killing synapse creatures and focusing on single target damage, I think melta is overall fine, still stun locks shit whcih is helpful vs the retarded lictor.
>>538159020You go hybrid on both, start at the top and then go bottom by the second splinter. ESPECIALLY on Tactical where the Blaster just gives you the most free melee damage imaginable.
>>538118754So I'm playing on the second hardest difficulty right now (veteran I think) and am obviously still getting used to things, but it's felt pretty fair thus far. I've only played the intro and the first mission so far (didn't get to play as much as I would've liked) only went down once, and was surprised by the NPCs actually coming to res me.I struggled to properly do the tutorial because extreme aggression didn't even let the enemies try to go for attacks I could parry. The game seems to reward this kind of play, too, by giving you heaps of healing opportunities. I'm obviously struggling a little to develop muscle memory on what buttons to press when, but it's been alright so far.The main thing I'm confused about is whether I should be blocking or dodging attacks that aren't blue glowing. Or how useful blocking even is in general. But I'm only an hour in so I'm sure I'll figure it out.I doubt I'll crank the difficulty up to max any time soon. So far, it's felt challenging but fair at a learning pace, and I imagine it's only going to get harder.
>>538158235>add a boss that makes even getting close enough to use a meltagun suicide most of the time>its fast grab gives you enough time for one(1) gunstrike and maybe a chainsword combo if you dodge>its melee attack is a year long combo that gives no time between the attacks for gunstrikes or retaliation in melee, you get a single gunstrike at the end>most of its attacks spawn an AOE damage field in melee range>spawns a bunch of tentacles that are easy to kill and almost harmless at range but dangerous in melee>spends a third of the fight just straight up invincible>also here's a flamethrower that wipes majoris squads, minoris swarms and extremis at the same time with easeIt makes me think the assertion that saber intends the gameplay to be focused purely on melee and gunstrikes is simply headcanon and saber are just retarded hacks that make bolters suck because they think it's a good source of difficulty.
>>538159607You can parry every attack that isn't orange, so try to parry everything you can to stun things and recover armor through gunstrikes/executions.
>>538157435Mission is worth it for punching psykersAll my homies hate psykers
Is it me or does everything start to teleport on hard mode after a while making the game unplayable
>>53816063240k is almost a state religion in Russia. Its really confusing why bolters are so bad.
>>538160661The Psykers honest to God give off some of the most realistic pants-shitting fear cries I've ever heard in a video game. They sound like those videos of climbers falling and thinking they're gonna die before the rope catches them.
>>538161176because its not an ak, and slavs unironically think the ak is as powerful as the dshk and they unironically think the dshk can blow up a tankif there was a bolter shaped like an ak it would hit like a stalker with a magazine from the hbr and the rof of the carbine
Is darktide the only game to kind of do bolters right? You also get a babby version too
>>538161808>laughs in picrel
>>538158896My favourite is vs a warrior who is blocking and you break the block then hard swing and just slice half his head off. The animation just FEELS so good. The final swing just looks like you HATE them more than a fancy riposte or something.Though, almost all the axe executions are top tier as well. I am holding out hope, that by the time we get a heroic axe they buff its base damage and revert the retarded 'balance' that makes me NOT want to use most of them due to a gimmick.
>>538160632The tentacles are dangerous at range since they fire single lasers which will fuck over your health and armour
>>538159020as assault with the axe just go full top route and pick the lvl 1 perk + play the dodge build. having this set-damage-nuke every 15 seconds is fucking funny.
>>538163423Isn't the very first perk the one to pick unless you're running the power fist which means you take Overcharge which is below it?The Assault gunstrike build is obsolete now, never used jetpack dodges so I just max out ground pound damage and regen (100% extra GP damage, 10% regen per GP kill and extra preparation time for more GP damage)
>>538162525SM1 was much, MUCH better than SM2 but yeah..Darktide wins as far as non RTS goes. Dawn of War 1 and 2 are nice but its still isometric so the sound is not as crisp as it would be close up.The fact that Darktide has you use a smaller, weaker boltgun - that in one full magazine can kill a full armoured ogryn blessed by nurgle is a mark against SM2 - Ogryn in a lot of cases outclass marines in toughness and can easily wear near comparable amounts of armour due to sheer bulk rather than quality. However a bolt round still has mass and energy it is inflicting of considerable amount that Tyranids should be getting staggered quite a bit from multiple shots and not just tanking them. Bolts into crowds should be doing AoE damage unless they rip INTO something big before exploding.SM2 treats bolters like 9mm in most cases and then the marksman weapons at best, as 5.56. Bolters need an overhaul and if they just tied it to relic tier weapons so my fucking boltgun rifle did the damage its supposed to and my bolt pistol DID THE DAMAGE ITS SUPPOSED TO but at some cost in xp/materials, I would only use them. I believe most would.The audio part is not as clear cut because the argument could be that the player, as a marine, is able to filter out the excessive noise from their weapons die to bio engineering yadda yadda and therefore they have always sounded dulled to them and therefore the player where as in Darktide you are a random human so....tinnitus seems a good price to pay not to be infected with nurgle rot or raped/eaten by slannesh cultists etc.
>>538163891>The Assault gunstrike build is obsolete nowExplain please, I main assault but I do not keep up with balance and theorycrafting. I am finding the axe very nice for assault due to the stepback-rake into a gunstrike combo in Absolute.
If they didn't nerf the grenade launcher months ago there wouldn't be a lot of people complaining about Absolute, hard siege mode and hard stratagems.
>>538122326The damage hbp. The damage bolt pistol has better GS damage than the regular HBP, however. https://youtu.be/ymoUd6iPOH0?feature=shared
>>538165306is there a massive difference?i just take ammo versions of the hbp, i only use plasma pistol for builds with plasma weapons
>>538164556yeah because it was op as shit. i hate the way they nerfed it, but that shit was not ok.
>>538141196That's not it's full power yet. https://youtube.com/shorts/kqvgS3Ww5yM?feature=shared
>>538165860Only OP on Ruthless
>>538163891i would not call it "gunstrike" build, they fuck pretty hard though. >hit enemy with a dash attack for good damage despite using a fencing axe because eplosion every 5s + explosion every 5s>dodge with Q for aoe damage>gunstrikes out of parrys are back to 50% because of the axe perk>chaindodge carnifexesassault still has issues, but this is the most fun i had in quite a while.
>still no vengeance launcherFor what purpose it was in the first one
Why does it seem like there's only ever 3 fucking people playing this game at any given time? I keep getting matched with the same people in missions when I'm looking for new people
>>538166913It was always a weird inclusion in the first game, literally the only place it shows up in the loreNow that they care so much about model accuracy, there's no way they could add it
>>538167502Your region is dogshitThe game will always find you with the closest players before putting you elsewhere
>>538167502everyone else has blocked you
>>538164556>This one resident nigger who keeps insisting the grenade launcher is useless now>WAH MY STILL BUSTED HORDE DELETER NOW ONLY GETS 13 ROUNDS OFF IN A HORDE INSTEAD OF INFINITE
hivemind, what is our opinion on the banana bolt pistol?
>>538167502If you have crossplay off thats why.
>>538168106havent unlocked it yet but allegedly its the best gunstrike weapon in the game.
>>538168106the what
>>538162628MODERN ARTS AND FEAR BOOKS
>>538166913That’s exclusive to Graia. That’s also why it only shows up in SM1 and Boltgun.
>>538168624the heroic bolt pistol variant with the oldschool magazine
>>538168043It was never about the grenade quantity, it was always about nerfing the damage that I rather take a Fencing weapon because the nerf was so horrible the weapon is useless now.
>>538168939I genuinely felt uncomfortable playing the game on speakers in case my neighbours heard their death screams.
>>538055081You should post your Absolute gameplay
>>538055081I've only taken the pyreblaster to purple and it's already dealing enough damage to hold its own against most weapons in the game. I can't imagine how it'll do with more ammo, double the damage stat (I'd really like to know how this translates to actual damage, if it works on the DoT or not and such), and a bunch more perks.
Pyreblaster and Pyrecannon will get nerfed.
>>538174816your mother will be raped by my cock
>>538022263Oh my god PVP is the worst thing I have ever experienced in a game. This is like the Doom 2016 PVP but unfathomably worse.
>>538177040>start playing a pvp mode one year into the game's launch>get noobstomped>make an angry post on 4chanunbelievable
>>538177040Works on my machine
>>538177040Helbrute mode is fun, they need to add Dreadnought vs Helbrute mode
>>538169994>Single grenade still kills every single Minoris in a massive AOE>WAAHH BUT IT DOESN'T INSTANTLY DELETE MAJORIS NOW IT'S BADOkay, so take the Accuracy Bolt Rifle which melts heads.
Oculus Bolt Carbine is better than the SMG-style Bolt Carbine so I don't know why you'd ever take the latter on Vanguard. The OBC not only has similar fire patterns and damage, but it gets a x2 headshot multiple instead of 1. The Marksman Bolt Carbine is great on Vanguard, but outclassed by better stuff on Sniper. So ultimately I don't get the wank over either version.
>>538178736>Oculus Bolt Carbine is better than the SMG-style Bolt CarbineNo
>>538174816>My lack of a reaction image folder face when the Trygon is already at 60% health before he even does his first dive into the ground thanks to Auspex + Relic PyrecannonWhoever is balancing this game genuinely doesn't know what the fuck they're doing. How do you release the Power Axe which is piddly garbage alongside this broken monstrosity that walks over everything?
>>538179206>Same base damage>Borderline same fire rate>x2 headshot damageYes, yes it is.
Can someone give me a quick gits on the power Axe and the movest? What's it's thing? Is it about getting a perfect party for some special move?
sm2 is half off now.should i buy it?
>>538179450Its bad and you shouldn't use it.
>>538179842Now's a better time than ever. The griping you see in here is mostly related to endgame PvE content.
Does the flamer "count" as a plasma weapon in terms of perks? Or am I just taking the 10% more primary damage for 10% less secondary damage?
>>538179842Do you like simon says gameplay and rollslop?
>>538179913well, i'll probably only play the single player story campaign. i heard mixed things about the sp campaign at launch>>538180006i don't know what is simon says gameplay but i do like rollslop. i'm not really into shooters, but i do like warhammer. i've read a lot of novels.
>>538180006as someone who has put hundreds of hours into elden ring and hate it you should legitimately get good or kill your fucking self
>>538180219>but i do like rollslopOkay! How about a developer who is totally incompetent, takes months to implement basic changes and simple buffs, doesn't understand their own game, and every patch introduces new bugs?
>>538166913because it was made up shit by relic, it doesn't exist.
>>538180575stop. he said he just wants to play campaign.
>>538180575imagine believing all of this and still playing the game and still being so invested you post in this threadyou are truly the raped
>>538179450Yeah, but it’s also about DPS with its infinite combo. Leave the Block variants alone because they’re slow and the extra damage isn’t worth throwing away the parry that gives you Power Stance.
>>538181139>Yeah, but it’s also about DPS with its infinite comboWe already have two weapons with infinite combos, and their light attacks are considered whiffle bat tier.
>>538180219Campaign has optional co-op.
>stratagem hard>forced to take vanguard because otherwise you get a retarded sub lvl 10 nigger with melee champion 100% of the times>die getting raped by zoans and neuros>nobody picks tacts or any high dps class and when they do they waste fucking time on hormas instead of taking out prio targetsI can't, I just can't fucking do everything on my own
>>538181308And the axe has more damage.
>>538181664And it STILL hits like a whiffle bat.
>>538181454Yeah these Strats are impossible unless you're running a max DPS team of x2 Tact/Sniper/Heavy + x1 Vanguard/Bulwark healsluts.
>>538181454I lament having tacs on hard honestly with no damage resist and a paltry 15% bonus health they often overextend and get raped Glass cannony for my taste
>>538180575well. as a single player game player, i almost never want patches or updates. 'balance fixes' sounds to me like removing fun builds i figured out. i usually updates them if i can. if i run into some breaking issue i might update, but only after carefully reading patch notes.about the devs... what does it matter? the game has been released. they've already baked the cake so talk about the cake not the baker. imo.>>538181327it's my shame to admit that i don't have anyone i can play the game co-op with. it would be nice to meet someone on here to play with, but i'm not so optimistic.
>>538182368>the core game is a scam, I mean, they told me ahead of time I will only be paying for cosmetics and I bought them, and I have a complete game but..I'm mad about optional cosmetics that I think being optional and paid for!>33 hourslmfao
>Never melee ever>Take fencing because fuck melee>Gunstrike and shoot everything>WinShrimple as.
>>538182910post your absolute gameplay
>>538183048What I just described
>>538183185yeah but post it
>>538182368>i usually updates them if i can.*i usually disable them if i canwhat's the name for when you go back to edit your post and make mistakes like this
>>538182368>about the devs... what does it matterBecause the devs are actively changing things, you dumb polak.
>>538181454I did strat on hard with assault and two underleveled randoms who were sniper and heavy, it's not that it can't be done so much as it's too fucking tedious to do it any other way than some wow raid-tier cohesion and build. All because these slaveniggers won't let you have more than THREE MEN.
>>538183526>activelyjudging by the steam updates page, they update about once a month and just updated two days ago. those updates seem to make balance changes, so i'm glad that it's currently a time when there won't be updates for a while. it would really suck to make some cool build and then have it break halfway through the game.
>>538125191I think it's fuckin cool.
>3 lobbies in a row>3 pieces of shit homos sitting at their armories in a rowThey need to do something about this. Disable the armory if you have an active queue or something. If have an instananeous leave policy if I see anybody go back there for even one single second, I don't give a fuck what you want to quickly change, you should have thought of that before you tried to waste other people's time.
>>538184858I truly have no sympathy for people who can't grasp that there's a ''seasonal'' aspect to a ''seasonal'' pass. Fucking morons.
Doing Inferno Hard stratagem please join GXH44
>>538184858I'm glad people are finally upset at Saber but they are mad about the wrong thing.>>538185549Did Saber even explicitly say what the Season 1 pass included?
>>538186248Yeah, but just the broad strokes. No specifics on the actual Chapters that would be featured.
I hope you can do hard stratagems solo with the bots because this playerbase is truly one of the worst in gaming.
>>538186962you can
>>538185549it's more common than not for a launch day 'season pass' to mean you get everything going forward.it's their fault for making assumptions, but it's not like the mistake they made is bizarre.
>>538186193We are 2/3 in the lobby please one more!
Out of all the nid majoris enemies the barbed strangler niggers are the worst when they spawn with a terminus and extremis. They litter the area with those shits making it almost impossible to deal with.
>>538186248what should they be mad about?there was a big uptick in negative reviews after the last update.
>>538130079You wouldn't think this would work but I heard you can complete ordeals in private lobbies, so...As a guy that already grinded enough to get the world eater skin, this is by far the worst grind in the game. 9 kills in 9 different matches PER class is fucking ludicrous. You need to be doing pretty well to get 9 kills in a match, and that's dependent on a lot of real life people. It's dependent on your team not sucking, and the enemy team not being twitchy chinese turtling crackhead meta slaves. And the MMR in this game is either non existent or a troll, cause it nearly consistently gives me lobbies where one team is stacked with lvl 30-40 vets, and the other is stacked with lvl 5-25 scrubs/midwits.If you are gonna attempt to do this shit legit, then turn off crossplay if you're on console. I did, and it made the pvp difficulty groundrocket from almost impossible to tolerable. Turns out, DPS races can be pretty rigged when the other guy can easily trace your head with a mouse, and might even have a wider FOV and far higher fps than you. If you're on pc, you'll just have to get good, I guess. You could keep crossplay on in the hopes that you'll match with console fodder and hope most of them land on the opposite team.
>>538187528Another reason the flamers are strong, they hit the little buds without directly aiming for them. Even the Melta has to be targeting the ground roughly and is expensive to waste the ammo.
>>538183048desu that's the most optimal gameplay if you run Fencing. Not worth attacking at all with your foam stick.
>>538179280SMG does bonusdamage up close. on tactical you parry and brr its dead. i never got the hype for SMG on vanguard though, he can´t sustain that. its unironically more synergistic on sniper the on vanguard.
>>538155283>>538154972>People point out that difficulty can be increased by adding enemies/changing enemy types for encounters >Saber Monkey Paw: they're immortal I find it hilarious when devs over design ideas and then ruin them. I think its because they're insecure about being game devs and dont actually know what to do to make a good game, all the best parts of SM2 are just copied from SM1 and all the worst (thousand game modes, bad bolters, a hundred difficulty modes, a thousand currencies, weapon tiers, ect) are saber inventions.
>>538189586I really like the Marksman Carbine on Vanguard because it feels like the one gun that doesn't piss away all its ammo after one fight.
>trying to carry friend through absolute for quick leveling>every single mission this evening ends in extremely bad luck situations downing me with insanely bad timing>make almost no progress in total
>>538189745Imagine if Saber were smart>Three "Difficulties" and that's it>All they dictate is horde size>Named Scouts / Battalion / Armada to refer to size and assortment of harder enemies>Health and damage are unified across all tiers
If you tell me you completed hard stratagem without bug abusing I simply don't believe you.
>>538187930Post a private PvP codeAnnihilation to make things faster, each one kills one another 10 times then someone feeds to end the match at 10-50Rinse and repeatGentleman's agreement, no niggery or kikery bullshit or your Steam profile gets posted
>>538188067I was aiming directly at them with the pyreblaster last night and it didn't do anything.I had to switch to my secondary to mow the bulb lawns.>>538186193Expired.
>>538190185Already a few minutes ago, they either wiped or beat it.
>>538187697people have to buy a season pass again + new hard strategems are slav cancer.
>>538189767Just use Occulus then
do all chapters use flame throwers? im using a dark angel skin with it
I fucking hate console players so much. No matter how many meds I mark they refuse to take them, and when we have a vanguard running heal on extremis, they just fucking shoot them to death. How do these people function daily
>>538185231Armoury idling could have been solved by having quick access loadouts so players don't need to fuck off back to the armoury to change everything.Every class should get 5 quick loadouts, should satisfy every build you will ever need.
>>538186193Wanna do another? I got disconnected due to "server issues"
>>538190185HHPGT still trying, also my game crashed, sorry to the guy who was there before with me.
>>538190631Occulus can't hit a thing past face range. Marksman Bolt Carbine is the Stalker's stubby little brother.
>>538190818This is why I always take armour tabs and medkits with randoms unless they're close nearby.
>>538190040Jesus christ stop anon you're giving me an erection
THe game's started crashing suspiciously often after this patch when it didn't before. What gives?
Have you gents bought any of the DLC? Any of it worth it?
>>538190782Unless specifically stated no, then yes. Salamanders for example just have extra special bonus rules for them, for flavour.It is just a wargear upgrade like plasma.
>>538191082yes. no, dlcs are cosmetics only.
>>538187697Because the update sucks shit? Another fucking mode, another fucking currency, another fucking CHAOS mission, another fucking poorly balanced update where only the flamer is fun (will 100% be ruined and nerfed by saber).
>>538190782
>>538191082Not only do I own everything, I bought the game and season 1 and 2 for my mate so he can play with us.
>>538190857Repost codes
>>538191485HHPGT
>>538191082Cosmetics here are completely shit because they are Chapter themed. For an example, if you happen to don't like Space Wolves then this dlc is worthless to you. And most of a dlc are fucking colors and "successor chapter" paint schemes anyway and not even those unique gear parts which actually would take some time to createCorrect way to make cosmetics here would be to make them Chapter agnostic and preferably all about adding different armor marks to mix and match. That way their content would be valuable no matter which Chapter you like. But as it stands all dlcs are completely and utterly worthless. The only semi-valuable bit in any of them is a potential non-MK10 helmet and only if it happens to be without chapter insignia on it.
>>538191547>expiredFUCK
>>538157995Its not that assault is or isn't usefulIts that any class that has a convenient way to generate armor (as in on gun strike) is going to immediately have an easier time, especially if you need to tank the lictor while your team focuses on objectivesThe pyrevlaster can purge enemies on the power core in like1 second too, it's so strong
>>538158473The plasma and melta guns are good because>AoE>Not reliant on headshots>On demand stunYou should be meleeing or grenadine between melta shots, and by extension, taking any talents to generate equipment charges
>>538163976Darktide bolters kill ogryns in 2-3 shotsThey can kill bosses in 1-2 mags
>>538164263I don't think it's obsoleteBut a lot of bosses have big orange attacks you can just jet dash throughHell, you can jet dash through a zoanthrope fan beamAll of these =gun strikes and bonus damageI don't necessarily take bonus gun strike damage though, since lower CD jumps have more utility and the armor on gun strikes is strong
>>538192134This is why the Raptor cosmetic pack is probably going to be the only one worth buying for most people. It's going to be an assortment of generic military attachments that work on 90% of Chapters.The Iron Hands stuff might be decent if the prosthetics aren't plastered in Iron Hands iconography.
>>538191265should i pirate it instead? if i pirate it, i can get a specific game version. maybe it'll be more fun? it sounds like all the weapons except the flamer aren't fun.i don't really want to pirate things because it's annoying but if i'm playing the game for hours i might as well spend 20min to get a version that's more fun.
>>538166479I think assault is THE boss killerBehind shieldbashing as a bulwarkAlthough the new flamethrowers are kinda nuts
>>538193147>generic military attachmentsWhy would anyone want that for space marines? Give me skulls, candles, braziers, loincloths, shrines, ornaments. Not gayass military attachments. This is not fucking Call of Duty.
>>538193441Because even your dude plastered in enough gothic metals to decorate a church needs a place to sheath his knife and hold his bolter rounds.
>>538193640Maglocking.
>>538193441>This is not fucking Call of DutyYou're saying that like the models and SM2 don't already have military-esque garb. Here's a grenade belt.
>>538120653how do you do that attack after a parry
>>538192134This, the DLCs that are most worth getting are the ones that provide new things for any chapter.This is why RG is such a good one compared to the rest (though even it could stand to lose half its price)>relatively low cost>gives beaky>gives flat MKVI shoulder>chapter badges that, with recolour, fit a ton of different chapters>two types of helmet stripe patterns, allowing for recreation of several extra colour schemesMeanwhile I look at BA and it's>MKX with a monocle>chest and shoulder that are not usable outside of specifically BA>helmet stripe, but a version that only applies to making flesh eaters or consecrators, no other chapter>full-body pattern but it literally deletes your colour choices instead of letting you have your own colour blend>most chapter symbols are really specificDA also had quite good value for opening up new options in just one pack.
>>538193989Heavy attack, hold the button.
>>538163976>SM1 was much, MUCH better than SM2 but yeahsaber derangement syndrome
>>538193989>parry>enter power stance automatically by not moving>hold attack button to do backdash slash
anyone have the image of recommended prestige perks and such?
>>538194039yeah but the blood angels are cool so I buy it
>>538192134Not possible. James Warhammer says Primaris can’t were those. The best you can hope for is just the helmets.
>N-2 server issuesCool
CKWQ5 I crashed again sorry bros :/
>>538194286It plays way shittier for sure for the most part, but it does lack many issues 2 introduced. Aesthetically it's superior though, not counting graphics faggotry.Firstborn >>>>> primarisThey weren't playing this diversity balancing act with the cast. The voice acting was better. Orks are a superior enemy faction to nidders.Less classes, less grinding, less niggers. Less content and gameplay depth too, but yeah. Quality over quantity though.It's like a lump of salty garlic butter spread over one slice of bread as apposed to the same amount of unsalted margarine spread over a whole loaf.
>>538195686Game session terminated
>>538195798Server issue, A7DK3
the 2 gigachads i finally managed to do the hard weekly with, an ultrachad and a salabro.
>>53819589090% of the decked out Ultramarines I see in this game are sweatiest motherfuckers imaginable.
>green heavy flamer>no range>no instant damage>no damage over time>once i kill the obligatory One Nid Per Checkpoint™ I'm better off just gunstriking and stomping shit to deaththis is bullshit
>>538191061I dunno but I had these and they're driving me nuts. Makes playing the game next to impossible
>>538196501what is the "one nid per checkpoint" thing? i genuinely dont know how to lvl grey weapons properly
ah yes, and i forgot>the fucking windupas if the heavy bolters windup was bad enough
>>538196501Im leveling the flamers in ruthless and even the white ones rape more than relic bolters in here
>>538196426Same for me.I think its the stigma the ones that are actually decked out and clearly not just new players are dedicated UM fans. They are far less FoTM like BT. I say this as a BT player, I get annoyed how many bad BT I run into. To the point I was playing as only Lamenter Death Company for a couple months and am considering going back to them for now or Blood Ravens for a while.
Dodging Kills You is secretly the worst modifier by far and I'm not playing another one of these.
>>538197058wait till we 'roll parrying/blocking kills you' and 'medkits are now lava'
>>538196501You sound bad, these things are fucking cracked You know you have to sight in with heavy to get range on the flamer right
>>538196501You're doing something wrong because these weapons are genuinely busted. Pure SS-tier by Relic.
>>538196426same experience desu
Doing Inferno Stratagem Hard F9PDZ
Eat first, hard Inferno laterI'm getting carried by the Pyreblaster, without it I would just Multimelta my way like I beat it on my 15th try
G5Y9Y PSTAttempting the more bullshit half of the dailies today.
Brothers, I require another bread.
>>538197891I just joined instead >>538197642
>>538197642>>538198131Have you beaten it?
>Bought the leather gloves>It's Vanguard/Sniper onlyOh well, I guess it's another piece to make my Raptors look a little less bland.
BROTHERSBREAD
>every pvp map is 3 lanes with one exit from the baseDOTA really did reprogram the ziggers.
I managed to get solo Stratagem Inferno Hard up to after the generators but next boss spawn and lictors ate my ass and I couldn't even cheese it by going on the elevator because AI refused.I realize that's probably why they have bots forced there, but still a bummer.
I see more prestige 4 level 25s in Ruthless than hard stratagems. Why would you ever try to level in the hardest game mode they've introduced so far, holy fuck.
>>538200541Ruthless is the fastest for leveling since they've added double Terminus spawns on Absolute which made Decapitation harder and longer.
>>538166913because it was made up specifically for sm1 and james workshop is not going to include anything that they cannot translate into model sales
BROTHERSDONT MAKE ME PHONE POST A THREADPLEASE
>>538193441I like how anons say chapter agnostic and then proceed to post ultramarines for every single example
returning to the game since the first few weeks of launch what are the biggest changes?is grinding easier?have they changed progression?have the controls or parry system been properly fixed/tweaked
is the xeno blade gay? i am about to buy the three shot bolt pistol since its the only thing that seems cool
>>538202093>what are the biggest changes?The game performs worse the longer you play itis grinding easier?Nohave they changed progression?They have added in a new currency, enjoy sleeping through missions or them being nearly impossible>have the controls or parry system been properly fixed/tweakedNo, enemies will still phase into you and gunstrikes will not register.
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Holy fucking shit I'm done trying to beat todays Vox Liberatis hard daily. 10+ attempts and party gets wiped in the big open area with water where nidders and chaos are fighting or right at the elevator. I beat weekly hard stratagem on the 3rd try but this is just impossible, too much shit needs to fall into place to even progress to elevator. All single digit level retards with no team perks are not making it easier