>>542901429Stratagems PTSD Edition>Update 10.2 patch notes:https://community.focus-entmt.com/focus-entertainment/space-marine-2/blogs/272-hotfix-10-2-patch-notes>September Community updatehttps://community.focus-entmt.com/focus-entertainment/space-marine-2/blogs/278-september-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/>Recommended prestige perks (WIP):https://i.imgur.com/oy6eQdx.jpeg>/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: >>542901429
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My Praetorian CAN'T Be This Cute!
GIVE ME TECHMARINE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS
>>5432718142 more weeks, Scout-kun. Trust the Emperor.
>>543272475You mean three months.
I just don't bother with hard dailies
>>543265439>incompetence and overall lazinessIt's intentional drip-feeding. They're farming you. Games as a service.
>>543272748It's insane how much better this helmet looks over every other option.
>>543272635Same, max difficulty just makes me tryhard to the point of it not being fun. Ruthless is the sweat spot for when it's fun, but not braindead. Plus feel like there is no incentive to play absolute apart from personal challenge.
>>543270456//// INCOMING TRANSMISSION ////>Imperial Administratum has granted access to records of all Astartes operating in Decidious System, CODENAME: ADEPTUS RETARDES>Dude Wall status: ACTIVE. >All Astartes present in Decidious System accounted for.>All First Founding Chapters accounted for.>All Astartes are to upload a FULL SCREENSHOT of their Dude and post their CHAPTER.Hail Brothers! The Dude Wall has been updated, so, as per usual, I would like to share with you the information about the latest changes:- (Almost) All submissions of new and updated Dudes alike have been added to both versions of the Wall, the one Dude that escaped my attention was updated Raptor #2 - he will be introduced in the next version (apologies for committing him);- Raven Guard frames have been updated - minor fixes to the textures have been made;- Image version:-- All Dudes have been downsized by 15% across the board to accommodate (and future-proof) ever growing numbers of /YourDudes/. (this does not impact the website in any way)The last change had to be done as the number of Dudes would've made it very taxing to fit while keeping the same size of each image. However, as I tested, the change won't have any negative impact on high quality version and even the standard version retains majority of its previous quality when it comes to viewing each Dude. Thank you for all your submissions, Brothers. As always should you have more /YourDudes/ to post, then please do so. It doesn't matter how blinged out (or modded) /YourDude/ is, everyone is welcome on the Wall.Enjoy!Signing off,Wall Anon=IMPORTANT=>**Ultra high quality version of the Dude Wall is available on the website**>**For more comprehensive info on submissions please refer to: https://dudewall.github.io/dude-wall/ **Glory to the Imperium!//// END TRANSMISSION ////
>>543273032Based
>>543273032FYI, the following Dudes: Covenant of Fire #2, Carcharodons #10 are missing from this low res version, but they are in the high quality image. Apologies for the mismatch.>>543273383Thank you, Brother.
>>543273000I feel the same.
>>543272748saber, please... all i need is this helmet and an aquilla breastplate
>>543275383>and an aquilla breastplateTwitch drop :^)
>>543272635I don't bother with dailies at all, there's no reason to do them.
>>543275495oh, it will be available in the techpriest shop before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism
>>543270456You missed those small skulls in the back.
>>543272748>Games as a service.I agree, you're not exactly wrong. Dick moves such as not releasing 2-3 variants of a single piece do look like the former lead me think it is treated as such. BUT Saber themselves seem to have trouble deciding whether this is GaaS or a co-op with periodic updates. Still, this >>543267859 should be the gold standard for them. They can't ignore it even if they wanted since it's got close to 3 milion points upvotes on their forums, which is really a lot.
Can't wait for Bot Customization. Gonna go ham in photo mode.Also, post your donut steel Marines/chapters
>>543278678
>"you take the relic, anon"and thus ends my last absolute attempt tonight
>>543278892>when you're done with your instagram bullshit follow me, PC_NAME, we have xenos to kill
why does the absolute pauldron look like absolute shit
honestly absolute is still easier than launch ruthless
>>543277429nta, but I also think it's criminal we only got 'neutral' leg guards after a year from launch. What did we get? Helmets, skulltits chests and I think a shoulder pad. This is not drip feed, that's just bullshit. If it was dripfeeding then we'd get one or two leg pieces as well in the last year. That forum idea looks very good btw, why nobody considered this when they were making this game is beyond me.
To be honest not once have I thought that anything new in the Astartes mod was even close to being on par with the official assets, it all feels cheap and low quality.But I gotta admit my boy Sidonus coming back is pretty cool
>>543284904Customization in it is niceBut game is way too easy, I hate balance on it. It's just a really worthless "power fantasy" where everything dies the second you look at it. It's like a cheat modNew classes are whatever and existing classes lost all identity
>>543284904>SidonusFacial hair is too dark. I guess someone looked at a screenshot and tried to replicate the color it had under his chin, when that's naturally in shadow.
>>543285920No. It's just the lighting engine in the game. Too strong self-shadowing basically.
>>543285267So you prefer the spongy enemies of vanilla?
I have not cleared a single Absolute chaos mission since chaos spawn were introduced
>>543292697absolute solo o with other 2 players?
>>543291878Yes. Unironically. This mod made me realize that desponging them would be a terrible idea. It feels like shit when everything dies so easily. Same reason why darktide is boring, power creep got out of hand and game is utterly braindead. And on top of that, DT doesn't even have Stormvermin/Tyranid Warrior equivalent so melee combat is just literally spamming left click.
>>543277081Here ya go lad, just for you,
>>543294778we need to go deeper
>>543294031It's balanced by the fact that theres more enemies. I like it way more than vanilla. All that health is the reason why bolters suck so much penis.
>>543295379you missed a spot or two brother.
>>543296131
>doing weekly hard>tac with ranged damage gives more contested health runs off within the first 30 seconds and dies after triggering reinforcements
>>543296838And right after that I got a level 1 bullwark with the templar skin who also just fucking ran ahead nonstop and insta died every second. This shit is impossible.
idk what changed, but everything about PVP is just super unfun. its never feels good to play. and the 'get 9 kills' for the chaos armor is so fucking gay. thats such an impossibly hard objective to be expected to do
>>543284904Almost how I remembered Sidonius from SM1. Man, all that gear options... Modders doing what devs don't want to be bothered with.
>>543296838weekly hard is easy, unless they just changed it. drop code and I'll be one slightly less shitty teammate
>>543300678Why would you bother getting chaos armor when pvp is the only place you can wear it anyway
>>543301497NTA but I'm holding out hope they'll lax up on their restrictions some day, like they did with champion skins.We can already wear chaos iconography, damn it. These restrictions are so half assed.
How does this game expect me to kill a Lictor as it's walljumping in anything below the lowest difficulty?
almost feel like i should take following blow off my fist
>>543303964???You dodge out of the way and then fuck him up.
>>543304914for the achievement dipshit
>>543305112You don't need to kill him before the leap, "dipshit." You shoot him until his ass falls on the ground.
>>543303964blow yourself up with a melta bomb
>spawn into hard stratagem>surrounded by thousands of enemies>one guy already eaten shit and is dead>get nuked by multiple zoanthrope and ranged nid warriors through >iron halo evaporates in seconds and im down>both other players prestige 4 max level charactersim not saying these things should be easy by any means but Im not quite sure how multiple max level players cant seem to handle these missions
How often do you guys get disconnected? I just tried to do some solo stuff with bots. I had started up VL Absolute and 2 pieces of shit that were like level 5 and 1 tried joining so I decided to give the bots a try. It was going great and then I suddenly get disconnected. Is this just bad luck or does the game screw you trying to play by yourself? At this point, I'm 2 seconds from uninstalling.
>>543312458Max level is just a matter of play time. Plenty of players, particularly PC players, can go through hard strat consistently. You just have to luck out.
>>543314409got better teammates on my next search thankfully, tis done
>>543312458Space Marine 2 is just WWZ with a 40k skin, the devs want you to get swarmed in overwhelming numbersThe difficulty is tuned to Substantial mostly and RuthlessSince the playerbase are drunk on compfaggots and DSfaggots who want harder difficulty Saber shat out Lethal and Absolute to appease these faggots, even buffing Absolute twice resulting in combat that break 40k lore
>true solo absolute as assault>clear the guard camp>next zone>two zoans, a biovore and a carnifex spawn>inferno pistolyeah this game was not made to be played solo
>mfw watching the tact ai get 2shot by a neuro on todays "tact has less hp" daily because i didnt reload after getting him, assuming both that even saber wouldnt have that apply to ai and that the auspex would make up the difference
>accidentally went on Substantial instead of Average threat on a level 5 sniper>somehow made it through and never died with the gene-seedphew
Why do most of the chaos enemies just flat out ignore parries and dodges. Who the fuck qa'd this shit.
>>543305112Replay that one campaign level on Avarax.
>>543318317I've never played on anything lower than ruthless after getting a gold weapon
>>543320062I still only have green weapons
>>543320395post code
>>543321145Oh I just do pub lobbies to grind out mastery. I'm still kinda new and just got all my classes to level 5.
>>543321294we can do ruthless
>>543321498PMVURdo you wanna do public or private?
Can you change your prestige perks at some point or are they locked in forever?
I know it's really good, but the Plasma build on Tactical is so fucking boring. I wish the bolter guns didn't have such retarded bullet spread.
>>543322705you have to max out and then it costs 750 req to reset
>be vanguard>extremis pops up>grapple to stagger it>end up executinggod i wish i wasnt such a whore
>>543325873it's okay, nobody in pubs actually knows how to play with unmatched zeal
>>543321498Thanks for the carries battle-brother, shame I couldn't play more.
Why is this general still full of gamerdads that genuinely think Ruthless is a moderately challenging difficulty and not a snoozefestThe average age in here feels like it must be like 40+, it smells like an old folks home in here
outrageous fun
>>54332854940k isn't necessarily a hobby inviting to youths.
>>543328549I don’t know, I haven’t been able to play anything below absolute since it came out. But there’s plenty of people here who will brag about how they enjoy ruthless because it’s “just the right amount of difficulty and fun” and use words like cozy or comfy then get mad at you if you suggest upping the difficulty. I wouldn’t worry about it though. It’s definitely not consistent with your average bleeding-nose “we only play on the hardest difficulty possible” attitudes you find in other generals, but as long as you ignore it it’s whatever.
>>543328549Hey, some people just can't click with the game mechanics or just refuse to learn. They can play what they want as long as they stop getting dev to make the game easier. I personally don't even do the normal daily and weekly anymore and just play something else when I got all of the hard ones done
launch ruthless was harder than absolute thoughbeit
i wish they kept lethal as it was when they first rolled it out. my helmet.....
>>543328549Whats this obsession with difficulty in this game? The game is casual as fuck play it however you want and let others do the same.
>>543329104i'm not sure if i agree with that, but probably because everyone was still learning the game and leveling up their weapons. weapons notoriously start out at a hilariously weak level in this game. also, melee was dogshit. barbed stranglers and tzaangor shields were stronger too, iirc.
>>543273032BASED (idk how the fuck youre still doing this shit)
>>543330063it was because 1 hit from minoris = -1 armor chunk and there was no free armor from perfect parrying them either
>>543301354I got it eventually but holy fuck I just kept getting so many shit team mates. So many level ones, so many feeders. Guys picking sniper or tactical.
>543270456>block power sword>inferno pistol>running in circles killing everything but the zoans until the ranged classes respawnyep, it's blood angel time
are u guys ready for the new weekly on vortex with extreme challenge, suboptimal state, and depleted armour?
>>543330405ThisThe biggest change to survivability was the free armor on Minoris after a parry.
>>543330063Also that every minoris melee did a full armor pip and you got no armor back from parrying them so you were constantly out of armor
>>543328651God what a shitty fucking boss>lets just give it literally ALL of the worst attacks from chaos majoris plus an extra laser snipe on top
this is going to be hard guys
>>543335914>66% less health>1 armorYeah this actually is going to be tough, even with the ranged damage boost. This is a "get grazed and die" mission.
>>543335914So you might get genuinely one shot by a venom cannon but the upside is that you get to shit damage down their throat with a bolt carbine
>>543335914this but vortex
>be assault, the flying class>your biggest counter is flying enemies>no you can’t fly up to them that’s not allowed
>>543335914yeah it took me 3 tries. if you get pounced by a lictor or a ravener it's guaranteed to empty your health bar entirely instantlyif you eat a volley of a devourer you die, half and you might as well be deadif you eat a venom cannon you dieif you spend more than a second in a thorn bush you're going to be 1 hit from death from anythingits great that suboptimal state also reduces the amount stimms heal by 66%
>>543335914>point blank>combat mastery*laughs in vanguard*
>>543337879>gets scrapedACK
>gun strike cannot be usedit's not hard but this is so fucking unfun.
>>543338131it actually breaks the flow of the game and also makes some shit take way longer to kill
if you do this weeks strat with bots its literally hard cheating because the bots are so fucking tanky holy shit