dark tidings (Darktide for people in the searchbar)

[split mantle]

bring whatever you want! we're just here to have fun

although we might take the chance to level up our own ogryn

[marsh gyro]

Darktide is number one foremost about fun and number two twomost about looking neat while having fun

[split mantle]

^ it's true

Friend code:
8850490328

[silent egret]

Ohh

I completly forgot I need to play Darktide again

[split mantle]

2 supercrate ammo boxes specifically and only for the ogryn means 8 rapid-fire ogrynheimers

[grave talon]

One day i'll win a damnation mission

[drowsy tusk]

If you grab the darktide role in #bot-stuff we do damnations pretty regularly

[mortal crystal]

Yeah, I'm more than willing to dust off my Plasma Gun and go ham for a mission

[split mantle]

same!!

[cyan depot]

Same

[wintry plaza]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zI8J5nnZU

[twin wasp]

same here :D

[drowsy tusk]

Plagma gub

[split mantle]

I'm up for whenever.

[marsh gyro]

<@&1042950387478560878> Who wants to get that plasteel at <t:1724720452:F> in about 25 minutes

[drowsy tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/darktide-ogryn-slide-crouch-drennt-gif-16208176206711016442

[split mantle]

we need something to eat rq but we could do some

Sir, I'm going to have to ask you become localised.

theLETTER3 (wegh) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1159883850562932826 message) https://tenor.com/view/darktide-ogryn-slide-crouch-drennt-gif-16208176206711016442 📎

In other news.. Yes. I'm up.

[drowsy tusk]

wha?

[marsh gyro]

Got a case of the unlocalized "nil"

[drowsy tusk]

still dont understand

[split mantle]

I'm joking about the thing that comes up when Drennt comes close to the viewer, where it's complaining about an unlocalised value.

[drowsy tusk]

oh im have the dumb

i thought the gif wadnt dsiplay or something?

also hi briar been a hot minute hows it going

[drowsy vine]

good!!! im chillin

[split mantle]

ny'all go ahead and play one without us, we still need to eat

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> wowwe zowwie morning tide(other time zones are lies made up by the global elite to sell more watches)

[marsh gyro]

That's a lotta damage

[mortal crystal]

Ogryn players share one brain cell

and they wouldn't have it any other way

[drowsy tusk]

the gathering of cletus bingus and ghengis

oil on canvas

[mortal crystal]

https://youtu.be/69zI8J5nnZU?si=It_6Dcbr-eisoxCX

TRAIN

TRAIN FIGHT

[twin wasp]

damn september starting to look like warhammer month HELL YEAH

[wintry plaza]

reeepost

[mortal crystal]

It wasn't released yesterday. I posted it again to remind people it came out and to anchor the convo

Please don't just ping me with "repost" when there's a reason I posted it.

[split mantle]

Wait, itemisation is out?

[marsh gyro]

Negative - just the hype trailer. Update is scheduled for September 26, 2024

[split mantle]

Awh.

[wintry plaza]

Mb

[silent egret]

YEAH

[worldly talon]

<Squat Voice> WE HAVE TRAAAAAAAINS

[split mantle]

<@&1042950387478560878> :3c

:3c

[drowsy tusk]

Byeah

[split mantle]

mourningstar is being great

[lapis jetty]

I was planning to get back into the game after the new itemization update but I havn't played since the twins were the main event. Anything changes I should know about?

[marsh gyro]

They added 1 new mission (Clandestum Gloriana) and did a couple of timed events for a bunch of resources and added 3 new weapons (non-Ogryns got shock mauls and double-barrel shotguns and Ogryns got 2H pickaxes); overall class balance is still the same great plays

New update next month on September 26th is adding a new mission and not new guns but that's because all the old guns might as well be new because you can level up the guns you like to max stats for their roll and pick blessings you like

Twins have been available since Dec 2023 so if you hadn't played since April 2024 there's also the Penances update where you can get lots of free cosmetics for doing the penances on the characters and they added a bunch of cross class penances along with Dreg Tox Bombers and being able to change all your character's voices and looks

[marsh gyro]

Dev blog part 2 on the itemization is out, it's a lengthy one that goes through a bunch of FAQs:
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/itemization-rework-q-a-part-2-dev-blog/98282

[heavy geyser]

That looks really thoughtfully designed

Particularly the point about "current players mostly have all lv3 and 4 blessings so we're not making you grind out 1s and 2s

[tough compass]

I mostly just go for tier 4s though 😢

we will be adding a filter so players can sort by the current Power rating.
Friggen finally lol

[mortal crystal]

https://i.redd.it/5kvv1rdwinld1.jpeg
artist: https://x.com/MaverickIllus

Cool little darktide art from reddit

[split mantle]

Vet & Psyker player. Can been on both ends of that.

[grave talon]

scryer Psyker with bolt pistol

[split mantle]

Also chasing down the Servo-Skull.
<<VARLETS!>>

[grave talon]

Hadron my belloved

[grave talon]

I want to use the sryer skill for the psyker with either the boltpistol or the double barrel shotgun

[marsh gyro]

I've run a bunch of Disrupt Destiny Scrier's Gaze Pysker with the double shotty and a dueling sword and I call that build Psyonik the Hedgehog

[grave talon]

bolt pistol on psyker is fun

[mortal crystal]

Bolt pistol is just solid tbh

[grave talon]

"I'm going to kill you with the power of the warp and this gun i found

[marsh gyro]

It turns out having 100% the per bolt punch of a bolter and 25% the swap time and 50% the reload time makes for a versatile platform

[drowsy tusk]

No auto tho

[marsh gyro]

Sometimes you just need 15 bolts really fast

[drowsy tusk]

Neeeeedddd

[split mantle]

<@&1042950387478560878> anyone up for some in, like 30 minutes?

[marsh gyro]

That's good timing turns out

[split mantle]

hell yea 😌

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> darktide, rejects?

[heavy geyser]

oh I just started

I been looking for a game

[split mantle]

I am no reject, but I shall attend! ..If permitted.

[drowsy tusk]

@twilit cradle

[split mantle]

we're making soups 😭

theLETTER3 (wegh) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1159883850562932826 message) <@&1042950387478560878> darktide, rejects?

we'll be on in a little bit if you're still around

[drowsy tusk]

yibee

fucked up

[split mantle]

😌

[cyan depot]

the machine god is gonna get your ass for that goddamn

[split mantle]

😔

but the barrel glow™️,,,,

[cyan depot]

its very cool

[split mantle]

the rule of cool has to allow for some apostacy

[drowsy tusk]

@rocky dagger

[heavy geyser]

ol' reliable

[drowsy tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/darktide-ogryn-slide-crouch-drennt-gif-16208176206711016442

<@&1042950387478560878>

[twilit cradle]

LANCERING 😭

[drowsy tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/ogryn-stk-scratch-itch-reach-hand-gif-3555786706744491648

[split mantle]

we need to show this woman a terrible time 😔

[crystal sluice]

who that

[split mantle]

bellwether! lancer pilot of ours

[crystal sluice]

they look epic

[split mantle]

she's so failure 😌

[crystal sluice]

suffer well, lancer

[split mantle]

[limpid zinc]

they should add conspicuous voicelines when someone double dips so i know who to get mad it when i get skipped

[drowsy tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/ogryn-stk-goedulf-spin-rotate-gif-5132349500874882306

<@&1042950387478560878>

[twilit cradle]

@drowsy tusk are you still around 🥺

[drowsy tusk]

Yeag

[twilit cradle]

ok hop on

[twilit cradle]

@drowsy tusk uploading

PHOTOS

OF OUR GUN

WE CAN"T TALK BC OUR INTERNET IS SHIT

AND WE CAN"T TALK AND UPLOAD

[drowsy tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/atf2-gif-19111110

[twilit cradle]

mean to me 😭

[split mantle]

Wait, how do you do that?

[mortal crystal]

There's a mod

[split mantle]

I dunno how to mod Darktide. .-.

..Found a tutorial.

[spiral badger]

lol just heard a new and funny convo
paraphrasing

<Zealot> Consider the magnificence of Guiliman's Codex Astartes!
<Cop Psyker> Indeed. It's a shame Gulilman returned to a galaxy that did not follow his precepts.
<Zealot> True. Everyone likes the unusual Chapters more.

doing a little self-commentary there GW

[dawn totem]

It's almost cannon in my head that Imperial citizens of all sorts have favorite Astartes chapters like baseball teams.

[grave talon]

i can't wait for the hotgun commander skin to get back in the rotation

[drowsy tusk]

this got potentiall

<@&1042950387478560878> \i am once again pinging to ask if videogame darktide??

[split mantle]

dark type video jame,,,

[drowsy tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/qiwimedia-house-tank-shoot-gif-2872119800321943051

oops wrong gif

not correcting tho

[split mantle]

Er, in new headmate mode but sure I can hop in.

[drowsy tusk]

30 hours to perfection

[marsh gyro]

Did Dad or Your-Dad bring rocks or frag bombs

[drowsy tusk]

hmmm??

2 hours 19

same on psyker

[heavy geyser]

I've created a monster.

[drowsy tusk]

That looks pretty aight

[grave talon]

and here i go ganblimg for a better shotgun again

[marsh gyro]

Did it work?

[grave talon]

no , i only get shotgun bellow 330, but iget everything else above 360

i have never seen somuch bullshit

in the lisdt of my gambling i try for a thunder hammer BOUM 377

then to go with the thuder hammer i try for a bolter BOUM 370

then us 50K to get 5 shotgun "Best i can do is 340"

[drowsy tusk]

Oh yea it’s taken me over 150k sometimes to get what I want that’s how Burt gatcha goes

[frank igloo]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1361210/view/4567301015217998130?l=english

[mortal crystal]

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/unlocked-and-loaded-weapon-blessing-and-class-changes-balancing-patch-notes-pt-1/98480

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/unlocked-and-loaded-weapon-blessing-and-class-changes-balancing-patch-notes-pt-2/98481

PATCH NOTES! COME GET YOUR PATCH NOTES HERE!

[brazen fossil]

Oh

Oh my

I'm feeling things

[mortal crystal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/294127738774880256/1281628439396221070/image.png?ex=66dc68ff&is=66db177f&hm=e8021e006505d6e7c42096b591e66626065ae2f004ad7f7abeaa1b32ba084d8e&

[brazen fossil]

Discord the fuck did you do ?!

[mortal crystal]

Shotgun Psyker is back!

[frank igloo]

[marsh gyro]

Psyker tree overhaul sounds wild especially with rending on warp attacks

[cyan depot]

Died 2010 born 2024 welcome back dark heresy unnatural aim shotgunner

[tough compass]

These are pretty funny:

They buffed Power Cycler? That's surprising

[cloud hazel]

HEAVY SWORD ON VETERAN

[split mantle]

[blissful sparrow]

pickaxe boofs yippee

[heavy geyser]

they're giving tier2-only blessings a tier 3 and 4

[split mantle]

I'm not actually familiar with what Cleave does, but new Lucius blessing! I love the Lucius. :3

[heavy geyser]

might be time to ride the flechette shotgun again

[frank igloo]

cleave determines how many bodies the shot can pass through before disappearing

[marsh gyro]

If you played Warframe it's kind of like punch through stat

[frank igloo]

its how the revolver for example can shoot through a crowd of poxwalkers to hit a gunner on the other side

[split mantle]

Oh it's punchthrough yeah yeah.

Can it go through shields?

[mortal crystal]

No

Only thing that can go through shields is Plasma Gun

because Plasma Gun

[cloud hazel]

pwasma

[finite nymph]

beautiful Plasma Gun, precious friend

[mortal crystal]

Plasma Gun does also have cleave. More specifically, it has a cleave value of 100. To put that into context, a charged power sword has a value of 12.

[finite nymph]

it really doesn't seem like something you should fire in space

but this is why they build city-sized ships

[tough compass]

To give players more control on the situation, we added a new overhead Heavy attack to the [Crucis Mk II Thunder Hammer], only chainable after the Special activation action for a short period of time.
Thank goodness

[grave talon]

finally a 370 shotgun

[marsh gyro]

Bolters and bolt pistols have a limited amount of materials punchthrough too and the bolt can go through 0.75m of wall so they're good for shooters on railings with thin walls

[cyan depot]

SAVED

I hate splattering a groaner when I’m trying to chunk a boss

[marsh gyro]

<@&1042950387478560878> Who wants to get that plasteel in ten minutes at <t:1725668139:F>

[drowsy tusk]

I’ll be around in like an hour

[split mantle]

Present! :3

[rocky dagger]

yes

[marsh gyro]

I'll hop on voice comms shortly, booting up

[quiet escarp]

Clonk seems unironically amazing

[tough compass]

That is too many snipers

[marsh gyro]

It's the Predator movie thing where eight million Predator lasers appear

[drowsy tusk]

@marsh gyro

[marsh gyro]

I like the helmet to approximate the haircut

[drowsy tusk]

sparky dressing ogryn fashion

very good

[heavy geyser]

Masozi dropping me off at the mission with a lone nude soldier.

[rocky dagger]

they didn't bring a change of clothes to the field trip

[dawn totem]

Maybe she's a repentant Sister of Battle?

[heavy geyser]

I stuck with the nude warrior and victory was assured.

[regal pendant]

Just like in Dark Souls, "some random naked fucker" always ends up being the strongest person in the room

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> what if darktide was a real game??!!?!?!?!?! (gone wild) (no survivors)

[marsh gyro]

New week, new plasteel - be there in five

[rocky dagger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/808829950840799292.gif?v=1

[thick rivet]

Amazing

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> i siummon thee darktide viodgeame peeople

[twilit cradle]

we'll be around for one soon-ish

do a game w/o us tho

we'll jsut be a bit

[cyan depot]

https://x.com/haultrukkz/status/1833414625687126505?s=46&t=RjdIzh2qFuWkjovzBmgCsQ

Boss Haultrukkz (@haultrukkz) on X

Twitter · Sep 10, 2024, 7:58 AM

[brazen fossil]

Man, I really want to fight a chaos marine

The ogryn needs competition!

[plain pendant]

Only if they're super weakened, bc otherwise they'll just turn you into paste instantly

[brazen fossil]

sign

[marsh gyro]

We've got reject plot armor, that's about as good as a Nurgle blessing

[brazen fossil]

No, they wouldn't neither by the game rules nor by the books

(the books are inconsistent as hell so it's a toss up)

But we have ogryns holding off terminators

Ogryns are technically stronger then marines, just slower and less durable

And as Clem said, we fight beasts of nurgle

If the rejects can take on a beast of nurgle they can take on a singular chaos marine

[plain pendant]

Ogryns would be p okay. Everyone else would get pasted tho

Also those are like, Death Guard we're probably talking about

Known for being highly resilient to pain or damage

It'd be rad as hell to beat one of em tho

[cyan depot]

We could beat a opposing forces plague marine but would last 1 paragraph from a POV character plague marine :p

[plain pendant]

The real answer lmao

[brazen fossil]

Exactly lmao

vaguely gesturing to the fucking lord of change you beat in SM2

[frank igloo]

if you're a protagonist then you can do whatever, realistically speaking

regular space marines have no business taking on a hive lord but you do fight one in SM2

after it gets fucked up and injured

[plain pendant]

Boltgun did it too, but to be fair, it is Boltgun

[frank igloo]

so something similar against a regular space marine would be fine

[marsh gyro]

I'd be down for a gimmick mission with 6 enemies in it that's just a Chaos Marine squad

[drowsy tusk]

karnak esque boss rush

[marsh gyro]

New week, new hotfix - nothing special besides new tooltips to fix the broke ones and clarify the wrong numbers:
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-47-1-4-13-patch-notes/98613

[brazen fossil]

Boltgun has greater unclean ones too

[plain pendant]

Whoever that Sternguard is, has some divine plot armor on his hands

[brazen fossil]

He will finish what captain Titus started!

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> its me, letter darktide ping, im herre to ping darktide

[split mantle]

dark type video jame

on in like,,,,,,,,,,a minute

[west mantle]

Do you think you'll still be playing in like 30-45 mins?

[drowsy tusk]

odds are good

[heavy geyser]

Hadron's kiosk is under renovation

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> its me, letter darktide ping, im herre to ping darktide

[split mantle]

:3c

:3c

gimme like a hot 10 minutes but we'll be there

[gentle flame]

These upcoming patch notes look fucking SICK

Fixed an issue where an additional stack of the Psyker “True Aim” talent was gained when inflicting stagger to an enemy during the cast of “Brain Rupture”.

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

[heavy geyser]

I have a near-perfect Eviscerator with 45 mobility, I'm very excited to finally have another dodge.

[drowsy tusk]

Just a lil post to see if there’s people for some tide when I get off work (8 hours from now)

[marsh gyro]

Friday night plasteel at <t:1726275611:F> can be a thing yeah

[split mantle]

hell yea

theLETTER3 (wegh) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1159883850562932826 message) Just a lil post to see if there’s people for some tide when I get off work (8 hours from now)

[marsh gyro]

Barktide at the moon

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> hello its me letter darktide ping im here to ping you darktide

[dawn totem]

Oh wow I'm actually around for a game.

[split mantle]

[marsh gyro]

<@&1042950387478560878> Who wants to do some plasteel gaming

[dawn totem]

Heck yeah!

[marsh gyro]

I'll hop in HORUS Hangout

[rocky dagger]

@left meteor

[rocky dagger]

7661864114

[marsh gyro]

@left meteor https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9b87a97a-743c-401c-af75-b728d6efb97e/inquisitorial-preacher-immolation-grenade-chorus-of-spiritual-fortitude-blazing-piety-auric-ready

[heavy geyser]

I initially read that as a 40k parody of a Twitter bio

[marsh gyro]

That's darktide in general haha

[heavy geyser]

A friend tipped me off to a really good crit fury chant build structure

If you budget three talents and branch into the Martyrdom traits as well you can take two health curios and have 4 wounds and also regen chorus whenever you take damage, and since you have ~300 health you have a lot of emergency chants per lifebar.

In addition to what all the crits generate.

[marsh gyro]

Yeah 4 wound Zealot is really neat and tanky since if a stray thing downs you you still have like 250 health

[heavy geyser]

if you take the attack speed trait its free real estate

as that build has

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> hello its me letter darktide ping im here to ping you darktide, it is the beginning of the letter weekend and i wish to celebrate

[split mantle]

dark tidings

we just started a wt match but we'll be on soon

actually hold on

[dawn totem]

Darkening them tides, eh?

[twin wasp]

Ehhh sure why not

Oh damn ye be full

[drowsy tusk]

have spave nbow

[marsh gyro]

Did y'all win?

[split mantle]

once

[drowsy tusk]

id be downn for more in a bit

[split mantle]

just got, like, all the rest of the achievements for vet

[marsh gyro]

Was every shot counted with ye olde revolver?

[split mantle]

no, we took your advice and used the double barrel

[marsh gyro]

Make every shot(gun) count

[dawn wolf]

Alright now to lurk in here while the game downloads over the next few days and see whats changed

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878> hello its me letter darktide ping im here to ping you darktide, it is the middle of the letter weekend and i wish to celebrate and cause funny ragdolls

[heavy geyser]

`Hi, hello! Thanks for the tag.

We'll be having an Itemization Overview dev blog coming out this week should everything go as planned. I'll tell ya now though, the general advice will be to keep your guns so they can be sacrificed. When it comes to the amount of blessings, if you have all of T4 and about 1/3 of T3, you will already be maxed out at mastery for that weapon family.`

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/1fhoumi/comment/lncu0pw/

Save your little gifts

[drowsy tusk]

funny short vet

its him

<@&1042950387478560878> v<@&1042950387478560878> hello its me letter darktide ping im here to ping you darktide, it is the middle of the letter weekend and i wish to celebrate and cause funny ragdolls

[marsh gyro]

Oh dang just wrapped up a session should be around in an hour though

[split mantle]

I'll swing about.

[split mantle]

letterrrrrrrrrrrr @drowsy tusk

we just woke up

[brazen fossil]

The woke? in my Warhammer 40k ?

[drowsy tusk]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssss can i helb you?

[split mantle]

are you still on

we're gonna hop on

[drowsy tusk]

https://youtu.be/Wk9aCypbHho?si=P_CeVRz97JTC4knG

Normal darktide shotgun

[brazen fossil]

This hurts

[mortal crystal]

The Darktide shotgun is way better than this

if you want to make a dig at a shotgun, go after the Starfield shotgun

The pump overlaps the ejection port 🙂

[cloud hazel]

scout reload animation has to be up there with reaper for peak "what the actual fuck is this accomplishing"

[finite nymph]

At least Reaper is argueably 'magic' or whatever's going on with his spooky mechanics

Scout just fills his shotgun with pure South Boston antagonism

[spiral badger]

the only flaw in the darktide shotgun's reload and design cycle is that loading the special shells makes absolutely no sense

but y'know, gameplay over accuracy in that sense

(the duckbill shot is also impossible but again, who cares)

[heavy geyser]

Are they not feeding a round into the tube and then cycling it into the chamber?

[spiral badger]

yes but you can then continue to reload the gun

for example

[heavy geyser]

If the hot shot is in the chamber you can keep stuffing the tube

with regular shot

iirc the animation puts the special shell at the front of the line, then puts it up into the chamber and takes it back out of the queue

[foggy latch]

i think theyre loading it directly into the chamber then filling the tube

[heavy geyser]

You're always loading it into the most-recent position of the magazine tube and then cycling it back out of the tube

I'm gonna go look now

[foggy latch]

its a good enough approximation

[heavy geyser]

The real mystery reload is where the extra brass in an interrupted revolver reload keeps coming from

But man, I wouldn't want to be the animator rigging those special conditions

[spiral badger]

they can't be loading it into the chamber because they immediately pump the gun at the end of any reload, ejecting the chambered round, that's the whole problem

so if you load a special shell, then reload normally, you pump the special shell into the chamber, then reload, then pump again, in reality ejecting the special shell from the chamber

[foggy latch]

then theyre loading it into the #1 slot in the tube and pumping to cycle it into the chamber

ah i see what youre talkin about

i mean at least the animation works if you arent reloading

thats good enough for game anims

[spiral badger]

yeah it's fine

[finite nymph]

one day another game shall hit the heights of Darktide Revolver

but until then I shall cling to it

[spiral badger]

the duckbill shot is a bigger break from reality and one where I would have honestly preferred it to be real one as a distinguishing factor

in a word, let me stick on a wacky choke

and swap modes

rather than shell loading

[cloud hazel]

having a choke that explodes after one shot is fired onto it would be so in character

[heavy geyser]

It looks like the special shell correctly clears a round from the chamber, and then when you reload after it it plays The Gun Sounds but doesn't eject the special shell

Probably from it representing loading an empty gun

[spiral badger]

Yeah basically the final cock should be ejecting the shell. Well, I'll just blame space future magic shotgun

[heavy geyser]

even if you are jamming a second shell in the chamber you can still say the special shell is in the front

[spiral badger]

Maybe there's a thumb switch or something

Darktide also one of the few games to let you properly slug load a shotgun

[heavy geyser]

The DT shotguns are extremely satisfying

[cloud hazel]

kachow

[heavy geyser]

I don't think there's an unsatisfying gun in this whole game

[drowsy vine]

The choke is like a frag grenade, explodes into shrapnel

[finite nymph]

Plasma used to be a little neutered but ever since the piercing buff it's beauty

[heavy geyser]

There's a really intricate wad in the lawbringer special shell

[spiral badger]

Fatshark is extremely good at two things

[heavy geyser]

it spreads out and then ejects the pellets in a perfect line

[spiral badger]

Making you feel viscerally good about swinging/firing your weapon

And writing incidental dialogue

[cloud hazel]

crazy how they fit a whole playthrough of sunlust in there

[heavy geyser]

My experience so far with the game having come on board with the talent update, they also seem really good at thoughtfully rebuilding core game features they themselves designed poorly the first go around.

[drowsy vine]

what's the god machine analogue

[cloud hazel]

the horizontal line of perks era was bad.

[spiral badger]

Oh yeah, they don't give up on games

If something goes over poorly they'll fix it

It might take a while

[heavy geyser]

"You could have designed it this way the first time but I'm glad you did right by what you ended up making for some reason"

[spiral badger]

But they will change it

It's baffling sometimes how they got themselves into a situation but they basically never just bail

[heavy geyser]

I'm really excited for this weapon upgrade, I've got like 5 or 6 special treats waiting for my favorite loadout

[drowsy vine]

What baffles me about Darktide is that it feels like they abandoned so much of the good systems they built from the ground up in VT2, I don't know if it was a case of different teams not communicating correctly, or last minute redesigns forcing them to put in bad systems they know they'll fix later, but it's so odd

[spiral badger]

Vt2 launch had a ton of baffling decisions not learned from vt1

It happens every time

[drowsy vine]

I wanna see behind the scenes and know the why so badly

[cyan depot]

https://youtu.be/Po4adxJxqZk
It kinda feels like this keeps happening with some of the system design choices

[cloud hazel]

destiny had a similar thing occuring because two separate teams would alternate when delivering content

so the institution had something like 6 months of amnesia where they'd make a change everyone loved, then immediately revert it

[cloud hazel]

FLECHETTE IV \o/

[drowsy vine]

Why???

[cloud hazel]

live service babey

[heavy geyser]

such power at our fingertips

[drowsy vine]

Fucking headass move

[marsh gyro]

It's the same way Activision was rotating CoD releases across 3 studios to hit annual dates and give each studio a 3 year cycle

[heavy geyser]

The big thing I'm getting is my near-perfect eviscerator is gonna get all 80s and then the rest of the points will go into Mobility, putting it above 50 and getting me an additional dodge (incredible)

[worldly talon]

Shotguns need a buff if anything

But they are very satisfying

[heavy geyser]

I haven't been able to roll a better eviscerator so I've just been down a dodge forever

[worldly talon]

You know what's related and also extremely satisfying?

Turning a crowd of mobs into literal red mist with the Kickback

[heavy geyser]

oh and they're mega buffing the Bolt Pistol, which I'd recently started really enjoying

[worldly talon]

I love the Kickback. So much.

[heavy geyser]

ignoring limbs on well-placed shots, larger hit detection radius, shorter delay time between special attack and firing AND it's getting a damage boost against Infested enemies, meaning it won't be weirdly bad at shooting poxhounds anymore

a little bit of cleave too to actually hit big targets through chaff

[cloud hazel]

holy smokes

[heavy geyser]

It's gonna be a feast for bolt pistoleros

big brother bolter getting its weapon draw roughly halved is gonna be nice too

[cloud hazel]

hooooly shit

I'm pogging

that was probably the biggest issue I had with bolter vet and now it's totally gone

[heavy geyser]

Have you seen the full patch preview yet?

Hammers and bolters in particular are getting some needed love

[marsh gyro]

Vet's even getting a 25% swap time talent in place of the sprint efficiency talent

[cloud hazel]

the panic attack.....

[heavy geyser]

It's here if you'd like it https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/1fagbh2/unlocked_and_loaded_weapon_blessing_and_class/

Not being able to damage dogs was such a weird issue and then these patch notes dropped and I was like, ooooooooooooooh.

Bolter vets should be a lot of fun to see this patch

[cloud hazel]

boomboomboomboomboomboom

[drowsy vine]

Me when I Bring It Down + Executioner's Stance

[spiral badger]

the dog thing is so funny

there's a logical chain that lead to it but it's a silly chain

1. dogs are uniquely vulnerable to explosive damage - that's why poxbusters, barrels, and stuff like the rumbler or grenade gauntlet blows thems up

2. the bolter does a % of its attack as explosive damage around the impact zone

3. the bolter therefore was fragging dogs by hitting vaguely near them

4. solution: nerf specifically bolter damage against dogs.

[heavy geyser]

Infested meant it was just like, dogs and 1/2 of hordes

I don't think there's other Infested enemies.

[spiral badger]

basiccally yeah

also why +infested damage is the weakest of the +damages

[heavy geyser]

Being better against Infested will have a knock-on effect of Lethal Proximity being better to fire into hordes now too

Since the stinky half won't resist the blast damage as much

[spiral badger]

+flak, unarmored, maniac: strong because the jerks with those are common and you want them dead

+carapace, unyielding: less common but you want them Really Dead

+infested is really the weak one out

[heavy geyser]

The +20% vs Infested & Unyielding Zealot talent is really good for covering both the smallest and the largest enemies

I put +unarmored with the +specialists my bolt pistol rolled and it can one-shot dreg gunners with a crit headshot

[spiral badger]

+specialists isn't helping there

gunners are +elite

[heavy geyser]

it was one or the other

the one that's good

is what it is

actually let me go look at it again

[spiral badger]

+elite is the good one because most specialists are squishy

[heavy geyser]

Well I'll be, I guess it is one-shotting Elites all on its own

This is gonna benefit a lot from upgrades being unlocked and being able to level it to 380, its my workhorse

well I guess +specialists is handy for one-shotting disablers too

[spiral badger]

yeah, it's just rarer for it to matter because most of them already die in one hit

[marsh gyro]

Most of the special enemies taking triple damage from melee is a neat touch of mechanics meets narrative because their effective HP vs melee is pretty similar to a scab mook, it's just they're more likely to ignore gunshots

[heavy geyser]

the ones that give me the hardest time are flamers, since even when I click to highlight where they are on the other side of the fire their stagger makes getting a second shot in kind of a pain

Conversely, I love to look down Sniper sightlines with my own ADS up

[foggy latch]

i wish i wasnt stupid i know i should jsut save my money for the update

but i still spend all my money at the brunt casino hoping to get good rolls

[heavy geyser]

in his infinite wisdom, the emperor has implored me to root and toot

[drowsy tusk]

Ye fukin haw

I’d swap unarmored for crit chance and then you’ll really be cooking with gas

[mortal crystal]

also swap Run n Gun for Hand Cannon

For that armor cracking goodness

[drowsy tusk]

Ngl run n gun seems kinda sick it give it a try

Esp on agrippna

[brazen fossil]

Update only one week away

Can you believe it folks

Time to no life ogryn again

Gotta MasterCraft that shield

[marsh gyro]

New Helbore hotshot blessing (20-50% more cleave on weak spot hit) is gonna be pretty wild

[brazen fossil]

Oh yeah

[heavy geyser]

I have a Zarona that does that, this one is kinda nice for the hammer fanning

[marsh gyro]

The weapon spread reduction is real neat, I have a Kickback with Run n Gun

[heavy geyser]

Once the update next week gives it some blowthrough it might be high noon on Tertium

Yeah I found that aspect made actually rapid firing it more reliable

This was the configuration the Emperor granted me and its quite nice

[wintry plaza]

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/introducing-rolling-steel-dev-blog/98829

[dawn wolf]

Oh ooft, did i decide to reinstall right before a big update?

[heavy geyser]

new Jesper Kyd tracks

[cloud hazel]

let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[soft summit]

when does the update drop again?

26th?

[marsh gyro]

Yeah next Thursday

[limpid zinc]

sparing you all the part where he says what he obviously says

[heavy geyser]

I found a floor man

[tough compass]

A timer for a mission? Oh no

[heavy geyser]

we found more floor men

everyone stops to watch the floor men

[foggy latch]

Can I get the Dark Tide role?

[foggy latch]

Thanks God

[worldly talon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGPVTYzBGBI

[drowsy tusk]

v<@&1042950387478560878> hello its me letter darktide ping im here to ping you darktide, it is the middle of the letter weekend and i wish to celebrate and cause funny ragdolls also i wish to play darktide at this time did i mention darktide??!!

[foggy latch]

i can darktide

[split mantle]

I'm up!

[dry tangle]

I have not dark tided much in a long time but after work might wanna see if someone can help me relearn it

I'll update when I'm home

[split mantle]

darked hide video ghame

[heavy geyser]

Wonder if the reinforcements will be like Swagger and show up in missions.

[mortal crystal]

They have the tech for NPCs to fight each other

It's the reason Sienna took so long to get her final class

[brittle gazelle]

hmmm
we have had darktide for quite some time but we haven't had the chance to really see what it's capable of

and so we would like to start participating here

in other words: see you around!

[heavy geyser]

you're just in time: they're about to restructure how itemization works

no double-blind gacha grinding for you

[brittle gazelle]

:0

[foggy latch]

the 26th

[heavy geyser]

Just the joy of killing lots of dudes with the best version of your favorite weapon.

[marsh gyro]

Good news too is any time playing now isn't wasted, all your favorite guns carry over and can only get better after the 26th

[heavy geyser]

That's a great point too, when you start out the weapons you get are strictly weaker than later weapons, but you'll be able to upgrade them as you go.

[marsh gyro]

I'm very excited for combat shotgun psyker after seeing what double barrel shotgun Psyker can do

[heavy geyser]

Which mark are you looking at?

[marsh gyro]

Agripinaa Mk7 slug shotty going to be absolutely wild with Disrupt Destiny stacks is my guess

[heavy geyser]

Nice, that gun rules when you keep a slug in the chamber

If I understand right you'll be able to freely switch marks within a family too, so not only can you level up a starter gun, but you can change its mark or change the mark on a good-stats-bad-mark to one you like.

[drowsy tusk]

v<@&1042950387478560878> hello its me letter darktide ping im here to ping you darktide, it is the middle of the letter weekend and i wish to celebrate and cause funny ragdolls also i wish to play darktide at this time did i mention darktide??!! anyway in videogame darktide we plahy darktide

[dull parrot]

My experience with this game pisses me off people don’t pick you up despite having clear openings I definitely feel it’s an internal (skill issue) level panic but man bad matches

Start match enter room get whipped…how lol 😂

[spiral badger]

yeah a common team coordination failure is someone goes down and everyone wanders off

it's so annoying to fight my way to them and realize the rest of the team went somewhere else

there's literally nothing more important

unless you're off clearing bombers/snipers that otherwise can't be reached and are covering the downed person

[dull parrot]

Yeah it’s odd because helldivers and space marine 2 I’ve had completely different experiences where players will go Sherk 2 “I need a hero” to save you it’s got to be a left 4 dead curse or something

[heavy geyser]

If it's lower ranks they might not know they can hold Block to protect from attacks as they pick you up.

[spiral badger]

you don't even need to hold block

[heavy geyser]

At higher ranks those guys are just assholes.

[spiral badger]

you automatically block while picking up

it's default

[dull parrot]

Nah this is mid tier difficulties it’s just strange to get to first combat encounters and than die 4 matches in a row

[marsh gyro]

Turns out in a blog post today they mentioned there's a party finder QOL feature coming with the new update that should make it easier to find like minded chill players and let the power levelers queue with each other:
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/the-party-finder-qol-feature-dev-blog/98840

[dull parrot]

Blessed

[mortal crystal]

Oh ok yeah in mid tier difficulty that's just bad players

[spiral badger]

pickup mechanics are as follows: you automatically block while picking up but drop them again if your toughness is broken by ranged fire or your stamina runs out, unless you're an ogryn or a zealot with the talent that ignores being hit

[heavy geyser]

Oh, that's a different phenomenon. It might sound weird, but: try picking higher difficulties and playing close to someone trustworthy. At mid difficulties you get a mix of players who don't have good gear yet who are still learning, and players who think they're better than they are, so you have a mix of uncooperative teammates. At higher difficulties your teammates generally know what they're doing, although you will still get players who still think they're the protagonist of the novel, it's generally a better pool despite it being a more challenging encounter.

[dull parrot]

That’s interesting and probably the problem lol 😂

[spiral badger]

secretly psyker is OP for picking up though

[heavy geyser]

rank 3 and 4 is like the difficulty spike

[spiral badger]

with the stamina->peril talent

[mortal crystal]

Something note is on higher difficulties there are more enemies that will just prevent pickups

[heavy geyser]

I like to run with +revive perks on my curios so I can sneak fast pickups on the field

But yeah, one solution to bad teammates is to go up in difficulty and play careful until you acclimate to the new intensity level.

Damnation should have plenty of people who mostly think about their teammates.

[mortal crystal]

I have let more than one person die because there's a very large chance I would just go down sticking the revive

And two down is substantially worse than one down

[marsh gyro]

Threat 4 is 50% more dudes than threat 3 and those dudes are 50% more nurgly so it's a big jump; threat 5 is another 50% more dudes and nurgliness and only 33% more than threat 4 by comparison

[spiral badger]

my complaint on damnation is a lot of people still don't understand that if someone's down that has to become top priority unless they're truly in a unfixable situation

the power loss from losing someone is murderous

[mortal crystal]

I mean, sometimes you got 2 trappers, 3 mutants, a dog and a sniper

[spiral badger]

that doesn't mean drop everything and try to revive them

that means "clear in their direction"

and group up to cover the rez

[mortal crystal]

Fair enough

Yeah, I've definitely done some power sword abuse trying to get people up

[spiral badger]

people still get way too caught up doing their own thing

[heavy geyser]

I'm always popping chant on a down

or swinging my sword to clear the area

chant stagger > pickup is also a lifesaver

[spiral badger]

drop your grenades, pop your cooldowns, clear the zone

[marsh gyro]

Yeah sometimes I'll see the cycle of "oh hey someone's way off in the distance, hope they can get back to the group - oops, that's a red exclamation mark, better pick them up - oops, the other two didn't come with, now they have red exclamation marks - ah, that's a wipe"

[heavy geyser]

its why I take +revive curio perks, its really important to get it done asap and if you can sneak one into a sliver of a moment that's all the better

[spiral badger]

you really cannot afford the loss

[heavy geyser]

sometimes the protagonist will just be too overextended though

its easier to pick them up at the next revive point

[dawn wolf]

i feel this immensely

i play a support veteran, voice of the emperor and all that, and seeing folk bolt off (and usually out of my radius) is pain

[spiral badger]

whereas the moment I hear that distinctive noise that means someone's in trouble I'm immediately clearing an area and looking for the problem

[dawn wolf]

I should play some more

[spiral badger]

tthe other tip is if you're in a climax event where people respawn in the arena, if you lose someone cycle over to the respawn point and hold there

[dawn wolf]

my beloved

[plain pendant]

did they fix the gets hot text finally?

[marsh gyro]

New plasma gun blessings are gonna be wild

[marsh gyro]

Yeah last hotfix fixed a lot of the broke tooltips

[plain pendant]

that's finally good to hear lol

[mortal crystal]

don't worry

a bunch of new ones will break with the big patch

[dawn wolf]

i feel like any time i see an ogryn in a mission i just accidentally bond with them

caught an ogryn in the nic of time with a healing syringe before he went down

and it was just battle buddies after that

you'll be interesting to try

[heavy geyser]

now that's a handsome gun

[dawn wolf]

In a weird situation i will make one complaint

why the fuck do i have an easier time aiming my plasma gun than this

[marsh gyro]

Because the reticle on the plasma is a lie and it always goes exactly in the center compared to everything else which goes all over the reticle area

[heavy geyser]

The bolters are unwieldy and according to their patch preview notes its because of multiple intersecting spaghetti code

[drowsy tusk]

dont really feel like pinging again today but since chat is active rn anyone want to paly?

[heavy geyser]

gun big

aim carefully

get buffed on Thursday

[marsh gyro]

I'll be around in 30 minutes

[dawn wolf]

i-
yiknow what thats probably exactly it

[drowsy tusk]

Also I think it’s more drawing a narrow tube than a line

Like it hits wider

[foggy latch]

what if the reason we are being given bolters is because of the glut of surplus bolters now that primaris are rolling out

[drowsy tusk]

their different bolters

theyre

[foggy latch]

retrofitted

[spiral badger]

so thhe other reason the plasma is super accurate is that it has no ADS

why does this make it super accurate? only ADS is affected by suppression

so it has no ADS and no significant recoil, so it just puts every shot down the center of the crosshairs

[foggy latch]

also the ironsights on most of the guns with ADS are actual garbage

like trying to sight down a brick

and recoil directly into your eyesocket

[dawn wolf]

man i probably should look for a different melee but my shovel is far too trusty

[drowsy tusk]

shoovel all need

[foggy latch]

shovel is the trustiest

my precious entrenching tool

[dawn wolf]

shovel is fine

getting closer to that good roll i want

[mortal crystal]

ooof that damage roll

[dawn wolf]

Yeah thats why im saying closer

not exact

OH IT GOT WORSE ACTUALLY.

[drowsy tusk]

ol reliable

[dawn wolf]

lovely

[drowsy tusk]

easily one of my longest standing weapons

[dawn wolf]

ive started working out an internal hierarchy of who gets which drugs
Zealots get combat stims
Psykers get speed stims
vets (mainly me) get concentration stims (faster ability cooldown)
and med stims go to whoever

Oh yeah i forgot my other melee i sometimes use

[heavy geyser]

that's a mean lookin' ogryn

[cyan depot]

wow huge asshole vibes I love it

[heavy geyser]

I've uncovered even more floormen

In total I've found six or so men beneath the floors.

[brazen fossil]

Slight mistake, all drug go to ogryn

[quiet escarp]

Bully ogryn fashion ready for the update

[drowsy tusk]

This is a good ogryn👍 you receive “loudest ogryn enthusiast theLETTER3(wegh)” ghengis seal of approval

[drowsy tusk]

<@&1042950387478560878>

i found chaos in the morining star

[marsh gyro]

Apparently if two people simultaneously give a scripture to someone with no book the scriptures merge and one book now counts as two for the scripture tracker

[signal current]

https://x.com/rrh_art/status/1837897313693339770?s=46&t=oWW_NnXMz5xZU9SUUTq01g

◢ Red™ -Commisions Open- ◣ (@RRH_Art) on X

Inspired by all the artwork for the new Darktide content coming out, Delgoth, alone with her voices.

Twitter · Sep 22, 2024, 4:50 PM

We may redownload darktide and join y’all again

[dull parrot]

It a good time to play again considering the big update next week

A new train 🚂 mission

[signal current]

ooh update?

[mortal crystal]

In 4 days

We will get a complete crafting overhaul

and a TRAIN HEIST LETS GOOOOO

[marsh gyro]

Tweaked my Ogryn shield build a bit to use grenade gauntlet over rumbler and stagger recharge taunt over the charge and dang it is fun to see a bunch of bulwarks and ragers charging an opened elevator door and tell them they all gotta sit down

[quiet escarp]

Whats the set up on your grenade gauntlet? I've never been able to peel myself away from the rumbler in favor of it

Something about clonking gunners and specials from across the map is just too satisfying

[marsh gyro]

Yeah the funny thing is the rumbler is much better sustained DPS, the gauntlet's more for bursting a crusher or reaper - I run pinpointing target and shattering impact and after the patch the shattering impact will probably get traded for the gauntlet melee momentum thing for more power on chained melee hits

Clonk and Shrapnel zone on the Rumbler are gonna be a power combo I think
E: for those who think I'm making up words to sound more Ogryn, they're from the preview patch notes and are very pent-a-tonic
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/unlocked-and-loaded-weapon-blessing-and-class-changes-balancing-patch-notes-pt-2/98481

[heavy geyser]

I'm gonna put Puncture on my bolt pistol for big AoE bleed application

[split mantle]

<@&1042950387478560878> let's kill people. together

[marsh gyro]

4 the grimperor

[drowsy tusk]

Uh uh like 3 hours i escape work

[heavy geyser]

What's up, dude? You look huge.

[brittle gazelle]

awww.. dorktibe gone :(

[marsh gyro]

It'll be back in a bit after American dinner time

[brittle gazelle]

:D

[heavy geyser]

you ever look at a dude and know exactly which voice they picked?

[soft summit]

People who use that hair on a Psyker are always Seers

[drowsy tusk]

Soup can spotted

[heavy geyser]

That voice, but with the down-pitched voice filter.

one eye, no jaw, facial burns; simpletons, all

[regal pendant]

🫵

[drowsy tusk]

🫵 =\ /
\ / 🫱
/ \

shit he decapidated

[dawn totem]

Yes, in fact I did rename my Ogryn after the bad guy from Space Jam.

[heavy geyser]

You can rename characters?

[drowsy tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/darktide-mutant-warhammer-40k-darktide-mutant-gif-1118053842768353546

<@&1042950387478560878>

[plain pendant]

i can hear the screaming from here

[white portal]

THROW ANOTHER ROCK

[drowsy tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-throwing-brick-brick-cat-gif-9142560192559212520

[drowsy tusk]

eyes hurty

[drowsy vine]

ow

[drowsy tusk]

Darkness removed from tide

[dawn totem]

Playing on Malice is hard but fun with an okay group. Playing on High Intensity Malice with an okay group really sap your patience with people.

[heavy geyser]

Damnation is where the better teammates are.

[cloud hazel]

the bizarro competency curve of darktide is one of the weirdest things about the game

having to solo 95% of haz 3 vs roflstomping a hi-intensity shock gauntlet haz 5 is certainly an experience

[drowsy tusk]

With randos 4 quickplay is hardest lol

[dawn totem]

Then I must be playing on hard most all the time because quickplay is my go to

[foggy latch]

me when Letter queues us up for another Damnation

[drowsy tusk]

Keep banging head on the wall, it will break soon

[heavy geyser]

Better teammates will outweigh more guys

Soon you too will be the better teammate

And then you can seek even more guys.

[dawn totem]

I feel good enough to regularly Quickplay for Malice.

[foggy latch]

i just dont like having to try hard

well

thats not completely accurate

i do like damnation, but not as much as heresy

heresy feels comfy to me

its breakpoints and ttk feels goodlier to me

[marsh gyro]

Malice is a good time with folks because stuff gets blasted quick and the density is a little lower so if folks get separated they can actually hold their own

High Intensity is a very specific modifier in that it rules and also there's no escaping blasting so if you're in the mindset it's good for like a match before getting tired and if not it's taxing

[dawn totem]

Good way of putting it.

[marsh gyro]

New patch is out early and the most important discovery so far is they added physics to some objects on the Mourningstar (moderately loud music in the Reddit video)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/1fojxn2/major_discovery_made_in_the_mourningstar/

[dawn totem]

Currently downloading. Won't really play until after work.

[marsh gyro]

For the actual patch notes not only do they come in 4 parts they come with a curveball that half of the guns have been renamed on either their Marks or their family names
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/unlocked-and-loaded-patch-notes-pt-1-out-now/98946

[marsh gyro]

This works out pretty good because half the new features are disabled for the moment while they do some maintenance and roll it out to all servers

[tough compass]

I feel like I would be highly likely to get myself killed with Warp Unbound

[mortal crystal]

Are their changes compared to the first release of the notes?

Oh hell yes

[brazen fossil]

Oh heeeell yeeeaaaah

[foggy latch]

pingors

yoo

my old faithful

[plush basalt]

Nice

That's a damn fine gun, especially once you maxed the stats.

Hell, at that point even the mobility will be solidly "ok".

[foggy latch]

@drowsy tusk where go

[drowsy tusk]

Hopped off for a bit back shortly

[marsh gyro]

For some reason AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling got turned on for everyone in the patch so if you don't use that (like you use NVidia DLSS) go and turn that off. My V-Sync got turned off too so might be worth thumbing through all the graphics options to see what sticks and what don't

[foggy latch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28--5aEV1Z0

[split mantle]

So.. Heavy Evi, obviously I want Bloodletter, but what else?

[marsh gyro]

Any of the "Hit 3 people to get a big buff" blessings (Rampage, Momentum) are good, the new Opportunist is good, if you're doing crit builds then Perfect Strike is neat

[cyan depot]

Bwaaaaah

That’s so confusing haha

The old names were plenty confusing too tbf

[marsh gyro]

And the funny thing too is if you sort the guns with names A through Z it doesn't sort them by weapon family name but rather the subtype name so it puts all the Agripinaas at the top and Zaronas at the bottom so it's useless unless you know all the new names

[soft summit]

New Mission is fun

[heavy geyser]

What are you looking to use it for?

on a crit build shred + savage sweep is the killer kombo

[drowsy tusk]

wrath+bloodshed

[heavy geyser]

this will generally make it really good in horde clear

[mortal crystal]

New Mission on Damnation is tight

Bring horde clear in spades

Hell, not just horde clear

Bring you best everything and don't stop pushing ever

[marsh gyro]

The eviscerators are a little weird in that they have turbo cleave except they can only damage 4 dudes per swing (everyone else is staggered) so boosting cleave primarily lets you hit more ragers or scab melee guys in one swing which is plenty valuable

[foggy latch]

me like this update

[brazen fossil]

Can't wait to upgrade my shield to perfection

Can't wait to ogryn all over this update

Oh btw

What about curios ?

Or whatever are they called

[mortal crystal]

You can change any substat now

[brazen fossil]

[drowsy tusk]

vet and oggy you will have to redo your skill tree

[foggy latch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkUVToIfrKg

[marsh gyro]

Psykers are getting a fresh start too

[split mantle]

For me, crits are like.. Something I always considered inconsistent? I prefer consistant damage.

rally ↩️

[Reply to:](#1159883850562932826 message) What are you looking to use it for?

[mortal crystal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/294127738774880256/1288574718227513384/image.png?ex=66f5ae39&is=66f45cb9&hm=20c8fc542b6fee65073365b933b7785ad417f1b626b90a912d5366894f774afd&

Chainsword done!

Be warned that maxing a weapon is a lot of plasteel if you bought it from Brunt

[blissful sparrow]

but thankfully it's only a lot of plasteel once, right?

or until they release new blessings or something i spose

[marsh gyro]

Yeah and because the blessings sticker book is easy access it won't be hard when new blessings arrive either

[heavy geyser]

sacrificing the type of weapon you're building for gives you huge gains

[marsh gyro]

Yeah it's like 2k gain for a different gun and 11.5k gain for the same gun

[mortal crystal]

Btw the blessing unlock menu is bugged

It won't show you unlocked something if you go to a different weapon right afterwards

Just close the whole menu out and it'll all be unlocked properly

[heavy geyser]

The eviscerator takes to crits pretty well. You can get close to like 80% crit rates and enjoy the benefit of crit damage downscaling armor ratings. It's a really versatile weapon but it can really eat up hordes with the right build.

It's worth trying out if you're ever inclined to become an endless class ability deployer

they adjusted the crit cooldown reduction talent to better synergize with slow weapons like the eviscerator so its a great time to feast

also: my eviscerator ended up with 381 points https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/294127738774880256/1288569100045647892/image.png?ex=66f5a8fd&is=66f4577d&hm=c1f8bc667170da6717c604ddb44708438b02b8690d1f68cae19d8d5204996c97&

omnissiah be praised

[spiral badger]

indeed, sister. all praise to the omnissiah

[heavy geyser]

twice-blessed art we both this day

[drowsy tusk]

@twilit cradle still space if you want

[twilit cradle]

we need to eat food, we'll be back in a bit

[heavy geyser]

The bolt pistol mastery skin is really nice, it's based on a new model with a shorter barrel and a box magazine

The sight picture is a bit cleaner, and you can see the action cycling through the slot in the back

[heavy geyser]

New sight picture and the action cycling animation

[lapis jetty]

Hows the new systems feel at first glance? Seems like they are more for newer players

[heavy geyser]

The weapons you get as a new player can grow with you instead of being the starter weapons you discard

And you can pick out exactly what you want for blessings

It feels like a big improvement

[marsh gyro]

You can target farm stuff you want instead of relying on RNG to get a certain blessing or max stat roll so it's pretty easy to optimize stuff that was stuck at like rank 3 instead of 4

[lapis jetty]

So you're saying that the 4mil rolling for power cycler 2 is not a thing anymore

Thank god

I still don't have it

[marsh gyro]

Yeah you just melt down some non-grey guns (greens are fine) at Hadron's sacrifice-o-rama and get a gun's rank way up and pick power cycler 4 to unlock then slap it on at Hadron's

[gentle flame]

My buddy has maxxed out mastery on EVERYTHING they've ever used, however briefly. But my highest mastery is 17, despite having hundreds of hours with the weapon family, what gives?

Like, it feels fuckin random what my mastery levels are

I have a 15 on bolt pistols and I've used them in mission maybe twice

but I only have a 12 on the Purgatus staff despite it being my most used staff

[marsh gyro]

Stuff they added new blessings for for some reason won't show as mastery'd up to 20 so buy a couple greys from Brunt, bless to green, then sacrifice for 11k mastery each to get to 20

I had the same deal with my Psyker staves because they went from 4 blessings to 8ish

[gentle flame]

What about the other shit?

I've used this gun about 20ish times

OHHHH

Hol up

[frank igloo]

you just have ripped more blessings from em

[gentle flame]

^ This

[frank igloo]

thats what got translated

[gentle flame]

Took the words off my fingers

[frank igloo]

the (proportionately) more blessings you filled out the more mastery you got

if you used a weapon for 400 hours but never got a blessing sticker from youd have gotten no mastery

[gentle flame]

So I was lucky (rolling blessings) and as a result got shafted

Lmao

[frank igloo]

to be fair theyve been saying to fill your blessing library for months at this point

and in any case theyve said its like 5-15 damnation missions to max a weapon's mastery

[marsh gyro]

Yeah a single Damnation is like 32k mastery or so

[spiral badger]

crush crush crush

[cyan depot]

Oh nice my policy of never breaking down stickerbook slag is gonna pay off huh

[blissful sparrow]

brunt what uh

what have you been doing

[heavy geyser]

I kinda wanna see the numbers on that 0% damage

a practice knife for the empry's littlest rejects

[blissful sparrow]

oh i absolutely bought it

[heavy geyser]

iirc they split it up now where brunt sells worse stuff but melk sells you max level stuff

[marsh gyro]

Yeah Melk had some sick heavy swords in stock today

[heavy geyser]

instead of them both kinda being the same but melk sells the 3s and 4s

also, useful data: if the shot you kill a flamer with ruptures the tank it just fizzles out. They have to survive the rupture in order to become yon barreled

I literally didn't realize the double barrel could get Flechette until this update

It hadn't occurred to me

[cloud hazel]

yippee

[drowsy tusk]

Fellow update enjoyers, I summon you my <@&1042950387478560878> rally to my banner and let’s do some cool shit

[split mantle]

Soon into a WoWS battle but will try when I can.

[cyan depot]

https://x.com/FrostLlamzon/status/1838606862595559452

Frost Llamzon (@FrostLlamzon) on X

I added our psyker

Twitter · Sep 24, 2024, 3:50 PM

he sprinted in combat for 1 second

[foggy latch]

POG

[gentle flame]

😍

Blaze away enables some GOOFY fuckin damage

[opaque crown]

could someone remind me again what exactly a "salvo" constitutes?

Also man, a lot of my guns are not very high on mastery post update

[gentle flame]

Update: I misunderstood WHY Blaze Away was generating so much damage.

It boosts the soulblaze ticks too. Don't build for straight flamer damage, build for soulblaze

[marsh gyro]

When you fire and before the hipfire reticle would settle down, that's a salvo

It has different lengths by gun type

[signal current]

Hmm, trying to boot up darktide and getting caught with an endless loading screen

Specifically after the intro cutscenes are over and you press start

Restarting our Xbox fixed things

[foggy latch]

keep getting to the train boss and teams just forget that specials exist

solely focus on the boss and get got by disablers theyre ignoring

[spiral badger]

my bugbear is people standing bbehind the boss and getting swatted off the train

[opaque crown]

man new mission is hard with my grou

group

playstyle too slow

[foggy latch]

ough noooo

penance progress reset???

aaauuugh

[limpid zinc]

talk about a fuckin godroll

🙏

[heavy geyser]

Shredder mastery skin looks like ork dakka

[grave talon]

did... did i juste heard Hadron asking Kayex for a weird spreadsheet date ?

(it should have been me !)

[twin wasp]

huh thats weird

(i comepletly agree exept for the part where its you as it should have been me !)

[grave talon]

(the mechanicus sass is on hell of a drug)

[shrewd kite]

new map's a banger. hard as hell though

[marsh gyro]

"10 minutes to midnight" is the new mission

[drowsy vine]

My first time through on 4 I eked out a win by the absolute skin of my teeth

[spiral badger]

Yeah its tight

You have time to fuck up maybe once

[drowsy tusk]

I had one fail where I was last oggy standing and had smashed the first computer when it failed was big sad

[shrewd kite]

when i fail it's usually on the second defusal section or the battery section

[drowsy tusk]

Battery boss and maybe last battery are I think the spots that get me

[drowsy tusk]

I remembered who I thought this guy looks like

[marsh gyro]

What's wild about the new itemization is you can just change what mark/model the gun is within the same family so you need less guns than before because each gun is like 3 of the same gun

[blissful sparrow]

yeah i didnt realize you could do that but wowie you can really just get a perfect roll and have 3 weapons all done

[spiral badger]

I think I'm still going to have multiple for a simple reason

I don't want to switch blessings for some weapons every time :v

[marsh gyro]

Yeah I spent a while getting a good unique copy of every gun pre-patch so I'll probably stick with that for less clicking

[blissful sparrow]

there are definitely some weapons that like the roll is correct on, but i want different blessings for yeah

like light/medium pickaxes are basically the same how i run them, and the roll is correct for the heavy version but the perks and blessings would need to change around

so id rather just get a second pick with the right stats for that

[dawn totem]

Hmmm... would I be better off just trying to main Damnation? Because with Malice... dang.

[marsh gyro]

I pretty much do solo quick play Damnation when not in a crew and it works out good about 80% of the time and 20% we die horribly but get the rewards comparable to a threat 3 Malice

[blissful sparrow]

yeah damnation is comfy through quickplay ime

[foggy latch]

Yeah but you know what's better than losing a Damnation?

Winning a Heresy

[mortal crystal]

Definitely rolled out good gear for the patch in the cash shop

[gentle flame]

It's so pretty

[twin wasp]

help im stuck

[marsh gyro]

Trip report: Bolter rules again and in many configurations, Puncture is pretty neat

In other news, it turns out there's a cool Surge Staff build you can do with Assail, Scrier's Gaze, and Warp Charges where you can stay in Scrier's Gaze for like 90 seconds at a time and have about 10s downtime between Gazes, between Focused Channeling charge penalty reduction and Scrier's Gaze and Speed on Crit node you're moving around like a Quake character while quelling at full speed

[mortal crystal]

Don't forget that while in Scrier's you are immune to perils

I played with someone that had picked up the "can't peril while in Scrier's aftereffect" perk and had nearly full uptime on the buff while just going ham with a staff

[brazen fossil]

Y'all

If you haven't tried the flamer

Try the flamer

Everlasting flame makes it insane

It's beautiful

[cyan depot]

Wtf

When was that added?

[marsh gyro]

Part of the new Psyker tree, Scrier's has additional node now

[cyan depot]

Part of this new patch I imagine?

I skipped the patch notes since I figured it’d mostly be a billion hard to parse small weapon changes and I’d just learn through playing haha

[marsh gyro]

Yeah Psyker got a pretty big rework with like 8 new talents and Ogryn/Vet got a couple dud talents worked into their abilities by default so all 3 gotta redo their trees on login

[cyan depot]

Neat

Hopefully I’ll have some time to play today or tomorrow

Been hella busy haha

[spiral badger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/294127738774880256/1288936295497728051/shrouded_mind.mp4?ex=66f6fef8&is=66f5ad78&hm=b4260dd976fea88bdc3c8de3ec314c2b7fc1ec209c847cf1086daa7f6e963019&

additional signs of pants thieves

[mortal crystal]

My jeans!

[soft summit]

New Mission is dope

What're some good weapons for the Vet now btw?

Specifically ranged guns

[shrewd kite]

I sat out the last patch so I'm just getting around to trying the bolt pistol, it's perfect for the right tree weapon swap build imo

Fast enough to pop someone in the face, reliable enough to counter snipe, staggers groups of people

[worldly talon]

How do you do, fellow Rejects. My name is Jean Steeler, and I love the Emperor and his normal number of arms.

[mortal crystal]

Braced Autoguns are still amazing. Bolter and Bolt Pistol both got buffs and people are loving them. Finally, can't go wrong with Plasma Gun (to the point people will actually call you out for using it)

(nonexhaustive list)

[shrewd kite]

I want to see if the helbores are any better

[worldly talon]

I've been having fun with the right tree and the double-barrel shotgun

Because of the ammo regen

Which means you can melee away at a horde, then quick swap to the shotgun, blow away an incoming special, then get back to the horde beating without bothering to reload

[mortal crystal]

Do you mean left side? Or are you going stealth and just splashing the regen aura?

Oh you mean weapon spec stuff

[worldly talon]

Yes

[marsh gyro]

Left tree: Recon Lasgun, Infantry Lasgun, Infantry Autogun, Braced Autogun, Bolter, Combat Shotgun, Autopistol, Vigilant Autogun
Middle Tree: Literally anything and Helbores are really good
Right tree: Plasma, Bolt Pistol, Revolver, Double Barrel Shotgun, Braced Autogun

[mortal crystal]

Yeah, DB with weapon spec is incredibly strong

(you can't go wrong with the Braced Autogun)

[shrewd kite]

Now all fatshark needs to do is make the weapon mod official

I'm not giving up my scopes

[heavy geyser]

Shredder autopistol is underrated, I think.

Nothing shoves packs of ragers onto the floor quite like it.

[foggy latch]

at this rate Brahms is going to be named a lord general and her ship a regimental command vessel for the amount of people and units being taken in and ran from its strategium

there are, what, two or three whole regiments being coordinated out of the Mourningstar at this point?

[spiral badger]

strictly speaking the other two regiments aren't under inquisitorial command, they're being politely advised

(because that's how the inquisition rolls)

[foggy latch]

i mean, Dukane is the closest thing to a commanding officer we've seen thus far

and she's aboard and is using our strategium

there has been no mention of any other of the officer corps of the Moebian regiments still alive

and Commissars, as political officers, can assume command in a leadership vacuum

[spiral badger]

dukane is aboard, according to the mission, because she wants to discuss the results of the train incident

previously she was commanding from the ground

why she's in command and what happened to her officers is a big question mark

[heavy geyser]

They shouldn't have let Swagger onto the Mourningstar.

That's basic opsec

[opaque crown]

man, i was running coward culling with a ceaseless barrage machine gun

and its so much fun

but it eats up so much ammo

its really not all that worth

[soft summit]

Wait where's Swagger

[heavy geyser]

He hangs out by Hadron

He's propped up against a pillar facing Brunt's

Blends in real nice with the background.

Makes a lot of sense in hindsight

[soft summit]

Neat

[heavy geyser]

Hadron has a pegleg, did you know? I only noticed recently.

[opaque crown]

also i take it that its a bug that rank 3 and 4 of ceaselss barrage on the heavy stubber are exactly the same as rank 2?

[shrewd kite]

also the frame generation...kinda sucks, right? everything just feels weird and choppy with it on

and it crashed my GPU driver so bad that my computer stopped recognising my monitor until i restarted lol

[heavy geyser]

There's a setting that got added and turned on by default

ATX or something, its in Video

go in and shut it off and reboot the game

That one confused me too, my game was running awful and I thought I might have had an art program running in the background

[shrewd kite]

thanks, that in the config files?

[heavy geyser]

Its in Settings > Video > about halfway down the first screen from the top

RTX it might be?

It's a three-letter thing that will say it's On.

[shrewd kite]

ahhh, ray tracing, they always accidentally turn that shit on

[heavy geyser]

Lemme check for certain what it is

[soft summit]

What's the best perks on a Braced Autogun?

[heavy geyser]

It's this one

I'm pretty sure

As I understand it it's new and it comes flipped to On and it tanks your game performance

[shrewd kite]

FSR reduces performance? that's crazy if it's true, the whole point of these upscaling things is that they're meant to improve performance, and it did so when it was v2

[tough compass]

What does "frame generation technologies" mean

[marsh gyro]

It's AI upscaling

[tough compass]

Could be a bad implementation. Or only helps if your card has the right stuff?

I mostly find the name annoying because generating frames is what a GPU does lol

[shrewd kite]

yeah the naming convention is stupid

[heavy geyser]

I'm pretty sure that was it, I turned it off and my game stopped chugging.

[shrewd kite]

go figure. i'll stick to lossless scaling i guess

[heavy geyser]

and there was a second instance of the option below it

[shrewd kite]

ohh, it looks like you have an nvidia card, so it would have been doing some weirdness with running the Nvidia and AMD upscaling algos simultaneously or something if that was on

[heavy geyser]

yeah I do

[shrewd kite]

yeah that would definitely fuck everything up. i've got an amd card and with the frame gen on it says I'm getting 120-200, but it just doesn't feel like it

[tough compass]

Ok, it is different than upscaling. It's more like upfpsing