Horus fuck off
#Space Marine 2
verbal mortarBOT
vestal cedar
Lamenters #1 so i'm an obligate Blood Angels enjoyer
It was not often that Rogal Dorn's stern mask cracked, but it did so now. The fury of a god made flesh erupted upon his aspect and the primarch drew his powerful chainsword in a flashing golden arc of roaring death. 'I rescind my former statement,' he bellowed, 'get to your knees and accept your death, while you still have the chance to die like an Astartes!'
verbal mortarBOT
Yeah blood angels are also good. They’re actually the first box set we ever bought for 40K
We’ve actually coloured some of our marines in game as Death Company
vestal cedar
> `It was not often that Rogal Dorn's stern mask cracked, but it did so now. The...
I love how this is preceeded by Dorn saying the only reason that he wasn't gonna kill Garro is that Mortarion would like to do it himself
vestal cedar
We’ve actually coloured some of our marines in game as Death Company
Neat
I have a Death Company Vanguard Lamenter
verbal mortarBOT
Neat!
vestal cedar
All my dudes are Lamenters
Though i'm also making Dusk Defiant color schemes for them
turbid nebula
Night Lords amuse me
Just because it's like
Pre-Heresy Night Lord
Post-Heresy Night Lord
brisk notch
when you're so confident uinn your drip, you keep it for 10k years
turbid nebula
lone gulch
Have youve tried just punching it
turbid nebula
I've tried repeatedly grappling/jump packing at it
Until it gets low enough to actually punch
lone gulch
So power fist can hit a zoanthrope at max height from the ground, you just have to be sort of under it
I haven't done much more than lethal and hard siege but it chunks like a 3rd of their HP for some reason
Heldrake is similar as there'd a small ledge that let's you be as close as you can to it and it's barely within punching range but it does like 4 times the damage you'd ever do with spamming HBP or plasma pistol. Not tactical levels of nuke but it's the best you can get on Assault/Bulwark
Oh and for both you need to lock on first and hope the game doesn't just decide to make you turn 90 degrees to hit a closer enemy
Its the bane of power fist
vestal cedar
shoutout to Scarab Occult Terminators for making the game unfun to play
brisk notch
yay the son of magnus do be like dat
sly shore
Anyone else having trouble with the textures in the game suddenly turning really muddy?
vestal cedar
trully i am the backbone of this whole thing
sly shore
No seriously I'd like to know what's causing it to do this, it was fine a few days ago.
south swallow
Do you have any upscaling systems active, like AMD FSR or whatever Nvidia's is?
grand lantern
Blurred out textures are usually caused by low texture streaming amounts
But a lot of stuff can cause that
Game updates sometimes just set it super low
verbal mortarBOT
Alright we have killed our first vortex beast and snagged the helmet for when the event ends
grand lantern
How much longer does it go?
verbal mortarBOT
Till the 16th
grand lantern
Thanks
calm pulsar
do you need to kill the vortex beast? might have to hop on and attempt then, I did it once before before the event happened and it was incredibly irritating to do with my usual group
vestal cedar
Try it on lower difficulty
calm pulsar
I definitely will do
(I think at the point we tried it in that play session we were all a bit salty as well so that probably didn't contribute)
vestal cedar
Prolly not
I did mine on absolute but that's only cause my friends are difficulty fiends, it was not very fun
verbal mortarBOT
We just got ours done on the lowest difficulty since I haven’t played in…a couple months
lone gulch
Vortex Beast is kind of weirdly designed, it's like a knockoff dark souls boss in a game where the PC's don't have dark souls tools to fight it like a dark souls character would.
Besides like Bulwark and Assault
Also the mission takes forever it seems, I feel like it's twice as long as any other mission and you don't get anything extra after you played it a few times and novelty wears off. It's a really well designed mission it's just very different than the rest
sly shore
Which one is the Vortex Beast? Is it the tentacley daemon?
lone gulch
It's latest level added
The one that yeets you into the void and has the shooting orbs and splits into 2 bosses
sly shore
I haven't fought that thing yet, I don't think.
lone gulch
The boss is one of these
sly shore
Oh, that thing. I fucking hate that thing.
What I do like, though, is this pauldron where I was able to color this fist charm red. Because my Marine is a Crimson Fist.
I use Deathwatch livery, but the chapter is Crimson Fists. I just think they're neat.
vestal cedar
Nice
lone gulch
All psyker gang
verbal mortarBOT
Wrong channel but also cool
lone gulch
Ope
sly shore
Librarian…
sly shore
Uh oh.
lone gulch
Just stay far and dodge, even then it's difficult to avoid that damage
Having a bulwark to banner helps a lot. Assault you can take advantage of invincibility prestige perk while jetpacking. Sniper camo prestige perk has 2 seconds invincibility and fully restores contested HP
sly shore
I'm Tactical.
lone gulch
Oof
Yea I don't know then, Tactical doesn't have a ton of defensive options.
The Vortex Beast design doesn't really fit well with the mechanics of PC classes. Bulwark and Assault have a very strong advantage with being to basically not engage with the boss attacks while some just suffer like vanguard and tactical cause the dont have options to deal with the dark souls lite mechanics besides constantly dodging
Heavy can iron halo
Most other bosses has ads so you can get armor back, you just face Vortex Beast solo for most of it
south swallow
Big disco ball you just stay far. Occasionally a single laser will come at you that's actually aimed at you and you just need to get the dodge timing right
Every other laser can just be ignored when you stay back
grand lantern
Hell yeah
lone gulch
Hell yeah
The new chaos spawns are that lol, they just show up in a group of like 6 then leave like 2 seconds to do anything before they combo rush all with different attack patterns cause the 3 types look pretty much the same in a group and moving like crazy.
grand lantern
augh they're such a mess to fight yeah
lone gulch
I stopped using balance/parry cause id see blue then parry and of course it's the one that does it's attack like 5 seconds after the blue circle pops up
grand lantern
I just started throwing krak grenades at them
lone gulch
Block weapons cause I only trust my eyes now on chaos
Also it makes the assault do good damage on full stomp, to put them in execution state but that's when the 3rd group of chaos spawn happen and I've used my jumps/grenades. They spawn so much
verbal mortarBOT
We’ve not fought a lot of chaos spawn due to taking a break from the game for a couple months but oh god do we already hate them
MissCodedVIIrOS (Her/She) ↩️
grand lantern
I got to rank up my melta pistol a lot vs em
It can stagger them out of a lot of attacks so its nice
lone gulch
Unsurprisingly the new heavy plasma is real good against them
verbal mortarBOT
Our first experience was joining an in progress mission and being ganged up by like 6 of the fuckers + friends whilst desperately trying to rejoin our teammates and remembering our keybinds
lone gulch
Iirc they're only majoris enemies
verbal mortarBOT
And that was on trivial
grand lantern
Unsurprisingly the new heavy plasma is real good against them
New?
lone gulch
The new heroric
lone gulch
Imo its not worth grinding, do weeklys and wait
Cause you get like 15 on hard stratagems and they're insanely hard. Its actually Absolute but with the modifiers and some hidden ones
Normal weekly nets you like 100? And most are 200
lone gulch
Oh so you just unlock heroics automatically even if you havent levled up the weapon at all
grand lantern
Oh maybe I'll fuck around with the weeklies then
lone gulch
I did for bolt pistol and was able to use the heroic despite barely halfway leveled. Just skips the awful early weapon leveling
grand lantern
I am not strongly motivated by the grind so I just fuck around basically
It's brutal how grindy SM2 is for its content though
lone gulch
I do weeklies mostly for future heroics
Oh and that heroic shop lets you uptrade lower tier resources up to gold
grand lantern
Yeah I do appreciate that
calm pulsar
I’m slooowly leveling stuff. The grind really is awful (and I HATE the prestige perks and how you have to level up fully four times to max out a class. I might do it on bulwark. Might. But all six? Not happening)
lone gulch
Yea the prestiege system is awful
4 times prestiege is a pain, you finally get a good build then you start over
calm pulsar
I have tactical, sniper, assault, and bulwark all maxed, I’ve prestiged bulwark once
lone gulch
I will proobably come back for techmarines but I dread having to do that
Damn I did Assault maxed out and 3 of 4 on sniper and was just done
lone gulch
I was for a bit
Really most classes get most of their good priestiege perks after 2 resets
grand lantern
Yeah prestige stuff is fucked up
I think you keep weapon progress so it's kinda ok?
lone gulch
Yea you do
lone gulch
Yea I think perks and class stuff tends to be a bigger part of the game than weapons
The weapon perks are like, just flat stat buffs or when you're under quarter HP
lone gulch
Some prestiege perks change a lot, like for assault one makes them invulnerable while charging ground pound so charging it wont just get you killed
grand lantern
Yeah unfortunately prestige perks are cranked
lone gulch
Sniper's let you become invulnerable for 2 seconds so you could just cloak immediately if caught in an AoE
grand lantern
And you can grind levels kinda fast with playing the first 5 siege levels on Hard
lone gulch
Yea although it ruins hard siege cause people are doing that in pub games
So for folks actually want to play hard siege often 1 or 2 members leave on wave 5
I see a lot of people on reddit repeat the same suggestion for change which is remove prestiege, up level cap by like 20 or 40 and you get a priestiege perk every 5 or 10 levels. You'd still need to grind which is what the devs want but it doesnt suck doing so
calm pulsar
Yepp
I’m still going through weapons leveling, I think I have bolt pistol, heavy bolt pistol, power fist, chainsword, and combat knife gold. Which leaves a lot to go
lone gulch
For me i just dont want to level a class without power fist, thats the only thing that made leveling assault bearable as it hits like a truck without perks
grand lantern
Speaking of space marine 2 anyone wanna do some runs?
calm pulsar
If I wasn’t bone-tired I’d be down
maiden light
Speaking of space marine 2 anyone wanna do some runs?
me and a friend are down if you're still looking
grand lantern
me and a friend are down if you're still looking
I'm down, missed t his
maiden light
sounds good!
maiden light
I'm down, missed t his
we're in VC now
sly shore
The new chaos spawns are that lol, they just show up in a group of like 6 then l...
To be fair this is probably the most accurate experience of fighting a horde of Chaos Spawn.
austere aurora
lone gulch
Did they kill those 2
Damn they really killed those 2 off screen
And I assume Gadriel is alive?
proper cosmos
Named Marines should die more often
And at least the official box the models are coming in has another black sm in it
lone gulch
Named Marines should die more often
I was about to agree and say Ultramarines specifically but those 2 are ultramarines
tropic widget
So who was the third Space Marine Acheron could spare to bring with himself and Chairon on that mission I wonder.
tropic widget
Only took a whole hive full of cultists to get em too.
Barely any real Tyranids involved.
lone gulch
So who was the third Space Marine Acheron could spare to bring with himself and ...
He couldn't spare more men for a 3rd
lone gulch
Barely any real Tyranids involved.
Titus: You took everything from me.
Hive Mind: I don't even know who you are
proper cosmos
Hive mind: "the walking meat continues to make atmosphereic distuebances, almost as if trying to ape telesemiosis"
lone gulch
Ape Telesemiosis is my new band name
copper swallow
They promoted Chairon AND killed him right away
bro made it from regular Battle Brother to Lieutenant then died
silent mist
There's always new openings for promotions in the Astartes!
lone gulch
Ezcept for Titus
What gets me is Gadriel is around probably
And Leandros
GW just kept the 2 people that basically don't like Titus all that much.
If you are friends with Titus you will be killed offscreen is what I'm getting
silent mist
Ezcept for Titus
He just got a promotion!
lone gulch
Didnt he get demoted to deathwatch then promoted again to Captain
I guess that is a way to get a promotion, get demoted then promoted
uncut sedge
he was lieutenant before deathwatch, iirc
lone gulch
Oh well nvm, congrats Titus
Calgar and Titus are in the lead for most miserable Ultramarine excluding Gulliman
GW writers: What if more bad things happen to Titus and Calgar
grand lantern
He was a captain, then Deathwatch, then when he got back he crossed the rubicon and was demoted to lieutenant (a rank which didn't exist before he left haha) and eventually was promoted back
lone gulch
Oh I see thats what I thought
uncut sedge
ahh, ty
lone gulch
Itd be very funny if in SM3 Leandros finds a way to demote him to Lieutenant against so he gets promoted back to captain
uncut sedge
or some other new rank to be demoted to
silent mist
From the recent article, it actually sounds like Titus went MIA for a bit and Cato Sicarius was promoted in his absence
Then when he shows back up again it's like "you've been gone so long we're on our second Captain since you left, we're sticking you as Lieutenant for now"
lone gulch
or some other new rank to be demoted to
Ultra Lieutenant
turbid nebula
"Captain Acheran. We are sending you reinforcements. The entire Second Company is on it's-"
"Send me three men."
"I...What?"
"Send me three men."
"But...We have the whole Company standing by."
"And?"
Sigh "Three men it is."
Chuckles "Acheran, you're a tactical genius."
silent mist
Should've brought a 4th man
lone gulch
Acheran got too greedy when he saw 3 men was enough and tried just 2 manning it with Chairon
Unfortunately this time Chairon didnt respawn
sly shore
Being in the Deathwatch is sick. This rules.
proper cosmos
Titus also got a lot of like, extracurricular ranks with his second captaincy
Master of the Watch, Warden of Ultramar, etc
The rank of lieutenant didn't exist before the primaris reorganization
And Gadriel did come around on Titus, and i think they ended the game in a good place
Also sad that chairon got killed but ig that's what happens when a character is handed from one writers room to the next and they get the mulligan
vestal cedar
yeah 😔
also yeah Gadriel and Titus are not in a dislike eachother situation as far as i know, they ended the game off on a good spot
proper cosmos
Yeah
grand lantern
Master of the Watch is traditionally a position held by the second company captain but warden of ultramar seems to be special
tardy hamlet
Warden of ultramar is the title for Titus' command squad
Titus himself isn't a warden of ultramar as far as I know
tardy hamlet
The rank of lieutenant didn't exist before the primaris reorganization
Also yes it did
It was temporarily shelved after the codex Astartes
Guilliman realized that it's useful to have a lieutenant so he reinstated the rank
It was used informally and usually by noncompliant chapters
lone gulch
Wait did they not have lieutenants before gulliman codified the codex astartes
turbid nebula
Lieutenants weren't a codex thing pre-Primaris
silent mist
Lieutenants are a scheme by big herohammer to sell more character models
lone gulch
Oh I see
tropic widget
Because the people writing Warhammer did not bother to worry about sensible force organization for their imaginary military blorbos.
lone gulch
Ironic with how space marines, mechanicus, darktide, and rogue trader games are like micromanaged with a vice grip with even hints of lore.
Meanwhile the novel writers picking on whether lasguns have recoil and sound based on their plot vibes
proper cosmos
It was temporarily shelved after the codex Astartes
It was extinct within the astartes for the ten thousand years between the heresy and primaris reforms
tropic widget
Meanwhile the novel writers picking on whether lasguns have recoil and sound bas...
Wonder why there are so many different types of lasgun? This is why.
grand lantern
They just didn't do platoons
grand lantern
Sometimes there have been "senior sergeants" in the command squad who'd lead a demi-company
proper cosmos
Yeah
grand lantern
But that's rare and kinda its own thing
proper cosmos
Or a chaplain or librarian or something might lead a sub company force
lone gulch
Wonder why there are so many different types of lasgun? This is why.
the mechnicus infighting must be wild on whether lasguns make bullet sounds (somehow), pews, or is quiet let alone recoil vs no recoil
Oh and whether lasgun shots impart momentum like a bullet or just really burn a guy
proper cosmos
Iirc one of thr grunts ghosts bivels describe them as creating a burn and the heat causing thr surrounding tissues to rupture
lone gulch
Well that's the thing there are books that also describes it as basically a bullet with recoil, knocks over heretics with force like a large caliber bullet
Luetin did a video on every depiction of how a Lasgun handles in books and codexes and it's every kind from recoilless pinpoint laser that only burns to bullet like needing to manage recoil with travel time
And other variations and his conclusion is, yea it's whatever
primal venture
Well that's the thing there are books that also describes it as basically a bull...
Those books are wrong lol
tardy hamlet
40k
Where 80% headcanon
And 10% canon
Is the only way to make things work
the remaining 10% is fanon
opal siren
~~the remaining 10% is fanon~~
It’s tradition, you see
lone gulch
And 10% canon
10% gets canceled out by other writer
tardy hamlet
That too xP
lone gulch
When fanon is more consistent than some 40k writers
clever ember
My headcannon lasgun noise is a short, bassy krak followed by a low, almost electric hum.
lone gulch
Mines would be recoilless perfectly accurate laser but makes a loud steam sound that comes from the air superheating for a bit and water in it turning to steam but otherwise the gun is silent
Well to the enemy at least, probably like a electric hum on usage but mostly only the user can hear that
tardy hamlet
For me lasguns would kinda sound and behave like pulse lasers in MechWarrior
DU DU DU DU electric hum followed by heat sink and water sizzling
lone gulch
Actually alter to mines based on that, each pulse makes the same sound as plugging in something cheap into an outlet and you hear that spark
But louder
sly shore
I really like the sounds they use for them in Darktide.
clever ember
Also I would imagine lasguns would probably not have recoil so much as a slight kick or jolt from the air rapidly expanding in front of the barrel cause, y'know, the superheated laser.
grand lantern
They might have recoil from some internal mechanism moving even if it’s a laser too
lone gulch
Maybe, seems odd since they run on a battery pack and lasers are kind of just emitted via diodes into light with like no moving parts besides a cooling fan
It is 40k though
The analog laser might be a thing
turbid nebula
Aliens Fireteam explicitly used the 'cooling system' excuse for recoil
Sound like an electrical discharge
Loud snap
proper cosmos
Big ol knife switch issue the language that competed a circuit when the trigger is pulled
brisk notch
I have enough for an herois weapon wich one should i take first ?
sly shore
I really like the Xenophase Blade personally.
brisk notch
yay i went with it
sly shore
brisk notch
I try not too
sly shore
I just realized the framing of this screenshot makes it look like the two in the foreground are talking about the Ultramarine.
brisk notch
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1371908016819142696/1444815869577269422/i...
I kinda want to put it on my actual space marine now
turbid nebula
I have a second company ultramarine color scheme set up for everybody because canon
It does not use macragge blue
I wanna say it’s lothern
Or kantor
One of those
vestal cedar
met a Legionary of the Damned
sly shore
“Nobody will ever believe you.”
sly shore
@vestal cedar Another rare pull.
gloomy delta
Do I buy SM2 for the PC so I can get the Astartes Overhaul mod
i already have the game on Xbox but PC seems fun
its on sale too so it's a reasonable price
sly shore
I don’t think it’s basically ever worth buying a game twice, but it’s entirely up to you.
gloomy delta
i can port my data over to pc
buying this shit frfr 👁️
i'm mainly just gonna enjoy the customization
sly shore
I haven’t tried modding it.
verbal mortarBOT
I wonder if AO supports matchmaking in its own pool.
vestal cedar
AO?
verbal mortarBOT
Astartes Overhaul, as mentioned above.
vestal cedar
ahhh
verbal mortarBOT
Also the answer is no, having a modded game disables matchmaking.
lone gulch
New update with Tech marine and missuon
Valtus my beloved one shotting another drake, he has a vendetta
brisk notch
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1371908016819142696/1477707277900185793/image.png?ex=69a5bda5&is=69a46c25&hm=3a8f4a37960f89967b22aa3ed053a0fa9746fbd1ceffcd2b87f0eeabf1610174& Need help choosing marking for tactical
turbid nebula
Middle
sly shore
By the Omnissiah...
lone gulch
Tech marine specced all in on your ability clears like crazy and is so spammable
I find that constant yellow targeting to be real annoying on tech marine though
sly shore
lone gulch
I HATE ADEPTUS ASTARTES
The astartes stand around my incense and shout go tech boy go
sly shore
GO TECH BOY GO
pliant copper
I wish the Techmarine had more armor compat with the like
idk I wanna give em molecular bonding studs and shit
sly shore
I want to be able to use my Deathwatch heraldry with him.
vestal cedar
i was almost immediately disappointed when the character dropped and my armor options were
so limited
sly shore
I heard that they're going to be making more of the existing cosmetics available for the Techmarine, but no idea when.
sly shore
Anyone down for a few runs through some operations? I'm just leveling Sniper and it's getting monotonous doing it with randos.
viral patio
I don't think they've said anything beyond Q2
vale forge
I don't think they've said anything beyond Q2
that's ending in a bit better be soon
next oracle
Does anyone here still like to play SM2 multiplayer?
grand lantern
I could mess around in it but the grind is so much
next oracle
I feel the same way. It's good crazy fun but then the grind becomes glacial