#td2-descent
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heys guys any a solid team that can run and finish Nemesis? I really want to finish the weekly mission (our last try right before nemesis game crashed and we lost it and rage quit lol)
solo is easier than group
i didnt have that experience solo
but i just started playing it. im learning the ropes and the rooms
all i want is a bunch of allegro, vigilance, incessant chatter, extra, lucky shot, bullet hell and a sasg shotty
i usually have 2 or 3 exotic talent before nemesis
plague is good too
chatterbox talent help to save ammo
yeah i had it with an mpx and it was really nice
i choose all armor for state and mostly red talent for dps some blue and yellow
i cant send screenshot here
i will choose haz pro after nemesis
and adrenaline rush.. rushers try to hug you and explode and it does no damage
diamondback talent with cluch is good also
i havent tried the diamondback one yet
it let u keep clutch active
oh sick
it saved me from nemesis he droped 2 sniper turret same time after i destroy that 2 he droped another one
maybe an emp skill would be good for that. its just ya dont need it early on
i choose decoy or foam or fire chem with hive if i can get them
fire chem is handy
One of the reasons solo is so much easier is because you can just keep restarting until you get a good starting weapon/skill
yeah thats what i do. totally worth it
yeah i also have that random talent
ive been getting famas, police m4, sasg, super 90 and m870 a bunch. pretty good luck streak
I think the best option is combine roles in team, play as a team, its 60% of win
Anyone wants to do nemesis?
our teammate was looking for crit chance for about 12 loops 😄 cause he had many talents with crit damage 😄 like I was looking for a shield for about 10 loops cause I had venguard level 8 😄
so I just advice to take what game propose 😄
how much crit chance can you get from buying the 1 or 2% or whatever from the vendor
nice question, I dont remember
i stack surgical if possible but i havent had a loadout where my weapon crits hardly
10% from vender
damn. not enough
it's cumulative isn't it?
should work to nearly 60 that way
55
10 % from vender and 50 from talnet at lvl 10
it will i think
20 from vender and some from talent
i was getting full armor by getting 2 kill
also glass cannon will get slightly nerfed
just 5 %
damage taken 50, damage increase 30
i dont anyone use that
yea im not messing with glass cannon
its kinda reckless talent from div1
U already get decimated by redbar snipers without glass Canon
Can anyone carry me in Descent? 😂
are you going to contribute or just hide
Ofc I'll deal 'some' dmg 😗
eh, unless you handle one of the spawn doors and clear most of them then were both gonna die lol
my back is fuked up ,i need some med bad
"I'll spew profanities at the enemy from afar" 🫠
good luck getting pain meds from a doctor or hospital
you gotta have major visible injury
I just wonder, in usual game how much crit chance we can get? I thought only 60%, no?
here with a talent its 100%
in regular play yeah, capped at 60% afaik
Does decent give a lot of exp? I want to try because boring of doing control point every day
I usually get around 7 levels per nem clear (about 5-6 loops) and about an hour or less of time....it's not GREAT, but fair for free levels outside of regular gameplay.
Get diamondbacks talent or whatever the name was
Surgical is just waste of space
agonizing bite or w.e
Aight then still good exp gain
interesting then, if you get 100% from talent, they are really 100% and every shot is crit, or 100% are something else xd like 50% or 60% of real value
talent increase 5% every time
That's diamond back and it's in the normal game
10%
Are they banning player that used exploit on descent ?
probably eventually
Yes
It's being patched tomorrow
aa only 5% then ok, I had wrong source, sorry. Yeahh ajaj we have then 60% here nice
I've been leveling up my hardcore character with it. The stat upgrades are shared across both so its nice
didnt understand about diamond back sry -)
indeed, I like that the NSA tech upgrades are account wide.
Ngl I quite like using the stinger hive in descent
Either set it up in front of a spawn door
Or my favorite method: run past the add dropping it like a proximity mine
Thanks to Leon I can't help but say "present for you" whenever i yeet it towards the boss
I liked it until the nemesis instant killed me with it the first time I got to him 😭
ouch
NGN makes a good point tho
About building yourself up more to eventually face the nemesis and less for clearing rooms
I wonder if building up composure will end up backfiring
Doesn’t
Once you stack it high enough it basically replaces the stat upgrades. Had an amazing run with the M1A until I choked. Sucks
Tbh i feel like i'm playing descent more than the main game now lol. I guess it's mostly the drive of trying to get to the nemesis even once
Surprisingly, I liked the MK11 (or whatever it is) more than the M1A
Well, I did once but they never showed up
maybe they were scared, lol
All and all, if you are solo, just use special ammo. Put incendiary ammo on like your pistol and then just kill him
I really need to remember special ammo exists
indeed, makes it so easy it feels like a cheat
I'm not quite sure how to use it yet tho
Load it up into a pistol and stunlock every add you see?
No ads, only one nemesis
just save it for nem
Aye
u can always use trauma as well if u got an open skill talent slot, but isn't as effective and has a long CD. (but can help in a bind)
Agreed. Trauma L1 is a must have
I’m thinking if I were to do another long run, which I won’t, I would go for incessant chatter over bullet hell after loop 30-32.
I still wonder what the priority list for NSA upgrades are
Already maxed out aok and hsd
Alrighty
i did the extra talent selection, then AOK, HSD, then oddly enough I went with stability because I tend to grab unhinged alot of times....
Also should I leave Steady Handed at tier 1?
I was surprised by how much I liked having skill haste
I don’t use that perk
Oh, definitely
so that lil bit of stability helps offset some stuff until i can grab a nice handling bonus during the run....I accidentally swapped my police m4 out for a famas when I has unhinged at like lvl3 or 4....LOL.
NASA hates me, I was downing their satellites....
lol been trying the descent, definitely making me question my skill level
either that or my patience
Tommy gun definitely feels like a solid early game choice. Pretty good damage for an smg
Here are all the talents I use
how long did it take u to get to loop 35?
13 hours 😂
Entrench and Clutch definitely feel like must-haves
god bless 😂
I kid. I would say like 9 because I took a bunch of breaks and just left my controller plugged in with a rubber band on the sticks
yeah thatd definitely be the play
Hard to tell exactly but that’s my estimate
Clutch and leadership are insanely powerful talents in descent
do you fight the nemesis several times after said amount of loops
No, just rogue agents bum rushing you every now and then after nemesis
ah ok i see
High key, if you are using a shotgun with bullet hell with clutch, as long as you are shooting, you can’t go down 😂
I panicked yesterday and just did that for like 5 seconds until I got my bearings and figured out how to reposition
shotguns are so good
not so lomg cooldawn really if leveled.
yeah, it gets better over time for sure
its still down bad
90% of the time it does nothing bc you end up killing a random basic woth it
but if you have a rogue pushing you it might just save you
23 second blind on a rogue would save ur ass for sure
forgot how it works, if CD starts from the second it's applied, or from when it fades off. but it seems like the application is higher then the cooldown starting at tier 8.
so still a hefty bit of work opting it to it but in later rooms for things like rogues as you said, useful.
yeah, I haven't had the time to go much farther than a loop or two past nem. so haven't seen too much difference so far, but I know trauma def helped even if low tier in arenas just to get NPCs to stand still or pop up out of cover, especially to get snipers out. was nice.
After loop 15 the fun begins
thats where snipers start to hurt
After 25 they tend to onetap lmao
My solution was to have leadership L10 and 6 blue cores
Can’t one tap me if I’m always at double armor lol
Cover to cover move gives 100% extra armor as bonus armor to you an all allies at level 10
Tbh I think that after 6 blue cores, it’s a waste. You don’t need any more armor after that
so it genuinely doesnt matter
I don’t run unhinged. I did that twice and it wasn’t for me
yea youre kinda forced to run stability
and the first kick hurts
but god damn is it worth
LOL
oh god
That shit sent me aiming to the ceiling
yea thats basically suicide once stability procs
Same with shotgun
See I just don’t feel like it’s with it to stick yourself into only one possible play style with unhinged
its not one playstyle
Running red cores with bloodsucker and leadership let’s you use all weapon types
And the problem is that I had the talent that gives you stability and accuracy
On hits
So my recoil control was all over the place as sometimes I didn't even have to control it and others I was fighting for my life
thats where smgs come in
with stability you need 6ish hits and youre fine
After nemesis a skill play style is pretty viable I'd say
I haven’t tried because I don’t like the high risk
if you let them spread out youre fucked
oh its hilarious dude
ive onetapped the arena boss once
Honestly I've been wanting to have 6 skill tier and run a decoy ngl
I did skill tier 4 decoy
if youre trying to get far then defender and revive are your picks
It was a very crucial component of my run
defender for snipers and revive for a second chance
Hard disagree. Decoy is better than defender for sure
I think it’s all about how you use it. Decoy is key for allowing you to reposition well
For example. With decoy I get to dictate where and when my rogue fight happens
When was the earliest yall got rogues to Spawn I'm curious
Loop 12 or 14 for me personally
i got one on 8 lmao
Furthest I’ve gone without them is loop 26😂
Yea I was on a 3 Man and rogues just showed up on 13
literally the room after nemesis
so does defender
with skill T6 you can eat bullets all day
and it makes sure a sniper doesnt randomly onetap you out of nowhere
i got a question, whats your ideal exotic setup?
Eh, I’ll have to take your word for it. I never used defender in the real game so I don’t want to try learning in descent and die making a noob mistake with it
Bloodsucker - bullet hell/incessant chatter (prefer bullet hell) - plague of the outcasts/breathe free (prefer plague)
I had chameleon while using the m1a funny enough
damn plague?
I would never run anything besides those. I’ll just take my money
your playstyle is completely different from mine
Plague is very dependant on the weapon ur using
Plague has worked well for me in a group
I rather be safe than sorry
I watch a lot of streamers die on descent solo because of impatience
plague doesnt provide any safety whatsoever
how
I can sit under cover firing one bullet every 5 seconds while my plague kills three dogs
it is nice against dogs I'll give ya that
Plague allows my bloodsucker to refresh better
my strat is to just kill everything before it has a chance to touch me
and clutch & shotgun makes you immortal anyway
especially with diamondback
High risk strat to me
theres no risk
you run in, shoot the marked one and kill everything else
if shit hits the fan you have clutch & preservation keeping you alive
How’d you die then?
onetapped
i thought i killed everything but there was a pesky sniper in a corner
didnt have defender up bc i didnt think id need it
No reviver hive?
on CD
ngl
im too lazy
i lost it in a dumb way aswell
thought i can 1v10 elites
guess what, ya cant if you get hit with the slime thing
Yeah, without haz pro you get stuck in that over and over again
I died that way one run :(
It was one of the last talents I did
id much rather get clutch & surgical maxed etc
i tend to prioritise clutch & steady hands
i absolutely need steady hands
Cause you run unhinged lol
Problem of your own creation lmao
thats not really a problem tho
What’s unhinged L10?
you need it t3
no idea, havent had the balls yet
highest penalty ive seen so far was around 150
How much extra damage do you get?
Ah so you were shooting satellites
nah
what are the best exotic talents to get? rn i can choose breathe free sandman or bullet hell
bullet gell
Breathe free
I think you should just true red cores with bloodsucker and see how you feel about it
hands down the best exotic in descent
BREATHE FREE
is that locked to a specific weapon?
yall kidding
nope
damage talents are more important in the beginning
bullet hell is a must have
You have time to reload if everything is dead
later on you dont get that luxury
And you will get more exotic talents by then
Fast hands
this man volition is ranked on the leaderboards 😂 ima go with him on this one
Goes well with agonizing
appreciate the info tho im gonna go w bullet king next im only on loop 1
I just want to say I said breathe free LOL
if you flick back and forth under cover, you can keep building your stacks
breathe free is absolutely worthless later on so make sure ti replace it
I would only go for bk if i had boomstick there lol
You don’t actually have to run if you don’t want to
unless youre a shotgun/sniper fan
how good is sniping in here?
meh
I’ve been curious but that seems so dangerous
ahh i see u gotta make sure it has a scope
On a group
If you grab opportunistic
It can be good
i dont think they can
i havent seen one with a scope yet
I kinda like the without tbh
I’m shook
Reminds me of sniping in div 1
I guess I assumed snipers were exempt
i thought it was rng
Nah its stock as it gets
but nah
I see some people sleep on lucky talent
With bullet hell it’s redundant
luxky does nothing once you have bullet hell lmao
I don’t use any talents that give mag capacity
^
Because imagine a 20 plus round mag on an ar paired with lucky and extra 😂
Lol
Why would i run bk if i had agonizing,breathe,blood or chatter
I don't get bullet hell like ever lol
I think I would run chatter instead of bullet hell after loop 30
maybe
But before that might as well just run bullet hell
Chatter gives me enough ammo to spam bullets
Plus lucky refunds some ammo sometimes
Don’t you get ammo back from bullet hell anyways?
You do, but does bk give absurd rof?
thats what allegro is for
Yup
also
revy with bullet hell
oh boy
pocket sniper
I haven’t tried but curious
it takes the only drawback away
having to reload every 6 shots is hod awful
with bullet hell you just dont
If I do another long run I’ll try that. My pistol was pretty useless after 25
revolvers with unhinged are never useless
Plus with plague revolver would probably be worth it
try diamondback too
that 100% crit chance is disgusting with critical
fuck it, im doin a run
see yall tomorrow ig
LOL
whats top 1?
Good luck and don’t forget your rubber band!
i dont have one
Top 1?
loops
Smh
havent checked yet
Ur bladder is gonna suffer
I'd advise taking breaks
On psn right now it’s 42 but he doesn’t count imo cause he was actually in a group
36 is the next
piss/smoke breaks are fine
but im not gonna need a rubber band for that
oh I'll beat that ez
Eating is important you know lol
LOL
someone up for descent? could use somebody to play with and just ''grind'' it yk
good luck
may RNJesus bless this run
Lol and restart until you get a shotty
Skill haste was a godsend
its cracked with defender
you got it up pretty much 24/7
oh
my
god
i go in for the first run
super 90 & defender
rnjesus is with me
ight, cya in 15h
Good luck!
I’m burning sage on your behalf /jk
I got to 22 before my game glitched and I was tied for 14th in the world for solo
What happened how did it glitch?
i found an absolutely disgusting combo
chameleon + bullet hell & bloodsucker
if youre feeling brave swap lady deaths talent with bloodsucker
Locked out of the room
thats what im running rn and i nearly onetapped nemesis lmfao
I used lady death, bullet king and diamond back
replace diamondback woth cham next time you run
in early game it has a 100% uptime
and in lategame you feel unstoppable
Yea I'm good
and getting 70 hits in really isnt an issue with bullet hell
I use shotgun because of opportunistic
yea thats fair
do you run lady death too?
bc that one is almost a must have on shotguns
75% dmg and a gap closer on top
^
yea thats cracked
Check #td2-build-advice
Plague + bloodsucker + bullet hell
Breath is far stronger than plague, and once your really setup bite can be very strong as well
damn, so i got 20+ crates and exotic cache dropped on ground and dissapeared with rest of caches?
thats great
field proff caches have higher override to inventory than exotic, simulation and rest of caches
They shouldn't disappear unless you left the lobby
well, they are dissapeared
finished loop 17 run, leaved descent and in front of descent door, it shows on ground, reloads and nothing here
still same session
not even reconstructed saved
to storage cache goes only optimization and simulation caches
Reloads what the gun or the game
neither, simple reload
like, it twice exited
im off this descent crap, 4h playing for profficient caches, no thanks
lmfao it do be like that
it be like that no playing no more
i can get those levels in 4h with exotics for sure, now it seems like just a wasted time
and to die, by what? a damn bullet through wall yay 😄
wasn't the room with the warhounds on a circular platform was it?
nah arena
i was behind one of those random boxes and i got sniped by a random across the hallway
haha, cause was gonna say screw that room. there's a stack of boxes that the enemies shoot right through every time.
ive noticed
i experienced wallhack from NPC in almost every room
but always on low loops so it isnt one hit
So this is new, just got to loop 10 and two people in our group are afking at the lobby and trying to make me and another leave/kick us so they can invite other friends and do some sort of loop 10 exp glitch? Guy said he started a script to just wait us out until we give up and leave
Anything that can be done?
i would cut out of there asap
Would prefer to find a way to screw them and have them not steal our loop 10 run, but wondering if they're no lifers who have all night lol
yeah if theyre attempting any glitch its time to leave before you get caught up in some shit thats against the rules
They can't do it while we're here, it's why they're trying to kick us both so they can invite their friends to do it
if you got time to waste, just decline kick until they leave
they need all time they can get lmao
If myself and the other don't reply to them trying to kick us, can they kick us with just 2?
Or do we have to hit Y to not get kicked?
that i am not sure for real, sorry
All good, it's never something I've had to figure out or worry about until now lol
yeah, that
First time meeting people in this game -this- pathetic
yeah
Sometimes caches go to mailbox btw
I don’t understand why those people just didn’t run just the two of them
yes, but only simulation and optimization ones
not exotics, not those with recipes
and inventory is mainly focusing on profficient caches to stash first
at least in my case
They have 4 people trying to take over our run, he already invited a 4th into our vacant 4th slot after we killed nemesis
And both of them keep trying to kick me and the other to invite two more friends, so they can exploit
Tbh, I think you should just leave. In the end, however they feel doesn’t matter. So I’m saying that they aren’t worth frustrating yourself and wasting your time.
^
Tell them they are a-holes and then leave
I think you need to make a sacrifice to rnjesus
wait hold on
Your pinky finger should do
i do have wifi but my ps5 aint picking it up for whatever reason
which one got ya?
Nice run! I loved that rifle
descent is so fucked rn that getting anywhere past 25 should be considered a miracle
idk, got one shooted thru wall sadly
yep
and i did that run only for 20 prof caches and 3 optimization 3 simulation caches, rest is lost 😄
I started only picking the same rooms to avoid dying behind broken cover
reboot the wifii router
oh dang
and im on an astronomical ammount of caffeine so sleeping isnt an option either
damn that sucks
i had perfect rng on my 5th loop aswell
damn that sucks
what i dont understand is how tf i got a spotofy update while not having WiFi
that one shall remain a mystery
probably downloaded it when you still had wifi and applied the update when your wifi went out
fair enough
but dude, im in the biggest mood for banging my head againsg a wall in descent rn
...turn off your PS and turn it back on?
What’s the solo leaderboard for descent looking like on PC? I’m curious
did it twice alr
wait hold on
it might be back
aaaaaand im back indeed
lets hope i dont lose a 20 loop run to this later on lmao
lmso
Some of the deaths are annoying
very much so. especially once you have a really nice loadout going and you have plague of outcasts, bullet hell and the crazy rpm from incessant chatter. then one bad turn and poof its gone
I’m confuzzled. How are y’all proc-ing incessant chatter? Do you let them come out of the door first?
i actualy didnt even have to try to proc it. it just happened naturally. i didnt even think of that til just now
but once you reload once when you got 3 or 4 guys near you and you have bullet hell. you dont have to reload so you dont lose the rpm buff
yeah, thats why i didnt notice. i only had to get the one reload with enemies near me and i was all set
yo i just saw a youtube video of a guy who did a run to loop 23 and opened all his caches to see if it was worth all that time playing descent. and the simulation caches are no longer god rolled items, its just regular caches like a field proficiency cache but named items can and/or might drop from them sometimes. overall he didnt save one piece of gear
none of it was worth while
except the exotics
Sounds like a really long and frustrating exotic component farm…. 🤣😆😂
shit yea
Same for me. I didn’t keep a single item I got for both of my long runs
weak
It was for the ✨experience✨
at least it breaks up the monotony of the rest of div 2
I wonder if there’s a way to get the descent outfit and the green watch and that
yeah the outfit is good
Yup same after doing nemesis once per week
It gets boring real quick specially starting loops lol
I never did decent looks weird
well its good for sometimes, but hardcore grind 30+ loops, its not really worth
too much time consuming and no chance to pause
either disconnects or alphas ruins progress totally
Ngl, I’m surprised they went with no checkpoints given the crashing problems y’all have on PC
I immediately thought of y’all when I heard about it
It's rather descent if you're into rogue-lites.
problem i had with going past loop 25 was the fact that i wouldnt really be getting caches, even if they were useless, just xp really
oh really, no one? boo this crowd.
not like you get better guns past blue either
alright fuck this
got a DC on loop 12 again
ion get why it doesnt let me keep my progress either
😂😂😂😂
nah not nice at all
got DCd at 12 and at 14 before
F
@jolly cave any clue why i keep getting DCd?
What in the hell happened lol
maybe theres a way to prevent it or smrh
Honestly no idea, but every time I have a DC problem, it's due to my tin-can internet.
I don't think I've DCd once in descent
Ah yeah...gotta love dcing at the nemesis fight, didn't just spend 2 hours oping myself just to quit.
I’ve had enemies just be invisible and shoot through walls and stuff for whatever reason
Then get hit with a delta
I've had enemies outside of countdown shoot me through walls lol
A bloody legendary minitank in capitol
In the emp room
They should add gear set talents to the exo talent pool
F*ck it, Pizza tower OST will guide me to killing my nemesis
I don't even know if they have plans to add more talents to the talent pool let alone gearset ones
Go to left corner
You'll understand if you've entered the room
I know but I'm able to make suggestions lol
Also idfk why unstoppable force isn't even in the pool
It should be there somewhere
Which is weird
You'd think it'd be a no brainer to just add more talents to descent as "update highlights"
Oh look at what we added
Eclipse oh man 🤤
Ok, cheating bastard doesn't want to get stuck.
?
REAAALLY having fun with boss level AI...
Wait it took you two hours to get to nemesis?
Doesn't take me more than like 40 minutes usually
Yeah it did on a fun run with others on all hard
Finally at the nemesis fight, then it fucking crashes.
Always dead by hour mark
Well, this round I appear to have a vec-k47
Tbh it sucks cuz mag size
Refills on kill
I agree! I’ve been thinking about that a lot. Even if they did a separate kind of descent that’s more of a sandbox kinda thing for fun and less for rewards.
Incessant chatter
Imma say this: Preservation is the quintessential talent
...I fucking hate the outcasts.
Not in this mode they're not, the flame units are tanky as fuck, same as the heavy gunners
The heavy gunners if they have special ammo are a pain
Oh and the shotgunners
Heavy gunners go down easy if you pop the belt or simply break LoS. Flamers are easy to deal with in general, since you just shoot the hips and the tank pops
Engies are an annoyance until you explode their RC, which causes them and everyone around the RC to gain abnormally long bleed and take explosion damage
Nah they like to set me on fire while in cover
Then just cover shoot them. Volatile, Composure and that one "extra damage as long as you dont take damage" talent should help
Yeah not up to loop 8 it isn't viable, sometimes bullshit just happens
Cover shooting also has a chance to set you on fire and expose you from cover
Yeah. But by that point, you usually have better armor, talents and damage, which means that you can move more freely and arent doing anything above medium
Hard is only viable until loop 6
Past that, guaranteed suicide
Not worth it
I know, that's why I died on easy because of outcast bullshit
Any other faction? I'd be fine
They spawned next to you?
First wave I blitz'd away to get obliterate value, tagged a suicider on the second wave then practically got stun locked
Dont use obliterate
it do be like that
why not?
Not worth it. Needs you to basically have one extra talent and full crit chance upgrades at the NSA station
Use Volatile instead
Same damage, virtually no downside
it most definitely is worth it lmao
Especially with an smg
theres an exotic called diamondback yknow
that one takes the obliterate value to the moon
Yeah, my run got bad rng and I only got one exotic talent up to loop 8
Incessant chatter ftw
thats not too bad
Yeah but you're relying on crits without much flat damage, while Volatile is applied pretty much all the time
i had bullet hell until 12th lmao
wdym without much flat damage
you get more damage by critting
Then there was that faithful run where i got 3 exotic talents, up until the nemesis bummed me by spawning in invisible
and crits happen 24/7 with diamondback
I was pissed.
Base damage. Which with base obliterate only goes up by 20% for only 5 seconds. Volatile is 18% but is active all the time
LF1M - Decent
well thats wrong
you get 3% damage for every stack up to 30 stacks, lasts 7s at t3
it does a hell lot more lmao
or it was t4, cant remember
That aint base obliterate. Base obliterate is 2% per stack up to 20%. Lasts 5 seconds base
well thats t1
Volatile is 18% extra damage t1
how much does it scale
18% extra damage. 25% less accuracy and 25% stability
lmfao
Ubi moment
Unhinged can make things handle like a mule at the worst times
nah
Just tap fire or get upclose and personal
t5 steady hands and an smg makes the drawback disappear
or you can keep it at t3 where its still manageable
Imma stack volatile as high as I can get it
Reminds me of spice from enter the gungeon
Camera just glitches out. Cant see
if you like to shoot for the moon
i usually keep it around t4

because tou really dont need that damage
favourite talent from the bunch though? Trauma
once you hit some nasty chatter combo youre good
The one talent I will say is underrated is gunslinger, the weapon swap extra damage one
It scales very nicely
A shame its got such weak upgrades
Nah. It doubles the damage and adds an extra second to the timer per tier
again, too much macro
Pair it with fast hands and boom
how does fast hands help it?
Faster reload means more time to use that extra damage
So an extra second to have a weaker gun out, compared to your bread and butter?
I ran it today and it worked pretty decent
obliterate, close n personal, unhinged, concussion, vigilence and allegro
thats what i run
and im not gonna replace any of those for gunslinger lmao
Really wish close and personal had a little bit more range
you cant, perk wont proc
has to be diff guns
it goes up to 10m
thats good enough, trust me
hell, 5+ is good enough aswell
Ah, gotta upgrade it
oh yea its basically useless until t4
but if you walk up to someone and pop their head you get a healthy 100%ish damage bonus
even more if both are maxed
surgical is a waste if you run diamondback
bc you get guaranteed crits anyway
Think we need better exotic talent rng, or guarantee it if someone does a hard only floor at the end
you cant do a hard only floor
it'll always toss a no hard choice at you
also, exotics being rng is fine
having 3 to chose from isnt
bc you might end up getting glass cannon, doctor home and the regulus knockoff
Does the talent choice upgrade give a 4th choice, you know, AS ADVERTISED?
no
talent = ability
poor choice of words
unless you mean the permanent upgrade
but also no
Yeah, I figured it'd give you a 4th exotic choice when it came to the end of rounds
nop
It would be nice if it did
it would avoid me getting 3 useless talents
I also wish that when you skipped exotic choice you got more currency
Should scale better the more loops you go up too, 250 isn't gonna cut it for resupplying
Tbh when you get up there you have unlimited currency really
I had about 35,000 currency at one point
That’s insane
Why wouldn’t you want free special ammo??
ion see a need for it
Special ammo just ends up getting wasted
….you’re not using the money on anything else
Oh
lets just say i really wanted that one perk
I don’t really do that. Both of my long runs had really great RNG tho
Wasted perk space imo
surely that would be better than bullet hell after 25ish loops
Would love to see that on a vector
Bullet hell might be an essential for running a vector
...can you get the negev?
nah chatter with 1 ammo perk is enough
In those slots, you could have had L10 leadership and L10 surge
Leadership is insanely OP
lmao
Spam cover to cover to get bonus armour ...while getting all your armour shredded for moving while the enemy is suppressing you
Sounds very op
its good in a cover to cover playstyle
Or…you could just move to the cover right next to you lol
I just always made sure I was positioned on a stretch of cover that could fit two people
can we go back to your statement tho
That's one second off an enemy that at that exact moment, could bum you
It's like running a dodge build with low dodge chance
Wulf, if you move under cover when you’re not directly exposed to gunfire, you will not be hit
also, i think im gonna try this chatter shenanigans
I didn’t max out on free blue or yellow slots
Tell that to the shotgunners
im 99% my idea could work after 25-30
just get a stupid ammount of rpm
reload once when they spawn in and just go ham
It’s all about positioning. I’ve never died to a shotgunner
shotgunners suck, low hp on those guys
i usually end up killing them on accident lmao
also, start running defender @obtuse flint
it eats up gunner bullets
you can facetank em all
...also why two shield skills when the shield skill is rarer than a reviver?
*talents
wdym two
Protector and vanguard
nah you go defender n revive
at t6 the defender gets 50% dmg red
toss some skill talents into the mox and you get a great uptime on em aswell
I still think you’re sleep on the decoy
But who knows maybe I’m sleep on defender. The world may never know
i see its potential
but then again id rather be 100% safe from snipers
which decoy doesnt do
snipers are pretty much the only thing that can kill you later on so thats what i want to protect myself against
I think it’s just that we have polar opposite play styles
we do lol
Cause leadership L10 is perfect protection from snipers
And I’m very curious to see how that goes for you after loop 30
if im ever in a situation where i need to use cover ive fucked up already
why would it change?
Hm...what's glass like?
Eh game gets a lot harder. Enemies are much tankier and do more damage
them being tankier wont change anything
More Rikers who EXCEL at pinching you
Think I'd rather breathe free then glass
I wouldnt touch glass with a 2 foot pole
its only 35% aswell
like
thats unhinged at t2
lmao
and it doesnt have anywhere near the risk
actually nvm unhinged has 36 so it has even more than glass lol
i used pisto only 2 days ago and won nemesis.
whats 15?
thats probably where shit hits the fan
I think you could pull it off until the much later loops. Tragically I did a couple rooms of loop 32 with pistol only and it was hell
No like a first wave.
It took me like 20 minutes to clear a close range room of hyenas with shields with a elite healer running around picking them back up
Lol
that sounded...off
it do be like that sometimes
you a vamp
ah yes. redbull gives you wings.
and i had a will to get WR on loops
but guess what
a DC on 14 and another one at 12
otherwise id be beyond 30 by now
like far beyond
I believe in you and your drive
i shall try again when i wake up, se yall
Good luck!
Well, vigi t6 this run, decoy is a must have
Ok that was very fair game. suicider literally martydom'd, I hs the bastard and he still detonated on me, and then I died by fire fuck the outcasts.
outcasts are imo most problematic
even rogues isnt that hard and annoying
no better feeling when you camp door to clear it, and then suicide runs out like maniac
Tbh, I felt like on loop 34, outcasts was extremely preferable to Rikers or hyenas
I was actually praying for them and got my wish granted
I hate them with a burning passion at the moment. Literally been the sole cause of ruining good runs.
vigi fucking 6, would have DOMINATED later on
Door camp with shotgun with enough distance that if they come out you have enough time to shoot
Then, hold position turn around and shoot the others that will run up to you in under 8 seconds
I tried to keep enough distance and used a flame turret to suppress a door, but those suicide fuckers didn't give two shits
Then one lucky molotov, sends me to death's door, afterburn is the nail
Like, I can't armour kit
Hottake, we need a free revive token, just a reviver that drops on the ground and gives us a continue in case of bullshit
No need to rely on a skill, if its a single use mulligan
Have you bought the nsa tech upgrade for haz pro?
Reviver as a skill is extra insurance, but not guaranteed
How so not guaranteed?
EMP, or some other related cancellation of skill
Also a very long cooldown for it to come back
A mulligan would be a fairer chance
Shit happens, sometimes you have no choice
Because ALL rooms are emp haz on that floor
That has happened to you?
Yep
I thought the game always gave you the option to avoid
Guess I’m a lucky Lucy
...yeah, I'm gonna probably need to play this as a group to have fun
Descent's really putting me through the ringer today on solo
🫂
...does anyone hit 'h' to matchmake?
no
we go the long way round, via the UI
or better yet, use the MM laptop in BoO

of course, thats the only way to matchmake no?
So what’s the meta strat for nemesis fight in group of 4?
run all the way to the fort at the west/left most area, buckle down, and DPS the heck out of them until you win. Don't forget you can get 120 incendiary ammo.
Is it forward left or just left of spawn?
left of spawn
Ty I’ll try that next time I’m with a group
👍
We usually go right from spawn into a small pit and take them out one by one as they rush. We've never seen them rushing all at once ... yet 👀
We never shoot until we stagger them with foam / fire bullets etc.
I mean, if you're exposed without CC - you're dead 🙂
We tried, but they spammed us with sniper-turrets / drones and stinger hives)
Anyone else love Leadership?
#1 most slept on talent
Shit I was asleep until my most recent run when I was looking for something to upgrade
I've only gotten it up to tier 9 and it's pretty strong if you choose blue cores and get your damage from red talents
I did a split of 6 blue cores and 6 red I believe and 4 yellow, and even then having double armor is just insane
L10 I believe is 100% extra bonus armor
Can’t be one tapped by snipers with double armor 💪🏾
💯
Ngl such a cheese to do a cover to cover to cover that’s directly next to you
I was having such a good time cheesing like that
Have a shotgun, 6 red talents that are desirable and just cover to cover and pop shot lol
I've only sold to ten when I beat my nemesis the first time
up to 17, duo, we did camp one door, smash it and then just run around picking them one by one from each side flanks and thats it
unless its cleaners, then far from door 🤣
For me higher than 10. I wouldnt start leveling leadership until like loop 15 at the earliest
cover play have much npc spread
What's your highest loop solo?
Not if you door camp
excatly
35
How long did that take?
hopefully they'll fix shooting through cover and nemesis godmode bugs
My after action says 13 hours but I would say like 9ish. I took a lot of breaks to do chores and cook and eat and walk outside. I just left my controller plugged in with a rubber band on the sticks
That's dedication 💪
this is so wrong
u cant tell me it isnt
you Volition, did great thing with moving around, not sitting whole 9-13h, but imagine, peoples playing even more without stopping
if you stop, Alpha hits and lets go again
but crazy long hours
loop 17, 4hours
Oh I agree, which is why I told myself after 35 I’m never doing another long run. Too unhealthy and unnecessary. I didn’t even get anything I wanted besides being high on the leaderboard which will only last a few weeks tops
got to loop 41 in a team of 4, 8 hours total.
leaderboards are worthless, health is important
they need to do some checkpoint system, either keep loops either keeps currency or something
you cant beat people on leaderboards, theres loop 141 guy
thats probably glitched somehow
Oh, psn leaderboard doesn’t have that problem
theres no way someone would sit 24+h playing this
and even without crash, disconnect, freeze
I was #3 last night and #4 tonight
Ive managed to get my nemesis defeat time to an hour and a half then I shut down lol
its only xp wise to play, each loop gives about 1, 1and half level, but again
40 minutes gets you 23 levels on average.
it's better than farming open world, it's consistent enough.
yes, as well as you can relax in descent as its different playstyle, not just missions, strongholds and cps
I hadn’t played the regular game since I started playing descent only like 4 days ago. Went back to the regular game and felt like I forgot how to play. I wasn’t used to not using cover to cover moves anymore.
lol
im personally, daily on descent 2-4h, rest is LZ
but until they fix cover shot and nemesis abuse, i guess i'll skip it for some time
Cover shot?
bullets from npc goes through cover and kills you
Ah yeah
it kills your mood when you die like that
Trust me I have many times
and nemesis fights, you waiting to see where he will spawn, at the moment you see fog around you, dude spawns on top of you, rip
I think I am aware of most covers that will get you killed
or throwing skills like hes damn magician, like rabbits jumping from black hat
To solve that, I make sure I’m in the middle of a cover tilt as he spawns
Hi. Is there any info about stats tab in Descent? Any posibility to check my haz pro, chc, chd, etc.? I know we dont have it propably for a reason but its killing me every time I see chd or chc tallents. I dont know if its worth to invest or just stay with Cameleon egzo talent.
thats why i stopped using them mostly, just run and gun, yolo mode, smg, bullet hell, criticals and thats it, there is moments where named enemies in arenas dies first, like its red npc, but those cleaner elites with flamethrowers and those shield guys, damn thats ammo wastage
not really, you can check levels of your talents and see how much it adds
armor and damage you can see % too somewhere
IMO an oversight that they didn’t add that
and i think player starts with 0 or some static stats
i think youre correct. descent is about rng and player skill. everyone starts the same. at 0
Not if you have all the NSA tech upgrades
yeah, you have some base damage %, armor % and thats it, everything else adds atop of that and calculates