#veteran-class
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Worse dodges you’ll get with it is 3 best is 5
I guess I'll equip my columnus
I don't like how trauma blessing sounds
It's just extra impact
That’ll work, still find it hilarious you can consistently stagger Mutants with the SA on the SIM shovel by just learning about poking their head mid charge
I'd rather get decimator
also fine
And flak instead of sprint speed I guess
Deci or Skullcrusher I’d say is the two you could think on
low point cost option for sharpshooter veteran to deal with carapace
Has very mid horde clear
Whoa, the Krieg must be jacked to disarm that axe one-handed.
It doesn’t have +cleave blessings so fighting bruiser hordes will be noticeably harder
The Kreig had Trauma on his shovel, the Traitor couldn't use Slaughter for power on his since he didn't score a kill beforehand.
Impact knocks him down, easy kill 
getting sick of these fraudulent waist-high barriers
whats the standard build for powersword + plasma gun?
honestly it's very good horde clear
I just tried it
How do you see this curiosity perks for vet toughness generator? +4 ability speed,+5 toughness,+30% toughness regeneration
Btw the toughness i regenerate passively is also given a 15% of it to my partners if I have born leader?
if the thing has like skullcrusher its gonna damage well with it
cause skullcrusher requires the enemy to be staggered to get the debuff correct
honestly just spam voc
No
Born leader scales from non-coherency toughness
Toughness regen is coherency toughness regen
They’re 2 different things and do not interact
damm it
Toughness regen is also just not that great for veteran imo
oh
U might get a bit more value out of toughness regen on Ogryn maybe
I said it because i tought it would be useful to give more toughness to the team,but if you say that is not that good
generally spamming voc achieves the same effect tbh
not that it matters +50is a high bar
zealot goes +100 and gives toughness damage resistance buts way slower
its just better really
knocks crusher on their ass vs slightly pushes them back
like its only not good on bulwarks i guess
i use frag
+4 ability speed is good,no?
knocks them down so i can shovel them
oh
its like uh, -4% cooldown from your total cooldown p sure
idk really
its good
it's one specialist less to kill to get my ability ready
if i get it on my 3 curiosities
Without it I have to kill 5
Im so excited for the emoji to be posted on Twitter to tease the update !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh,which one?
oh nvm
dumb question
XD
which curiosities would you recommend for my build?
There's a particular railing asset I swear always eats my first vault attempt.
It's just making toughness and spamming VOC
is it the one with the holes in it
The arched one
No, the one with the weird rounded bits.
Its in that one room in Archivum Sycorax, right before the first elevator/mid event
But mayhaps it is railings in general.
ooo yeah
in my case it’s either
- gunners not giving a damn about the fact that I’m crouched behind cover
- vAULT OVER THE BARRIER FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
The cover thing is real, that's why my vet is smol. I swear any taller and the top of my head sticks out or something.
Ain’t no way the height actually affects your hitbox like that
I mean that’s a neat attention to detail but also :(
I've no other way to explain why my max-height zealot tallboy gets lit up when crouching behind cover.
Guys does this activates Born Leader?
Just your daily dose of Melk teasing with lvl 3 Power Cycler
Half year gone and still no IV
At this point i dont even logon to the game anymore, just go check out if its there for laughs
Tbh 4 changes very little
It took me a year to get it
And I find I still do 2 hit combos most of the time lmao
Roll grays until get it at anoited?
Dont have the resources for it
Blazing Spirit for Trauma Staff took me 2 weeks of material farming and about 40 tries until i got it. And its 1 out of 7 and only lvl 3
This would be way more costly to do
rock n stone? 
You get a better chance of rolling for pc4 by rolling to transcendent then by rolling to blue
getting height reduction surgery so I can actually take cover behind waist-high barriers
every once in a while I remember Vet has a cover mechanic
and then remember to just crouch behind a box and aim to peek over it
We have a cover mechanic?
yeah
if you put yourself up against a wall near a corner and right click your character will peek out to the side too
no one uses it though
LMFAO
everyone is usually too busy running around to stop and taking cover anywhere
I usually forget it exists even in times when it'd be actually useful like for killing gunners/reapers from cover
Vet is the only class that can do this
Krall I how much to make me a short king with a bakery
Soft cover leaning is the extent of the cover system
Wtf
I
Why
This isn't mentioned anywhere in game
Fatshark gaming
Why only vet?
Vet is the only one who realised that cover is important
Zealots are too busy charging into melee to realise hiding behind cover and shooting from safety is a good tactic
Psykers are too busy thinking about blowing up their own head to worry about someone else shooting it off
Ogryns ARE the cover
I swear I took cover as my Zealot once or twice
I can't walk up behind an ogryn with a slab shield and peak out behind him
With that mechanic
don't worry I think I was 600 hours into the game (and mained Vet exclusively for those 600 hours) before I discovered cover peeking exists
Are you immune to shots and can you shoot back from peeking?
not totally immune but the majority of your body profile is safe so most shots will not land
i think they mention it in a single sentence of the class description when you make a new character
The fact more vets dont use cover still surprises me till this day
I see alot of vets playing like zealots and rushing in head first
my cover is faith
Understandable the Emperor protects
I just wish a zealot would mind my back while I take out shooters. Yes, I know the gunners are murdering us but I can't do anything is I got poxers on me
Shield ogryns are the best cuz they are just mobile cover
I usually play too aggressive pushing fast into enemy lines to get better angles on them
Just dodge and you don't need cover
I fallback behind cover if I turn a corner into something I realise is a mistake to run headfirst into
I mean, I'm a ogryn main most of the time, I am the cover
The vet lean ability should be around corners too because i hardly ever use it
I mean. Everybody puts away their gun if you're in melee with them
I'm like 90% sure it works at corners too
but I haven't used it in forever
I've gotten pretty used to dodging sliding and charging at enemy lines
clown dancing is too fun
Even with a power sword
one sec while I consult the ancient texts
Swap both blessings
Please share that ancient wisdom with me
U want bloodletter and headtaker
i should ask them for the wip version
Probably swap Bloodthirsty to Bloodletter and go Rev It Up to Headtaker/Slaughterer
I'd probably prefer Headtaker over Slaughterer
Unyielding and Carapace are fine
They'll mean you kill Crushers with it and demolish bosses
Don't do maniac
that's not necessary for this weapon LOL
Unfortunately I have 0 blessings unlocked for chain axe
As this weapon was ass for most of it's lifespan and I never bothered
It's probably vet's simplest elite killer
Is 12 just better than 4?
oh, melk sells 2 chain axes, one with bloodletter and one with bloodletter slaugherer
lol
thanks
Useful for once
I want to make one for my zelly
12 has better strike down, worse horde clear
Wolfer when he sees the next Reject squad dodge sliding through his sector
Can someone please tell me which catachan sword is this?
I know there is a good one
and a bad one
And one other I think that's also decent
It's the mk4
Most people like the mk4
First heavy is strike down
The others swap up the heavies
Emperor really gave me 3 good weapons today
Don't remember when I got anything even half decent last time
the silent trapper behind us when we're busy dodge sliding
krall watching the 300th varlet this day request a BBL
It'll be impressive when the ogryn asks
the sound that would make
Masoszi be like: I can't do stealth insertions when your ogryn is dummy thicc and his ass cheeks keep alerting the Moebian skyfire defences
lemme tap that ogrussy
how long does it take for a "salvo" to reset ? on both semi and full auto weapons ?
its tied to the weapon anim
so whenever it literally visibly sets back after a shot. opening salvo will light up
easiest way to tell
OK nice ty
Also does salvo blessing stack their damage ? for example, weakspot salvo + normal shot salvo ?
yes, they're also shots 2-3-4 in a salvo, not 3-4
Oh hey, Warframe pfp
(except for opening salvo)
Parry right before enemy swing connects
I meant Punishing salvo + Sustained fire, those stacks in damage ?
Yes they stack
yeah
all attacks are parryable, overheads you have to do it within the last ~300ms otherwise it eats all your stamina and guardbreaks you
I CAN PARRY CRUSHERS?
Advice : if you feel there's too much shit to do but wanna play still, don't take it as a sprint, just unlock stuff at your own pace and have fun. I stopped playing a long time ago because I burnt out. Fantastic game still tho
oh so there ARE perfect parries, interesting
yeah, i think for every other case it's just a somewhat notable stamina cost reduction
it's only overheads where it's particularly significant (and doesn't apply to regular blocking sadly)
I just got too much to play man
I gotta write DnD campaigns for my friends, be a Ninja in Warframe, keep up my declining apm in StarCraft, slay heretics for the Emperor, save the world (again) in FFXIV while maintaining an island, have chivalrous duels in For Honor by ledging anybody who's not a Knight, and play taxes atop my normal 9 to 5?
Life's tough
Havent played For Honor since like the first 3 months of its launch. I did enjoy the text chat as a lawbringer.
My best memory is being called the n-word by my own teammate. Funniest thing that ever happened.
Imagine For Honor. Combining technically a team hero game with fighting game mindsets
this is my favorite for honor memory
As well as Imperial Fist
really encapsulates the essence of the game
League of Legends fighting game 2XKO toxicity is gonna be wild
One of my favorite games was
I played League once. Not my cuppa tea.
Putting on my imperial fist logo and Lawbringer
Against a guy named Kharne
Anyway, I grenaded him to death and constantly ledged him
I'm not stupid, I'm not fighting Kharne fairly
Those e-couple shorts like for Valorant, wondering how thats gonna go for 2XKO
geez
why are MOBAs and fighting game communities so nuts
I've never even seen that behavior in MMORPG PvP
LOL
I played LoL a LOT but the gameplay got kinda boring and repetitive to me so I quit around the time they stopped doing their funny lore newsletter
Alliance side or Horde side? Also casual or rated? I was a casual only player so I never saw arenas/rated BGs
And you're not in creature conflict for ffxiv pvp, I've seen people get salty as fuck
Horde
People spamming certain chat lines in FF14 PvP when they're mad LMFAO
I am Alliance. We are natural enemies
that's basically red Alliance
I had an alliance alt. Worgen
My main was Night Elf because they were my fav faction from WC3
plus Shadowmeld in Warsong Gulch flag room for ambushing people
funny memories of instagibbing people
I was vulpera which is
Horde diet

Horde Zero even
A serious answer though. The way I see it. League especially has the issue with its formula that
In a 5v5 format
It's very easy for one player's overall skill or lack of it to snowball and exponentially fracture a team's cohesion.
Hmm
it's a staple for the competitive scene in any game but unfortunately even casual League has people being weirdly competitive LOL
This is why I thought HOTs was so much better
Because it was more teamcentric
1 person can't usually carry the entire game like in league
I can't think of any game community more well known for being awful than LoL
other than like
Casual competitive just hits
CoD lobbies
And fighting games are fighting games
I'm not playing casually in a casual minded lobby
I'm gonna play hard to learn
(And destroy people, and be destroyed myself)
what you doing if the end of your set goes like this.
Characters are never "perfectly balanced" outside a mirror match
Well, uhhh dota kinda
So people can throw blame wherever they like, inleiu of actual personal mechanical improvement
There is no other game that matches can go 1 hour of the enemy team not ending
And your team also kinda griefing
It's not like StarCraft 2, where pure mechanical speed is a big part of improving
The issue being, with any competitive game it's so easy to just micro focus on someone and notice every mistake and then saying "I could do your job better"
Sc2 isss, well at the start it is juggling your macro timing
I think wintersc2 put it best
You gotta learn the "real time" part of the game
idk I can think of a few games where you could play ultra-lame and force really long matches
Yes
Before you can even touch the "strategy"
WC3 you could just carve into a treeline and hide a base in the trees once you have space in some corner of the map forcing your opponent to check every single tile in the grid for your last base or to give up and forfeit
and if they find it
you've built another
on the other side of the map
LMFAO
When I played Planetside 2 with an outfit, we weren't the very best players on the server
But we were good enough and tactics and strategy carried us the rest of the way
No salt, just fun
I tried planetside 2 because a friend recommended it but I had no idea what was happening and it was always a zerg rush
I wasn't sure how to learn how to play the game so I quit after a few times running in with the group and dying + not even being sure what killed me
It's very overwhelming for a newbie too
If you don't have a friend to help you understand things the game sorta just leaves you to figure it out through trial and error LOL
I wrote a post on the reddit to be more inclusive and training newbies to learn the game because there's literally a hundred ways to die and not including your teammates
Hey all! Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm trying to do the long bomb penance and I cant figure out how to get the grenade to not bounce. Any advice?
Two good places to try for the penance
Chasm Terminus ammo pick up mission
When you reach the Valk, slot in all of the ammo, there should be a horde that spawns at your drop down into the area
So grenade it from the valk
You'll get it easily
I see, thanks for the advice I'll give it a shot!
throw it at enemies 40m away
high throw
You can test ranges in the psykanium
bascially u want the grenade to airburst
See how far you have to be for the grenade to detonate in midair
This is an outstanding visual aid lmao
Ill make sure to try in the psykanium first
Just rolled this 😮 Better to run Slaughter instead of Thrust on this, or Bloodletter?
Aye. It was a grand thing in that game to mass within a camped spawn room, Don exosuits or redeploy to pull a tank line to break a siege from the next base over.
But a lone newbie wouldn't know any of that. He'll just get farmed
Not a great experience
I'd appreciate you not scrubquoting something full of a bunch of slurs and bigotry.
Thanks Melk
swing wide & away
its really easy you just square up on those heretical fuckos and you go swish swash swoosh and then pow and when you here a fwwwwwish you go BLOCK and then whooom wham kaplak
and before ya know it
tertium is free
Whats this Ulgo
Surely an ogryn with as massive and sturdy arms like you has no problem 360ing the horde around you
sometimes the horde is really just 4-6 maulers walking on babysoft pillows so they don't make a sound and manage to strike you all at once.
Yeah but im loving using a chansword
Slaughterer
Groaners Dmg to carapace
Pay attention to backstab sound cue and use block when needed, try to get out of being surrounded asap
Got it
is there anyway to identefy weapon types ... i hate the spray fire weapons but it doesnt tell anywhere what a weapon does until i craft it... currently im looking for a Burst weapon but i havce no effing clue wich one it would be and just keep spening all my money going through them
Headhunter Autoguns
so whats the naming convention
So, autoguns come in three types: Headhunters are your burst (save for the tan version, that is semi-auto), Braced are shot from the hip, and Infantry can be aimed down the sights
also on another note can i get rid ofthe BOTS
Vraks Mk III and Agripinaa Mk IX headhunter autoguns are burst fire
“Kantrael” - lore stuff
“MG4” - variant
“Infantry Lasgun” - weapon type
the naming convention / lack of weapon info in this game is kinda ass ... and so is the AI, they kinda did a lot of things wrong they got right in Vermintide
variant?
what does that mean in terms of handeling
Each weapon type has up to 3 variants, differentiated by variant name
For guns it’s usually
High firerate low dmg
High dmg low firerate
Somewhere in the middle
For melee it’s moveset difference
god i already hate this system ... so basicly i need a spreadsheet if i wanna know what gives me what ... why coulndt they just tag the info on the blueprint (i mean they will probably become useless end game cuz i assue u get better stuff from drops, but still)
Yeah very confusing when you first get started
And sometimes some variants are just straight up worse than others lol
sounds fun
Fwiw before level 30 just use whatever the fuck you want
I can help

Because you're replacing everything anyway
Just try things and see what you like because pre 30 gear is going to have lower stats
It just depends on how ready you are for a 70+ page veteran guide
But it is really good I promise 
If you want semi auto guns, vraks 7, all the infantry lasguns, all the helbores, revolvers, plasma, laspistol all fit that bill
Map awareness and mobility mostly. Hordes spawn in from all angles and I like to know a map well enough to have a "circuit" to lead a horde through. If you keep mobile through an area hordes will naturally follow after you and get funneled in one direction
well im playing with a friend and my part is priority targets and distance so i kinda need certain weapons ... also i hate the hipfire on veteran ... kinda like it on Zealot tho
The clown must lead the circus! And this is a bloody parade
Bolter also fits since the hipfire is used less.than semi auto snipe
You can manually burst fire on an infantry or braced autogun too
Try vraks 7
It's headshot dependent and fits the sniper fantasy well
Just fire a couple of shots and release the trigger
Infantry autoguns are very headshotty
Try Accatran MG Mk II Heavy Laspistol
Best hipfire in the game
He says he likes to play at a distance
I don't think laspistol is a good pick if you stand far away all.the time
i know that i just like the feel of a burst and im 83% sure i read Burst in one weapoin description
Vraks 3 and Agripinaa 9
Headhunters 3 and 9 then
Oh
I hope you’re good at reading Roman numerals
If you like burst

If you want something locked to burst
imma give it a try after next mission ... currently broke from guessing wich weapon means what and beeing wrong
I mean the best headhunter is the semi-auto 7
Be warned
But the other two work
Vraks3 has a really nasty kick when ads firing on the move if you have low stability on the gun
The low stability thing seems like a bug
So if that part is off putting, it gets better
But yeah you want high stability to offset that
I saw a video and it was just cartoonishly big recoil
So I'm assuming the arbitrary low value is set to something it shouldnt be
Yeah a low stab v3 basically can't be ads fired on the move
Found the clip I made
Lol
That's the one, fatshart seal of quality
also other question, is there a waz to get 3 scriptures with 2 BOTS ... thez BOTS in this are just total ass
nope
No
Bots can't pick shit up
U need real players to join
not 100% sure but I think they're mad I incidentally knocked a dh off a ledge with shout that they wanted the killfeed for (they were probs gonna get it with zealot relic)
how did thez even mange to fuck that up
Bots are bad in this game
they were fine in Vermintide tho
bots are better than at least 40% of damnation psykers
Welcome to darktide, downgraded vermintide in many ways
bots are better than knife players
they were bad in vt too but like, better partially b/c there are fewer ratlings for them to walk straight towards until they die
ye kinda feels like they tried Vermin tide but didnt realise that Vermin tide is melee firtst ranged secondary while here its kinda the other way around and doesn't work
It's not the gameplay that's the issue
It's that so many features were just clearly made worse
Like item crafting, bots, no mission select, no moddability besides purely client side stuff
And there's dedicated servers but the hitreg BLOWS
it feels cheaper than Vermintide (quality) but more gimme ur money
there is a lot more going on in dt ngl, and since we know it was rushed they prob never put it on priority
One of my favorite things to come out with regards to darktide
How far you have to sink to have bum tickley not simply criticize you but be right about it
DT is still very much melee first
You can play regular missions melee only
Anything under high intensity modifier can be feasibly done melee only without gimping your team much
are you saying you're at a loss.jpg?
that's got juice
It's true
Undeniably big facts
I tried to like Vermintide but tbh I couldn't get into it
I played a little bit with friends
I have almost 1000 hours in Darktide and I'd guess less than 10 hours in Vermintide 1 and 2 if you added them both together
I have like 300 hour on Vermintide
The story is neat but the gameplay didn't catch me like Darktide did
Because maxed out level and decent gameplay for me
Your personal preference doesn't mean that my statement is incorrect
A lot of systems HAVE downgraded
Including the bots, mission select, and crafting
Morrowind can objectively be a better RPG to Skyrim but you can also see why it's not more popular
Better systems do not mean better game
I thought downgraded implied that LOL
Undeniably the crafting system came out worse than current vt2
And the bots are egregiosly bad
Anyway I like Warhammer Fantasty and played the MMORPG (and then later the weird private server version of it years after it closed down)
There's no reason for these kinds of downgrade
I couldn't get into Vermintide 1 or 2 though and idk why
When they already have a working system in a previous game
There was some pretty bad things with vt2 crafting to be fair
I do know it changed over time
But everyone I've talked to has told me that the crafting vt2 had on darktides release was way preferable
Hmm
Something about your shit not being locked 
Frankly I thought it was worse if you started out,
There's also much much fewer viable options
Someone starting out will have a miniscule amount of crafting resources
Crafting oranges is just tedious
Hmm, I'll collect my thoughts on these
I feel like, if you don't try to roll 380's you can just get by
Issue being the 2 lock system just sucks
And there's still only a hand full of blessings and perks you actually want
Fewer viable options is a balance issue, not a crafting system one
Or game design, if they're just really poorly made
But darktide has a few really shit blessings/perks too

Tbh if I have 70+ in important modifiers I accept it
Unless there's a specific breakpoint
I feeeel like starting out in vt2 is just worse
Due in part of the crafting but
Darktide level based, compared to uh, gear level base which gets weird
god VT2 crafting was dogshit
Very well could be, but I have a hard time imagining it's worse than the gacha casino nightmare, especially around release.
how do the weapon stats work are they just random or increase with player lvl
I feel like Darktide's system takes a long time if you are trying to roll a literally perfect stat, perfect blessing and perfect perk combo in a max 380 weapon to get the magical 550 but you can literally use even some 340 base weapons in Aurics and be fine (even if it makes the dump stats lower)
Plus like getting a solid 360-379 weapon is not hard at all for anything other than like
Rashad??
People just get too hung up on a weapon not having the ideal perks/blessings when it's not that big of a deal
9% mobility 
Helps for breakpoints sure
Have you seen my 0% damage Mk II Helbore
yes
I should try to run an Auric with it
No run on maelstrom
That's the true test
If I can run my 0% damage Helbore on Maelstrom then I can confidently say damage is a dump stat
Yeahh
Which I mean folks should be satisifed with Bare minimum 
People get hung up on a weapon as an excuse for why they're performing poorly
Give a random person in quickplay a God roll perfect 550 weapon and watch them still eat shit and need a rescue
It's not the weapon, it is the hands behind them
good hands and good weapon can pull off extraordinary things though
veteran class channel is the best cos tinycatbighat is here
“Useless fragger, Help me!” Literally me dying to 200 pings
Meanwhile people spending 40k+ plasteel trying to get cycler 4
just use cycler 2 
just get lucky
facts

Just roll better
roll better or get rolled
frankly it's worse when youtry to get it
But I can't say much
iirc I rolled only like 100,000 or so
Or melk
I forgor which
I spent easily over 40k just looking for t4 infernus back in the day
SWEETY LIBERTY
Spicy take: power cycler 3 isn't that bad to have until PC4 but yeah you are right that hunting for a very specific blessing is stupid LOL
You can build Power Sword to 1HKO Crushers
Unspicy take: The game doesn't respect your time
I'll add some more spice: it's not intentionally designed that way like the awful Battlefront 2 controversy
It's just incompetence, not malice, that has left us with a system that is so awful LOL
The devs know it is a problem and are working to fix it unlike Battlefront 2 where people calculated that to unlock Darth Vader and get all the related cards would require literally thousands of hours LMFAO
Oh no, it is intentional
The devs have known people hated it since the game launched.
It's only very recently that they actually said they'll do something about it
100% "player retention" at work
Idk if it's intended to make you grind for hundreds of hours to not have one blessing
The grind is intentional. The amount of grinding is not
Meanwhile devs: 🧊
but I am an optimistic clown
Be a realistic clown instead
There are no realistic clowns
Those are just normal people
Pessimistic clown doesn't suit me
They can determine the average amount of grinding for things mathematically
They can, but did they?

As long as it's capped
I point to the Battlefront 2 thing again where they made a comment so dumb that it got the record number of downvotes on reddit
Which it currently isn't
Guarantee that most of the company, if not the entire company, had no idea the grind would be THAT bad
Companies hire analysts specifically to make/adjust systems to maximize "player retention"
Most of the company isn't even in charge of doing any given thing
You have people specialized into doing the thing, doing the thing
Yeah so someone calculated how long it would theoretically take to grind something on average and someone else looked at the data and signed off on it
But some people get PC4 within the first few hours of trying to get it
And others grind for months with no luck
Yeah
No matter how you analyze that, you will get outliers in the extremes and the minority will always be the most vocal
Gambling is a heavy incentive for player retention due to how the human psyche works

Not necessarily true
I doubt they are unaware of their own system
There's been a vast amount of bitching from a very large amount of people about the crafting system
The point of it was to keep ppl playing when we had less content
Not simply a vocal minority of people who were unlucky
I agree which is why I say it's design by ignorance not design by intentional maliciousness
Back before mael and aurics and skill trees and whatnot
Which is how companies try to pad out their content
Introduce ridiculous grinds to keep hamsters on the wheel
I don't think they are ignorant of it, they chose an rng system intentionally
This is how MMO's work
I don't really call it malicious either though
It's just grind padding
Sometimes people get upset when it's not there too bc modern gamers have been conditioned to need a carrot on a stick to do stuff
Sure but it has to be taken in context. Pretty much every Darktide player can agree the crafting system needs improvements but if you narrow it down to Vets (one class) trying to roll a blessing on one weapon and narrow that down further to people who spend months on bad RNG you put the numbers through a sieve until you get objectively a vocal minority for that specific problem
PC4 is one of the most egregious examples
You're trying very hard to play devils advocate for fatshark
It's still a very small number of players affected
pc4 is the most egregious example, where even the mazed rats still chronically playing darktide struggle to get it
I don't rly understand your argument because nobody thinks the crafting is annoying but only for pc4 specifically
Nah I'm not saying they're good at designing the system. I'm saying they were dumb and didn't foresee how bad it could be or would be even with whatever data was cooked up by analysts
I took months for bloodletter iv myself 
And you base this on what?
I think the crafting is extremely annoying
The state of the game being as goofy as it is
That means it's conjecture on your part
Are you sure you can point to it and say someone specifically wanted it exactly this way?
It's conjecture on both our parts
Well
No, there's a logical reason why game companies try to force long grinds into their games
Wow i walked in on a massive nerd fight
I think you can guess that it was intentional cus we know they scrapped a better system
Yes, there is. And there's also a logical reason why the systems in place would be unintentional too: people in charge misjudged how bad they would be from pure ignorance
Remember they talked about a better system initially and scrapped the whole thing and we had a dead crafting menu that said coming soon on every line
I think cause they knew the game had no content on launch
This is honestly pretty tame LMFAO
You should see how silly I get when I talk about how much I hate leavers in games
That's a very generous assumption that conveniently shifts all blame from fatshark for no real reason. They could've done things much faster, even simple things like removing the locks.
I just feel like that was a symptomn of the game getting rushed out of the door
Barebones talent
But they ONLY did it after a truly immense amount of complaining and the game nearly dying.
No no, that is not my message. It is still their fault. Being ignorant does not absolve someone of fault. It just explains motive
Except they quickly finished it but with locks
Which really was a head scratcher
If they didn't intend it to be this way the locks wouldn't even exist
They thought it would be fine and I absolutely agree it was designed with the thought of player retention in mind. Grinding is intentional. This level of grinding was not
I just thought that was normal
I swear modern games hinge on the >You can only change so many settings
It took them time to get around to it but they do recognize it is an issue that needs to be fixed
If it wasn't intentional they could've simple changes in a timely manner.
I mean u have to intentionally add the locks compared to just all 4 can be changed freely
yeah
They chose not to
If they didn't think it was a problem there would not be a crafting system rework in the pipeline
It's Fatshark. Timely isn't in the dictionary (except for lately because wow the updates have been coming out in what feels like a reasonable amount of time?)
you can?
I don't think it's a coincidence that only now they agree to make things a little better lol
Yes
Corporations do whatever they think is best to try and maximize profitability. Even if the audience finds it severely unpleasant, as long as they tolerate it, the corpos will continue to do so.
You can literally 1HKO Push Attack them
In any case I’ll be playing DRG s5 tmr 
with infiltrate damage or something else?
I am not home or I would show how
Fatshark has determined that either it's no longer working like they wanted or that their plan just failed.
Unnecessary for 1HKO
That's why it's changing now.
They follow the money trail. Fatshark is a publicly traded company, they are absolutely beholden to more than just themselves.
Keep in mind sneaky saying "u can do x" does not necessarily translate to something practical or worthwhile
Yes I agree. They looked at the data and assumed it'd be fine. This would make replayability longer. Where we disagree is where their minds were at after seeing the data on how bad it really is
Just that it's physically possible for it to be done
You're attempting to absolve them of purposeful blame for really no reason
me holding my iron willless veteran build without keystone in front of her:
Especially with tencent holding the reigns
Nah I just err on the side of ignorance over malice universally unless I see otherwise like the idiot at EA making the funny "sense of pride and accomplishment" comment
The crafting is the way it is because FatShark management believes it is the main factor in player retention, that in turn leads to more cosmetic sales and that makes their bosses happy

People are generally dumb
Precisely
People are, but higher ups in game development aren't regular people
looking in a mirror taught me that
And people making decisions in corporations typically must have an understanding of these things
The majority of the dev team don’t play the game
Those people are so disconnected from reality I doubt they can even comprehend the decisions they make
They can be both malicious and ignorant
But the devs? Probably just ignorant
You doubt it, but corporate sociopaths are very real
And there's a lot of them
The devs do what the higher ups tell them to do
I know I see them weirdly often with how many conventions Vegas hosts
If they say "make line go up"
Then they make line go up, even if it sucks from the consumers perspective
A lot of them seem like they have two brain cells competing for third place though LOL
There's no reason to assume total incompetence when it's very common place for these kinds of practices in games
Probably doesn't require too much effort to hit the 1HKO Power Sword Crusher kill but that is a clown science session for after work
I am eternally trapped at work
circus
I can find minimum investment to hit it later
Fatshark ultimately answers to Tencent, who will always push for maximising profit
There's also no reason to assume even the highest most malicious suit believed a single blessing would require 4+ months of constant and focused farming and intentionally desired it
hope tencent just explodes one day
There is a reason to assume, it keeps mazed rats playing 
It's bad, to an extent that is by design, but to this extent?
and varied luck to a point you can get one less than a week or over 4 months
It should be roughly the same investment as chainsword one shot
An rng system has outliers as an expectation
The people in general would call it doomposting, but if the numbers don’t improve, DT will enter EOL faster than VT2
It's just lazy, lmao.
They.could have just picked a straight grind if they wanted to avoid that
I saw a Psyker main come in saying they wanted to try Vet and were asking how to change their first legendary Power Sword. It had PC4 LMFAO
god damn
Could've just been a prank
I hope yall told him to change out pc4
Maybe but it's funnier to believe they were genuine
People are actively playing other classes for penances
Speaking of which
vood thing people are doing this btw
Despite work I am SO CLOSE to getting the last few points to get the outfit finally
know a guy who exclusively plays veteran
I agree. I want more class diversity than 3 Zealots + me every match
That gets so boring
4 psykers
What penance
I am 30 aurics from finishing all of the penances
I have to do the Zealot 1 wound 90% of a match in under 20 minutes one to finish out Zealot and since it is private games only and my friends don't play anymore I have just given up on it LOL
I'm just grinding out points elsewhere
You have 2500 barrel kills?
Can help if you wish, is very ez
When @narrow frost gets back in 30 mins we will carry you
its p easy
Yeah
Damn
I fucking hated it
I have literally every single other class penance from Vet, Ogryn and Psyker. Zealot has 3 penances and they're all tied to doing that one thing

you don't have to talk in strike teams
In only at 600
I am at work so I couldn't
Also yeah I know it is easy but it requires private matches so I was vaguely hoping to do it when the bolt pistol drops and my friends return LOL
That's a feature not a bug
But I might join some Vets here for a run
I've played a little with some people here now
You implied that Backuo was a bug
Less sneaky than before
Who tf
And?
The guy with the highest level I've ever seen was objectively terrible
Doesn't really mean much
I think Fox is the highest vet main I have played with
He's 1340 something
I had a couple of guys help me cheese it when we were running karnak twin achievements
How did you cheese it if you just played it
Saw a level 4500 ogryn who died in 13 seconds
That's another one I need to do. Secret hard mode twins LOL
korean guy who only plays vet for 3k hours
mains agrapina shotgun of all things
Well that's easy. We skipped. I found some fire
I played with a dude who was 5300 something and he fully died 5 times
Got myself down to under 20 percent. Waited 10 minutes
Then killed the twins in the next two, three minutes
Mean while I'm level 100 Vet with a 30 game Auric Maelstrom Survive streak 
hes like always taking less than 100 damage unless a really suckish special group silence ambush them or mutie grabbing him and then gunner blasting him while grabbed and point blank happens
I do have an issue with holding W tho ngl
... so if you'll just stand next to this barrel here...
The giggle number
My last penances are
I have no idea what level I am LOL
69
At least level 2
I am sorta curious though
Atleast
Just not curious enough to download true level to see
250 auric games, ring master, 1000 + barrel kills, and dream team
Pimini
Severe drop-off after level 700 usually
Only someone mentally disabled plays that much of 1 class
It’s either a drop off or they are peak
One of those is much more common than the other
I'll let you guess which lmao
Cyra is the best zealot player, level what, 3450?
Cyra barely even know her

Well I'm going to go see how bad the teamates are in Maelstrom fellers
Let us know how many quitters
Haha... Yeah...
salvageable?
Judge for yourself
Reload is good on this shotty, you can swap deathspitter
Man stopper is fun
No one even quit crazy
what about the two psykers at the beginning
yes lmao
I was too focused on gaming
they quit before the first medicae
and a third zealot quit while i was picking them up near the second medicae
worth using over a damage perk?
how does prestige work in terms of levels
wdym
1-30 in terms of exp
after lv30 it's the same XP amount per lvl?
True level should be base game
most people are proud of their level
so idk why it isnt
Like i'm gonna be toxic regardless of scoreboard so fuck it right
then just run without mods, liberate yourself
no
Lets leave out true level and any kind of marker to show you are a long term player and instead... how about this hits blunt we make a trash rng crafting system for long term player engagement
Every time hadron bricks my shit and spits in my face I feel a little more engaged
Well that does sound a lot like marriage 
guy fucks
Rip my survives in a row Backup blew me off the side with a barrel
he was doing his penance
lub
i love when 2 or maulers are spaced/staggered in such a way that when you dodge the first mauler, the second mauler semi-inside the first mauler magically phases out of the model of the first one and delivers the sticky overhead
the first one gave birth
was thinking if i was seeing halucinations, why are you here lmao
anyway hi
hi
Hi! could really use some meta advice and guidance, or some people to play a round or two with while talking, or both!
level 30, mostly meta, at least as of recently
plasma powersword voice of command
Ciag is the highest dps automatic, revolver and plasma are generally considered the best semis. There's other good weapons that don't stand out as much as well like the vraks 3/7.
You'll get better luck with more specific questions
People are less inclined to hop into voice chat with strangers
fair, fair. Just talked to a guy, got a lotta good info. Appreciate y'all nonetheless!
Why do so many players quit mid run? What’s the advantage?
when do they quit?
Half way through the run usually
sometimes people doubt the team; sometimes they just lose connection honestly; sometimes something in their life comes up, like they have a phone call or someone close to them needs something.
Until I replaced my power supply, sometimes it would short out in the middle of a game and shut my PC down.
I doubt all of these people are having power supply issues
but in my case, the other 3 people didn't know. I just disappeared and never came back; my point is that we can't press a single purpose onto why people leave games -- especially not something as malicious intent or ragequitting. Context is important.
I mean yeah it depends. If the person went down multiple times in a run they might feel ashamed of their performance and leave because they feel like they're forcing the team to carry them. Or if they disconnect the first time they go down then it is definitely a rage quit. It depends on what's happening and what difficulty. You'll see leavers being lame often on Aurics because of the penances for Auric Storm Survivor and Auric Exemplar currently not counting going down against the achievement if you disconnect before you die
I prefer people to need to be carried
Sometimes people have a valid excuse but a lot of the time they tend to be pushing difficulties they're not ready for and being too prideful to lower the difficulty while practicing
It's boring when I don't need to carry tbh
I like playing with newer players because everyone started somewhere
They are learning
I hate playing with leavers because they're losers
If someone is abusing the mechanic of leaving and reconnecting to avoid going down they're pretty lame
I'm pretty fast in laser focusing to a downed squadmate to rescue them but sometimes people disconnect and reconnect anyway and it's so bizarre
bringing my 540 autogun to t1 and just using bash
I will protect a newer player as much as I possibly can. If I notice a leaver disconnects every time they're on their knees I will not bother to try to rescue them
No use attempting when there will be a bot where they're laying in a couple seconds anyway
two nights ago I saw an ogryn, maybe out of sheer method, bull run from the group in the middle of a horde to rescue a bot and about wrecked the whole game
I was playing stealth-spec, but it got hairy
I had a weird match where an Ogryn joined next to me, immediately went bull rush right into a bunch of gunners, died trying to swing at one gunner while out in the open in front of the rest and then instantly disconnected
I think that's the fastest I've ever seen someone join and leave
They were probably in the game for less than 5 seconds total LOL
I didn't even get a chance to try to rescue them
I know I've definitely charged at like, a line of gunners out in the open just to see if I could make it there
I usually don't lol
it feels good when you make it just to the gunner line and they begin to bleed
is this good
i mean the base stats
Ye
whats the strat for marksmans focus penance
do i just have to keep my crouch key in a chokehold for half the game
crouch, use shred grenades
and also psword
there's a setting to crouch and uncrouch with a toggle
i have hold crouch bound to alt now
warframe has taught me that ctrl to crouch is one of the worst default settings of all time
why?
one of the core movement mechanics starts with a crouch
Stack it up then just crouch melee a horde
technically a slide
and the space ninja game builds maps around the assumption that you are constantly using this movement mechanic
currently watching a lacerate knife + run n gun staff psyker spam ready/unready in queue
this auric maelstrom will be fun
people keep leaving in auric when downed
cheesing the titles
like dang titles what else they want a medel?
Either they felt shamed for being down and left without getting hurled insult from someone else. Like I did bring recon in damnation got team wiped (before talent rework wasn’t a thing)
nah they're just cheesing Auric Storm Survivor and Auric Exemplar
So they do it to get the title or to keep the title?
Yes to get the penance done for the points and title
Everyone must earn the battle pass armour at their own rate
Some people just cheese it hard
yeah, i dont even want it it reminds me of halo 3 helmets on xbox
Battlepass surely a work. Especially the missionary guardian. I think those quite a run to get.
smart ogryn
They weren't that bad
hab dreyko maelstrom moment
two stealth vets and neither seemed to remember that end event got reworked
anybody up for a game?
I want it because more cosmetics but also because even if someone cheeses Auric Storm Survivor and Auric Exemplar, to earn the armour means they did a pretty big grind
There's only a max of like... 4860-ish total possible penance points in game I think
You need to do 4500 to get the chest piece
Even just being able to ignore 360-ish points of penance points likely means someone got a LOT done to earn it
You can't earn it by only doing the full achievement list of one class
You'd need to do multiple
I'm just upset at people leaving, or complaining and leaving, or getting downed. I picked up a grim book and one person said "no" and left.
It's usually a good practice to ask if everyone is ok with grims before picking one up
Or to ask at the beginning of a mission if people are ok with grims
Some people bounce into quickplay without thinking and get dropped into a mission with grims
They should probably implement some way of excluding mission types players don't wish to play with when queueing quickplay
People could turn off a modifier so it doesn't show up in quickplay like lights out, vent purge, grims, etc.
There is no room for cowardice in the Inquisition
whats the 2nd blessing for power sword i should be looking for? or its up to my build
Sunder,bromomentum
Brutal momentum or sunder
Quick play filter would be nice but prob not a priority feature for FS

Solo play will be added next week.
Wow
Like solo n bot?
Or just like a private game
I'm kidding.
with the option for true solo
Never gonna happen
Do they have a suggestion box somewhere
