skitarii-class

[feral jacinth]

Plus moebian steel is pretty valuable stuff for making machines of war so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that they want some

[queen raft]

Yeah that's why Hadron wants you to take the Foundryplex

[karmic verge]

But do we have his social security?

[queen raft]

Loose canon vet asks 'why don't the karkers just blow it up?' and she replies "Spiky ones return forge to operational status. Spiky ones use steel to make tanks. Understand?"

https://youtube.com/shorts/ckKPq3Ez5dk?si=ApWR9-pRPZvxwhNs

[feral jacinth]

Honestly a tank commander boss would be neat

[queen raft]

him vs Pask

Was anyone also dissapointed that Knight Commander Pask was not a.. you know, Knight Commander?

And that he was driving a leman russ and not, you know, A KNIGHT

(He's the guy from No Man's Land)

[feral jacinth]

YES BRO I thought I was about to see a Castelan roll up or at least a Wardog but no we got a karking LEMAN RUSS

[pallid rock]

The atoman budget is in shambles

[queen raft]

They found House Tyrannis (I think?) mentioned in the files, as well as the House Tyrannis homeworld

The main Questoris Imperialis house

[feral jacinth]

Spent it all on plasma guns

[queen raft]

House Terryn

[feral jacinth]

House Terryn uses tanks instead of knights 😭

[feral jacinth]

Oh the box art fellows

[queen raft]

That's a new addition alongside all the files pertaining to skitarii

[pallid rock]

That titan chain sword looks so goofy with their range of motion

[queen raft]

So I imagine there will be dialogue hinting or atleast mentioning Imperial Knights with skits

[pallid rock]

Like a crab with a sword

[feral jacinth]

Its built for knight on knight combat but it’s definitely have to bend down to hit a tank lol

[calm bane]

would be nice to finally get new enemy faction, like genstealer cultists or some shit....

[opal thistle]

This looks interesting

[karmic verge]

His title would have been princeps or smth

But i get the confusion

Also its not pask is it? Thats the table top hero is it not

Its Drago or smth

Unless im stupid

[opal thistle]

Knight commander dragor

Or was it draigor I forgot

[feral jacinth]

Was expecting him to roll up in this

[karmic verge]

Not titan but yeah they do look a little awkward haha.

Funny enough the OG knights were for human colonist ships and did menial tasks like cut trees as well as protection vs dangerous aliens.

[jagged marten]

knight commander dragor

[karmic verge]

Dragor dang i almost had it

[feral jacinth]

Plasma gun for farming crops

[karmic verge]

But yeah Pask is the guardsmen hero

In the table top

He doesnt have tournament legal rules atm i dont think

[jagged marten]

dragor does have alot of enthousiasm

[karmic verge]

Dragor imo is our lgbt representative and I support his gay relationship whole heartedly

[karmic verge]

That would be funny!

[gilded osprey]

release the 4 skill trees in a trenchcoat class

[opal thistle]

My concern with this layout is that it looks like u can spend all 30 points without ever changing blitz, aura, ability or getting a keystone

[karmic verge]

As in you think people will unintentionally nerf themselves?

[opal thistle]

Yea some people genuinely take 0 toughness nodes on vet tree

[pallid rock]

No keystone vet taken to the extreme

[karmic verge]

Omg

I dont play vet but i cant imagine not picking toughness related stuff

[grand sluice]

Shrimply don’t get hit

[wet ginkgo]

Can't you already do it with other classes?

[karmic verge]

I suppose thats true keystones are always optional its really just blitzes and abilities that are hard to avoid without purposefully not spending pts

Now i wonder if any class can spend all 30 pts before abilities

[little lagoon]

Skitarii tomorrow?

[karmic verge]

Maybe zealot? Their early part of the tree has alot of nodes i think

Skitarri tomorrow!

[opal thistle]

It’s not possible on any other class except vet if u spend full 30 points and go down to reach keystone

On vet u can actually do that and miss all 3 toughness boost nodes

[jagged marten]

skitarii will def have keystones

[queen raft]

ah

Princeps is for titans

[opal thistle]

Keystones are really “optional” in name only

[queen raft]

Fairly certain knight pilots are called knight pilots

[queen raft]

Skitarii TODAY

[jagged marten]

(i wouldnt skip keystones at all)

[karmic verge]

Yes sorry that is what i mean, like every class can spend all 30 without having to take one. But like blitzes are so low I don't think its possible to spend all 30 and not take one

[karmic verge]

Apologies i am only half right, princeps is only a possible title for questor mechanicus knight houses not all knight houses.

Most knight pilots are referred to as scions

And you are correct titans are also princeps, but its not unique to just them

[lean glen]

You know, given the long galvanic rifle and the great coats of the Skit, I can almost hope for a forgeworld that gives us a blue coat to make a skit called Washington-Prime and just copy pasta that one meme

[dense solstice]

Someone gotta make the Raeganator from wasteland 3

[dense solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/wasteland-3-statue-of-reagan-ronald-reagan-communism-communist-gif-10158545920635805887

[lean glen]

A Titan called Liberty Prime

The scion just really hates the colour red for some reason

[jagged marten]

actualy this is a massive statue of ronald reagan

[lean glen]

And it's PERFECT

[fringe lake]

Might call my skittles ‘ToasterCollector’

[lean glen]

Toast-R-Seeker

[gusty siren]

How about... Freeman-λ-Ӡ

[haughty galleon]

Found the bit where this was made. Basically just extrapolated the bottom branch to match the other three shown in the video and put ability/blitz/keystone/aura in that order around the whole tree.

[gusty siren]

i better see some greek letters or i'll be a tiny bit disappointed

[rugged wasp]

nope, nurgle only now and forever

[gusty siren]

okay i think i have my skitarii name figured out 👍

[gilded osprey]

oh

sigh

[gusty siren]

totally the skitarii class yup definitely not just validating letter choice on a veteran

i'm actually a month in the future

fatshark gave the skitarii twin chainsword arms and told nobody about it

also Hadron-Ω-7-7 is finally romanceable-

[frigid monolith]

Holy

Can we be blitzless?

[gusty siren]

AND you can play doom on the mission terminal's holo display

[frigid monolith]

Skitarii tend to get more jazzy the more advanced they get in career or trust.

[karmic tiger]

triangle is usually delta, im actual amazed the skitarii chat is already online xD

[frigid monolith]

As for new enemies
I want
Hereteks

[dense solstice]

So you’re telling me we can just whip out fucken saxophones on a level up

[gusty siren]

yeah delta 63-63

the numbers are a reference to a book

might go with lambda instead since that's closer but i liked bioshock 2.

[karmic tiger]

ye, i cant read except grimsys 😢

[gusty siren]

to my knowledge I can't make the name λ-L17L6363

[frigid monolith]

God imagine...

But I mainly mean:

• Willing Skitarii are vastly more numerous than unwilling; its like a whole great honor to become one.
• Willing skitarii are usually left pretty individual until they fuck up.
• If they dont fuck up, or if they do good, they can gain more responsibility, and thus more autonomy.

[gusty siren]

maybe Andromedus..
damn now i'm back to thinking of names

curse ye!!

[sterile loom]

Do you think they'll finally let us use special characters in name generation with the skitarii class

[frigid monolith]

Despite all this there is usually a way for the tech preists commanding them to go "Lmfao, do exactly what I say"

[gusty siren]

well you already can

[sterile loom]

I want to use greek letters for immersion

[karmic tiger]

the sign itself is "lamda" but the rest must be some kind of code

[gusty siren]

what i posted was valid

[sterile loom]

really? I was having issues when I put them in..

[dense solstice]

Someone was mentioning before the skitarii we play as can possibly be old as fuck

[sterile loom]

I am unworthy of the omnissiah, clearly

[dense solstice]

Seeing how their alpha primes

[gusty siren]

Lambda-17, Lykos, 6363

[dense solstice]

And all that

[pallid rock]

Freshly made ones

[frigid monolith]

If you wanted them to be, sure. It's a "for life" position, after all.

[pallid rock]

They mentioned that the customization is going to canonically be the upgrade process

[dense solstice]

Don’t you have to actually be commended enough to even be a candidate to become a alpha ?

And what I read

[frigid monolith]

Skits can

Technically

[dense solstice]

Getting commended is rare as fuck

[frigid monolith]

Eventually become tech preists

Good luck with that though

[karmic tiger]

im jsut too lazy to read more into warhammer lore, it takes longer as a college degree

[dense solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/expand-on-that-seth-meyers-late-night-with-seth-meyers-tell-me-more-explain-gif-20031393

[frigid monolith]

It just hard. Many martisn become skitarii to try and become tech preists.

I don't know of any in lore who were revealed to have joined this way, though

[dense solstice]

So it’s like a mandatory service thing?

[gusty siren]

it's like levelling up from Appliance to Appliance-owner

[frigid monolith]

It can be mandatory if your forgeworld is fucked enough

[dense solstice]

Well that’s fucked

[frigid monolith]

But no its usually volunteer

But like

Its EXTREMELY praised

Skitarii are almost all zealots

[dense solstice]

I’m just trying to piece together the whole lore behind them

[frigid monolith]

Who live and breathe the omnissiah

[dense solstice]

Like what I saw is

The alpha primes are far more advanced than the regular skits

But to become one

You need basically luck and a long service

[gusty siren]

skitarii are pretty venerated, but still used as tools
it's still 40k after all

[frigid monolith]

Not "far more." I mean I guess as far as 40k goes yeah.

Its mostly autonomy and equipment

It makes the most sense to send that specific rank of skitarii on the kind of missions that occur in darktide

[dense solstice]

I’m ngl I figured they were sent because we found something giga valuable

And the admech was like

“Secure at all costs”

Then just sent out the special forces

[gusty siren]

it's like a spectrum between uhh
Named Character, souped-up techno-guardsman, or a remarkably competent servitor

apparently we're the first one !

[frigid monolith]

They need to:

• Work in small teams without direct supervision
• Make decisions on their own without said supervision
• Work competently with the others in the team, Skitarii or not.

ALL of this

Is very hard for a "basic" skitarii to do

[gusty siren]

good for us! not for atoma
atoma is in supreme peril it should NOT come to this

[frigid monolith]

Not because of just lobotomies, but because a lot of skitarii action is very formulaic to begin with

[dense solstice]

I’m ngl

[frigid monolith]

Stay in x formation. Fire at y sector. Obey z instruction and do NOT waver.

Improvisation is a huge no no for a soldier of that type.

[dense solstice]

If it wasn’t for the moby steel and the admech factory

I doubt the admech would send people

[gusty siren]

they wouldn't, it's all self-interest

[frigid monolith]

^

Reminder that a lot of the reinforcements are here because they got caught up in their own goals

[gusty siren]

which yeah that's exactly how the mechanicus do

imperium at large, really

[frigid monolith]

Arbites are ONLY here because the mowbian domain, in specific automa prime, wasn't properly sending troops for the tithe

[gusty siren]

individual competency mismanaged to incompetence
re-managed sometimes to semi-competence

[frigid monolith]

Its only after showing up that they went "uh what the fuck"

[dense solstice]

I’m guessing for the Admech’s sake, securing that factory and holding it is important to a continuous stream of alpha models

[frigid monolith]

Meanwhile ghe moebian 53rd, and dukane herself

Are ONLY here for a ressuply

And then realized there was a cult

And went "well I guess we're doing this now"

[gusty siren]

it also implies the possibility of further facilities and valuable technology to plunder recover in the name of the Omnissiah

[dense solstice]

Little fucken tech burglars

[gusty siren]

[frigid monolith]

Dragor? Came with Dukane. He wouldn't be fucking shit up without them realizing whats going on

[dense solstice]

Someone said they wouldn’t be surprised if they clocked an STC out there in the wastes

[frigid monolith]

Im begging and pleading for heretek enemies

It seems so obvious

[gusty siren]

Magos Adex-Thrax, we have identified the STC. By the Omnissiah, it can produce infinite toasters.

[dense solstice]

Honestly it could make sense if you reclaimed the place while it was occupied

[frigid monolith]

No no like
Think about the stim lab mission

[gusty siren]

then they yank it from atoma with cables from space

[frigid monolith]

Even hadron is like "how the fuck did they build this?"

Everyone compliments that and then notes that "someone else is behind this"

[dense solstice]

Wasn’t it pointed out that it was there before the invasion tho?

It just got repurposed

[frigid monolith]

Correct!

Thats the thing

[gusty siren]

sure but it's still a large scale chem lab

that really shouldn't be there

[frigid monolith]

Admonition was around before the moebians 6th did their BS

Thats why every mission lead when you get to that part is like "Thats really weird, maybe the Moebians are a symptom and not the disease itself"

And wolfer was said to have a tech preist hanging around them, and sefoni mentions them

[dense solstice]

So you think they maybe have a chop shop somewhere aswell?

[frigid monolith]

Im getting all lore-headed my bad

[frigid monolith]

I mean probably

Its 40k

A lot of shit is possible

[dense solstice]

I mean someone has to keep the books

[frigid monolith]

The only thing that isn't going to happen is space marines

[gusty siren]

honestly they have a lot of augmetics i think

[pallid rock]

Heretek would be super cool but I'm not gonna get my hopes up for anything FS hasn't explicitly shown

[dense solstice]

Speaking of

[gusty siren]

half their gunner ogryns got bionic eyes

[dense solstice]

Whatever happened to that ranged plogryn boss

[frigid monolith]

To anyone who says "we can take space marines," just scale up the same feats we do as completely unaugmented barely equipped lunatics and go "what if our reject was a space marine themselves"

And then scale that to what you are trying to take on.

[dense solstice]

Did that just get scrapped

[dense solstice]

I counter by a simple 2 words

Anti armor

We have tank busters on vet and scum has a rocket launcher

[frigid monolith]

They can just dodge silde

Functionally infinite stam too

[dense solstice]

Yeah but kraks are magnetic are they not?

Like sure we couldn’t take one several

[frigid monolith]

Probably
Whats stopping them from taking a perk that dodges that too

[silk lantern]

kraks, plasma, rocket launcher etc would all make short work of a space marine

[pallid rock]

There is like 50% more game unimplemented in the files lol

[dense solstice]

That would be a real wtf then

[frigid monolith]

We are functionally not taking on one space marine

[gusty siren]

okay but is the marine named

[frigid monolith]

Esspecially in these bullshit crowded halls

[silk lantern]

hell morrow literally killed a space marine with a volley of lasguns from the soldiers under his command

[pallid rock]

The slop shop is still dropping stuff in the files since launch far as I know

[frigid monolith]

I'd assume that that interaction wasn't just "take him out" and he dropped dead

[silk lantern]

it pretty much was lmao

[crystal token]

You have the 53rd and 21st mixed up. 21st were here refueling in orbit when the cult began and Rannick sent recon squads of the 21st in to assess the situation. These are the game's very first trailers as well as the intro cinematic that plays on start up. The 53rd were ordered here by the nobles when Rannick failed to remove the cultists and traitorous 6th. The 21st have been fighting and losing despite Rannick and the Warband. The 53rd are here to reinforce them

[frigid monolith]

Ah, thank you!

[crystal token]

Welcomes! I love the 21st. They are not doing so well and they might not survive things on Atoma with the way things are going

[dense solstice]

Still got their drip

And that’s all that matters

[frigid monolith]

The 21st is the one with the stripey armor right

White stripe

[dense solstice]

Blue uniform and armor

Yep yep

[gusty siren]

i think it's too wonky between lore examples to properly scale an astartes against anything as videogamey as a darktide squad

if you got 4 guys with plasma guns and kraks to score a simultaneous hit on the marine, then i don't like his chances
but maybe the marine doesn't have a helmet and has precognition or something. shrug

[frigid monolith]

I like running the loyalist 6th set

[dense solstice]

I want the baseball cap the 21st has

[frigid monolith]

Thats why I say to just scale your expectations on the rejects themselves

These are the kind of people you'd try turning into marines

[crystal token]

I wish the 53rd would do something. We never see them fight, only hear of it. 21st get multiple cinematics shown in game trailers, the intro and throughout the story of fighting and dying. We even see 21st corpses featured prominently in levels from the Phage Tree hanging the 4 bodies of a scouting team to No Man's Land where a few 21st can be seen dead behind sandbags after the bridge. Dragor is the only member of the 53rd we have seen get involved in active fighting to my knowledge and he mostly just lets us kill everything for him while he shoots open buildings

[dense solstice]

Actually

[crystal token]

Dukane talks about how we should move quickly in No Man's Land because her 53rd fight to make this mission a possibility

[dense solstice]

The 53rd did get a cinematic

[crystal token]

We never see a single 53rd corpse in the trenches anywhere

[gusty siren]

plus you fall into the Rock Paper Scissors dilemma of scaling
paper beats scissors, so rock does too! clearly!

(triple incorrect on purpose, people be like that lol)

[frigid monolith]

Dont we see them do stuff in that one trailer where we learn that rinda is still alive

[dense solstice]

Yep

Guy runs off with a data slate

Gets caught

[frigid monolith]

That is again why I do what I said above

[crystal token]

Was that the 53rd? I thought that was more 21st tbh

[dense solstice]

Nah

He was wearing all black

[crystal token]

I need to go find it and rewatch it

[dense solstice]

And the pants were different

[frigid monolith]

"We can take on space marines" -> "can we even touch the marine equivalent of our vet"

For all thats happened on automa it isn't even enough for marines to show up yet

[gusty siren]

we haven't seen any genestealers so that tracks

[dense solstice]

They existed on the mourningstar

At some point

[frigid monolith]

Even genestealers aren't quite enough

[dense solstice]

Audio logs confirmed

[frigid monolith]

They can get to that point

[gusty siren]

myehh potato potahto it'll sort itself out i'm sure . yup..,

[frigid monolith]

Its a mix of that and "dude we have to go stop an actual daemon incursion rn please sort out that little spat you HAVE the manpower"

[crystal token]

FOUND IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC1HRacColU

yeah it was one of the 53rd

the others supporting him are Acolytes of the warband

you can see the red and black of the Acolytes trying to give him covering fire as he runs

[frigid monolith]

Yuh

[gusty siren]

M'lord, we've recieved reports of a relic resurfacing. The favored Armchair of our first Chapter Master.
Yes, the one with missile pods.

[crystal token]

The Acolytes behind him dying to let him move at a brisk pace

LMFAO

[frigid monolith]

And they're on their way INSTANTLY

And end up fighting the gaurd somehow

[frigid monolith]

The loyalist ones

I love 40k

[crystal token]

it's really cool seeing the Acolytes fighting the 6th though

it's hard to tell but I think this might be the single 53rd soldier involved in any on screen fighting other than Dragor himself

I don't see any others of the 53rd here unless I've missed them

They're all Warband Acolytes like the operatives we see on the Mourningstar

[dense solstice]

Bruh is there ever a cutscene where they aren’t getting their shit rocked

These mf ain’t shit fer nothing

[gusty siren]

the armchair is then lost in a warp portal somehow.

because Plot happens

[frigid monolith]

And in this way

Dorn comes back

[gusty siren]

a psyker thought about tomatos too hard

[crystal token]

The 6th are the ELITE of the Moebian Domain backed by the cultists of Admonition. They've been rocking us all collectively. We just feel like we're winning when we play our little squad of rejects but Wolfer is a lot more of a threat than he seems. He's been ruining the 21st, the Warband and the 53rd until recent operations

Keep in mind that the 21st are a regiment more focused on water based deployments so this is outside their realm of expertise. They're not a regiment experienced in urban battles (they are NOW I guess)

[frigid monolith]

Yeah the 6th are borderline heroes

Or...

Were.

[crystal token]

It's important to note that the classes are upping the ante as far as power scaling goes

Arbites showed up and killed a few measly dregs in their trailer

Hive Scum ambushed and killed the 6th

[pallid rock]

Getting eviscerated to set the stage for the real protagonists is what the guard exists for

[crystal token]

Skitarii are hot dropping onto an active battlefield and deploying right in front of the fighting lines of the 6th, and killing them en masse

Skitarii have the largest kill count of 6th in the trailers afaik

I counted like 29 members of the 6th including the Bulwark who the Skitarii are implied to have wiped out to the last

and that's just in that short new trailer

[gusty siren]

they went straight into the Fog Zone
nobody goes to the Fog Zone willingly........

[dense solstice]

Also to expand on this

[gusty siren]

the wall of guns is constantly built with new materials

[dense solstice]

Isn’t wolfer kinda not the biggest bad anymore since admonition dropped him for failing to secure the ritual

[crystal token]

Hive Scum got 7 kills from their trailer...?

[dense solstice]

I honestly anticipate a mission where we finally kill him off and let Rinda take over as the main front facing antagonist

[crystal token]

The 6th are still a much more dangerous threat compared to Admonition. Admonition are mostly just untrained cultists grabbing weapons and trying to fight trained Regiments. The dregs fall over at any serious pushback as we see with the Arbites effortlessly carving through them

There's a shadowy force above them both holding the leash

And they seem to be favouring Wolfer less and less

[dense solstice]

I mean from the cathedral mission

They quite literally threatened to hunt him down if he failed

Which he did

[pallid rock]

I don't think we have seen the last of wolfer. iirc it was said that a lot of the 6th were following him more than anything and at the end of the mission he isn't yet actually deposed

[crystal token]

Wolfer argues with one of the members of Admonition, yes, and then there's a call to summon The Three after the 6th are defeated at the Cathedrum

[dense solstice]

So I assumed the rest of the mob 6 got divided

[crystal token]

I don't think Admonition is actively hunting Wolfer

we still see the 6th and Admonition fighting side by side against us

but tensions ARE growing

[dense solstice]

I mean to be fair

[crystal token]

the 6th follow Wolfer, they would not follow Admonition if they targeted Wolfer

we'd see civil war

[dense solstice]

The 6th fighting along admonition could be an absorbed force

Rinda basically left the 6th to join admonition

I’d assume she has a contingent of troops under her just like wolfer has

It even kinda outlines it in the trailer

[crystal token]

The Karnak Twins were made lieutenants but their appearance on Nox Alpha shows they were always involved in bigger things before becoming officers of the 6th

[dense solstice]

She doesn’t see herself as a member of the 6th anymore

But something greater

[frigid monolith]

That we know of

[dense solstice]

Yeah but that’s why I kinda figured the 6th would split apart

Wolfer is obviously gonna have people loyal to him

But the cult also has the ability to summon utter bullshit

[frigid monolith]

The thing with admonition is "there is fuckery afoot"

[crystal token]

So far it feels like Admonition is incredibly incompetent tbh. We're actively killing Plague Ogryns, Chaos Spawn and Daemonhosts. That means the daemons they're cultivating are weak and Admonition is incompetent. These daemons should pose far more of a threat than they currently do

[dense solstice]

So it’s not outta the realm of possibility people defected to admonition because it seemed smarter since they still have infrastructure

If you really look at wolfer

It’s honest to god

[frigid monolith]

The kind of bumbling fuckwits they employ cant do the kinds of things that they have access to

[dense solstice]

Just him

[wintry bridge]

Oh crap when did this channel appear?

[crystal token]

We also haven't gotten a proper cinematic with any of the monstrosities being shown hunting the 21st/53rd/Warband since the earliest trailer/intro cutscene where a Chaos Spawn ambushes and kills a recon squad of 21st

[crystal token]

Potentially but keep in mind that every single mission we see the 6th being ordered on the Vox it's Wolfer commanding the 6th

The Karnak Twins are not even ordering their 6th in their own mission

[dense solstice]

My rebuttal is this

[crystal token]

They're working pretty independently and ambushing the Rejects

[dense solstice]

Story wise

All of that takes place before the schism at the failure to defend the cathedral

[crystal token]

Despite the reputation as trusted lieutenants, they don't seem to be the same degree of commander as Wolfer

[warped ferry]

i like when rannick is also there giggling about sneaking into coms

[dense solstice]

Even in the battle of Tertium storyline

[raw coyote]

omg guys what blessings should I put on my transsonic blade 🥺

[crystal token]

that too LMFAO

Wolfer is the one who almost nuked the 53rd on arrival with the train mission

He organized that little train surprise

[silk lantern]

brutal momentum headtaker

[crystal token]

He's got a very dangerous mind

[raw coyote]

thank you :D

[dense solstice]

True but you gotta remember

All of these events take place prior to the cathedral

Chronologically

[frigid monolith]

Admonition
The 6th

Are both why I want to see hereteks

It would tie a lot together

[dense solstice]

I haven’t played it in a while

[frigid monolith]

As "cool" as GSC are they don't match the situation so much as randomly douse a fire in gas

[dense solstice]

But that story line abruptly ends with rhodin not coming back

And wolfer being disgraced

[frigid monolith]

We still dunno who the three are

[dense solstice]

True aswell

[crystal token]

The other deal is that No Man's Land is canonically the latest mission we've received before Expeditions and that's a 6th held stronghold. The 6th are still the ones delivering the brunt of the beating to the Warband, 53rd and 21st. Admonition is kinda falling back to hide in the wastes after being pushed back if we take Expeditions as any indicator

At this point the 6th may be weakened, but there's very little to suggest that they're now collectively holding the leash over all remaining 6th present

And we've definitely not seen the last of Wolfer

[dense solstice]

Oh for sure

But I whole heartedly believe at some point

He will be killed off

[crystal token]

Admonition needs to build strength before they could flex it over the 6th

[dense solstice]

And someone, most likely rinda will take his place

[crystal token]

I believe Wolfer will be a target we kill off in all likeliness

[dense solstice]

Actually yes

[frigid monolith]

I think wolfer will get augmented by the mysterious techpreist

[dense solstice]

Peep this right

Wolfer dies

Mob6 go into panic

[crystal token]

I also don't think it'll happen anytime soon tho

[silk lantern]

wolfer boss

[dense solstice]

They see rinda as a saving grace with rinda

And they get absorbed into admonition

[crystal token]

Rannick wants Wolfer's head for sure but if he were an easy target we'd have hit him by now. Wolfer maneuvers his people well and is supposedly outmaneuvering Rannick in the Battle for Tertium as the 21st lose more and more ground

We have a few levels where we see the 21st posted up with tanks

[oak ember]

wolfer helbrute

[crystal token]

And then levels after going through the same zone where we see lost tanks and dead 21st littering the area

the 6th are grinding through us

No Man's Land is probably one of the few times where we're shown properly hitting a 6th stronghold and going on the offensive proper

not just us as Rejects making infiltration missions to sabotage

but a collective effort on the offensive driving back the 6th

[frigid monolith]

Admonition retreating to a place where there are conveniently a bunch of tech stuff that the admech freaked out about

[crystal token]

We also have to keep in mind that at this point the Wyrmwood Agents are more or less entirely wiped out

[frigid monolith]

Im just saying...

[crystal token]

Rannick is fighting blind and that's why he's resorted to the Cartels

[raw coyote]

turns out Wolfer is using a STC database as a room warmer

[crystal token]

The Cartels are a new source of intel and he has history using Water Cartel intel

[frigid monolith]

In wolfer's voice:

"IT WORKS PRETTY WELL."

[crystal token]

The hive gangs have eyes and ears to the streets, and the bodies to hold them

[lime mauve]

There are whole Imperial Guard units made up of Hive Scum rounded up and told they're in the army now

[frigid monolith]

We love penal battalions

But also this is kind of how the tithe works LOL

"You're going to the 21st"

"Whot"

[crystal token]

I don't believe the Cartels have been officially pressed into service as penal battalions tbh

they joke about Tithe-Rats

[dense solstice]

More like paid mercenaries

[crystal token]

they are not Tithe-Rats themselves yet

[frigid monolith]

Im saying that its a thing in lore
Not-

[crystal token]

Rannick is collaborating with them and paying them yeah

[frigid monolith]

That the cartels are

[dense solstice]

[lime mauve]

Not officially and not at that scale but the point is, the Imperium is by no means above recruiting criminals to throw at problems

[crystal token]

Them being so loosely affiliated is causing friction with the Arbitrators and 53rd who thinks Rannick having them on the Mourningstar at all is an afront, and meanwhile Brahms finds them endearing and entertaining

[frigid monolith]

They never were

The marines arent even above that

[crystal token]

Sure but I think it's also important to note that despite setbacks Rannick isn't officially pressing them into service and were things so dire we could imagine he would invoke it

[dense solstice]

The bounty hunter casually bragging the nobles hire him out at times

[lime mauve]

Marines can hypnotically indoctrinate the hive scum out of 'em

[frigid monolith]

So can the gaurd

[dense solstice]

They failed with LC

[raw coyote]

hive scum are just normal imperial civilians why wouldn't they recruit from them UwU

[dense solstice]

But that’s why LC is the best vet

[crystal token]

Admonition's incursion hasn't progressed to the degree things are that dire yet. It's mostly success built on the backs of the 6th and Wolfer's tactical genius

[frigid monolith]

Did they?

If anything I think they did just fine

[crystal token]

When we get PLAGUEBRINGERS and ROTFLIES? Then we can talk about the Admonition becoming scary

[lime mauve]

I figured the Guard wouldn't typically have time for fancy hypnotizing, the drill instructors just beat the worst tendencies out of them and tell them not to make too much trouble or the commissar will get them

[frigid monolith]

For the gaurd you basically shape up or die

Its the same for marines in a lot of novels tbf

Just

Longer

And they stick needles in ya

[crystal token]

The scariest thing we regularly see from Admonition cultists are Havoc missions where they're creating daemonhosts in rituals

Otherwise they're kinda just fodder

[dense solstice]

Rot armor

[crystal token]

That's not that scary tbh

That's sorta just spreading disease

They're wielding Nurgle's blessing

But there are tiers to Nurgle's blessing

and this is very low tier

there are far, far scarier things Nurgle can provide

[frigid monolith]

Theres always something scarrier

[crystal token]

Sure and it's important to take that perspective of what is vs what isn't

And this isn't scary yet

But it could be

[frigid monolith]

Its scary enough

[crystal token]

If the Admonition were scary enough they wouldn't be shoved beyond the Hive into the wastes

[silk lantern]

tax exemption?

[crystal token]

Waiting to see how the Expeditions narrative unfolds but so far it stinks of desperation picking at scraps hoping for a new equalizer to the war effort because the Admonition cultists are losing definitively

[frigid monolith]

The fact that they can make, even if diminished, hosts, BoN, and the like on this scale is already "uh oh"

[crystal token]

Yes and despite their weaker daemons they're losing

They tried and failed to return the second Karnak twin at the Cathedrum

they're regrouping because Rannick is getting a lot closer to their throats than they'd like

[frigid monolith]

We haphazardly stumbled onto that

Which is kind of sobering to think about

[crystal token]

That changes little of what Admonition has successfully accomplished

And their most notable accomplishments so far are calling weakened daemons that even basic squads can kill with effort, and returning Rinda Karnak to life

[frigid monolith]

I mean
Not really
This is how things go in every cult scenario where the cult isn't the main character

"They ALMOST ended it early...but they didn't."

[crystal token]

had we failed at the Cathedrum we'd just have both Karnak Twins to contend with again at worst

and that's also not particularly scary

[frigid monolith]

its scary enough.

[crystal token]

we'll know that the war is taking a dire turn when Beasts of Nurgle begin to be replaced with Rotflies

when Plaguebearers begin to march

and the reality that things could progress to the point a Great Unclean One could be summoned? THAT would be Atoma's doom

[frigid monolith]

Yes yes all of the things we arent even meant to fight will indeed mean things are getting worse

[crystal token]

and that would be properly scary

but basic poxwalkers? not really scary tbh

and idk about you but I've been playing long enough that it's a fun thrill to fight bosses like Plague Ogryns, Chaos Spawn and Daemonhosts

I need something scarier to sink my teeth into

but if you are new enjoy the scary

I'm waiting for scarier

[noble turret]

Happened

Kinda

Its not confirmed what Valgaren was

[raw coyote]

I mean they "tried" the new packmaster boss

[crystal token]

there's no way we have a Great Unclean One here

[frigid monolith]

The ritual was NOT for a great unclean one

[noble turret]

They were just a Big Fuck™

[raw coyote]

but for some reason he's locked to Expeditions

[crystal token]

that was a fun new boss but it doesn't escalate the conflict in the narrative imo

[frigid monolith]

JoPlaysRot

[crystal token]

supposedly he'll be coming to normal missions eventually? but idk

[raw coyote]

yeah I read that too but they just haven't

[crystal token]

at best

we could MAYBE imagine that Nox Alpha was a world pushed far worse than Atoma

with Nurgle's power extending much deeper

I could imagine that planet had the likes of Plague Bearers, Rotflies and maybe even a Great Unclean One

it would go a ways to explaining why even WOLFER thought it was hopeless

and they were just selling their lives

but then we don't know much of Nox Alpha

so big shrug

[frigid monolith]

We likely never will

[crystal token]

the 6th would've seen fighting a standard rebellion as a game

Nox Alpha was not a standard rebellion

[frigid monolith]

I mean it was a ehile ass death world wasnt it

[crystal token]

yeah

[noble turret]

Make of this thing whatever you will

[frigid monolith]

That kinda place fucks you over wven on tour attempted downtime

Let alone whatever you're fighting

[crystal token]

Where did you find this?

And is this official?

Because I've not seen or heard of this before

And it sorta looks like someone's D&D fanon

[frigid monolith]

Isnt there a-

Yeah

[silk lantern]

wrath like the darktide blessing

waow

[frigid monolith]

Theres a whole ass dt boardgame

[noble turret]

This is the supplement for the existent ttrpg

The board game is a different thing

[crystal token]

I don't think this is canon to the Darktide game

At best it could be what's going on in the second Hive City

as far as Tertium this is absolutely not anything we've seen hints of

[noble turret]

Its tertium

Just a different part of it

One giant vent shaft

I hope they mention it eventually

[crystal token]

I don't think they'd be able to hide a Great Unclean One from the Inquisition this long tbh

[noble turret]

I didn't say it was a guo

[crystal token]

nor would a Great Unclean One sit idle enough that their powers would go missed

[noble turret]

Its a Big Thing

And they just summoned it at that scene

[crystal token]

ah ok the way you replied to me made it seem like it because you replied to me specifically mentioning a Great Unclean One

[noble turret]

No I just like to bring up Valgaren in reference to GUO comments cause its possible they are one

Or at least some other kind of greater daemon

[crystal token]

potentially given they mention the birthing of other daemons from their bloated mass

that could be nurglings

but it's hard to say

[noble turret]

Nah its stuff like plaguebearers

[crystal token]

they don't mention that explicitly

[lime mauve]

Even on pen & paper Darktide gets made in dead engines

[crystal token]

no no go back and read the birthing

it literally says nurglings

[noble turret]

And two plaguebearers

[frigid monolith]

One of those showing up is worst case scenario and Im p sure anyone in the system is gonna feel that let alone "even beyond 50m"

[noble turret]

Or a rot fly

[molten cove]

@frigid monolith Hello From Funky Station !

[frigid monolith]

Hi!

[crystal token]

that feels like a possible Great Unclean One though I'm not sure what other kinds of things could do that

[noble turret]

READ

[frigid monolith]

Hello j hi j hello

[molten cove]

i misread that as "bitch evil"

if i had a stat sheet thatd be on it

[crystal token]

Yes I said NURGLINGS. As in that's an option. I did read the Plaguebearers and Rotflies as other options

You're like a 53rd sharpshooter for how you missed my point

[noble turret]

I'm throwing bricks at you

[crystal token]

I'm saying that Nurglings at all is a very strong indicator for a Great Unclean One

Go ahead and throw the brick I'll wait for it to miss

[noble turret]

Yeah my highly underweight ass cannot throw for shit

[jade thistle]

Good afternoon.

[frigid monolith]

I need thallaxii to return to 40k

So badly

[jade thistle]

Why's it remind me of a MEC trooper from XCOM 2?

[frigid monolith]

I need my unnecessary suffer warriors of misery and pain and explosions

[jade thistle]

But that's everyone in 40k.

[frigid monolith]

No no

Thallax are

The embodyment of it

[jade thistle]

I thought it was Penitent Engines.

[frigid monolith]

MUCH worse than that

Its so funny and unnecessary

[jade thistle]

Or the Emperor.

[crystal token]

I wonder if the 40k ttrpg is mentioning a potential dark future of Tertium where the cult's efforts progress and allow the creation of a Great Unclean One

maybe not something that is, but something that could be

[frigid monolith]

They basically do the strog cutscene but everwhere

[jade thistle]

He needs an ibuprofen.

[crystal token]

this is terrifying

but also REALLY COOL

[frigid monolith]

More sauce lost to 30k 🥹

I really want thallax in 40k

They're such badass shock troopers and they're so rediculous on the suffering of their creation that it wraps back to "lmfao wth"

[jade thistle]

Welcome to 40k.

[stable spruce]

Has anyone translated the binary code on the site? https://playdarktide.com/

[jade thistle]

Suffering is the question and the answer is yes.

[pallid rock]

It's pretty easy to do. There are like a thousand different binary to plaintext converters online

[cedar laurel]

do yall think skibidi dlc is worth redownloading dt

skitarii

[pallid rock]

I'll let you know in a month

[opal thistle]

Yes

Esp if u quit a long time ago

[cedar laurel]

Im not allowed to receive carrier pigeons anymore you will have to use smoke signals

[opal thistle]

DT is a lot different now

[cedar laurel]

i quit right before expeditions

[opal thistle]

Oh then not that much changed

Just

[cedar laurel]

lol

[opal thistle]

Crushers spawning way less = suddenly melee weapon perk meta changed

Also DS fell off

[jade thistle]

It's just 'Welcome Rejects'

[opal thistle]

Uncanny still good but case specific

[oak ember]

real, give me fucking angry pained cyborgs

in power armor

[white blade]

they iirc exist in 40k

unless you mean like

in rules™

[raw coyote]

Uncanny bad

sponsored by Big Crusher

[wooden tartan]

rap, or hip hop?

[haughty galleon]

I'd at least try it out, through the dev blogs it's pretty clear that they put a ton of love into making this class so it should be pretty fun.

[cedar laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/if-you-grab-me-imma-bite-you-gif-12755690613849918934

[pallid rock]

"You got any games on your data slate?"

[oak ember]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-super-mutant-simple-efficient-glorious-gif-2525067966215940238

[dreamy echo]

I wonder what quickplay is gonna look like on June 23rd.

[mellow storm]

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-terminator-robot-looking-flex-cool-robot-gif-16625083

[molten lantern]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/862476997779128340/1499930085916938310/ezgif-44b3e433b84abe74.gif

ah

damn

[frank moon]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[icy reef]

"welcome, rejects"

[fiery onyx]

I can't wait

It will be both glorious and hilarious

metal everywhere

[floral isle]

live servo-skull POV

[oak ember]

https://tenor.com/view/robocop-walking-movie-cop-gif-16916495

[jade thistle]

Still no word on radium weapons?

[marsh stratus]

pretty sure they aren't happening unfortunately

[jade thistle]

Shame.

What's confirmed again?

[marsh stratus]

brahms probably wouldn't allow them on the mourningstar lol

arc rifle, transonic razor and sword (dual wield), phosphor pistol, a new shock maul, a new power sword, and galvanic rifle

https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4355580/0e59cbad0cf0e9902da4867fa96ddf740b7f6c8d/ss_0e59cbad0cf0e9902da4867fa96ddf740b7f6c8d.1920x1080.jpg?t=1779384526

[fiery onyx]

embed fail

[marsh stratus]

soon i will be able to embed... soon...

[fiery onyx]

yes...

[jade thistle]

I don't recall them being that volatile, the issue for skitarii is that they're more resistant than normal humans to radiation but radium still kills them because, well, they're holding the damn thing.

And skitarii are expendable.

Not guardsmen expendable.

But expendable.

Although, and then again, we are alpha primus

Which are decidedly more expensive if I had to wager.

[marsh stratus]

i don't think brahms would be ok with all her ship crew dying from horribly irradiated skitarii having to walk past them the whole time

[jade thistle]

What, ratings? They grow on trees don't they?

[warm wadi]

My one gripe with skitarii is that they get big robes and zealots do not, even though zealots should've got something like that already

[jade thistle]

[opal thistle]

Arc rifle
Arc maul
Transonic sword & knife
A mechanicus-style power sword
Galvanic rifle
Phosphor blaster (handgun)

[jade thistle]

You mean something more akin to a preacher than battle monk?

[opal thistle]

And maybe veteran’s plasma gun? Cuz skitarii do use plasma stuff in lore a lot

[jade thistle]

Don't they use better plasma?

Admech keeps the actually good stuff for themselves.

[gusty siren]

Plasma Caliver

[marsh stratus]

if they add a plasma pistol in the future then it would be a good one for vet and skit to get

[warm wadi]

in the majority of the art priests are wearing stuff like:

[opal thistle]

Yes but we don’t actually see any of that yet

They might have plasma Caliver as an ability

[jade thistle]

Why an ability?

[opal thistle]

Or have vet’s plasma gun

Or both

[warm wadi]

what we get is skirts and hoodies for zealot preacher

[mellow storm]

Zealots aren't priests though. They're hobos that are also on crusade

Literally, almost

[jade thistle]

I mean nominally, they'd have a plasma gun that doesn't explode so easily.

[opal thistle]

Because their blitz is smth to do with the flying servo skull according to DLC steam page

[marsh stratus]

we also know that the skitarii will have access to a lasgun and flamethrower weapons for their servo skull, and my personal guess for the third option is that it will be a grenade launcher

[jade thistle]

To that point, don't a few of the personalities outright say they do sermons?

[warm wadi]

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN THEY'RE LITTERALLY PREACHERS and this is also the type of priest that goes around with the millitarum wtf are you on about

[jade thistle]

I really hope it's not the lame yellow lasgun.

[warm wadi]

theres zealots on and off the battlefield all are priests

[marsh stratus]

it just looks like a tiny las pistol taped to the side of the skull lol

[gusty siren]

a plasma weapon in the grenade slot sounds funny

[marsh stratus]

its in this image

[low skiff]

I think grenade launcher is unlikely. Maybe autogun

[jade thistle]

I mean to be fair they are nominally inquisition Acolytes, but yeah they do function like a Battle Priest.

[pallid rock]

The drunk one does but he's just doing it for the love of the game

[jade thistle]

I swear fem judge talks about sermons.

[warm wadi]

robes are not hard to get in 40k, probably the easiest thing, zealots will likely be in them, it's just a really common religious garb what we get is gang attire most the time

[marsh stratus]

they also have arc grenades on the character model of the deluxe skin, so arc grenades might be a thing if their blitzes aren't all tied to the servo skull

[mellow storm]

A couple of them, but they're not part of the ecclesiarchy. They're the equivalent of those crazy dudes on sidewalks screaming about the end of days at everyone that will stop for longer than a picosecond

[gusty siren]

-but with guns and chainswords and stuff

[marsh stratus]

ehh maybe but i feel like that would be really similar to the laspistol option in function

[jade thistle]

They're not going to be officially in the Ecclesiarchy because by this point they're now attached to the Inquisition, but then don't a few backgrounds outright have clergy backgrounds in CC?

[jade thistle]

So maybe something like a robe and breastplate?

[warm wadi]

nominally? theres priests all over the shop inquisition and not

[copper bridge]

What if blitz is also for servo skull?

[frigid monolith]

They could have been lower ranked clergy at one point lol

[jade thistle]

I'd have to look at the backgrounds again.

[frigid monolith]

They're not gonna be anyone important if they're in the gaurd tho

They're just
Zealots

[marsh stratus]

we know that the servo skull will be able to interact with buttons and possibly revive teammates, so it definitely won't be only tied to the blitz

[frigid monolith]

Literally just crazy ass devouts

[copper bridge]

If Servo skull as ability would that be boring underpowered?

[jade thistle]

Yeah I have a char slot open let me check.

[warm wadi]

this is your bog standard priest

[marsh stratus]

but it could be partially tied to it like how one arby blitz involves the dog

[frigid monolith]

Your name
Idk it fits you

Idk if I meant that rudely or not

[warm wadi]

then it's more likely they'd be in a robe

[copper bridge]

I don't get it

[frigid monolith]

Its okay buddy

🥹

[copper bridge]

What?

What with emoji?

[marsh stratus]

one of the funniest skitarii weapons is the grenade that contains squid eggs that destroy the minds of any living creature nearby

i would love it if they managed to get those in

[copper bridge]

Tech heresy? Using alien creature as weapon

[mellow storm]

Most likely that's just aesthetic in the same way the grenades in a bunch of ogryn cosmetics are.

I'm willing to bet the skitarii blitzes are just different configs of servo skull. Probably one with a laspistol that harasses a single target to stun it for a while and shoot it from close range, one with a flamer that you can order to guard an area and it'll spit hot fire at anyone who walks into their space, and one with some kind of arc weapon that will follow you around and zap enemies you shoot to spread the arc debuff around

[jade thistle]

Speaking of eggs did you know there's a species of shark with screw shaped eggs?

[copper bridge]

Baby shark cannibalize their sibling

[marsh stratus]

yeah that's what i'm thinking, maybe the third one is a "taser" weapon as they seem to have a few of those

[jade thistle]

Depends on the shark.

[gusty siren]

trillions must speak binauric

[marsh stratus]

can't say i did

[jade thistle]

Eggs.

[marsh stratus]

woah

awesome

[jade thistle]

Nature is cool.

[frigid monolith]

What a fat shark

[marsh stratus]

sure is

[jade thistle]

It was pregnant of course it is.

[frigid monolith]

Egg

Nant

[jade thistle]

Imagine having to push that egg out though.

[marsh stratus]

tbf i was surprised too

they have no more lore sadly, just that one off mention

[frigid monolith]

It would spin

[marsh stratus]

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Mindscrambler_Grenade

the idea that theres some admech facility somewhere on an ocean world that exclusively farms squid eggs is kinda funny

[frigid monolith]

Not really heresy of it's been

...requisitioned properly

Using an alien as a weapon is a fun passtime to kill the enemy by killing the enemy

Using alien weapons

Well, you better be on the deathwatch. And you better not even think about what you're doing that hard.

[jade thistle]

Looking through the creation for zealot quite a few at least have to do with interactions with the Ecclesiarchy or Ministorum.

Which makes sense.

[marsh stratus]

full electricity squad is gonna be awesome

arc skitarii, shock mine arby, bio-lightning psyker, and idk someone with a shock maul as the fourth

[wintry cobalt]

I'm naming my Skitarii Toaster

[wheat timber]

AFAIK They’re getting a whole second “tree” similar to Hive Scum’s Cartel Stimm, and I think that’ll be for the servo skull upgrades and other stuffs (unless they just do keystones like Arby dog)

I low key expect their blitzes to be like arc grenade, mini turret, and idk an arc whip or something that’ll act as the skillshot grenade

[lean glen]

That's some pokemon shit if you ask me

[marsh stratus]

true

[lean glen]

Like that worm grenade in Necromunda

[wheat timber]

A part of me is really hoping that the event juicing us up is basically a taste of the 4-stack coherency effect of one of the skitarii auras

Making your poor fat Ogryn/Arby teammates move a little faster just by existing will be lovely for quickplay lmao

[mellow gull]

honestly character aura that gets more powerful the more people are actually in it would be cool

[lean glen]

I do wish that the aura stacked. Would make running similar auras viable... and goofy if a bunch of scum with gunslinger just got themselves unlimited ammunition

[pallid rock]

40% melee bonus ogryn stack

[lean glen]

I hope one of the personalities is someone that's regained their sense of self and are having a near constant panic attack

Also, a head that has an exposed brain; I need that body horror!

[gusty siren]

behold, archaeotech lungs!
[LIDL shopping bag]

[wheat timber]

Actual incentives to engage with the coherency mechanic? 😮‍💨 wouldn’t it be something

[mellow storm]

I think that's separate from the servo skulls. I could certainly be wrong, I don't have any inside peeks on it, but from what they've said and how the tree looks, I'm like 90% confident the servo skull customization is gonna be the blitzes, and the second tree you're talking about is the "core power" stuff that will let you spec out some other mechanic of the class they've not announced yet.

We'll find out sometime in the next few weeks either way

[wheat timber]

Heck yeah, very excited to hear more

Also thinking about all the lessons they ||hopefully|| learned from Arby and Scum, it’s got me hype to think what niche the new class will fill

[lean glen]

I think tying the blitz to the skull is a good idea. The skull is always there but you can use the blitz for a secondary function. Like, someone is down and you use a blitz to revive them

[wheat timber]

Oooh that makes sense, yeah

[pallid rock]

Ranged pickups will be so funny if they actually get that

[wheat timber]

The blitz is like initiating an “operative revive protocol” or some technojargon

[pallid rock]

Omw to rez the smyker in the middle of the rager blob that killed them

[lean glen]

I hope I can pet my servo skull. I'd walk around with it like it was a cat or something

[wheat timber]

Subreddit becomes filled with “skitarii players don’t join my hav without ORP”

ORPgaming

[mellow storm]

i'm just gonna laugh at the skitarii hacking the console from the other side of the room

[wheat timber]

Rolling Steel mid event…

[lean glen]

I mean, shit, with some players, having the skull do it would be smarter

Fuck, I usually have to do it myself!

[wheat timber]

Doing the minigame then running the batteries yourself and rezzing everyone with the skull

Lmao

Brain weak

[lean glen]

PTSD of having to do this. I've given up on playing anything other than arbite so I can not sweat as much

[jade thistle]

Fellas, remember, this is the enemy https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/467823537722490880/1277038320886743140/An-263ZII5Sw_0LdwVq0VWusXawVktHxeJeuSAhfzqzXvgjr7jdAjsQwVLYiZcDBkrv3PX4PJPPKzJ6WD_afydu3.mp4?ex=6a18c79d&is=6a17761d&hm=2699d5884d769a1db7b4c1861ca158810f4e1b8095a90510f96c1a7b958b1da7&

[gusty siren]

They said skitarii was being worked on before arbites, taking notes on how the last 2 classes went

given the overall decision making as of late, i have my hopes

[wheat timber]

I know it’s a weird ask but…

I kinda hope we get more audio logs for Mortis Trials as well in the big update

I need more lore

[gusty siren]

Sadly, no. we wont be getting a tetris minigame on the auspex.

[wheat timber]

Skitarii better get a funny grenade inspect animation I stg

Scum spinning the soup can lid is peak elevator stimming

[lean glen]

Looks into servo skull lovingly

[wheat timber]

Unironically this

They call it over to them and you just kinda palm the skull

Like Thragg

[gusty siren]

alas, poor yarrick
he fought them well

[lean glen]

Yarrick would be a great name for a skull. If we can name them

[gusty siren]

I wonder how many digitized copies of hamlet are scattered across the imperium

[wheat timber]

With Arby dog being a thing I don’t see why they wouldn’t throw us that bone

Free brownie points letting us name the skull Maurice

[jade thistle]

Forget just unabridged hamlet, how many varieties are there now?

[gusty siren]

hmm.

approximately 40,000

[lean glen]

Mine will be Curious-1 because it is a inquisitive sprite

[gusty siren]

I would name mine LII-VI

[gusty siren]

IMPOSSIBLE

[lime mauve]

tfw you paid for a Warhammer 40000 Gold subscription

[gusty siren]

I have returned, 52-6, TO FINALLY PUT AN END TO YOUR-

oh. Wrong place.

cue eversor assassin

[lean glen]

Literally any decapitated historical figure would make the skull a good name.

Also JFK because it's a... head shot

[lime mauve]

Agent Skully

[wintry cobalt]

I've got a really good name for the skull but I'm not sharing because I want it for myself alone lol

[lean glen]

That's fair

[wintry cobalt]

It's an absolute peak 40k reference and that's all anyone needs to know heh

[gusty siren]

hmm. yeah it's John-Warhammer

it's a deep cut, but i know ball

[wintry cobalt]

Nah, my Arbites was John-Barktide for a while tho

[jade thistle]

Hiver is Lex-Offender.

[wintry cobalt]

Man, if I could pay x2 as much to have Skitarii rn I would do so in a heartbeat... I'm already grabbing the deluxe as soon as it's available for me

[jade thistle]

You can wait what, 3 weeks?

If that?

[wintry cobalt]

3 week and 1 day

[sour lava]

skibitarii

[wintry cobalt]

I've been craving Skitarii or admech at least since it was announced we were getting new classes period

[karmic verge]

The daily skibitarii post by grant! I was waiting for it :3

[karmic verge]

They werent my top choice but then they said it was a pet class with a ton of customization and transonic weapons are perhaps my favourite 40k weapon so im sold

[wintry cobalt]

Admech is my second favorite group in 40k so... I'm biased af

[karmic verge]

They are my fave imperials

[wintry cobalt]

Admech is my favorite of the non astartes groups, weird little toasters on legs

[wheat timber]

You had me at another pet class

In most games they’re usually terrible so it’s nice when it’s actually good

[karmic verge]

But im a dwarf player at heart and they added kin so they cant be my fave 40k faction

Id also say i prefer dark mech, who are my second favourite faction.... so admech is third

[lunar flint]

Heretek.

[wheat timber]

Heretech(priest)

[misty ravine]

The Admech are my favorite Imperium faction

Chaos is my favorite faction

I really want Lighttide

[jade thistle]

Wouldn't it be Ordertide?

[misty ravine]

In fantasy

I don't think "order" really applies to 40k

You can't really neatly divide up the factions between Order/Chaos/Death/Destruction as you can in fantasy and AoS

[jade thistle]

Anyway being real, I guess i'm not surprised we didn't get a techpriest, Fatshark was pretty much correct that, while capable fighters, they also have skitarii as more expendable, right now I believe of the current classes, the psykers and Arbites are kind of up there as least expendable? Psykers because they're uncmmon, arbites because they got genuinely really good equipment.

Even if psykers are still not liked.

[jade thistle]

Well in 40k order is kind of a relative term.

[misty ravine]

Yeah

[jade thistle]

Those who objectively make the galaxy worse for other people and revel in it versus those who make the galaxy worse for other people but think they're helping.

Xenocide Angry:
Xenocide Eager:

-# TheMarshal is typing...

[frigid monolith]

We'z gotta krump dem so dey get better at krumpin' so da zoggin' fight won't be so zoggin' boring.

[karmic verge]

Tbf it only works in AOS because they define them very loosely. Death and chaos are pretty strict but order is basically just "fights chaos" and destruction is just "fights everyone" so i feel you could put 40k into like "order, chaos, destruction" and get pretty close.

Especially since AOS allows outliers anyways! And imo if flesh eater courts werent undead but remained unchanged other then that fact they would just be another destruction faction. And some vampire armies act closer to order factions but that depends heavily on bloodline or even individuals.

[misty ravine]

That's fair yeah

[frigid monolith]

I fucking LOVE VOTAAAAANN

[karmic verge]

Im positive many beginner fans start with "order are the good guys!" And then they see daughters if khaine and go.... okay maybe not XD

The sea elves are also strange cuz they 100 percent be stealing souls but its for their tragic backstory so i guess its okay

[jade thistle]

It's 40k everyone is some variety of D-wad.

What little I know of AoS it's a little more cut and dry.

[karmic verge]

Some are for sure

[jade thistle]

No. Everyone is.

Some are just more happy to be dickwads.

[karmic verge]

I feel you are misunderstanding what im replying too

[jade thistle]

Fair.

[karmic verge]

"Some are for sure" to the aos thing

[jade thistle]

I know AoS to have it's own issues.

[karmic verge]

Not disagreeing that 40k factions are D wads

[jade thistle]

But I also am one of many AoS haters.

Prefer the WFB stuff.

[sour lava]

me in the bathroom

[karmic verge]

But yeah AOS has entire factions that are actually good. 40k at best has some individuals and at times some subfactions. (Usually those subfactions are book inventions to then show how evil another faction is)

[karmic verge]

I play both and i think they each have merit, but i get it, GW destroyed my armies as well...

At least we have old world

Twas a vampire counts and orcs and goblins player myself

In modern aos vampire counts are basically unchanged from their fantasy army comps which i find funny, but my orcs were torn asunder

[karmic verge]

You are also a based kenshi player i see

[jade thistle]

Isn't old world missing a lot of other factions?

And yes, kenshi

[jade thistle]

At least you aren't an eldar army fan.

[sterile tendon]

i heard eldar army tomorrow

[jade thistle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/818605636228218900/1407641041359736913/el2gxtvgan181.webp?ex=6a18a420&is=6a1752a0&hm=56457e5564c0cb81d5d2e54574e41cab2ad9b13c2b0621d434c61135d4e99357&

[round oak]

PSA: Everyone please be sure to read up on ur binaric to properly greet our new guests on the Mourningstar

[sterile tendon]

new hints in menu pointing towards new class being skitarii

[mystic schooner]

I don’t know. Not enough evidence

[sterile tendon]

hoping they drop some more hints soon yea

[little mesa]

gay

[sterile tendon]

not enough

[vernal crater]

Y’all need Jesus The Emperor

[sterile tendon]

maybe you just dont have enough emperor yourself

[wheat timber]

Admech stans just coping at this point smh

So anyways whaddya think the havoc meta will be for aeldari seer

[vernal crater]

odd way to spell felinid marksman but alright

[sterile tendon]

inquisitorial sage literally leaked

[mellow storm]

the meta build will obviously be the Taldeer build; you just can't beat the ability to point at bitches and a sic a vindicare assassin on them

[sterile tendon]

they just updated the twitter page to ahve the new class hint

[little mesa]

gay

[tidal pendant]

Remember when everybody lost their shit and thought genestealers were coming because a vox transmission on YouTube used the word shadow? Good times

[wintry cobalt]

I'm super curious what the transonic dual blade moveset is gonna be like... A long blade short blade combo seems interesting

[vernal crater]

[sterile tendon]

its gonna have a stab then another stabby

[wintry cobalt]

I seriously hope it's not basically a shiv reskin...

[sterile tendon]

no way

it cant even be one if they're 2 diff blades

[wintry cobalt]

I hope it's more sweepy than stabby, wanna go chop chop chop as a sicarian ruststalker

[wheat timber]

I think it’s safe to say you can check VT2

[sterile tendon]

are the dual daggers even similar to shivs

[wintry cobalt]

Wait was there a long blade short blade weapon in vt2?

[sterile tendon]

kerillian's i believe

[wheat timber]

Most movesets in DT came from a VT weapon

[wintry cobalt]

Ah I never played kerillian lol only ever played sienna

[sterile tendon]

i played all at least a bit

[wheat timber]

Mk XV Evi is just executioner sword

[sterile tendon]

dt defo has a lot more attacks in da moveset tho

usually

[wheat timber]

Crucis Thammer is the starter mallet you get on Kruber

[wheat timber]

Does VT2 have pushing but not PA’s?

Or do you mean just more complex strings

[sterile tendon]

strings

[wheat timber]

Ahh okay that makes sense

[wintry cobalt]

Just looked up the dual swords in vt2 and if that's what it's going to be... Fuck yeah

[sterile tendon]

dont rember vt2 having stuff like any "hidden" attacks for example

[wheat timber]

I missed the boat on VT2 and only played about a dozen hours of the first

[sterile tendon]

meanwhile dt has an attack that only happens after a push (not push attack) lmao

[wheat timber]

Going back after 2 years of Darktide gave me whiplash

[sterile tendon]

bonesaw's btw

[wheat timber]

Is it every weapon or just the few exceptions like Mk6 FGS?

[sterile tendon]

i think theres only 1 push specific attack

[wheat timber]

I’ve never taken the time to lab if Shivs push gives a unique attack

I just YATATATATATA

[sterile tendon]

shivs do have like some follow ups

after push u can do some more single target stabbies on the cleave shivs

forgor exactly the combo

[wheat timber]

I throw in a PA just for the CC

I’m a Mk1 slave

I just take battering strikes and pretend they’re the Mk3’s with a better moveset

[sterile tendon]

thats just a PA follow up

its just not really an attack with fgs

lol

[wintry cobalt]

I'm bad with stab weapons, can't aim for shit

[wheat timber]

Yeah my point is how that weapon’s “hidden” attack is so crucial to its moveset that people know about it

[sterile tendon]

though i guess it does do 1 dmg

[wheat timber]

Versus something like “oh you aren’t using the thammer push cancel? Oh you poor baby”

[sterile tendon]

crusher user try not to pa every 1s challenge

[wheat timber]

Yeah you don’t even do a hidden for the crusher maul

Just literally let the PA uppercut + overhead light delete anything in front of you

[sterile tendon]

lol

real combo of pa into pa in to pa

stamina isnt real

[wheat timber]

OG Evi Mk3

Heavy QQ Heavy QQ turned into PA Heavy PA Heavy

[sterile tendon]

i hope we have some fun combos with skitty weps

[wheat timber]

Throw in some of those post heavy horizontal lights for flavor

[sterile tendon]

wasnt the biggest fan of shiv combos that just feels like it'd hurt hand

[wheat timber]

Because otherwise the fucking thing is a straight vertical choppa

WITH NO CHOP

no wonder everyone uses the MKXV

[sterile tendon]

idk which one is mkxv i just use relic blade on zealot

[wheat timber]

You just faceroll M1 and hit everything on screen every swing, and they die. You don’t just knock them on the floor

I refuse to use the XV

[sterile tendon]

the funny uppercut relic blade specifically

[wheat timber]

Weird that I hate it for the random stab in the string but I love the Arby shield’s stab

[wheat timber]

Mk2 relic my beloved

Kinda the same reason as the other mark for the Evi, I don’t like the brainless horizontal lights of the MK8(?) even if they’re “good”

I’d rather do a PA + Heavy and have a whole array of attacks than just be an automatic poxmower

[sterile tendon]

i like more involved combos for sur

[wheat timber]

Any excuse to use heavies honestly. Tide combat is just SO GOOD

[sterile tendon]

cause if i use psword or like ogryn siheld my brain becomes goop

[wheat timber]

You send an enemy ass over teakettle and you’re like, “yeah I’m down for another 100 hours”

[sterile tendon]

god launch dt wep movesets were a little silly

[wheat timber]

Cannot stand psword for the monotony of turning it on and spamming 3 lights, can’t use Oggy shield because it genuinely hurts my hand to spam nothing but heavies

[remote scroll]

the only mark

there is only 1 relic blade

[wheat timber]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1053823148048527440/1484348357148282960/1752934061219_truthgryn.gif

[sterile tendon]

must do the funny uppercut

even the pfalchion has it i think lmao

[wheat timber]

Golfswing everyday

I miss my bridge in Dks2…

[sterile tendon]

yeahh

psword is just fricked

[wheat timber]

I miss Dks2…

[sterile tendon]

thank god we'll get a way cooler psword in a bit

[wheat timber]

So unbelievably hype for Skitarii

[sterile tendon]

im defo buying deluxe but i need to know the melee weps more before i get too invested

[wheat timber]

Contemplating taking the day off work because I fully expect the servers to get violently hugged to death and to get disconnected from several matches

[sterile tendon]

lmao im just waiting or playing like 1 match

[wheat timber]

Sometimes it’s worth waiting a couple days since it’s not like there’s necessarily a “day one bonus” aside from being there for any silly bugs

Basically me waiting for the other shoe to drop with Forza 6

[sterile tendon]

day one bonuss is the "i was here for skitarii day 1" pin

[wheat timber]

“Looks amazing…what’s the catch?”

[sterile tendon]

racing game

[wheat timber]

Vroom vroom

https://tenor.com/view/vroom-car-driving-pretend-drive-gif-18232788823374492705

[honest magnet]

how'd you know its not just going to be Psword V2

[sterile tendon]

uh

cause they have time to make something decent instead