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Cowcaster posted:what's the general overarching opinion of etiquette on a high level character joining a babymode difficulty mission, is it acceptable or does it render the game really boring for everyone involved? the last weekly mission i have to finish up on my psyker is "pick up scriptures" and not only does that seem like it'll be a lot easier to knock out on baby mode, it's entirely at the discretion of the map board what difficulty it chooses to assign a scripture secondary objective to. I think it's nice to finish the mission without wiping, so having someone in the squad with extra curios and better weapons and feats is cool. Even if you're bringing a plasma gun and a power sword to a tier 1 map, I'm pretty sure the other players will still have their hands full during mob fights, servitor interrogations, etc. You'll just be a little better positioned to help them out if they're getting overwhelmed.
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I'd love to see more environmental variety in future maps, but I wouldn't bet money on it any time soon. I keep getting in-game dialog where one PC comments that they've heard there's a second city on the planet, before being abruptly cut off by the Sergeant Major telling them to stfu and drop the subject. I'd think we'll see something develop there, so I'd expect more of the same type of industrial/cathedral/shantytown hive environments. Edit: but I'm fine with that as long as there's variety in the objectives. Only so many times I can scan an area or restart a countdown with the world's lamest mini game before it starts to feel old. Combat feels great, though, and I finally found an autogun that owns hard enough to make me give up on my lasguns, bolter, and plasma gun.
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Buck Wildman posted:while trying (and failing) to find one on heresy my group confirmed that an ogryn with a shield can indefinitely safely tank a daemonhost behind their shield. this is probably the easiest way to get the psyker boss solo penance but is also valuable info if anyone needs to take one down for other reasons Out of the two times I took out a daemonhost, that was the way we got one, and kept all four players alive doing it. Ogryn shield worth its weight in gold there.
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I dig some of the ethical and/or theological debates between PCs, including whether or not abhumans have souls, with the squad's zealot claiming that they don't, the other zealot saying that they are granted souls by the Emperor's grace, and my veteran arguing that it doesn't really matter, and most of the abhumans he's met are better people than the humans. I'd wonder how much of that is absolutely generic class-based dialogue, versus whether there are personality types built by mixing and matching the multiple choice origin story at character creation - ie. my crime was sedition and my history was enlisted with a field promotion, and I've noticed that most of my character's dialogue is either professional military jargon or polite contempt for Imperial dogma.
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I'd hope we get something resembling an actual plot with the new maps. Was a bit jarring to realize the Level 1 > 30 progression was just showing up at someone's desk for 15 seconds of "you need to work harder to impress me" or "there's a traitor among us (and you will have absolutely nothing to do with resolving this)"
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Dec 5, 2022 17:47
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Jamwad Hilder posted:is the bolter a good choice for the veteran? I got one and I tried it out in the practice area. The damage is really great, but I feel like the relatively small amount of ammo will be a problem for the vet, since I spend a lot of time shooting normally. A bolter is great if you can use a power sword on anybody who isn't a ranged threat. A plasma gun is even better at dealing with ranged threats plus anybody standing in between you and them but requires better timing to use effectively. For the veteran, I think a lot comes down to personal preference. I have the most fun just using a semi auto lasgun to snipe or a good braced autogun for all around running and gunning, and high level lasguns and autoguns absolutely own. It's a game, you should have fun. If the tiny mags and long reload/cocking takes the fun out of using a bolter, go with something else, don't feel obligated to just stat max.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Hearing a zealot shout "SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE" made me do a double take I guess that one started out in jail for borderline heretical views, then. Or this one, who I like to think was in jail for being a little too close to 
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After a week of absolutely zero loot drops, I got three in a row last night, including a really solid lasgun that sets enemies on fire with weak spot hits. Buuuuuttttt... Now my weekly contracts seem to be bugged. I got some fairly simple ones. Complete 25 missions, kill 1000 scab with ranged weapons, and kill 1000 dregs with melee weapons. Easy. Except the game stopped keeping track when I got to ~700 dregs and ~400 scab and 4 missions, and it would be cool if it would start keeping count again. Welp. The core gameplay is enjoyable enough that it's worth playing, but man, this really is just a beta. Lots of games, especially multiplayer games, advertise content that will release after the game itself, but I can't remember the last time I saw buttons marketed "coming soon" in a notionally complete game.
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I actually dig the partial reload system. If I've already dropped a half-empty mag from my lasgun/autogun/whatever before switching to melee, it only makes sense that I'd be empty on ammo when I switch back and need to reload. With that said, I really don't love the lengthy cocking/readying animation any time I switch long guns and/or get knocked a few meters away by an exploding barrel. I guess the idea of a safety catch is archeotech. Pharmaskittle posted:I like that, in true 40k fashion, this game is hilarious and goofy when I get high and play ogryn with my friends, but a horror game when I get high and play guardsman with pubbies
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toasterwarrior posted:Hell, at level 30 you can even get an instant reload with your active ability if 100+ rounds of constant laser fire somehow isn't enough for whatever you're deleting.
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Phlegmish posted:New bug encountered: stuck on the loading screen forever, can only press Space to cycle through the grimdark aphorisms I had that happen on my attempted return to the mothership after a mission. Had to terminate the program manually and then re-launch, but it at least registered the mission complete for the purposes of experience/money/challenges.
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Dec 9, 2022 00:54
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big cummers ONLY posted:Where do vets like dropping grenades, other than behind enemy cover when it's too dangerous to advance? That's a good use case, but I feel like I'm overlooking other situations where they are better than just killing with normal weapons. Big ol' Ogryn looking to squash you like a bug? Toss a grenade behind him, then pop him in the head a whole bunch while he's staggered.
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The devs really love their pox hounds. Not only are at least two missions tagged with the Hunting Grounds flag for extra hounds, there's also a global condition for extra pox hounds on every map. I still haven't even seen a map with the flag for dark conditions.
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Insert name here posted:You actually need to check your contracts after finishing them all to get credited for the 1k bonus for some reason! It's really obvious if you pay attention to how much melkcoins you have you'll notice it jumps up by 1k the moment you check on your contracts. Similarly, unless it got fixed in the latest patch, you also need to check it at the start of a new week before you'll start getting credited with progress toward any contracts. Edit: skaianDestiny posted:I asked someone who's been diving into the code and apparently when "nearby" or "close range" is referenced in blessings and such it's 15 meters. If so, that would make autoguns with the "immunity to ranged for 0.X seconds after a close range kill" super potent. I haven't really given them a shot, so can anybody else confirm?
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Zzulu posted:Still haven't gotten to play the new map. Haven't seen it on malice or heresy yet It's just Throneside but in reverse for the first half of the map. Hike across the skybridge from the opposite side, walk through a few paths that were barricaded in the first iteration of the map, and then make your way up to a rooftop for the usual mob fight while you repeatedly restart your data interrogators. But, being Throneside, it's still very pretty and thus imo a better way to kill 20 minutes than most of the other missions.
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S.J. posted:Honestly the dog mode sucks poo poo. They could've had it spawn more of almost any other enemy type and it would've been more interesting. Yeeeeep. Was on earlier. Dog mode was present on four of the twelve available maps, lights out was (as usual) on none of them, and if you don't like dog mode too fuckin bad, because the dog mode global condition has been on for a few days now, so it's actually dog mode on every map all the time, and oops all dogs on those particular four. Meanwhile, there was exactly one Heresy map. C'mon, Fatshark. Seriously?
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Spanish Manlove posted:Is it just me or does the game seem more lenient with spawns when solo queueing than when grouped up? I swear there's less specials when I'm playing t3 by myself compared to a full group of 4 people. I think so. And I've definitely noticed that, as soon as someone new drops into the game, the AI director responds by spawning in a couple of elites and/or a horde of poxwalkers. What's the over/under that the Global Condition settings are bugged out? After the last week of extra dogs, I happened to be on the map select screen when the timer counted down to the next Global Condition, and... Dogs again.
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Grimwall posted:This justifies my near complete avoidance of the loot system in the game. Ultimately, Melk's weapons don't seem to be any better than the stuff you can buy in the normal shop, or a lucky random mission reward. Case in point, I bought this in the regular hourly shop as a blue, then leveled it up to orange. Works amazingly well for deleting elites.  I've seen a couple of XII lasguns in Melk's shop, but always with significantly lower damage and usually less useful blessings and perks.
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Tiger Millionaire posted:I know it's been said in thread but it's very funny they got one of the Actually Good 40k writers on board and the output was... 4 cutscenes where a character tells you "yer ok kid, but you gotta do better" Don't forget the final cutscene, "I know who the real traitor is, and I know that you're actually loyal and competent, but I will make a show of pointing a loaded gun at you just because. This demonstrates my competence and will surely not motivate you to shoot me in the back the first chance you get."
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Chromatics posted:For emperors gift items at the end of some missions, is the quality tied to mission difficulty at all or just character level? I've seen claims that it's based on the quality of your equipped gear, but when I'm playing a level 30 character, I get a mix of orange & purple gifts seemingly independent of whether my gear is all orange or a mix of blue/purple. And that's regardless of whether I'm doing difficulty lvl 4/5 runs for fun, or lvl 2 runs for to meet my weekly scrip contract. Edit: so I'd lean toward character level
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I've given up on trying for the On Overwatch penance. Even when I've made it to the final battle in any given map, I've always needed to do something to help my team, whether that's wading into a melee, or carrying something heavy, or fixing a data interrogator, or helping a downed teammate up. That inevitably leads to taking a couple of melee hits. C'est la vie. The alternative would be to play selfishly, and that just feels lovely.
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Anti-Hero posted:I cheesed this one on the OG throneside map. In the final arena you can stand on the precipice of the entrance and stay away from mobs there. I saw a vet get bowled over by a mutant doing that. I didn't realize they were trying for On Overwatch, but makes sense Edit: or possibly was standing just below the precipice Arc Light fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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Internet Explorer posted:Extra snipers would be an improvement over the extra hounds that sometimes seems to go on for days at a time. Seriously. I can at least reliably dodge a sniper and then pick him off with a ranged weapon. But when Dogs show up? Do I dodge? Do I block and push? Do I slash at the last second? Do I switch to ranged and shoot them on the approach? Any of those might be the right choice, or they might result in launching the dog into the troposphere. Or the dog might just completely ignore it and teleport on top of me and start mauling my throat.
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Pharmaskittle posted:I feel pretty good about 3x health curios on zealot and ogryn, can't imagine giving it up for any other option. +Toughness on guardsman I like but could be talked out of. What do y'all like for perks on your curios, tho? All my curios have multiple perks, but I have two with 20% sniper damage reduction, and even though I don't usually take sniper damage, it's fantastic when I need it. Nothing like being able to tank 3 or 4 sniper shots without needing to dodge, while I suss out where the sniper is hiding behind a horde of scab shooters.
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ZeusCannon posted:Finally cleared lag (guess it was server side because i changed nothing) and played. There are cosmetics that you'll get by completing penances (aka challenges). Some are real simple like "reach level x" while others may require a little more effort. There are also cosmetics for sale in the store that uses normal in-game earnable currency. Once you've gotten to the point where you can play missions on difficulty 4 and 5, you'll have more currency than you know what to do with. Those store cosmetics are unfortunately pretty much all just recolors of two or three outfits. The store that requires real currency is also the one with the unique cosmetics. So if you want a fancy gold skull mask for your zealot or to dress up like a guardsman from a lore-specific regiment, that is thus far your only option.
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Fishstick posted:ABB Huh. I foolishly assumed my sword could only block in front of me because I'm not some kind of octopus abhuman, but I guess that'll be my new winning tactic
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Has anyone figured out if the plasma gun can shoot through shields, for the assassination missions? It's been a few months since I gave Darktide a shot - before crafting was really sorted in any useful way - but I might circle back to test that.
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Skipping leg day. You hate to see it.
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With the latest patch, I jumped back in for the first time since last December, after Fatshark turned on the perpetual dogmode modifier and then went on holiday. Nice improvements in general, and I liked the new(ish?) map involving a deep dive into a library vault. I know the map's been available for months, but it was a first for me. What I didn't enjoy is how I was somehow usually the best in my pubbie group at Heresy level, and hardly any veterans or zealots seemed inclined to check behind themselves, stay in coherency, or prioritize elites/specialists. The psyker and ogryn players at least knew what they were doing. And seriously, there's no reason anyone should be shooting at a daemonhost at that level. And yet. To be clear, I'm not by any means a great player, but the fundamentals of the game haven't really changed in a year. Was there an influx of new players with the new patch? Edit: or is it just a matter of people failing upward from Malice and never getting better? Back when I dropped off last year, level 4 was when some level of situational awareness became necessary
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I was away for a few months and then came back following the patch. Is Lights Out still a thing? The closest I've seen is Ventilation Purge, which is still fairly well lit, just hazy. Or did they just change the modifier to make it brighter? Way back when it first dropped (and then was immediately removed for a month), I thought it was legitimately dark. Made for a hell of a tense game, especially because the Lights Out levels also had extra snipers
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Arc Hammer posted:Hit level 30 with my Zealot. What is more difficult, a regular Damnation mission or a Heresy level Maelstrom mission? I did a Maelstrom run at Heresy tier and it wad brutal. We only survived because of a crazy Veteran player who then became a jerk on the mic at the end telling everyone to go back to Malice. If you can handle Heresy without being carried, you can def handle Damnation, all other factors and modifiers being equal. Faster pace, more poxwalkers, tougher elites. The core gameplay is the exact same, so if you know the fundamentals for your class you'll be fine. But! Damnation is where you really want to have a good loadout. The right blessings and perks make a noticeable difference. If you haven't already worked up weapons and curios that synergize, this is a good time. Everyone on the team needs to know what they're doing, but from what I've seen the people pubbing Damnation are generally better players than Heresy pubbies.
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Shoot, you're right, I had that mixed up. It was def more daemonhosts, nothing to do with snipers
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.Z. posted:Also, why is Arc Light's platinum user emblem not the usual grenade? I've had it for at least half a decade. I got the emblem as part of a charity drive - give to XYZ cause and show a receipt, and get a different plat emblem. Not super common, but it still happens from time to time. Last month, one of those charity drives resulted in a bunch of goons getting Halloween-themed emblems, so you might see some pumpkins and bats. Or, like Khizan's you're just in the right place at the right time. Edit: Ra Ra Rasputin posted:The early access period was pretty rough and barebones for awhile but they really turned it around in time outta nowhere for the full release. Oh yeah, it's been a big improvement, especially the skill trees, or at least the parts that work as advertised. I still don't like the way the map waiting lobby is set up. Vets should be displayed with their ranged weapon rather than melee. If I'm playing a vet, I don't care what another vet uses for melee, but I'd like to know what they're rocking for ranged so I can adjust my loadout accordingly. Like, if I could see someone else already has a Kantrael XII, I'd switch to plasma or braced autogun or whatever. Arc Light fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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That's fair, and I might go down that path because party balance becomes more relevant for Damnation and seems to be more critical for Auric.
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They also added the QoL feature I was griping about earlier today, the ability to view other players' loadouts in the lobby. And fixed a bunch of penances. Would be nice if they could fix the weird toughness glitch in Exhilarating Takedown where the talent is supposed to provide a toughness buff on kills, but actually causes players to take increased toughness damage. Maybe next patch. quote:Added 50+ new bonding conversations. Edit: beaten by Diephoon on Exhilarating Takedown. I didn't see that in the notes, so I figured they didn't get to it yet, but lol  Better than leaving it in its previous form where you had to choose that or losing stamina. Arc Light fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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Sestze posted:hot take: if you're a vet and you don't take the ammo aura you're actively throwing in higher difficulty matches For real. Helps me because I hardly ever need to pick up ammo, and helps the rest of the team because players who waste ammo can have all the pickups.
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ijyt posted:It's sometimes nice to have a brain-off game session to catch up with friends and talk about stuff instead of focusing on the game Yeah, every once in a while I hop on malice so I can admire the pretty levels without having to focus on combat the whole way through. Even if the rest of the team doesn't really know what they're doing, one solid player can generally carry the rest, as long as they can at least move in the right direction.
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I know the AI director was tweaked, but it definitely feels like more elites/specials spawn in regardless of whether a team is doing well. Unrelated to this particular patch, I'm glad the new penances are more based in skill and not based luck and/or griefing teammates like the original penances. I took a break last December and didn't come back to Darktide until this month, and it's nice that none of my pubbie teams have had players actively sabotaging the teams to try for self-destructive penances anymore.
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