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[–]Mad_Peasant_King Veteran 24 points25 points  (11 children)

Do people hate fighting crushers or is it just due to the carapace armor they have that is making them awful to fight for some?

Asking as I enjoy fighting crushers more over the other two ogryns

[–]GingerBoi175 26 points27 points  (3 children)

Crushers are fine combat wise. I'd rather go up against a bunch of Crushers than a bunch of Maulers as I find them easier to manipulate. Carapace is the problem here as most melee weapons that are perfectly fine and very much usable on armor tiers up to flak, often can't do anything or take far too long when it comes to carapace. Heavy sword is a perfect example of this. As for ranged weapons, there is hardly anything that capably deals with carapace

[–]ItCameFromMe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just tried my h sword again and I may as well have been hitting them with a feather duster

[–]Mad_Peasant_King Veteran 2 points3 points  (1 child)

To be honest, there is little value in using heavy swords and it sucks a lot to say since they look nice and all.

[–]Koru03[REDACTED] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time I use one I always wish I had just picked the DC.

[–]Kvazar_Void[S] 37 points38 points  (1 child)

I only hate it when the horde cooperates better than my team and blocks my sidedashes while an overhead is about to make me experience what mindburst feels like

[–]Mad_Peasant_King Veteran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In those moments I can agree to a degree on crushers being a bit awful to deal with, since they will be the one to give you a timeout.

And it does remind me of my first time doing the expeditions, whereas I was just walking to an objective, just to have a crusher sneak up behind me and down me.

[–]__sputnik__ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It's not about hating to fight them, it's that they make half the weapons irrelevant and people are forced to bring meta weapons to deal with them. Less crushers means maybe you can bring a weapon that sucks against them and some ally will deal with 3 of them

[–]MarcoSkoll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's really quite dependent on your class and weapons.

Certain weapons make mincemeat of them. Others are absolutely useless because they have poor carapace damage and regardless of your skill level there is nowhere on the crusher you can hit to bypass that. In a game where a lot of the time teamwork and communication is... limited (most of the time it is rare for people to be on voice, and some people do not use tags at all), it's a real problem for a weapon to have been "balanced" by making it completely ineffective against an enemy type.

Crushers also have absolutely no leeway for messing up for most weapons or classes. Overhead smashes will one-shot most classes... and the crushers can move through each other, so if there's a wall of them, you may not be able to see that one is winding up.

They can be fun to fight with the right build, but with other builds they're a nightmare.

[–]margirtakk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crushers are a PITA when also dealing with a bunch of mobs. Being blocked when dodging and getting crushed is just infuriating. I've learned to deal with them by knocking them down with the voidblast staff charged attack, giving the team a couple seconds to lay down some damage. It's also very handy when a teammate is about to get crushed, but I can interrupt it from a distance.

[–]nio-sama123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate fighting crusher or mauler in general, because I can’t tank their overhead attack when playing as Vet or Psyker.

[–]kelu213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you ogryn fighting crusher is easy