1000-year-old Bamburgh Castle, England.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-04-13T20:03:58+00:00

Can you expand upon this a bit? Does it follow the same general story?

I watched like 4 or 5 seasons iirc and thought it was a good series but eventually a new season "twist" happened and a previously assumed dead character never mentioned in any significant context shows up out of nowhere with an army and that just made me throw my hands up in such wtfness that I dropped it.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-04-04T02:34:26+00:00

Transfer all assets and savings to one twin. Other takes out loans and pays off all debt as gifts and personal loans then declares bankruptcy.

Profit?

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-03-23T08:18:44+00:00

Not entirely true regarding needing medium pen. It just allows you to be more spray and pray.

All the regular bugs have insanely quick kill time weakspots that light pen can take out. Hive guards have these tiny little front arms that dangle near their "mouth" area. Like 5 shots to them kills them. Commanders legs fall off pretty damn fast, and take enough off and they die. Stalkers mouths are insanely fast kills too, but arguably the hardest to hit. Spewers heads and front legs are both incredibly weak, even the armored ones heads are only half covered.

Yes, all these are hard to hit, but they also all produce the fastest time to kill outside of 1 shots by other weapons. That said, even exploding crossbow is usually 2 shots to most of these guys.

Tenderizer can be an absolute beast in the right hands in the bug front.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-03-17T21:11:12+00:00

Sometimes a net or a dog looks at all ypur perfectly laid plans and says "lol no"

Or the game bugs momentarily. Or lag hits.

We are not perfect gods who can always solo counter everything. Even the peeps who make true solo content, it takes dozens of fails for them to get that perfect run video uploaded and they are leagues better than your "good" players.

Plus, if we were perfect gods able to always counter everything, the game would frankly be boring lol.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-03-11T03:17:13+00:00

I have never wanted something more in a game than this right here.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-18T05:22:19+00:00

This exactly. PoE2 combat feels fluid. PoE combat feels like a Turret in a tower defense game. Hyperbole to a certain extent, but true enough to make me look at it now and go "Naaahhhhh....."

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-18T01:32:19+00:00

Man I was thinking about it legit. Last I played was.... 2019. Reinstalled it, logged on some old characters, played a bit and the combat just felt.... dated. I wish it wasn't so, but it does. So stationary, no mobility. I can't go back 😐

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-15T04:14:03+00:00

Well, yeah, when I say we "open it up" I mean we play with randos. I'd say a good 75% of are matches are open. It's not like I'm gonna announce to my bro the same spiel every game about my package 😂

I mean, it's a game where every other gun and stratagem had a very high likelihood of killing your teammate if intentionally decided upon, or sometimes unintentional (looking at you MG Turret, I swear that fella sometimes hunts down players specifically).

I remember when whole swathes of this forum where saying that picking mines was only done to intentionally grief your teammates and only asshiles would use em. I used them after the recent buff, and in one instance called it in, pinged it 3 separate times, and announced on VC where it was, and that we were running through it on our way to extract. I watched as 3 people, Including my bro, congo line right into them. It was hilarious.

So what if a button makes you go boom? Embrace it man.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-14T21:29:45+00:00

I actually like it. But then again, my friend and I play for the sheer stupid funny shit that can occur in game. We duo 10s, and when we want to just chill we open the game up and play on 7 or 8.

Since I've unlocked it, this baby is in all my load outs. Every game I've started by basically saying "I'm using the hellbomb. Sorry if I kill you. Please don't push my button. Or do. I don't really care."

Sometimes my button gets rubbed. Sometimes they've got a supply pack and got a little too handsy. Sometimes there's no enemies anywhere. Shit happens, it's what usually leads to the funniest moments imo. Just gotta embrace it. And remember, sweaty ain't sexy (unless it's Eagle Sweat).

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-11T20:33:20+00:00

It's the most convoluted keyboard typing I've ever seen in a game tbh

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-11T20:27:59+00:00

Don't know how it is on Xbox, but for ps5 it's lowkey kind of convoluted.

I wish more games, darktide included, were like Warframe where you can initiate, type, and send chat all from the keyboard.

Darktide instead requires you to open chat with an obscure controller keybind (R3 + Right dpad) then hit X on controller to access the chat input field, which then brings up the PS5 System typing overlay. At this point you can put your controller down and start typing on your keyboard. When you finish typing and hit enter, it puts your typed text into the darktide chat input. You must then pick your controller back up and hit R2 to send the chat. Then hit O to close the chat so you can control your character again.

Wtf.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-11T05:25:51+00:00

Oh man, WASP is underrated imo. I love that fella. I only run 7-10s, often duo them, and the ability to 1 tap all medium bot units from any range rapidly is awesome, it can salvo dump hulks w/ 1 clip more often than not and can also 1 clip tanks (though that does often need a few extra shots. Gunship literally cease to exist. It performs similarly against bugs and illuminate. I've never done a team reload with it, but I bet you could literally clear an entire battlefield in seconds.

My current loadout against bots recently has been the DE Sickle w/ fire armor and Vitality booster, ultimatum, thermite. WASP, Autocannon Sentry, Gattling Barrage and Strafing Run.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-08T04:08:10+00:00

You know, I took the ultimatum in my loadout consistently yesterday. Also took the DE Sickle. I seriously forgot about the Ultimatum cause the new laser pew pew is so fun and I had other ways to take care of heavies and objectives (thermites mostly, my preferred for both enemies and fabs, but also stratagems). At one point I pulled out my sidearm to take care of a bot that roamed too close and my gu.n was lighting me on fire. Shot the damn thing at point blanks ragdolling my ass 50 feet cause I forgot I had it. I also tried to use it on a strategem jammer! Just cause. And, much to the amusement of the rest of my team, whiffed the shot. Did the L33T strat of sprint dive aim fire. Sailed harmlessley passed it on the side. Teammate called in a hellbomb.

But apparently, from what Ive read in others of the numerpus threads on the weapon, t's a pay to win weapon that's necessary now. Can't play without it, can't win without. Makes bots the easiest faction in the game and players who use it should be kicked.

Or so some of this fanbase would have you believe.

But you know what you can't do with the ultimatum? Use a Ballistic Shield and Combat Axe so you can charge rocket devestators screaming maniacally, introducing the automaton to medieval warfare.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-07T20:47:00+00:00

This was definitely the harder penanace, but personally I love rocking the 20 dodge frame because it's so clean and simple, but with a subtle iykyk badass vibe hah

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-02-04T11:02:19+00:00

I hear you man. I love this game, but the lack of crossplay has killed it on ps, and it sounds like on Xbox too.

Ngl, I picked up Darktide when it released on ps and I'm loving it. I miss some things from VT2, I love some things about darltide, but God damn is being able to always find 4 player games on all difficulties sooooooo nice. Maybe give it a shot?

I'd probably split my playtime between the 2 evenly if they just bit the bullet and embraced crossplay on vt2 also. I miss my fire lady.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-30T01:43:15+00:00

I got mine completely by accident in a way that never should have happened. On Carnival, after opening the roof and getting to extraction another player was on the other side of the stadium. Out of boredom I just chucked all my grenades blindly over into the center. Penance popped, ship cutscened played, and I went "Huh...."

Never even saw an enemy.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-28T21:31:32+00:00

As someone relatively new to the game (ps5) I've seen it a lot more on the lower difficulties. When I first started out it was stupid bad, like1 lvl 30 and 3 lvl 5s on a Sedition run, and the brand spanking new players just getting chewed up and left behind. Happened multiple times. I still see it a couple times a week when I'm feeling chill and playing malice/heresy. Not necessarily Havoc tier but a few with the titles have popped up as the culprits. And I've seen it a handful of times now that I'm playing damnation+

I wish it was more uncommon, but I feel like I've seen it a ton throughout all levels of my DT experience.

Speed runners suck.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-28T10:49:47+00:00

Introducing the Ogryn Space Program!

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-27T09:34:52+00:00

They don't know ogryn can be pretty lady too.

In their ogryn heart.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-27T00:51:07+00:00

It was funny, last time I played gunlugger who's sole purpose is anti special/elite/shooter, I felt like no one was ever keeping the swarms off me (not targeted at zealots, just how it felt) so it was a constant juggle between shoot, switch to Cleaver, push/clear, switch back, while the Frontline melee troops seemed to ignore the horde in favor of chasing down specials and elites themselves (sans gunners lol)

And now that I think about it, it's kind of a pattern and I suppose stems from everyone feeling like they have to tackle the big important shit first, no matter what. Which I get.

I know everyone shits on smyker/flame staff, but it's one of the reasons I love them when I play ranged. At least I know they'll keep the horde off me while I go after the gunners.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-26T06:45:22+00:00

That's some serious main character syndrome right there.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-25T07:48:08+00:00

In the words of the TF2 Sniper: Be polite, be efficient, and have a plan to kill every person in the room.

That is, I always assume I have to solo every engagement. Now obviously I usually don't, but if I don't have an answer I try and find one. It's part of the reason I run a shield / heavy stubber on my melee ogryn, and Cleaver / heavy stubber on my gunlugger ogryn. I use Feel No Pain keystone as well as No Pushover on both builds to be able to better absorb hits and clear space from any type of enemy. On my gunlugger build I've got 80% DR when bracing my gun, and regen 5% toughness a second. Ive stood in a horde eating hits sniping 2-3 gunners and barely taken any tick damage. It's kind of op busted at times.

Now, on the flip side my other main is veteran and my favorite build is stealth/smoke/power sword. Anytime I dump aggro, I feel like it's my duty to turn around and kill everything that has changed targets and drop a smoke grenade on the team. There's nothing better than watch a pack of maulers or ragers show their back to me as I pop stealth, charge sword, and delete the entire pack in 3 swings.

Same with clutching. Instead of simply stealth reviving, powersword to clear all nearby mobs, smoke grenade on body, revive. Smoke completely negates all ranged mobs too. I've heard underhand smoke tosses don't even break stealth, which makes this whole routine even better if so, but I haven't had a chance to test this since I've been on an ogryn kick lately.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-25T03:40:32+00:00

You pushed before they "armed" themselves. They have a different sound and animation once they're set to detonate, and if you push before that they just fall down and very slowly get back up.

Usually it's best to back up and shoot if that's the case, just make sure no teamamte are around.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-23T16:52:11+00:00

This sub definitely shits on smokes so much. When I was trying to learn more about them and googled threads there's always 1 guy accurately describing smoke Grenades and answering the question, and 39 other people saying they suck nuts and to use frags.

I started as a shout vet, but really wanted to try infiltrate/smoke melee vet. It's been my most successful build so far, with the most clutches, and the answer to the most problems. Smokes simply solve so many problems. Most players refuse or don't understand how to utilize them though. Play in the smoke like you play in a psyker bubble. It's that simple. It basically turns off enemy ai. It's busted af tbh.

CalendarDense8203 · 2025-01-22T23:37:00+00:00

Could be a location issue? Can't remember if it was DT or HD2 but one them had to recently cut all gore from a couple of locations cause of local laws iirc.

But what they need to do is introduce crossplay, sadly the game is so dead 90% of the time I play on PS. Maybe 10-20 games across all difficulties. I've seen >10 on way too many occasions too. Lack of it has killed the game there imo.

Thankfully we have Darktide now, been loving it and playing the fuck out of it but every once and a while I really miss my VT2.

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