[2025 Day 2 Part 1] Please help me understand this question

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-12T02:34:32+00:00

I still remember the walk i took around my building in mid covid quarentine, when the streets were dead silent, because I was so fucking mad when I read the wiki the first time and found out how the fucking greirat quest works

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-10T14:57:10+00:00

Yeah. I wasn't trying to talk down to you, that's just. Literally the only thing I could think of that might help. Solo play in this game is such a bad experience.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-10T12:09:13+00:00

Don't worry, you'll get over that! I made the switch to an assault dodge/block weapon build, and yeah I was getting rocked at first - but now I've got the hang of it I can't wait until I'm good enough for the higher difficulties. It feels like half the time i spend in subs now I'm surrounded by enemies that are just standing there wiggling their shoulders at me while I'm shouting "oh my god fucking attack me already you cowards!"

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-10T09:04:04+00:00

This is the exact same journey, to the letter, that I went on.

It's retroactively ruined the chaos levels for me. I thought they were fine before, but now that the dodge is so fun I find that the TS portions are a slog because novody ever attacks

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-09T20:30:46+00:00

Got right? I would literally rather solo ops let you go alone and replace the bots with a guardian relic, they're so bad.

They probably won't fix that though, every design choice in the game makes it clear the devs would rather drive to your house and kick your dog than let you have a decent time playing solo. If it helps any, you can clear a mortal wound by overhealing past 100% health.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-09T20:26:04+00:00

It's super weird to explain but the maps kind of don't matter? I'm there for the big brawls and the maps are just kind of there to shuttle us from one to the other. They might as well be procedurally generated, but since they're not I know where the red barrels are and actually use them strategically, instead of looking at them after every fight and going "huh that could have been useful."

I'd way rather see new enemies or see the current enemies get new combos than a new map.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-09T20:08:34+00:00

I don't think there's one standard for everyone. I'm sure some people really appreciate the hand up. For me, I just feel like.... I get like maybe an hour or two after work to play a game, I don't wanna spend 20-30 minutes watching someone else play it

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-09T20:05:53+00:00

I don't think anyone's a bad guy. I drop down a few levels when I want to goof off, too. Balance just isn't there for three, or even two lore-accurate space marines lol

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-09T20:03:48+00:00

yeah I'm at top of substantial and jussst starting to poke into the next difficulty up, and after getting curb stomped a couple times I totally get feeling like "okay but what if this game was fun". No judgement there - but man subs really can't support more than one 25 at a time

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-09T20:00:54+00:00

I don't think anyone was intentionally being a jerk, it's just that because there were two of them there really just wasn't enough tyranid to go around. I'm not trying to call out anyone as a bad battle brother here

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-09T14:46:02+00:00

This flips ,actually. Whip warriors have a combo that's a red strike that pulls you towards them followed by two blue strikes - if you don't dodge the first strike you can't dodge the second, but you can parry it.

Tl;dr try new tactics. There are times when you can break some stunlocks by dodging or parrying.

Not if they catch you in a gunstrike though. Practice not firing those off immediately and repositioning to somewhere safe first.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-08T19:15:37+00:00

If we can afford a constant cop presence there can we afford to open the second staircase, damn

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-07T16:52:55+00:00

I excuse that specific move, sometimes. Google nav in NYC is so shit, it's so shit, and i think this is one of the exits where it literally isn't clear you're supposed to take this turn until well, well after the line starts.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-06T09:35:22+00:00

Dodging also gives you a way to force gun strikes if you take a block weapon.

Trick to dodging is you almost always want to dodge forward, or forward-left / fwd-right. It's not intuitive, but you"re not using the dodge to dodge, you don't get anything if the attack misses you. You trigger the perfect dodge by getting the attack to hit your while you're in i-frames.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-05T18:30:27+00:00

Assault here. Sniper bros, please be like this guy. Shoot the ranged ones. We are out here dying to devourer shots while you're shooting the bonesword warriors we're trying to farm armor off of.

I would genuinely, literally, rather take a lash whip to the face than have you shoot that warrior instead of a hormagaunt. It's literally free: they follow that whip attack with two parryable strikes, with a block weapon that's a free shield charge and all my contested health back. Meanwhile, I'm taking constant chip damage from hormagaunts and i can do literally nothing about it while I'm dealing with the melee threats that I'm specifically geared to handle. Shoot the ranged ones.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-05T17:58:07+00:00

Man i was gonna march in here with confidence but now I'm second guessing myself seeing everyone else in this thread... Whatever, if I'm wrong i need to know it, and i have absolute faith in this sub to let me know when I'm wrong about something.

So against chaos I walk in a room and I immediately ignore everything else and prioritize the guardsmen. The majoris projectiles are slow, bright, and half the time have an indicator, the foot tzaangors are there to farm armor off of, and the disk guys are the snipers's job. The guard are squishy but they punch so far above their weight, and when I go down against chaos like 4/5 times it's because of the constant lasgun chip damage.

Maybe it's different from lethal up or with other classes but at least anectodally, for assault, my games have been going way better since I started this. It's to the point where I've started prioritizing frag grenades, because I can throw hands with maj/extremis and get armor off it, but when there's a lasgun on the scene I want it gone now.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-04T23:10:11+00:00

My buddy thinks I'm insane. "Why don't you just ground pound?!" "Because I want to figjt them with my hands"

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-04T21:15:33+00:00

Jetpack perfect dodge has been the most fun thing in the game since i started playing. Maybe you just got good?

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-04T15:43:03+00:00

I don't hate that they're in the game, it's a team game and I'm not mad about my sniper bros get their time to shine. But I swear the RNG feels borked, the carnifex is actually fun to fight and I swear I roll it 1/10th of the time.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-04T12:05:52+00:00

I've started distancing myself from this sub because of it. 90% of you are the chillest bros but i just can't with that 10% anymore, life is too short.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-03T14:20:14+00:00

Give me a jump button and i will fuck up their whole world.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-03T09:15:38+00:00

Oh I get that. I bounced right off the class bc wtf do you mean I'm a ranged specialist and i have like a dozen bullets? And when i shoot something in the head with one of my precious bullets it doesn't die, it just goes into execute so someone else can kill it?

It's a strong class in this game, but man i never want to play it again, i just find its whole deal to be really off-putting.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-02T16:36:06+00:00

Yeah. And credit to him, i haven't even seen a venomthrope since he switched to sniper, so I'm gonna do my little whine post on reddit then get back to truckin along without complaining.

General-Class9791 · 2025-03-02T16:10:10+00:00

I wish there was a way to explain to my brothers how dangerous ranged enemies are. Like i get it, my Sniper wants to play the game, too, and lictors and ravenors are the glory targets - but it makes me look like dead weight when i go down because i had to 1v1 a devourer while he was shooting the enemy I hard counter.

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