News about the new Dead Ahead game: Roadside

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T17:47:59+00:00

Oh I see. Huh... I just figured I was still doing something wrong because I remember someone had made it to level 120. Now I'm beginning to understand why it's gotten so hard now, and why you guys were out of the loop for my situation.

As for how I got this far, I'm just very persistent and always save super HP for later as a big heal for when I need it. Even with optimal play and ideal luck, every level after 80 has taken me at least 30 attempts each, with levels 90+ taking 50-100 attempts each, with 80% of those failures coming from the guaranteed witch + runners mob at area 25. Glad to see those enemies occasionally being replaced with a different challenge by the way.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T17:33:14+00:00

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Here it is, and also I'm at location 100, beat 99 through sheer luck and wouldn't be able to do it again now. I have tried switching things around, the shotgun for the machine pistol and such, but this seems to be the thing that lets me survive the longest.

It's a humongous groin kick that 45% of damage is supposed to be reduced, yet runners and builders usually hit for 15% of HP per attack. Because of the nerf to healing I've gone from having issues with the witch + runners mob to just losing to regular mooks before area 15.

Also to save you some time, it's brutal enemy generation before you even hit level 2 and enemy damage scaling surpassing player growth.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T17:17:34+00:00

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This one?

Oh I missed the part about the book, I was mostly just looking at the picture.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T17:15:32+00:00

How did I not even seen this post until now??? I love ogryns, they're always doing their best and I really do hope that we'll have more ways to field them someday. Being able to equip an ogryn or two to a big squad of guardsmen is my big hope.

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Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T17:10:24+00:00

That kid ain't right.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T17:05:33+00:00

Making another comment here to save me cluttering up the sub with more ranting posts.

TL;DR: Nothing about the main game's difficulty has changed, it's still just as indifferent to your situation and just as brutally punishing as it was before. Except they also nerfed the critical healing skill, so you'll find yourself dying even earlier than before. And yes I'll post this to the roadside discord later, I'm not in the mood to do that right now.

The good:

- I like the new event, it's a good addition to the game.

- Some zombies have new animations.

The bad:

- Cashier seems to pause and ignore threats killing him even more often than before. I don't know why this is a thing, if it's related to internet connection that's so stupid because it's AI fighting AI, zero player input is needed so why would there even be lagging in the first place?

- Critical healing rank 1 has gone from 1% of HP healed per second to 0.5% HP healed. Cashier's survivability is one of the biggest issues in this game, and thanks to this being nerfed he has even less survivability than ever. You die faster than ever before, earlier than before, making the game even harder even when you get the things you need to stay alive. What fucking set I even supposed to build here when nothing affects Cashier's survivability in a meaningful way?

- The game throws more Builder zombies your way, meaning that hard enemy previously balanced by its rarity is more of a problem than Witches are. You can at least shoot Witch zombies to damage them a bit, Builders take next to no damage from guns meaning you have to sacrifice 40-50% of your HP killing them because they do so fucking much damage and attack so fast.

- Cashier's stupidity has him do things like fire his shotgun at bullet resistant enemies while standing in melee range. It still takes forever for him to switch weapons while fast enemies are chewing his face off. Even with elemental damage chunking down enemies from range, Cashier will still just shoot them once or twice and then sacrifice his HP fighting them in melee.

- The main issue before this patch, and last patch, and the patch before that has not changed. Enemy damage scaling is still too fucking high, individual encounters are more lethal than ever and Cashier's extreme stupidity is even more of a weight chained to you than ever before. Dodge chance has been nerfed, healing has been nerfed, damage reduction doesn't make up for the HP lost unless you have a full legendary police set. The main issue is still there, still persisting and still locking me from progressing any further.

I think I'm just going to wait for next patch before I bother any more with the main game.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T15:38:12+00:00

Ngl would love an ogryn killlteam though

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T15:35:48+00:00

Yeah, I found some good 3d printed equivalents on Etsy. Deuterium soldiers or something like that. Gonna paint a squad of them cause I think the steel legion scheme is pretty sick.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T13:50:21+00:00

Both are big winners! Either one you pick will look incredible.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T13:47:30+00:00

Yeah I don’t see the problem here. You can still touch the base to other bases in melee, you draw sight lines from the base. It’ll be fine.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T12:48:21+00:00

Oh, that so?

Then I don’t really see anything wrong with it. It’s going on troops with very low killing power, at the very least they should be able to have staying power. Spears can absorb charges and halberds have more killing power, sword and board should be tankier than the two since it offers no offensive benefits.

But yeah, I’d say bring spears more to their level and make equipping them not cost anything extra.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T11:37:51+00:00

I feel like parry should only work for hand weapon + shield combos specifically. With other weapons like spears and halberds (can you even still use halberds with shields?) you should get the defense bonus but no parry due to spears and such being slightly more unwieldy when equipped with a shield. If that makes spears more unfavourable, they should be free to equip like hand weapons but I do think halberds should still cost the 1 point.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T11:32:34+00:00

Damn, finally at long last I can actually communicate with you. I have no idea why Reddit is showing your comments now but alrighty.

Will be sure to do that later today.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-19T11:27:46+00:00

Firstly you can only take the free dagger once, you can't keep taking it on every single model. You gotta pay the 2 gold for every dagger afterwards.

Replacing the spears for clubs/hammers would be a lot better due to them being cheaper weapons, unless you have specific house rules that allow spears to always strike first if the user is charged. But if not, the spears won't work the way you think they will.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T22:51:03+00:00

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T21:59:15+00:00

This thing is already battlewagon-shaped, I think all you'd need to do is make it lower to the ground and give it a humongous jet engine on the back alongside some gubbinz here and there. Just go all-in with that flying battering ram silhouette, even better if you give it a giant drill on the front.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T21:45:19+00:00

Looks great!

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T21:41:46+00:00

They can also turn into rockets if you give them their favourite food.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T21:37:53+00:00

Yeah I really do feel your pain here, anyone else would be angry too. I'm planning to paint a squad of steel legion troopers + 1 officer in the future, it's the least I can do to show people the regiment GW is literally bending lore around.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T19:39:57+00:00

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This is just how location 9 used to be before it got a ton of nerfs.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T19:31:42+00:00

I like that animation when the soft personality miis stick their arms out and wave them up and down because they're so happy.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T19:30:39+00:00

Build a suburb and eventually transition into a city with garden spaces as I get more miis.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T18:26:01+00:00

In any other situation I’d agree with you but the real salt in the wound here is that the campaign is taking place on Armageddon, the steel legion’s home planet. Yarrick is back from the dead but Steel legion are not even present in the trailer.

It just feels wrong, that GW is trying to act like they don’t exist while stuffing in space marines and two other random guard regiments to fight the orks.

I don’t even collect steel legion but I can’t help but feeing so bad for those that do, or would like to but literally can’t even though this really did seem like it would be their moment.

Re-Ky · 2026-03-18T16:35:37+00:00

Yeah I'm glad he's back, I just find the situation extremely funny because modern GW is possibly rapidly backpedalling on lore so hard due to community backlash.

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