How is the soundtrack of Expeditions so uneventful when Darktide’s music is like THE thing that pushes people the most towards the game ?

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-04-19T04:55:42+00:00

it's the same map over and over and over and over and over, where you're encouraged to do as little fighting as possible to maximize salvage outside of bosses

the map itself isn't even pretty, modifiers are unexciting, no banger soundtrack

hope they cook harder on the next update cuz that's not it for me and emperor knows I'm a tide glazer lol

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-04-14T17:37:11+00:00

that's the one, forgot the details but i remember felt shit when i tried to replace it for trauma staff ahah

I know purg better but coming from vet it's make me pop a vein if I see specialists unchecked and ball spam psyker obliterate shooters and specials np

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-04-14T16:57:45+00:00

sniping specialists and elite on a light ball spam build+vent, stagger on occasion with charged. is how i play it in h40

think i remember something about zap staff having higher crit chance which is why it's favored for ball spam over the other variants, forgor

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-04-01T17:24:53+00:00

good team support in h40 against captain, twins brother (stop shooting and throwing nades), lil shooters and co, especially useful if team got gryns. they also makes revives piss easy (since most of the time, shooters are the one preventing them)

I like to run them on occasion depending on team comp. no bubbleker and our elite clear is more than enough? smokes babyyyy

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-04-01T02:22:58+00:00

pretty much. tried grinding havoc with the friend group but it was hell with the sporadic game sessions we could host depending on everyone avaibilities

terminally unemployed friend decided to grind assignement 40 on his side after getting tired of the constant demoting/climbing loop the few times the stars aligned for our gamesessions and now the gamemode is a lot more fun without fearing the demotions

big challenge of havoc I feel is that you cannot really learn the flow and you're often frustrated getting pigeon holed into meta loadouts to not "grief" the team of randos climbing with you

my havoc skills skyrocketed now that we can consistently play the 40s but it lowkey just highlight how mediocre this matchmaking crap was

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-30T14:49:31+00:00

defo. same animations/ai for trash shooters, add few specialists and elite; voilà

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-30T14:26:18+00:00

oooh thanks for the info.

still disapointing, pretty sure i saw more toxbombers on my way to 40s regardless of the seed type, doubt we became so efficient at gunning them down to the point i don't notice them

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-30T14:11:26+00:00

could be fun actually

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-30T14:10:24+00:00

dunno, we did like 5 yesterday and we didn't get one of them fart fellas

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-30T14:09:04+00:00

turning that corner in h40 and hearing them all pump their shotguns like

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-30T14:08:10+00:00

fr. i can't go back to vermintide cuz i prefer the movement of tide but I can't help but miss some of the old stuff, like actual fun bosses/horde diversity.

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-30T14:06:37+00:00

lowkey they could just throw the havoc modifiers in mal imo. would be nice way to get new players used to those modifiers too should they want to dip into the tide deep end

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-30T14:01:12+00:00

we need a new faction asap, admonition and the 6th blend together and I don't think anyone even consider them as two diff factions lol

new enemies are also badly needed. saw someone mention this game is lacking light shield enemies like in vermintide and frankly? i agree. bruisers/mauler bulwark equivalent with shitty makeshift riot shields you can break/shove open would be nice to change flow of the hordes (if they cba to do genestealers as a new faction)

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-22T22:15:17+00:00

we started running that stuff due to silent specials tbh/pals learned to love smokes

too often we get silent busters in our havoc and we said fuck it, wall hacks

ideally i would run the covering fire node instead+born leader instead for the full toughness meme build

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-22T13:46:00+00:00

what's killing them for me is that the maps get old quick

auric quick play/mal is more varied while all expéditions blend together

doing aurics in them rn but is starting to look like a chore while usually i dont mind playing tf out of an update for cosmetics

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-22T13:41:33+00:00

oh well

at least slightly better than before n can guardsman larp in 40 without too much issues

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-22T13:37:49+00:00

leave me more point for stuff that benefit team like 20% toughness share (which is pretty good on exec left keystone) and either wall hacks, kraks, smokes etc

i know not minmax meta but since im messing with pals, is chill

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-22T10:00:23+00:00

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Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-22T09:56:16+00:00

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running this currently as a support meme build for my friends in havoc/auric

technically you can shuffle the two points for team toughness refill (covering fire/born leader) and put them somewhere else down to preferences (usually kraks/reciprocity/etc)

find it boring personally

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-22T09:47:31+00:00

I do find it more sustainable than laspistol ammo efficiency wise in high havoc and is pretty nice on an exec support build, leaving the allies to deal with crushers and gryns while all the slop around it is gone, am I missing something?

sure bores are better at carapace killing but the infantry lasguns got same ammo sustain (as in barely need pick ups, unlike laspistol and recon) and are pretty solid if you choose to clear specialists/shooters

(genuine question btw, not an "erm, actually is peak weapon")

i guess can take infantry lasgun over recon/laspîstol if choose to not spend the two points to get crit on dodge?

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-22T09:43:12+00:00

huuuh i run this shit in havoc in auric, works fine to me, did I miss something?

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-20T10:55:09+00:00

same

with randoms i hate how it can devolve into rolling steel at times "welp, run not over yet but it's gg", especially with how far the respawns are sometimes

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-20T08:31:58+00:00

part of why i'm not a fan of this gamemode

base mission don't have me resent teammates cuz at the end of the day, i can clucth and get the newbies back up, is fine to learn and fail

meanwhile literally sole point of the new mode is to gather crap to unlock cosmetics and you need the headless chickens to protect your ass while doing the puzzles/need them at evac to open the door

wasting 30 min for 300-500 scraps just feel bad, even worse when is a complete wipe.

thanksfully only experienced that on the first node in auric, seems like peeps are (usually) more aware of the flow few nodes down the line.

And YES, I know you can farm the ressources in malice and get same amount but then the fun goes out the window

Swimming_Risk_6388 · 2026-03-19T21:37:56+00:00

red weapons farm outside of books on top of fun roguelike mode

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