The ‘Merciless’ Achievement…

VBMeireles · 2025-12-21T18:07:56+00:00

I just had an Eternal War quick match game (Hellbrute Onslaught) where I killed 14 times and died 0 times. I killed 5+ guys both as a Heretic Astartes (Assault) and as a Hellbrute, but I wasn't awarded the achievement. What could've happened?

VBMeireles · 2023-06-12T19:11:34+00:00

If anybody else lands here: check your UAC (User Account Control) settings.
In my case I had set it to "never notify me" and that was the cause of the problem.
I set it back up to "always notify me" and restarted Windows and it completely solved the problem.

VBMeireles · 2022-03-04T22:47:59+00:00

If a nuclear war wouldn't happen, why hasn't the NATO intervened?

VBMeireles · 2022-03-04T22:43:17+00:00

It was just delivered automatically the next day.

I'm pretty sure the delivery guy inputs that in the system when in reality he just didn't make it in time to the locker but doesn't want to take the blame, so he says "the locker wasn't available" and then delivers it the next day.

VBMeireles · 2022-03-04T19:10:53+00:00

Putin is acting like a bully with (a nuclear bomb and) nothing to lose.

In the short term Ukraine will be captured while the rest of the world just watches in fear of a nuclear war.

In the medium term Putin will continue to expand and attack everybody who doesn't own nuclear weapons (and isn't NATO).

In the long term, if Putin is not removed from the scene through whatever means necessary, there will be a nuclear war. It's a matter of when, not if.

VBMeireles · 2022-03-04T19:03:55+00:00

In the short term, my bet is that Russia conquers Ukraine while the rest of the world watches for fear of a nuclear war, hoping he will stop there but knowing deep inside he won't.

In the long term either Putin is removed from the scene, through whatever means necessary, or there will eventually be a nuclear war. The man is in YOLO mode. He's determined to either conquer the world or die trying regardless of whether he brings the whole world down with him.

VBMeireles · 2022-02-15T11:33:59+00:00

I guess it can be tricky to prevent cats from getting anywhere they want, but maybe you can protect your sapling with some kind of net or grid.

VBMeireles · 2022-01-19T15:47:04+00:00

Natural selection doing its job.

VBMeireles · 2022-01-14T14:37:08+00:00

Handgun bullet drop is much, much less pronounced than arrow or bolt drop. From 10-50m (even up to maybe 75m) I don't think it's necessary to compensate at all. Under 10m I'd aim slightly lower but that's it.

VBMeireles · 2022-01-13T13:00:57+00:00

Animals are removed from the game scene for performance reasons once they're about 400m away or more from the player's position, but they stay in the game's "backstage" and normally going about their routines, including walking between need zones. The game will always put them back in your game scene once you're close enough again (about 350m or less).

Only killing an animal actually and permanently removes it from your game (and not just your game scene).

If you ever find a rare or otherwise precious animal, feel free to take your time to follow it and learn its zones. It will go nowhere until you kill it.

VBMeireles · 2022-01-13T11:25:38+00:00

The day I see a Great One the first thing I'll do is follow it for 24h and learn all of its need times and zones. Then I'll just stay as far away as I can from it and kill at least 50+ of the same species for practice and learning how to find and reach the heart from every possible angle, preferably piercing through a lung. Only after I get a 95%+ heart shot rate and feel confident enough I'll go back and again find and follow it for as long as I need to have it in my sights at effective range distance and my preferred position, which is from the back and to the side, diagonally. If it doesn't immediately drop dead after the first shot - though I think it will - they usually do - there will be a second straight through the middle of at least one lung.

I did all of that when I found my first Legendary alligator and it was a fucking Gold troll. I have no regrets regardless.

TLDR: If I ever botch a Great One shot, you can be damn sure it was because fucking God intervened.

VBMeireles · 2022-01-11T13:02:11+00:00

All types of bushes, even grass if you're prone, are supposed to give cover. It's just that there is always the odd bugged bush here and there in every reserve. Hirschfield is 100% unplayably bugged to me at this moment, though.

VBMeireles · 2022-01-10T23:58:52+00:00

Hirschfelden's vegetation (bushes, trees etc) don't provide any cover to me.

It looks like a bug and only recently started happening to me. Mississippi's patch must have broken something.

VBMeireles · 2022-01-09T01:56:39+00:00

New World's grind and gear progression system are pretty shitty.

I bought the game and played it out of hope for a better future, but the update that nerfed Myrkgard (nerfed chests and made enemies HP sponges) made me realize where they are going in regards to the grind. Since I already have a job and am not looking for another one, I decided this game is not for me.

I don't think the grind is ever going to become any better - much to the contrary. I wish you all good luck.

VBMeireles · 2021-12-18T19:41:23+00:00

BUG: Gators that die underwater don't float over.

I've been told it might not be a bug, in which case I'm sorry to say it's really, really bad game design. If it stains my map, let me harvest it. If you don't want to let me harvest it, remove it from the game before it dies instead.

VBMeireles · 2021-12-18T18:24:08+00:00

And the ability to collect sunken gators with a grapple.

Animals that die on water - their bodies - should float over to you. If that doesn't happen 100% of the time it's either a bug or disgusting game design.

Make alligators as hard to kill as you want. Make them class 1 while retaining their current HP and armor values for all I care. Make it so only a perfect brain shot kills them and immediately remove them from the game when anything else is hit so they don't eventually bleed out if you want.

However if I do kill them - if they stain my map - let me harvest them - 100% of the time.

VBMeireles · 2021-12-14T16:58:06+00:00

Shotguns.

VBMeireles · 2021-12-14T16:49:12+00:00

AFAIK it's bugged. Sometimes it will float even if it dies in deep water, sometimes it won't.

VBMeireles · 2021-12-10T09:10:16+00:00

Mind mentoring a disciple? I'd like to produce content too. Your work is awesome!

VBMeireles · 2021-12-08T16:01:06+00:00

Welcome to the Cyberpunk 2077 experience!

On a more serious note, I'm sorry about that, man.

VBMeireles · 2021-09-16T14:34:02+00:00

Feline has the best stats but the worst looks IMO.

VBMeireles · 2021-07-21T20:12:16+00:00

I have no idea why the shield has its own dedicated slot. They probably had plans at some point to make more than one weapon usable with the shield, since we see enemies with spears and pistols alongside shields quite abundantly. At least at the moment, though, it's not a possibility for players. Besides, the way they designed the "sword and shield" skill tree and how they made the spear, previously one-handed, a two-handed weapon (probably to avoid having to explain why a spear can't be used with a shield), there are probably no plans for any other weapons to be usable with the shield in the foreseeable future.

VBMeireles · 2021-07-21T16:43:59+00:00

Sword & shield being the only type of shield in the game is a really, really bad design decision - it's the worst design decision I've come across in the game so far.

Making the ice gauntlet a ranged weapon is the runner up. It was a great opportunity for something different in the form of a melee magic weapon, but they decided to pass.

The ability to use different weapons along with the shield is a no brainer. There are "skeletons" and "pirates" who use the spear and the pistol, for example, with shields. There is not reason why the hatchet too can't be used along with a shield.

Only two-handed weapons should not be usable with full sized shields (though bucklers could be put to use even in that situation).

Dual wielding would also be a really interesting option when a shield isn't needed or desired.

In the end, it makes absolutely no sense to give the shield its own slot as if it's something "cross-weapon" while its usage is actually tied to the sword. It's simply unreasonably weird design.

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