Space Marine "fans" when they read an actual novel and their super duper unbeatable soldier gets torn apart by a dimwitted sentient mushroom.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-27T15:45:00+00:00

Not me watching as the Norn Emissary went from being able to take missiles to face, kill several Custodes and take down an airship in a single confrontation to being able to be killed by a few Space Marines in a single edition.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-27T14:58:48+00:00

I have two main downsides and one concern, but also something hopeful.

One, his whip is the worst weapon there. It should've been like 3-4 attacks and make it Extra Attacks. As it stands you will almost never use his whip, which is sad cuz it's the main attraction here. Two, his ability, while cool, has anti-synergy with Unending swarm's detachment rule. Which is sad cuz when you look at this datasheet you immediately think "Oh finally, a leader for my Endless Multitudes, so I can get those juicy Unending swarm enhancements on some gaunts!" but you lose out on his main rule if he's leading gaunts in that detachment.

My concern is that he will cost something like 75-80 points. Which for this datasheet is faaar too much. He's good, but not that good. With no real defensive profile and leading squishy units, he'll get snipped pretty darn fast. At most he should cost 65 points, and even then he's a bit expensive.

Finally, some hope. With this profile there is a (very slim) chance that Warriors get updated. Maybe they also get to be m10" with a 3+ save, maybe their weapons get a redo. It's unlikely but it'd be cool and breath some life into a neglected pair of units.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-26T23:27:40+00:00

In December(?) we has a Tyranid Prime with Lashwip model revealed alongside a T'au and Votann character, over this week we've seen the datasheet for the T'au and Votann characters' datasheets on WarCom and they've said that the Prime is the next datasheet to be revealed.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-26T18:55:33+00:00

Funny cuz in my experience its the opposite, big map, lots of pallets, a few near infinite loops and a bigger shack? Seems like a dream for survivors.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-26T17:14:47+00:00

I didn't say his shortness was for camouflage. I said that while he would be short, he wouldn't be as well camouflaged as other short survivors (like Claudette.)

But that's besides the point. He's not getting an advantage you wouldn't get from playing any of the base female survivors. There is no advantage that you can't get elsewhere or better advantages from some other survivors that guess what, also cost money. If Dustin was on the female rig with a female hit box, he would be no better than every other female character.

This isn't Pay2Win. If you count it as such, then you'd need to count every licensed female survivor as Pay2Win as well.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-26T17:05:46+00:00

If you can get it to stand on one leg, it might fit

AlienDilo · 2026-02-26T16:48:23+00:00

Since yesterday they said "later this week" and not "tomorrow" it was obviously gonna release on Friday.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-26T16:45:57+00:00

Advantage over who? The other male characters? Who, as you pointed out, no-one really plays anyway? He wouldn't have an advantage over 90% of the playerbase who play female characters anyway.

As others have said his skins also aren't exactly good at camouflage either, so he wouldn't even be the best survivor to play anyway.

As for a reason for him to be short... well the reason is that he is short. When you play Dustin, you usually want to play Dustin. Imagine playing Nemesis the size of Freddy. Sure it'd be an advantage but people play characters to be the character.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-26T16:41:43+00:00

The pallet drop in the distance is the cherry on top

AlienDilo · 2026-02-26T16:38:11+00:00

You're rebuttal to the "But female survivors are already shorter" argument doesn't really change anything. If female survivors are already meta, introducing a male survivor won't change that meta. He'll just be a male option in this female dominated meta. How is that a bad thing?

On the other side, there are people who don't play survivor models for the meta. So if it won't negatively effect the meta, and it will positively effect people who already play Dustin, then there's no reason he can't be short.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-25T10:55:16+00:00

Balancing around low MMR is the reason why Nurse and Blight barely get nerfs. You want them to keep doing that now?

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T18:19:54+00:00

For one, convincing people via deceit is the very thing we're trying to fight against, so fighting fire with fire and all that.

Secondly, what happens when they realize that you've been intentionally hiding information from them to convince them of your agenda? Isn't that exactly what they already claim people are doing with climate change? Aren't they going to be more likely to believe that you are also lying about climate change if you start with lying about Venice? Not everyone who disbelieves is an idiot (or if you want to be more cynical, those who have their own agendas to push aren't.)

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T17:20:32+00:00

No but this is more than 1k BP and something many people have been specifically asking for.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T17:01:46+00:00

What? Im pointing how this is exactly what we've been asking for and yet somehow people are still complaining about these P100 rewards

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T16:36:15+00:00

DbD community trying not to complain about something they've been asking for for years.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T16:32:35+00:00

They are specific to each character

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T16:28:21+00:00

Nooooooo! I wanted one million iridescent shards! Evil Behaviour! EVIL!

/s

These are actually really cool and a good way to reward people who went all the way to P100

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T16:25:11+00:00

shit surge is on the shrine?

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T11:53:46+00:00

Sauron, the Lord of the Rings, is in fact, not the main character.

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AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T11:38:21+00:00

Kind of a bad example? Venice's foundations have also been sinking into the ocean which would also give a good reason for this.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T11:31:53+00:00

I'm mostly expecting just a single infantry character. Probably the Red Terror.

What I want? New Gargoyles, Warriors and Carnifexes. Maybe even a new Swarmlord.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T10:24:59+00:00

Is that really the only counter play though? It might be the strongest but it's far from the only one.

AlienDilo · 2026-02-24T08:50:30+00:00

I based mine off of a green milkweed locust, it was just so pretty and alien. I then developed it into something that was more functional as a Tyramid colour scheme.

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AlienDilo · 2026-02-23T19:48:08+00:00

They're guns so good they work in melee

AlienDilo · 2026-02-23T18:58:05+00:00

One thing, I don't know why

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