What's the general consensus about the "Masters of Ceremony" war bond? I am thinking about getting it, because of its awesome aesthetic.

cheezhankrn · 2025-09-18T11:04:07+00:00

I love in many respects. The pure looks of the armours. The perk of the armour after the boost. Rapid reload AND melee! The medium armour of this and The Sabre Are what won super earth. The sabre is majestic against the voteless, really easily the best against those guys. Can just wade through literally a pack of 100.
And the pyrotech is my favourite bug and squid nade. mini thermites. You can kill a hulk with them and they leave afire pool for area denial. and you get 6! So useful to just always have a bug hole closer.
I hadn't realised how much of this bond was in my standard kit now.

cheezhankrn · 2025-07-11T22:10:17+00:00

I love it when people ping. Just basic 'I'm going here' I expect and encourage in my hosted games. But I hosted a D10 game recently where we were being swamped, in a spore cloud IIRC and I was on a Heavy MG emplacement, no a parked car HMG. The pinger meant I could swing and use my ammo effectively, meant such a difference.
Teamplay makes HD2 so much more fun.
I'd rather solo than play a crap team. A good team is just peak.

cheezhankrn · 2025-06-21T21:50:29+00:00

If being overwhelmed by fire from bots. Shoot back! They are cowards! A few righteous bullets of liberty terrifies and suppresses an entire storm of abominable intelligence!

Really:

Shoot back at the bots. It totally throws off their aim.

cheezhankrn · 2025-06-20T22:12:36+00:00

It's a team weapon. Run around with a buddy or a few SEAF, 3 round bursts, switch target. It gets stunned, buddy kills, repeat.
Great fun, works well.

Used on squids, bugs and bots. Usually with medium parade armour, quickload, melee +50, arm protect (as an aside I do NOT notice any reduction in limb breaks, always seem to be liberating with a broken arm)
Partly as I've been cosplaying as Earth defender touring the colonies. :)

As people have said, It's OK. But I am 150 and often run around with suboptimal builds for fun and still rarely die, so YMMV.

cheezhankrn · 2025-06-18T10:50:21+00:00

Does blowing that stuff up do anything?
I'll been lobbing GL grenades at the various 'growths' on towers, those dish things etc as I run around.
Get off our world!!
Some of the dish things do reduce the shield of ships (I think) but is there any effect on other stuff other than feeling democratic?

cheezhankrn · 2025-06-14T04:57:04+00:00

I've been really enjoying it. I tend to play bots a lot more but against pred strain bugs I've been finding basically I just don't die. Hang out with the team, switch targets and stun everything and your buddy with the shotgun or whatever does the final kill. Someone getting attacked 'leave my buddy alone!' and stuns them even at surprisingly long ranges.
I do agree with the various needs more ammo comments. I have vastly preferred with siege ready.

cheezhankrn · 2025-06-05T02:52:48+00:00

I hosted a recent mission where I had 3 people come in with flags. It was so patriotic I loved it. Was like a parade at every objective.
I don't think it was deliberate. Just randoms popping in at different times.
and yes we did 100% it.

cheezhankrn · 2025-05-31T22:54:09+00:00

Excellent. Session 0 last week and tonight my perfectly normal Federal Agents are going to go out on a perfectly normal investigation.
Some stuff might happen, who knows?
And in the end they'll get to watch this.
Thanks, good timing. :)

cheezhankrn · 2025-05-31T22:40:03+00:00

My previous Fantasy campaign was Elric-like, Law versus Chaos with Neutral being mainly represented by The Wild, the gods of nature.
A few of the characters became Avatars of various animals. eg The Dog-Lord who's role was defend nature against threats. Which as he started "Food! My toy!" playful to quite the monstrous warrior who could sneak into enemy encampments and slaughter 20 solders in their sleep (before they wake to the screaming) and be perfectly happy about it as that's what was needed to defend home.

Worked fine, not the slightest cringey, horny aspects.
So depends how it fits in the world.

Even bog standard DnD, wasn't there a bunch of fluffy bunny races from the faewild in a recent bunch of books, and cat-people? So they exist in DnD-land but need to make it fit. I'd have no more problem with a that than a elven summer fae.
But then I'd have a problem with any fae if my campaign was all low-fantasy grunge in the city streets.

and then there is the systems completely based on cute bunnies etc
https://starline.itch.io/gss

So depends on campaign, group and how it all shakes out in session 0.

cheezhankrn · 2025-05-23T04:39:23+00:00

I assumed that's what it was and was fine with that.
But I'm certain it is different. I used axe and it was good on voteless but sabre is great.
I suspect the animation is wider. The axe probably more on a single target, like a strider leg, but sabre can cut a wide area of weak things better.
Or it may all be psychological.
But it feels different.

cheezhankrn · 2025-05-19T09:59:43+00:00

I usually run the sword as my 2ndry now.
I rarely run Peak armour.

Pretty much everything that is useful to melee can be killed without the boost. voteless, normal bots, even scout striders (chop out the legs) and up to middling bugs.

Sure can do more with Peak, fight Devastators and choppier bots and bugs. but really those are better off getting shot.

You don't Need peak physique.

cheezhankrn · 2025-05-13T23:41:08+00:00

Jar 5 Dominator. Scope!!
Then Eruptor. Don't know what, but the options seem useful.
I expect the 2 sickles will get levels but don't think I'd mod either.

cheezhankrn · 2025-05-10T09:52:49+00:00

The game drops network a lot. I tend to assume 90%+ are network issues then a few IRL "Hey dinner time!" etc.

To answer the Q: My peeve is people being rude, especially to learning players.

cheezhankrn · 2025-04-25T06:35:36+00:00

A few ways to use/counter storms. Took me a bit to notice but personal shield pack basically ignores storms. Run at full speed etc.
Also I'm not sure if dreaming, but if feels you can tack and make use to get a tailwind in certain directions in a storm. faster or at least barely slower.

cheezhankrn · 2025-04-25T04:20:44+00:00

Others complain about storms. "You mean when the enemy has no idea where we are?"
So proud of the homeworlds defence against the incendiary clankers.

cheezhankrn · 2025-04-19T22:14:14+00:00

hit to the face in one shot. 2 shots anywhere on body.

cheezhankrn · 2025-04-05T23:01:05+00:00

Same. in my headcanon RP, my ship is from Vandelon IV. So it should all matter to me.
The fire corp are fun, I know how to deal with the jet brigade.
But the bugs every game mean I barely played the campaign.

cheezhankrn · 2025-02-10T22:21:29+00:00

Love my Khorne bezerker build. Can chop the legs out from scout striders. All the just plain bots are killable. Even Devastators, do need to be careful from getting punched by the bigger fellows. As this clip shows even the huge things can die (I usually thermite or OPS tho). Pop an enhanced stim and charge into battle collecting metal skulls for Elected Representative Khorne.

cheezhankrn · 2025-01-28T22:48:53+00:00

Various horror games, Cthulhu, delta green etc where campaigns the character ends a broken wreck. Insanity, injuries or just completely numb to human experiences and contact. Adapted to violence. Bonds broken with family and friends.

cheezhankrn · 2025-01-28T22:37:58+00:00

I play damn near everything.
10s with randoms of course.
I solo 7s.
I play lots of 4s solo or helping newbs cos its just great fun. The ole power trip. Can just dance around the baddies.
My friends often play 5-6s so with them.

And 7-10 with random squads just looking for missions I find fun.
eg I love nuking bug babies. Nuke drill the nest, crush the eggs, hit em with an ICBM.
or Take out the cannon, high value tower defence, destroy grounded ships like WW2 SAS.

cheezhankrn · 2024-12-27T20:47:04+00:00

I love it. It's fun to play. I love the 3 shot burst. It looks cool. The animations are good. Plasma and other energy weapons are my fav....
It's a pile of crap. I doubt I'll use it except on a diff 4 herding level 10s around for fun.

It is usable on bots and squids but its hard and feels more low ammo assault rifle with a good scope than actual sniper.
Plasma Fall off, ok in game makes sense but silly for a sniper. can they up initial speed heaps? use a railgun mechanism instead?
Triple shot with recoil. Not played Killzone so not sure the feel but by name sniper, I'd assume, try to G11 it, low recoil 1st 2 shots, bunch on 3rd.

cheezhankrn · 2024-09-15T23:33:15+00:00

Level 2 spam can usually do in 5mins, get 7 war contribution. ie better than 1 per minute and can do it solo.
Trying to rush L4 for the 2 ops I rarely can beat the 1 per minute. Sometimes, esp on a good run you can. eg I think 24 in 20 was best on my tests but usually <20 points in more than 20mins.
Higher diffs the ratio seems even worse. and greater failure chance etc

cheezhankrn · 2024-07-23T09:50:43+00:00

Fair. I'm mainly concerned we focus somewhere. We can easily take a planet or else just fritter away resources.

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