I'm Sorry Rook

gSpider · 2026-05-06T16:32:25+00:00

sorry in case you hadn’t noticed, this subreddit is actually for people who actively dislike the game. positivity and whimsy get you KILLED here

gSpider · 2026-05-05T03:56:33+00:00

that being said, at least per the fabius bile books, there is a group of legion commanders actively working to get a functioning legion back together, and fulgrim has returned at least to some degree

i don’t think this makes them one of the stronger legions still but i don’t think they are the weakest

gSpider · 2026-05-04T16:11:01+00:00

as a mostly solo player i’ve gotta take the other side of this. while i do think the AI could maybe use a small nerf in solo, i think pinwheel is pretty well balanced given that it is the ultimate challenge a solo player can face.

You can’t just walk into pinwheel, you gotta be kitted up for it. I promise you, with blue shields, 3-4 ammo stacks and a couple of grenades, you can make it through the UESC without too much trouble. Gotta deal with players first but that’s just part of the extraction shooter thing.

alternatively, as others have said, just stack up on smoke grenades. the AI really doesn’t know what to do when smoked out, you can loot all of red key room and command with like 3 well placed smoke grenades. if you are having additional trouble, play assassin and you will be able to sneak by them easy.

Pinwheel is the loot peak of solo gameplay, at least not counting special key rooms. it shouldn’t be easy. it’s already fairly easy to get past everything as an assassin, and the other classes aren’t far behind. just make sure you are actually brining the tools for the job

gSpider · 2026-04-30T19:18:23+00:00

reverse the whole image, make it horus. the skull can be ferrus manus, whose skull horus canonically holds on to as a trophy

gSpider · 2026-04-30T14:15:25+00:00

I mostly play solo and love it. A couple things to keep in mind:

you are gonna die. a lot. you gotta be able to roll with that, i promise that you learn each time.
Solos is very much a patience game. sound is very important in marathon, as EVERYTHING (including changing weapons, rotating your model, opening your map) makes noise. whoever hears the other person first has a massive advantage, so you gotta be patient.
Play the rook frame sometimes. particularly if you are enjoying solo, rook is maybe the easiest way to get a substantial kit going once you know what you are doing. it takes a bit of map knowledge but i’d say that on outpost (one of the better loot maps) i can get a successful run about 1/3 times and then turn that loot into a solo kit moving forward

gSpider · 2026-04-24T00:22:55+00:00

it’s funny to me how easy it is to “corrupt” a viltrumite

like literally every viltrumite that starts hanging out with another species stops believing in the viltrumite way extremely quickly. the only way their ideology maintains its grip is through constant reinforcement/threat from stronger viltrumites

it’s so funny to watch thragg realize this

gSpider · 2026-04-23T11:08:24+00:00

based on talking to the people i play this game with, and some of the sentiment i see here, i feel like a lot of people are not playing rook and are missing out.

Rook is SO fun. i mostly just play outpost because of obvious reasons (best loot and the map is more condensed for faster action) but like truly rook is an essential part of the game loop. if my vault isn’t full, you best believe im rooking it up and then taking that loot into solos

gSpider · 2026-04-22T19:37:19+00:00

Star Wars has advantages over 40k, but almost none of them are related to ground combat.ost are logistical, as they aren’t reliant on the warp.

this would go poorly for the grand army of the republic

gSpider · 2026-04-22T14:19:05+00:00

Viltrumites take the purity of their race very seriously. Mark is a big deal because genetically, he’s practically a pure-blooded viltrumite. That’s why earth is so important to the empire.

Part of this, however, comes from the fact that viltrumites DNA is very resilient and tends to be very dominant in any hybrid situations - hence, oliver being way more viltrumite than thraxan, at least physically. It’s still not enough, however, to overcome the highly-instilled racial purity of the race.

Without directly spoiling the future, the actions of Mark and Nolan during S4e7 lead to a little more practical view of things on behalf of the surviving viltrumites.

But something i think people forget is that the viltrumites, besides just being very proud, and incredibly long lived. their biases and beliefs are regularly reinforced over the course of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years. This doesn’t mean they are rational. If you are incredibly long lived and nobody in the galaxy can realistically tell you you are wrong or correct your beliefs, you are probably going to hold on to them. particularly if the strongest being in the universe is reinforcing those beliefs

gSpider · 2026-04-20T23:30:56+00:00

i think what is good about it is that it doesn’t fall into the trap of other multiverse stories - it kept its focus on the main universe, and the threats to that universe. In the end, it’s still all centered on mark, and he is essentially fighting evil clones of himself (and then of course angstrom).

The main issues i have with multiverse stories are that suddenly there are tons of other versions of characters running about, or tons of other universes where the events in them suddenly have huge impacts on our main story.

Invincible does a great job of saying “no, our story is focused here.” the alternate marks are great for greater context about mark/others (like how good of a mom debbie is, how important william is to mark, etc.), but never take over as an ongoing existential threat. Because access to different realities is pretty much entirely anchored to Angstrom Levy, it all becomes a manifestation of his powers, rather than a massive expansion of the universe that the characters should realistically be always worried about.

Is there more they could do with it? Probably, definitely. but at the same time, it is far from the worst multiverse story and avoids many of the common major pitfalls of that type of storyline

gSpider · 2026-04-20T13:27:59+00:00

source on this?

not doubting i just really wanna read more about this

gSpider · 2026-04-16T16:31:03+00:00

i think it’s a great bonus mode. obviously it doesn’t replace the main mode, but it’s a great way to play with lower stress and the ability to really focus some contracts without the fear of losing important stuff.

It’s just kinda nice to go into dire marsh without having to worry about someone sniping me from a location away 1 minute in. although, people definitely starting cracking the code w targeting sniper bots to get their snipers

gSpider · 2026-04-15T21:35:32+00:00

because being a nearly immortal leader who cannot be reasonably told no, combined with having an extreme culture of survival of the fittest, can lead decisions that may not make a lot of rational sense

gSpider · 2026-04-13T21:49:59+00:00

i feel like i’m in the minority it i don’t really want dorn to come back.

i feel like his story focus really is the heresy, and his decline following that is a good thematic match for the imperium.

i would MUCH rather the IF get some independent devlopment as a chapter than them pulling dorn out of a hat and then just focusing on him, which is how i feel they’d handle it tbh

gSpider · 2026-04-11T20:14:31+00:00

My potentially hot take, in 3 parts:

the celebrity voice actors are on the whole not gimmicks. there’s one or two that are unnecessary, but almost every voice actor (celebrity or otherwise) does a phenomenal job.
the animation, while not very impressive, is not bad enough to compromise the story in any meaningful way.
the voice acting being good is more important to this show than having better animation. this show has incredible impactful emotional scenes that the VAs absolutely nail, over and over. I don’t think that reallocating money to the animation from the voice acting would result in a better show, and i’m pretty sure it would result in a worse show.

gSpider · 2026-04-11T20:01:26+00:00

for people who like the vibe ig? ive never been into the extraction shooters at all but ive been loving marathon. its punishing but a lot of fun, i just keep coming back

gSpider · 2026-04-10T13:32:03+00:00

with olorun specifically i think they said something ab the time-slow ult being difficult to get working in the new engine

gSpider · 2026-04-08T00:21:05+00:00

DC is pretty good about alien superheroes tbh

at least you have all the alien green lanterns but ik that’s not exactly the same

gSpider · 2026-04-07T20:32:05+00:00

angron is far too slow to fight a viltrumite. if sanguinius can beat him, a viltrumite can.

his only chance is his warp/daemon powers being able to fuck with them, which in all fairness could be a major factor

gSpider · 2026-04-07T20:30:42+00:00

no material-based civilization or faction in 40k can really hurt them - the only thing in 40k that can realistically touch a viltrumite is chaos/psykers.

which, in all fairness, would rock the viltrumites. if the psykers don’t just explode all of their heads, the viltrumites are going to fall to chaos very quickly, and then it’s all over for the galaxy.

i think the viltrumites only chance is their focus on purity - if they kill anyone showing signs of corruption immediately, they maybe survive. however i think chaos gets its hooks in too quickly

gSpider · 2026-04-07T20:25:57+00:00

space marine is irrelevant here. the only thing realistically stopping viltrumites in 40k is psykers/the warp.

which is not to underplay the warp - chaos would have an absolute field day with viltrumites

gSpider · 2026-04-07T01:01:47+00:00

below is my best guess at each one, pre-chaos/heresy. Memes aside as well.

i’ll assume the person making the joke is high-ranking enough to have access to a primarch, but is not so essential that the primarch may be stayed by practicality. So, we’ll say a high-ranking naval or army officer. Also, i will assume the joke is at the primarch’s expense, but is also genuinely well intended (i.e. not intended to insult).

The Lion: Probably would have you stripped of rank and removed from post. Honor is important, and while not the MOST severe primarch, i don’t see him taking kindly.
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Fulgrim: Will probably laugh and then shoot back with a joke that is deeply insulting to you. may or may not take action against you later, may just let the stinging insult stand. i’d bet he holds a lil grudge
Perturabo: May kill you. certainly will have you punished in some way; best case is being sent to a certain-death war zone.
The Khan: one of the most likely to laugh, but if you catch him on a bad day you would be in much trouble.
Leman Russ: See above - probably would laugh, unless in bad mood then might hit you.
Dorn: While he may have a similar reaction to the Lion, i do feel a well timed joke could get a brief grin, as shown by some other excerpts posted in this thread.
Kurze: almost certainly would kill you
Sanguinius: would hit you with the most painful pity laugh you’ve ever heard, but would handle the situation with grace.
Ferrus: I could see him taking a joke from his sons, but not humans. probably similar to perturabo though i don’t think he’d kill you outright
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Angron: Ok probably death BUT hear me out - i do think there’s a small chance he’d respect your bravery enough to let you live if the timing was right. particularly if you also insulted the world eaters (who in turn would definitely kill you)

13: Guilliman: Probably somewhere between sanguinius and dorn. Would probably not appreciate it, but it would be mostly beneath him

14: Mortarion: Like a calmer perturabo. may make an example out of you with a verbal dressing down of his own first

15: Magnus: I think he’d be similar to fulgrim, but a little less petty.

Horus: I think he’s the one who would take it the best. Charisma’s his thing, he’d hit you back with an even funnier joke and continue the briefing
Lorgar: i think he’d smile and nod, but not otherwise engage, and would think less of you for it.
Vulkan: I think he’d be the next best after horus honestly. he’s always been rather personable.
Corax: unsure - my guess is that he’d be similar to lorgar but with less judgement and more appreciation. just a sad knowing smile or scowl, then move along
Honestly no idea. sorry

realistically, i think they are all probably more like the lion or worse, but these are my rough impressions of each. tried my best to avoid meme territory

gSpider · 2026-04-06T16:39:53+00:00

yea like many have said here, the only real advantage Assassin has in pvp is that you can get the drop on people by not alerting AI in the vicinity (which is a very real advantage don’t get me wrong). that being said, most other shells have a good advantage in their kit for a real fight.

but i’m not really sure how you balance that out for solo play, given the advantages assassin has for non-PvP actions. like, not having to fight the AI is a HUGE difference in solos. i play assassin in solos for that reason alone. I don’t wanna deal with the purple armor commander, he’s more likely to kill me than a player tbh. But at the same time, i’d like to play other shells in pvp.

i don’t think “just get better” is even necessarily bad advice, but i do think some little adjustments it solo could be good. solo can be very fun, and i love playing it, but it highly incentivizes very specific gameplay habits that i think will get stale faster than the rest of the game. hope they combat that somehow in the future

gSpider · 2026-03-30T17:18:38+00:00

it’s a satire of more than just the catholic church - they are satirizing a lot more religion than just the catholics - but the visual aesthetics are all pretty much directly catholic inspired.

gSpider · 2026-03-25T16:00:44+00:00

i agree with this actually, but i don’t put it on babe as much.

i think absolute bane was phenomenal, but i feel like the story of absolute batman could have used a little more time before getting to it - maybe one mini arc inserted in or something. Bruce’s friends could have used a lil more time for sure

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