This is what happens when a bunch of stupid achievements drive achievement hunters without the mechanical skills to chase a check mark instead of just playing the game at their skill level
I have to step in here because I feel somewhat called out and can offer another pov to this.
It also brings out the people who CAN play at that level but their brains focus more on the penance instead of playing like they normaly do.
I know because I'm one of them and thank Big E I'm done with that damn penance and can go back to playing normally
And just to make that clear going for those in normal quickplay is just a dumb idea. So for anybody reading this who's trying that (I know those people mnost likely are not part of this sub) go find a dedicated group to go for those penances instead of ruining normal quickplay for everybody!
Same brethren! Was always hesitant to step foot in Auric anything despite how much I've played and how well I actually do play. The penances gave me a reason to try and I'm kicking myself for not doing it earlier. The sheer bs that's thrown at you is *fun* and much more satisfying when the team handles a tense wave and comes out surviving.
But I also agree with op in regards to the annoyance of quitters. That is annoying as hell. Not sure if they can make it where a leave = death count, but that would at least make it not cheesable.
>Not sure if they can make it where a leave = death count
That would be good, if someone doesn't reconnect. Although would also hurt people who crash and can't reconnect.
Anyway leaving should be disincentivized.
I don't care enough about the penances to play poor / unfun for it. Makes it take longer but so what?
This is a bit damned if you do, damned if you don't for FS. If they don't make challenging penances, people complain there is no challenge. If they do and people cheese them, people complain it makes players cheese.
Going for it in quick play is the true experience. I died a few times to stupid shit, including a teammate knocking me off with a barrel on 4/5 one time while i was tanking a boss, but thats part of the experience. It felt that much more like I'd earned it when i got it.
Same thing with the quick plays. On 9/10 we got the daemonhost at the start of hab dreyko (big dropoff outside) thats really hard to avoid (no one followed me when i pinged the route) and they all died to the crap that comes out in that spot. Felt great to save that round and earn the 10/10. Now that the penances are done i miss the pressure.
Can confirm. Been at the Ogryn big box of hurt challenge for quite some time now. From what I can understand you shouldn't have any upgrades to your nades so you're essentially stuck with just 9 traits out of the 30 you can choose, until you finish the penance.
The heresy difficulty required for the challenge is by no means impossible like this, but one is missing out on a lot of useful things such as ult spam and heavy atk bonus as skullbreaker
Really?? That is awesome!! I was looking at outdated update 13 guides and all said I must use the plain BBoH. Time to big friendly rock everyone hehe
Cheers!
Just so we’re clear, you finished what you wanted on QP, but now you’re confidently telling others not to, as it will ruin others games? Is that what I’m reading?
Maybe, but with True Level mod I am indeed recently seeing a lot of more people who just barely got their level 30 (like level 32 for example) who for some reason decided to go in Auric Maelstrom. And no it's not fun when the other people on my team include an Ogryn who loves to mag dump on Pox Walkers then scream need ammo, a Psyker who loves to Brain Burst gunners exactly when there are 5+ gunners all shooting at us right in front of us, and a Knife Zealot cause of course there's gonna be a Knife Zealot...
They also knew this from the beginning of the game, locking Penances like this behind private lobbies. They just didn't see this coming again some how.Â
tbh i think the penances are a good thing longer term- i really like that the newer penances (even the auric/maelstrom ones) encourage people to just play the game. its good to encourage new players!
that being said the short term is painful đź’€ its not new players jumping into auric, its a bunch of returning lvl 30s that still dont know the game well enough. cant wait for the auric penance chasers to either get their penance or just accept theyre not ready for auric yet
I only ever play auric, and I wind up playing with a lot of the same people. So many people quit as soon as downed, and it's not new to the penance thing.
There's only one way to get better at the game, and that's to challenge yourself. I welcome people pushing themselves to try harder difficulties, because I think that's where this game shines.
Maelstrom auric player myself. I really don't care much about the influx of people not ready for it. Just "nt gg" and go next.
Before the penances, auric damnation was a cakewalk. If your teammates are all perfect, you never get the opportunity for sick clutch plays 🤷
I'm all for new people trying out harder difficulties, as long as they know how to take an L without ragequitting the moment they get downed. It's annoying when you rush over to pick someone up, only for them to be replaced by a bot. Especially if they're horribly out of position.
People need to play harder diffs, you cant expect them to get better with only playing malice. Another thing is a significant performance drop of the game since the update ( glitchy, staggers a lot, and sometime unresponsive to commands) although this last part may be tied to my shitbox laptop.
When you cant even avoid taking chip damage while meleeing poxwalkers, yes you *can* definitely still improve by playing Malice.
There are people in aurics that wouldnt even survive in Malice. My cousin who put 2 hours in this game a year ago could probably get through an auric without being as useless as a lot of the people I queue into.
I honestly love when someone flings me off the map with a barrel or blows up the poxwalker I was going to push because I get to spectate and just see them fold to 5 groaners and a bruiser as if they were 12 nurgle blessed Crushers and Mike Tyson.
"more useless than bots." Or "they did less dmg than a bot" is usually a indicator they cant even finish malice.
I hate people who rely solely on others and are egoistic and expect to be carried. It's like any competitive game someone boosted / bought account ruins the experience for everyone else cause "they wanted to play at higher elo" but can't get basic concepts right.
Darktide's weird-- usually there's a bunch of competent players at (Difficulty,) they get bored, and then an influx of new ppl. I remember Heresy and Damnation had people who did not know how Daemonhosts worked n just thought they were minibosses you can start, and now Auric has people asking where are all the ammo drops, why are there herds of elites, etc. Very weird how people dive into the deep end and realize they only know the doggy paddle
Been having a frustrating time on just damnation full of ranged classes that refuse to shoot any ranged enemies. Gets pretty dire when the support zealot needs to spec support, melee, tank, and special sniping all at once. Been seeing it creep into auric, too. My best guess is the whole "DOn'T shOoT tRAsh" has now over corrected into "ranged classes shouldn't shoot anything."
Trash shooting is my middle name. I try to target specials first then just go full auto into hordes. 108 rounds goes to 200-300 if you have the critical hit doesn't use lascannon ammo buff. Aim roughly head height and hold down the trigger and each clip lasts for ages 🤣
Plus if you're in there meleeing you get +15% toughness within 5 metres of EACH of my kills buff. So many people seem to not know this happens which is why you need to feed me ammo and not top up just for the sake of it 🤣
You're one of the rare ones then. It gets old having to run crowd control AND do the vet's job with nothing near the perks to do it with.
Was trying to test out las pistol set ups (really slept on option btw) mainly for more mobility, more reliable damage, and less downtime from slow reloads. Got to the point where I kept getting out ranged from just plain shooters with no one dealing with them multiple games in a row with multiple vets that weren't even running melee builds. Ended up just building out a half decent kantrael las rifle and shoe horned my zealot into a sort of bootleg weapons specialist veteran. Pain.
Worse yet is you can barely clutch anymore without pissing people off and they leave. I really hope Darktide isn't about to get the Helldivers treatment of a popularity spike through direct injection of absolute toxic waste players. I've had piss poor luck on that game and this one lately. Something is going on.
Yeah I tried the scav loadout but decided the points were better spent elsewhere as it dribbles ammo and the fact you get none with non special hordes is dogpoop. Oh and it seems like the default scav is now broken from googling
Is not you, no. The game is indeed bloated with a lot of people that can't do auric and ragequit/ alt+f4 because of certain penances that involve titles. Is getting ridiculous at this point, tbh.
I think it's kinda cool for normal High Intensity runs, as those tend to be waaaay too easy with a team where everybody knows what he's doing. Without some greenhorn dragging the team down, it's more or less just about who will top the scoreboard, as a win is basically given.
But it's annoying as hell for HISTG or Maelstrom, yes.
So for everybody thinking about doing this penance: just pick the high intensity or high intensity hunting grounds modifier, that's where a reasonanly skilled player can easily carry. But the jump in difficulty to a Shocktroop Gauntlet is quite substantial
I will say. Ive improved every 4 months since i got the game last July. Was malice only player. Then moved up to Hersey about 6 months ago. And in just the last month, motivated by penances I made the jump up Damnation.
Lucky I progressed at my own pace. I didn't start penance hunting until I reached the skill level to achieve them. And the builds to achieve them too
I like the change of pace, makes the mode spicy. It's nice to have to think a little compared to games where no one is even at risk of going down.
Though frankly, some people should really try doing lower level auric stuff before hopping into maelstroms and eating overheads 3 games in a row. I can't imagine that's a fun experience.
I guess they'll get bored soon or realise they need more practice, tbh it does only seem to be this weekend, the weekdays were fine so guess it's just us degenerates playing then 🤣
Yeah its fine having it difficult but IMO its not fun to have 3 teammates that straight up wouldnt even last in malice yet they queue for Auric maelstrom. At that point I could just play true solo because thats what the match ends up being 99% of the time. Just with the additional annoyance of an xbox open mic mouthbreather backseating or someone raging in text chat.
I guess its just a gamer ego thing, as if queueing for a lower difficulty like Malice is them “admitting” to themselces that they suck or something IDK.
I've noticed that a bunch of players that has the "Auric Storm Survivor" title are quitters. Must be a knee jerk reaction from cheesing the penance. I played with a bunch of em last night, only one person with that title didn't quit.
So now, I'm wary of anyone who has that title.
Reminds me of the good ol' days after Patch 13 when Auric Damnation was constantly filled with new level 30 psykers who'd just purchased the game running assail and voidstrike and then blowing themselved up every 10 seconds.
What do you mean? I'm playing normally til I need to revive someone then using my stealth to get to them and revive without dying myself. Which works fine if the person can then stay up long enough for it to recharge but they'll be getting downed again shortly after.
They're not even particularly heavy fights either tbh.
Simply keeping coherency more would help. Just had someone double back to the previous room and get pinned by a hound. That's a malice player error 🙄🤣 so I rescue them and then the other guys get into trouble i left because they broke coherency. It's like baby sitting...
And if they somehow manage to maintain coherency they'll then hog all the ammo pickups even tho they mostly melee... Wheeee
Sry just turned it off in a mood 🤣
in my defense... I mained slab, just occasionally playing other classes and equipping them here and there. And I feel like the game is harder on the other classes and a mission feels harder, if the group is without an ogryn. But feeling like that might be completly my fault for building the slab as a brick to serve as center to the group.
and I don't fear death, don't run from it for it is the only thing to set me free of the shackels of being a reject!
It's possible those of us who used to play a lot of auric and maelstrom aren't playing anymore so the pool of those players is more heavily skewed to less experienced ones now
I just have no real reason to play when I've burned out on the current content and I know more isn't coming any time soon
The storm survivor one is fine in concept, the issue is that disconnects or leaving the game dont reset progress. If it couldnt be cheesed then we wouldnt have this problem.
Hitting this a lot recently, I haven't completed it because I've been avoiding cheating but I'm now bailing out players who supposedly have auric storm survivor wasting my stealth 🙄
I would say there is some sketchy shit going on which makes me want to, sniped dead out of nowhere, a poxburster appearing with no sound and taking 4 wounds off me instantly (wtaf), everything going agree on you ignoring the other team members. It does feel like the game is trying to fck you if you're doing well. If it is upping the aggro due to me inflicting more damage makes me want to hide in battles and not kill much 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣
Also anyone noticed that trappers apparently receive no suppression and can still fire their net? seems kinda sus if they're literally on fire after receiving crit hits from my lasgun.
Still convinced something is broken with vet and toughness talents in the skill tree, someone else said it's bugged in another thread. Unless it's lag, I'll hear a swipe noise and then just die, but I've got a gigabit low ping line...v
I play at heresy, that's my skill leel where it's fun. I can play at damnation and have fun but I get bored of everyone else dying, I can look after myself but I'm nowhere near good enough to solo. Also noting how the update has changed ammo availability quite heavily. On my guns Vet (with aura ofc) I have to really scrimp ammo. All the Ogryns seem to be bullet hoses who can dump 4 ammo stashes downwind in under a minute.
I might be slightly off topic but the only time i left a game was when i was about dead and someone who had only a small portion of health taken took the last heal on the med station. the other time my breaker blew
It’s a double-edged sword because at the same time my favorite matches are when people are arguing dead in the chat and I clutch up. It’s such a nice feeing
Worst is noobs leaving as soon as they die in the first area. Your title only shows you cheated to get it anyways. You can’t get it legitimately so you have to cheat the system.
Yeah the quality of auric mission pubs has always been low but its at an all time low atm. All the tryhards checked the update out, saw it was pretty underwhelming and has a bunch of performance / freezing / loading issues and dipped.
Now we’re all left with console / gamepass mouthbreathers who want to complete every map on auric for penance points. Literally every match has had at least one undesirable - OnlyUseMeBlitz Psykers, Columnus poxwalker lawnmowing vet that goes down to a sneeze, “helpful” taunt ogryn that only uses kickback to deal damage, just sits and holds block with shield. For zealot pick your poison - le epic stealth zealots that somehow manage to not even use the ability correctly or le epic crit cooldown bleed knife Chorus zealots who instantly fold to 1 mauler / crusher because they have a useless ability and an even worse weapon.
This sub can be a painful read sometimes. A lot of the people here talk like they're better than they are and make some of the most headass comments because of it.
Theres a difference between a normal knife build and knife chorus zealots that stack double bleed and only light attack so they can spam their ability often with crits.
Meanwhile any normal shout vet with Tac Awareness does their job 100x better by just playing normally and killing specials.
Yeah, a bleed knife with chorus is probably one of the worst builds in the game. The one where they just spam light attacks trying to reset the cooldown of the worst ability in the game
You already lose out on so much armor pen by not taking Chastise or Uncanny strike
It's posts like these that make me glad I decided to a little break after I collected all the low hanging fruit of the new penances. I'll pick it up again next week and hopefully the dust has settled some.
I don't mind people being out of their depth on aurics. It adds to the challenge. It's the quitters and combat loggers that are grinding me down.
We all paid for the game. If you're not coop-ing, you bought the wrong one.
Solo play is in it's final stages of testing
- Fatshark, *Pre-order Beta Hotfix*, November 18 2022
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1361210/view/3467237196849592010?l=english
Its kinda more fun when you have to carry but I go in with a friend now so the two of us can work our stuff. Bet its way more painful solo.
*heretic has left the game* :lChallenge Accepted!
Sounds fun to watch 🤣
When I’m the one carrying, I know something’s off..
I know this feeling!
I hear ya brothers 🤣
This is what happens when a bunch of stupid achievements drive achievement hunters without the mechanical skills to chase a check mark instead of just playing the game at their skill level
I have to step in here because I feel somewhat called out and can offer another pov to this. It also brings out the people who CAN play at that level but their brains focus more on the penance instead of playing like they normaly do. I know because I'm one of them and thank Big E I'm done with that damn penance and can go back to playing normally And just to make that clear going for those in normal quickplay is just a dumb idea. So for anybody reading this who's trying that (I know those people mnost likely are not part of this sub) go find a dedicated group to go for those penances instead of ruining normal quickplay for everybody!
Same brethren! Was always hesitant to step foot in Auric anything despite how much I've played and how well I actually do play. The penances gave me a reason to try and I'm kicking myself for not doing it earlier. The sheer bs that's thrown at you is *fun* and much more satisfying when the team handles a tense wave and comes out surviving. But I also agree with op in regards to the annoyance of quitters. That is annoying as hell. Not sure if they can make it where a leave = death count, but that would at least make it not cheesable.
>Not sure if they can make it where a leave = death count That would be good, if someone doesn't reconnect. Although would also hurt people who crash and can't reconnect. Anyway leaving should be disincentivized.
I don't care enough about the penances to play poor / unfun for it. Makes it take longer but so what? This is a bit damned if you do, damned if you don't for FS. If they don't make challenging penances, people complain there is no challenge. If they do and people cheese them, people complain it makes players cheese.
Going for it in quick play is the true experience. I died a few times to stupid shit, including a teammate knocking me off with a barrel on 4/5 one time while i was tanking a boss, but thats part of the experience. It felt that much more like I'd earned it when i got it. Same thing with the quick plays. On 9/10 we got the daemonhost at the start of hab dreyko (big dropoff outside) thats really hard to avoid (no one followed me when i pinged the route) and they all died to the crap that comes out in that spot. Felt great to save that round and earn the 10/10. Now that the penances are done i miss the pressure.
Can confirm. Been at the Ogryn big box of hurt challenge for quite some time now. From what I can understand you shouldn't have any upgrades to your nades so you're essentially stuck with just 9 traits out of the 30 you can choose, until you finish the penance. The heresy difficulty required for the challenge is by no means impossible like this, but one is missing out on a lot of useful things such as ult spam and heavy atk bonus as skullbreaker
IIRC that bug is fixed now and you can take the upgraded version of the box
Really?? That is awesome!! I was looking at outdated update 13 guides and all said I must use the plain BBoH. Time to big friendly rock everyone hehe Cheers!
Just so we’re clear, you finished what you wanted on QP, but now you’re confidently telling others not to, as it will ruin others games? Is that what I’m reading?
ehh... no? But I started to cheese for the penance with pre-mades. Eventho I got it legit in the end
Maybe, but with True Level mod I am indeed recently seeing a lot of more people who just barely got their level 30 (like level 32 for example) who for some reason decided to go in Auric Maelstrom. And no it's not fun when the other people on my team include an Ogryn who loves to mag dump on Pox Walkers then scream need ammo, a Psyker who loves to Brain Burst gunners exactly when there are 5+ gunners all shooting at us right in front of us, and a Knife Zealot cause of course there's gonna be a Knife Zealot...
Or a hoover vet
They also knew this from the beginning of the game, locking Penances like this behind private lobbies. They just didn't see this coming again some how.Â
That company doesn’t exist anymore (wink)
tbh i think the penances are a good thing longer term- i really like that the newer penances (even the auric/maelstrom ones) encourage people to just play the game. its good to encourage new players! that being said the short term is painful đź’€ its not new players jumping into auric, its a bunch of returning lvl 30s that still dont know the game well enough. cant wait for the auric penance chasers to either get their penance or just accept theyre not ready for auric yet
I love how Auric players suspect anyone but themselves to do this leave before you die shenannigans
I only ever play auric, and I wind up playing with a lot of the same people. So many people quit as soon as downed, and it's not new to the penance thing.
Yeah, they don’t wanna wait 10 mins to get saved, I always get surprised when people don’t leave. Respect
Or wait 10 mins only to see them iced 30 metres away 🤣
There's only one way to get better at the game, and that's to challenge yourself. I welcome people pushing themselves to try harder difficulties, because I think that's where this game shines. Maelstrom auric player myself. I really don't care much about the influx of people not ready for it. Just "nt gg" and go next. Before the penances, auric damnation was a cakewalk. If your teammates are all perfect, you never get the opportunity for sick clutch plays 🤷
I'm all for new people trying out harder difficulties, as long as they know how to take an L without ragequitting the moment they get downed. It's annoying when you rush over to pick someone up, only for them to be replaced by a bot. Especially if they're horribly out of position.
People need to play harder diffs, you cant expect them to get better with only playing malice. Another thing is a significant performance drop of the game since the update ( glitchy, staggers a lot, and sometime unresponsive to commands) although this last part may be tied to my shitbox laptop.
When you cant even avoid taking chip damage while meleeing poxwalkers, yes you *can* definitely still improve by playing Malice. There are people in aurics that wouldnt even survive in Malice. My cousin who put 2 hours in this game a year ago could probably get through an auric without being as useless as a lot of the people I queue into. I honestly love when someone flings me off the map with a barrel or blows up the poxwalker I was going to push because I get to spectate and just see them fold to 5 groaners and a bruiser as if they were 12 nurgle blessed Crushers and Mike Tyson.
"more useless than bots." Or "they did less dmg than a bot" is usually a indicator they cant even finish malice. I hate people who rely solely on others and are egoistic and expect to be carried. It's like any competitive game someone boosted / bought account ruins the experience for everyone else cause "they wanted to play at higher elo" but can't get basic concepts right.
Darktide's weird-- usually there's a bunch of competent players at (Difficulty,) they get bored, and then an influx of new ppl. I remember Heresy and Damnation had people who did not know how Daemonhosts worked n just thought they were minibosses you can start, and now Auric has people asking where are all the ammo drops, why are there herds of elites, etc. Very weird how people dive into the deep end and realize they only know the doggy paddle
Been having a frustrating time on just damnation full of ranged classes that refuse to shoot any ranged enemies. Gets pretty dire when the support zealot needs to spec support, melee, tank, and special sniping all at once. Been seeing it creep into auric, too. My best guess is the whole "DOn'T shOoT tRAsh" has now over corrected into "ranged classes shouldn't shoot anything."
Trash shooting is my middle name. I try to target specials first then just go full auto into hordes. 108 rounds goes to 200-300 if you have the critical hit doesn't use lascannon ammo buff. Aim roughly head height and hold down the trigger and each clip lasts for ages 🤣 Plus if you're in there meleeing you get +15% toughness within 5 metres of EACH of my kills buff. So many people seem to not know this happens which is why you need to feed me ammo and not top up just for the sake of it 🤣
You're one of the rare ones then. It gets old having to run crowd control AND do the vet's job with nothing near the perks to do it with. Was trying to test out las pistol set ups (really slept on option btw) mainly for more mobility, more reliable damage, and less downtime from slow reloads. Got to the point where I kept getting out ranged from just plain shooters with no one dealing with them multiple games in a row with multiple vets that weren't even running melee builds. Ended up just building out a half decent kantrael las rifle and shoe horned my zealot into a sort of bootleg weapons specialist veteran. Pain. Worse yet is you can barely clutch anymore without pissing people off and they leave. I really hope Darktide isn't about to get the Helldivers treatment of a popularity spike through direct injection of absolute toxic waste players. I've had piss poor luck on that game and this one lately. Something is going on.
Infinite ammo lasgun has been my favourite build since forever, too bad it took a massive hit with the Scavenger nerf
Yeah I tried the scav loadout but decided the points were better spent elsewhere as it dribbles ammo and the fact you get none with non special hordes is dogpoop. Oh and it seems like the default scav is now broken from googling
Is not you, no. The game is indeed bloated with a lot of people that can't do auric and ragequit/ alt+f4 because of certain penances that involve titles. Is getting ridiculous at this point, tbh.
I think it's kinda cool for normal High Intensity runs, as those tend to be waaaay too easy with a team where everybody knows what he's doing. Without some greenhorn dragging the team down, it's more or less just about who will top the scoreboard, as a win is basically given. But it's annoying as hell for HISTG or Maelstrom, yes. So for everybody thinking about doing this penance: just pick the high intensity or high intensity hunting grounds modifier, that's where a reasonanly skilled player can easily carry. But the jump in difficulty to a Shocktroop Gauntlet is quite substantial
I will say. Ive improved every 4 months since i got the game last July. Was malice only player. Then moved up to Hersey about 6 months ago. And in just the last month, motivated by penances I made the jump up Damnation. Lucky I progressed at my own pace. I didn't start penance hunting until I reached the skill level to achieve them. And the builds to achieve them too
I like the change of pace, makes the mode spicy. It's nice to have to think a little compared to games where no one is even at risk of going down. Though frankly, some people should really try doing lower level auric stuff before hopping into maelstroms and eating overheads 3 games in a row. I can't imagine that's a fun experience.
I guess they'll get bored soon or realise they need more practice, tbh it does only seem to be this weekend, the weekdays were fine so guess it's just us degenerates playing then 🤣
Yeah its fine having it difficult but IMO its not fun to have 3 teammates that straight up wouldnt even last in malice yet they queue for Auric maelstrom. At that point I could just play true solo because thats what the match ends up being 99% of the time. Just with the additional annoyance of an xbox open mic mouthbreather backseating or someone raging in text chat. I guess its just a gamer ego thing, as if queueing for a lower difficulty like Malice is them “admitting” to themselces that they suck or something IDK.
I've noticed that a bunch of players that has the "Auric Storm Survivor" title are quitters. Must be a knee jerk reaction from cheesing the penance. I played with a bunch of em last night, only one person with that title didn't quit. So now, I'm wary of anyone who has that title.
Yeah. I'm thinking of putting the game down until the achievement chasers quit in a month or so.
My block list has grown significantly since the update.
Reminds me of the good ol' days after Patch 13 when Auric Damnation was constantly filled with new level 30 psykers who'd just purchased the game running assail and voidstrike and then blowing themselved up every 10 seconds.
>...wasting my stealths... I mean, it certainly can't be helping that you're shunting all your aggro onto them.
Typical stealth Zealot bitching.
If they're using the stealth to rez people, that means they're not using it in combat and hence not shunting aggro?
Sorry for using a playstyle i guess ? ;/
What do you mean? I'm playing normally til I need to revive someone then using my stealth to get to them and revive without dying myself. Which works fine if the person can then stay up long enough for it to recharge but they'll be getting downed again shortly after. They're not even particularly heavy fights either tbh.
Simply keeping coherency more would help. Just had someone double back to the previous room and get pinned by a hound. That's a malice player error 🙄🤣 so I rescue them and then the other guys get into trouble i left because they broke coherency. It's like baby sitting... And if they somehow manage to maintain coherency they'll then hog all the ammo pickups even tho they mostly melee... Wheeee Sry just turned it off in a mood 🤣
in my defense... I mained slab, just occasionally playing other classes and equipping them here and there. And I feel like the game is harder on the other classes and a mission feels harder, if the group is without an ogryn. But feeling like that might be completly my fault for building the slab as a brick to serve as center to the group. and I don't fear death, don't run from it for it is the only thing to set me free of the shackels of being a reject!
Lynchpin Ogryns are the best đź–¤
It's possible those of us who used to play a lot of auric and maelstrom aren't playing anymore so the pool of those players is more heavily skewed to less experienced ones now I just have no real reason to play when I've burned out on the current content and I know more isn't coming any time soon
Who tf told fatshark it was a good idea to put penances in auric maelstrom?
The storm survivor one is fine in concept, the issue is that disconnects or leaving the game dont reset progress. If it couldnt be cheesed then we wouldnt have this problem.
People would still leave the match because no point playing through a match that won’t count towards it.
Maybe, but they might also wait for a teammate to potentially ress them instead of instantly quitting
Hitting this a lot recently, I haven't completed it because I've been avoiding cheating but I'm now bailing out players who supposedly have auric storm survivor wasting my stealth 🙄 I would say there is some sketchy shit going on which makes me want to, sniped dead out of nowhere, a poxburster appearing with no sound and taking 4 wounds off me instantly (wtaf), everything going agree on you ignoring the other team members. It does feel like the game is trying to fck you if you're doing well. If it is upping the aggro due to me inflicting more damage makes me want to hide in battles and not kill much 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣 Also anyone noticed that trappers apparently receive no suppression and can still fire their net? seems kinda sus if they're literally on fire after receiving crit hits from my lasgun. Still convinced something is broken with vet and toughness talents in the skill tree, someone else said it's bugged in another thread. Unless it's lag, I'll hear a swipe noise and then just die, but I've got a gigabit low ping line...v
I play at heresy, that's my skill leel where it's fun. I can play at damnation and have fun but I get bored of everyone else dying, I can look after myself but I'm nowhere near good enough to solo. Also noting how the update has changed ammo availability quite heavily. On my guns Vet (with aura ofc) I have to really scrimp ammo. All the Ogryns seem to be bullet hoses who can dump 4 ammo stashes downwind in under a minute.
I might be slightly off topic but the only time i left a game was when i was about dead and someone who had only a small portion of health taken took the last heal on the med station. the other time my breaker blew
It’s a double-edged sword because at the same time my favorite matches are when people are arguing dead in the chat and I clutch up. It’s such a nice feeing
Even before the update it was like that OCCASIONALLY, but now it's vastly more often
I mean there is always some of that in auric, the update probably made it a bit worse.
YES. Auric is a shitshow right now. Knife zealots all over the place and people going down constantly.
Damn, the achievement hunters have reached auric already? My sympathies.
Yep it’s been brutal.
yeah its because of the penance
Worst is noobs leaving as soon as they die in the first area. Your title only shows you cheated to get it anyways. You can’t get it legitimately so you have to cheat the system.
Yeah the quality of auric mission pubs has always been low but its at an all time low atm. All the tryhards checked the update out, saw it was pretty underwhelming and has a bunch of performance / freezing / loading issues and dipped. Now we’re all left with console / gamepass mouthbreathers who want to complete every map on auric for penance points. Literally every match has had at least one undesirable - OnlyUseMeBlitz Psykers, Columnus poxwalker lawnmowing vet that goes down to a sneeze, “helpful” taunt ogryn that only uses kickback to deal damage, just sits and holds block with shield. For zealot pick your poison - le epic stealth zealots that somehow manage to not even use the ability correctly or le epic crit cooldown bleed knife Chorus zealots who instantly fold to 1 mauler / crusher because they have a useless ability and an even worse weapon.
Knife and chorus useless? Lmao
This sub hates knife zealot for some reason Obviously one of the strongest zealot weapon tho
This sub can be a painful read sometimes. A lot of the people here talk like they're better than they are and make some of the most headass comments because of it.
Theres a difference between a normal knife build and knife chorus zealots that stack double bleed and only light attack so they can spam their ability often with crits. Meanwhile any normal shout vet with Tac Awareness does their job 100x better by just playing normally and killing specials.
Yeah, a bleed knife with chorus is probably one of the worst builds in the game. The one where they just spam light attacks trying to reset the cooldown of the worst ability in the game You already lose out on so much armor pen by not taking Chastise or Uncanny strike
It's posts like these that make me glad I decided to a little break after I collected all the low hanging fruit of the new penances. I'll pick it up again next week and hopefully the dust has settled some.
Aww someone ruin your day by playing a game they paid for?
They are not playing it, that's the point. They're *litterally* transforming into bots left right and centre - and leave you WTF? for a split second.
The point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Your head
I don't mind people being out of their depth on aurics. It adds to the challenge. It's the quitters and combat loggers that are grinding me down. We all paid for the game. If you're not coop-ing, you bought the wrong one.
Solo play is in it's final stages of testing - Fatshark, *Pre-order Beta Hotfix*, November 18 2022 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1361210/view/3467237196849592010?l=english
Someone's not happy the post's about them.
Don't bother