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Already did. Not really the same.

Have you heard of this cool idea, its called juxtaposition.

In [minecraft] strikes again

I understand your position but consider the alternative. You play a guardsman, the game is actually hard. You die a lot. Then you play a space marine and experience the power fantasy. Now you have context.

Yea, no. Nerfing broken things is a good thing. There's not much room to buff right now when the players are generally overpowered as it is. There's only a handful of weapons that need buffs. Balance is good for games. Buff everything and you may as well stop playing because there's nothing to challenge you.

@Reginald-sc9tk The players are not overpowered.. I swear people have been saying that since the game launched and they fixed it. If you have a meta build like every game has then thats what happens. The same issue is in call of duty too. A new gun drops, everyone uses, it people complain, then it gets a nerf until the next meta build is found.. and rinse,wash,repeat. Sweat lords cry about the game being to easy while playing nothing but Auric Maelstroms with meta builds. lol go outside. I remember when the ridiculous RNG came out with an update and the enemies were buffed. The game was pretty much unplayable then they fixed it. The game came a looong way. They need to quit listening to people like you for sure. Also they are coming with a harder difficulty in the next update, I'm sure you'll cry your diaper off about that being to easy too or be one of those that cry that your team sucks when you go down because they aren't carrying meta weapons and your ego can't handle it and you just leave the game early on. 😂

@@Obscure_1992 listening to you project is pretty exhausting honestly. Balance is not a dirty word in a game designed around its challenge as a source of enjoyment. But you're so ignorant you think a miniscule nerf to carapace damage and movement speed, leaving it still in the position of one of the best weapons in the game, is some how an unhinged take. This is my hobby, I don't need to go outside because I've touched enough grass today thank you very much. It was scratchy. Auric Maelstrom can be beaten right now with grey weapons and level 1 characters. Asking for balance is not asking to dumpster a weapon. Get it together.

@@Reginald-sc9tk Literally no projection.. Just an opposing opinion which somehow exhaust you lol but sure agree to disagree. I just want the game to stay fun and not feel like were hitting the enemies with foam weapons is my point. Next time you go outside to touch grass be sure to talk to other people you'll find that at times they do have opposing opinions.

@@Obscure_1992 Perhaps if you didn't start your conversation by insulting everyone with a different opinion to you we could have had a civil discussion, like I did with most other people here. And I quote "Everyone crying about this needs lives" Every single person is allowed their opinion in my comments and I engage with as many people as I can manage. But you set the tone for this conversation.

I have like 1500 hours. I don't really need more lol

Seriously do not buff everything else. Might as well just play sedition at that point.

Its (dun dun dun) AI generated slop from Soundraw

@@Reginald-sc9tk alright, thank you for the answer! good content man, keep at it.

You a PS5 player? I'll have some how to play guides that won't waste your time ready for launch .

@@Reginald-sc9tk yessir, I have my pre order paid for already.. I just want to know a few basics, like strongest class, best beginner builds etc. I'll look forward to it brudda! Gave u a sub!

@@EKk8819 Everyone has their own belief on strongest class and are vehement about it. I'm going to instead recommend playing zealot because its fun and will teach you the melee mechanics, which are critical to being good at the game on any other class. Ogryn is also a good choice since its more of a melee bruiser class and comes with some of the most unique gameplay in any genre i've seen.

Maybe, I never have that problem honestly.

Similar to the resident evil 6 feature where you could be one of the zombies

Yea. For sure.

Yes

Yea. The game has soul but no body.

Too true. My favorite comment on this video said it needed buffs lmao.

Tragically i cannot escape

@@Reginald-sc9tk Same!

Yea i understand that. It still needs nerfing. It will impact the DS and Knife the most and after that other crit weapons with slower attack speeds.

Its on my list but no promises as to when i can get to it.

@@Reginald-sc9tk I'm not sure how familiar you are with the Mechwarrior franchise, but if you do start playing MW5 and feel like it's too easy then hit up the mods on the workshop. There are lots of mods that add lore accurate equipment and some that completely overhaul the AI and make it way more of a rewarding challenge. The quality of life mods are definitely a must have too. Love all of your Darktide content, my guy

@@TheIcarusFalls Thanks much! I love the battle tech franchise in general, just been in busier than I can contend with tbh.

It still has no business outkiting the entire game. This isn't supposed to be a speedrunning championship type game.

@@Reginald-sc9tk I don't see what's wrong with some weapons being able to kite like that as long as they pay for it in other areas. It's not like you can kite indefinitely, you eventually have to complete objectives which require you to stay in the same area.

@@kronosDking You basically can kite indefinitely. Run a circuit and the enemy can't catch up to you before you do an objective. It breaks the game on a fundamental level.

It has really poor toughness and melee performance. I have a build for it but it really just keels over any time something bad happens.

eheheh.... I mean... yesn't? I feel it's very good at making mid tier weapons punch above it's weight, or for high dps automatic weapon builds and that's about it. Gives some less painful breakpoints on the vraks headhunter, and I enjoy it with the recon lasgun. it's certainly the weakest of the free but I still feel it's good if you don't need the defence the other two give.

@@bradley6471 You need the defense the other two give on anything in Auric+ otherwise your game is going to be a lot harder for no value.

Hey thanks! I try to respond to or at least read every comment. I'm not so big that I can't muster it given time.

So here's the thing. Per my data the DS4 actually is ranking up there with the ogryn pickaxe and thunder hammer for elite killing but also has the exact same mobility as the knife.

@@Reginald-sc9tk lul Well maybe I'm just scared of what a nerf to this will mean for public lobbies. On weekends it already feels like playing solo with 3 spectators half the time. Gonna lug around even more dead weights on Auric Damnation after.

Your wish was fatsharks command

@Reginald-sc9tk THE FORCE GREATSWORD IS REAAAAAL!!!!

It was trash long ago, but its great now!

Yea, I learned later it was at all times but I still find the accuracy not worth the loss of damage after the latest round of buffs to accuracy.

I too am part of the smite haters club.

@Reginald-sc9tk in this state it is right now it breaks the game totaly and new players with no basic skills go to auric and ruin it for others by perma smiting 24/7 evrything :/

Pathing. Fun. Who cares plasma is also incredible at horde clear.

I really think what it comes down to is the need for a modded realm. Because I suspect that you're right, it's a minority of the playerbase that's unhappy. I think that the majority are either lower-skill players who struggle with the game, and for whom calls for nerfs feel out of touch, or higher-skill players who just enjoy mindlessly facerolling with an overtuned meta. The players who are both good and actively seek out challenge are probably a pretty small minority. If this is the case, then even if Fatshark were competent at balance (they're not) it wouldn't make financial sense to cater to the masochists. This wasn't a problem in VT2, because the masochists got their own modded realm where they could fix the game's imbalances and enjoy sticking each other with hot needles. But off the back of this Fatshark got a bunch of happy veterans who were invested in the game's success; the community itself even organized a long-standing tournament series based around 4-stack play that's still going! Right now, Darktide pubs (not even organized teams) are just players fighting over scraps. Watching someone excel means watching them kill 80%+ of the enemies singlehandedly. What are the other three players supposed to do then?

Its a matter of preference and utility

I'm glad you see my point. These are like the lightest nerfs I can imagine lol.

It was already OP on psyker. It needed nerfing and still does. Crutching on a weapon prevents people from learning to play which limits them. Literally all the weapons are viable.

​@@Reginald-sc9tk Good points. You're right playing god-mode or not isn't really the issue, just a short-hand way of saying it. The real problem I'm having with psyker is hard to say in just a few words and sorry this got long.... It is just the inability to keep up with the team when they move away from a battle quickly. It seems lately Psyker can't even outrun the inevitable random trash troop that pops up out of nowhere and pursues. It's not much of a problem when I'm playing zealot pushing the front line forward. When the trash troops can just easily catch the squishy psyker in an all-out sprint, while watching teammates seemingly skate away - something seems messed up.... and the dueling sword until recently seems to be the only weapon that gave the psyker a chance in this situation. Maybe it's just me, idk. So now lately I've noticed that even with dueling sword, psyker's ability to move quickly seems nerfed. I've got too many hours in this game than I care to admit and am usually the last one standing when a run goes bad and sometimes pull off a major clutch - so I'm not a bad player or anything. It's just that there is often sessions that it's like running through mud and literally no time delay between swipe sound and getting hit, and these outnumber the times sessions where I seems to be able to skate around and get lots of time between the swipe sound and actually getting hit. Maybe its a netcode thing, or my ISP, idk. But it's frustrating and if they nerf the sword, then I guess kind of limited for options now. So ya, I'm gonna object to nerfing the sword for my own self interest I guess. It can also be good to recognize not everybody experiences the same things for valid reasons that might not be apparent. And it might also be ok to have something not optimized if it allows some people to enjoy something a bit. I don't get why so many people are on about this sword right now, unless the dueling sword is making the game horrible for everyone. If the sword is responsible for most players having a bad time, then let me know how that could be and I'll agree the sword should be nerfed. It's not like there's a competition or anything, it's a team game. The definition of a good team is if teammates win, then the team wins. If a teammate fails, then the team fails.

@@NiWhomPing So three pieces to your post: 1. Getting hit while moving. That is by design. You're not supposed to be able to outrun the enemy via sprint, you're supposed to use a combination of resources including dodge and push to make space so that you can then run. Most weapons can do this. The dueling sword allows you to get away with non-standard play. I proposed an (extremely minor) nerf to the movement speed to help mitigate the speedrunning and game-breaking aspects while allowing significantly better than normal kiting. 2. This is partially netcode and partially an issue with Bruisers, most likely. Bruisers are doing sorta semi-undodgable running attacks right now. Its a bug. 3. I am very well aware of the inclinations of more casual players and I support them and advocate for them. Almost all my guides and tutorials are designed to furnish a more casual player with the tools required to FUNMAXX. However winning the game is not the true goal in tide. Fun is. But you cannot have fun in a game where the risk of loss is too heavily minimized by things that are overpowered and break core mechanics. Smite is a perfect example of this so I'll use it to explain. Smite will definitely help me win more games. But I don't care if I win anymore, because I've won like 90000 times. What I care about is an interesting challenge, those fingernail biting moments where i'm pushed to the limit. I'd rather lose in a satisfying way than win every game. The fun and replayability for this game is its challenge, not having a high win rate. That's why its so critical to balance weapons so that everyone can take the things they like to play with, and enjoy them, without ruining the experience for themselves or for other people. When someone plays smite all the enemies turn off. Now i'm not having any fun because I came here for a challenge. Instead I got a shooting range. I won, but the journey was what I was here for. On this channel you never have to apologize for a long post. Boldly state your opinion and we'll talk. If I didn't want to talk to people I wouldn't do it.

Mobility at 60, almost always. But sometimes defense.

@Reginald-sc9tk so for Crucis, have my defence at 60

They're very much unhinged balance wise and lorewise.

I dont know what you're trying to say here. You can't buff a weapon to raise its skill ceiling. You can rework a weapon. The DS has no skill cieling. Its dead easy to use and the best weapon in the game.

@@Reginald-sc9tk Fatshark can certainly buff things to raise it's skill ceiling. i.e. they could make the devil claw's parry more rewarding, make push stabs more rewarding, remove timed block stagger on certain weapons, adjust the attack angles with certain weapons like the other DS mks etc. Right now, I'd say the DS4 has a very low skill floor and very high skill ceiling. It's a really great weapon, not because it's OP but because everything else pales in comparison. For the average player, the only weapons viable for damnation are the DS and the combat knife because everything else forces them to struggle more than they are able to learn. Edit: Sorry for the text wall

@@DecafSaxGuy DClaw parries are already rewarding as they deal high damage and work as a defensive tool allowing to ignore almost any damage taken at the cost of stamina. Push stabs have Strikedown profile, deal decent damage while allowing to continue the combo with a heavy sweep for example like on DClaw 7. Don't know what you mean as a timed block stagger if it's a block break which staggers you if you try to block an attack out of stamina then it happens with all weapons. DS4 has no skill ceiling, it's one of the simplest weapons - lights and push attacks for horde clear, heavies for single target, nothing complicated. It's OP for having perfect mobility, busted finesse modifier and the best blessings in the game like Uncanny Strike, Precognition, Riposte. And even for an average player all weapons are viable on Damnation with the exception of maybe DClaw 1 and Power Maul which are really underperforming, otherwise these players are below average and shouldn't be on Damnation in the first place. And you basically contradict yourself wanting to somehow raise skill ceiling but at the same time saying that people are struggling to learn so what's the point of that skill ceiling buff.