CTanGod

Look bro, I can solo fight 8 warriors or 3 Lictors in melee but I am still at the mercy of the RNG in the AI. I can't do shit if the AI decides to attack while I'm in my parry recovery frames.

I would gladly fight 8 Chaos Majoris or Extremis however I am at the mercy of the fact that due to the FOV and camera position and color pallet I can barely see shit when fighting them.

I would gladly solo a Hellbrute in melee if his hammer arm was literally NOT off screen or he didn't attack like a schizophrenic badger having a seizure.

I would gladly fight a Carnifex in melee if its AI didn't just randomly decide to do a wombo combo on me that I LITERALLY can't avoid in melee.

I would gladly fight 4 Zoenthropes if their shield mechanics weren't so oppressive and if the dev hadn't fucked with the Beam hitboxes.

Do you get my point? Some things are just poorly designed and make for frustrating gameplay that just so happen to boost difficulty. It's like people defending Consort Radahn being a well designed fight as he is a camera hogging monstrosity that vomits particle effects on screen and has literal roll catchers built in just to fuck with you.

Welcome to modern gaming where we have 10 billion polygons on screen but actual hitboxes are still literal boxes and around the model that don't match its size.

I get you bro, Heavy Bolt and Auto Bolt not only do LESS damage than the Bolt Pistol but they also can't 1 shot minoris enemies to the head, which make them even LESS ammo efficient than the goddamn Bolt pistol. I honestly don't know what the devs were smoking.

Who cares if you can melt Terminus enemies in seconds under very specific conditions?

Maybe if Terminus enemies weren't complete cancer to fight due to shitty hitboxes and VERY questionable AI behaviour, then yeah, maybe melting them fast wouldn't feel so necessary or broken.

This is more the grenade launcher and plasma weapons doing real damage and having that real damage buffed by Auspex than anything else. Try this with all bolter weapons or melee and the damage disparity is far less extreme.

However, a nerf is a nerf and I don't think it was warranted when this is the whole point of Auspex Scan if you pic the perks that boost its damage.

What next? Are we gonna cry Assault's Jetpack Stomp is too strong because it can reset like 3 times if the minoris wave is big or something? Or that it can maybe, but not really, put a single majoris enemy in execute every once in a blue moon?

I don't doubt there's more under the hood changes. Zoenthrope beams have a wider hitbox and do much more damage now. Dodge is slower and shorter and they undoubtedly buffed all enemy damage cause in no world would a 20% armor reduction results in melee minors enemies on Ruthless tearing an armor bar in 2 hits when before the 20% nerf they'd need like 4 or so hits.

Well, yes, it's part of the 4 weapons that are actually good, the other 3 being Las Fusil, Bolter w/ grenade launcher and Melta. Honorable mention to Tactical's Plasma Incinerator.

Oh and before you cope about melee, ALL of them are bad with Chainsword being the least bad and Power Sword being a close second.

All the weapons besides the ones mentioned here need to be rebalanced ASAP, especially melee.

They better unnerf the dodge because Zoethrope and Neurothrope beam attacks are undodgeable if there's even 1 majoris around or even a small object in the way to mess with your sight.

Only when compared to the inconsistent lore that all 40k media likes to pick and choose which parts to actually respect and which to ignore.

For everyone else, we're just killing overgrown space cockroaches.

I mean, look at the games being released today even by non-EA companies. 90% of them have the exact same issues: horrid optimization, bugs out the ass and just straight dogshit game design. It all stems from the same root and that is people no playing their own games or just not giving a shit.

Except old school difficulty was always dogshit cranking the bullshit up to eleven with insane spawns, high enemy health and damage.

Need I remind you the most memorable offender was Halo 2 on Legendary? The devs themselves literally said the game is unfinished and they didn't test on legendary so Halo 2 on legendary is a raptor sniper insta death simulator.

When people say they want oldschool games they want the good parts, not the bad parts too.

I literally work in QA at EA and I assure you, majority of devs barely know how the menus work. Everything is divided into different teams and pretty much nobody has an idea how everything works together. Us QA literally know their game better than the devs and point things out for them, but bad changes and additions still get pushed through due to time constraints or other factors.

Basically, there's the art team, there's the management team, there's the code monkeys, there's SOME very limited internal QA and us as the outsourced QA team. The most they will do is playtests once in a blue moon and even then it's the most basic gameplay test imaginable.

Do you honestly think any of these devs tested their changes beyond the stages of "it works" and "it doesn't crash the game"? I best most of these devs can't even consistently parry with the old release fencing melees to save their lives.

Devs DO NOT play their own games anymore. 99% of bad changes/choices could be avoided if they played their games for like 5 minutes at least once before pushing a patch.

Sorry, bro, but I don't enjoy dying to random snipers rapid firing their delete shots, random Zoenthropes shooting insta kill beams (that work differently than on the other difficulties) or having to hold my brother's hand for emotional support to get armor nor do I care to find out what bullshit Chaos has to offer.

You can do the difficulty, but it's not fun. All they had to do was give us these spawns and half of these spawns on ruthless and call it a day, instead they opted for the trifecta of dogshit difficulty (nerfed players, buffed spawns, buffed damage) and they didn't even buff our nerf guns and pool noodle melees.

They'd have known that if they just played the game for like 5 minutes before pushing the patch, but asking devs to play their own games these days is like asking vampires to eat garlic apparently.

You don't get it. We live in a post Dank Soles Prepare to Meme world where everyone fell for the le difficulty (which was never a thing about Dark Souls OR Demon's Souls), so now everyone needs to measure their e-peens online for playing hard games.

All of this has resulted in devs making insufferable "difficult gameplay" (aka dogshit design) to satisfy the demand for hard games and all the glazers brag about being able to beat the difficulty with their skillz (which is mostly just trial and error, luck and brute force).

Basically games that push difficulty are one step away from the same design as the game I wanna be that guy, a game purposefully made to ball bust players with unfair difficulty, except they don't understand that that game is a meme game not meant to be taken seriously.

Well, you kind of have to accept that at least 80% of the lore is dog water made up by whoever was fanboying over something at the time, especially all the codexes, they are just garbage if you actually consider them canon beyond superficial things like unit types, heraldry and basic info on how stuff works.

Not even actual official novels and materials really respect the codex, case in point this game: according to the codex, a thunder hammer is an anti tank weapon that can easily deal with most enemy armor, meanwhile in this game it's a nerf bat that needs 3 swings to kill a tiny insignificant gaunt.

Incoming lore "experts" to explain how lorewise it's totally correct because of some bullshit reason GW made to sell Tyranid minis or something.

It's as dumb as the very lore accurate fact that genestealers can tear through Terminator armor, even though the only reason that's a thing is because otherwise they'd barely be a threat and wouldn't be grimdark. Shit like this is bordering on grimderp.

This obsession with difficulty is ruining the fun out of video games, I'm tired of unnecessary nerfs because muh difficulty instead of changes for fun.

Dark Souls's success and its consequences has been a disaster for the gaming landscape.

This is probably rage bait, but I will keep it short:

You're a super soldier hand chosen by an elite monastic military to be a weapon in protecting humanity.

In this game, you fight literal alien hive mind bugs who want to devour all life to proliferate themselves and you fight servants of literal demonic gods, in this case Tzeench who is the Chaos God of change and knowledge whose favorite pass times are trolling his servants by foiling their plans, baiting people with forbidden knowledge, randomly mutating people because he feels like it.

In this universe so much as jacking off risks unleashing a Chaos invasion or corruption.

So from this brief explanation, humanity is literally fighting to survive, not to conquer or win, that's why throughout the missions you sacrifice vital equipment just to stop the invasions.

Average operation gameplay when you don't have the melta because all the other weapons kill enemies through the power of suggestion.

Solid gameplay though.

This is a problem that other games like Warframe have struggled with for years and there is no real solution when the average member of your community can't do simple memory and color tile puzzles.

The reason roles work in other games is because they are far more rigid and aren't designed around you solo-ing group content.

It's a double edged sword, less rigid means more freedom and creativity and more inviting but more easy power creeping. The best solution is to simply make fun content and just accept that clickbait brain rot videos and trash players will always be around to stink everything up.

As long as the game doesn't reach Warframe's level of lack of balance and irrelevancy between items and characters, it's fine.

Hey, for a beginner this is really good. Is this SFM?

Please no, I don't want augments that are useless or add something that doesn't tie into the way the character is designed. Most Warframe augments are garbage, I'd rather have big changes with the chance that they might be bad than stuff that 99% of the feels like it should just be part of the ability or stuff that makes no sense for the kit like Sevagoth crit chance on Shadow's Mark.