Warhammer 40k: Darktide

Brahma

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Looks like they finally got the Plasma Gun right...

PATCH NOTES:

Rejects!

Here are the patch notes for Patch #8 which is live now on Steam and will be available shortly on the Microsoft Store.

Psyker
Raising Soulblaze’s damage vs. flak armour to 150% (was previously 100%).

Dev Note: “We have now separated the burning DoT and Soublaze DoT armour modifiers to enable this change.”

Increasing the Psyker’s “Wrack and Ruin” Feat number of Soulblaze stacks from 3 to 4.

Weapons
Tweaked the hit zone priority for Rashad Mk II Combat Axe.

M35 Magnacore Mk II Plasma Gun:

Venting damage is now absorbed by toughness at a 3x rate.

M35 Magnacore Mk II Plasma Gun now ignores hit zone multipliers for anything that is not a monstrosity.

Dev Note: “This means that the M35 Magnacore Mk II Plasma Gun can now damage Bulwarks through their shield, and body shots on enemies will not be able to be blocked by their limbs.”

Enemies
Added lag compensation to Pox Hound pounce attack to make it easier for players with higher ping to dodge their attacks.

Reduced the pause between spawns of other enemies while Pox Hounds from the Hunting Grounds condition are active on higher difficulties.

Dev Note: “Specialists and Horde spawns are no longer paused on Heresy/Damnation difficulty, resulting in a higher possibility of a mixture of spawns when a hunting grounds event is active. The intent is to provide a wider range of challenges on higher difficulties instead of forcing the same behavior every time we spawn Hunting Grounds Pox Hounds.”

Reduced melee stagger resistance on Poxbursters during their lunge animations so that melee attacks can stagger Poxbursters more reliably.

Tweaked Poxbursters so that they reset their stagger immune time when they lunge at players.

Dev Note: “This should fix cases where Poxbursters sometimes ignored staggers when another player shot at it just before it entered its lunge animation.”

Changes to Mutants:

Tweaked the Mutant charge turn values in order to avoid instant turns

Tuned Mutant navigation to be a bit smoother

Tuned Mutant rotation speed to be a bit slower, allowing for easier dodging

Increased Mutant stun time when hitting walls from 3 seconds to 3.5 seconds

Other Fixes and Tweaks
Implemented changes to the vote kick system:

This will now display as a notification instead of a pop-up

Added measures to counter players’ ability to spam vote kick.

Added full toughness recovery when players get revived from being knocked down in order for the rescued player to have some space to get back into the action.

Added a 5-second spawn grace when players spawn, where enemies can’t see them, and they’re invincible.

Dev Note: “This was added to make it less jarring to join an ongoing game and immediately get downed by enemies without giving the player time to react to the situation.”
 

Hekotat

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I love my soulblaze build so that's some good news as well.

They need to do more to add build diversity though, especially for the Psyker. I'd like to see a brain burst/sould blaze/melee focused builds. Maybe even through some staff options in there. Hopefully that is their plan going forward.
 

Brahma

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I love my soulblaze build so that's some good news as well.

They need to do more to add build diversity though, especially for the Psyker. I'd like to see a brain burst/sould blaze/melee focused builds. Maybe even through some staff options in there. Hopefully that is their plan going forward.

I grabbed a ADS toggle mod. Man it makes veteran a hella fun now!
 

Daidraco

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Not really much of any other spot to put this other than the tabletop WH40k thread.
 
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Brahma

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Snagged a scoreboard mod...so I can see how bad dudes suck.


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Chersk

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Fucking stupid you have to get a mod to have a proper scoreboard. The whole everybody gets a medal shit has gotta go.
 
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Brahma

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Looking at how it scores things - I would probably show up low as fuck too. I must be reading it wrong or something.

I doubt it. Most of the bad games are just how bad players are as a team in any sense of the word.

I snagged the scoreboard when I decided to try other characters finally. I noticed that on the malice level missions that the I was carrying/surviving waaaay better than the level 30 dudes at like level 10! I'm assuming that dudes were working on weekly's so that accounted for some bad gameplay like getting out of range of the group, ignoring elites etc...But EVERYONE can't be working on weekly's all the time right? RIGHT?

Let's take the game scoreboard I posted. All three dudes were horrid in the sense they were clearly spraying and praying...which is fine as long as you kill shit! They weren't. Horde gets up on us, they just run further back and continue to range attack instead of mele. THEN they get their kills in because I am literally holding a doorway at level fuckin 10 while they get easy ranged kills. THEN they snag up all the ammo leaving me to play with my chain axe (Which is the most satisfying weapon eveeeeeer) because I can't snag a damn ammo crate! Frustrating fun.

Hekotat Hekotat would be 0s across the board except for damage taken which would be over 9000.

Hekotat Hekotat is fun to play with. I make it my duty to pick him up every chance I get no matter where/how he dies.

Can you guess who was HORRID?

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Hekotat

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Ain't no lie, I die alot on the psyker + weapon swap bug sue to my shitty internet. No idea why a really good internet connection is needed to swap weapons, but whatever.
 

Brahma

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Is that a world record speed run for going to the store to grab some smokes?

I was only gone a couple of hours! To my defense, it was mom's I had to take grocery shopping. She's that old lady that goes down EVERY Isle. Then Hekotat Hekotat decided to play MTG when I did get back! Summa bitch left me hanging too!
 

Hekotat

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I was only gone a couple of hours! To my defense, it was mom's I had to take grocery shopping. She's that old lady that goes down EVERY Isle. Then Hekotat Hekotat decided to play MTG when I did get back! Summa bitch left me hanging too!

lol, I tried to hit you up after. Those games take longer than I remember.