Loving the game so far! great work! just thought I’d throw some constructive feedback out there!
Personally I find the end of the assassination missions to be a little anticlimactic the way we just sort of wait around for a little bit after the boss is killed and then it fades to a cutscene.
It would be nice if there was still a “hurry get to the extraction point!” segment to end it with a sense of urgency. Or maybe have the boss die in some spectacular set piece fashion. Watching him just flop over on the final hit and then just kind of waiting around for 30 seconds is a little unsatisfying. Thanks!
It’s also worth mentioning that the boss needs SERIOUS buffs or weapons serious rebalancing. Once you have a team with some chainswords or power hammers, people can just ignore everything and melt the boss in 10 seconds, it’s really not fun at all.
Yeah I agree. To be honest I think the boss fights in general could be much more interestingly designed and more of a grand set piece rather than the “surround him and wack him!” event it is now.
But I figured I’d start with feedback that could be more reasonably implemented rather than ask for a complete rework lol
The spawns are mad, especially when endless shooters, specialists and snipers stream in.
If you don’t take care of them your entire team is stunlocked / trapped in seconds.
True true I am not. However regardless of difficulty I still think the end of the mission is a little anticlimactic due to the reasons in my initial post. Especially when I start playing on those harder difficulties it would be nice for the victory to feel appropriately spectacular.
Yea as Psyker the boss arena on Heresy+ is pure torture, your best bet is to bumrush and pull as many Force Sword blasts as you can before you almost inevitably go down due to the constant surrounding spawns and the boss focusing you
It works on 4/5 too, you can absolutely mob the boss with chain weapons. It’s obviously a lot harder with the spawns, but by staggering zealot grenades you can largely mitigate them, unless there’s a nasty special spawn. But chain melee weapons seem to just hard-counter these bosses, they’re way more effective than anything else I’ve used. Seems out of proportion.
I would agree and I think the mission needs a look in the future to change the current setup.
Everything leading up to both boss fights is great, the problem (for me) is the ending. I would love for the team after defeating the boss to double-back to an extraction point while being chased by endless chaff hordes. Why? Because we just killed their leader! They should be frenzied.
Another alternative is to make the drop off location at the start be the extraction point, and half the distance to the end. This would be an exciting look at level design to showcase entering and exiting rooms from different locations.
A different take is to have stages(phases) to the boss fight. The image on the assassination mission, in hub, have a “hitman” style look. I would like for us to catch the Enemy general issuing commands, or leading his troops, or simply just patrolling throughout the map. This can turn rooms and areas in to mini-boss fights. The boss won’t have an over shield for the first phase or two and once the boss is dealt enough damage, it will order a retreat. This will create phases to the fight, dps checks, where we can see the character of the bosses we are trying to kill, even if generic.
Lastly, I can understand starting a mission in the sewers with a one-liner of the team saying how disgusting the travel from the drop off location was, but nothing at the end? Why are we inspecting the dead body? Why not scan it with our fancy scanner? If anything you would want to burn or destroy the body, and I’m an expert on 40k lore but maybe chop off the head to study the brain or prevent the infection rot from spreading. Its a bit nit-picky but the current ending just seems weird without any context.
Overall, I hope the future Assassination missions get a nice twist to make each fight a bit more distinct from one another.