BB currently is working only up to malice but after that it becomes not worth the cost in peril and more important, time. Your weapons can scale but BB can’t and generating warp charges from killing talents can scale because of a higher count of enemies. Usually scaling in tide depends on damage, attack speed or crowd control. In the current iteration of BB there is just not enough of it. Feat giving you 25% charge speed is rather weak. I would be OK if this ability was only utility but many feats don’t work well or at all without it. What I would like is to make this ablitity insta kill man sized enemies and 2 shot ogryns on highest difficulty and leave everything else (damage scales with enemy count) or make it charge faster and stun enemy faster (scaling with crowd control). Other options would need a lot of work with feats and much more testing in my opinion.

I don’t think we’re going to get instant brain burst. That would be too radical a change, but I do completely agree that the scaling should be looked at. BB is already very cumbersome and slow. Doing it three times for every Ogryn is not viable.

Instant kill after charge. You can kill enemies faster or control them with good staff, the only good part about BB now is sniping ability but good Veteran is much better at this. Killing enemies instantly after long charge on 5 difficulty is not that strong.

If you’re playing completely around brain burst your playing wrong. Psyker is a flex pic, not an elite killer. BB is more of a QOL utility ability. Play veteran for the HVT role

I do not think BB alone could be viable option but you could make melee psyker that use BB and force sword that would be cool.

I think that’s what fatshark might be pushing if last nights patch is anything to go by, with the force sword changes

I disagree. Brain Burst is a core ability and I like that it defines the class ; I just don’t like how clunky it is or how poorly the synergies work and how schyzophrenic the class feels overall. The way I see the role is as a support, targetting specials and elites with BB to assist in their deletion ; using staves as mid range support weapons to control enemies and melee weapons as last resort. Problem is that as it is now, BB goes against teamplay. I’d love a version of the Psyker who can project a force shield to stop bullets (like force sword bullet block but with options to built around that property), allowing Vets to use you as a cover to advance against many enemy gunners.

It is boring gameplay. I have thousands of hours played in VT1 & 2 and playing just using one weapon would get old fast. Defining class by one ability that is not very flexible or engaging is not a good move.

I doubt anyone is advocating for the exclusive use of brain burst. I (in theory and ideally) see BB as a ranged weapon in VT2, that you whip out to handle elites and specials - the single-shot hard hitting ones, like xbow, longbow or handgun. This allows you to use a control staff instead of having a redundant revolver. This is similar to Engi’s crankgun : you don’t play Engi using only the minigun, but it is (in theory) a nice part of the kit. If there were other better synergies to generate Warp Charges, you could also choose to use BB as a fast way to generate the charges (instead of being forced to use it and it taking ages) and charge into melee - it even promotes decision making.

That what I said, BB and melee hybrid. Without better BB that is too weak and you are much stronger using staves. You can now playing melee psyker but you would be weak on Heresy+.

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Saryk November 23, 2022, 2:06pm 4

If BB were an execute it would be a much better ability.

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