As much as playing clean up annoys people knocking things over does tend to make you safer in dense groups. Also at max stacks you are uninterruptable. Pretty sure thats very handy since i run the ever unpopular Faith Restores All
My biggest problem with chain axe is the inability to run crit DR with, which makes you substantially squishier vs ranged. The damage and stagger is plenty respectable once talents / blessings are online.
In V2 any âgroundâ type attack can hit you regardless whether or not you dodged or not,
namely those are overhead attacks and boss ground slam attacks,
they get targeted at a player, and once the enemy starts his animation anything** touching the hitbox takes dmg.
**bit whacky but the player who gets aimed for has it the easiest to doge these attacks, hard to tell if its because actual mechanics, or that we are programmed to perform dodges once a set of trigger signales happen, (visual cues, sound cues, enemy windup/attack timings, etc)
ofc. V2 isnât DT, but they reused the animations for overheads, it wouldnât be too far a grasp to think they also copied hit registration mechanics
TL:DR in v2 dodge distance helps a great deal to dodge hitreg, attacks particularly when aimed at other players.
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I think this may have been mentioned bu in case it hasnât the chaxe and heavy chainsword have a different shred damage distribution from the chainsword and i think i like the chainswordâs a lot more.
The H.Chainsword and Chaxe both do around 20~ or less damage on first shred tick. The Chainsword hits for around 250. This can result in weaker enemies dying to first hit without spending any time locking you into an animation. While this does feel a touch jarring compared to what i am used to and i do miss killing groaners the slow way. Its quite nice that enemies will die up front if theyâre weak. Thus saving time and safety during shredd attacks. It feels more natural.
Dodge slide resets their target lock afaik, since it gives you actual i-frames.
If you watch the vid posted above, you can see several instances for this, where he should have been hit.
well those things arenât mutually exklusive, you can be in god mode and still be tracked, and you could be untrackable and still take dmg, but i get what youâre saying,
tho if i watch the vid closely, the hitreg could still very well function as i described it, no instance in that video points to a different conclusion, except for the last strike of the last crusher as he dies wich is left ambiguous,
ofc that doesnât mean the extrapolation from v2 is correct.
to me it looks exactly as it worked, in V2, all attacks exept groundattacks seem to be
animation->hitreg, (meaning animation tracking into dmg calculation without any physical dmg/weapon hitboxes calculated)
where as groundtype attacks, like overheads from crushers seem to have fully calculated, hitboxes, just like they did in V2, wich allows them to hit multiple players.
Good afternoon. I have come to report that I have fixed the Heavy Chainsword and Eviscerator.
Reminder that this petition exists and was formally adopted by all reasonable people of right reason.
First of all there will now be two weapons. The Tigrus MKII Heavy Chainsword and the Tigrus MKIX Eviscerator.
Second of all they have the following stats cards:
Heavy Chainsword: I made it good now
Donât hold out on me Fatshark. I know this is just a few JSON edits away.
Eviscerator: swing speed near 0
Both weapons are remarkably distinct and have different niches and both are good weapons for different use cases. Thank you for attending my TEDX Talk.
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Dats a good anâ propa choppa, ya gitz!
Made by Omni sometime between 0.751.022.M3 - 0.833.022.M3
Looted by individual know as Davin Felth on 0.390.023.M3
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wow powerfield
And you didnât call it a wowerfield? 0/10, irredeemable
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Honestly devestated i didnât think of that
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I agree with this sentimentâŚ
Cool ideas generally I just canât agree with slapping slaughterer on goddamn everything as a band-aid.
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After having spent an ungodly amount of ordos and plasteel on chainaxes in the past couple weeks, I found out I had this chainsword sitting in my inventory. decided to try it with crit build. Itâs actually pretty okay, I am backtracking on the criticisms I have made on the chainsword. It has to be played with crit build, there is no way around that imho. This one is almost perfect, I would swap +infested for +crit chance or +flak armor. It has deceptively good horde clear. If there are elites in the mix, its pretty good against them also, except sometimes ragers when they are in the middle of an attack animation. Itâs often better to just spam light attacks on special/elites instead of using special revâ
Itâs really doing a lot of crits: a good alternative to the knife/tactical axe for running crit build on zealot imo 
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Well thatâs certainly interesting. Got any scoreboards? Iâm not some mega expert on the weapon so i am interested.
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Ok. Nobody mentioned. You know what game had a good chainsword? Shadow Warrior 2.
What was your ranged weapon?
Thereâs a mod that lets you split off your melee and ranged damage on scoreboard. It helps get more precise with analysis.
Its not literal trash but its not very good either.
Have you tried the build with the blessings he had specified? I personally never was able to roll a crit chainsword and was super unimpressed by the Rampage and Savage Sweep performance, so was wondering if his listed build was worth anything.
I used savage sweep instead of devestating strike but had shred 3 on mine. It was fine. I pulled, from what i can see here, very similar numbers in my games. I tried one with bloodthirsty but that was terrible.
Perhaps devestating strike would make a big difference but its also going to be less consistent than Savage Sweep. Though obviously you could swing a lot of lights to proc it frequently in a melee so the average might be good. Canât say.
The slug shotgun, mostly to help deal with crushers because the chainsword is bad against them, unless you use ult on a rev attack. The sword is also pretty bad against ragers: you canât consistently stagger them with light/heavies and the rev attack is hard to pull off when they are in the middle of an animation
Like I said, itâs âokayâ. In my experience it feels better than the âsavage sweep/rampageâ version by adding a little something with the crits and bleeds. I think you could swap âdevastating strikeâ for âsavage sweepâ and it would perform quite the same though. Devastating strike is handy when enemies are tightly packed and you have your crits feats/blessings up. I try to walk around them while hitting to help them gather in sort of a blob. You go up to 60/65% crit chance when everything is up. then itâs doing good dps (in those situations it usually gives you full regen if holy revenant comes up). You are depending a lot on your crits with this build: Itâs not 100% reliable.
I think with this build the chainsword is to the tactical axe what the chainaxe is to the combat axe: a less powerful, less reliable and less mobile version of its mundane counterpart
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