I was running chain axe too today but on Vet. Gotta say it’s both really bad and really good at the same time. It eats the boss shield like nothing else. I don’t use it that much on that setup but kinda started enjoying it, probably feels a lot better on Zealot with the AS boost, but def usable as an anti-heavy option on vet.
I’m trying to get good at it before giving it a final verdict, it’s pretty unintuitive to use due to all the +Power-light interactions.
I’m at the point where if I have fairly competent players, even that mode becomes pretty easy, although players’ positional awareness tends to plummet at end events even in good groups… I’m kinda getting tired of the special spam.
I enjoy HiD with double grim quite a bit more (the time pressure is nice), Specialist gauntlet sometimes slows you down too much (sitting in the same area for 5 minutes clearing bursters and hordes without an end before you can progress). Also, Zappy Psykers make it a bit too easy to deal with the 4-6 mutant/hound spawns.
Anyway… They should really run “current hardest content” on a random map. IDK why they aren’t doing that.
Yesterday I was cursed with two low int missions. I only had less than an hour to play after a long day shortly before bed. I had no time to frig around so I just played the only damnation that wasn’t low int. Hab Drayko. It was a total snooze fest. We cleared it in 20 minutes. I was never in any real danger. It spawned barely any enemies. The mission itself says it spawned 1422 enemies but my scoreboard tallies just 958.
Played a few hi gauntelts with randoms today, was a faceroll even with 2 grims :\
But, i think ai director maybe bugged on some maps, seems it sapwns less specials on Hub Dreyko and Magistrati Oubliette. Power Matrix feels more challenging.
Besides the bug @Gebel already mentioned, it´s the shortest map anyway. Also the biggest area is pretty much the first event, but special modifiers besides low / high int don´t seem to work in events. Often specials spawns are highly scripted at them aswell.
I love Hab Dreyko for what it is. But it could really need like 2 extra-rooms in comparison to other maps.
I had run on that map yesterday and it was pretty rough. I had 2 pretty bad teammates and 1 that was reasonably competent.
The part where sitting in one spot for a long time was from that map… Before the first event right at the stairs, we had to sit there for like 5 minutes killing specials one after another without an end. We also had a few deaths, so had to duo a part with the competent player… I was so done with it, that when we got to the boss fight I was actually happy that it was free.
The hardest for me so far seems to be Comms-Plex, but I don’t think I’ve done it all yet. Dreyko is def the easiest of the maps (with any mod), mainly due to most of the map being events that are relatively easy.
Yeah, my favorite map - location, events, ost (nostalgia hit, cause reminds me some tracks from unreal tournament 2004) all things are cool
Oh yes, specials at the last event are almost unlimited it feels. I remeber i was last alive and died right at the extraction point, was trying to get in valkyrie backwards but stuck at boarding ramp, lol.
Also Chasm Station, cause director keep spawning specials with gauntlet rate during boss fight unlike at Magistrati. This one need good team composition and/or very expirienced players.
Some guy i was in a random team with told me that Chasm always spawns specials (gauntlet obv increases it) and Magistrati only spawns horde and never specials
Magistrati also has very set spawn waves where Chasm Terminus randomises the spawns quite a bit. Magistrati doesn’t have ranged coming out until the 6th wave of spawns or so (it’s terrors, terrors, terrors, terrors with melee elite to the side, terrors, ranged with ranged elite). Chasm Terminus can dump a shotgun squad in your face immediately.
I usually end up stuck with whatever normal damnation mission is on the board in the 1 or 2 hours each day I get to play. I don’t get to play every day either so its even worse when I sit down to enjoy my singular hobby (I haven’t the time for multiple), only to be bamboozled by ol’ Low Inty and his pal Low Inty.
I might just go buy a different game and play that. At least I’ll get to enjoy myself. Why can’t someone just pin high-int shock troop gauntlet on here? @FatsharkCatfish
Enclavum Baross has notoriously poor spawns. One of these is low int. The other is just normal with a modifier that is fine. Can nothing be done to ensure I get to actually enjoy your game this weekend?
This post speaks to me perfectly. I do the same exact thing. I wish i tallied how many times i closed my game due to aweful low intensity options. It has to be at least 50 times minimum
My friend had limited time for runs this evening, we played two suboptimal games, and I see nothing I have any interest in playing so I will be logging off for the night. Guess I’ll go assemble those side table drawers I was going to assemble. I was putting off that chore since its FRIDAY NIGHT but oh well.
Ok so I did a few minutes of chores and now I can play the game.
Was this so hard? There’s something for the players who want low int. There’s something for normal mode players trying to get into hi-int. Then there’s hard mode for us high end difficulty players
