Enemies ignore the stagger

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Bugs
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Issue Type (Required):

Enemy Mechanics

Issue Description (Required):

Enemies often simply ignore the stagger effect in Havok mode. I’m a psyker and use a fire staff. In the Psycarium, by spamming light attacks, I can keep enemies in an endless stagger loop. But in real game, the effect often doesn’t work, causing me to take damage and die.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

Play the game

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Common (<50%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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Hey @Aradiel, there are some Havoc modifiers that will cause enemies to be immune or more difficult to stagger - could this be why?

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Since enemies in Havoc Mode gain extra stagger resistance, if you want to practice, I suggest turning on the Havoc function in SoloMod rather than fighting regular enemies to accurately measure enemy strength in Havoc Mode.

Your class abilities, weapon blessings and other loadout bonuses are not designed around Havoc Mode, so this mode will put you to an extremely brutal test—testing your knowledge, experience, skill, and above all, luck.

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Currently there’s 2 active modifiers that change stagger/suppression behaviour

The Encroaching Garden makes pink enemies have 300% stagger resistance

Cranial Corruption makes enemies with the parasite take no suppression

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Yes, I know about Havok’s current modifiers. I’m talking about common enemies who aren’t affected by any of the effects: groaners, dregs, poxwalkers. Sometimes I can’t stun the pox hound and it attacks me.
The problem may not be with the stagger effect itself, but with the game engine or server not registering the hit on the enemy.

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Ah I see - I’ll let our QA sharks know and we’ll look out for this. Thanks!