Flame staff penetration

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Gameplay Feedback
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In order to balance the staff why not reduced enemy penetration

  • No penetration
  • 1 enemy
  • 2 enemies
  • 3 enemies
  • No change
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Flame staff (flamers in generally really) should just get a hitmass limit to every tick of damage/application of burn stacks. Itā€™s not even particularly hard to implement such a thing. I did it myself with a mod already. This is an old version that is number of targets, but Iā€™ve updated it since to use hitmass instead and that works even better. Just add that to the game and inferno staff is broadly fine.

3

This is probably the least amount of work Fatshark could do to balance it, and we all know thatā€™s Fatsharkā€™s favorite way of doing things.

4

Looks like a reasonable weapon

6

I think by just reducing itā€™s cleave or limit the enemies it can affect at once, you just destroy the weapon entirely, which Iā€™d still prefer to what we have now tbh. I think it would be better to rework it into something thatā€™s good, but not spamable as it is now.

7

I know this might be all in vain but could you please make a seperate post strictly talking about how you would fix the Flame Staff so we can attempt to make it one of the most liked posts on the Forums. People collecting the feedback could see this and the amount of people who want to implement this change (in hopes that if they have a ranking of what people want the most for the next update, this suggestion would end up at the top of the priorority list).

This change not only feels right, but also thatā€™s how most would imagine fire to behave in real life so itā€™ll make the weapon feel more believable to use.

8

I kinda already did that: Weapon Changes, Ideas, and Shenanigans

Though admittedly, this was done before I figured out how to upgrade the limiter from ā€œnumber of targetsā€ to ā€œhitmassā€

9

I know which is why Iā€™m asking for you to make a post specifically about the Flame Staff. Anything to get the devs attention to this specific weapon change of yours.

If there are any of your suggested changes that would be implemented in the future, this needs to be the very first they do.

10

Up the clickbait on the title too

Something like ā€˜the fire staff is kinda midā€™

ā€¦with these changes

11

Done Inferno Force Staff: The Design Problem