Don’t you think casting an ult should give you half a second of invincibility, just enough to cast it? In the video, I was just gonna put the battery in real quick and cast the wall to block the gunner but got stun lock to death. Just stagger invincibility is enough. Personally, I view an ult as a way to get out of a difficult situation. In the video, I did intentionally put myself in that situation but there are many other scenarios when casting an ult means life and death. Unless you have zealot swift skill, elite gunners can easily stun lock you like this.
May I ask what the hell you were doing sliding into a gunner in the first place?
Your keystone even highlighted the guy.
Psyker is made of paper when it comes to flinch/stagger resistance from ranged. The real issue here is you playing like a zealot and asking for a crutch my guy.
As I mentioned in the OP, it was my intention. I didn’t care much and just wanted to plug it in. So, I’m not gonna deny that fact that I shouldn’t do what I did in the clip. However, the point is about giving stagger immune to cast the ult. In my perspective, it is an ultimate, and we should be able to cast them when needed. This is not the only situation but I’m not down for making a long video explaining everything. I thought ppl would get the idea.
If they don’t agree or if you don’t agree, I don’t care. It’s just my view of what an ultimate should be.
You might not want to get hung up on the word ‘ultimate’. The abilities in darktide aren’t meant to be “imma clear this sht out and be a hero for 4 seconds” ultimates.
They’re tools that have specific applications they’re useful in.
Having stagger resistance/invuln on things like the shield would massively trivialize large gunner packs and mixed rooms in auric. You could literally just slide in and wall up every time. It’s already easy enough, so yeah, I disagree.
That’s the problem, you view it as “imma clear this sht out and be a hero for 4 seconds.” That’s why you have been negative since the first reply. Yes, they are useful. And you overstated exagerated that having 0.5-second stagger resist just to cast it would give you the ability to be a hero and clear all the sht.
I had a moment when I cast Bull Rush then immediately got hit by a sniper, the charge animation did not even come out but my ult went into cd. All you are trying to say is “the game is already so easy enough, I’m god, I don’t need this.” I don’t want to continue in this direction. This is my idea of what an ult should be, we should be able to cast it. If we are going to get hit because we cast it poorly, so be it. But it should come out.
Bull rush probably should be uninterruptable once started, that’s true.
In the opening post though you coudn’t even get the ability off because you were staggered. How having stagger invuln on cast when you can’t cast the ability will help? I don’t know.
In the video instead of trying to cast the ability you could have just kept slide dodging. You had the space, and it clearly worked for you with the power cell. Instead you decided to stand in place while a gunner shoots at you and try to get your ability off. If it just happened for you in the game then fine, we all make wrong decisions in the heat of battle. But you decided to go to forum and complain about it. So it became a skill issue.
Btw, a huge part of Skill is knowing how to realise what you did wrong, and knowing what you could have done differently to prevent that from happenning.
I know all the things that went wrong in the decision in the clip, and I don’t deny it. Can we put my decision-making aside and view the video as an example of the moment a stagger prevents ult casting? You agreed that Bull Rush probably should be uninterruptable but I don’t have the footage for that, that’s why I used this stupid psyker mistake footage. Just to show that we can get interrupted casting and ult. Yet, people keep missing the point and come here with the intention of lecturing on how to play the game and prove themselves. Not the type of people I want to discuss with. Don’t force me to say unproductive things or bring this to a real lecture.
I feel like finding the right moment to use an ultimate is part of learning the game too. The incoming stun/stagger mechanics are generally consistent, if punishing. I don’t think ults should be changed to being a get-out-of-jail-free card.
As soon as my sword switched to my hands, that’s the casting animation. Same idea with the Bull Rush when it starts running just different ult animation.
