What’s with nets, anyhow?
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oddly enough for different reasons for me.
darktide’s appeal was its physics, fast paced movement and overall “net output” of what you as a player are able to put in.
for the longest time since quake&co a game that “feels” just right.
now for the odd part, only ogryn clicked with me and a good chunks of that is due to his independance and “do it yourself” impact on its surroundings.
yes its a team game, but if played right ogryn can take units off the chessboard fast, reliable and at very minor ressource costs(toughness/health)
lots of situations where i’ve seen zealots miscalculate about their cannon part in the glass cannon spec or miss their “out of jail free” ult by a second.
whereas ogryn is singing to the warm shower that is toughness replenishment in mixed hordes.
my main enemy so far isnt the trapper per se, but over and over against better judgement using the dodge for a different encounter 1 second to her firing the net.
leaving me depleted of dodge options or stopped dead in that direction by a mere poxwalker.
zzzp…net…flapping ogryn.
sometimes i have the mind to let the mutant grab me on purpose to evade the net and remain free after he throws me around, most of the time pavlovian sound cue commands me to dodge out of reflex 
So if I’m setting up for havoc 40, you’d expect there to be no difference at all in the probability of mission success if I accepted the first 3 requests to join my party, vs holding out for 3 HM Twins insignias or 3 True Survivors? Is that really your claim?
They’re pretty good but not perfect measures of skill. Definitely some false positives. Nevertheless they’re a useful, if weak, filter for deciding who to accept into your party, and most people use them that way. Obviously there’s no substitute for actually playing with someone to see how good they are.
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Why doesn’t FatShark learn to make the challenge penance just for the player himself?
Requiring all teammates not to fall to the ground completely exceeds the player’s own control, and only pure luck can make random players cooperate perfectly.
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Read what I said above. The important factor is the loadout. As in weapons and talent tree. There are mods to see that before accepting a player. If the loadout isn’t some meme build and the true level is high enough, that’s a far better indicator of experience to me than a title I’ve seen lvl 60s with absolute abysmal builds with. My most recent run had a true survivor zealot with twins chain that went down 6 times, playing like an absolute mongloid.
These past few days this has been my experience with every h40. The people that don’t play dress up are generally better.
There we go, it is bugged/exploitable
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there were 2 instances although those were quickly fixed, zealot able to stealth forever and ogryn shooting rumbler like an automatic launcher.
LOL… Omg… Send me that link privately… Gotta see this. That’s wild af…
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once again racism has been defeated
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Idk, man. That jackjackson guy seems to really love it. He baths in it all day just basking in it smelling it, loving it.
I agree that loadout is more important, but in the sense of making sure it fits well into the team. I don’t think loadout really correlates to skill, since low skill players will often just copy paste a decent build from gameslantern without really knowing how to play it.
Maybe the havoc 40 title would be a better indicator for now. Idk, I don’t honestly pay much mind to titles since most everyone just runs A.S.S. which was exploitable. Still find Twins HM to be a pretty good filter tho, and if you’re willing to use mods then true level is probably the best at a glance metric.
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Just seen it damn dude you really wouldn’t budge on it at all. But yeah, you do seem very weird in the head.
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Not even worth your time… You can tell what kind of a person he really is. Just move on. In the other post he went real quiet when like 2 other people even agreed with you. I’ve seen some other posts of his too all he does is just stir up drama & s-post. It’s what happens when people have a good time on a post they get jealous & talk sht. lol. If nobody else can be happy then you can’t be either. People like this are toxic af. I’m sure he’s fun at parties… He’s the guy that’s like “wElL AcTuAlly.” But the thing I genuinely laughed at was that most people in everybody’s post he’s written in disagrees with him which is an added sting, haha. Like, fk… Even in this post three-four people were like, huh? In his mind he’s just playing 4D chess & we’re all dumb, haha. I’m not actually going to pursuit this because I actually think he’s probably mentally handicap.
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It’s pretty interesting to me watching the forums slowly get more and more insular and toxic towards criticism again after the Unlocked and Loaded update.
Guess this is the community you guys wanna foster. Have fun with that.
Somehow @Murderer gets away with his criticism but most other criticism/anything but positivity gets attacked. (Not a knock on you Murd, I generally agree with you from what I’ve seen)
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We had a pretty cordial debate on Health Ogryn awhile back which got slightly spicy & sometimes that’s the nature of the beast, we were both at least polite about the conversation. But I’m not going to be polite to some guy who I know for a fact is a pos troll. Sorry… I know exactly what type of guy he actually is. I’m not being friendly. Other than that, I’m friendly to literally everybody whom I interact with.
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easy mode twins lmao
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steezy mode twins
If anyone is wondering, this problem was solved by changing the server by going to the area where you usually choose missions, which is ridiculous that you can’t do that from Havoc’s table.
So, it was because no one actually was playing in my region(Asia) at the time
I’d agree. As I said, it’s a mix of a lot of things. My point was simply that a title or trinked alone doesn’t indicate skill. I think we’re mostly on the same page here.
Anyone claiming that title = automatic skill is ludicrous.
So true…
Choose a title you like… I like the title for having killed 1 million poxwalkers.
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Let us call a spade a spade.
We all know that skins = skills!
The person who swipes their credit card the most for Alice in Commodore’s Vesture is the best Darktide gamer.
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