Hedge is a moron, no idea why the company lets him speak for them.
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One way to ease it would be to give something to all class for the most contriving penance, like staying in cohesion or not using range weapon ("have a squadmate or uself not shoot a single time) so people would actually be interested in grouping to achieve them instead of having to suffer one random doing weird thing.
Lmao that is hilarious
I’ve actually had multiple games thrown by psykers trying to do penances, most ask in my experience but even when we agree to say no we’d rather clear the run, they try it anyways. I’m a psyker main, so for me i’ll complete these penances when there’s an opportunity, like cliffhanger. But the others just seem too much of a detriment to the team so i’ve already written them off. Why can’t we need to purge 250, 000 heretics? or burn 25, 000 heretics with the flame staff? or burst 10, 000 heads with BB? Something with an actual progression to it, a penance is something you do to redeem yourself, not further your reject status.
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Zealot has one for not firing a single shot for the entire mission, I struggled with that one because it was dumb and anti-teamwork. I earned it then swore never to wear it and sort of look down on those wearing it. I’ve also seen lower level zealots (20ish) rocking the, be totally wounded in under 10 mins on Malice or higher and it’s the best looking one of the set, cheese much? I do however sport the “abhor the mutant” because that took some skill to unlock and I saved a teammate getting pummeled in the process.
Just allow us to add lobbies with password so we can do penances in peace and don’t get people joining by accident.
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Don’t get me wrong, the design of penances is god awful and all of the current issues were easily foreseeable.
However that doesn’t absolve the deranged people who go into public games trying to force penance completions. The level of egotism required to even go into a public game and ask to ruin 3 other peoples’ time in the name of the mental illness that is completionism is mind blowing as it is. Those who don’t even ask must be touched by papa Nurgle himself.
I agree. The penances need a re-work. The whole game should be designed to reward altruistic play. Right now, it really doesn’t outside of the coherency buff
The issue here is the reward attached to it. Casuals would look at these penances and say “f**k this garbage” but since there is cosmetic attached to it the casuals WILL brute force these penances. I do it as well since i cant do anything else in order to get those cosmetics. Yes i do feel like a jerk and i dont enjoy doing them at all but i dont have an alternative. Especially the first week it was either do it or u look like a hobo, your choice. Now the goal post is more about which color u want? I personally love the combination of black and red colors so my obvious go to is still the penance ones.
TLDR dont attach a highly sought out reward to a “challenge” that will absolutely hinder your group in the long run. I said in other post that i understand more hardcore players wanting to show off that they done it but i think a special portray or insignia is the way to go for that. Cosmetic is a way too sought out commodity by any type of player so obviously WILL brute force this to the detriment of others. I dont blame the players for doing so cuz this is something a developer kind of should account for designing stuff like this and i do feel bad for the ones who suffer bad runs cuz of this.
Currently tough we have no alternative and the “just get some friends” is not a vaild argument. There is an entire solo market who loves coop games but do not want the social engagement. I dont see why those ppl (myself included) need to be pointed at and shamed or excluded from these things just cuz we dont want to socialize.
I’m 99% sure the one above is actually meant to say “Kill 3 different monstrosities”