K cool.
I mean theyāre such a small meaningless threat that the AI kinda has to. But honestly I think the game would just be so much better for everyone if it worked like you said.
Ever since about a year ago pretty much the only thing Fatshark has done to increase the difficulty is to just slap more and bigger spawns. And even then most of that difficulty comes from the bugs we got as a result, like the ever-soundless trappers, ninja crushers or dogs etc. Even if these problems didnāt exist, the overdone spawns just cheapen the value of elites. Over year ago, 5 crushers were an actual threat. Now you need 3x that number to even bat an eye and 5 is just breakfast for any random revolver nvm a vet with a single krak.
The game would have a lot less problems and the enemies would be a lot more distinctive and interesting if instead of what we have now, the numbers would come from the horde and specials nvm elites would be an actual threat. Iād much rather be in a situation where seeing even 2-3 gunners would make me actually take a step back and reconsider. Now even 6 of them is just something you casually ignore while sliding in to slap their faces in melee.
Still I canāt help but wonder if the overmassive spawns arenāt there just bc they were too afraid to nerf the talent & weapon power creep back down where they shouldāve, leaving them with little other choice.
how is knife a noob trap
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The Combat Knives only appeal to the noob hive mind of our community who rush directly at ranged enemies when it would otherwise be absolutely stupid to do so.
The Combat Knife actively promotes inefficient and selfish gameplay and thus only really serves to frustrate your teammates who are trying to support each other while youāre running ahead and dying.
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you are able to do this with literally every other weapon
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On Malice, maybe. I would not try to rush ahead and abandon the team with my Folding Shovels or Shock Maul on Damnation. A Combat Knife, though? I would be ENCOURAGED to do so by its mechanics.
Zealot in general kind of allows for this playstyle if you use Fury of the Faithful, Loner or Shroudfieldā¦ but I donāt. I love my Chorus of Spiritual Fortitude.
Technically you can, but nothing quite enables it like the knife.
At the risk of repeating myself, it might be the weapon attracting ācertain typesā.
The move tech is the biggest offender imo.
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loner? seriously? huge aura man
have fun with your fridge magnet though !
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I keep myself and others alive with Benediction, while you keep yourself alive and get your teammates killed. Loner is pointless if you just stay in coherency regularly.
Have fun with your Combat Knife meta hive mind.
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do i need to put an /s for you to understand that loner is a bad example since this aura literally does nothing for you
coherency regen is worthless
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Incorrect. Loner itself is worthless but keeping coherency in general is absolutely essential on Damnation+. Coherency is quite literally one of the most important aspects of Darktideās core gameplay.
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huge info
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Iāll take your two-word response as a concession. Ta-ta. 
holy **** ure a coherency gamer, all my questions are answered, ty
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Not in the current state of Darktide
And btw you can keep your teammates alive if you just kill enemies before they kill teammates
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I donāt know, I kinda like Gunner squadsā¦
They can definately be frustrating at times, completely impeding your team to move forwards, but because they donāt have infinite ammo, there will be an opening eventually, and you can throw a grenade at them if they are clumped together, they can be flanked in melee by popping stealth and Ogryn is actually pretty good at dealing with them.
What irritates me the most about the Gunners is that they get to use the exciting weaponry I want to use, but we canāt for reasons only known to Fatshark.
Iām still over here waiting for the Hot-Shot, Grenade/Missile Launcher, Backpack-Plasma Gun, Belt-Loaded automatic etc. for the Veteran.
But, as an anti-social introvert who struggles to connect with people, what should I do to maintain coherence?
Okay, serious now: a lot of people lately in Auric Maelstrom have been entirely oblivious (
) of the idea that you actually need to pick up resources in order to have medkits, medstims, ammo crates, and so on, which causes me to stray from the team a bit because else we wonāt have any resources for the entire match.
Skipping medstations while low on health and ignoring someoneās continuous pinging pickups (medstims, medkits, ammo crates) are also popular.
To be absolutely honest with you, itās starting to grind my gearsā¦ These pepegas are starting to kark me off!
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I guarantee you at least 50% of those people are Combat Knife players alone. Whenever a Combat Knife Zealot joins my match, I genuinely roll my eyes because I KNOW theyāre going be a detriment to our team. I say this because, like, 95% of people who use Combat Knife only use it because itās overtuned and will carry them.
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Incorrect. Crates magically appear in inventories as do stimms and plasteel. Oh and events/puzzles/scans do themselves if you wait long enough. Sometimes a block of purple vanishes in a puff of green smoke, Iām assuming Leprechaun magic, all on its own.
Pro Tip: You must bring a greased-up combat knife to get to the ammo first if youāre not at 100%.
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Not only CAN you do that with every melee weapon, on every class, you should be doing that. The game encourages you to do it by making ranged enemies far easier and less dangerous to deal with in melee than at ranged. The knife just has an advantage in closing the gap.
Additionally while in general you should be sticking relatively together, the idea of āmaintaining coherencyā is kind if a joke. This kind of loops back into the point above, byt everyone is so mobile, and any combst encounter can change rapidly from any direction that coherency never factors into my decision making. Ever. Additionally every class already has better ways of regenning toughness that Coherency Regen is unnecessary (on top of it being slow). This is why Toughness Regen Speed on Curios is such a noob trap.
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