Pickpocket should be changed to a branch talent of Vulture Mark or Desperado, to prevent it from being too easily to get Melee scum is already the strongest scum build, especially with the Needle Pistol. Since melee scum is barely affected by the Pickpocket nerf, they can still easily get ammo for …

This sounds like what Fatshark would do, if only because it’s a really bad idea. Would still leave Melee scum the single most powerful damage-dealer in the game and even more wreck the class fantasy of ranged Scum.

Yeah Now I want zealot to get reworked now because all that really stands out for them is the faith flavouring and 2h melees Unique dot damage type Hive scum has a significantly better dot that also has supporting perks zealot has none for fire. Rewards aggressive play, ha has many more perks an…

Ranged is by far the easiest playstyle with very little to no risk for very large rewards. Pickpocket turns that to no risk, all reward. Maybe we should stop thinking “gee, my stupidly godlike melee class that can solo everything in the game without taking damage is just too boring. It should also …

I guess, yeah, if you go into a ramble of “what-ifs” you can prove any point. Gun Scum was far less of a problem that people made it out to be, because it was hard-walled by Bulwarks and Crushers. In the game, as it actually exists (not some what-if fantasy) its only problem was its DPS was too hi…

On discord some guy was defending the nerf by saying something along the lines of “we need to nerf pickpocket if we want to buff HS weaker aspects” when the nerf did exactly the opposite lol. And yet people here will keep saying nerfs bring more variance to the game. (They never did).

That same hard wall exists for flame staff psyker too. At least Psyker doesn’t have the screen wipe button of the rocket launcher. The other 2k+ enemies that spawn in a match get killed with an infinite resource. Scum can flank behind a bulwark far easier than Psyker anyway. It’s a top two build in …

It’s fine as it is. My only gripe with it, is that when you kill the target with the Melee Toxins Crit talent, you don’t get the Pick Pocket to proc. PLEASE FIX :sob:

Made a thread regarding solving this issue as well as making Desperado have less tax nodes and more freedom of choice [image] Solving Hive Scum tree Gameplay Feedback Scum is now taking shape into what they’re supposed to be The tree however allows a few rema…

My casual player friend bought Hive Scum only because it had ranged power fantasy, now that they made the pickpocket change it leaves a bad taste in the mouth for players who are not crazy into Darktide gameplay loop of constantly switching between weapons. You have to understand that you can’t mak…

Like I said, sure just give the class infinite ammo. Who cares. The game’s balance team is nonexistent at this point and we might as well just make the game a power fantasy entirely. A large problem with the game is that they refuse to go all-in on the power fantasy while refusing to actually make a…

Pickpocket is still too strong for needle and melee scum

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Made a thread regarding solving this issue as well as making Desperado have less tax nodes and more freedom of choice

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Pickpocket is still too strong for needle and melee scum

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