So, how'd you get to rank 40 on Havoc?

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Just made rank 40, played with a great group from 16 to 40 - but I’ve got to say, i’m curious how everyone else ranked up?

What was your group composition? Did people have to change from their preferred class/build/role to make it happen - did they resist it, or were they okay with it? what was your experience? Got any videos of your level 40 winning game? What is your biggest complaint from the experience and what was your best experience? What would you like to see changed? What do you feel gave you the biggest edge when it came to reaching 40?

My team was:
Me: VoC/focus target/krak veteran with a Mk4 chain sword + plasma gun
Psychopomo: smite/shield with diemos/trauma
Royal: chorus/beacon or wounds(depending)/knives zealot with a power sword + flamer
Baldrekr: taunt/frag grenade with a shield + the new heavy ogryn gun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4mOs7JR8Ro

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I personally refused to abuse VoC, Smite, Bubble, Chorus & they were cool with it. So, of course with a pre-made of friends we did it from 16 all the way to 40 with me being Ogryn the entire time! :muscle:. Got True Survivor & all of that Jazz. We failed a few times during the course of our journey together. Took almost 2 days to complete, but we all binged through it one rank after the other. I can say that proudly we only skipped the first 16 levels. Even after that, I’m still completing 40’s here & there to keep my mind sharp. Just so I don’t go soft from playing regular games lol. The Hardest map for us was you guessed it… Gloriana… it was at about rank 37-38ish & another at 40 when we did that again as well. A true nightmare with all the tough modifiers on. A buddy of mine got extremely lucky to play literally one 40 game & got True Survivor in the same run. He was like, “I’m done now” lol. Cannot blame him really, I suppose. Lucky S.O.B.

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You answered your own question. If you want to suffer and waste your time then go with pubs. If not, you seek out a good group where people pull their weight and can actually push.

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Congrats!

I think all my successful high tier havoc matches have been with 1 of each archytpe, with myself as Ogryn.

Each had the usual meta

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If u try to play harder in game, just solo to complete the mission, not put some harmful suggestion to weak other character and make other players feel sick in the community. Or playing too much Ogryn makes you more like him in action and speaking? Tragical!

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Umm… What? lol

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I metaslaved super hard

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This is literally the most gibberish thing I’ve ever read on this forum to date. I actually played with Brad in a few premades solid guy actually and I didn’t feel inferior? Wtf are you smoking man? None of this makes any sense. Just because the guy didn’t want to use those metas. So what? And??? What you’re saying is laughably silly and irrational. I actually had to pause for a second because it was so stupid lmfao. My feelings weren’t hurt when he wanted to do it all vanilla. Who cares.

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I was mainly leveling up with pubs and my one friend, but from level 35 to 40 he was not present :pensive:

The usual team I was finding is: at least 1 Psyker(Dome and pretty much any staff) + any amount of Zealots(Chorus, did not see any good Zealot with anything else) + optional Veteran(Shout)
and me :blush: as Ogryn with Idomitable and Shield

Nobody were saying anything beyond “Ready” “GG” and some comments on what is happening.

It was pretty easy for me to find Havoc groups as Ogryn, as I had pretty high level(900) and was really lucky. But hosting groups was not fun at all.

Also, being in the group it was very hard to pull the team because I didn’t fill in the necessary role of Golden toughness giver, so often we lost because of lack of Toughness (and good players). That is why my last team was the most Havoc team there is: Dome Psyker, Shout Vet, Chorus Zealot.

Havoc 40 Team Results

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HELL YEAH! HAVOC 40 as OGRYN!

I wish I could record my games, but my Laptop will not handle it. :pensive:

My biggest complaint is that non-hosts do not increase their Havoc level right after completing the Havoc level, it’s just miserable for many reasons

And the best experience is that I found some real good players that I can rely on, in Maelstroms and Aurics I usually found some alright players at best, but here I feel very inspired to become better

Exactly my biggest complaint and that only host gets punished for losing.
Also, I want the system, where you are free to leave the match if somebody already left without being punished, but the first person to leave gets the punishment of losing one attempt or something. Like Deadlock.

The human spirit and being humble enough to admit my own fault, I wouldn’t have learned if I thought that only my teammates were lacking.

Thank you Ryshek for this topic! I had a lot of fun thinking about my journey!

Now I think it’s time for you to tell your story

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tinybike brings the sauce. that finale with a ton of shooters can be absolutely insane to try to cross - you guys played back to where you should to pick them off/draw them in well though.

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I’ll post our finale when I can snag a video from a team mate… My laptop can’t record and play darktide at the same time… pretty sure it would catch fire if I tried.

I’ll edit my topic to show team composition/weapons we won with, and the video

That’s pretty much how I feel. If I didn’t have a team forgiving of mistakes who all desired to succeed, I can see how the situation would have quickly become toxic.

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Thanks! It was a good group, very well coordinated for pubs. (Z-Huge and I are friends irl, but the other two were party finder randos.) We all went meta to the gills since we were on try 3 before Z’s demotion and just wanted to clear the dang thing.

I will say I think we got lucky with the map – imo Smelter Complex is one of the easiest Havoc maps. We got Dark Communion for our 39, which was much harder despite being lower level –

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and of course, the ONE match crowning the grueling havoc experience windows update fkks up steam recording which in turn made the video mute :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

as for the “experience” :
first and foremost i play solo with randoms (sometimes a duo with my gaming buddy) on my own time and at my own pace.

that means i want to push mechanical skill rather than some “talents” that up until havoc no one cared about having around in the first place.

most of the time teams that allowed ogryn
(could puke at the thought of even being at the whim of peeps chosing whose “fit” when theres a good chance at one point in time having carried multiple in auric maelstrom just fine)
were ok with me going branx and as offense as possible to get stuff dead quick.
for you can only hide beneath a bubble for so long, heretics dont drop by themselves.

but there were critics as to ogryns job being water boy to books and bubbles, boost THEIR damage, speed etc.

now in a premade it goes without saying you play hand in hand and people communicate etc.

as for randoms? why should i castrate the build i can do with the most for people i dont know if they even cash in on?
all up until now the "do your personal best and the whole (random) team profits clutched and carried I II V E Gs.

on comes havoc and its suddenly “quick, under my skirt and give me 4sec speed buff”?
not a playstyle that motivates me going on.

so far though, and my havoc 36 with true survivor is the better performance here, branx + aggressive gameplay/good positioning and overall toughness regen by killing stuff quick is viable with either a psyker bubble or zealot book.

without both? ogryn’s fkked and his shield is far to slow removing enemies before they pile up.

so until fatshark comes up with ogryn solutions ( berserk mode / red toughness through killing ) havoc with randos is tedious at best, mainly due to endless party finder rejections despite “true survivor”

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those the symptoms ? might explain the gibberish :laughing:

besides, havoc being the top difficulty, it aint about people “feel” but how they perform :muscle:
you wanna discuss “feelings” maybe mourningstar lobby has an ear for that.

in a havoc 40? you buckle up and see it through the best you can and thank the gods if someone’s outperforming cause that stuff ensures success.

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Strange quirk that people aren’t aware of I don’t think. The hardest map we faced was a 34. The AI director went absolutely psychotic on us.

Admittedly I did not do as good on target priority and being economical with the plasma rifle as I could have been. That final slog Into the shooting gallery before the temple was nightmarish.

Truth be told I usually run agripinaa slug shotgun, so being forced to switch to plasma after all my time on shotgun was not easy.

Not to bag on your setup, you guys made 40, it’s wild to see different your runs are. Purgatus staff works amazingly on hordes despite the difficulty jump from auric.

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Solid job, we made 40 with an ogryn, he was a really solid guy and while it may have been “easier” with someone else, his positive and mature attitude well made up for any class shortcomings.

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You guys coordinated well! I don’t recognize the other names offhand but I’ve played with Baldrekr a number of times; he’s very good. The POV’s play style with the mk6 knife felt very familiar to me – such a nice moveset :slight_smile:

Yeah the temple approach section in DC is absolute murder – long, open, and packed with gunners. Looks like you guys got a Beast at the exact same spot we did haha.

True, I was trying out the relic blade for the 39, which I was pretty new to and which felt very very different than my usual knife! (Or did you mean that my runs were different from yours?)

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Sorry, I meant to say “just how different your runs are”

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Do you mean, different from your runs, or that my 39 and 40 were different from each other? (Both are probably true tbh)

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2 psykers, 1 vet, 1 zealot.
1 voc vet, 1 chorus zealot, 1 bubble psyker with trauma staff, 1 purgatus psyker with venting shriek and warpcharges. Stick together tight at all times. Very high dps output ensures elites are constantly getting burned down like flies, which gives a lot of cooldown reduction, which ensures everyone can often chain blitzes. Venting shriek with warpcharge gets extra cooldown reduction from 6 warpcharges dumped, which often times means he can literally chain venting shrieks back to back.

Either chorus, bubble, or voc is ready if shirt hits the fan. Trauma staff can easily handle a lot of crushers and bulwarks by tipping them over, which everyone else can then finish off.

The synergy of this group is off the charts. Mostly the ability to kill elites fast and in high numbers with chaining venting shrieks, means the bubble psyker can also keep spamming bubbles, and either voc or chorus is up which means gold toughness, which bubble regenerates. The key to this whole groups is the extremely high dps that generates cooldown reduction from elite and specialist kills. If you can keep this going, everyone can spam their blitzes and it often becomes a cakewalk.

We even got True Survivor at Havoc 36 without specifically trying for it.

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