Surge Force Staff cannot stun Mutants

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Bugs
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Issue Type (Required):

Weapons

Issue Description (Required):

Dear Fatshark,

I’ve noticed that when using the Surge Force Staff, it’s no longer possible to stun Mutants. Whether they’re charging, stopping after hitting a wall, turning around, or slamming my teammates, I can’t stun them anymore.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

Play as a Psyker and equip the Surge Force Staff, then hold down the right mouse button to attack the Mutants.

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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Gonna add that Zealot’s stun grenades have never worked on mutants on the subject of them and stuns.

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Didn’t think they were supposed to be staggerable by anything tbh. Even Smite only works after they come to a complete halt.

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Break the Line works. Would kinda suck if it didn’t or wasn’t supposed to.

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the special on standard shovel/antax and the caxe special that’s a punch (Mk4/Mk7) stagger mutants, you can stop their charge or make them drop allies. there’s also voc, indomitable, chorus, break the line and taunt ults, as well as the dog and shock mine. I think the dog explosion stuns them too.

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I tried recording some footage, and I used a mod to better demonstrate this bug.
However, I also tested it after removing the mod, and I still wasn’t able to stagger Mutants.

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Were you able to stun them before the Bound by Duty update / before the 23rd of September?

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Yes, I remember it was still working before the update, since I often used the Surge Force Staff to stop a bunch of Mutants from charging at my teammates.

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Yes, it was always possible, broken stagger gave one hit enough to stagger mutie, after fix it came back to two hits to stop it

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ah well, it’s also depends on what buffs are active at the moment, happens that it even possible to stop mutie with every hit

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You’re right! I didn’t realize that two hits could actually stagger them.

I tested it again as well, and it seems that they can be staggered repeatedly if the previous shock effect is still active on them.

I just started playing Darktide in September — under normal circumstances, does it take two hits or just one hit to stagger Mutants?

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Before BbD update it was always two hits, now when they fixed stagger bug it work as usual

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I see, so it was actually a bug that they could be staggered with just one hit.
Having to shock them twice quickly to save my teammates sounds tough, but I’ll keep trying my best.
Thank you so much for clearing up my confusion!

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Electro staff stunned them. Also old shovel, tac axes, specials stun themif you hit head.

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Yes, before 1.9.2 Surge staff could stagger a mutie with one M2 attack.

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Staggering with smite always worked but it needed some time for the mutie to actually get staggered, now it seems to take slightly longer than before but still works.