Tactical axe does less carapace damage on heavy than on light

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

Weapons

Issue Description (Required):

Tactical axe does less carapace damage on heavy than on light on both weakspot and non weakspot hits

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

  1. Equip tactical axe
  2. Hit carapace enemy with light attack and heavy attack and compare numbers

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

Yes, but I haven’t tried disabling them

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PC - Steam

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Where’s the bug? The damage profile breakdown shows the same thing. It just has better carapace damage on lights. Dunno if it’s good balance but there’s no reason to think it’s not intentional. It’s not unique in this either, a couple weapons do that.

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it doesnt make any sense

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That really depends on your assumptions around what a “heavy attack” is. It doesn’t mean it’s got more armour pen it’s just a different move with different utility to the light attack.

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I never understood this either

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despite being the reverse of how it should be, it is not a bug

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Isn’t that the definition of a bug?

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it would be a bug if the adms were not intentional.

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I thought it was simmiler to the two handed ax in vermintide where you used your lights for single and heavies for multi dont see how this is a bug

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Because both heavy 1 and light 1 attacks are strikedown attacks, and heavy 1 does more damage to every other armour type than light 1 does.

Fatshark definitely took the wrong lessons from the feedback last time they ‘fixed’ it, they made light attacks weaker all round while the heavy attack on carapace remained exactly the same, then they reverted it back to what we have now when they heard, “not like that”.

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And that is why, ladies and gents, if you are a dev at a game development studio, you must PLAY your own game!

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