THIS PENANCE SPECIFICALLY HAS BEEN RUINED BY UNFAIR EXPLOSIONS!
look, i understand, i do, but why is it that when a barrel or a pox burster explode on me while i’m near an edge, i get blasted off at MACH GOD DAMN 9,000,000?! i understand wanting them to be effective to some degree, but they are NEVER that effective when enemies are hit by them, they don’t even launch the pox walkers that high!
let me talk about something that happened to me the day before this most recent event happened.
i was doing the archivum sycorax mission on malice to get my 9th malice without going down, i was about 2/3rds of the way through when a hoard started and surrounded me while i was on one of the staircases down. this was normal, nothing ever really happens to kill me or anything so i thought that this’d be fine. little did i know, a pox burster would come along and before i could push it back, I WAS BLOWN OFF THE DAMN STAIRS BECAUSE I APPERENTLY PUSHED HALF A SECOND TOO SOON! naturally, i was very angry but i calmed down shortly after. i then did some more missions and went to bed.
today, i was doing more missions like i normally do in darktide, i was on 5 this time, i thought that i was going to finally get it done because i was avoiding the archive and not getting blown into the atoman sun. i was near the railing and i think the psyker on my team shot an explosive tank that was pretty far from me as i was against the railing. i was also fighting against some
scab enemies that had went and died RIGHT before the barrel exploded. however, once it exploded, i was LAUNCHED into the air and past the railing, falling to my doom, losing all progress i made on the penance.
WHY IS THIS A THING?!
three times, another barrel exploded and blew me off the edge because my team shot it.
Stay away from the danger zone.
Either take an other path, or clear the barrel before you move there.
Similar thing when you engage bursters, or when you figth bosses.
Avoid situations, where you stand between them and a place that you can fall off of.
Improve your awareness and you do not fall off the map.
Sometimes, there is a massive amount of things going on, on screen.
It is difficult to keep track of everything that is happening.
If there is so much going on, that you are unable to stay aware of your position in relation to barrels and other sources of knockback, you might want to step down a difficulty. Maybe you just need a bit more time to get your awareness up to that level.
choose your missions (example: don’t go for Gloriana!)
choose the character to do them (Ogryn is good, zealot also, but any is good however prefer defensive talents)
in mission don’t take risks. Anyways this is malice, so others players should be able to face threats. But do not approach barrels, do not stay close of a place where you can fall etc.
