Serioisly... stop.
Close in should not be on this mission.
It is not even making the game harder it just makes one section a SLOG
It took us 15 minutes to destroy the cooling rods
Either that or close in should only affect Damage Done to enemies, not to objectives.
And what is the fucking point of enemy sighted when close in is in play???
Seriously we need more mutually exclusive conditions
A bit of context here.
This was the ballistic engine daily hard stratagem.
The carnifex just up and disappeared. After we brought him down to 25% health or so
We wasted a good 5 minutes looking for it until one of us quit and apparently the heavy bot that replaced the player seemed to know where the carnifex ended up....
Didn't help us, we still have to quit because we were stuck
Honestly, there should be some sort of failsafe for this
A bit of context here. We got an extremis warning. Got ambushed by a Lictor and Ravener...
For the life of us we could not find a third one, I am guessing this overgrown tick was stuck somewhere in the environment.
Screw it, all right let's move forward, we thought.
☠️
My usual 5 Am pre work hard strat run... felt cheeky at the end... 😏
... this is exactly why I will always default to the heavy Bolt pistol.
The incompatibility of the Plasma Pistol with Squad renewal is such a huge deterrent especially in tyranid missions
The chance alone, to me is more than worth defaulting to it as standard loadout.
( of course, there are exceptions. Like specific stratsgems)
My poor Vanguard brother (using unmatched zeal) loaded into the mission just in time to get missile-showered by a terminator and realize he could not execute to heal...
The "awwww SHIT" over the comm was both heartbreaking and hilarious
Goddamn snipers...
In a veritable ocean of new players who are woefully unprepared for hard stratagems, players who simply do not read the conditions and players who simply enjoy trolling... sometimes you stumble upon a true son of the emperor...
Shout out to brother Gibs who stood by my side during my pre-work daily hard stratagem at 4:30 a.m.
Because, for some unknown reason, the condition come prepared does not allow join in progress we did the entire thing with a bot since no one else was joining and we had precious little time to waste.
Turns out we didn't need a third, the slaughter was absolutely epic.
When the carnifex spawned at the very last leg of the mission, right before the final boss, I almost felt sorry for it
Anyhow. Just glad to share a positive experience for a random matchmaking for once.
For the Emperor
Seriously...
I almost threw my controller SO many times especially when I failed the last condition be 0.11 seconds...TWICE
This is just a PSA, not a rant
That said
I am sorry, but as much as I absolutely adore playing with tech Marines 99.9% of the time, they do not belong in this particular strategem/set of conditions
The combination of suspicious Behavior and suboptimal State can and will result in them one shotting you with the servo gun if it decides to pick a Target you are in front of especially the priority Target version of the servo gun which will always count as a full headshot every time
The turrets which are normally a godsend will shred you in a span of a single heartbeat if you happen to be mobbing the targets that they have locked on and sadly none of this is a skill issue, these are completely out of the control of the player.
Even when everything is timed right there is always the chance of turret just just picking a new, very unfortunate Target or some shit.
I finished this operation with a Tech Marine brother and a heavy brother while playing bulwark (to no one's surprise) . The Tech Marine was a very proficient player. Held his own perfectly, was fully leveled, knew the level layout and everything. For all intents and purposes, had this been any other combination of conditions, we would have been peachy. But he managed to one shot both me and the heavy not once but twice a piece.
One time he did us both in with the same Salvo of his serval gun.
So seriously... it is probably much safer not to play that class at all in this particular one.
This was one of the shittiest weeklies I have done in a while. Why did I even consider doing it? Normally I skip the weeklies that are clearly done as a troll or are completely unfun for the class I play. Well... A friend of mine asked me for help.
I am fully aware that the dailies are randomized. But the weeklies are handcrafted, so why exactly would the devs do this again AND add press the attack upon it???
We already had a near identical set of conditions on the same operation Many many weeks ago and they were reported by pretty much the entirety of the player base as absolutely unfun especially because it turns the last leg of the mission into a complete fucking slog.
This also happens in other missions, for example, reclamation, where when we get nerfed range damage all around suddenly it turns the cooling rods section of the op into something that is three times as long as necessary (not to mention possibly bricking some parts of the operation because you simply cannot properly kill Zoanthropes, i can explain that one but it's kinda long winded)
Some conditions should simply not exist in certain operations. Just like equipment month function as being removed from exfiltration
There's also more than that. Why Has this operation never been touched with quality of life improvements? Why have they fixed, kind of, some of the other least liked missions like fall of atreus, in some of its most boring parts, but reliquary remains untouched?
These problems are exacerbated by playing at the hardest difficulties where even a single mistake will cause you to go down
Why is it still so fucking dark. So dark that even with the brightness turned all the way up I can often not see a goddamn thing in tunnels? It is already not super easy to deal with chaos spawns when they're fully lit FFS. Just add some fucking lights somewhere in an update so that the problem is at least mitigated...
Also... explain to me, after two years, two goddamn years... why is that the bulwark Shield bug in reliquary is still a thing? It has been reported hundreds of times since day one
Ok...
Sorry, I'm done. Thanks for listening