Space Marine 2 Operation: Ruthless Rush Solo with Basic Equipment

Space Marine 2. Playing low lvl Vanguard with Master Crafted (green) equipment and solo running tier 4 difficulty Inferno.
Great way to power lvl up low lvl classes that have access to Melta weapons (Tactical, Vanguard, Heavy) and get quick Relic Upgrades.

[@Honyakusha]

Legends of Total War here, today we have a saving your disaster universe forcing us to cheese the shit out of them.

[@argetlam05]

A 20,000 year long video would be required to fix this universe.

[@GaurdsmanJoe]

good one mate

[@Madimonster64]

@@argetlam05 *38000

[@CorenusYT]

@@argetlam05 While not being sure that will work, because the Chaos Gods would try to overcheese the Legend's cheeses

[@gabrielmontenegro9476]

​@@CorenusYT They are no match for the Cheese God.

[@denry100]

"Running out of ammo is just as bad as dying, 'cause ammo is health" Is one of the most Imperium things I've heard today. The Emperor would be proud :')

[@JACR--Atlas]

The pipeline of Legend going Total War -> Total War Warhammer -> Warhammer 40K is amusing, but it is a man's destiny to get involved with Warhammer at some point in his life

[@jyggalagz320]

once youre in youll never get out ..

[@soulseptem5281]

I am actually so happy to see legend playing this game. The cheese god rises!

[@In.Gy.]

Legend of Total War here. Today, we're saving your disaster Horus Heresy...

[@khinzaw77]

Legend could have cheesed Horus at the Siege of Terra.

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

​@@khinzaw77 sanguinius dodging bullets for hours to make the Horus supporters have no ammo 😂

[@GeroldLive]

I bet Legend would just outright make Emperor kill Horus

[@Ax_Dj0]

@@GeroldLive He would sacrifice whole Terra garrison but none of reinforcement Astra Militarum boys got even the single wound, because garrison can replenish by itself!

[@alemorikec]

​@@PenguinWithInternetAccess dont forget the swooping!

[@atomicgandhi8718]

LOTW cheesing Space Marine 2, also playing the cheesiest Chapter in-lore, the Loot Ravens. Truly the greatest crossover of all time.

[@reivelt3715]

he is quickly will become LegendofWarhammer

[@XDfunnyguy]

This is the most comment of all time

[@gabrielmontenegro9476]

One of us! One of us!

[@usokitsuki]

11:49 "And I remember the first time I fought one of these things in Campaign, and I thought it was so bloody hard. Now I am, like, ehh. It's just a Lictor. Lictor my balls!" (c) 1st Company Veteran Legendarius, of Total War chapter, recounting the tales of his encounters with Tyranids to chapter neophytes.

[@XavierAway]

Now THIS I will watch this game for. Nice to see him mix it up for once.

[@MunsterBeavis]

Legendoftotalspacemarine?

[@Irishman8778]

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only total war. ;)

[@KA-jm2cz]

Sometimes a run really is a run.

[@FswithFarham]

Watching as warrior take 10 meltas to the face broke my immersion xD

[@AstronautLion]

The easier difficulties are more lore accurate in terms of weapon damage and space marine tankiness. The harder difficulty is genuinely for the challenge.

[@fogstorm5531]

Then they need to stop locking the best weapons behind the hardest difficulty

[@proggz39]

@@fogstorm5531”they should get rid of progression in a video game because… lore”

[@J.B.1982]

@@proggz39 To an extent. The weapons should feel accurate but that doesn't mean you can't have some level of progression in how it performs. Damage is only one metric. Sadly, this game doesn't throw more enemies at you with increase in difficulty, you just get damage sponges.

[@Canadian_Zac]

​@proggz39 the downside of them locking the best weapons behind the harder difficulties, is that it gets people who aren't good enough for those difficulties, to need to go into them. They can't stay on normal and get everything unlocked, they NEED a bunch of difficulty 3 and 4 to get the weapons

[@julainstone8683]

The thing about killing the big guys first is that they depicted the telepathic link between the hive so hormagaunts automatically die when a warrior or something bigger dies near them.

[@turin236]

This doesn't kill them in Ruthless, I think it does damage to them still, so you might need multiple execution of majoris enemies for them to die. But, then again, Melta goes brrrr

[@lollylegsgruff]

So glad you posted this man !

[@WolfmanluPurpleclaw]

Man great video, I have now learned you can heal mortal wounds with stimpacks. I had no clue, all of my friends had no clue so that's gonna help us a lot, lol. Have a nice day.

[@Azrael178]

I too believe in melta supremacy. It's just so satisfying to know you don't have a "shoot" button,but rather a "remove" button

[@itsokiie]

These are the tactics that I imagine legend instills in his units whenever he controls a unit on the battlefield, titas is just a legendary lord and legend is controlling the Cadian/space marine units every move outside of controlling titas too.

[@Serviner]

Cool to see you enjoying this game. Its so much fun honestly

[@40kVallin]

Thank you a lot for the video, I struggled a lot with that white bar and losing so much health, this helps a lot! And good to see you can go to the next area without clearing out all the mobs, didn´t know that too. Then again I play Bulwark, so I´m limited to how many enemies I can slice up at once.

[@Lyonatan]

Contested health, it's like the 3rd thing the tutorial tells you.

[@Astartes7670]

Yeah but logically it could only gain health back as much as the white bar goes, not back to full like the game does ​@@Lyonatan

[@Birdzlitlehelpr]

Bulwark has the best health regen in the game currently. They don't need contested health, you simply knock any enemy into the execution stance, then drop a banner and immediately press execute. This will fully restore your health and will do the same thing for teammates if you drop the banner for them when they perform an execution.

[@40kVallin]

@@Birdzlitlehelpr thanks for the explanation, I'm Not far enough with my perks. Only reached Level nine and invested Points to reach Deathwatch shoulder....

[@hatenuke1]

@@Birdzlitlehelpr oooooooh that explain why i restored all my life in one execution

[@jameslobenzana6785]

I was like why is this video being pushed to me, then I realized that it was Legend! I’m happy you are branching out cause we will support you even if it’s not total war. Because you make QUALITY content!

[@MyLolmom]

Finally had a "buT LeGEnD, wHy arEN't yoU DOiNg ______" moment when he explained why he wasn't blocking

[@thermie]

Love the new direction you are taking. More space marines 2 content please!

[@repo445-d4h]

TLDR: Melta isn't the only weapon that gives more contested health back, its any AOE damage because contested health seems to be calculated based off damage done to ANY enemy entity. Melta just triggers the bug more frequently because of how it does damage. Hey Legend, wanted to share what I've seen with the Contested Health bug. It seems that contested health works basically like "if [contested health] = active, then [%damage done to enemies] is added to [Current HP]" (I'm not a programmer but i'm trying to just get it concise. The issue is that the MAX contested health bar is only enforced when damage is done to ONE target (such as an execution) but when doing AOE damage, either from the Plasma gun or the Melta then the available pool of contested health is ignored for total damage done to all targets. It seems that the intent was that damage done to just one target would be added back to the HP pool but the implementation makes it so that damage done to ANY target is added back, when damage is done via Primary Weapon, Secondary Weapon, or Melee. Equipment (grenades) doesn't do any contested health regen. This is just from what I've seen.

[@diazinth]

I guess the "max contested health bar" is only enforced per target, and not on the total. This is the only time I've seen anything from this game though, so just basing it on this video and your comment.

[@hardcorelace7565]

Spiffing brit played this to show off a couple of exploits, one of which was that you can heal all your max contested health off of every target you damage. The other one he showed is that for everyone but assault you can infinitely dodgeroll and have permanent I frames for everything but explosives.

[@tuh774]

Yep i can do this same thing with bolt rifle with GL. However its easiest with melta because you don't need to aim and its just very fast and easy to use.

[@unnero1]

Im actually training myself over for the Plasma because once Melta will get nerfed everyone will be unable to play on high difficulty suddenly.

[@LeVeLs404]

I expect that too, would be nicer if they would just buff the other weapons either but well most certainly they will nerf the shit out of the melters

[@tuh774]

Funny thing any AoE damage can do what melta does, the healing part. For example standard issue bolt rifle with GL, if you just chuck a grenade when you have little white HP you get to full HP instantly. And bolt rifle GL on relic level can 2 shot rubric marines with scan, and i am pretty sure GL damage is same across the levels it just changes the ammo count. So anything AoE = bugged like melta.

[@unidentifiedbiomass4106]

they would have to do a better job balancing difficulty jumps tho

[@araknas3981]

Most of the people I meet in Ruthless don't use Melta and get by fine. Sure, it's the strongest weapon by a wide margin but it's absolutely not necessary for playing Ruthless. Hell, it's way more fun without it.

[@Vyolette13]

Yea blood ravens represent!!

[@MrMorkh]

Glad to see legend enjoying some new games😊

[@mr.minnesota2560]

this old man still finding cheeses in other games

[@АнтонВолков-д7л]

Operstion Skitter-Run activated. Move-tails human things-things!

[@emperortivurnis9161]

I'm mostly just impressed mans can play so smoothly without hitching and/or crashin

[@jorgeclarkson8286]

Hell yh! Nice to see you try this on the channel

[@katocs]

Hey there, small tip, if you play the tactical class, you can essentially spam infinite dodge rolls and you will not be damaged by anything unless ranged weapons hit you from the back.

[@over9000lord]

What a legend, you only did the trials for the tactical. The harder ones.

[@amonzon106]

The game looks super fun, nice to see you cover it on your channel Legend

[@jacobneal6000]

Hope we get more of these, it's a good watch and you seem to be enjoying yourself legend! 😁

[@theinstantnoodle9628]

Brother. Your accuracy is impressive.

[@Emanfox333]

OH SHIT! You're playing this too! Hell yeah! Been quiet a few months since I've watched ya, every now and then ill watch a vid or two. But ive been eating up space marine 2 vids since i cant play it yet.

[@commanderstarstreak9390]

Legend of total xeno death here, today were going to be purging all the heretics from this planet on turn one

[@Kasgigz]

*Legend of Quality Assurance*

[@berndl91]

Nice one Legend! Great plays. Also love the melta in PVE. Btw. the vid also serves as a guide for the basic mechanics of the game even if you don't want to play solo

[@theronnett]

I love how he is rocking Blood Ravens colors.

[@prostokeereell1286]

Thanks legend, now half of the games i join is me spawning in the middle of 10 warriors while host is miles away

[@joshuapinkley8562]

well ill be damned.. legend playing sm2. My man legend.

[@Lekibz]

Nice to see u on this game ! good content as always

[@Bundesverfassungsgehirn]

You can farm Ruthless difficulty quite efficiently on Mission 3 (Daemonhost at the end) since you basically don't have to kill anything aside from one possible event. It's actually quite easy.

[@kableedge9278]

I've found if you turn crossplay off, and launch a mission, after a couple of leaves, you'll have no one joining your sessions after that

[@accretia0]

A bit of information for easier last stage for this operation, there's a lever that releases gas on the right and left platform that you need to activate in the middle platform. its way easier to clear the mobs that way

[@seanconnell7231]

Very cool to see some new types of content!

[@noooooo336]

Its nice seeing legend do something different!!!

[@kaiserkonda]

Just a little tip: you can teleport tobthe launch bay and armoury on the ship by pressing "TAB" once

[@Iritianthefirst]

10:22 Legend channeling his inner Cameron Mitchell

[@Ax_Dj0]

This is inner rat!

[@mr_clean91]

Legend rocking Black Seraphs heraldry seems fitting I think. They're all about luring the enemy into the open with drop pod assault and then annihilating them from orbital bombardment

[@campermortey]

Man that horde battle at the end was intense

[@_tot1212]

We like the variety content!

[@ridleykeeling4059]

Loving the space marine content Legend! 🥰

[@digiass2135]

Melta is not only the strongest weapon by far but also the glitch make it almost impossible to lose

[@L3Sambora]

Shouldve named it, Ruthless Rush with melta, because thats the only thing that matters.

[@Frost9794]

you can teleport between the armory and the launch bay with tab btw

[@fedoratheexplora9359]

its worth mentioning that you can simply spam your dodge roll to get past sections where killing the enemy isnt strictly necessary. so long as you actually dodge roll away from enemies and not into them youre practically immortal. sprinting is a bit faster but also less safe. combining this with the health recovery from that contested health bug can probably easily get you through some maps.

[@tarsisisterval5964]

Damn, nice! I would also like to see a match with your best class and good team mates, cheers!

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Blood Ravens, nice. Busy playing Dawn of War II right now.

[@cealfonsovargas]

If you stin pack it creates a small window to heal to full health with the melta. It happens because stims does contested health for a small window. Meltas are going to get the hammer for sure. They are the only viable weapon.

[@mantism.d.8363]

I started playing Vanguard last night, and it quickly became my favorite class. Grinded to level 10 in a session. Logged on today and saw all my progres was lost 😭...even whilst playing online. Im trying to find the motivation to do it again tonight. I hope they fix this crap soon, bc I know 100% I'm not the only one this has happened to.

[@50043211]

Run Legend, RUN!

[@Balorian]

LegendofWarhammer

[@Birdzlitlehelpr]

Was not expecting to see legend playing this, but happily surprised. Would love to see you do a pvp match against spiffing, just to see who comes up with better cheese.

[@MyLolmom]

Legend of total war here, today we're saving a disaster battle. As you can see here, Horus is currently sieging terra, and has all our supply lines cut off. Let's see what we can do.

[@kurzor0007]

It might be harder to pull this off after the update since the devs have stated that the Melta rifle health regen is actually a bug which they intend to patch out in the next update

[@loremasher]

Another really good tech for such an exploit is that you can animation cancel reload right after you see your magazine ammo count change simply by swapping to another weapon, saves time to heal and kill

[@darksaiyan2006]

For speedrunning purposes, in the Astra Militarum camp, instead of going into the cave, you're better off checking the path on the left instead, there's 4 corpses in the open and it's easier to check them out than the clusterfuck that's the cave.

[@Foneio]

Hell yeah, legend of cheese space marine 2

[@PassiveDamage]

The second you said so theres this white bar my mind went "oh bloodborne over heal nice"

[@ExtraHecticana]

Gonna have to figure out some other way to play when the next patch comes out and the melta is fixed and it won't heal like it does now.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

That's ok I'm getting better at melee now so I won't have to rely so heavily on melta.

[@kuku4771]

Legend of warhammer

[@therealikitclaw8124]

If a carnifex spawns on you, it's over

[@DeusinMachina]

LegendofWar here

[@Shadow.24772]

comment for the algorithm cuz we know youtube machine spirit doesn't like different "content"

[@lordanarchon6435]

We need more Legend playing SM2!!

[@notjustanother3191]

What you say about the bots is right and I'm terrible. The bots in this game are really good. On my normal playthrough, they never got stuck, they left me executes when I was low, downed once each. I think a lot what is wrong with this game was sacrificed to make the bots that good. It would be nice if you could issue basic commands. Republic commando had this like 15 years ago may more and no game has matched it. Turret placements your squad could man and ordering them to do things would have literally made every aspect infinitly better and probably changed this into the squad game I it's trying to be.

[@Cel-es-Tien]

Legend is legend on another games too ;)

[@atticlion7648]

This could have been so much easier if Legend would have just parried a few times, used his grapple hook for mobility, or even just pulled out a pistol to shoot some of the little ranged bastards. Still, it's impressive what you can do while handicapping yourself to this extent.

[@dankodanko1504]

@legendoftotalwar hey there : Idk if u know but since u like ur tactical : there is a boltrifle where u can unlock a grenade under barrel. In combination with the perk that u gain 1 mag if u. Kill a majoris, it turns into an infinite ammo grenade launcher. Just cause u like the class and the cheese. 😉 Thought u might enjoy. There is also an infite ammo sniper rifle perk (3rd row 3rd colum) have fun in the game and give these 2 a shot :)))

[@guyincognito1406]

I get it, it’s a game mechanic. But the first one specifically had health gain on finishers as a defining trait. Threw that away and said you only gain health on damage, only after you take damage. Never mind that space marines have “legendary” healing and literal upgrades for it… the worst is clearing 5 packs and to just get stun locked from 1 mistake on the last pack and your team one shots them leaving all your health gone instantly.

[@urarti9895]

Tzeentch gotta be a little nervous rn knowing that the Thousand Sons are not the most bs ones here

[@Lootwick210]

Always nice to watch Legend being a legend, classic.

[@anjairis]

This very neat and a nice surprise video. I like it. You really need to work on your parries though :P I know you like to dodge instead but so many missed opportunities and a lot of unnecessary damaged taken. At least 2 times when you went down it could've been prevented by a parry because you couldn't dodge anywhere. You do you though of course, as long as we having fun we win!

[@rickylahey657]

Looks like the cheese god made it from fantasy to 40k

[@marcelop7721]

Hope this video got lots of views so he can show us more cheese for this game

[@michaelfielding6666]

The bots being pretty good at getting argo from the creatures? wish they were in the campaign lol. I was actually just playing Ops and discovered this nice little feature that the melta has to regen your health to full due to it being able to hit multiple targets.

[@SSAngelusx7]

In the 2nd part you went right into the cave for code if you hug the left side and go up the ramp thiers normally 5 bodies to check for code and almost no enemy. That cave is hella dangerous

[@Live_For_Real]

Great vid legend!

[@mattm7007]

This didn't remotely work for me. When you arrive at the first gate, the entire maps worth of guys you ran past turn up.

[@Sandriu]

Ngl it is making me want to buy the game. I'll wait for a discount though. Watching legend for the meantime works for me

[@aurelianpepe6233]

Fun video and a nice change from the norm .

[@nicknick4606]

gives me doom vibes loving the content

[@seanandrew262]

LEGEND OF TOTAL CHEESE IS REAL

[@swabilius]

Certainly looks nice on your new PC

[@rickkybobby8118]

There should be an achievement for finishing a solo ruthless without doing a single parry

[@FlameJackstar]

Pretty weird, that they haven't patched that Melta health thing yet. I can't imagine that's intentional.

[@aethirus]

just did this with my vanguard being lvl 2 and only the bolt pistol being green, it works.. almost had a heart attack right at the end due to a ravenger trying his darndest to kill me while i was waiting for extract

[@therealikitclaw8124]

Oh no, he's enjoying the game in a different way, what a dickhead. Get of your high horse.

[@mattc2639]

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