MELTA GUN MADNESS - Destroying Ruthless Difficulty w/ Primaris Vanguard Reiver - Space Marine 2

[@milkandcookiesTW]

This match was played during early access about a week ago and was my first attempt at Ruthless difficulty. I have gotten substantially better since then. I did not have Inner Fire unlocked yet, which grants 15% cooldown reduction for any squad member when killing with gunstrike or an execution. Without question a top 3 perk in the entire game. With that said, it didn't matter all that much. Vanguard with Melta is an absurdly strong class with high mobility, really good tools for shutting down Sentry call ins, and massive mixed horde clear. Strong in both PvE and PvP (Khorne berserker pvp video soon), I highly recommend trying Vanguard out with a Fencing combat knife and the 50% larger parry window perk at level 3. If you're struggling with the melee system, that will make defending yourself a lot more forgiving. Then you can just let swarms stack up and incinerate them with the power of the sun

[@SeekerOfKnowledge87]

How does the build handle ammo sustain? Melta has small ammo pool. Cool build!

[@rjhogan07]

Oh god, they really gave Khornate Beserkers grapple guns 😂. They REALLY want blood to flow!

[@milkandcookiesTW]

@@SeekerOfKnowledge87 there are melta variants with a bunch of extra shots and bigger mag size. its really not too bad. basically you can just spam it at objectives when you have an ammo box. and otherwise just use it intelligently once the horde starts to get thick. havent had too many ammo problems

[@THHMC]

Why the knife and not the chain sword? Doesnt the chain sword do more damage?

[@Agayek]

@@THHMC Chain sword has better cleave, Knife has better damage. The melee choice on Vanguard is basically just single target vs horde clear, and if you run the melta, you don't need more horde clear. So you run the knife to help shred elites and save some melta ammo.

[@L1oydC0]

Really love how this game captures the speed, agility and fluidity of a space marine fighting while still showing the weight and power in every step, watching this squad tear through the enemies really looks like a group of unstoppable super soldiers

[@RobbieB2606]

Yeah in the hands of good player, marine gameplay looks incredible, the perfect mix of speed and weight of an Astartes

[@seanw8643]

Space marines are actually way faster than what they show here. Would be impossible to balance the game if they were canonically correct… would amazing though!

[@Scufflegrit]

Just pray you never see them in person. They say Transhuman Dread is ontologically traumatizing.

[@casparvandeursen7125]

By contrast though it does not quite capture the speed, agility, and ruthlesness of a Tyrannid swarm as most enemies act like bullet sponges seemingly confused about the fact they need to fight. But it's awesome nonetheless.

[@kapitankapital6580]

​@@casparvandeursen7125 true, the Tyranids here are essentially zombies, whereas in the lore the Hive Mind is an incredibly intelligent strategist. Even on tabletop (where they're still very much a horde faction) they're much more combined arms than how they're presented here, and big monsters play a much larger role. Still, this version makes perfect sense for a game like this.

[@RebelCannonClub74]

The inner southern boy in me is swelling at excitement, craw fish season may be over, but Tyrannid season has just begun!!!

[@BloodyBobJr]

The bamboo blocked your kick..would you say you got Bamboozled

[@sandzibar]

underrated comment.

[@seanw8643]

Oh yeah, I’ve been doing vanguard melts all the way in operations. Absolutely love it

[@seranonable]

can confirm, SPF100 is like trying to apply elmer's glue to your skin

[@milkandcookiesTW]

it wont rub in!

[@kingjawbo1110]

This game is just so good man. I havnt been really into anything else just waited for this to come out and man it was worth the wait!

[@anjairis]

I was hesitant to get this game cuz it's a bit pricy for me but this gameplay video just convinced me. Some of the attacks the way they sound and feel and the pacing, reminds me of the Astartes short movies. I do believe I NEED this game.

[@NoctisCantet]

Would recommend getting the game. As it stands it's replayable with a lot of it's content and obviously it's not out until tomorrow but damn I got the advanced access and regret nothing. If you have played darktide it's scratching that itch that DT was lacking heavily but now I have to dawn good 40k games to swap between and looking forward to the updates

[@josephspalding6609]

​@@NoctisCantet I didn't think DT was lacking anything besides map variety so your comment makes me even more excited for tonight.

[@Snake_holiday]

Exactly the build that I’ve been running. Feels awesome mowing through swarms with the melta and carving up elites with the combat knife. So damn cool to play.

[@spartnmarcen5110]

"If this run goes well I may record it." As it turns out, the run did go well.

[@aldenmurphy8456]

From my time playing, as mostly only vanguard, the other primary weapons completely underperform compared to the Melta. The only real swap able item in your loadout is the melee weapon for this class. Knife is good to keep up damage but you lose your stun locking ability. While the chainsword has some “get off me” moves as well as your stun locking combos. And we all know the bolt pistol is supreme

[@devinhoffpauir8915]

Thanks for playing this on max difficulty 🙏 because I wanted to see if bosses spawn depending of the difficulty, now I know!

[@PorktatoesSSRB]

0:22 its the Darktide loading screen lmao

[@aecra]

same ship

[@ZzVinniezZ]

​@@aecra same interior yes but not the same ship. Darktide's ship for the players are way smaller and feel more like a gunship

[@Living_Target]

I was going to comment on how tragic has an insane radio viice but then i heard the evo talk. As a current FGC player, this is like some crazy crossover stuff.

[@CoolSmoovie]

I really hope they don’t nerf how actually challenging this game is

[@True_Judah]

I love that about the game. That being said they most likely will, it’s tough for me to even get a purple relic for my weapon so I know the average player will never get it at this difficulty unless they get lucky in a party to carry them.

[@CoolSmoovie]

@@True_Judah I would would make purple a super rare in-mission drop, but then again I ain’t the devs

[@Singedbeast]

Ive seen lvl 7 on ruthless, with skill alone.. u can do it if ur high enoigh lvl, ur weapons will do more damage

[@Lemnock]

@@CoolSmoovieyeah I’d like to actually get a purple 😂. I’d say keep the difficulty but just tweak the melee combat and enemies. It could be skill issue but a lot of times I’ll get a parry pop up from a warrior and then the enemy will just do something completely different such as jump backwards or attack someone else so now I’m just standing there getting obliterated while my character does a parry animation. It’s small things that’ve made me and my friends irritated.

[@orbitalbutt6757]

@@Lemnock the only thing difficult in this entire game is Chaos. tyranids are laughably simple

[@curveofsound]

This is the same load out I gravitated too also, grapple gun -> melta shot - > knife heavy usually puts every enemy into executable

[@TheGravegiver]

I played earlier and it looks like the melta gun is gone for vanguard and they made stealth changes to unlock ranks for multiple weapons as well as bulwarks heroic ability.

[@milkandcookiesTW]

vanguard doesnt get melta in pvp, thats probably what you saw. Because it would be super op in Eternal War, just grapple someone, blast once and theyre dead. In Operations mode Vanguard still has Melta, i saw it like 30 minutes ago

[@uncensoredangel]

He was the only class that could make good use of it.

[@tomyorke3412]

The pink ranger just dancing

[@FalloutNight0]

Mighty fine! Just started playing and your videos are so damn good, hopefully I can improve and be as good as you soon.

[@almostontimehero5415]

Now I can feel like a real space marine.

[@Justmyopinionsir-q4v]

Great gameplay.

[@samm7322]

Welcome kids to the Indie and Sparty melta party!

[@michatomaszewski9388]

I kinda hate how melta is such a no brainer gun for vanguard. Like how the hell will some weak ass sub-bolters compete with sun-shotgun?

[@orrthehunter]

Well it is a Melta after all and this is not even the version that can fire a Sun Laser beam at the enemy for a bit more range attacking or switch between the laser beam mode and blast mode.

[@michatomaszewski9388]

​@@orrthehunter yeah but there is just no reason to use bolters

[@ruinwolf495]

Tbh the bolters in this game feel to weak to ever use, they might need a buff every tactical marine and vanguard I have run into playing the game has used the melta its the only way to get lots of health back from the white health bar bc it has a done of ranged dps output

[@ZZMonkeysUncleZZ]

@@ruinwolf495Plasma for the heavy is actually amazing as well. Haven’t tried it on tactical yet.

[@RasAlXander]

I think Bolters are weak in the early stages, but once you get the grenade launcher attachment, it becomes just as good as the Melta but with better range. Bolter doesn't compete with Melta in the early stages, which sucks and honestly, I do hope they buff the weapon that is below legendary status.

[@ggaccentc]

God the Meltas are so hot in this game

[@casterotter]

4:09 Nice movement

[@ShambalaWorld]

Hope you teamplay with tragic more often. Does he have his own yt channel?

[@vlanson6529]

Honestly, I have a hard time playing anything that's not the Melta Gun, because of the time window for contested health regen. Nothing else can heal you from 10% to 100% and heal your mortal wound in 1 shot. They kinda need to buff the contested regen on some of the other guns.

[@s1nb4d59]

Emperors Children..nice

[@jacob5700]

I'm considering trying out SM2. As a guy who's played both this and Darktide how does combat compare between the two? I love Darktide for it's responsive combat. I've never been a fan of the Assassin's Creed/Souls type of combat (it seems clunky and unresponsive to me) and unfortunetely SM2 looks like it plays just like those games, hope I'm wrong...

[@Rougewave_fun]

How bout them space marines 🔥🔥🔥

[@inquisitionspy2567]

@milkandcookiesTW Looks great, can´t wait for the regular release on 9th! Are the enemy spawns randomised like in Darktide?

[@milkandcookiesTW]

yes like Darktide! there is an AI Spawn director that will change objectives and boss/elite/ambient fodder spawns each mission, so each run feels different

[@kapitankapital6580]

8:22 was cinematic af

[@zipp4everyone263]

Seriouslyh, seeing you guys go through these enemies as if they were the tiny ones on easy just shows how bad 99% of all the streamers are atm. Ive seen a group struggle with not standing in the green thorns and dying to stupid shit on easy and you guys melt the hard enemies on the hardest difficulty like they werent even there.

[@jibcot8541]

This look like it would be cool to play in 3D VR, I will have to try it with Reshade and Virtual Desktop like I do for Warhammer 3.

[@DeeJayDeeRek]

this makes me realize how bad my teammates are

[@TSGypside]

@14:52 There is no "I" in team, but there is definitely a "We" in weapon. 😉

[@ZzVinniezZ]

does increased the RANGE stats actually increase the range of the melta or it have no effect?

[@milkandcookiesTW]

yes it does, seems quite useful from what i can tell. although i prefer the higher ammo one

[@ZzVinniezZ]

@@milkandcookiesTW ah alright

[@kylestyle1471]

Will you be doing some guides?

[@RedemptiveChief]

Is he playing as Saul tarvitz?

[@KillerOrca]

And this is why Eradicators were broken as shit for ages on the tabletop and needed a nerf.

[@elkmeatenjoyer3409]

imagine if you could use nkuckle on the left and sword on the right.

[@Gunzerkingidiot]

I wish i could grind up my classes to fuck around with builds. But the online is fucked for console so... waiting on that update.

[@Diiiiiiino]

Keep noticing console players failing to join (I'm on PC). Especially Playstation ones. Hope it gets better soon!

[@byakku12]

Is this on Xbox?

[@calebtedder9847]

Would love to play with you some time

[@Gabriel-px8cv]

i wanna buy it so bad but idk if it will run on my pc

[@ZestyMousecop]

I've got a 5+ year old pc that wasn't top of the line when I built it, and I can run this fine on low. Go for it

[@Gabriel-px8cv]

@@ZestyMousecop i'll try it out thx

[@zerk813]

@@Gabriel-px8cvtry it out and the. Refund if it doesn’t

[@WindowsXP-SP3]

This is a bit too challenging when playing with strangers. I have cleared couple level 3 missions with strangers, and it was quite stressful. At least allow us to exchange the oranges weapon data with 10 purple weapon data.

[@Nekradamus]

Looks fun as fuck

[@milkandcookiesTW]

it is! great game imo

[@JazzzxD421]

Is it me or is the bolt pistol clipping into the hand more specifically it's more left then where the hand is it doesn't look like he is holding it correctly

[@TheFlyWahine]

One thing i do hate with that game is the characters not wearing a helmet. And is it posible to get the skull helmet some space marine have.

[@Smokey1911]

in the settings you can toggle between helmet shown or not

[@dillydallyyyy]

Certain classes have skull helmets, others dont. The Vanguard class they are playing for example has one.

[@averageeughenjoyer6429]

They really brought back the least fun way to play the first game

[@lightnbrightt]

If they just went full live service i feel like this game would be insane even if it was just expansions

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Melta needs to be slower to fire or have a bit less ammo i think. Its just too "meta".

[@therabak5803]

I love watching your stuff but them other dudes would not shut up.

[@snakeoo7ca]

I didnt know italian spartacus was so obnoxious lmao

[@FrostRare]

I feel like vanguard gonna b nerfed

[@chrisd3925]

Melta needs a nerf to it's stagger, it trivialises the combat loop which is not what you want

[@OGAmmoMonkey]

So really the only way to play this game to get relic items is to spam dodge and use meltas. Seems like poor design

[@MrHeadshotable]

This is a brain dead take

[@jhayceionvalverde7173]

if you think that’s the only way to play you must be failing in school with your lack of comprehension

[@milkandcookiesTW]

definitely not!

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

It's a temporary "meta" that comes from any game. Balancing comes with a bit of time. Hopefully, they don't overtune like HD2 did.