The Best Tank - In-Depth Roadblock Exosuit Build & Guide - Exoprimal

Is Roadblock the Best Tank? A Complete Exosuit Guide to Roadblock with all its modules and mechanics explained along with example builds I recommend to use!
Gladiatrix's Roadblock Guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1Q...
00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - Core Mechanics
03:08 - Modules
12:33 - Builds
14:14 - Alpha Suits Soon!
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[@supermansdoctor]

Hey Hazmy, great guide. Just wanted to comment that I really like the comments from a high skilled exosuit main, that's insight I usually wouldn't get so much appreciated. The Exoprimal vids have been great and very helpful. Keep up the great work.

[@Raioh]

Out of all the suits, this is the guide I've been waiting for the most. Thank you

[@R.SHIELD]

Thanks to you I finally managed to get a 6 win streak after a long lose streak. Now I am literally becoming MVP more often!

[@Xander_Park]

Nice 👌 he's the only tank suit I'll currently use from time to time. I'm looking forward to his Alpha variation.

[@rightious4u2]

I love playing Roadblock. I wish more games had tanks as fun to play as him.

[@Mayorofsexytown1303]

Roadblock, Murasame, and Vigilant are my babies. Thank you for all the tips! Please keep covering this game!

[@codycollier1812]

I personally love Barrage and the Simplicity of DeadEye

[@Ostrid1]

Nimbus / skywave main. Love skywave for PvE and nimbus is hands down the best for PvP

[@ORelic]

Same, tho replace the power ranger with the titanfall main. Also the one time I played witch doctor was great

[@Dr.FeelBad]

Skywave main, followed equally by barrage for when my team needs more dmg output. Then I main roadblock when we need a tank! The rest I just play for fun or when I just feel like changing stuff up.

[@Mayorofsexytown1303]

@@Dr.FeelBad If i play heals i go Skywave. Great healing output and the stun is amazing for PvP.

[@verdanteridium]

Advice for pvp, walls and the enemy objective are extremely useful. They are solid objects that can be used to soak up damage while your shield charges. On Data Cube, use your payload as a way to body block a dominated dinosaur. Unless your team is really well coordinated, it's going to die at least once so might as well use it to run the timer on the dominater. And you recover it constantly. As a tank, you will be leading the team. You have big health and big shield and the supports aren't going anywhere you aren't (on average). Ping objective targets actively, remind your damage exosuits they aren't there to mindlessly murder raptors all day. This is easiest with Krieger but Roadblock does this well too. You are big and menacing, when you move forward the enemy team usually yields. You want to see this in action, get in voice chat and talk your team into a temporary spawn camp. Done this with two Roadblocks cycling shields both with stun shield. Absolute nightmare for them. One dps and support are all the help you need, the fifth player can do what they want. Its also easy to recognise players with Overdrive. They run at you like they have three times the health pool they actually have. Just back off and use solid cover (walls and objectives). They'll be looking to kill you, not your damage and support, who can just overdrive into their back line basically for free. Good luck tanks, remember walls and the enemy objective have infinite health as far as you are concerned, use it.

[@goatmagnum]

I think Knuckle Duster is stronger than many people consider, especially for PvP. Combining it with Skid Step, Stun Blast, and Catapult rig allows for a lot of backline harassment and provides a lot of quick chase-down eliminations. It's not so much the damage that helps, rather the defense increase that lets you persist in bonking people. Plus, considering that this is a team game, one shouldn't gauge the stun capabilities on Roadblocks attacks alone. Consider that you have 4 other people with you. A single Zephyr attacking the head of an Ankylosaurus along with you will result in a quick topple and kill.

[@AzureRoxe]

But that's not what you should be doing. You'd actively be helping your team A LOT more by actively shielding them and leave the backline harassment for the others.

[@goatmagnum]

@AzureRoxe What I "should be doing" is entirely situational. If I'm merely sitting tight with a shield up, I'm functionally giving my team a handicap and making any potential engagement a 4v5. Not to mention, if a melee player runs up on me, I'm basically useless. However, if I'm able to stun with the shield, if I have greatly increased defense during attacks, I can offer myself *and* my team a little more longevity during heated skirmishes. Furthermore, you can't solely depend on your team to carry your slack. Sometimes you are left alone, even if you are doing what you are "supposed to." Sometimes your team are professional glue-huffers and are more useless than bots. It's always viable to have self-reliant options on hand. Of course, you should be locking down key areas when the situation calls for it, but you also should not be limiting yourself because of a perceived role.

[@TB_151]

Love the video! Thank you for doing the collab. Helps to add a needed layer of depth and thought into these build videos.

[@mas8705]

While I do like the other tanks for what they do, Roadblock definitely plays by their own rules. When you can force a giant dinosaur off an objective and effectively shut down a triceratops for a couple seconds for the team to dump their ammo, it does set roadblock apart from the rest.

[@neilduarte1986]

My dream team is five Roadblocks equipped with Drill Fists tunt and bully triceratops like Spanish torreros. OLE! 😀😀😀😀😀

[@mitterios2827]

@@neilduarte1986 Lol

[@GaryAGalindo]

FINALLY the Roadblock video! Great work Hazmy.

[@echodragon6137]

Right as I got the game I watched you and you helped me so much thank you ❤❤

[@marcsegues8838]

Great vid! Keep up the good work 💪

[@KOBKStreak]

Great video. It's a shame that such in-depth information isn't provided by the game but at least you can then grow you channel to help fill those gaps!

[@jason41710]

Just wanted you to know I appreciate all these videos, going to lvl 16 minimum for all exo suits to get all the modules to see which is best is no easy feat

[@azianperc]

The OD's launch is incredibly hilarious to use to launch enemy Exosuits off maps

[@neilduarte1986]

I play on console & it would be nice to have separate sensitivity settings for Zephyr, Roadblock & Murasame rather than having to change the sensitivity every time i switch to a melee character. Your guide's are top tier! Appreciate it very much! 👍

[@94DEATHSOUL94]

This, it's weird that sensibility is universal but the comm menu is per suit

[@neilduarte1986]

@@94DEATHSOUL94 on mnk it's fine but on console it negates you from changing to certain exo's. My hipfire sensitivity should be different from my melee sensitivity Example: when I need to switch from a Nimbus to a Zephyr or vice versa.

[@meatfat6991]

Been loving this game

[@Droopie0]

As a lvl 53 road block I use tower shield, stun blast and skid step with the extra mini shield

[@user-ru8zf9vk3t]

Tower shield is useless, bec shield regenerates so fast that u don't need them. Unless u just hold shield standing there as a bot

[@sinister2376]

As a monster hunter fan, it is cool to see that the large carnivores have the same knock down animation as Anjanath.

[@Scavyboi456]

Thank you roadblock is one of my favorite tanks being able to slow and stop a tiranesouraus is just to but and to be he feels like a natural tank

[@starviper1813]

FINALLY. The best Boi is here!!!

[@Draliseth]

Sooo.. shield boost is cool and all, but sometimes you don't get to block hordes of enemies due to the team area DPS, a Witch Doctor stun, or Skywave vortex. You don't need to hold down the thing 24/7, even with big dinos. I find knuckle duster makes you much more versatile, especially with stunblast. Now you can lay out dinos for your team to sweep up or sweep up dinos with your mitts instead of standing around with a big heavy shield, being useless.

[@HDHaZmY]

I find it if the game rank is high enough - Roadblock shield will be needed, if it isn't you are better of with another character.

[@orochifire]

Yeah, that big 10% extra damage is really cleaning up. You should probably just play Zephyr instead if your team doesn't need or can't make use of the shield.

[@Draliseth]

@@orochifire It also stuns.

[@TundraCrow]

Skid step also makes a wonderful bull fighter tanking option as well to let your shield charge between head on hits. Being able to learn the tells of larger dinos and simply sliding out of danger can be just as effective keep aggro as well as waste precious seconds of a dominator duration trying to frustration focus you.

[@rylorthreev1353]

Probably the most fun and satisfying suit to use, I have yet to use legendary taunt because the dopamine hits from knocking down a large dino with an enhanced bash followed by a drill is just perfect

[@IzThatit]

You left out the fact his Shield Blast gets a damage boost when overloaded. When roadblock activated his trusters and being pushed back his Shield Blast will do what looks like 50% more damage.

[@HDHaZmY]

I think that's a basic tip covered in the basic tutorial? Thank you!

[@Draliseth]

​@@HDHaZmY C'mon man.. nobody pays attention in a glacially paced tutorial like this game had.

[@HDHaZmY]

I meant my own video that I already released and is said at the start.

[@Invasive-Thoughts]

Actually Roadblocks shield bash damage increases based on how many enemies are attacking the shield, not during a clash specifically.

[@garyroach4942]

@@Draliseth nobody pays attention to video intros either apparently haha

[@Ostrid1]

There is nothing cooler in this game than going face to face with a charging triceratops and fully blocking it and then smashing his face with the shield.

[@Aflay1]

The biggest lesson I learned playing Roadblock during the second-half of my playthrough: T-Rex will most definitely one-shot you. That shield doesn't block T-Rex command grab. Respect the Dino-Ult. Equip catapult. See that T-Rex charging you? Jump tf out of there. I'm partial to Skid Step over Rig Module. Roadblock makes great use of rigs, whether you increase his DPS with Drill, or switch to Catapult to gain that superior mobility for PvP and maneuvering dinos. It's not a bad idea to use Skid Step if you want extra mobility, but Rig Module is cheaper and more versatile. I'd say it's preference at that point. Definitely don't try to block a T-Rex ult though. It really sucks to have all that health just to get one-shot.

[@TheBIindReaper]

*me as Nimbus in the corner seeing it go off ready to throw Teleport for recall. It's also why I run the hell away or hide behind an ally the moment i see a T-rex roaring post spawn since if they die, at least I can recall without downtime. Good news, is that once a T-rex crushes the suit, the ally is open for Recall, compared to other deaths where you have to wait for their entire suit to explode. So you can actually straight away recall an ally while it's doing it's post chomp roar without much issue from it.

[@Aflay1]

@@TheBIindReaper That's awesome! Another reason to try out Nimbus. Every session I join, none of the Nimbus players use her recall. I was in a raid with 2 Nimbus, and everyone was dead except these two Nimbus, and they just "bang bang bang"

[@TheBIindReaper]

@@Aflay1 frankly, I think Nimbus's greatest perk is their flexibility in all situations. Your defining points compared to the other Supports is the fact you can do actual damage and act as a 0.5 DPS as well as being able to revive without having to commit time, you also have the best Focused heal in the game where Amped Healing Bullets can easily top up a near dead DPS in 2 shots and even enable people to survive Sustain damage OD's like Deadeye if you can keep shooting them. There's been times I've helped to hold areas cause your E has really good clear and control in general. Even just sweeping it around helps because it knocks down small dinos so you can even shoot it onto allies as Suppression fire and essentially, small dino's can't attack them. E.g Hammer slamming. Imo, Spreadshot should be used in offense form almost all the time as Heal Spreadshot is pretty lackluster without Module. 290 a crit with Amped ammo Critical Shot kills even Sniper dinos in 3 hits, 6 on Gas and sometimes I've to kill Evokers cause we don't have enough straight projectile attackers. Also don't underestimate the damage of a Nimbus, I've picked off dps's with Amped shots since each hit is 84 or 168 on crit. I've killed a Barrage mid Ult cast and stopped it before he could fly off. The downsides of the suit imo is the fact you have pretty bad AoE heals and even with module, you need to line up the shot VS a Skywave pressing right click for the same effect. Spreadshot without module doesn't heal a lot compared to other suits and I usually use it as a last ditch resort, if I'm out of ammo and they really need the heal cause an Amped Healing Bullet without Module heals like the same total amount instantly. You're better off shooting everyone once as it's faster and heals more than Spreadshot, esp if they're split up. You're also generally more squishy and open to being caught because WD can heal themselves and have more instantaneous movement while Skywave can well... just fly the heck out of there. So if your team doesn't protect you from a Horde, you're preeeetty screwed. Large Dino Chase missions are the worse if your team isn't actively killing dinos while running. You also don't have fantastic AoE clear since Spreadshot has a notable CD, so you should be treated more as a Single Target DPS. Generally i'll pick off stragglers from the Horde and peel them off the backline so they can focus forward

[@Aflay1]

@@TheBIindReaper That's pretty much the reason I prefer Witchdoctor and Roadblock. I do love crowd control and AoE, and I don't often see other players favor this. Even other Witchdoctor and Roadblocks. Not many of them taunt or spark to keep the dinos suppressed. I think Nimbus is a great DPS alternative and secondary healer, especially for her revives. I'm just surprised how little people use her revive. That's like, her main thing.

[@Abom713]

I main RB and found a unique style using the shield rig. I know this sounds stupid, but let me explain. I can use knuckle Duster and Stun Blast on the same build without major loss to my shield health if I wanted to (maybe if knuckle duster gets a buff in the future). When the shield rig is off cooldown, you can use it to be aggressive and attack a few times to deal damage to help the team and your main shield gets a chance to regen in peace. Even against large dinos. Those few seconds that you're using the shield rig are enough to get a lot of health for your main shield. If you use the Rig cooldown mod, you can lower the shield rig to a 12 second cooldown between each use.

[@OdysseyHome-Gaming]

My build been trying is a boxer. Healing rig with knuckle duster, skid+ and impact reduction / shield blast Means i am always punching and shoving like a brawler when I'm in my green ring. Using the shield more like a parry or a scoop. Really satisfying knocking large dinos down for the team especially if the team are ranged.

[@Pinnocks]

I love these videos and the dedication for such a niche game at the moment. Very detailed. I was wondering if there could also be a blurb on the impact to player score. I myself would like to also know how different aspects can increase the player score for that end of match dopamine. So for roadblock for example, do we get points for blocking damage, taunting, or does the game only work with looking at what you kill & heal?

[@HDHaZmY]

Player Score is overall a very badly designed mechanic in the game since not all Exosuits have access to the same amounts of Special Medals that increase your score. So I wouldn't worry about too much. Thank you for your support!

[@Cavalakz]

On Roadblock with legendary taunt, I like to have a shield rig to use when I need to charge my shield and mitigate all damage. I play pugs all the time so healers are unreliable at best.

[@NieR042]

I really want to see a Witchdoctor vid now! He's my main, and I'd love to have a second (and third?) opinion.

[@dosears1229]

Finally!

[@justalizard7192]

I main Kreiger, Barrage, and Witch Doctor. I mostly Main Kreiger thou I have played some Roadblock and did enjoy blocking Ankylo, Carno, and Trike attacks which lasting a bit longer to a Rex.

[@anitouchp.2803]

Finally

[@DarkBisont98]

As a Roadblock main thank you for the tipa I used tower shield + stun blast for PvE like an idiot

[@Pd69bq]

does 5% damage reduction from Impact Reduction Module work on Roadblock's shield as well?

[@mcteags]

I’ve had success with knuckle duster in PvP. The 30% DR while punching allows you to more easily bully the enemy team. The taunt also allows you to disable enemy exosuits in PvP. One combo I like to try and pull off is taunt -> shield stun -> skid -> drill rig -> punching. In PvE I find knuckle duster useful as well. It allows for stunning large dinosaurs even more quickly which can be followed up with a drill rig to the weakspot. Would it be better if the the attack damage boost was higher? Yeah, 10% is kind of a joke. I think an increase to 25% would make it the premier PvP choice. I would also take 20% damage even though that wouldn’t help with too many breakpoints.

[@Half-lifegunnar]

Also another maxed roadblock I prefer to run drill punch for my rig and then a rig cooldown for my 3rd slot.

[@Azucai-YT]

Roadblock Alpha is even more powerfull(in my opinion OP). Drop Shield and recharge it with taunt while shield is droped! My favorite Exos: Roadblock Alpha Musa/ and Musa Alpha Withdoctor / and Alpha

[@ItzAaronV1]

Great video man, I just wanna ask about the line indicating that you've taunted that enemy. For me it doesn't show up at all, I was wondering if its a setting I've missed or does console just not have that feature

[@HDHaZmY]

Really? I can't confirm that but it is on pc!

[@jamessteinwand2224]

I like watching theese its not rly necessary i have all my exosuits at level 10+ and all the supports level 20+ kreiger level 20+ and barrage and deadeye 20+ but there fun to watch. Id consider witchdoctor and nimbus my mains but ill switch depending on what everyones playing deadeye for pvp and barrage for pve

[@jonathasvieira6414]

After learning a lot of suits at this point, I'm now really enjoying roadblock. I'm just not too sure about the raid boss encounters, how should I play roadblock on those fights? Can I tank the neo t-rex? There's any mechanic that I must do? Or roadblock is just not good on those fights and I should swap?

[@HDHaZmY]

Roadblock is mostly a defensive Suit on Raid Bosses - you can shield other players from mechanics if they hide behind you

[@TheJelleH]

You dont need the extra tower shield hp (in pvp) if you're punching gives you a 30 percent damage reduction because the shield comes back so fast. If you want to get some kills and control the battlefield definently go with knuckle duster

[@HDHaZmY]

You don't need it - your team needs it

[@TheJelleH]

@@HDHaZmY people think its a 5v5 but its more like a 1v4 because you're always fighting for that MVP. Plus being able to dish out damage gives the tank player more control over the match when solo queing imo

[@buzzkiller8682]

Could you do a more in-depth guide for zephyr please, like more about build and mods

[@HDHaZmY]

Yes It will happen!

[@buzzkiller8682]

@@HDHaZmY thank you, love your content!

[@reynold99991]

Another trick with roadblock on hanger map or another other map is to bait them to edges which are insta death and then shield bash them 😂. People are really surprised when it happens 😅

[@TheBIindReaper]

i did that to a Barrage once who very obviously panicked because he hit every ability he had, including the Rig. Before Ulting at the end, to which i walked up and held shield to block him from flying back and the kickback still sent him falling off anyway lol.

[@John-fk1ny]

👍

[@S3n1or_Smurf]

This modules are work for Alpha and Beta aswell? Or are different

[@Ronin03]

They do with some complexity. Red mods change the primary use of the fighter and are exclusive to the original/alpha/beta. The others are usually available cross original/alpha/beta you just have to earn them from the variant that unlocks it

[@DrewNason]

Roadblock is the mf GOAT

[@Ostrid1]

His skid dodge should have been 2 or 3 uses by default and this mod should be the mod that increases it's dodge range and adds 1 extra dodge.

[@AnLGaper]

With respect i disagree, the knuckleduster stun is insanely good, proper management of shield and taunt = more body lock drops and easy dmg for whole team. Also lvl 100 RBK. Just my take from using both

[@X--pv7kz]

Damn less than 2 weeks and theres already a meta? People work fast

[@HDHaZmY]

Well Meta just means what works the best - there is always a meta

[@laszlonagy7135]

i really wanna buy this game but every yt post i see is almost blaming the game and i saw it has like 2k players on steam but i guess most of the players is on console and xbox pass is it true?

[@HDHaZmY]

They announced 1 million players trying the game out - and steam only showed 2000 players every day or so - so yes, there are hundreds of thousands of players on other platorms, especially GamePass

[@wiccangamer0336]

I play on PS5. I see other Playstation player characters with a "PS" tag in the party window etc. But everyone else has a C (Capcom). The C is for Xbox and PC players. Maybe one day Xbox will be cool enough to have their own tag. So at a glance it looks like there are way more PC players than console.

[@andresmaag9466]

There is allow crossplay between Xbox players and steam players

[@wafflefries7252]

1st!!!!

[@emperourrrrr]

First