The STRONGEST Heavy Sword | Auric Maelstrom True Duo | Darktide

[@RoadRunner217]

12:12 That dog pulled out your internet cable right as it launched at you. :,D

[@sentrybotannihilatormii5897]

Ik this is old, but to me that looks smooth. Are Xbox players getting it bad?

[@maxownzor2thelawnmower776]

in my humble opinion, the nerf is perfectly reasonable, it's the way they nerfed it that bothers me. In one hand, yes, charging 100 times per second is silly and overpowered, I get that and zealot had it coming to em. On the other hand, the nerf makes weapons that were already strong picks for zealot even more powerful, giving you less and less reason to pick weapons that aren't as strong but you enjoy. For example: CDR now ticks once per hit on crit instead of per however many targets you hit during a crit, so now knives which were already strong in general are a lot better for zealot since they're fast M1 crit machines, giving you even less reason to pick other weapons like turtolsky swords, eviscerators, devil claws, P/Smauls, etc etc etc. I PERSONALLY THINK a more suitable adjustment would be: Instead of 2s CDR per enemy hit on a crit, make it so it's .5s per enemy hit per crit, instead of 2s ONCE per crit. This way, weapons that aren't as fast as the knives are still viable without giving zealot the ability to do a million dashes per minute as it was before.

[@xstreamdray]

That sounds like a pretty good idea!

[@psychosysqo]

Probably one of the most funnest game ever

[@xstreamdray]

Agreed!

[@ARandomCatOnAKeyboard]

I love the heavy sword mk lX, hands down my favourite zealot weapon. It feels so good and is quite versatile too.

[@xstreamdray]

My favorite weapon too! Second favorite. I'm a filthy Knife enjoyer.

[@xstreamdray]

If the Heavy Sword VII is UNDERRATED (according to telopots), what's the Heavy Sword IX supposed to be?

[@KeetSeel]

Former meta pick.

[@NotLukeYT]

​@@KeetSeel agreed

[@divvu1014]

'..they are in vacation' that day and another 299 during the rest of the year

[@xstreamdray]

Lmao that's what we're always saying.

[@the_tank_pone890]

I am amd forever will be a big fan of the Heavy Swords. Especially the Mk VII. Easily my favorite weapon and the primary choice for my most powerful Zealot build. It saddens me so greatly to see so few Zealots playing with them. But oh well

[@xstreamdray]

I love Heavy Swords too!

[@basicallybacon2593]

I have been noticing pushing dogs sometimes doesn't work, you can push them and they get knocked back but still pin you for some reason.

[@xstreamdray]

It's their servers sometimes rolling back your commands.. you could've done everything right but the servers just say no. Honestly, wish they'd buy better servers or at least let us host our own.

[@patrickgjertsen9577]

Could you do a video with the achlys combat axe?

[@xstreamdray]

I think the upcoming update will be changing that Axe, so I'd probably check it out then!

[@johnsandoval1246]

Lyin' thumbnail mf makin' me think a pistol sword combo weapon just dropped 😤

[@xstreamdray]

Trolling or not, that's hella funny dude lmao!

[@Overfueled89]

Don’t worry they’ll come back for a week to release the itemization update this fall and then go back on vacation for the rest of the year!!

[@xstreamdray]

They will. Silent enemies will also never get fixed. 😭

[@mathiasH9108]

against Spawns you basicly just dodge right all the time? Always find them so annoying. (yes yes I will try this build aswell ofc :D) What is your opinion now they 'fixed' how crit builds work and only crit once a swing instead of each target hit? I find it somewhat lacking now

[@xstreamdray]

I'm assuming you're referring to the Invocation of Death nerf. The nerf makes it so that you have less Ult spam to use against hordes. For a class that already excels at horde clear, that isn't much of an issue. Against mixed hordes, most weapons weren't cleaving that many enemies to trigger multiple instances of Invocation of Death to begin with. So with all that said, realistically speaking, it only screws the Eviscerator Mk XV hard because it relied on that interaction for handling mixed hordes. Edit: Forgot you asked about Chaos Spawn. You can dodge whichever way you please except for the grab. The grab you have to either dodge extremely far away (which not all weapons can do), or you just dodge to your right.

[@mathiasH9108]

@@xstreamdray Yes Invocation of death (Bad habbit just assuming builds with that is a crit build). I feel it alot on eviscerator, granted light attacking 2-3 times and already have ult again was a bit silly but after so long you just got used to it. same with Faith charge. Guess it will take some getting used to :) I just tried your build and it feels nice, only thing I don't like much is the bolt pistol. Is that more for fun or? I WANT to love the bolt pistol but just can't since I don't see it's role. Revolver just does everything better besides staggering. :)

[@xstreamdray]

Glad you enjoyed it! The Bolt Pistol can absolutely be replaced. It's just used here because it's something new. It's a pretty bad weapon but imo not because of its damage profile, it's the fact that you never know if your shots will hit..

[@mathiasH9108]

@@xstreamdray Cool cool, Maybe you had a good reason for choosing bolt pistol. It's fun but yeah the recoil screws it over pretty bad sadly.

[@xstreamdray]

The recoil is the least of its problems.. There's a chance it doesn't hit even on the first hit just because of the natural spread..

[@NotLukeYT]

Good thing i didn't join you yesterday(assuming this was recorded yesterday) bc my game was ultra laggy 😂 couldn't even pop my abilities properly

[@xstreamdray]

That's just most days for Darktide..

[@NotLukeYT]

@@xstreamdray 🤡🤡