Space Marine 2 - Soloing the Hive Tyrant With ONLY The Thunder Hammer (Ruthless Difficulty, Assault)

[@HeadKapGaming]

Armor Boosts would be a lot better if they were a consumable, like Stims. That way they'd be useful for all classes

[@SaizuFuma]

13:24 ASTARTEEZZ :D Doesn't matter how many times I play the stage, never gets old.

[@illuminaticonfirmed2240]

GOT A PILE UP BELOW is what never gets old for me. I find myself incessantly saying throughout the day now.

[@mmwosu]

I like “get a frag in that pile!” personally

[@JohnJohn-r4l]

I love “Gaunts, over the wall!” Imo

[@Dagger1Echo]

The thunder Hammer is crazy when you get the skill immune to heavy attack stagger Make sure you have armor , light attack into the heavy ground pound twice(hammer skill) animation cancel (parry) into a quick aftershock charge double slam (hammer skill) Bro I feel like Thor, sometimes you're able to stagger majoris enemies with the ground pound then getting aftershock out super quick giving you one armor back from a gun strike from little guys Super fun play style

[@jhgvksaw3175]

Dont understand can you say simply ?

[@Dagger1Echo]

Better than I can explain cuz maybe that wasn't the best typing wise a few creatives have put out videos such as phase shifter crazy pipz check out their videos on the assault Warhammer build

[@delaw3656]

​@@Dagger1Echo in fairness to you, unless you know about the animation cancel combos it's gonna be hard trying to explain it to someone who doesn't know. I think you explained it pretty well.

[@Mr_Big_Head]

Nah this is a pointless skill. If a heavy attack comes your way it is always more beneficial to parry or dodge for a gunstrike. Pipz and phase shifter videos do not have optimized builds, claysthetics has a much better breakdown.

[@winsalot84]

He said fun though. ​@@Mr_Big_Head

[@ASingleSpaghetti]

Fun Fact: Ciaphas Cain fought one of these things in melee combat in the very first Ciaphas Cain book.

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

Fun fact: Demetrian Titus once faced a Carnifex by himself with nothing but a Bolt Pistol

[@Febreeze419]

Suprisingly not many people know this, but you can stop the arena wave attack by jet pack crashing into him as soon as he starts the attack at full charge.

[@cvf4ever]

hella good video, mate, you reawakened my desire to play Assault again, cheers!

[@thenecroinniceclothes5019]

17:19 BATTER UP! Seriously, *immaculate* grenade set-up by the bot.

[@phonix4912]

That was a fucking sick moment

[@BasSine_Studio]

At the end there you did get 3 armour back but if you listen and watch carefully you actually parried the boss and two small gaunts. It killed both the gaunts giving you one armour each from them and one from the boss = 3 This can happen anytime you have multiple enemies target and attack you when you perfect parry

[@OwlButler_CEN]

this video give me confidence since you get hit by most of orange attack yet still alive to win.

[@dutchmisfit]

Man I just keep getting clapped by that weird flying air slash move he does. You dodge the first one and then get hit by the second one anyway because you're animation locked.

[@benniebees]

12:07 I think you parried correctly here. The game just doesn't always let you parry things, even if you input them properly. I don't know why for this example, but it can also happen that your parry gets eaten by another attack, which turns it into a block, and then you need to react super fast and input again or your character isn't parrying/blocking anymore. 15:06 This happens when wallclimbing minoris reach the top, you just get staggered and pushed. 18:55 You can still use the parry during attack to dodge earlier than you could by letting the attack go. If you hold the dodge button without pressing any movement button (wasd) then you will frame perfect auto backdodge out of the parry. (This has a small delay, but it may still be faster than waiting out the whole attack) 29:16 Yeah that happened. It happened several times, only for nonlethal gunstrikes. I think the perk that gives you armor for non lethal gunstrikes is either giga OP or bugged. I think it is meant to give 1 armor, but it gives you full armor instead. Hmm.. at 5:31 you see a nonlethal gunstrike that doesn't give full armor. IDK what is causing this :)

[@brotherericus]

Okay so I'm not crazy, this game really does not always register parries when I'm fighting three warriors at once

[@benniebees]

@@brotherericus I think what happens is this: normally, if your character is in neutral, not doing anything, you can parry anything from any direction: It doesn't matter where your character or your camera is pointing. It just works. I think if you're parrying during an attack recovery (maybe in a startup too), it may not parry all directions. He is clearly not facing the attack here. I'm gonna try testing some of these things in trials.

[@madprophetus]

it's because the game is made by bad developers.

[@madprophetus]

@@brotherericus never does. This game is shadow of mordor if the combat system was broken on release.

[@brotherericus]

@benniebees I think you're correct. If I stand still in the middle of a swarm of hormagants I can perfect parry an attack from behind me with facing it. Attacking nullifies this however, as you say.

[@deejayxcrypt]

Made me think again about SOLOing overall in these kinds of games. Sometimes, on some difficulty levels (perhaps not on *ruthless* as done here), it is more *probable* to be victorious when doing it solo than with *a great team and impossible lag* . Or perhaps the logic is always the same. Device/Network performance issues are quite unbeatable.

[@The_Icelandic_Teabag]

i want to get space marine 2 but i wasn't sure but after your videos im gonna go smash some tyranids with a giant hammer

[@nofungrachman805]

Reminds me of some Dark Souls boss fight moments.

[@Viking355th]

16:02 - "you can't attack cancel" Yes you absolutely can. Parry cancels anything, and you can parry cancel into a dodge pretty quickly, even from a massive TH windup.

[@Acakeks]

He corrected himself at 18:50.

[@Leo-p4x8b]

its kinda funny how gun strikes dont use ammo. Like a bolt just magically appears in the chamber.

[@madprophetus]

yeah, they must have forgotten to ask ChatGPT how to code that.

[@trialsdungeons8737]

You're right, it's hilarious how in the Space Marine 2 universe, a genetically enhanced soldier wearing a 500 kg armor that survives plasma shots, explosions, and giant monsters can mysteriously not need to reload after every sword strike. Who would've thought that the combat mechanics focus on fluidity and cinematic impact rather than a realistic survival simulator in the middle of a tyranid horde? Crazy, right

[@АртемПименов-л2о]

Marine is just angry enough about a fithy xenos daring to touch him that he believes bolt into existence

[@sunshineskystar]

​@@trialsdungeons8737that's called suspension of believe my man, giant space bugs and sorcerers make sense by the universe rule. But the bullet magically chambers itself into the gun isn't.

[@trialsdungeons8737]

@@sunshineskystar its actually called "Suspension of disbelief", and the feature is a gameplay mechanic, its not meant to be realistic, same as med kits aren't realistic, same as your magazines fill themselves just by colleting items, this is not a real life simulation, its a game, a G-A-M-E

[@GrinningJest3r]

19:00 rip armory data. You glanced at the correct corner, but not behind the wall it sits next to. You can see the red glow right as the elevator goes down. But, as you say 30 seconds later, you're maxed out anyway so it doesn't matter. The hoarder in me would have picked it up anyway lmfao

[@Mr_Big_Head]

Take the 10% increased dmg on melee perk and after the pommel smash into ground pound combo spam headshots this will bait a parry and will most of the time put them into execution after just 1 gunstrike.

[@Dagger1Echo]

I think you can counter out of any attack using a quick parry It's almost like the Parry overwrites whatever is going on

[@gojirasaiyan3256]

Depends on the attack you’re committed to and also some attacks have recovery animations that don’t allow a parry

[@beard6295]

Ascension still currently will randomly insta-kill you in mid-flight.

[@atlasstoned]

after 100hrs now and getting very good at the game, i've come full circle on the assault and actually feel it's up there with vanguard as one of the strongest classes. not as forgiving as VG, but once you get it down it's not uncommon to go through the majority of ruthless missions without even getting chip HP dmg... and getting more kills than the GL tactical

[@Mr_Big_Head]

If you get good against the hive tyrant you become basically unkillable because gunstrikes on it refill all 3 armor pips with the armor on gunstrike perk

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

Those Medicae Stims were healing for a suspiciously large chunk of uncontested health for Ruthless 🤔

[@Febreeze419]

Those were normal?

[@GrinningJest3r]

Would love to see a similar bulwark video. I've got it to 25 but something about the class hasn't clicked for me yet, I feel like I'm underperforming and don't know why, so I'd love to see your commentary and thoughts on the class in a solo melee/gunstrike-only run.

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

Parrying is extremely important as the bulwark, I typically oscillate between parrying large crowds and then chainsword stomping or Heavy Attacking most majoris enemies to keep them staggered. But if you're playing Solo, you need to be ready to pivot on a damn dime and charge a plasma shot into sentries calling for reinforce

[@maciekmmj]

I tried yesterday a build with hammer without Fencing that is all about Ground Pounding chaos marines into execute + passive cd reduction. Although I find it frustrating that I have to swap perks for Chaos/Tyranid and these are not saved per loadout - bad design overall not giving that option to player I can recommend trying Block hammer + maximize Ground Pound dmg (with e.g. that small area +100% dmg and +dmg against Majoris). Ofc there is a lot of dashing and finding cover. It is probably best paired with Vanguard with that cdr per execute but it worked really good for me with randoms (ofc played only vs Chaos). Might not be good enough for solo-run.

[@yao8]

I find Assault the most fun to level up tbh. And Heavy & Tact bots are the best lol.

[@Gigaelpower]

Amazing!!

[@Adamc06]

Assault class is incredibly fun, and the strongest to me personally. especially in large swarms when you recharge ground pound on each kill. people expect the assault to go down first, rightfully so, but most games now I can go without taking hp dmg cause of assaults survivability. incredibly fun class

[@kytwb4252]

People just call it weak because they dive into a horde and forgot how to parry

[@frankcastle9691]

Theres no way thats ruthless difficultly.

[@giggityman41]

3:17 just a friendly reminder you can always take a second and pause the game and it lists all of your melee attacks and their names

[@spazz954]

Its harder to carry really team mates than botting it. The random I get can barely pass min, yet I'm stuck with them failing ruthless...

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

So frustrating. Was trying to level up my last gun on Vanguard last night and got stuck with two 12 year olds on Average difficulty, rank 1 and rank 4 (I was rank 24). Took almost an hour just to get to the second to last zone on Inferno because they weren't hitting Sentry's, vacuuming up Medicae and ammo boxes, lingering behind at every objective so we're forced to slaughter wave after wave of Nids. I finally just quit out, such a shame but I was out of time to play, had to work in the morning

[@dannycolwell8028]

I seem to have forgotten how to hammer… how do you get that quick double slam after “aftershock?” I can make it happen in the middle of a light/heavy combo but I can’t make it happen with aftershock

[@zanon1101]

there's a perk on the hammer which is actually badly/incorrectly worded... 'Aftershock gains an extra spin'

[@dannycolwell8028]

@@zanon1101 oh that’s the double slam?

[@zanon1101]

@@dannycolwell8028 yeah it confused me too, the double fast slam for aftershock is that perk, there's also an earlier perk on the hammer named 'seismic chain' which i thought would be that however it just allows you to do another slam during a combo light -> heavy (hold) -> heavy (hold).

[@dannycolwell8028]

@ right I just reset my perks and played around with it today after I saw your first reply. I think the first perk for seismic chain should count for after shock as well and the “double spin” should be reworked to something else like reduced damage while charging heavy attacks

[@patrickhuffman9632]

What's up legend.

[@jamin12342]

Why do you get 3 armor when you do a gunstrike after parry and dodge? I only get one I think

[@synergy793]

I’ve been hearing some of assaults perks aren’t working as intended. @4:15 you said you weren’t sure how you got hit and it’s because of the signature perk you are using, it can hurt you when it’s not supposed to

[@martingreer2714]

Have you increased the saturation in post-processing or is that your raw footage?

[@someguy4611]

Hammer gang

[@alohajacob6977]

8:32 At least ik im not the only one that’s says stimpak

[@skal-tel8077]

Lot of times I miss parries because there's so much shit going on on the screen that I cant see the incoming attacks.

[@philipdrainville3592]

How ur getting all your armor back with 1 gun strike on the boss??? Bugged?

[@danielguerrero5671]

at 24:58 you get all your armor back with one gun strike, is that intended?

[@borntopwnyou]

One of assault's perks lets him get armour back on non-fatal gun strikes.

[@menaceiwill1]

​@@borntopwnyouonly one armour tho not 3.

[@borntopwnyou]

@@menaceiwill1 It restores more against this boss specifically

[@Mr_Big_Head]

Hive tyrant gives all 3 back on gunstrike. Once you learn its moves it makes you unkillable

[@bermi2208]

what about power fist ?

[@zawatcher7394]

Btw if u got det relic data but failed during the final fight do u still got it at the end or it just gone reduce to atom?

[@GrinningJest3r]

Armory data you keep. Gene seed is lost if you get incapacitated. Both are lost if you fail the mission.

[@LarKange01280]

Why don’t you give your weapon perks as well ?

[@Frog82833]

Do you need the special editions to play pvp and co op?

[@janikd7948]

No

[@Mr_Big_Head]

Once you get the hive tyrant moves down it becomes super easy. You can parry everything in both stages that doesn’t have an orange marker. In second phase when it does the double green swipe you have to double dodge to the left and it will miss every time and give a gunstrike.

[@soviettoaster8202]

How are you so tanky? I'm not even to ruthless yet and anytime the Tyrant touches me I lose all my armor immediately

[@SmilyKid]

GG WP

[@iso2885]

Tht buff really changed the class tht much?

[@xyyton]

came here after 5 seconds using the thunderhammer. Made me want to vomit. Wanted to see how much of a skill issue it was lol

[@Yhtill]

Really, it'd be more honest to call this hive tyrant with ONLY gunstrikes. The thunder hammer is really not doing the heavy lifting here

[@wyattscott5892]

Day 12 of asking takibo to friend me on helldivers II

[@vinnie5241]

Came to this video hoping to see some dodge timings for orange attacks or other ideas for fighting this thing. What I found out instead is that Assault has the most overpowered perk, the third one on the first column which gives you all your armor back on a non-lethal gun strike. That's just braindead. I didn't see skill in this video, I saw ungabunga facetank oranges and get all your armor back on one parry, and of course air hovering to avoid some of its melees. If you were any other class you'd be dead 5 times over in this fight. I haven't really touched Assault much but goddamn is this perk the most bs op thing in the whole game.

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

It's a co-op PVE game....why are you so mad?

[@coreymeredith4001]

Assault is widely considered the weakest class by far, and as an assault main the reason why is easy. Ranged enemies. Against Tyranids i feel like a god, but the second i go op against the thousand suns i spend most of the game hiding behind objects just to survive

[@ursinecanine9657]

"only" the thunder hammer.... Come back when you stomp him down heavy style no shots fired. Bish.

[@MarcusAureliusTitus]

This is not ruthless.

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

What makes you think that?

[@thomasboland1145]

First

[@dominicrulzu]

Skibidi

[@Astartes7670]

Take away the gunstrikes and assault is the worst class in the game

[@eitheryeetorbeyeeted7812]

“Take away a core/essential mechanic to the game and the class sucks” yeah no shit sherlock

[@atlasstoned]

@@eitheryeetorbeyeeted7812 nah still absolutely insane at annihilating waves and packs of majoris. gunstrike heals just make him godlike

[@SethKnows]

Eh not really, I could skip doing gunstrikes as assault and still have more successful missions than you would.

[@j3lly_m3lly]

"soloing" *proceeds to use bot marines*

[@x-man____]

Bruh you can’t do it without bots - the game automatically populates them in the mission. Soloing means doing it without other real players that can be much more effective than the auto spawned bots.

[@j3lly_m3lly]

@@x-man____ then it's just doing it as a single player, not soloing

[@x-man____]

@@j3lly_m3lly You’re funny. Yeah, it is playing as a solo player. “Single” and “solo” are synonyms.

[@j3lly_m3lly]

@@x-man____ exactly, which is why you are not playing solo, and instead just playing as a solo *player*

[@x-man____]

Exactly so your original comment is just annoying noise. People who play the game understand that solo in the title means he’s not playing with other people.

[@jasonlicerio5006]

It’s not really solo. The bots are better than people a lot of times 😂. Easier with bots than with fucked up okayers. 👍

[@menaceiwill1]

Bots do absolutely no damage too bosses. But heavy goes absolute ham against special enemies

[@Armetar]

@@menaceiwill1 heavy and sniper are awesome other classes as bots are pretty ass