Your DAMNATION-READY Checklist! New Player's Guide To Getting Started! | Warhammer 40k: DARKTIDE

[@UltraXan]

As an Ogryn main who, for higher difficulties, gradually learned to drop the shield and stubber and pick up the cleaver and ripper, I can absolutely appreciate what is essentially the "know your role" advice, because it extends beyond simply knowing your role in the team but is more specifically geared toward knowing your strengths and weaknesses. If a horde is bearing down on the team, I get ye ol' neuron activation and I'm the first one in the front "mowin' the lawn" if you will. If we get a plague ogryn, I've learned how to go toe-to-toe with them in melee combat without needing a shield to keep myself from harm. So long as I have the thing's attention, I can keep it from harming the rest of the team and from moving so much so that they can get good shots on it. When Crushers come rolling in, I start opening those cans. If I see a patrol of shooters that's all clustered up, out comes the ripper and off go their torsos! On the other hand, if shooters are spread out in a big open room, that is NOT a job I can deal with easily. At that point the best thing for me to do is keep my ripper in hand and pick off whoever comes in for swings and try to suppress what shooters I can from cover. At the end of the day, the lil'uns with me are far better equipped to handle that kind of scenario (without getting themselves killed) than I am, so I pull back to keep myself safe for when they will need me to step in.

[@Armendicus]

1 .Dont be an ass, stick with teammates and look out for em. 2. Have a flexible character that allows better team work. GOT IT!!

[@rykenxiv]

That's the gist of it - though flexible character is more about understanding what you can do really well and what you will struggle to do!

[@CarlosRodriguez-dd4sb]

Great tips. There is no 'I' in team. Selfish play is still too common.

[@rykenxiv]

Thanks! Yea...Main Hero Syndrome is real...

[@Xariann]

I even got some flak on the social media (TM) for telling people not to run off because it means I am not good enough, apparently.

[@Trepanation21]

There is no I.... But there is M and E in TEAM 🥴

[@benjaminlehmann]

Heya. This was helpful. You got me thinking that a video on 'The Roles' that players could/should take and be covering in a game would be interesting, together with perhaps some insight into how they can/should be dynamic given situation X etc.

[@jmarks3980z]

Damnation? Lol I think you need to start with malice. Only one main rule you absolutely need to follow to succeed and literally 90% of people just try to run through as fast as they can or just stay out of coherency range. The game literally sends enemies at you if you stray. WE NEED TO STICK TOGETHER PEOPLE OR WE WILL DIE.

[@CurtTheHero]

Simple is that. It's baffling that ppl get to level 30 without grasping that

[@Napski_]

I admit that now and then I take off ahead of the team without realizing what I’m doing…then it happens! Thanks for pointing this out. It is REALLY important, just like in Left 4 Dead.

[@ch-sqpopay9949]

one tip is also: be prepaired for damnation: thatpeople pickup grimoires without asking. then co plain, if you tell them to at least ask before doing so. IMO picking up grimoires is not worth it. for sure not in high intensity dif 5 missions

[@rykenxiv]

I met some players who pick up grim in high-intensity damnation mission with the reasoning that they want to make things more interesting. While I have no problems with that, I think its best to look at the state of the team before thinking about spicing things up.... as it was, our team barely held together until I told them to throw the grim away.

[@noupperlobemanify]

Good things to think about, thank you

[@nilsplash]

I am ready to make the emperor proud

[@WalkerTrips]

Some veterans need etiquette lessons. As psyker, you need warp charges. If you see the brain burst highlight... stop kill stealing every brain burst just cos ye see the target. Ye get em trolling every time you try to burst. They're quick to kill steal while letting some gunner mince the unarmed psykers and then complain while pretending they're playing better lol. Pick n mix fails all the time because every time you try for a head pop, a veteran takes it. Fatshark needs some way of compensating for this implementing. Nice vid again dude.

[@pirx9798]

Yeah it's pretty annoying that it looks like highlighting that head for a shot. Kinda draws your attention as a vet even if you know and don't want to ruin it. Exactly like ogryns running into the vet's line of sight every time he activates his specialty. And it's inefficient, because the vet could kill another enemy if that head is going to explode anyway.

[@skurivuri]

Leveled my vet up to 30, even if I know that I shouldn't do it, sometimes when you're tired the monkeybrain just kicks in and goes. "Ooh look! A head!" and you shoot. But some vets definitively do it on purpose

[@torm0]

It's better than it used to be. At least you only lose one warp charge at a time instead of losing all your charges at once! There seems to be a little bit of a window where if the vet shoots the target near the end of your burst you still get the charge so maybe they could increase that window a little.

[@rykenxiv]

As @torm0 mentions, if your Brain Burst channeling is disrupted when its about... 60 -70% of the way complete, you actually get awarded the Warp Charge anyway without spending the activation peril.. But yea... having targets stolen when you're trying to maintain warp charges can be annoying. It's one of the reasons I take Psychic Communion nowadays - any kill by anyone has a chance to give me warp charges. This allows me to focus on other things other than maintaining warp charge count!

[@BattleBro77]

Psykers definitely need this lesson too. Need to select their head pop targets more intelligently. If a mob is about to cause havoc, then they usually need to be killed ASAP.

[@deletedaxiom6057]

I came to judge and ended up impressed. I approve of your checklist.

[@mAzDaR20]

One tip is to keep at it. You will have multiple failed missions if you are a solo or in a small group. If there are multiple fails in row, then take a break. Change up your strats, loadouts or even classes. Use that time to get used to the larger groups and spawn points. I used to get overwhelmed with the groups in heresy now I’m slowly moving up to normal damnation.

[@rykenxiv]

Well said! Couldn't agree more!

[@pharaohthutmosis7803]

i main ogryn, and i used to roll with shield in 4 and 5 difficulties, but that was before they made bulwarks immune to be bleed through on shield hits, so i adapted. and went power maul and got a real nice build of my own going, if i'm with my team nothing can overwhelm us with the supreme suppression Aoe disrupts the powermaul does, in addition to doing damage through armor and shields, armor is handled, chaff is handled, medium enemies are handled allowing me to pick my ranged weapon mostly on what i feel like playing.

[@CoDJumpMaster]

A common trap that many players fall into, is to rely on "somebody else" too much. Three examples are: 1. Even if you have a Veteran Sharpshooter that has been taking care of shooters all game. Don't expect that they will be able to focus them at all times. Always have a plan to take on all enemies. 2. Sometimes you will be playing with someone who is "doing a lot of the heavy lifting". Do not rely on them to get you out of bad situations every time. It is very easy to get complacent when 1 or more players on a team are "carrying", and fall into the trap of just assuming "No need to worry, they will get that special", or "They will kill all of those Crushers" while mid hoard with a Monstrosity up at the same time. 3. Do not be afraid to fall back into cleared space. This one goes back to Vermintide days. You just cleared all they space behind you, and if needed it's OK to fall back to fight on better ground or to a choke point. Pushing forward and aggro'ing more ambient enemies during a hoard or boss fight is typically not optimal.

[@UnCutMeat1988]

At 2 minutes 50 seconds you see what level you are in, difficulty and special conditions. How do you do that?

[@rykenxiv]

Just press "Tab" - that should open up your mission overview. As of this latest update, it also shows how many materials your team has collected so far!

[@jager477]

what weapon level should I be?

[@ShiningDarknes]

Something I hate about the situational awareness in this game: the sound design is bad for special sounds in terms of direction of sound. I will hear something and it will sound like it is directly behind but no, it was behind me but inside a door spawn point and decided to quickly teleport to a door more to my right bust still sound like it is behind me. I simply cannot rely on the sound design to give me situational awareness I would have in other games. I would say dogs, bursters, and mutants are the worst offenders when it come to bad sound direction. Dogs sound like they are coming from everywhere at once so it may sound like they are behind you but you turn to look only yo find they were in front to the right all along and are now jumping at your back. Bursters while they beep with proximity to you so at least you know how close they are have the same directional distortion but also can be literally inside a door that opens to black void then they leap out with zero time to react. Mutants always sound like they are very far away until they are right on you, but generally they always spawn far enough away that you have time to spot them and burn them down or dodge (and unlike the dogs which are usually undodgable with a bit of latency, forcing you to do a shove so you better have stamina, are typically easy to dodge). Certainly doesn’t help being deaf in one ear and there being zero accessibility settings for the hearing impaired. (Like sound prompt arrows).

[@Thebees21]

Honestly I dont feel that at all with any of the specials. All the specials have always been obvious from the sound what general direction and area they are in or coming from and how far away. The only time I have any trouble with it is when dealing with different elevations. And then it can take a sec to figure out if the dog or whatever is above or below or level.

[@ShiningDarknes]

@@Thebees21 Good for you. Your lack of having a problem does not mean there isn't one. It is okay to want things to be better. Your precious game isn't perfect. Deal with it.

[@marcuschen786]

Dont run so fast. Take cover. Check you back if there are shit or not. Dont expect Ogryn to save you. Because Ogryn is fucking busy

[@porphyrienne]

i think what helped me break the malice skill gap was not only teamwork but leading the team to go bail out someone who's caught out or running ahead like a douche. 3 people cutting their way to 1 is easier than the other way around and it's importantt to save folks than have them link up with the group.

[@themanwithnoname1839]

The number one rule people need to listen to is, stop trying to get missions done in less than five mins.... Stop being a speed runner..... This phrase exists for a reason "slow is smooth and smooth is fast" when the team moves together it might be slow yes, but all of you together is far stronger and makes the horde clearing smoother thus you get the horde cleared faster and, so my advice, stop being a speed runner..... Im looking at you zealot and veteran mains........

[@gadenp81]

Only need 1 thing. Do not be crap. :)

[@jakepeckart1481]

Is this game still in early access?

[@rykenxiv]

Well, given the latest updates, patches, and fixes, I think the game is where it should have been at launch. That's not too say that its in good shape - but its definitely much much more playable than back in December 2022!

[@yaboirichard591]

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