Zealot Preacher + Crucis Thunder Hammer / Zarona Stub Revolver - Damnation Gameplay｜Darktide

Zealot Preacher (Lv.30) Crucis Mk II Thunder Hammer / Zarona Mk IIa Quickdraw Stub Revolver Gameplay｜Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Difficulty: Damnation
00:00 Gameplay
30:14 Gameplay 2
35:34 Build
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#DARKTIDE

[@rigormortis1860]

Look how he absolutely throws the burster into the Psyker at 19:00 XD

[@dixienormus8097]

LOL. He's like SORRY BRUH.

[@robowolfzane6666]

Just the average day for a loyalist who fears the mutants

[@IonoTheFanatics]

20:55 That dodge immediately followed by a counter blow with the hammer to dog's face... 👌

[@KillerPassifist]

So glad to see people using the revolver, especially seeing you use it to such great effect! It's honestly such an underrated weapon considering how strong it can be.

[@bradschill1284]

basically my favorite gun, great quick reflex build

[@SuperCatacata]

Still needs more ammo. Total damage per ammo pool, revolver is one of the lowest in the game. Meanwhile the other two sidearms are swimming in spare ammo.

[@mackenziehunt7616]

I agree, idk why people praise the revolvers so much. Wait til they bring a bolter pistol...this gun will be a thing of the past. They just want some use on it before adding something actually useful in a scenario of dealing with hundreds of enemies xD@@SuperCatacata

[@AlfredHeinrichKarlLudwig]

Man this RDR2 DLC looking spicy

[@oliveboi1474]

John Marston found religion and now uses his dead eye skills for the Inquisition.

[@alcapone6897]

Cool that this is being featured on the launcher! Really good for new players to see this 👍

[@championastartes]

Love your movement and not ammo hogging, also like how you use the revolver, i never cared for it but you make me wanna try it again lol, reminds me of when i play Destiny on my Hunter, using pistols for those quick shots

[@matthewturpin6429]

This is my favorite build in the game right now! Its only real weakness is a LOT of ranged enemies, but it handles my favorite role (the midliner, jumping in to assist where necessary) so very well!

[@Jimoshi1]

just use stun nades when there is a lot of ranged enemies.

[@Silvers_7]

Thank you! was waiting for this!

[@AHH96]

What do people have against healing? I swear I have to ping the hell out of the med station every time, even when two teammates are at 1 health, "No you go." BTW every zealot better take note of chocoB NOT deliberately losing health for the buff. 12:37 was so unfair that happens to me a lot tooo.

[@chocoB777]

Well, it is possible that you did not notice. Personally, I would have liked him to recover since he had the grimoire in his possession, but since he is a random player, if he doesn't think he needs it, I will just respect that.

[@malachiw392]

for reaaal, im pinging it for like a minute everytime lmao

[@TheBigQQ69420]

The buff isn't worth it, as a zealot. I love how I tell people to heal and the zealot says "nah im good im a glass cannon." Nah dude, you're just glass...

[@joefenpool6743]

@@TheBigQQ69420 You don't understand Zealot at all if you think they're a glass cannon because they lose some health. The buff is absolutely worth it, and the damage is VERY noticeable. To top it off, their Ability which they get 2 charges of, restores huge chunks of their shield, as well as their melee kills, which are plenty due to their insane damage.

[@SirCrusher]

@@joefenpool6743 but melee damage bleeds through toughness so you're fucked

[@577pantera]

Great video, very good content. In the Build portion of the video, can you move the playlist so the weapon stats aren't blocked by it?

[@Mcmadness288]

The fact that revolvers still exist in this universe tickles me.

[@mackenziehunt7616]

Cant wait for them to add some sort of quickloader for the revolvers, bloody nightmare standing there for that long reloading individual rounds smh. This is a universe where they have such articulate ammunition shot from a bolter, but a revolver is pretty much an ol Smith n Wesson...if that.

[@potato-elda5567]

Thank you for the darktide content. Keep up the good work

[@trikk9964]

... God... this build is a delight to watch. The best of what the game has to offer... :)

[@shinavila1251]

Eyyy back with the crowd favorite weapon the thunder bonk hammer

[@jgmweston]

Love the thunder hammer, love Big Iron

[@TheAlwaysPrepared]

Thank you :)

[@Firen1111]

Hi there. Nice build . But how to DPS boss? 1) Spam special attack 2) Special then 2-3 light? 3) spam special and use light attack only when critical landed(especialy when [F] used)

[@Cons1337]

Wow gg! May I ask why you are using health % curios?

[@akreid4614]

My favorite loadout. Although , I interchange the bonkhammer with the long sword mk7 sometimes

[@fntksgaming]

you mean the heavy? or the devils claw?

[@Wolvaroo]

Also my favourite loadout, but I think the thunder hammer is actually kinda bad, coming from a 2H hammer Bardin main...

[@akreid4614]

@@fntksgaming the heavy. My bad. Couldn’t remember the name yesterday.

[@akreid4614]

@@Wolvaroo eh, I work it. Heavy attacks for hordes, powered light attacks to give any armored target a bonking of a lifetime!

[@WalksAstray]

the end of the video thumbnails cover the build... chocoB can you fix the video so I can see what is the first talent that you've picked?

[@chocoB777]

Correction. Thanks for the report.

[@REAPEROFTOES]

hmm, IDK homie I checked the reddit once and I was told the Hammer was unusable and the only viable weapon for Zealot is the dagger. Surely this is fact and not hard skill issue xD

[@meestersecure9060]

Reddit is a cesspool of horrible takes and opinions for the most part.

[@Addy1263]

Well they spend all their time on reddit writing every single thing that is wrong with the game instead of playing. Than they cirklejerk about how right they are and than they go back to being miserable.

[@hadoken95]

Pretty hyperbolic as obviously a gifted player can make anything look good, but I will say there's more feat synergy with the dagger than the power hammer.

[@Sangheilitat117]

Hammer is still pretty bad, regardless of Reddit’s bad takes. It’s not the worst by far and it has it’s uses, but until they somehow make it so you can target elites and specials in a horde with the hammer special instead of pulverizing the poxwalker clipping into their model it will always make it feel bad in rough situations. Sure, it can one-shot a lone Crusher or Reaper, but those aren’t really threats in the first place. Whoever designed the first charged heavy to be a horizontal swing instead of a vertical overhead deserves to have their beers be >50% head for the rest of their life.

[@cyrilarabatzis461]

Everything is "viable" not everything is actually fun to play. The Hammer being one of the worst offenders after limp dick Heavy Sword

[@victorsalazar5301]

That Plague Ogryn basically did a Kool-aid Man entrance there

[@timothylahousse102]

When your build shows there is a huge screen of your movie playlist blocking a part of the info. Any suggestions how i can remove it?

[@MercutioUK2006]

I don't have the reactions for this build but it's awesome to see it in action.

[@MercutioUK2006]

@Scott Alleman And therein lies the crux - I also don't have any max health curios as I was running the dagger/bleed build. I know, I can use other substitutes and I do have an amazing Thunderhammer......but your point is well made.

[@wingfanchu5487]

i do the same but with eviscerator instead. I like the wave clearing potential it has.

[@jamesgornall5731]

im trying it with the eviscerator, it's the traditional zealot weapon, but the thunder hammer, man, that heavy swipe

[@calebwirt2703]

I recently started using this EXACT build (already had a thunder hammer but added the revolver) and its just so powerful, i love it

[@Jimoshi1]

well revolver/shotgun is obv chooice flamer and bolter reloads way to long for it to be good.

[@greycat1329]

What is the first talent you take? the channel logo at the end of the video covers it up

[@gmkgoat]

Faith Restored, the 75% DR on crit. You can see the buff pop up when he crits.

[@chocoB777]

Correction. Thanks for the report.

[@ceviche3473]

So what's the reason for using crit talents on a weapon that doesn't crit as much as combat blade or tactical axe? Wouldn't you get more value out of impact and toughness regen?

[@zihkar]

Might be for the revolver? Not sure if that talent procs on ranged weapons, but revolver has a major crit bonus so it would stack into it if the talent works for ranged.

[@PerfectDeath4]

@@zihkar If i recall the crit bonus might only be for crit dmg as there's only a line for melee crit chance bonus in the list of stats it effects.

[@jj2621]

i think it’s also because his ogryn could be running bleed talents. pretty sure it doesn’t have to be YOUR bleed effects, just procs on bleeding enemies.

[@chocoB777]

That's how important I think the toughness damage reduction is. As you said, criticals are less frequent than with other weapons, but Zealot can replenish 50% toughness from abilities at any given time, and bleeding from other players counts, so I don't think it's that bad. Preference for each.

[@citizengraves1632]

@@chocoB777 Thank you for adding your loadout/build to the end of your videos. I knew I saw Toughness Damage Reduction triggering during the gameplay but I still needed to have it confirmed lol

[@folonrng]

i love how much you care for your teammates. also how can you play like this? i mean with the music volume so low? haha

[@sinappanis]

Nothing more frustrating than trying to hit an armored enemy in the middle of a group with thunder hammer charge XD

[@garylin6641]

1:15 Despite carrying this heavy thing, still making some sick dodge. Respect.

[@crispb]

amazing video quality. what did you use to record?

[@chocoB777]

NVIDIA

[@crispb]

@@chocoB777 oh nice. I totally forgot about ShadowPlay.

[@Photonkannon]

I don't really see how crit fits into the build. Maybe I'm dumb but wouldn't you want different feats with this build since it doesn't seem to crit that often. Even the weapon stats don''t focus on crit, unless I'm missing something.

[@sinappanis]

I still feel like the revolver just doesn't do enough. It feels like using it is just putting yourself at a disadvantage. It's the far future and we can't even get a 6 shot revolver that reloads on empty with moonclips? XD I think that small tweak would make it much more satisfying. Moonclip reloads on empty but still single bullet reload on non empty. It would also make it feel more unique. Personally atm I feel like the kantrael mkXII just does a better job at a hard hitting semi auto.

[@malachiw392]

wish my game ran this smooth

[@wegielek3]

What about feats? What do you use for this build?

[@kuriadams9138]

That's at the very end of the video.

[@SirFingerless]

You seem to be able to reactivate the hammer after an electric impact so much faster than I can, is there some hidden movement or weapon tech I'm missing?

[@IonoTheFanatics]

no, it's animation cancelling the hammer's power blow cooldown animation with another animation, in this case... the weapon draw animation which is shorter than the power blow cooldown. It's really easy, right after the thunder hammer connects with the power blow (so it was charged), select the thunder hammer again (in PC it's the 1 key by default) and you can immediately start attacking again or charging the weapon again. animation cancelling moves is something you'll have to get used to in order to reduce the duration you become inert not just for the thunder hammer but also on some other weapons with long activation, reload, or cooldown animation and if you want to be as efficient as possible with some weapon it's basically mandatory. So you kinda have to know which weapon animation can be cancelled and with what but fortunately for Darktide it's relatively easy to do the animation cancel.

[@SirFingerless]

@@IonoTheFanatics Thanks for the detailed reply, you're a saint, I've been running the Hammer in damnation myself with good success but I was deeply frustrated by the blowback animations length, I did try using the scroll wheel to animation cancel but it didn't work, I'll try hitting that 1 button instead, cheers king 💙

[@IonoTheFanatics]

@@SirFingerless you can also rebind the melee weapon button to something easier to hit, for example one of my teammate rebind the melee to his mouse's 1st thumb button, the weapon special/activation key is his 2nd thumb button so he just immediately press mouse thumb button 1 followed by 2 in quick succession to cancel the power blow cooldown animation then immediately start the power charge animation, and he can swing again just like what chocoB is doing.

[@SirFingerless]

@@IonoTheFanatics Holy fuck lol, did it tonight, now actually feel legitimately broken, hilarious and incredibly fun

[@zeroknight5594]

Did you have to do anything specific for your audio??

[@chocoB777]

?

[@zeroknight5594]

@@chocoB777 I'm very new to pc and I decided to get dark tide and I'm having audio issues. I haven't played the gane again yet but I got some fixes coming

[@channingtaintum]

@@zeroknight5594 What kind of audio issues?

[@user-mz6sh4uo7u]

You know, i kept on thinking about it, because dont get me wrong, i absolutely love the revolver, but what is it's purpose when its bigger brother the bolter does the same thing with 3 times the magazine size and use cases albeit with a slightly longer reload and harder to use sights (but u have burst and fuck off power from a single sniper round basically). Someone please bring me back to the path of the revolver.

[@jerichogreen]

I havent used the revolver much, but from what i see here, the Bolter, which ive used a ton, isnt nearly as quick on the draw as the revolver. His ability to swap back and forth between hammer and gun almost instantly is probably what appeals to him over the revolver's chunky bro.

[@IonoTheFanatics]

what jericho said, the bolter is better if your primary is going to be the bolter itself. the revolver is likely better if your primary is instead the thunderhammer or whatever your melee weapon is since it's incredibly fast to draw, aim and fire so you can snap your shots when necessary even in close quarter and immediately swap back and return to meleeing. One of the biggest drawback of the bolter is just how incredibly slow it is to even draw the weapon and ready it for firing, less of an issue if you are at safer distance, but can be a serious liability if you are more often in melee range with your melee weapon and only need to snap shots sparingly. This is true even after the buff to the bolter which reduced the weapon draw charging animation which previously made the bolter completely unusable to swap to in close quarter at high difficulty as you may well be dead by the time the weapon is ready. you also can move and dodge (which you are going to do a lot when you are in melee range a long with your primary) much easier with the revolver than the bolter. That said, I think for most of us mortal, the bolter is still easier to use especially if we keep at range... The reaction time of most ppl are not fast enough to take full advantage the mobility that the revolver provides, the reality is that most of us... frankly sucks, we move and dodge like a drunk cow, and our accuracy at precision firing for ranged target means we miss quite a few usually so the larger bolter magazine is helpful. ppl like chocoB who can make full use of the advantage it offers, are likely few in numbers.

[@SC2TheCrusader]

Hey, I seriously gotta ask, I want to use the thunderhammer so badly but the animation of getting stun locked after hitting someone with a charged up heavy swing ends up making me lose more health than it's worth. How are you able to get so many charged up hits in a row with out the thing stun locking yourself?

[@joborbin4903]

Activate -> Swing -> Change to the Hammer = No stun, because the stun animation doesn't count as "wielding the weapon."

[@kibouSRX]

@@joborbin4903 what do you mean by "change to the hammer", switch to your other weapon and back quickly??

[@matthewturpin6429]

@@kibouSRX By default, just push the '1' key to 'draw melee weapon' and it can negate long recovery animations like this one.

[@gonkhead112]

@@matthewturpin6429 Cool, thanks. I was wondering how he doing that so I tried to replicate it in the meat grinder and actually found a different way to do it. Basically, just before the hit connects, if you sprint it will also kind of cancel the stun. It could be harder to pull off though, and I'm not sure if it totally cancels it.

[@matthewturpin6429]

@@gonkhead112 Sprint cancelling animations is a pretty common trick on a lot of FPS, wouldn't surprise me to see it working here.

[@toothpik00]

I naturally fell on this combo when I started playing the game. Just makes sense and it's so much fun.

[@zuthuzu]

Have you considered that a revolver has a higher sprint speed and a lower stamina drain, so that it might be beneficial to run around with it in your hands, rather than thammer?

[@richardfist4036]

Hammer looks cool though

[@chocoB777]

I think it's a good choice and I would do the same. If isolated or otherwise.

[@erikhamar2102]

Not taking the flamer on Damnation denies your team the best horde clearing gun in the game, but probably fun to use revolver for the sake of fun. TH really seems to be "meh" against everything except Carapace. Just my two cents.

[@chocoB777]

Well, the Zealot framer is just too strong to begin with. Revolver is strong enough. It is noticeable compared to Psyker's staff. I am surprised that some sort of adjustment was not made in the last patch.

[@Agentnewbie]

This is TacAxe/KatKnife build. This is worst combination of perks you could put for a heavy charging weapon such as Hammer. Why? You need fast attacks to take advantage of Damage reduction, Bleed on Crit and CDR on Crit e.g. you removed 3 out of 6 of your perks. Optimal build for it would be 3/3/2/1/3/3 and + max Toughness items (health works too, but it's worse).

[@chocoB777]

I think you are right, it is a generic build that just fits certain weapons better. As I've explained to others, that's how important Faith Restored is, and the reason I prioritize Bloodletting over Punishment is because it can compensate even from bleeding from allies. In the end, FEATS that can compensate for low mobility like a hammer are more important to me than FEATS that can only be effective mainly during close contact. Even if they are triggered less often. Well, if I had a very good status hammer, I would choose FEATS that focus more on it.

[@AztecW88]

11:14. Poor psycher.

[@SFuruli]

Not necessarily. If the Psyker is half-way through the cast, he still gets the Warp Charge and isn't given as much Peril. You can tell when this happens because the Psyker clenches his fist. By the look of how long the enemy's neck was glowing, it seemed like it was beneficial for the Psyker.

[@nickart1372]

1:10 was painful to look at, having to activate it several times and then being stopped by hobos in flak is just abysmal

[@darkspawnsenior9488]

It is. And it's the primary reason nobody uses Thunderhammer. It has no pen and requires tech to get out of the recovery frames.

[@cyrilarabatzis461]

Yes it's clunky garbage

[@TheAutumnNetwork]

Yeah its why I stick with axes personally. Some prefer the cleaving and crowd control, but, axes with shred blessings and just quick single targetting hits that kill quickly is the wave for me.

[@SFuruli]

In such situations the light attack is the safer option since it's a strikedown attack.

[@pachaSilverPants]

thoughts about the hammer ? I personally don't like it very much, it does insane burst damage, but aside of that, you are better off with any other melee weapon really. It just feels slow and not worth the tradeoff

[@acheron16]

I disagree. Yes, it sucks for actually killing hordes, but the heavy attack wide sweep is great for CC. The video's build does have difficulties killing chaff

[@OTOMAGIC]

@@acheron16 try the perk that makes you unstaggerable by melee attacks and tell me again the hammer isn't good against hordes. The heavy attack is a meat grinder, i can solo those hordes with them.

[@matthewturpin6429]

@@OTOMAGIC Yeah that feat feels basically mandatory to me with the Hammer

[@IonoTheFanatics]

aside of the absurd burst dmg on single target it's also one of the few weapon that can stagger some of the monstrous creatures like plague ogryn especially when it's charging though timing it is not the easiest. the wide swing is not THAT bad at horde control either, not great certainly compared to say eviscerator which just plain chop them all, or power sword which does the same... (shame we can't use it with the zealot). but if you are really that worried about the horde then frankly just bring a flamer and that'll do the horde clearing much better than ANY of the weapon above, you lose any capability on range yeah but that's the price to pay really.

[@IonoTheFanatics]

The comment on the other guy also made me realize that not everyone animation cancel their hammer, and I don't think animation cancelling is 'required' per say for thunder hammer but if you do feel that the power blow is too slow, you can animation cancel it with the weapon draw.

[@user-ns1cp3ti3k]

Hammer little weak, yes?

[@Prushinthespirit]

Revolver looks so underwhelming to use. Little ammo, damage per shot being not that high and reloading takes literal ages.

[@AztecW88]

High accuracy, high stagger. It's more for utility and stamina/speed preservation so that you can get stuck in or click heads when it's unsafe to get close.

[@PerfectDeath4]

Revolver also has a huge amount of piercing, as in it'll go through numerous enemies. Kind of nice when your hammer has a hard time reaching targets through the chaff mob. Revolver will punch right through everything. The draw speed is also crazy for reflex blasting long range targets like a sniper. It also has really long dodge range which means you can dance around and dodge enemies while reloading, you also don't need to full reload either. If you are running a team that can specialize roles then yeah, the zealot can grab flamer and melee, murder everything close range. Assuming the sharpshooter and/or psycher brain bursts are quick. But when I run pub, having my own long range head popper is very convenient. Its also quite fun to punch a round through two or three ragers and/or armored maulers and stagger them all. xD

[@TheAutumnNetwork]

Revolver is amazing if you know how to use it. Like PerfectDeath and Aztec says, crazy high accuracy and high stagger. Great against Maulers cause it can also knock them off their feet so you can charge in and drop a ton of damage before they get up. Against elites in general its great. Also can kill multiple enemies with one shot if they're lined up well enough too.

[@zrvnz1657]

True. Absolutely pointless to use this trash weapon.

[@ncgzeal]

one of worst build out there. your melee and range weapons suppose to complement each other. Revolver is a close to mid range elite killing weapon. Thunder hammer is also a close range elite killing weapon with some crowd control capability. What you should get is heavy sword or dagger/assassin axe for crowd killing and defensive capability.

[@bimoauliacakrabuana]

Brutally calm and effective as always, you use thunder hammer like the extension of your own limb, impressive.. Sasuga ChocoB-san

[@AirsoftAddicted]

lasgun is 100000 better than revolver.

[@TheSpad]

This is NOT damnation difficulty...

[@ClubQRoundDeux]

OH thank god someone said it. This doesn't look like damnation to me either. Does the player ever press tab so we can see what level it really is? I don't even believe this could be low intensity damnation. This is looking more like malice. The bombers never once cut them off and stalled the fight from what I've seen so far. Also where are all the shooters?

[@chocoB777]

You are free to think so and I respect that, but unfortunately this is a normal Damnation, neither high nor low intensity. I wish I had pressed the tab on a whim once, but, well, it's my fault for making you feel that way. If you want to see a more intense fight, watch the high intensity video.

[@ClubQRoundDeux]

@@chocoB777 You don't have to tell anyone that. You don't even have to do something as simple as press tab during the video and show the difficulty you're actually on. You don't even have to actually show end game screens to prove it. It is scummy of Fatshark to feature you and your unverifiable content. I can see you do it on other videos.

[@chocoB777]

@@ClubQRoundDeux Well... I personally don't care what they say, but I don't think it's right to direct hate at FatShark

[@ClubQRoundDeux]

​@@chocoB777 This is 100% the time to critique FatShark. They pass your video off as a "guide" for high level content. Its clear the footage shown is not Damnation level. You even go to obscene lengths chopping up the footage to hide it. You're capable of clearing Damnation content. Why do this? Like why post a lie?

[@antonysyz6794]

too slow

[@cyrilarabatzis461]

God thunder hammer is such a shitty weapon. Needs buffs asap

[@tfunknationtown]

the thunder hammer losing all its cleave on its special weapon activation kills it

[@googleplaynow9608]

Damn right. I still love it the most out of any other melee, but the veteran's power sword gets cleave...My hammer doesn't?!?!

[@zrvnz1657]

This revolver looks so painful to use lule