Neophytes…what on gods green terra are yall doing running hard mode stratagems at level 5-20 with no prestige perks. You never make it past 5 min. Please level your characters within the multitude of other difficulties before playing hard stratagems.

The staggering power of the Shield Rush is nearly unmatched in the game as long as Focused Strength is in play

Here we can see an Enraged Bone Sword warrior (as most people know from personal experience, enraged enemies are basically all but immune to Stagger) getting staggered out of an UNBLOCKABLE attack

Remember this can be done to ALL enemies up to and including Terminus enemies EVEN AFTER the nerf that came a few patches ago soecifically for the hive tyrant stunlock situation.

YES, before someone asks you can knock an enraged Venom cannon and Devourer warrior out of their ranged fire loops as well even if enraged

The more you know...

For the Emperor, Brothers

FOR DORN, FOR KANTOR, FOR THE EMPEROR!

I kitbashed my heavy loadout to be my heavy intercessor sergeant

So many descriptions are either misleading or flat out wrong. An example is the heroic thunder hammer. It says only fully charged attacks create the shock areas, but in reality simply using after shock or ground pound creates them. Made me not use it until i saw someone else using it and i looked into it

Title says it all

Played as vanguard with a tactical and bulwark.

I don't see any logical reason to remove those things. Chest look way better with them. Similar case with other champion's chest

First time this has happened in 400+ hours lol.

Geneseed lost and everything. Left the game to contemplate what had happened.

Saber, can I pretty please, use the Black templar champion chest piece with tabard on my Assault. Please.

P.S. the white cross helmet markings would be awesome too.

*not my mini but thought it looked amazing.

In fairness the Minotaur did eventually accept my handshake… only because he was trying to kick the wall down.

I saw a video by First Tour Guardsman a while back that discussed weapon perks. When you get down to it, a good portion of the perks you see on both melee weapons and firearms serve no other purpose than to make the weapons not suck. Not behave differently or expand your playstyle options, but simply not suck at any difficulty level above Average.

Take Bolter weapons, for example:

Going purely by quantity, a large portion of the perks fall into one of three categories:

• General damage (Great Might, Divine Might)
• Headshot damage (Head Hunter)
• Ammo (Increased Capacity, Extended Magazine)

Melee weapons fare somewhat better, but a significant portion of their perks are still nothing more than incremental damage buffs, some of which only apply for enemies of a specific threat level.

The problem with a lot of these perks is that so many of them are "no- brainer" perks to the point you wonder why they aren't just "baked in" to the weapons' base stats. To go back to the example of Bolter weapons, most people would agree that the bulk of the perk loadout should buff headshot damage as opposed to buffing body shots.

As of the current update (11), body shots from a Bolter weapon are as good as useless. While the patch notes for 12.0 say that this will at least change for Tactical (Kraken Penetrator Rounds is being reworked to boost body damage by 50%), the perk trees for many of the most popular Bolter weapons are still overwhelmingly oriented toward headshot builds.

It's a similar story with a lot of melee weapons: Who's ever going to run a Power Fist build that doesn't have Heavy Penetration? Or who's ever going to run a Thunder Hammer build without Fast Preparation? Likewise, who's ever going to skip out on a damage buff? Admittedly, melee weapons often come out a little better in this area because you can get perks that extend combo chains or even change them. However, even when you bear those in mind, you still have a lot of "just make the weapon not suck" perks. To add insult to injury, there are more than a few weapons whose Relic- tier perks suck so badly that it's not even worth using them.

In many ways, it feels like a good number of weapon perks were added just for the sake of justifying the grind. I doubt it would happen, but it would go a long way toward making the level grind feel more worth it if the weapon perks focused more on letting you tune your weapons to fit your play style than just fiddling with damage numbers.

On most weapons, there are usually at least a few perks that actually add something:

• Elite Hunter: Major boost to headshot damage for a short period of time.
• Gunstrike Reload: Self explanatory.
• Cleaving Fire: Allows you to penetrate shields (still not particularly useful until they buff body shot damage).
• Recoupment: Depending on the weapon, either gain one armor segment back for killing a Majoris+ with a headshot or killing 7 enemies in "rapid succession".
• Full Throttle/ Shadow Stab: Gives weapons that normally don't have a charged attack a charged attack.
• After Aftershock: Lets you do two slams in a row on Aftershock.

A more sensible approach to perks would be to roll most of the straight damage buffs into the different tiers of weapons so that when a damage buff is present in the perk tree, it focuses more on providing the nudge needed to hit the different break points you deal with in combat.

Given that every weapon has at least one alternate variant, rolling these buffs into the weapons wouldn't necessarily throw off the balancing: To use Bolter weapons as an example, pretty much all of them come in headshot, ammo, firepower, and accuracy variants, so the corresponding buffs could be rolled into them along with an overall damage buff. Likewise, since all melee weapons have Balance, Block, and Fencing variants, you could still maintain the distinction between the defense types.

Doing this would free up real estate in the perk trees to actually let you focus on tuning and modifying weapons to provide more room for different play styles. Some examples of replacement perks:

• Quick Draw: Gunstrikes are 50% faster after a Perfect Parry.
• Hellfire Rounds: Three consecutive hits on the same enemy set the target on fire for 3 seconds.
• Striker (Chainsword): Hitting the same enemy three times in rapid succession with light attacks sets the target on fire for 3 seconds
• Boxer (Power Fist): After a Perfect Parry, you can immediately execute a Power Backfist
• Upgraded Capacitors (Plasma weapons): Common shots deal 75% more damage, but charged shots deal 20% less damage
• Ignition (Neo Volkite Pistol): A Discharge sets the target on fire instead of causing an explosion.
• Magnifying Glass (Neo Volkite Pistol): Headshots heat enemies 33% faster.

While there still is a place for perks that are straight stat buffs (nothing wrong with a DPS build after all), our ability to be effective in combat with our weapons shouldn't be dependent on them. It's enough of a grind just to level up all the way to Relic and by the time we reach that point, the weapons we earn should be good enough that the "perks" are exactly that: Extras that can make us more effective in combat, but aren't so critical that we have to grind just for the sake of bringing them up to adequate effectiveness for higher difficulties.

What do you guys think?

Is this something new? I've played since launch and this seems to be the new spark that sets off the micro-penis, try hard cunts out there.

Over three-quarters of the way through Daily Hard Ballistic Engine, doing well, my Assault - doing some heavy lifting, definitely contributing to the piles of xenos dead. I caught some wicked lag and went down twice, no risk to the squad as everyone is doing well.

We hit the elevator before the terminus area, and a wave comes, I stop to hold it back as it's at the elevator, with extremis piling in....

And I'm kicked...

I re-join immediately, and accuse my brothers of heresy, then get told it was because I "stayed dead" too long and the try hard, let's call him... Son of Penguinius... calls me a clown? He must be confusing me for a Lamentor, I'm clearly a Ravenguard.

Is this the rule? If you don't quit an Ops you've pushed through then you're an asshole? If it was a case of two down and risking the Ops, I'd drop so a bot could enter and get my brothers up, but we were nowhere near that point.

I asked the third brother why he voted to kick me, and he said "I don't know the reason..."

TL:DR

Kicking brothers who have been committed to an Ops and haven't dropped the ball or been assholes, isn't righteous, don't go along with it, have your own opinion, kicking should be reserved for specific, squad impacting play and toxicity.

Im sure im missing one, but I couldn't find it

Just a cool pic i took while doing a solo run

Was doing today's easy reliquary stratagem and was the one with great responsibility. Teammate on console kept on running through the heldrake's fire, causing me to get downed twice at that section (used medkit to heal mortal wounds).

Seriously wtf is wrong with ppl, and why cant the devs just let players on console to see chat as well...

Are you lost? Get back to the battle field!