Dude the dominator is actually incredible, there are only 4 enemies it doesn't completely rinse and it's hulks, tanks, titans and chargers, and it even does pretty solid against their weakspots. The rest of the enemies you can pen the armor on no problem (scout striders you need to shoot at the penis from the front rather than the upper shield). The breaker on the other hand is good because it has volume of fire and the spread means it can hit the gaps in armor on the tougher bugs and the weakspot heads on things like devastators, but it's also good at mulching weak enemies, which the dominator is specifically unhelpful for given how clunky it is to wave around. It's basically a tiny autocannon as compared to the breaker being a much better version of the liberator.

I strongly feel this game will benefit from a balance pass. Like why would I take the MG over the Stalwart? I certainly wouldn't against bugs and both blow against bots. Dominator can be fussy about trajectory angles but does pen medium in my experience.

​@Reginald-sc9tk I feel the exact opposite on the Stalwart vs MG discussion.

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@@Reginald-sc9tk I played a lot of mechwarrior so the weird gyroscopic aiming lag between where you're looking vs where the gun is pointing has been hardwired into my brain at this point - the gun starts pointed at the left so run right and meet it in the middle. I disagree with the no-nerfs ever idea but I think the Jar-5 dominator would feel better with maybe 3-5 more rounds in a clip. Also at bare minimum the breaker and railgun should have the same shitty handling of the dominator. Railgun needs either less ammo, a backpack, or less charitable timing on unsafe mode, you can currently release a full charge shot from unloaded to full power in like 2 seconds, and the overcharge gives you so long vs the charge it takes to actually pop off. Also swap the cooldown for the bubble shield and the jetpack, the jetpack cooldown is unconscionable. *Also I appreciate your content and I hope you keep at it! I always wanted the chain axe to work well and you helped me figure out how

Snuck through 6 compounds on a level 9. Was awesome. Even did a melee takedown. But yeah, I want more

HD2 is just a simple and fun game with simple progression and I appreciate that about it as well. I will say the gunplay, in some ways, is actually worse than a classic shooter which does give DT an advantage. But I think the melee combat is hard for a lot of people in DT despite being the best part. I agree, from the leaks I have been seeing HD2 is going to shape up well and you can feel it when you play the game that there is this solid framework underneath that is begging for more content.

I'm fully with you. Fortunately the game is still pretty new and it looks like there's plenty of stuff coming our way. Also after everyone stops farming for a minute we may see some fun develop around the actual campaigns.

I think that "irrelevancy" part is the reason for the ressource caps they implemented. They want to release a new warbond every month (every second tuesday of a month I believe) and also bring new mechs/vehicles, stratagems and such in bitesized updates iirc. So you can take breaks and come back to grind out something new instead of always feeling urged to play until you're sick of it or being able to buy everything new and shiny as soon as it's released. If we take Warframe for example, you either have 1000x the ressources you need for newly released stuff, or new toys come out with their own farmable ressources rendering everything you have left over kinda useless. Having the ability to pre-farm a bit, knowing that the ressources will be worth something even in the future, but still having caps to urge you to take breaks seem aight to me.

@@DerHuegelAs long as the balance works then I'm fine with that, although if the next warbond doesn't have anything to contend with something like the breaker, whats really the point?

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My pleasure. Thats exactly what I found too and why I made this video.

Seriously so true. I hear HD2 is built on the same engine as DT....and they're hiring...and they're both Swedish companies.

​@@Reginald-sc9tkthat's the most ironic thing about it, they're both based in Stockholm. and Fatshark should really take a few things from their countrymen, like how to communicate better and leave that RNG out.

Really appreciate all the feedback. Animations are a good idea

so hype for future content but also really enjoying the slow burn and the co-evolving game, community, and in-game universe

I am very pleased with the game and while the content drop was not incredible it was timely and I love that. I expect more and cool changes going forwards. Also glad you liked my farmer video! It's my favorite.

The issue is that there aren't other mechanics that synergize with stealth movement - there aren't any stealth guns or strategems - pulling out a strat ball alone aggros enemies around you and I think the same is true of grenades, even popping a smoke grenade will draw enemy attention to you specifically. Clearly the basic mechanics of it are there and are really important for picking your fights in high level play, but again there isn't any way to do anything without drawing the aggro other than move intelligently and hide, and try to snipe people calling for backup. And while that's important to do, it makes it hard when you approach a POI and want to raid it commando style, you kind of just have to hope there's only a handful of guys that you can take out quickly and no patrols nearby - I just want to be able to sneak up prone style and pick off enemies and I can only kind of half do that. That said I don't even think stealth needs to be a part of the game but it clearly is, and if it's going to be as important as it seems like it is now, i'd like more tools.

@@jrockoclock7088Yeah, it's like half the recipe. Maybe they can add weapon mods that let us change up how we use our loadouts and add some kind of grenade alternatives like stuns emp stun grenades or lures. I'd love stealth take downs and suppressed weapons as well. Def not trying to change how everyone experiences the game just to expand on what they have as a base there. Side note but I've noticed while stealthing a base with a friend, head shot kills don't seem to always alert nearby bots... though that could have been the AI being being unsure who to target.

"its like half a recipe" is pretty much exactly what I meant. I've even snuck up on bots and melee'd them to death but then I turn around and there's a dominator and now what do I do?@@mr6291

What about the laser guns? I tried the stratagem one and it was so bad. I think in general the primaries are usable enough but a lot of the strategems aren't. I prefer off meta so I've certainly being doing a lot of it. I bet we see a patch very soon.

@@Reginald-sc9tk scythe and laser cannon are aight if you can clip heads well with them but otherwise rather meh compared to other options for sure, only time i personally ever use them is together with the laser orbital and rover on extreme cold planets if the team already has 2-3 railguns for trash clear duty for the fun of it.

It seems like we've already seen some tweaks. Enemy armor was reduced for some hit zones so EATs and Recoiless went from B tier to S tier overnight. Several primaries are just bad and lots of stratagems need work. But the game is definitely going in the right direction already I think.

That sounds amusing. I'll try to keep it in mind for a future guide.

@@Reginald-sc9tk bro Ty for keeping it in consideration I truly wish to see the horrors of space nam and binary speaking bots goodspeed

Bro same. There's really only one other viable build i have found so far which is shield and SMG + EATs or AMR or Railgun.

@@Reginald-sc9tk I just hope the devs will shift a little bit of their focus towards weapons/stratagems balancing *before* people start to get bored like me. I'm worried a bit because I see weeks going by, and slowly but surely players count go down (as it should until the waves of hype calm down). If I was one of the devs I would not take the game's success for granted, live service games have to deliver a damn good end game, and be on the deck fixing stuff as soon as possible, like in a restaurant or people are just going to leave. I think they realized the situation due to the recent emergency recruiting. Wait and see.

Why can't the SPEAR of all things 1hko heavies?

@Reginald-sc9tk I heard it can one shot Chargers if it heads their head. It's not very consistent nor reliable

yeah. Its an auto-aim weapon. Landing sneaky headshots isn't going to be consistent. It should just oneshot given its other weaknesses. @@mrhat1073

The latest warbond with the addition of the eruptor added some build variety. I've never been in the buffs only camp but I do find some of their weapon balance choices confusing. I'm really pleased with the pace of updates. Its a shame darktide couldn't even manage half this pace. We'd all have been much happier.

We are! Some of that footage was actually from us goofing around after helping Cash test out some stuff. We've been meaning to do some kinda collab for like six months but we can never find a topic that feels like it needs both of us.

I hear the breaker is still great, but the railgun is pretty meh. I've been using the AC vs bots mostly so it didn't really effect me. But for people who want that AV work on bots the spear got a stealth upgrade and can get ammo off of ammo drops now.

@@Reginald-sc9tk Oh really? That does sound pretty good. It's a shame, I really liked using the railgun. I was hoping they went for the "let's make everything amazing" and not the "are you all using this? let's stop that" route.

I think its fine to nerf things that are making the game too easy. But I'm not sure whether or not they did a good job with their nerf. I don't agree with this notion that just because its PVE nothing should ever be nerfed. Though I understand people's perspective on that. @@Skaatje

@@Reginald-sc9tk That is a fair point. And you're right, silly shit needs to be ironed out. But with htese kinds of games I do prefer the approach of making more things viable and not make viable things less viable. I don't think the railgun was that bad to begin with. I did try out the breaker today, which wasn't bad. So I'm happy with that. Nice of you to reply, not a lot KZfaqrs discuss outside of their discord. 😅

IMO the better approach would have been to hold the balance tweak for the release of new AV tools like mechs. No, thank you for coming to chat. Its a shame the comments in a lot of places are just ignored. @@Skaatje

I have a 13th gen i9, 3ghz. 64gb ram. and a 4090. I also play on 3440x1440. I generally don't have problems with chugging or drops and my settings are maxed out. I have another rig at home that chugs pretty hard so I think the game can be pretty hungry.

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