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Cool videos... thanks! That guy with the storm bolter really had it in for you in the assault video. Nice kill streaks on the dev one... I'm a bit surprised to see the plasma cannon is a one shot/one kill weapon though. The melta also definitely seems to be the anti-assault marine weapon of choice from the look of it.

Why do you never pick up ammo!?

Boss videos, though. Might've liked to see some different weapon's usage, but still boss videos.

Anvildude wrote:Why do you never pick up ammo!

Personally I've never run out XD. I usually die before I run out of bullets.

Watching back my own videos I noticed 2 parts of my armour were grey when they should have been black and pink respectively, plus I was a pretty basic Space Marine so I just played with the customizer and jazzed myself up a little. I need level 41 for my helm though :(

I think I can safely assume I'm the first guy on Dakka to get to lvl 41

Probably.

I felt like no lifing it for a week :3

Soladrin wrote:I think I can safely assume I'm the first guy on Dakka to get to lvl 41

You did have a 3 day head start

not on the US guys

MrH wrote:

Soladrin wrote:I think I can safely assume I'm the first guy on Dakka to get to lvl 41

You did have a 3 day head start

He had beyond that.

Weak, I'm only level 35

I'm only 11! Although I've only had it for less than a day

Some Annihilation gameplay:

Nice video, you definetly got the hang of that plasma cannon better then I do, I think I've seen you in a few games last week or so, though last few days I've been getting on servers where everyone has the worst pings possible, it's bizarre and slightly annoying.

Sckitzo wrote:Nice video, you definetly got the hang of that plasma cannon better then I do, I think I've seen you in a few games last week or so, though last few days I've been getting on servers where everyone has the worst pings possible, it's bizarre and slightly annoying.

I'd hope not, or the matchmaking really wasn't doing its job!

Well, if your saying it's region locked, I think that's busted right now.

Because I swear with the pings I'm getting I have to playing on servers in at least Russia

And I imagine it broadens the search during the non peak times.

Or I just may be imagining it, but swear I saw that name in a game recently

You may have as it's not region locked, but it really shouldn't be putting us together, but the system is far from perfect so it's very possible.

I think they are planning some region filtering/matchmaking tweaks in the first patch.

daedalus-templarius wrote:I think they are planning some region filtering/matchmaking tweaks in the first patch.

That first patch can't come soon enough, my current issues:

. Mics are on by default, so you constantly hear people breathing, coughing, shouting, burping plus the echo and reverb from people's speakers is awful.
. No disable voice option
. Matchmaking hangs for around 30 seconds once a game has been found for you.
. Matchmaking only shows a few servers available, surely there's more than 100 people playing the game.
. Matchmaking picking a poor host and not correctly the mistake with host migration.
. Waiting for reply popping up for around 30 seconds when joining a game.
. Waiting for host constantly popping up during a game with a bad host.
. Host migration not kicking in when the whole server has one bar and is lagging to hell apart from the host.
. Host migration not kicking in when "waiting for host" constantly appears on screen because the host sucks.
. Host migration not working at all on occasions.
. Host migration taking forever to find a new host on occasions.
. Host migration not kicking in more than once if the second host drops.

Another huge pain the ass for me is my Power Sword pre-order bonus, I still don't have it. I have emailed customer support several times and they just ignore me, I have emailed both the admins on the forum and they haven't responded either. It's like I'm dealing with an eBay scammer who has my money but won't send the item and has ceased all communication.

For the love of god, I cannot understand how on the PC, the open-mics-by-default option managed to get out of alpha. How did they not realize this was a major issue the very first time they played it in multi? Every single game, the first thing I have to do is hit tab and mute everyone's feedback\TV\music\nonsense.

The only other big problem I've seen is occasionally it will have a bad host, launch the game, and then level actually fire off... everyone can chat, but the game never starts. Problem being at that point you cannot back out of the game in any way, short of alt-tabbing and right-click-closing the app. I've only seen this twice, though.

Moving in a different direction for a second here, now that I've had about a week to play with it, I'd like to talk about some of my experiences with the different builds.

Stalker Bolter\Demon Eye - this is the only build I'm really effective with. I've unlocked both perks related to this. I can generally get a positive kill/death ratio with this, especially on the map with the bridge.

Storm Bolter\Twin-linked Bolter - I thought I'd love this, but it's way too inaccurate to use effectively. You have to get right on top of them and even then it takes a long time to kill someone. The Melta seems superior in all ways.

Standard Bolter - I tried this quite a bit since there is a tooltip stating this is a great combo, but it doesn't feel especially powerful to me.

Plasma Cannon - I'm not great with this but I feel like I could be with a little more practice.

Assault with Thunder Hammer, Plasma Pistol, Exploding Jetpack & ranged damage reduction: this is my favorite build, though I often do quite poorly with it. I'm getting much better though. Tonight I realized that my plasma pistol wasn't just a decoration, and that what I should be doing is jumping, aiming while mid-air, double tapping, then landing and hammertime. I managed to get the most kills in a single round ever tonight with this technique, 11. Feels good man. My main problem is not being able to land exactly where I want to, often landing just shy of a good charge (or worse, behind them).

Why wouldn't it group us out of curiosity? So sort of local players = best ping type code? With muting everyone I can't tell accents though I do get a vast majority of Americans in my games.

That Mic thing is annoying the crap outta me.

I wonder how much steam is going to be selling that power sword and other race army DLC's for...

Sckitzo wrote:Why wouldn't it group us out of curiosity? So sort of local players = best ping type code? With muting everyone I can't tell accents though I do get a vast majority of Americans in my games.

That Mic thing is annoying the crap outta me.

I wonder how much steam is going to be selling that power sword and other race army DLC's for...

It wouldn't/shouldn't group us because I'm from the UK and you're from the US, so we'd get like 200 - 300ms, whereas if I'm put with people from the UK, Germany, France etc I usually get like a 50 - 100ms (on P2P, on dedicated I never see above 30ms).

Also, victory:



Check your inbox UK Dakka.

Final Vengeance... Pfeh, such a useless perk.

Soladrin wrote:Final Vengeance... Pfeh, such a useless perk.

The people whining on the space marine forums don't seem to think so.

No as in, killing someone with it has no beneifit at all. Doesn't require any skill, doesn't help with challenges. Absolutely useless.

I only play seize ground btw Annihilation is crap, games are way to short.

From comments everywhere, it really seems xbl is the best off.

That's what I was assuming, it's not Region locked... but is in a way, but I swear it's busted right now, only way to explain the pings I've been getting.

Also MrH, how did you unlock the power sword? Preorder bonus?

Soladrin wrote:No as in, killing someone with it has no beneifit at all. Doesn't require any skill, doesn't help with challenges. Absolutely useless.

I only play seize ground btw Annihilation is crap, games are way to short.

I love FV, I killed by it alot, but it keeps me on my toes when playing assault and havoc. It's also great for causing confusion. I have a build set up as a suicide bomber sorts of assault, so if I jump in first, cause some damage then get killed, it scatters the other team while the rest of the assaults jump in and mop it up.

Not to mention, you need it for revenge kills for some of the chaos armor, I found getting revenge kills by spawning, hunting down the guy that killed you before someone else does and killing them takes to long.

I try to play annihilation, I just can't get into it. I just wish more of my buddies on steam played this, can't ever count on your team working together since everyone disables the mics at the start so hardly any team work.

I'm taking a break right to play RO2 before I get burned out on the game though.

Soladrin wrote:No as in, killing someone with it has no beneifit at all. Doesn't require any skill, doesn't help with challenges. Absolutely useless.

Someone is mad that they get killed by it all the time

nectarprime wrote:

Soladrin wrote:No as in, killing someone with it has no beneifit at all. Doesn't require any skill, doesn't help with challenges. Absolutely useless.

Someone is mad that they get killed by it all the time

Not really, it's easier to dodge then a grenade. I'm just annoyed that so many people use such stupid builds...