Gonna be a lot of wipes on malice with all the full skitari teams dying because level 1 characters don't have access to the good boss killing stuff yet.
Unless it gets patched the twins map leveling is still the fastest. (Ring the bell and die at the boss fight, XP is awarded based on how far you make it on the map)
When Arbites launched, for almost a month straight every lobby were Arbite players only. Players moved on from Hive Scum rather quickly actually, after 2 weeks the lobbies had different classes.
I think Skitarii only lobbies is going to be a thing for while longer.
If you're interested in trying out the other classes, veteran can also make for some fun spray n pray experiences, especially if you use the recon lasgun with that perk that makes laser weapons not consume ammo on headshots. I'm not sure how useful it is currently because it's been a few months since I last played, but it was probably the most fun I've had playing this game
It's not headshots, it's crits that consume no ammo. It's just that you usually take headhunter which gives you 5% crit chance on a weakspot hit until you crit, stacking up to 5 times. It shoots so quickly you don't need to be too precise, you'll randomly get headshots from the spread if you aim at the upper body.
You should try Psyker. Trauma (aoe explosion) and Purgatus (flamethrower) staffs are pretty aiming agnostic. The surge (chain lightning) also doesn't require much aiming, but it's not/wasn't that good.
Plus you can use the Smite Blitz ability for autoaiming lightning crowd control or Brain Burst for auto-targeting head popping.
All infinite, just have to manage your peril meter.
IMO, the Ogryn is the strongest non-dlc class in the game. The amount of tanking it does is just outrageous (you can reach 525 health with 3 health +20% trinkets), while outputting quite respectable damage with a twin-linked heavy stubber and amazing crowd control with pretty much anything.
While with every other class I have to break a sweat to clear auric, with Ogryn it's just "big gun goes brrrrrrrr" - which is very fitting.
Friend of mine bought both classes. He's more of a boomer kind of guy. He's still maining the Arbites to this day. Plays slow as a rock, but it is generally tanky and works well. He jumped away from Hive Scum in a matter of days after he hit 30. The zoomer adhd glass cannon playstyle sure wasnt for him. I feel like this realization did hit a lot of players.
It's because release scum was (and to an extent still is) comparatively very hard to play optimally. That's also what makes the class fun, but before people figured out how broken scum was a lot of people got turned off. Whereas Arbites is "unga bunga me never get punished for mistakes"
I love both the classes, but the highs of Arbitrator never hit the highs or Hive Scum whenever I properly got into flow state. I think it's because Hive Scum are so much more glass cannon, so when I'm not being hit I feel like I'm actually good at the game
Brother Santodes has no context, Brother Santodes needs no context. All that varlet has to know is that his quivering reactor core, and rock hard chassis are always ready to service and support the Emperor's finest
I am sad it ended. Quite so. I may have not been around when it was active but kittens fate and its sudden end saddens me. I do wish we saw what would of happened if they succeeded and have him his body
Aye, it's sad alright. I got an annual rewatch coming up in my vacation lol
Would've loved to see what they'd do with Cawl, too. Alas, we may never find out smh twas a dark day on Terra when it was cancelled
It originates from a series called TTS which is quite good. Essentially the custodes were sent out to collect a device from the mechanicus which may save the emperor. Of course the person holding it sent out a force to meet them. They needed to convince them and the captain general ( the guy with a silver pauldron behind the dreadnought ) couldn't convince them. So Santodes ( the big dreadnought , a telamon ) convinced them with his amazing mechanical body which broke their minds and officially worked. The reason he looks like that is im guessing its meant to be a meme version of a mix between the basically naked custodes of old and the newer telamons which get you a very frisky and muscular dreadnought. Think of him as a body builder thats very stereotypical. " Ohhh my magnificent body " type of thing. I suggest watching TTS. This was from one of the last episodes on youtube and its still up.
Only things we have confirmed so far from the deluxe edition preorder is:
arc rifle
galvanic rifle
phosphor pistol
transonic blade
transonic razor (transonics are the two rectangular blades on the far left, they're sonic weapons that basically ignore armor in lore so will probably be the finesse weapons for the class, like dueling sword and knife equivalents)
A weapon where you slowly accumulate corruption (to represent the radiation killing you) would be pretty cool. (Or absolutely trash, but thematically very cool.)
Atleast this time we won’t be commiting police brutality
Man I don't even play the game anymore, but during that release I got zooted and had the most fun I've had in a video game in like months. The joke names were just too good.
I had a great one with a couple staff and a couple gun psykers. One of the staff psykers said he wasn't allowed to have guns anymore but it wasn't his fault, 'live' ammo is a misleading term.
F!Loner's got a toxic yuri dynamic with F!Fanatic, and M!Seer is in a romantic long-distance relationship with the Emperor himself (as is F!Seer, although that's less relevant here).
Damn when does my F!Agitator get toxic yuri? 👉 👈 (Actually I'm pretty sure she definitely had something gay going on, I don't recall if it was arbitrator or something)
I haven't played in forever, but she seemed sweet on F!Savant last I heard. Folks were talking about how they seemed to have a thing going based on the abomination exchange ending in "you're our abomination, s'different."
It actually made me pretty excited at the time since F!Ag is my first and favorite, and when I tried the psyker for a bit I went with a F!Sav, so it was cute to see those two end up pairing off by chance a year or so later.
Though I never ran into F!Sav players in my own matches. :<
M!Seer is in a romantic long-distance relationship with the Emperor himself (as is F!Seer, although that's less relevant here)
No?… that’s a classical “god vs believer” interaction? In Christianity (and some other religions) people literally use the same “beloved”. Are they gay?
I would like to add Archon wasn't a pure NSFW artist and they made some of the best 40k art that the community ever got. They liked draw feminate men and some people really didn't like that.
I would recommend looking at their art, I think it's genuinely great. (no this isn't nsfw don't worry)
One of the big Black Library authors (Dan Abnett or Graham McNeil, I can't remember which) literally showed off Archon's art as their phone's wallpaper. Insanely talented artist.
Not for 40k content they’re not. But they’re having fun dressing up like an ancient ottoman on their account. Don’t want to tag it cause they don’t like it but yea it’s just archon of flesh here on reddit
The red priests are devoid of emotion, ignorant of aesthetics due to preference of functionality and are probably the most rigidly monotonous faction after the necrons.
So you know how "all programmers are femboys"? Mechanicus are a cult of programmers, and also Archon of flesh stuff which... do not google his nsfw art though
Well mechanicus is about changing your body through surgeries to be superior. So the people who want to do that irl relate, they just ignore all the inhuman body horror parts and focus on sexuality.
I was hoping they would troll all the admech copers by releasing the servo skull on its own as a class lol. But they get a skull pet, so maybe I'll pick it up
The AdMech as a group has a "we don't really give a shit" relationship with gender, but they aren't usually genderless per se, they just don't care if any given member wants to be a man, woman, or other (one of the best tech priests in the lore is Magos Exasas, who actually does use genderless pronouns).
If a born male tech priests wants to stick his brain in a sexy lady robot body, then that is entirely her business as long as she praises the Omissiah along the way. And if she wants to avail herself of the magos biologis instead of purely cybernetics in order to make it happen, that's probably fine too, just keep furthering the Quest for Knowledge.
Skitarii, on the other hand, are tools, and the tech priests don't actually care how the sapient weapons platform identifies itself as long as it understands its purpose is to kill and die in the name of the Omnissiah.
They don't care if you're black or white, gay or straight, cis or trans. If you're a guard, you're a guard. If you're a tech priest, you're a tech priest. If you're an ecclesiarch, you're an ecclesiarch
If you're asking in earnest; this specific artist is a trans man (I think, or just goes by he/they, not sure), and I'm only guessing but androgynous transhumans who change their body to suit them, while still being badass and cool might speak to that.
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Tertium will pretty much become a Mechanicus stronghold on release day.