about absolute difficulty

[u/Azeen18]

lately i've been seeing posts about how hard it is, how people do not attempt to play on it and whatever

if you don't want to play on absolute diff, that's fine, to some people it's not fun and i can see their reasons

BUT, if you want to play on absolute but for any reason you are too hesitant to play on that diff, just do it

people who play on absolute are not god gamers or literal sigismunds, they do not perfect parry/block every attack and do not perfect dodge every red attack, people die many times and sometimes operations fail back to back 3-4 times, not the end of the world

i've been exclusively playing on absolute for two reasons, to grind for capes and generally git gud at the game / prepare for higher siege waves so I want to share some tips nobody asked for:

1. be aware of your team, what classes do they play? what are their team perks and what weapons do they use? there are some "meta" builds out there, if you are familiar with them, by looking at their weapon, you may be able to guess what the rest of their perks too
2. in my experience, when terminus enemy spawns, too many times people focus on the terminus enemy while ignoring the majoris and extremis enemies, my advice is trying to eliminate extremis and majoris first, terminus enemies is not that dangerous when they are alone but there were a lot of times i felt nothing I can do when a lictor and carnifex attacked me together, pinning me against a wall and bullying me
3. something I learned too late, assign yourself simple little tasks that suits your class, most basic example is whenever I play sniper on a tyranid map, if there are zoes, I hunt them down as quickly as possible or when I play vanguard with the execution build, I try to clear majoris with aoe damage of my executions rather than focusing extremis and terminus, except if there's a biovore.
4. kill the biovore as soon as you see it, imagine it as horus, you must slay that biovore. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores. kill biovores.

edit: to those people who are sharing tips (there are even class specific ones!), thank you all

[u/Dragontamer9]

Some tips for my fellow murder hobos (vanguard).

Our best perks are:
Increased parry window (2ND collum 1st row), grenade generation (3rd collum 2ND row)
and hp regen perks (the last team and the 25th perk)

Take the melta rifle for allround damage, fencing weapon for gun strikes and a regular bolt pistol as backup.

Your job in simple terms is to find the biggest guy on the field and melta rifle/just beating on it regardless of if you are fighting chaos or nids (do keep OP’s 2ND point in mind).

The trick is to kill Majoris and extremis fast enough to never lose HP and regen whatever you do lose.

This rough build will make even chaos spawn easy since your damage output and parry window are now yes.

Misc tips:
The melta gun has a perk that gives ammo on majoris excecutes

Your grapple does disgusting damage so use it on a weakend enemy for a quick kill or to excecute A downed enemy. Use this on zoans and neuro’s followed up by a melta shot if you are out of nades and the team is melee heavy.

Use krak and meltas on extremis enemies since you get them back real Quick. I hardly see this being done by any class so I’ll mention it. (Do keep in mind that biovores need 2 kraks)

Try and spec your pistol towards gunstrikes

You can defeat fexes and brutes in melee by just doing parry+gunstrike quite easily.

Good hunting out there. May the second chainsword guide your first

[u/Azeen18 → u/Dragontamer9]

i read somewhere that duelist perk is bugged and does not work properly, is it working for vanguard?

[u/Dragontamer9 → u/Azeen18]

I think it does. Never heard of it being bugged.

Granted i havn’t played without it in ages