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When playing as an Ogryn, make sure whenever a veteran uses volley fire to stand directly in front of them

Another point about poxbursters: If the whole team is shooting at a burster while it runs down a long hallway toward you, running toward it to make the heroic shove is an unnecessary risk

Someone already said it but, if you play as ogryn, walk directly through your teammates as they are shooting, so your giant back swallows up half their clip, do this over and over, and also get netted and pox pounced at every chance

One thing that's annoying is ammo boxes don't indicate that there's 4 charges. Until I found out I thought it was infinite and had a timer

On this day, the 14 of May in the year of our Emporer 2023, I learned I was an Ammo Goblin. I had no idea it was charge-based. Like the endless hordes of heretics, I shall eliminate my bad habits one at a time until I am pure in the eyes of the Emperor.

As a zealot, I was on a damnation high intensity mission. In the lobby before we started, I said I was going to mainly use the 'puff' from my flamer, same as the warpfire staff, to stagger the specials to make it easier for others. It was immediate co-operation and comradery, as ragers and maulers were staggered and everyone was very quick to mark the ammo for me. An unfortunate chaos spawn during a horde, combined with being focused my a mutant put an unfortunate end to the mission, but it was still amazing

very helpful video! i will make sure to incorporate these bad habits into my own gameplay to aggravate my teammates even more!

Well, I did not actually know that the boss shields took 300% melee damage and took 50% range damage. So that’s nice to know now. Also, as a veteran main, I definitely learned very quickly in heretic and damnation difficulties not to Aggro enemies far away.

Another tip, if there’s a Psyker on your team with the Purgatus staff handling a horde, there is absolutely no reason for you to be dumping mag after mag of ammo into it. If there’s crushers, maulers, or bulwarks in there, sure, but they can stagger and kill pretty much everything else without you wasting all of your ammo that would be much better spent on snipers and gunners that they can’t reach in the next room. Watch their back or even help them with melee, but please stop wasting your ammo. Follow up to this, if you have such a Psyker on your team, and you’re the guy with a good ranger weapon, prioritize the shooters. This Psyker will single-handedly keep you safe from all but the most resilient melee threats, but they are vulnerable to shooters sitting outside their fire range. It’s your duty to handle those things, particularly if you’re a veteran with a lasgun or auto gun if any sort. Do that, and the mission with be easy, I promise. Edit: I just realized you covered this already in your Malice trap video, but it’s still worth reiterating, considering how commonly I see it on Damnation somehow…

The flip side of pox busters is also true. If you have someone unloading into a burster on the other side of the room, don't go charging at it to show off your leet push skillz.

I wish I could find these mythical people you talk about with who stick together and use proper tactics. I can count on one hand the number of times I've played over the last six months where it felt like I've played with a group that was working like a well oiled machine. It certainly is a beautiful thing when it does though.

I've been here since beta and never knew about the void shield ranged resistance and massive melee weakness (°-° )

Wasting ammo on targets, that are being taken care of.... Psyker charging the brain burst (denying the buff thingy they get), Strong melee fighters engaged in melee, as well as wasting bullets on small melee groups (non-elite/ non-specialists) ....too often I see these players running out of ammo, when they need it for specialists/elites to take care of

Thanks for this. Still learning the ropes but as you say when a team works together its a beautiful thing and so very obvious it's going well.

I’ve got one. Ogryn players, (Ogryn player myself) just because you hit the enemy, especially if you knock them down, doesn’t mean they’re dead! Walking behind you, especially as ranged players, is the worst when half the enemies that were just on the ground start getting back up and are now surrounding you. Look for at least the red tick on the reticle to make sure they’re dead. Also most enemies that are killed rag-doll and drop their weapons when they die. If you see that falling/tripping animation then that dude ain’t dead. Bonk em again

As a new player I want to thank you for the video. I am trying to learn as much as possible so I can be a good team mate, one that everyone wants on their team. I have made a few of these and did not realize what I was doing now I do thank you. I will strive to be better.

concerning poxbusters, as a psyker who mainly use brainburst, it happened pretty often the opposite... i notice a pox far away, launch a brainburst, have to look away or lose sight of the poxbuster, and explose it... realising someone rushed it (lot of time a zealot) to late... frustrating. i won't say the other guy is always at fault, as it can be me that doesn't look correctly at where are my teammates at the time. but it'd help if other players would notice a brainburst charging more often lol

I love it when you mark out the Demeonhost and a vet runs into it anyway, dies and rage-quits. (why is it always a vet!)

I didn't know about the void shield thing. That alone made this video worth its weight in gold.

One thing I must correct you on about the assassins target shield! The ogryns ripper gun in particular does *obscene* damage to his shield. I think the heavy stubber does unusually high damage as well, but no where near the massacring that the ripper gun does.

Useful pox buster info. Most people shove them and then double dash back to get completely out of the blast area. Generally doable if you're not very pressured. There's an easier way to do it, but it's terrain-dependent. Any environmental object will block the blast. You can shove the buster and walk (or slide) behind a corner. Even a little waist high box will do. Or a barrel. If abuster is detonating near you and you weren't able to push it, sometimes you can just move behind a box and save yourself.

To add to the burster thing, I think something that should be mentioned for the other side of the issue is that you shouldn’t change the burster while your teammates are already firing at it from a distance. Had a psyker get pissy with us because he decided to sprint at it while the veteran was already in the middle of killing it from a safe distance.

8:26 I'd like to add not opening the doors to the next room while a horde just started.

I’m so glad I instinctively used the ammo boxes once then buggered off most times. Only learned recently there were set uses when someone complained about another double dipping 🤣

Personal gripe is when you do the assassinate missions. When you enter the lift for the final boss and hear a flamer, bomber or mutant about to come in and you don't deal with it before triggering or immediately after exiting the lift. I've had plenty of folks run in and go for the captain with one or more of these at our backs.

Honestly people giving up ground is one of my biggest reasons for my captures. I don’t know how many times I was lighting up a kill feed only to look around and see the team bolted in the other direction leaving me to deal with the patrol/horde. I fight hard for my choke points and people give them up for next to nothing. But honestly the biggest bad habit that encompasses many you’ve outlined is tunnel vision. Sure, main hero syndrome is annoying af, but nothing is worse than watching 3 people chase down specials and spawn points. People are very much “eyes on the action” as opposed to maintaining their sector or paying attention to the enemy back line. Another honorable mention would have to be squads with no long ranged support. A lasgun or vraks can make a huge difference in the amount of ranged fire you take. Quite often as a veteran, I just kick back and play sniper and I noticed my team(s) average health staying much higher

other weapons that can push bursters are : - flamer primary attack - Agripinaa Mk VIII Braced Autogun (the brown one) other than that, many weapon special attacks can easily stagger them and they cost no stamina! - any ogryn melee weapon special that involves punching of slapping - some tac axe specials - heavy laspistol special with psyker (uses a force push) I suspect many others but I haven't tried them all - any ranged weapon special attack that uses the butt of the gun like infantry autoguns, revolver, bolter...? - monitorum shovels, combat axe specials?

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Nice video, after like 180H in the game still didnt know the captain voidshiled stuff, nor the ammo box work mechanic,well never late to learn :D Thank you!

I found your channel again! Embarrassingly enough I had no idea how ammo boxes worked until watching your first video on this. Thanks for making another one, these are so good.

i know that bursters CAN be staggered by heavy guns, but you have to land a minimum of 2 shots to do so, then a third to pop it. ive noticed the agripina shotgun is really good at this, as you can dome the poxburster with a slug and follow up with a regular shell as it closes into medium range. one more shot is all it needs to pop at that point.

very informative man thanks!

So I do feel like I am a great DT player (xbox series x), but I legit was using the ammo box all wrong. I didn't know it went off. Charges and not amounts like the health. I'm glad to have learned something new and useful. Thank u. Ur doing the Emperor's work.😊

When three of you are in the shuttle and that last person just has to solo that hoard charging you.

Big thanks for the video! Fixed my habit to play this game entirely!

Thanks, I am a casual player mainly weekends but this was so informative. Things I did not know thanks again.

I'm glad you mentioned that rumbler trick. I figured that out when playing doggo mode. Ensured that if I got pounced on by one of the many dogs, I'd immediately break myself free.

teamwork is bliss, especially when you dont count or even expect it. I try to make it a point to make my backline like an "anchor" in my movement planning and then try and keep myself teethered as much as I can to them. It started out ofneccessity, when dying for being too agressive with my Zealot, but it goes both ways man. it feels amazing to fuck up against a special, get pinned. just to see friendly ranged fire instantly switching bases and peeling that thing of me.

Thanks for the info. I learned a few things from this. One thing I don't understand is why more people dont just speak up in the VoiP, It works reasonable well. Its a game changer in the higher tiers. I do enjoy hearing the banter between the charaters that the game provides which is pretty cool but sometimes if someon sees , hears or needs something done instead of typing why not just say what it is. Call outs are important sometimes & it takes a second to do so. I know there are real reasons why a player can't use VoiP & that cool but many players can. This is crucial in the other games I play so I guess i'm use to it. Last night was a good night for communication but it was rare. Not communicating is not a game killer for me in this game but it sure makes the percentages for success much higher.

Thanks for the video, again a great piece of usefull content ! I want to add a special one I realized mostly since the Class Overhaul and the amount of players coming back wich is : Neglecting the effectiveness of supression. I see way to much people ignoring the power of the small lasgunners constantly spawning and placing themselves 5 meters from each others to left you no safe space. The fact is, sometimes it's better to simply shoot in the direction where you know lasgunners are hiding and showing only a ear or a elbow behind a box, or you don't have time to fully lock your aim to it because there is bigger threat. Putting this pressure on them they will keep hiding a few more seconds and give you time to replace yourself, approach them or killing them with a melee weapon (you or an ally btw). It doesn't apply to every players of course beacause not everyone have ammos for that but for the weapons with not a high range precision shooting a few bullets can save lives : - Twin Stubber, Ripper Gun (and even Kickback wich have a decent amount of ammos) - Autoguns, headhunders, Shredderpistols - Every staffs primary fire ( Expect the flamethrower ) This kind of issue can be the biggest problem when trying to clean a room in Auric Damnation when you have litteraly 2 or more people playing the famous revolver, and remember to slide to them to avoid almost every shots ( My english is not fluent, be nice ^^')

New xbox player, genuinely didn't know the bit about the Captain's Voidshield. Thanks for the heads-up

Hey! Thanks for the informative video. Sadly I've seen myself in some of these don'ts but now that i know about them I will actively try to not do them.

Thank you mate, I am new to the game I just got to level 9 and had no idea the assassination target was weaker to melee.

Thanks this is good info. Had no idea about the charges for ammo. I'd like to add if something heavy needs to be carried, let the Ogryn grab it. There's no movement penalty for us so we can get it to the point faster and all you need to do is cover.

Thank you for this! I'm a noob and have done some of these things.

ty so much for the tips i just start the game yesterday and i gotthe assasination mision i was like ok now what :)

Well said bro. Even learned a couple things. The Emperor protects.

So I just started playing about 3 weeks ago and didnt know you could push pox bursters , so thank you

10:36 these are the in-game representation of the traitor aboard the Morningstar the "ammo goblin" is all i can think of when i hear the sounds of a recon lasgun or autopistol

I haven't seen you previous video, so you might have covered these before. People who don't know how to set up a basic two-by-two covering formation or forming up in a basic firing line when a horde is rushing at the party down a hallway or through a similar checkpoint. If a party knows how to set up a basic formation, it can seriously whittle down a large horde, multiple squads of specials and even the autogun and/or lasgun wielding mobs. A basic two-by-two covering formation, or a box formation if you prefer, works even in areas where there are no hordes rushing as it allows the players to keep an eye out for gunners, snipers, flamers, bombers and even normal gun-wielding mobs that might be hanging out in elevated places, and gives every available member of the team who has the appropriate guns(i.e. lasguns, las pistols, hand canons, stubbers, rumblers, grenade gauntlets and autoguns) to put fire on their position. People who intentionally set off the explosive and flame barrels when no enemies are around to catch the other players in the blast/lingering flames. If you're in a private game with friends and you do it occasionally to dick around, that can be funny, but don't do it to people who aren't your friends. I can't tell you the number of times I've been launched off of a map to my demise or downed because someone thought it would be funny to blow up the barrel. I can excuse it if they blow up the barrel to mulch a chunk of a horde that I've found myself in, I'll just get mad for a moment and resign myself to eating that damage, or if I've outflanked a group of gun-wielding mobs that were hiding behind and rushing their position and I don't see the barrel just got touched off or if I'm hacking through a horde and my teammates are laying down fields of fire and a stray shot touches off a barrel.

3:39 i've seen team mates run away from teh montser TOWARDS the next group of enemies and seen speed runners ignore the monster and just keep pushing forward. I;ev even seen folk CHOOSE to fight in a place wher ethey can be knocked into abyss or demonhosts instead of retreating to a safer area as a group when a monster turns up.7:01 to illustrate how fast free a trapped team is you can free em BEFORE they finish the fall animation if your close and quick enough.

Omg the first one. I jus started playing because my cousin bought it for me on steam and I won’t lie, I was so tilted bc I was jus tryna level up so I got super annoyed that my team mates would not help out

One of my main annoyances is overlapping fire on the horde, especially with the Psyker. I run a Transfer III, Flurry IV Voidstrike staff, it'll annihilate a bunched or advancing horde with ease especially in the mid to long range and uses no ammo. .What I can't do too often is turn away to handle the occasional unit from another direction that suddenly smashes me in the back. I don't want to be pointing the other way either since I have the best ammo economy too since large hordes literally quell faster than it can build, so leaving the horde to others is just a waste of their ammo. Shoot or melee the ones coming in from my sides and back and let me know if the horde spawn point moves.

Flamer can know bursters back on the fireball mode. When no one notices I tagged one and I have to deal with it, I basically keep sending fireball at it, keeping it on the ground until it takes enough damage to blow up :)

A little cheese i found while playing ogryn with a sheid is if the daemon host targets you. You can just back up against a wall and special fire with melee, the host will just rip at you without doing any damage and no stamina drain, was pretty funny watching the daemon wailing on me to no avail as my team punched it in the butt to death

My Ogryn's Ripper Gun with Blaze Away and Can Opener deals with the Boss fight better than my melee weapon. If you stand within a couple meters, the boss will switch to his melee weapon most of the time and you get max damage from mag dumping into him at point blank range. Blaze Away stacks up to +50% power, so by my 4 or 5 shot I'm taking off huge chunks of his shield strength. Then, when I take down the shields I use Bull Rush to get back into his face and special attack to apply Can Opener's, rend and brittleness, debuffs. This pretty much causes him to instantly proc his shield again after a few hits.

players not getting into the elevator and continue to shoot at mobs far away when everyone else is ready to go.

The hello varlets is on point!

I have another good one, using your flamer on Vet when he is using volley fire to kill shooters.

1. People running to PoxBursters to push them when a ranged player can kill them much easier. While people should pay attention to whether a PoxBurster is near someone who can push them, there are also times where they can be killed with a ranged weapon before they get near. 2. Standing next to barrells for too long. Okay so, you should make sure you don't shoot barrells by mistake. Sometimes though they can be hard to see (maybe someone is using a flamer). But if there is a barrell, use it or stay clear of it, otherwise you just position yourself to fail and get trolled (on purpose or not). You also don't allow team mates to use barrells when needed 3. Especially on Damnation: not coordinating the killing of the tentacles of the Daemon On Damnation in particular the tentacles regenerate really fast. If you don't hit them really close to each other you get stuck in a game of whack'e'mole that never ends.

7:34 This is the reason why I don't like running anything but damnation for assassination missions. I can't be bothered asking level 30's if they actually know how to fight Captains. It's socking that they reached max level without knowing this.

My Ogryn gunner build takes down daemons and plague ogryn in less than 30 seconds as long as it isn't fully focused on me. I appreciate the ammo box tip I like learning what I'm doing wrong.

Don’t know if you mentioned it in the other video, but not pinging elites and specials should be on the list.

Did I tell you I love your videos? I LOVE your videos!!!!!

Solid tips.

Shotguns are great for bursters. They knock them back as though shoved, including the explosion. All from a safe distance.

2 things that personally make me hate my team are the zealots and psykers running ahead and taking all the ammo from the veteran and ogryn who definitely can make better use out of it in almost all cases only exception being a zealot with a flamer in a horde intensive mission, The other is NOT PICKING UP PEOPLE FROM TRAPPER NETS! IT TAKES ONE SECOND AND THAT ONE SECOND IS MUCH BETTER SPENT PICKING UP A FRIENDLY THAN TO TRY AND CLEAR A PATH.

Not taking cover in the dome shield. One year later, but maybe helps. As a psyker I noticed, that only me and the vet stay in the shield when I pull it up, taking out snipers and gunners. The rest runs to melle the shooters, just to get downed. Stay in the shield and give melle support there ffs.

As a player who is mostly deaf on Damnation, more players when it is safe need to type out what they want. Two players held a game hostage because I didn't pick up a Scripture I didn't see half a map away and never said or typed a single thing. They just stared at it and pings don't work if you are at a certain distance, which is easy to go over on vertical maps. A simple chat message would have put through the intention rather than holding up the game. Other aspect is players who expect the CC built character in the team to do the revive when they have a single target weapon such as a bolter or an axe in hordes vs the purgatus staff Psyker. The Psyker should not be the one picking up the revive because they're far more effective at keeping everyone else from being hit through stagger spam yet I constantly see other players entirely ignore the person down just to pad their kills when they are standing right on top of them and I am keeping the horde contained. The biggest issue I see though these days are players who engage Daemonhosts before the room is cleared. Easily wipes out a team because they're too eager to get that elite kill because "hurr durr, I haz shield and can infinite block" but there's still an active firefight raging in the room and constant elites spawning. The opposite spectrum is I've noticed Daemonhosts sometimes spawning in one way chokepoints you can't sneak past if they were already activated. Twice, we had to engage the daemonhost regardless because it was literally in front of the elevator and a second right at the bottom of the drop down. Another one activated through the ceiling of a vertical progression map because of psyker warp burn splash reaching it even though we couldn't remotely target it or see it over 30m further down. Ammunition hogging becomes less of an issue if players are using UI mods which list other players ammunition counts so you can actually see how much they're missing in comparison.

Here’s a tip about grimoires- if you pick up the grimoire and use it, you can instantly cure one wound.

Recently had someone refuse to pick up a scripture despite me and another player calling them out specifically to grab. They had an open slot for it too

Grims and scrips are the first thing I reroll on weeklies. If no one says they want them at the start, and I observe that no one is actively searching for them I don't bother.

9:31 "A game of chess is like a sword fight"

Does the surge staff do reduced damage to the captain's void shield? I know it's ranged but lightning seems like it might be effective against shields in my mind.

I love High Intensity Shock Troop on Damnation! The issue is, that it is generally crippling to play it in quickplay. Many players are newer to the Tide games and are not super familiar with things like target priority, positioning, and evasion tactics or damage avoidance methods. A game can turn south FAST!

i use shovel on my vet and heavy attacks all the time. sometimes i hit soundless boxburster thats hiding in the horde and it gets knocked back down and blows up just like pushing it. :) i just hear it after i hit it and dodge backwards.

You are the kind of player I hope to encounter in my game play it has been a long road to 27 😢due to so many silly little points you make which aides no team I hope to reach 30 and play with your level of players soon…

I think number 4 can be attributed to players being used to reviving each other in the middle of hordes in Vermintide because it was much quicker

The flamethrower with the stagger blessing ( I can’t remember the name) is able to stager pox burst era and push them back

i make these mistakes., watching this video made me realize such mistakes are no simple matter to just let through. i’ll strive to do better.,

Speaking from my own experience as playing a vet, consider using the Devil’s Claw swords if you are scared of being targeted by Daemonhosts. The parry counters ALL melee damage short of grab attacks (even monstrosity slams that otherwise send you flying) while also dealing decent damage towards the attacker, usually killing ragers in one or two blows. The parry also wastes little or no stamina meaning you can spam it while dodging, both blocking and dealing damage at the same time. Crowd control is also decent with the heavy attack, especially with the mk IV!

The mk 8 braced autogun also staggers pox bursters but i think it might be a perk i have.

Yesterday I made the mistake to stray away from my team as pyromancer pysker during an hunter ground but I have leanred when I gonna to stick close to the team when I'm. Gonna do hunting grond auric missions

My catch phase seems to have become "don't f-ing kill what I'm killing. Kill what's killing me!!"

one more common mistake I see, mostly made by vets - using points of no return as high ground to snipe while whole team is beyond that point. Being last one before that point instantly spawn dogs and trappers, with no hope for rescue. Another one is a bug, don't remember the map name, but it's the one with air vents you have to come through. You can actually rush it and lock your teammates inside, make sure whole team is there when you leave each section.

Shotguns can be used instead of pushing when it comes to pox bursters I think the slug shot can stagger while they are running but I'm not sure if it does it 100% of the time

OMG, I didn't even know grims keep corrupting you after the initial 40 HP. If you go to a medstation, does it reset the continuing corruption back down to just the intial 40HP corruption? That being said, I always ask the team if they are fine with picking up grims when I come across one, if I don't know their intentions beforehand.

Honestly as an ogryn I had no idea i was stepping in front of someones ability I think most have no idea because being born with a large body has it's own difficulties lol I'm 6'8 and I play an ogryn I can relate better than most

DRG makes the resupply pod very explicit about it only having 4 uses, fatshark should make the ammo crate have like 4 big green lights on it that turn off individually when each charge is used up.

I'm of a shared mind on kiting monstrosities. Plague Ogryn, fair, they can be kited in a tiny space, no reason to get too far. Beast of Nurgle, there are clearly some areas where I am thankful for whoever has aggro to move a bit further so we're not doused in corrupting goo while dealing with whatever means we can't be focusing the beast at that exact instant.

So since the last vid i think i ve gotten better now im trying to bring the item lvl of my vet and preacher up and im lacking good positioning with the preacher sometimes still which is very punishing and fun i also managed to save some runs so im getting there The dm also happened to me on ventilation sniper map :( it was the three of us and one bot and everything was perfect. One guy joined and he simply either stumbled into it in the fog or very directly awakened it then leving while we thought we were safe and such a big pull was on us that we wiped The book part only happened to me on ass missions one people tried to speedrun it without saying it first For point 7 i would mention that i have no problem if at least one person stays on horder special duty many times my team were much faster when i positioned correctly and just flamed the shit out of everything With team positioning i agree i experienced it many times and it can be very bad i had wipes thanks to people running in like crazy to very bad places Over i still enjoy the game very much i happened to have a very nice teams even without being social in any way we even had a little chat after because simply the team coherency felt amazing Even with my half assed preacher i had the fortune to get a very good pysker on my side and we looked out for each other the whole game :> Bug i cant wait to play psyker again

I run Ogryn, and with slab shield and taunt, I can tank DH until the team kills it. Only time I run into issues is if someone runs in and smacks them with a shovel and doesn’t let me get agro, and then hit the team with “I’m A Kriegsman, it’s what we do” after we lost 😂

I just started damnation finally. I havent had too many bad experiences yet.

I wonder if the flamer left click staggers a running pox buster like the staff

I use my smite for stunning hordes while a teammate grabs a downed player, I'm new to the game only been playing a week. I have accidentally set off a DH with my arc but didn't realize you don't have to fight them if you leave them alone. I will say even though this may be some WH etiquette however with a most matches being randoms good luck expecting them to give a crap beyond themselves.

good vid

7:35 Ohhhhhhh, I had no idea.

Another thing: People not using push to gather enemies into tight groupings.. or people who use knockdown effects to scatter enemies that were already grouped

still remember my last game today where i got 2 ammo goblins. was playing vet and Throughout the entire game I didn't manage to pick up even one small ammo pack. it was very not fun to play it.

If a psyker is head popping someone, don't kill them ,they got it and it will sometimes make them lose warp charges due to time running out.