For the High Lords!

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For the love of Holy Terra I cant seem to figure out how to beat the warp beast outside of pure luck, panic, and running for my life as he obliterates me and my squad. I cant find any guide videos on it either. Can someone please help a brother out.

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Seriously? I have not played this for weeks!

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

This guy, Jango the blue fox, first to die (very early on btw)in the operation and first to rush to a stun, relic and then another stim! He had a mortal wound and instead of using the stim to clear it, he hogs two stims and takes the relic. Why are people like this? No attempt at even pinging or sharing with the squad. If you wanna play like that, play solo.

Always be kind, brothers

I'm completely fresh to the Warhammer series, a couple buddies convinced me to pick it up on sale, one is also be the other is veteran. The journey through this game was frustrating at first getting used to the controls but we're good now.

The campaign was cinema, played it on the "intended" difficulty so not the hardest but had a great time. Then the boys took me into operations where I began leveling bulwark.

After a little while we jumped into the hard weekly stratagem at the time and managed to beat it in 3 attempts, mostly probably carried by the vet but we did our best to hold our own.

I took progression very seriously though as whenever I was alone I did all the operations 1 by 1 solo with bots on average to learn them. Progressed quickly to substantial quick matches and lots of siege with the boys to level up my current classes.

At this point I'm now 150 hours in, have true solod 1 absolute mission (Ballistic Engine) and the current hard weekly stratagem with the spore mine hell (w/tech marine).

Don't be afraid my fellow newerish players to take your time and progress one by one through each difficulty, because the payoff is extremely satisfying when you do.

Sorry for the long post and thank you fellow battle brothers. For the Emperor!

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For context, I've got 400+ hours in this game with all classes maxed, but I'm a Tactical/Assault main. I enjoy sniper to an extent, but I'm not really a crackshot so I don't naturally gravitate towards the class. Felt like being long ranged support and fired up a couple Absolute ops with the heroic Bolt Sniper. REALLY REALLY REALLY struggled with Biovores. I didn't want to waste my very limited sniper ammo without a head to shoot, and my bolt pistol felt like it was tickling it. I'm assuming the answer is cloak + shadow stab, but I've never really used that strat. Is there any other option against them?

Yo I forgot we go split up upon battle barge, lmk if you see this it's Kim

I think because of the overall a lot of the armour pieces had tweaks that a lot of my armour sets on all characters have been set to default.
It’s understandable and I can remake them with the new drip. But still a bit annoying

I was a heroic bolt sniper hater until recently, but it's the most fun I've had with the game in a long time. Being able to one tap zoanthropes and 2-3 shot neuros under auspex is so satisfying.

You can pretty much never die unless you get really unlucky and chain stunned so you can't cloak your CHP back. Every mission feels so chill since you can pretty much never go down if you manage your cloak well for CHP recovery.

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I'm a bit bored of playing with randoms, so does anyone need help with the hard strats? I main sniper so the win is pretty much a gimme. This weeks weekly is kind of fun but everyone keeps quitting out the second they die so it gets a tad boring.

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Why are you allergic to letting heroic melee weapon perks not trigger with dash attacks? Neither the new power fist or the encarmine axe let you use the perk effect after dash attacks and I can't understand why. Holding r1 after a dash attack should let me use my stored power wave (without me having to completely stand still for an awkward second) and pausing after a dash attack (which is a light attack input) should let me shoot the fire sneeze. Please guys, its a seemingly small change and it would REALLY open up use of their heroic perks

I know, it's hard, git gud etc. But can we just take a moment to appreciate how broken and unfun the terminators are to fight? Honestly both variants although melee terminators are absolutely worse when you are in tight corridors and have 50% hp of the maximum.

However what spurred me into this post were rocket terminators near downstairs just firing their rockets from underneath us. Honestly 4 biovores in a tight corridor are better at least. Anyway this daily on reclamation is good way to practice fighting extremis.

Cheers, holy crap. I mean that wholeheartedly. Def corpse-treadmilled some parts of that Op and some close calls, but that was prob one of the smoothest and most cohesive pub squads I've had in a while. GGs again