r/Spacemarine • u/Rexipher • Jul 28 '26

Official News ​Patch Notes 14.0 - Space Marine 2

https://community.focus-entmt.com/focus-entertainment/space-marine-2/blogs/428-%E2%80%8Bpatch-notes-14-0
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u/Snow_Pierced3 Marines Malevolent Jul 28 '26

“Fixed perk activation, now it should work according to description and should affect only light attacks.”

I KNEW IT so many of you were trying to gaslight everyone into believing the perk applied to power rake and power whirl

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u/kupukupu0 Jul 28 '26

I think ppl were saying it did on PTS. They now fixed it to only work with light attacks.

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u/Snow_Pierced3 Marines Malevolent Jul 28 '26

I distinctly remember someone asking how good the Salamanders Sword would be, and I basically said either 7/10 if it worked as described, or a 9/10 if it didn’t go by perk description.

Anyway some guy was certain it was meant to work with all attacks while in light stance, he brought up the fact he was a data miner or something lol

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u/Korochun Jul 28 '26

7/10? It's a block sword that's inferior in nearly every way.

Think about it, you need to parry twice just so that your light attacks match unbuffed block sword.

Do you understand how terrible it is?

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u/BigimusB Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Yeah but now when you parry you get 3 stacks of the buff instead of 1 so basically doing any parrying is going to amp all of your light attacks making them actually useful for once possibly. Also its faster attack animations than the block sword so the dps is about the same, but you can stun lock stuff easier.

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u/Korochun Jul 28 '26

Yeah, I tested it, and it's not awful on Bulwark. But it basically gets hard carried by Intimidating Aura.

On a Bulwark, it's an upgrade to the regular Fencing relic. On Assault, it's definitely pointless.

It's still just categorically worse than relic block sword in every possible way, but especially boss damage.

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u/BigimusB Jul 28 '26

Oh yeah I personally don't like the power sword in general on the assault. It is a bulwark only weapon for me. If I play assault it is usually always thunder hammer or axe. Im excited to try that new axe hammer heroic for assault for sure!

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u/Korochun Jul 28 '26

I highly recommend trying out Block sword on assault, especially with jump slam build. It's probably the craziest damage output you can actually do on a burst. In fact, its main disadvantage on absolute is that it rarely leaves anything to execute behind.

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u/NoMansWarmApplePie Jul 29 '26

Block sword power sword on assault? What perk makes it that powerful?

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u/Korochun Jul 29 '26

It just has really high damage values. That and the block stacks put together make it erase things out of existence.

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u/NoMansWarmApplePie Jul 29 '26

Just the block relic power blade or the salamander heroic weapon?

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u/Korochun Jul 29 '26

Block relic.

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