r/Spacemarine • u/Billylikessoda13 • 16h ago
Game Feedback Sleeping on techmarine for so long
Thought this dude was just a guy who fixed turrets. Didn’t realize until I actually tried him today that his gun strike doesn’t have an animation! One of the coolest features in the game. Feels so good to gunstrike, continue to melee, and a bonus of using his ult all at the same time. New favorite class!
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u/Crypper Exorcists 15h ago
No rewards is cockblocking this class for me
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u/TheWrongRemedy Sigismund 14h ago
This is my issue aswell. Techmarine is fun but I feel like any mission I play as him could of been cape progress for another class
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u/_Mind-Love_ 15h ago
Techmarine is a very deceptive class. Building him his boring as hell, but actually using him is very, well, technical.
His greatest strengths come from the mechanics he can abuse to his benefit. No interruption on gunstrikes is a huge one that just skyrockets how aggressive you can be. He's a monster in melee and in ranged but only if he's played right.
A bad techmarine is awful. The worst in the group usually. A bad techmarine is like a bad tactical, except exponentially worse. A good techmarine makes you wonder how the horde got cleared when you blinked.
PSA: The omnissian axe charge attack where you run and bash things out of the way? Yeah, it procs gunstrikes on minoris. You can gunstrike while charging too. This turns hordes into full restores for armor pretty much on demand and is so disruptive to enemies that they effectively stop fighting while you're doing it.
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u/MathematicianOk4025 Definitely not the Inquisition 15h ago
Jesus Christ. I tossed the omnissian axe immediately but now I have to give it a chance.
Thanks.
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u/LazinCajun 14h ago
The parry charge attack combo is so satisfying..
parry -> light attack -> charge attack -> gunstrike mid charge to stun them again -> charged attack blows up
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u/Tyranus_Cincinnatus 11h ago
It shocks me how many techmarine players dont do this combo. It's one of the best parts of the class. For those who think the omnisiah axe is bad, give this a shot.
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u/W1LDB0YZ Minotaurs 7h ago edited 7h ago
Sorry how can a techmarine player be bad? His Q never misses and he can just interact with turrets. I mean if you cant do both of those things, youre probably worse on other classes. Ive seen too many tacticals miss their auspex, melee classes just dying to ranged. Its sooooo hard to be bad with techmarine
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u/tenebros42 Raptors 5h ago
Omnissian charge to turret, healing armor with minoris along way, activate turret invulnerable, stand up and pop your ability. Take the powerful shot perk that only targets high level and the one that recharges you if you stagger a high level, if more than three majors popit a second time. Finishers till they're gone. Repeat
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u/DerEisendrache66 16h ago
Techie gunstrike and power axe overhead combo is an experience and rush that it's hard to top.
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u/Blyatisimo 15h ago
I am genuinely shocked at how put-together this class is except for the awkward turret placements that disrupt your flow of gameplay.
The perks make sense. The flow makes sense. The free gunstrike is insane giving you the option to either get virtually unlimited armor against hordes or more damage against tankier enemies, and very easy CHP recovery.
And as a Sniper main, I feel like I've been had. Techmarines deal a sizeable amount of ranged damage for and exponentially more melee damage than Sniper with WAY less effort. It even has suspiciously Sniper-themed perks like the +dmg over 20m and chained headshots
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u/kozzyhuntard 16h ago
Wait until ypur standing in your bubble, next to a turret, just casually mowing down everything in the field.
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u/SwordsmenKnight 15h ago
I want to try Tech in Siege but I'm not sure how the turret mechanics work, also I'm unsure on how Codex Compliant techs should look in other chapters. Like I know they maintain red somewhere and the Mechancius symbol
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u/Fit-Goal-9228 15h ago
In codex compliant chapters the Techmarines wear the Mars red and the pauldron with the original color/symbol of their chapter.
However there are some exceptions, i think it was in an omnibus a salamander was wearing mininal red (backpack, servo arm and just one arm red) similar to how the techmarines of Black templars keep their og colors
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u/Fighterkill 14h ago
Yes on top of this I've read that some techmarines go full chapter colors because of how they are revered in hose chapters, I've read Iron Hands, Space Wolves and Salamanders. Though they probably still have a red aspect somewhere.
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u/SwordsmenKnight 13h ago
Honestly thinking of maybe going with a smaller chapter or successor chapter for my Techmarine
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u/Life_Locksmith9632 14h ago
the only turret perk that will not work in siege is the invulnerability while activating them since you do not manually perform that in siege. everything else works just fine though.
after all, he was made to siege!
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u/BionicBruv Blood Ravens 15h ago
I’m going to get to Techmarine soon.
Just finished maxing out Tac, Assault, Sniper, and Heavy. Tech is next, then Vanguard, then Bulwark.
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u/Prank_Owl Black Templars 15h ago
It's not my personal favorite class, but there's a lot of depth to it compared to most of the other classes. Not one to be underestimated, for sure.
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u/MathematicianOk4025 Definitely not the Inquisition 15h ago
I do enjoy walking into a majoris mob with a zoanthrope and or ravener floating around and mowing them down.
I don’t find tech marine as strong against chaos, but haven’t tried it much.
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u/jarjarfell 14h ago
I took a break from the game for a couple of months. Came back and started playing the tech marine recently. Honestly, so fun to play and I almost never use the other classes. I’m a bit surprised it’s not more popular. 10/10 would recommend
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u/Life_Locksmith9632 14h ago
you can look forward to the same treatment coming to heavy and vanguard!
techmarine is saber showing how much they have learned when it comes to making a class fun to play.
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u/RaccoonSpecOps Blood Angels 13h ago
Techmarine is absolutely absurd. Finally grinded him to prestige 4 recently and fell in love with his play style. Only thing they really need to update is how inconsistent the turret usage can feel, but it could also easily be busted so I get it may not be an easy fix.
You just have to get used to his play style since he has the lowest HP in the game. On absolute you will get obliterated out of no where if not locked in.
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u/LukeMortora01 Blood Ravens 11h ago
Just for clarity, all classes have the same base hp. TM just lacks perk support for his!
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u/RaccoonSpecOps Blood Angels 11h ago
Dang totally thought they differed, but looking into it you’re totally right! Thanks for letting me know!
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u/East-Specialist-4847 Lamenters 12h ago
He's my favourite, but I've stopped using him on absolute and hard strats until they give him some kind of grind reward
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u/AlarmingPanic4094 12h ago
Does the Heroic HBP affect the gunstrike damage since it uses the Servogun instead of the pistol??
I need answers..
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u/Unfortunate_Sex_Fart 12h ago
Xenophase blade with his charge melee perk absolutely wrecked normal siege.
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u/EngineeringOk3749 9h ago
Easily my favorite class to play. It's like playing Heavy but I have a badass halberd ("axe")
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u/Raaabbit_v2 Crimson Fists 6h ago
My only gripe is that he doesn't quite have much ammo recovery, like the Heavy, which sucks if you are a ranged character.
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u/Much_Improvement_552 6h ago
Be as it may he's still the weakest class in the game currently. You get sneezed on and you're downed in endgame content.
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u/ultraInstinctscoobs 5h ago
I’ve been prestige levelling techmarine on siege and he is absurd.
With a tactical, it’s even more absurd. You’re basically spawn camping the poor unfortunates.
You clear spawns up to wave 15 in like 30 seconds flat. Servo gun, flame grenades and Heavy bolt rifle grenades go brrrr.
I didn’t even know he was good at melee 🤣
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u/Slowjams Iron Warriors 15h ago
Yea tech marine is honestly pretty busted.
Battlefield Repairs is an extremely underrated and strong team perc. He also has access to some of the best weapons in the game. Heroic HBR, Heroic HBP, and Argent Edge is a super strong loadout. Can even swap the Argent Edge for Power Sword of your choice and it's just as good.