Congrats again on your victory! Thanks for proving it could be done! I and some others have given it a few goes with the IndyCrusher without success thus far. My farthest run is still with my Chain Axe making it to the finale and scanning a few targets. I've been studying your fight with the Chaos Spawn. I clearly need to practice fighting those.

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

thanks man it was a fun challenge

Your runs always inspire me to work harder on improving my gameplay. From all the videos I’ve seen, you and your group are probably the best Darktide players out there. Keep up the good work!

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

that's a very nice comment thanks

When i saw reginalds video I was thinking about you immediately lol

Damn telo you’re rly mastering that crusher. Well played

Warms my heart to see the crusher as a real weapon now.

Saw the ping about this a little ways back and finally got around to sitting down and watching it through - absolutely cracked gameplay pal, well worth the watch just for the technique and strategy tips. Making emprah proud shouty - keep it up!

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

thanks gamer it was a bit of a channel

I'm super impressed by this overall but even more that it's not stealth. So good. Keep it up.

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

no stealth, no fire nades, no throwing knives was part of the rules

Damn, amazing play. I love your content man

That was amazing!

Virgin [Loner] vs Chad [Enemies within]

the greatest😇

Enjoying the cracked gameplay my gamer. I know I say it a lot, but there's something to be said for consistency. Like how consistently you kill dem heretics!

crusher heavy 2 not queueing properly is one of those ones that is known but its something in the chain timing stuff and i need to dig it up specifically. it happens after push attack and h1 i need to fiddle with it and see what the exact prompt is, it happens in mg too. It might also be partly attack speed related? god knows

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

sex with crab

hey wait a minute i was there for this one

Amazing run! How many times did you try before this?

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

i think this is attempt 5, all others ended before the middle event

I've noticed the heavy queuing issue on slab shield as well. Spamming heavies while dodging and suddenly I do the world's slowest light attack 🤔

Bro you are crazy

The absolute madman. What do you think was the most challenging part? In either level or gameplay in general.

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

the end event could have gotten a little spicy

came back around to darktide for the skill rework and curious about your philosophy on zealot talents, i noticed you tend not to take the attack speed on martyrdom or the toughness regen on inexorable, do you think they're ever worth it or nah? also curious about your thoughts on going for the crit cooldown, as ive seen you incorporate it into a lot of stuff, but sometimes not. Sorry for the loaded questions, just hard to get a feel for builds when im in gambling hell and forced to run the only weapons that have decent stats and stuff until the game decides im worthy or some shit. (also nice run!)

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

the crit cdr is one of the most busted things in the game atm, if you want to be as optimal as possible you'd take it on every build, I occasionally like not taking it on dash builds to splash on Dance of Death/TWBS usually or even Duellist/Desperation Attack Speed from Martyrdom is very good I just find it I'm spastic enough with just the attack speed from dash and Faithful Frenzy I find I generate enough toughness to not need Retributor's Stance TL;DR I run a lot of suboptimal stuff because it's fun to splash into it, and I'm also retarded and half the builds you see run in my videos are half finished, see this one

@drunkie_

8 ай бұрын

yee, i respect the splashing for funny talents. i also did want to ask, is the crit cooldown still worth if you dont take scourge? thanks for the insight!

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

​@@drunkie_oh yes it is, it triggers per enemy hit with your crit and has no internal cooldown so you get extreme value just using your F epic gamer tip, if you activate shroudfield mid swing late enough, you get a free crit that doesn't cancel your invis, so spam away

@drunkie_

8 ай бұрын

yo sweet epic gamer tip, did not know that.

Do you use a specific combo to deal with waves or are you winging it? I can't tell Also, is weaving in so many pushes a crusher thing or are melee combat good habit? Last question: martyrdom or inexorable judgement (momentum)? I can't seem to find a definitive answer on which one is more reliable

@drunkpandalol3718

8 ай бұрын

Martyrdom is better for general play or solo/duo play since it procs for something that's going to happen and is a set buff. Inex is only really good if you are spam dodging with inebriates poise during horde engagements. Also inex gives a bonus that you can't control much so your engagements are all going to be different.

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

I needed a tard tank build so had to go with martyrdom, but it's extremely degen and I mostly play momentum best horde clear for crusher is pushattack heavy since the heavy comes out faster after pushattack the pushattack is also some of your best single target damage

Great run, may I ask for you mods list please ? And if you use it, your SpawnTweaks presets as well would be greatly appreciated

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

I run basically all mods I don't use spawntweaks

I thought the majority of the challenge came from the fact that the chainaxe was the weapon being used

@Reginald-sc9tk

8 ай бұрын

chain axe really isn't so bad as that. I came up with the idea because people back in patch 9ish kept complaining damnation and its shooters and gunners were too oppressive and melee was useless. I did not agree and wanted to prove it.

@FeedingWolves0

8 ай бұрын

Reg just likes the chainaxe. For some reason.

Congrats on the victory! What's your opinion on the chip damage mechanic in this game? Do you feel like it has its place or do you feel it to be unnecessary?

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

it's a complicated question it's an inherently frustrating mechanic, but melee needs to be threatening currently melee is only a problem because it stuns you into your death, which is something I want to see gone from the game, or because you get overheaded, and those have their problems as well like missing sound cues, rubberbanding, or even missing animations in general. If we didn't have bleedthrough we could just facetank little melee nerds all day and it'd be as if they'd never touched us apart from potentially stunning us into something dangerous, and some attrition is necessary, we'd be back to V2 days where taking 100 damage would mean nothing since you could just regenerate that back up immediately, ogryn would be completely untouchable in melee the issue is the game has a mechanic for attrition already, corruption, and maybe replacing bleedthrough with corruption damage would be better ? hard to say without a testing environment where one could actually try it out and see how it feels I don't think about bleedthrough very often, I think there are way more problematic elements of core gameplay that need heavy retuning, like stuns being gone, instant strips being gone, and the dodge reset timer being back to what it was in V2

@skal-tel8077

8 ай бұрын

​@@telopots You make a lot of good points. I was ranting about it earlier in voice with a few friends because I felt like it was largely unnecessary and not having the intended effect, rather just being an annoyance. It feels like it was meant to be just what you said, attrition, but it doesnt punish better players, or even worse players. Right now, with the game in the state that its in, it punishes us for not being able to predict little nerds spawning on us, directly behind us, or being unable to sense the silent specials creeping up on us. You are correct though, there are worse things that need to be addressed. I dont feel like going back to the V2 days of being able to shrug off damage would necessarily be a bad thing. Peeps /really/ like V2, so why not bring elements of it that the community likes to DT? I think that an interesting compromise on the bleed through damage could be a combination of bleedthrough AND corruption. You only receive bleed through if you have no missing health to corrupt, but receive corruption if you have missing health that's not healed. Basically take the current bleedthrough values and split them down the middle between actual damage and corruption. I feel like that'd bring a lot more value to any of the corruption removal skills in game, like Vet's Field Improvisation skill and make it a lot less niche while also bringing more value to actually running Corruption Resistance on your curios. Neither of those would be a necessity for higher levels of skill while still providing more options for us mere mortals.

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

@@skal-tel8077 I like not having the ability to ignore damage like with thp, toughness in general is a more interesting mechanic even if it gets a little out of whack at times and has some interactions it probably shouldn't have like instant strips your point about the new meta should they start replacing bleedthrough with corruption is interesting, it'd make it essential to max out corruption resist on 2 wound setups

@skal-tel8077

8 ай бұрын

@@telopots Depending on how its implemented it could possibly be. I feel like that, if its implemented well enough, that it should feel like an option rather than a necessity. I want to actually think about whether or not I keep corruptions resist over say, revive speed rather than just instantly discarding it like I do no. I was going to suggest that THP could come back but be limited to only being able to fill the current wound, but that wouldnt work with zealot wound builds very well.

What melee do you think is best for a run like this? Not counting stealth dagger builds

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

crusher, the on demand ability to tell melee elites to piss off is nuts (I loathe bulwarks)

@Gramstaal

8 ай бұрын

@@telopots The flashbang stick has always been good at disabling just about any melee threat, yeah.

Amazing job. What's the skin for the Crusher?

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

modded extended weapon customization

I sometimes try Truesolo but only when I need a quick fix because I usually die after just a few meters 😅 Can't manage my space efficiently

Like .. what? The better my ping the harder snipers are?

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

the opposite on low ping the delay between their warning and their shot is insanely small on very high ping I noticed they behaved as they should, giving you enough time to react to the warning stuff may have changed as I haven't played on 200+ ping after the last big patches and they have definitely messed with netcode/networking since dodging dogs is now unreliable again after P14, and I've even had them go straight through pushes like pre P13, but it used to work like that my intuition tells me it's still the case since 0 ping snipers still fire instantly after the warning

@tentativelonginus1036

8 ай бұрын

This would explain why sometimes in normal games there’s no warning, very annoying when you see the laser, peek the corner and instantly get catapulted backwards with half your hp missing Great gameplay by the way, how do you feel about crusher blessings? Are the impact ones any good, they feel like dead blessings but there’s not much of a choice anyways.

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

@@tentativelonginus1036 skullcrusher hammerblow are the only good ones it needs a blessing rework to have fun and interesting stuff instead

why where some swings done looking straight up at the sky , i might have missed it if explained

@lamaran3074

8 ай бұрын

Crusher's h2 hits hard with charge but you can't do it as a combo starter, hence missing an attack

Why do you run scourge instead of purge the unclean or sustained assault? I was just watching and realized that scourge was hardly ever up.

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

forgot to change the two talents on the right

Why the revive ally speed on all the curios?

@telopots

8 ай бұрын

cba making new ones

@To3To3To3

8 ай бұрын

@@telopots ah ok, nice run though, very sick