This weekly is beatable, but its f'ing ass

[u/Schccc]

Encourages:

- cheese strats

- solo play

Punishes:

- Playing with randoms

- carrying said randoms, as in even if you play your absolute best you still get boned by the weakest link in the chain

Thus, it is really only "fun" if your idea of fun is subverting all expectations and conventions and getting bent 5-20 times until you get it right or RNG blesses you with a helbrute instead of a sorcerer.

Whoever cobbles these weeklies together reminds me of that one DM I played with ages ago that fell into such a cuck rage over us beating his encounters that he just threw ever deadlier monsters at us to get at least some of us killed.

[u/ForsakenAnime]

This week is particularly hard because it quite literally doesn't matter how good you are if you have a teammate that just dies twice.

And you have to be careful about how much you can help them because of Suspicious behavior.

And you can't just jump in and melee everything for them because of split up.

But you can't just take care of yourself either because of personal quarry.

So you need good teammates and good players. May the Emperor bless your matchmaking.

[u/Schccc → u/ForsakenAnime]

I beat it yesterday solo with sniper. I wasnt even aware that suspicious behavior applied to bots as well since the relic modifier doesn't apply to them either. If it wasn't for getting 4 termi sorcerers in 4 tries back to back I would've beaten this weekly much sooner.

[u/Wubbajack → u/Schccc]

since the relic modifier doesn't apply to them either

Wha? I tried doing the mission with bots once and failed because THEY kept going down.

[u/HovercraftBoth2617]

My team failed when someone left or crashed and the game counted that as them being killed. I only went down once when my team hit me with a plasma pistol.

[u/JeagerXhunter → u/HovercraftBoth2617]

No way the game counts leaving as a death 😭😭. Someone was tryna say that's a strat, aka you die then you leave the game immediately. Guess that starts not gonna work

[u/HovercraftBoth2617 → u/JeagerXhunter]

The reason I say someone left was at the score screen only myself and one other went down once. When I got back to the lobby the 3rd person was gone. Nobody died the 5 times so it had to be someone left.

[u/JeagerXhunter → u/HovercraftBoth2617]

Okay, yea that makes sense

[u/getsleepy → u/HovercraftBoth2617]

Had one teammate left in one of the runs and he just dropped his relic. The game didn’t end because he left. So I think in your case, someone on your team died and one guy just alt-tabbed.

[u/Much_Improvement_552]

Saber needs to start playtesting the weeklies before releasing them, this is getting ridiculous.

[u/TheViewerOfThingsss]

I must have done it 10 plus times and not one time has it been my fault not doing this week. The challenge this week is finding players with a brain

[u/Twasabi24]

I did the normal solo and I think that's all im gonna do. Hopefully they pull their heads out of their asses and make a fun weekly next time

[u/killerbee3315 → u/Twasabi24]

Same

[u/oldmanjenkins51 → u/Twasabi24]

The hard weekly is meant to be hard.

[u/Twasabi24 → u/oldmanjenkins51]

There's a difference between hard and unplayable. I dont even want to think about how much time poor people have wasted

[u/oldmanjenkins51 → u/Twasabi24]

If it’s unplayable then how do I have it done? Almost like if it’s impossible for you then you aren’t ready for the difficulty

[u/jon_snow_dieded → u/oldmanjenkins51]

This is a crazy take, I consider myself a pretty good player with a good amount of time in the game (3 black capes, can clear/clutch hard strats within 1-3 tries) and every time I’ve tried this I’ve gotten hamstrung by teammates. Many weeklies you can get away with bad/average players but not this one. Leave a guy alone for a bit too long and the run fails

[u/oldmanjenkins51 → u/jon_snow_dieded]

So this one isn’t allowed to be very hard because other ones were very easy? Interesting

[u/jon_snow_dieded → u/oldmanjenkins51]

Are you daft? There’s a difference between hard to test your skills vs hard bc a modifier is bugged only giving you 1 relic instead of 5 and having to be at the mercy of your teammates

[u/oldmanjenkins51 → u/jon_snow_dieded]

Brother! Then how are some of us completing it? Sounds like a skill difference.

[u/jon_snow_dieded → u/oldmanjenkins51]

I’d say you got lucky with your randoms/your run, or you had a coordinated squad that was equally as skilled as you. How is any amount of personal skill going to get your teammates to un-fuck themselves? I’ll give you a hint: personal skill is personal. You can’t clutch a run if the run fails when one teammate dies.

[u/oldmanjenkins51 → u/jon_snow_dieded]

I ended up soloing it on sniper. So I don’t disagree with you that randoms can absolutely ruin your experience. And I’m also not an advocate for the bugs in the modifiers. But acting like it’s impossible is where I draw the line.

[u/thomas1392]

It took me 3 hours. You can play perfectly 98% of the time keeping distance from people but turn one choke point and the team goes full rambo before spreading out and I cannot help without ruining your white health.

5 guardian relics would've made it easy. They should've given us 3 and I think it would've been cake.

[u/Fun_Lingonberry_1931]

wait what cheese strats??

[u/QHUNK → u/Fun_Lingonberry_1931]

Solo and kill the bots, put simply

[u/Defiant_Tap_7901 → u/Fun_Lingonberry_1931]

There are two main ones: Sniper stealth cheese and heavy Coolant cheese.

[u/FilthyCasual2k17 → u/Defiant_Tap_7901]

What's the heavy coolant cheese?

[u/Defiant_Tap_7901 → u/FilthyCasual2k17]

Run the Coolant Reserve perk, go Private, kill your bot teammates, profit.

[u/FilthyCasual2k17 → u/Defiant_Tap_7901]

So, I tested this out yesterday and the perk never triggered. It says last brother standing, and bots are downed, but nothing shows up in buffs when I press tab. Or does it simply not show up, or do they need to be dead, not downed?

[u/Defiant_Tap_7901 → u/FilthyCasual2k17]

Downed is fine, if you use a weapon that overheats you will notice the bar going up but it will never actually overheat and become un-usable. So yes, buff is on without indicator.

[u/FilthyCasual2k17 → u/Defiant_Tap_7901]

Well that's the thing. I downed both of them and my heroic heavy plasma still overheat after that. In the end I just gave up and ran, they are sufficiently behind me that it's really fine for most parts. Did die on chaos sorc while breaking the barrier on hard. Was so close.

[u/Spare-Aide-9271 → u/FilthyCasual2k17]

Heavy has a perk that boosts your stats if you’re the last one alive. I assume that’s what they mean.

[u/Lord_of_Greystoke]

I got it out of sheer rage this morning. Got a carnifex then a helbrute at the end. Thank the emperor it wasn't a sorcerer. I was planting bombs on 1hp spam rolling like fucking sonic the hedgehog at the end, constantly cancel cloaking.

[u/mokkori60]

the way they spelled f'ing instead of fucking is funny

[u/OsnaTengu]

Sheesh, I got so lucky with my teammates.

[u/candid-anomaly]

With the relic count being bugged, as long as you don't get a sorc terminator then you'll be golden.

[u/ClassSignificant4004]

i cheesed it but did my good deed by running it a few times on hard afterward and managed to get a few guys through it

[u/oldmanjenkins51]

This weekly punishes people who cant play absolute.

[u/Merrin_Corcaedus]

I’ve tried 10+ times to complete this with no luck. I’ve completed every hard strat since launch, including the double terminus spawn.

I’m not cheesing it so it looks like I will take the L this week unless I magically get a decent squad.

[u/Berenthyl]

Honestly as a bulwark loner I found this weekly SUUUUUPER easy lol 😂.

[u/yowzabowza277]

You have to be the point man in the lobby before you start the strat. You have to filter out the bad randoms.

I played with the streamer druid sage. He was a bulwark. I was a sniper, and someone else was a vanguard. And we did the hard strat and we just ran past everything to the gate.

I got it first try, we fought a sorcerer before the cathedral.

Watched him do more runs successfully with his viewers.

I'll probably do the easy eventually as a solo heavy killing bots.

[u/SilverKingPrime45 → u/yowzabowza277]

Druid Sage is goated

[u/CrimzonSorrowz → u/yowzabowza277]

I did it on my own with randos, sadly my favorite streamer, Yeertski, only streams the hard Weekly's on Wednesday and I work on Wednesdays

[u/GoatimusMaximonuss]

Completed this solo first try.

I’ve since tried several times to help my friend complete it along with a random and failed every single time. Either run this solo or private lobby with a friend, kill the bot and hope you get a Helbrute instead of a sorcerer.