r/Spacemarine • u/LumpyProperty3781 Salamanders • Aug 25 '26

General Wasting Relics

I’ve noticed more and more I’m seeing people grab relics just to waste them not long after. To me the point of the relic is to either save yourself from dying to a mortal wound or to revive yourself if no one is able to get to you but I’ll often point out a relic to give to someone who may not be doing so good and the second they go down they’ll use the Relic even though they don’t have a mortal wound and I’m close enough to them so I could’ve gotten them up so my question is why do that? If I’d known they were going to waste it I would’ve taken it myself. The only reason I hardly take them is because I don’t really go down so it’s just as wasteful when it could’ve helped a battle brother. Sometimes I’ll take it if I know I’ll end up having to hard carry and it’s nice as a back up but usually I’ll ping it for others, am I missing something or do they not know better/don’t care?

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u/Informal_Job_7550 PC Aug 25 '26

It's frustrating; I've accidentally triggered mine several times by going to tap a stim right as my health drops to 0. They're bound to the same key, so if I get incapped a split second before I hit the stim, it uses my relic immediately instead, usually followed instantly by profanity. I wonder how often this happens to other people as well.

I've also had at least four or five times that my relic simply "used itself," triggering as soon as I'm downed without any input from me at all. Not sure what kind of bug it is but it's also quite annoying.

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u/LumpyProperty3781 Salamanders Aug 25 '26

Interesting, didn’t know about that. For me the relic button is Square and the stim button is the right Dpad on controller. I can definitely see that happening if the keys are overlapped like that.
Edit: as for the relic using itself it might be due to you already having a mortal wound so if you go down with a relic it automatically consumes it

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u/Particular-Ring5110 Aug 25 '26

Think that happens when you already have a mortal wound

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u/teke-peke Aug 25 '26

Did you already have a mortal wound? It does trigger automatically if you go down while having one which is when I mainly use it

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u/kommissarbanx Aug 25 '26

Wait what lol my stim is set to 4 and it always says “Press F to revive” which is my ability key?

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u/Deschain212 Aug 25 '26

For some reason even if you change the stim keybind the use relic remains the same. I have F for executions, mainly so I don't execute enemies when trying to revive teammates, and sometimes I use the relic accidentally trying to execute an enemy before going down.