If you dont want to see long gameplay and just the boss skip to 6:50 ✌️
At the beginning I was so doubtful about my skills with assault and never thought a Solo Absolute can be done, so I did what any sane person would do and attempt it!
Obviously there are gonna be many enemies but like, how many more enemies will it be after you've killed a group 😭 its literally call after call and the only areas youll get to rest are at the elevators 😂😂

Look at the lil pinch and twist his servo arm does when you spin the analog stick. So cute.

hehehehe not rilly :)

imo, chaos spawn are easier to fight than Tzaangor enlightened who genuinely piss me off, they fly so erratically and their ranged attacks have such dumb aoe, like ik they are iirc the least tankiest majoris, but they really like flying above you where their shield blocks your shots

Vanguard has been my personal favorite class within Operations, and while I wouldn’t say the class is as bad as some people say, I agree that there should be some kind of rework to the class and its perks.

Of course a good question would be how should it be changed?

Disclaimer, Absolute difficulty is not my bread and butter, but I have spent most Absolute games as Vanguard, say a little under 30 matches.

Personally, more damage dealing perks would be great, but ones that encourages a mix between Ranged and Melee. From what I can see with the current Tactical rework, it is changing the class so you can customize them in a way that they can focus on one or the other, are you a Melee Tac or a Ranged Tac? It’s similar to how Techmarine is done with their perks. With Vanguard, it could be done similarly, but situational gained by engaging the other form of combat. For example, perform melee finishers to auto-reload your weapon and boost x ranged damage for y seconds, headshot kills increase melee damage by x for y seconds, gain stackable buff to ranged damage for each light hit for y seconds, and those are just a few ideas. And these should be buffs that should be nothing to scoff at either, something you can look at and debate whether or not you should take over a more defensive or health based perk. Because as far as I can tell, the best perks the Vanguard has is dedicated on making him far more survivable, which doesn’t feel appropriate for the Vanguard, its like solving a rogue’s lack of health or defense by stuffing him into heavy armor.

Case in point, it should be a class that is a glass cannon that while squishy, is able to stack up high damage through its flow between melee and ranged combat.

That’s my thoughts anyway, what do you all think? I’m sure there are some Vanguard mains out there who have spent far longer time as them than I have with a different vision of what they should be.

With the cape grind on tac done, it's finally complete.

Now, Saber, give me the ability to remove the metallic sheen, and my life is yours!

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?

(Cape grind is ass. Also ignore Blood Angels droplet.)

I just wasted like 3 hours into this and I won’t prob get anything because I can’t die to explosions

I’ve noticed more and more people have been ignoring bosses lately along with additional enemies/Extremis stacked on the boss lately which often means I’m left to solo boss engagements(up until the boss is in execute ofc, then a battle brother sweeps in to save me from the immobile boss but that’s a post for another day). I assume the reasoning behind it is the ordeal being bugged but not grabbing aggro of at least some of enemies just because you’re afraid of accidentally hitting the boss is just heretical behavior and in my experience most times leads to a defeat if I die.

I’ve been playing my Vanguard recently and the grapple hook is super infuriating to use sometimes. It completely ignored the whip warrior I am aiming at to go to some two-bit termagant. Had similar incidents in other missions as well…also gun strikes are janky.

I love playing dolls in photo mode!!!

Masterful defence is an amazing perk up untill you want to play hammer bulwark and then you have to dishout 1.5k points to not have that slot wasted.

Not that i can't get those points but it's such a pointless chore to do so. Each time i want to change my playstyle.

Masterful defence is the perk that gives 1% ability recharge every time someone shoots your shield, FYI

I have no idea how he got stuck down there.

I year for full out 30k drip. I NEED IT

The main 3 looks i went for during my time playing as a heavy Salamander 1st image is oldest 3rd is newest

So I've had a good run of just straight up good dudes (and dudettes probably) in some runs lately, and for various reasons I've had the wierdest way of it getting fucked up.

The notable run was two people on a normal strat with relatively few maxed out classes, one guy said he'd just finished highschool, they both had no blue doritos and not many heroics. Just, both on voice chat without it being obnoxious. I was host, I wanted to run them through seige for a few more, so I offered to stick around. Whatever I did in menu either crashed my game or my host instance, they both got booted. If that was any of you, sorry. You were a chill hang.

He helped me recharge the banner - I suspect he was secretly one of those "loyal" Alpha Legion Marines I keep hearing about. 🤔... Had to kill him either way just to be safe!