I love the Power Sword, it's perfectly balanced

[The Roach]

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[Void]

Originally posted by Endy:

It needs to be brought to the level of other weapons. There's no point in taking anything else, just like there is no reason for an Ogryn not to take a shield.

What other weapon specifically? Because it's just as powerful as other weapons you get at that level.

This game is different from vermintide, as not all weapons are equal. The weapons you unlock at a higher level are objectively better than low level weapons. This is how it should be.

[The Roach]

Not to the point where other classes just can't compete.

[ChibaGamingJPYT]

Originally posted by Endy:

It's time to nerf it, along with the Bolter.

nerf a weapon in a coop game?

[capybaras are cool]

Originally posted by Endy:

Not to the point where other classes just can't compete.

sounds like they need a buff

[Maggy&Me]

Originally posted by FunkBaconDeluxe:

Originally posted by Endy:

It needs to be brought to the level of other weapons. There's no point in taking anything else, just like there is no reason for an Ogryn not to take a shield.

What other weapon specifically? Because it's just as powerful as other weapons you get at that level.

This game is different from vermintide, as not all weapons are equal. The weapons you unlock at a higher level are objectively better than low level weapons. This is how it should be.

+1

[Maggy&Me]

Originally posted by capybaras are cool:

Originally posted by Endy:

Not to the point where other classes just can't compete.

sounds like they need a buff

xD

[Fulgen]

Wanting to nerf the bolter is heresy and warrants death.

[Lord Lunch]

its so garbage play anything above tier 3 dumbass

[Maggy&Me]

Originally posted by Fulgen:

Wanting to nerf the bolter is heresy and warrants death.

+1

[Red_Theory]

Originally posted by capybaras are cool:

Originally posted by Endy:

Not to the point where other classes just can't compete.

sounds like they need a buff

Yes please buff zealot into being a absolute god of war lol

[miscellaneous unc]

Originally posted by Endy:

It's time to nerf it, along with the Bolter.

Power Sword is OP, however. Bolter isn't.

A lot of other weapons in the game simply need a buff.

[Maggy&Me]

Originally posted by Sgt Khan:

Play on malice +, dat fkn stick with light gonna be in your ass after chaos ogryns gonna slap you and boiz

lmfao xD

[Cacomistle]

Originally posted by FunkBaconDeluxe:

Originally posted by Endy:

It needs to be brought to the level of other weapons. There's no point in taking anything else, just like there is no reason for an Ogryn not to take a shield.

What other weapon specifically? Because it's just as powerful as other weapons you get at that level.

This game is different from vermintide, as not all weapons are equal. The weapons you unlock at a higher level are objectively better than low level weapons. This is how it should be.

Why should that be the case?

That sounds really really boring. Why should 90% of the weapons be garbage, when they could just all be fun to use.

In fact I don't even think that's true. Tactical axe imo is quite good (I honestly think its the weapon I do best with on zealot+psyker, and maybe even on par power sword ). I personally think braced autogun and the mxii lasgun are both very good veteran as well. Plasma gun I think is alright but its clearly not on the level of bolter. Similarly you get power hammer as the last weapon on zealot and I personally think its one of his worst weapons. Ogryn doesn't even get weapons locked behind high levels. And I haven't used all psykers staffs, but my understanding is the voistrike one is considered the best but the flame one is last to unlock.

I think it is quite literally only power sword and bolter. And I guess chain sword is better than regular sword, but I think that's more regular swords just suck (for instance I think regular axe is on par with chain axe and tactical axe is better).

I do think it makes sense for the higher level weapons to be more powerful, but they should have some sort of drawback. Power swords for instance is low mobility, bolter's is that it takes like a full second to pull out, plasma gun has crappy ammo economy, power hammer is slow af and kind of worse against armor than chain weapons, etc. I think power sword gets too much power in compensation since you don't need 6+ high range dodges when you stagger every elite and 1 shot the horde, and bolter could due to be slightly lower ammo (its less ammo efficient than say the lasgun, but its ammo efficient enough to use it in pretty much any semi threatening situation).

Honestly even regular swords aren't that bad. They're really safe, and when you've killed all the trash horde enemies and have a strong dodge its usually pretty easy to take down elites. The problem is its slow and boring. No one wants to whack a crusher in the face 50 times before it finally goes down, so when people want horde clear they just take weapons like chain sword or power sword which can do the job and kill armor.

[Zeon]

No, how about we nerf posting privileges of all you whiners crying for everything to be nerfed instead? This isn't Vermintide & has its own approach to difficulty requiring access to powerful solutions to combat arguably the hardest game Fatshark has made.

[miscellaneous unc]

Originally posted by ajv941:

tl:dr it's probably getting nerfed regardless of how much you like tripping on it, because it's unfun to compete with, it's counter-intuitive to the design of a sharpSHOOTER and honestly unfun to use beyond the novelty of the initial spectacle. Most of the community will appreciate that immediately, even more in the long run.

Power Sword is overtuned, but it wouldn't be so egregious if other options had the capacity to do similar damage; like why would you ever run a knife if a chainsword does better single target, better horde-clear, all for less dodge? A lot of the weapon balancing in this game makes no sense, most of the axes do worse single target than the power sword, chainsword, force sword, eviscerator or thunder hammer, all of which can handle hordes better.