Playing is a headache

[VelxraTV]

The combat is just too clunky for most players including myself. I watch everyone die constantly in the game on just hard. Weapons are weak and our armor is paper. Worst of all is how we have to sit through slow melee animations before our character becomes responsive.

Im just not having much fun with this. Despite wanting to like it.

Update-
Played a good six hours of pvp today. It feels like a different game to compared to co-op. The armor and health system is way better as both regen. It was also nice to play and not be completely stun locked the entire time. Though it still happens with a vanguard attached. Or locked in animations swinging a hammer using assault. Both end up just being deaths unable to move.

PvP is more a enjoyable experience.

Update2-
I also want to add that dealing with constant connection lost messages every morning is another frustration this game provides. Thanks Epic Services...

[RobeRonin]

do you know what is wrong with what you are saying ? {I watch everyone die constantly in the game on just hard.} ! yes hard meaning difficult meaning great challenge this is what it means to be hard if they make hard easy its no longer hard lol ! hard stetting should never be made easy because you want to play hard and cant manage thats insanity ! try learning the game on a easier setting lol

[Vagabundo]

well i do agree that armor is kinda a joke in melee even the small units can just deplete it in seconds

[Ratsmon]

I hate that for example I click RMB to hit with melee, dude goes into a 3 second long animation that you can't cancel and by the time it finishes, 10 mobs surround me and stun lock me to death. Multiplayer I don't even want to talk about with that kind of mechanic.

[VelxraTV]

Originally posted by RobeRonin:

yes hard meaning difficult meaning great challenge this is what it means to be hard

Except, its not difficult because the game is challenging. Its difficult or should I say annoying to play. Controls are terrible, weapons have little ammo, weapons have little damage, melee is slow, and our armor may as well not even be there. That does not make a challenging experience. Its just taxing and an unnecessary burden to the player to endure.

Space Marines 1 did it this whole system better. Somehow SM2 does it worse.

[godtiermullet]

I would not play Veteran or Angel of Death difficulty with more than one random. Always stick to a friend, if you can.

Combat felt clunky to me for the first few hours. Know it's kinda flowing and feels good and heavy (like it should).

You got a point regarding armor. That's why I chose to run Bulwark on my Black Templar a**.

[VelxraTV]

A full thread of other people saying a slew of similar issues
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2183900/discussions/0/4763207599015111941

and another
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2183900/discussions/0/4763207778568203958

and...
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2183900/discussions/0/4763207778564122235

[VelxraTV]

Originally posted by Simple:

I hate that for example I click RMB to hit with melee, dude goes into a 3 second long animation that you can't cancel and by the time it finishes, 10 mobs surround me and stun lock me to death. Multiplayer I don't even want to talk about with that kind of mechanic.

Yessss this is exactly what Im talking about. It feels more like a bumbling marine than a space marine.

[Jotunn [CPC]]

Yes, got me 2 days to manage to get the combat system and somehow progress without struggle just to discover that it's just a purge and boring. It's just a shiny interactive warhammer paint but not a game.

[cowa]

skill issue

[Aluwist]

fun fact I die way more when I use keybord and mouse then when I use my controller >_> but yer weapons feel so weak
at no time so far have I had a feeling of beein a big awesome space marine I feel more like a easy to snap twig >_> (got the game on epic as it was cheaper lol)

[Jotunn [CPC]]

Originally posted by actualcowa:

skill issue

Nope, read, I managed to understand the fight system. It's just a not fun and ULTRA repetitive corridor game from the 90s. Very very poor level design.

[Jotunn [CPC]]

Originally posted by Aluwist:

fun fact I die way more when I use keybord and mouse then when I use my controller >_> but yer weapons feel so weak
at no time so far have I had a feeling of beein a big awesome space marine I feel more like a easy to snap twig >_> (got the game on epic as it was cheaper lol)

I agree the feeling with weapons is empty and flat.

[Husbando]

100% agree with OP i want to like it huge 40k and SM1 fan

sick of the skill issue comments

i play souls , elden ring black myth and they are not annoying like this stop defending the junk controls and annoying combat

[VelxraTV]

Originally posted by Husbando:

100% agree with OP i want to like it huge 40k and SM1 fan

sick of the skill issue comments

i play souls , elden ring black myth and they are not annoying like this stop defending the junk controls and annoying combat

Thank you, I also enjoy a challenging game. This is not challenging. Its just poorly/quickly made. The space marine customization is the only thing really holding it up. The chaos marines and weapon customization fare very bare bones. Along with the missing pc quality of life features. Which make this look like a very rushed console port.

Originally posted by Jotunn CPC:

Originally posted by actualcowa:

skill issue

Nope, read, I managed to understand the fight system. It's just not fun and ULTRA repetitive corridor game from the 90s. Very very poor level design.

Exactly that! Movement and combat are not fluid.

[armscow]

Absolutely agree, I uninstalled after 3 hours....

Why did i uninstall ?

I tell you why...

In the tutorial I died 15+ times....

The first mission took my 2 hours.... I died 100+ times
and failed the antenna mission 5+ Times. Nearly uninstalled then....

First quick-play mission. Died, Revived, Died, Revived, failed to Revive Teammates, because i died. Died. Mission failed, restart, Died, Revived, failed to Revive Teamates because i Died, Mission failed, Restart, Died, Mission failed.

its just too difficult... and i'm saying this as a former top 1% world rated player in several online games...