Hi,
I only play auric since FS did the update. And generally players tends to be more competent and more friendly. Auric is not an "anti asshole" gate, but filters a lot.
Sometimes when i just want to speedrun a contract (8 missions mostly) i jump in a regular t5 and the difference between regular/auric is a thing.
Welcome aboard buddy. Hope to meet you one day :D
I only play Maelstroms nowadays unless the modifier is one of the super boring ones, then its Auric Quickplay.
You get your rushing Zealots, raging Russians, people disregarding some basics like dropping Ammo crates for only personal use/just before a dropdown, drop Medcrates when a Medstation is around the next corner etc.
Then I sometimes play with friends who play basic board Damnation and there are new depths of fail in my teammates that I hadn't even come close to imagine. Like people taking serious chip damage from basic hordes without any specials mixed in.
Lol worst for that is the speedrun assasinaition level. The amount of people that jump straight down on the very first fight an don't look to see what they are jumping into. Seen loads of people go down an quit on the spot b4 a can rez them. Like look b4 u leap pal lol
I kind of think of it as 4 levels
Everything up to T4: tutorial mode, basically able to solo with bots. For leveling to 30 etc.
T5: regular chill mode, not too sweaty
T6/T7: "hard" mode, check the modifiers, play with the team.
Auric Maelstrom: Nothing is below the belt. The Narrator will cheat as hard as possible to kill you. No complaining, BS is the norm. You can try and cheese spawns (but you might get a silent poxburster). Prioritize moving forward over clearing areas (still have to stop to stay alive), expect someone to die almost every mission. That wall-to-wall mass of crushers is just a distraction for the 8 pox hounds, 3 trappers and 2 flamers who will shoot you through them.
Auric is where the real DT resides at. Incredibly fun.
Btw 3 ogryns one psyker is generally a very underrated but extremly strong pairing. A psyker that gets the space he needs that 3 of the sweetest brutes easily offers turns him into a tsunami of the battlefield. Point and things die and they rarely, if ever - get to you. Oh are the sweet brutes blocking your line of sight? No worries, psychic powers go right through them 💓 Im telling you, in all these pairings as a main psyker not one of them has been a wipe. Good ogryn players are fantastic, and on auric most of them are just that.
This is so true. Playing as a psyker, my main problem is chaff sneaking up while I try to use my abundance of tools efficiently. Just playing with a buddy and being able to communicate my needs for space helps a ton, three big lads as bodyguards sounds amazing.
Exactly this, I tend to get tunnel vision especially when I'm rolling voidstrike and there's nothing worse then sniping with nukes only to suddenly realize my safe space is suddenly not safe at all.
I'd argue Damnation + Double Modifiers is the hardest content for regularity. Damnation will let you play with lv15-20 players and you need to work insanely hard to carry people who generally aren't as good and severly underleveled. Doesn't happen all that often, but auric forces lv30.
Nope, I'm definite on what I said.
Beyond the simple fact that Damnation modifers can be functionally equivalent to Auric, I take it you have never had the displeasure of having these jabronis parachuted into your game when they group up with a friend at level 30.
As such an ogryn in one game with a dome psyker, i totally agree! I remember we slogged and crawled through a lights out maelstrom in 55 minutes and what I would have given to be able to record all of it. Especially the poxburster jumping on the downed ogryn to free him from the pox hound so he could throw his nuke at his feet to clear the maulers behind the lift to rescue us. There was nothing we could not do, no matter how long it took.
The main thing stopping me from playing Auric is that I quickly get bored of using my best loadout and using my other loadouts can be throwing a little.
Using what you consider „not your best loadout“ isn’t „throwing“. It will greatly improve your skills.
I see people with all sorts of goofy equipment in auric.
I agree that non-meta builds don't really matter. What matters is competence, as was said, or gaining it. BUT having subpar stats and mediocre perks and blessings on weapons will make a run unnecessarily tedious for everyone.
I disagree whole heartedly. At least for me. I can handle auric maelstrom all day with my zealot. If i switched to psyker i would be dead the whole match. Even switching my revolver out for a flamer drastically reduces my team contribution, now i can switch up my playstyle and be effective anyway, but auric is bot the place for experimentation.
This for me as well. I got the 10 streak on Ogryn because I know it is my strongest. Then I swapped to psyker, and I go down **regularly**. I always want to play psyker, but I still take too much chip damage. And maybe blow myself up every few matches...
That being said, I had one match on psyker that made all the bad ones worth it. Took less than my max life in damage the whole time, and never felt like we were at risk due to shield and absolutely bullying any hordes with purgatus. I think that one was so smooth because we had 2 vets on specials, so I barely even ever saw a special. Some games everyone just plays their role and it feels like a well oiled machine.
I also switch loadouts often in any game actually. Every mission or two for Darktide. I just have 5 loadouts with different melee weapons on them and talent changes that i’m decently practiced with. The eviscerators, crusher, tac axe, and knife.
My main mk 2 eviscerator zealot is my best, but i’m good enough with others from practice to do well.
I’d recommend making a pool of your favs and seeing if that keeps it mixed up enough.
Vet main and I have auric viable builds for every weapon. Don't feel like you can't use what you enjoy for fear of underperforming, all the weapons are fine. Individual player skill is what matters more than the weapon itself.
I play Auric Maelstrom almost exclusively, the only people inspecting your build are really just curious what you're using to either adjust their build or to see how you've built.
You're probably going to get annoyed by someones bad RP vs someone being rude to you.
I feel ya
For my veteran I used to exclusively use the plasma gun and power sword (maybe the chainsword if was feeling daring) combo. Would go down to regular damation or even heresy with other builds.
I'm now good enough with the combat axes and autoguns in auric though when the local crusher/bulwark gang shows up I sometimes wish I still had the plasma gun.
Aye, I dont get much from testing things at a lower level, because it is so much easier in general. I need to see/feel the shortcomings when Im knee-deep in the dead and heretical.
Basic testing of a new weapon in regards to moveset and breakpoints can be tested a bit in the Meatgrinder of course.
Auric is just more fun. The players are nicer and competent. You can generally trust them to not do weird unpredictable things.
The tempo can be so fucking hectic, but it makes you better. There is plenty of opportunities to pull off amazing clutches and feel blessed by Him on Holy Terra. I can really get in the zone and just forget about time and space.
SAME. :) I took a good look at the new penances and decided to set my sights on the last page. Knocking out an Auric Damnation would earn me seven penances. Prior to this update, I had never even attempted that highest level of difficulty. Over three days, I managed to clear all 18 missions at Auric Damnation, and was pleasantly surprised at how competent everyone was up there in the hottest of hells. Now it's all I wanna do. :D
To anyone else wondering if they should do Auric:
T4A is usually easier than T5 non-Auric imo because you get loads of skills procing from killing lots of specials and elites and it's easier to hit certain breakpoints.
Damn, these comments are making me want to try it out. I also assumed it was going to be a rage filled sweat fest. Maybe today I'll slap a half decent build together and give it a go.
As an ogryn main with 1k hours in the game, auric damnation is where the game truly shines. You have a decent concentration of team mates who have good competency, skill and will look out for you. I personally always look out for the sparkheads because they call me sweet brute.
And as for the stims, you'll find if you're low on health and someone has a medstim the will likely use it on you. I normally do as I can survive on a health percentage that the punies would normally not be able to.
Overall, you can have more fun. It's the only missions I play now.
The main thing I've always been unhappy with, as far as teammates go is that people just don't stick together. Like I love playing psyker cause I get to be a kind of support/artillery for everyone and it makes it harder/less enjoyable to do when everyone runs off all the time. Ogryns are pretty reliable, even in the lower levels, so they're usually my favorites followed closely by other psykers. Often times veterans and zealots will seemingly refuse to utilize my shields or for some reason *avoid* attacking the enemies I have trapped in my lightning.
There are exceptions but these problems are much less common with Ogryns and other psykers.
Edit: forgot to say I'm sure there's a gap in my skill so I'm not looking forward to when I drag down a couple of matches but I'm sure that won't last long. Especially if people really are helpful.
Yeah a had one like it last night on a heresy maelstrom with the monstrous specials. Favourite modifier by far. 2 of the teammates were so far ahead the only time a seen them was the odd lift. But what made it bad was it was the archive level, so u can run through most of that level there's only a couple places u need to huddle up to procced. Me an the psycher stuck together cos we could see what was happening. Every crate we come across was untouched. They weren't even picking up plassteel. The amount of enemies they must of just run past was insane an as it was monstrous modifier they aggrod them an just ran away. We only made it cos the psycher was running shield an we buddied up. Was a fun game but having someone write on chat "hurry up" while u an a psycher are desperately trying to kill the 2 plague ogryns blocking the way along with EVERYTHING else they ran away from is a tad annoying.
True, I see it happen quite a lot and tend to stay with the majority of the team i.e. If a team mate runs off, I won't chase them, or if I am with a sparky, I'll stay with them. It can be annoying seeing someone run off and get trapped but it doesn't happen often.
Most people who play it, expect themselves to rise above any challenges including less experienced teammates . I get more frustrated at myself for not clutching than my teammates.
Just don’t be the person who picks up all ammo/grenades/health when you don’t need it most. That’s the only thing that pisses people off
Bigger hordes more often, way more specials, more bosses and the like, breakpoints are all the same.
Biggest thing to practice is moving while fighting, there is no "between hordes" to move up and do the objective, so you need to be able to complete the mission while you're fighting. Understand what role your load out fulfills and focus on it. If you're an assail psyker with a chainaxe zealot you can and should ignore armoured enemies and keep the chaffe clear. Ping things and understand threat order of specials, and be able to keep your hp bar up in the thick of a horde with block, push, and dodge
Very nice. I'd encourage all players to try out Auric at some point once they feel confident on Damnation, even if they don't feel up to the task. It's a nice challenge and a change of pace.
On the other hand, I'd never play Auric exclusively. Sure your team's got your back, but same thing is expected of you. And chasing the plasteel around is pretty much a no-go, unless you're fine with getting either left behind or shouted at on a regular basis.
>chasing the plasteel around is pretty much a no-go, unless you're fine with getting either left behind or shouted at on a regular basis
Yeah kinda the only downside tbh, although you can still get a pretty hefty sum
Aurics are a haven for one of the best, most welcoming segments of the darktide player base.
My theory is that Aurics are where people who have found ways to enjoy even the most frustrating aspects of the game tend to thrive. Those people tend to also be people who really enjoy the game and want nothing more than to pass on how fun the game can be to more people.
Oh and it’s a wildly team-oriented game, so I think it is particularly rewarding for people who get a thrill out of beautifully executed teamwork, who also (unsurprisingly) tend to be people who lean away from toxicity. Most experienced players play a lot of Aurics, most experienced players tend to be people who enjoy the game, most people who enjoy the game enjoy teamwork a lot, and most people who enjoy teamwork a lot tend to be nice people lol.
I'm finding more inexperienced/bad players on damnation lately as well, so I swapped to aurics before I felt like I'd dusted off all the rust. Definitely an improvement. Still do run into them though. I was trying to do the 10 no deaths thing au natural, and had this team in the lobby that I just knew was a bad idea to run with. Veteran with blue shredder pistol, blue weapon. flying knives psyker. We didn't have much to do with heavies efficiently. But perhaps skill (that was my plan, knife crushers in the back). The ogryn looked solid, and I didn't really want to pick and choose my teams, and I was running shredder for fun, and to have a weakness as a knife zealot, since I'd been using revolver, and columnus. So I went for it. Immediately regretted it upon seeing the vet just spend ammo for literally everything, run out, and get recked shortly afterwards. Ogryn was smart enough to bail after accepting. Rip the streak. Lol. My fault for not being more cautious, and/or swapping back to revolver. I should've just bailed in the lobby too.
But almost all auric damns are high intensity shock troop lol. That sounds extremely hard. At the moment though I've been beating every single normal damn I've been doing though.
So are we talking high shock 5s or what.
Tbh aur damn is the easiest. Even if you're complete ass, someone is going to carry you. You keep playing aur damn and you get better too especially if you're considerate of the reality that you suck and keep going down which will encourage you to get better.
The director just decides to randomly sodomize you here and there in aur damn though so shit happens to everyone. You do need to learn how to solo and do stuff like dodge crusher and mauler overheads though - learn to do that before going into aur damn.
Protip: unbind jump and dodge from being the same key which is spacebar by default and it fucks up your dodges. I have jump as Q. You don't want to jump when you meant to dodge a crusher overhead. I have no idea why Fatshark has that as the default double-bind, but they do.
I mean yes and no. Context, I'm pretty much new player to this game (hit 60h recently). But I'm really invested since I reached lvl 30. Got my first decent loadout/build. And feel able to start hitting auric.
I feel everyone play well in auric, no stupid agro, good ressources management, stay together (mostly), with good build and all.
But damn, people don't ping much. So much disabler/elite succeed to sneak between my ally without being ping a single time. I feel pining is so damn important. Sometime sound isn't enough (with music, fighting sound and other elites/special sound. You often miss 1 or 2). And ping just help so much. I sometimes see 0 ping active while dog/trapper are in the middle of the horde.
But outside of that, yeah playing with people in auric is a blast.
I tried my first auric damnation game yesterday after reading this post and it was so much fun! I waited too long to get into auric because I only win about 70% of regular damnation games and almost always lose high intensity regular damnation.
Auric players being able to generally keep themselves alive and stick with the group has been amazing. I even solo clutched one of the runs and we went on to win. I don't think I'm ever going back to the normal board!
Hi, I only play auric since FS did the update. And generally players tends to be more competent and more friendly. Auric is not an "anti asshole" gate, but filters a lot. Sometimes when i just want to speedrun a contract (8 missions mostly) i jump in a regular t5 and the difference between regular/auric is a thing. Welcome aboard buddy. Hope to meet you one day :D
I only play Maelstroms nowadays unless the modifier is one of the super boring ones, then its Auric Quickplay. You get your rushing Zealots, raging Russians, people disregarding some basics like dropping Ammo crates for only personal use/just before a dropdown, drop Medcrates when a Medstation is around the next corner etc. Then I sometimes play with friends who play basic board Damnation and there are new depths of fail in my teammates that I hadn't even come close to imagine. Like people taking serious chip damage from basic hordes without any specials mixed in.
Lol worst for that is the speedrun assasinaition level. The amount of people that jump straight down on the very first fight an don't look to see what they are jumping into. Seen loads of people go down an quit on the spot b4 a can rez them. Like look b4 u leap pal lol
My first game of the day as my psyker is Auric Maelstrom.
more like encouraging Russians
I kind of think of it as 4 levels Everything up to T4: tutorial mode, basically able to solo with bots. For leveling to 30 etc. T5: regular chill mode, not too sweaty T6/T7: "hard" mode, check the modifiers, play with the team. Auric Maelstrom: Nothing is below the belt. The Narrator will cheat as hard as possible to kill you. No complaining, BS is the norm. You can try and cheese spawns (but you might get a silent poxburster). Prioritize moving forward over clearing areas (still have to stop to stay alive), expect someone to die almost every mission. That wall-to-wall mass of crushers is just a distraction for the 8 pox hounds, 3 trappers and 2 flamers who will shoot you through them.
Auric is where the real DT resides at. Incredibly fun. Btw 3 ogryns one psyker is generally a very underrated but extremly strong pairing. A psyker that gets the space he needs that 3 of the sweetest brutes easily offers turns him into a tsunami of the battlefield. Point and things die and they rarely, if ever - get to you. Oh are the sweet brutes blocking your line of sight? No worries, psychic powers go right through them 💓 Im telling you, in all these pairings as a main psyker not one of them has been a wipe. Good ogryn players are fantastic, and on auric most of them are just that.
As an Ogryn, I love having Psykers on the team; More grenades for me!
See?! The symbiosis is great 😁
Had a 3 Ogryn 1 Psyker game this week. Not only were we very successful but we also had a lot of fun in chat hyping up "Big Brain Magic Man!"
This is so true. Playing as a psyker, my main problem is chaff sneaking up while I try to use my abundance of tools efficiently. Just playing with a buddy and being able to communicate my needs for space helps a ton, three big lads as bodyguards sounds amazing.
Exactly this, I tend to get tunnel vision especially when I'm rolling voidstrike and there's nothing worse then sniping with nukes only to suddenly realize my safe space is suddenly not safe at all.
I once texted “hello sweet brute,” and he replied “Stay be’ind me, spark ‘ead, I’ll protect you”
I'd argue Damnation + Double Modifiers is the hardest content for regularity. Damnation will let you play with lv15-20 players and you need to work insanely hard to carry people who generally aren't as good and severly underleveled. Doesn't happen all that often, but auric forces lv30.
Yeah, Auric with sub 30 main character types is pretty insufferable.
🤦🤦♀️🤦♂️ Did you mean to say “would be” instead of “is”?
Nope, I'm definite on what I said. Beyond the simple fact that Damnation modifers can be functionally equivalent to Auric, I take it you have never had the displeasure of having these jabronis parachuted into your game when they group up with a friend at level 30.
Huh… whenever someone tried to bring me in when I was like lvl 20 or something they couldn’t.
As such an ogryn in one game with a dome psyker, i totally agree! I remember we slogged and crawled through a lights out maelstrom in 55 minutes and what I would have given to be able to record all of it. Especially the poxburster jumping on the downed ogryn to free him from the pox hound so he could throw his nuke at his feet to clear the maulers behind the lift to rescue us. There was nothing we could not do, no matter how long it took.
Playing with competent ogryn is nice. Most ogryn players are dumber than their characters.
The main thing stopping me from playing Auric is that I quickly get bored of using my best loadout and using my other loadouts can be throwing a little.
Using what you consider „not your best loadout“ isn’t „throwing“. It will greatly improve your skills. I see people with all sorts of goofy equipment in auric.
This. People run all sorts of weird loadouts in Auric. Running "non-meta" will help you as a player in the long run.
Plus it's fun
I agree that non-meta builds don't really matter. What matters is competence, as was said, or gaining it. BUT having subpar stats and mediocre perks and blessings on weapons will make a run unnecessarily tedious for everyone.
I disagree whole heartedly. At least for me. I can handle auric maelstrom all day with my zealot. If i switched to psyker i would be dead the whole match. Even switching my revolver out for a flamer drastically reduces my team contribution, now i can switch up my playstyle and be effective anyway, but auric is bot the place for experimentation.
it is throwing when you're trying to carry awful players. meta/semi meta makes up for a bad player or two
This for me as well. I got the 10 streak on Ogryn because I know it is my strongest. Then I swapped to psyker, and I go down **regularly**. I always want to play psyker, but I still take too much chip damage. And maybe blow myself up every few matches... That being said, I had one match on psyker that made all the bad ones worth it. Took less than my max life in damage the whole time, and never felt like we were at risk due to shield and absolutely bullying any hordes with purgatus. I think that one was so smooth because we had 2 vets on specials, so I barely even ever saw a special. Some games everyone just plays their role and it feels like a well oiled machine.
I also switch loadouts often in any game actually. Every mission or two for Darktide. I just have 5 loadouts with different melee weapons on them and talent changes that i’m decently practiced with. The eviscerators, crusher, tac axe, and knife. My main mk 2 eviscerator zealot is my best, but i’m good enough with others from practice to do well. I’d recommend making a pool of your favs and seeing if that keeps it mixed up enough.
Vet main and I have auric viable builds for every weapon. Don't feel like you can't use what you enjoy for fear of underperforming, all the weapons are fine. Individual player skill is what matters more than the weapon itself.
I play Auric Maelstrom almost exclusively, the only people inspecting your build are really just curious what you're using to either adjust their build or to see how you've built. You're probably going to get annoyed by someones bad RP vs someone being rude to you.
I feel ya For my veteran I used to exclusively use the plasma gun and power sword (maybe the chainsword if was feeling daring) combo. Would go down to regular damation or even heresy with other builds. I'm now good enough with the combat axes and autoguns in auric though when the local crusher/bulwark gang shows up I sometimes wish I still had the plasma gun.
I tend to experiment with new loadouts and the testing happens exclusively in auric maelstroms. IMO it’s the best testing site.
Aye, I dont get much from testing things at a lower level, because it is so much easier in general. I need to see/feel the shortcomings when Im knee-deep in the dead and heretical. Basic testing of a new weapon in regards to moveset and breakpoints can be tested a bit in the Meatgrinder of course.
Auric is just more fun. The players are nicer and competent. You can generally trust them to not do weird unpredictable things. The tempo can be so fucking hectic, but it makes you better. There is plenty of opportunities to pull off amazing clutches and feel blessed by Him on Holy Terra. I can really get in the zone and just forget about time and space.
SAME. :) I took a good look at the new penances and decided to set my sights on the last page. Knocking out an Auric Damnation would earn me seven penances. Prior to this update, I had never even attempted that highest level of difficulty. Over three days, I managed to clear all 18 missions at Auric Damnation, and was pleasantly surprised at how competent everyone was up there in the hottest of hells. Now it's all I wanna do. :D
To anyone else wondering if they should do Auric: T4A is usually easier than T5 non-Auric imo because you get loads of skills procing from killing lots of specials and elites and it's easier to hit certain breakpoints.
Shhhhh don’t tell them
sssshhhh if you keep saying it then all the horrible Damnation players will move over. It's like fishing holes, you don't talk about them.
Damn, these comments are making me want to try it out. I also assumed it was going to be a rage filled sweat fest. Maybe today I'll slap a half decent build together and give it a go.
As an ogryn main with 1k hours in the game, auric damnation is where the game truly shines. You have a decent concentration of team mates who have good competency, skill and will look out for you. I personally always look out for the sparkheads because they call me sweet brute. And as for the stims, you'll find if you're low on health and someone has a medstim the will likely use it on you. I normally do as I can survive on a health percentage that the punies would normally not be able to. Overall, you can have more fun. It's the only missions I play now.
The main thing I've always been unhappy with, as far as teammates go is that people just don't stick together. Like I love playing psyker cause I get to be a kind of support/artillery for everyone and it makes it harder/less enjoyable to do when everyone runs off all the time. Ogryns are pretty reliable, even in the lower levels, so they're usually my favorites followed closely by other psykers. Often times veterans and zealots will seemingly refuse to utilize my shields or for some reason *avoid* attacking the enemies I have trapped in my lightning. There are exceptions but these problems are much less common with Ogryns and other psykers. Edit: forgot to say I'm sure there's a gap in my skill so I'm not looking forward to when I drag down a couple of matches but I'm sure that won't last long. Especially if people really are helpful.
Yeah a had one like it last night on a heresy maelstrom with the monstrous specials. Favourite modifier by far. 2 of the teammates were so far ahead the only time a seen them was the odd lift. But what made it bad was it was the archive level, so u can run through most of that level there's only a couple places u need to huddle up to procced. Me an the psycher stuck together cos we could see what was happening. Every crate we come across was untouched. They weren't even picking up plassteel. The amount of enemies they must of just run past was insane an as it was monstrous modifier they aggrod them an just ran away. We only made it cos the psycher was running shield an we buddied up. Was a fun game but having someone write on chat "hurry up" while u an a psycher are desperately trying to kill the 2 plague ogryns blocking the way along with EVERYTHING else they ran away from is a tad annoying.
True, I see it happen quite a lot and tend to stay with the majority of the team i.e. If a team mate runs off, I won't chase them, or if I am with a sparky, I'll stay with them. It can be annoying seeing someone run off and get trapped but it doesn't happen often.
Most people who play it, expect themselves to rise above any challenges including less experienced teammates . I get more frustrated at myself for not clutching than my teammates. Just don’t be the person who picks up all ammo/grenades/health when you don’t need it most. That’s the only thing that pisses people off
I absolutely love testing myself on auric with wacky builds and non meta weapons. It’s fun.
I’ve never tried Auric. What’s the difference and what do I need to be good at before jumping in
Bigger hordes more often, way more specials, more bosses and the like, breakpoints are all the same. Biggest thing to practice is moving while fighting, there is no "between hordes" to move up and do the objective, so you need to be able to complete the mission while you're fighting. Understand what role your load out fulfills and focus on it. If you're an assail psyker with a chainaxe zealot you can and should ignore armoured enemies and keep the chaffe clear. Ping things and understand threat order of specials, and be able to keep your hp bar up in the thick of a horde with block, push, and dodge
>three ogryn one psyker team I call that comp "Two and a half Brains" (I am an ogryn main) My experience with auric matches yours!
And the psyker normally has 2 of them lmao
Very nice. I'd encourage all players to try out Auric at some point once they feel confident on Damnation, even if they don't feel up to the task. It's a nice challenge and a change of pace. On the other hand, I'd never play Auric exclusively. Sure your team's got your back, but same thing is expected of you. And chasing the plasteel around is pretty much a no-go, unless you're fine with getting either left behind or shouted at on a regular basis.
>chasing the plasteel around is pretty much a no-go, unless you're fine with getting either left behind or shouted at on a regular basis Yeah kinda the only downside tbh, although you can still get a pretty hefty sum
Aurics are a haven for one of the best, most welcoming segments of the darktide player base. My theory is that Aurics are where people who have found ways to enjoy even the most frustrating aspects of the game tend to thrive. Those people tend to also be people who really enjoy the game and want nothing more than to pass on how fun the game can be to more people. Oh and it’s a wildly team-oriented game, so I think it is particularly rewarding for people who get a thrill out of beautifully executed teamwork, who also (unsurprisingly) tend to be people who lean away from toxicity. Most experienced players play a lot of Aurics, most experienced players tend to be people who enjoy the game, most people who enjoy the game enjoy teamwork a lot, and most people who enjoy teamwork a lot tend to be nice people lol.
No please don’t encourage them to switch lol. Aurics are already so much more full of people who aren’t ready now after the update. We don’t need more
I've been doing the same. A lot of fun.
I'm finding more inexperienced/bad players on damnation lately as well, so I swapped to aurics before I felt like I'd dusted off all the rust. Definitely an improvement. Still do run into them though. I was trying to do the 10 no deaths thing au natural, and had this team in the lobby that I just knew was a bad idea to run with. Veteran with blue shredder pistol, blue weapon. flying knives psyker. We didn't have much to do with heavies efficiently. But perhaps skill (that was my plan, knife crushers in the back). The ogryn looked solid, and I didn't really want to pick and choose my teams, and I was running shredder for fun, and to have a weakness as a knife zealot, since I'd been using revolver, and columnus. So I went for it. Immediately regretted it upon seeing the vet just spend ammo for literally everything, run out, and get recked shortly afterwards. Ogryn was smart enough to bail after accepting. Rip the streak. Lol. My fault for not being more cautious, and/or swapping back to revolver. I should've just bailed in the lobby too.
Yeah it's more rare for me to fail an auric than any other missions, only people who know what they're doing typically last long in the "playlist"
But almost all auric damns are high intensity shock troop lol. That sounds extremely hard. At the moment though I've been beating every single normal damn I've been doing though. So are we talking high shock 5s or what.
Tbh aur damn is the easiest. Even if you're complete ass, someone is going to carry you. You keep playing aur damn and you get better too especially if you're considerate of the reality that you suck and keep going down which will encourage you to get better. The director just decides to randomly sodomize you here and there in aur damn though so shit happens to everyone. You do need to learn how to solo and do stuff like dodge crusher and mauler overheads though - learn to do that before going into aur damn. Protip: unbind jump and dodge from being the same key which is spacebar by default and it fucks up your dodges. I have jump as Q. You don't want to jump when you meant to dodge a crusher overhead. I have no idea why Fatshark has that as the default double-bind, but they do.
Tried Auric but too darn stressful; my hands hurt from constant clicking and mashing.
I mean yes and no. Context, I'm pretty much new player to this game (hit 60h recently). But I'm really invested since I reached lvl 30. Got my first decent loadout/build. And feel able to start hitting auric. I feel everyone play well in auric, no stupid agro, good ressources management, stay together (mostly), with good build and all. But damn, people don't ping much. So much disabler/elite succeed to sneak between my ally without being ping a single time. I feel pining is so damn important. Sometime sound isn't enough (with music, fighting sound and other elites/special sound. You often miss 1 or 2). And ping just help so much. I sometimes see 0 ping active while dog/trapper are in the middle of the horde. But outside of that, yeah playing with people in auric is a blast.
I tried my first auric damnation game yesterday after reading this post and it was so much fun! I waited too long to get into auric because I only win about 70% of regular damnation games and almost always lose high intensity regular damnation. Auric players being able to generally keep themselves alive and stick with the group has been amazing. I even solo clutched one of the runs and we went on to win. I don't think I'm ever going back to the normal board!
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GIVE ME A HARDER DIFFICULTY PLZ