For me the heavy bolter is peak Space Marines. That and Assault with hammer feel the most badass. Great game bro, I send people your way all the time on FB.
Straben is the best, perfect blend of robotic and human, lethal, precise, and most important, loyal. Used him as my main from the beginning, for the tides of death that break upon his shield and shot, will continue to be so for that and his personality. A run well done.
People who say the heavy bolter is bad have no clue what they’re talking about. It’s one of the best guns in the game and is extremely fun to use. I guess not being so overpowered that the game is trivialized is what people count as bad.
I love the heavy bolter but it’s meh at best the moment your operation decides to spawn melee warriors and instead of mainly range and its a joke compared to the heavy plasma incinerator
Almost everything in the game is meh at best compared to the heavy plasma incinerator. That weapon along with the grenade launcher and multi melta are all in a tier of their own. They all simply make the game easy. I’d be insane to argue that the heavy bolter is better than the heavy plasma, but it’s still very good. It cuts through swarms very well and kills majoris enemies very quickly. Sure melee warriors can block your shots but if your teammates are distracting them than that’s not an issue. Even if you’re alone with a group of them you can still use it effectively when they drop their guard to attack. Because you can parry out of heavy stance, you can sneak in quick bursts of headshots while fighting in melee, allowing you to dispose of warriors very quickly up close. And the cherry on top is that neurothropes and zoanthropes are hard countered by the heavy bolter. Those enemies can be pretty tough to hit with the heavy plasma, but the bolter just shreds them to pieces with little issue.
@@petercook438 hopefully we get the long awaited bolter buff with this week balance patch. It isn’t just the heavy bolter that is suffering but all bolter in general are underpowered. Having no stagger and needing to put between 30 to 40 rounds in the head of a majoris to execute them is ridiculous and the ammo economy isn’t great either but that’s directly linked to their lack of damage
I agree that bolter weapons in general need some love apart from a couple of exceptions. But I haven’t had much issue with ammo on the heavy bolter even on lethal. If the heavy bolter were to be buffed, I hope it would be very minor. I just don’t want it and the other bolter weapons to be made as game breaking as the meltas and all the other busted weapons. For me personally, I don’t enjoy having a game be trivialized so much do to poor balancing rather than my own skill. Heavy bolt rifle and the auto bolt rifle do desperately need some buffs though. Those things suck.
If I'm solo, I think I want a heavy bolter more than melta to be honest. Melta makes double sword warrior/lichtor encounters far easier, but also puts you in long distance doom scenarios the heavy bolter can clean up while keeping you alive. Heavy plasma still king though
Just tried with Raven Guard bro and we got to end and almost got em 25% health left on Titan and we survived multiple 3 raveners at once, Lethal is so tough especially when you have a raged Majoris and does double call reinforcements and when your teammates are stuck fighting and it’s far from us and in a corner around another corner can’t interrupt em in time and they have a lot of damage but wicked fun though can’t wait to get my first lethal done
My buddies and I cleared mission 6 on our second try, it’s probably the easiest one. Took the all melta party, which excels on that map due to the short sight lines for most of the arenas.
@@DB-ku7vu wowww yaa syncing classes with the specific perks is epic, im currently leveling my vanguard at 18 and have artificer. melta and relic chainzsword and relic pistol. I need the final perk to regen health on execute
..... what's a little shocking to me is, I've seen similar enemy comp and numbers on average. I'm really beginning to wonder if there's something wrong with my game or....something? I mean, just earlier... running Ballistic Engine on average, 1 carnifex, 3 zonathrope pairs, 1 neurothrope.... and at least 2 lictors. Did the devs really botch things that badly with the last update? 😮
@@ExtraAttack146 YOU ALL SOUND LIKE STUPID LITTLE SIMPS WHAT DO YOU THINK THE PATCH GOING TO FIX SOLO YOU GO AT YOUR PACE YOU GET ALL AMO AND ALL HEALTH TRY THAT WITH RANDOMS AND A BAD AI DIRECTORY
Is it me, is the cranifex ai acting dumb lately? Because I came across one that got stuck on a pole and refuse to move. And the cranifex at the beginning of the video just stood there till its was at a quarter of its health. Have anybody noticed this or is it just my imagination?
It's really dumb when it spawns in on a map with ANY elevation. I got a Carnifex that spawned in the Generator area of this map with the infested power cores. It spawned on the bottom of the power core on the right with the stiars, it could not climb it and kept shooting it's thorns instead.
I pair heavy plasma with the bolt pistol for ammo management. Use heavy plasma for high-priority majoris threats and very large blobs of minoris, bolt pistol for smaller isolated minors or low-threat majoris (e.g. the entire squad is taking on only 2 lone warriors). Don't have ammo issues this way and never have to melee Edit: you do need to make use of your parries though, so in that case you are meleeing. But as far as raw meleeing goes, shouldn't have to be doing that
@@anaknangfilipina5846 Eh, everyone will play the game differently. But ya I just yesterday got the heavy bolter to relic myself and it is soooo fun to use, true devastator marine fantasy lol
@anaknangfilipina5846 ... you are robbing yourself of one of the best-parts of his kit. His "strike/parry into stomp" is game-changing and essential in keeping the Heavy both frenetic and very dynamic. With "charged-plasma" and "halo" strategically mixed-in... this permits for a "connect-the-dots" type-of-playstyle between elites that no-other class has. The Heavy can become absolutely unstoppable.
@@RoyHobbs-f4v Oh I’m not denying that their strategy is excellent. My heart just feels weird seeing the long range guy go to melee much of the time. It’s like seeing the Assault and Bulwark pistoling a huge amount of time ya know?
For me the heavy bolter is peak Space Marines. That and Assault with hammer feel the most badass. Great game bro, I send people your way all the time on FB.
6:24 looked like something out of an anime. You parried the ravener using ultra instinct.
Straben is the best, perfect blend of robotic and human, lethal, precise, and most important, loyal. Used him as my main from the beginning, for the tides of death that break upon his shield and shot, will continue to be so for that and his personality. A run well done.
GIGACHAD heavy bolter
14:32 Surprise Double Lictor is so fucked hahaha
Id take that over zoanthropes any day
People who say the heavy bolter is bad have no clue what they’re talking about. It’s one of the best guns in the game and is extremely fun to use. I guess not being so overpowered that the game is trivialized is what people count as bad.
I love the heavy bolter but it’s meh at best the moment your operation decides to spawn melee warriors and instead of mainly range and its a joke compared to the heavy plasma incinerator
Almost everything in the game is meh at best compared to the heavy plasma incinerator. That weapon along with the grenade launcher and multi melta are all in a tier of their own. They all simply make the game easy.
I’d be insane to argue that the heavy bolter is better than the heavy plasma, but it’s still very good. It cuts through swarms very well and kills majoris enemies very quickly. Sure melee warriors can block your shots but if your teammates are distracting them than that’s not an issue. Even if you’re alone with a group of them you can still use it effectively when they drop their guard to attack. Because you can parry out of heavy stance, you can sneak in quick bursts of headshots while fighting in melee, allowing you to dispose of warriors very quickly up close. And the cherry on top is that neurothropes and zoanthropes are hard countered by the heavy bolter. Those enemies can be pretty tough to hit with the heavy plasma, but the bolter just shreds them to pieces with little issue.
@@petercook438 hopefully we get the long awaited bolter buff with this week balance patch. It isn’t just the heavy bolter that is suffering but all bolter in general are underpowered. Having no stagger and needing to put between 30 to 40 rounds in the head of a majoris to execute them is ridiculous and the ammo economy isn’t great either but that’s directly linked to their lack of damage
I agree that bolter weapons in general need some love apart from a couple of exceptions. But I haven’t had much issue with ammo on the heavy bolter even on lethal. If the heavy bolter were to be buffed, I hope it would be very minor. I just don’t want it and the other bolter weapons to be made as game breaking as the meltas and all the other busted weapons. For me personally, I don’t enjoy having a game be trivialized so much do to poor balancing rather than my own skill.
Heavy bolt rifle and the auto bolt rifle do desperately need some buffs though. Those things suck.
If I'm solo, I think I want a heavy bolter more than melta to be honest. Melta makes double sword warrior/lichtor encounters far easier, but also puts you in long distance doom scenarios the heavy bolter can clean up while keeping you alive. Heavy plasma still king though
The fact that we even get a 5% damage buff next patch is awesome😂
... awesome!
Peak Heavy gameplay
33:05 - That was CLOSE!
I don't understand why the Carnifex didn't aggro... as always, great gameplay!
What is your reasoning for using the 15% duration on iron halo vs the 20% durability?
Just tried with Raven Guard bro and we got to end and almost got em 25% health left on Titan and we survived multiple 3 raveners at once, Lethal is so tough especially when you have a raged Majoris and does double call reinforcements and when your teammates are stuck fighting and it’s far from us and in a corner around another corner can’t interrupt em in time and they have a lot of damage but wicked fun though can’t wait to get my first lethal done
And i bet, despite losing you still enjoy the game, my brother and i did lose a few and still wanted to keep trying
My buddies and I cleared mission 6 on our second try, it’s probably the easiest one. Took the all melta party, which excels on that map due to the short sight lines for most of the arenas.
@@DB-ku7vu wowww yaa syncing classes with the specific perks is epic, im currently leveling my vanguard at 18 and have artificer. melta and relic chainzsword and relic pistol. I need the final perk to regen health on execute
@@jj-vp2cj its about the challenge brotherssss!!!
Done them all 😎
My favorite game so so fun
But people tell me that Heavy Bolter sucks and Melta or Plasma is the only way to go!
Hoo Lee fking sheeeeeeat
The heavy bolter makes me so mad
..... what's a little shocking to me is, I've seen similar enemy comp and numbers on average.
I'm really beginning to wonder if there's something wrong with my game or....something?
I mean, just earlier... running Ballistic Engine on average, 1 carnifex, 3 zonathrope pairs, 1 neurothrope.... and at least 2 lictors.
Did the devs really botch things that badly with the last update? 😮
Oh. Also.... nice job. 👍🏻👍🏻 fun seeing the heavy lay down that carnage!
Actually i find the difficulty fun
Solo is the easy way to do it you dont get the ai bug
Then let us see yours, you're coping because you're bad.
That’s some bold statements monsieur.
@@ExtraAttack146 YOU ALL SOUND LIKE STUPID LITTLE SIMPS WHAT DO YOU THINK THE PATCH GOING TO FIX SOLO YOU GO AT YOUR PACE YOU GET ALL AMO AND ALL HEALTH TRY THAT WITH RANDOMS AND A BAD AI DIRECTORY
Is it me, is the cranifex ai acting dumb lately? Because I came across one that got stuck on a pole and refuse to move. And the cranifex at the beginning of the video just stood there till its was at a quarter of its health.
Have anybody noticed this or is it just my imagination?
It's really dumb when it spawns in on a map with ANY elevation. I got a Carnifex that spawned in the Generator area of this map with the infested power cores.
It spawned on the bottom of the power core on the right with the stiars, it could not climb it and kept shooting it's thorns instead.
Carnifex has been getting Hive mind wifi errors since launch, it doesn't really know what to do vs ranged classes at distance
FINALLY! The Heavy is actually shooting. You don’t know how sad it is that you have to melee when you’re using the Plasma since you had to save ammo.
I pair heavy plasma with the bolt pistol for ammo management. Use heavy plasma for high-priority majoris threats and very large blobs of minoris, bolt pistol for smaller isolated minors or low-threat majoris (e.g. the entire squad is taking on only 2 lone warriors). Don't have ammo issues this way and never have to melee
Edit: you do need to make use of your parries though, so in that case you are meleeing. But as far as raw meleeing goes, shouldn't have to be doing that
@@swamp-puppy14 Might wanna tell OP here since him and another YTer pretty much melees
@@anaknangfilipina5846 Eh, everyone will play the game differently. But ya I just yesterday got the heavy bolter to relic myself and it is soooo fun to use, true devastator marine fantasy lol
@anaknangfilipina5846 ... you are robbing yourself of one of the best-parts of his kit. His "strike/parry into stomp" is game-changing and essential in keeping the Heavy both frenetic and very dynamic. With "charged-plasma" and "halo" strategically mixed-in... this permits for a "connect-the-dots" type-of-playstyle between elites that no-other class has. The Heavy can become absolutely unstoppable.
@@RoyHobbs-f4v Oh I’m not denying that their strategy is excellent. My heart just feels weird seeing the long range guy go to melee much of the time. It’s like seeing the Assault and Bulwark pistoling a huge amount of time ya know?