5:06 Since Taylor doesn't play ogryn I'll be the one to mention that bullrush is really good against bullwarks. Fully knocks them over and it's on a 30 second (base)cooldown so you can basically turn every bulwark group into bowling pins at very little cost.
They need to increase orgyn rush speed so that a direct charge will always outpace a trapper net animation. Finally they changed the ogryns charge isnt stopped by charging mutants, but things like dog pounces and trapper attacks mean it still isnt where it needs to be
@@nexusthenormie5578 I feel like the real (intended) difficulty in Darktide is essentially about how hordes, specialists and elites complete eachother. On their own, they are no problem, a lone monstruosity is never really a problem, a lone elite (unless it's a sniper and you have no weapon or ability to take it down from afar) is never really a problem, a lone specialist is never really a problem, a lone horde is never really a problem... Unless they start to work together and here come the real problems and challenges: gunners shooting at you while the hordes are preventing you to get them down quickly, snipers/flamers/bombers preventing you from progressing further while you're stuck with multiple enemies away from your teammates who found themselves on the other side of the sniper's LOS/flames/toxic smoke, a trapper in the middle of hordes that you can't shoot at or dodge because of all the thrash mobs around you (perhaps among one of the worst situations I've come across in this game), it's always about the mix of problems rather than single problems.
I used to take an Agripinaa Shotgun specifically because I hated Bulwarks, as one slug round opens the shield up. These days though it's just... bait a melee attack, dodge left/backwards, shoot. Or get cornered and die. One or the other.
The shield bash drains all stamina? I'm so fucking stupid. I can't believe I never noticed this before. This one piece of info is literally a game changer for me.
I'm really suprised no one in the comments is mentioning Trauma Staff can knock these guys over, you can knock over a whole pack of Bukwarks in one Fully Charged Cast, and then again in a few seconds. You feel invincible with Trauma because it doesn't cost any resources and can be cast frequently.
I believe back before Bulwarks got their shield hitboxes fixed/nerfed, Bolter could open them up in 1 shot, as long as you had Collateral over 60. Nowadays I don't feel like it's worth it to spend so much ammo to open them, unless crap already or about to hit the fan.
@@prich0382anywhere near them to stagger them is pretty good, like yeah, it’s best if they get knocked right at your feet for easy killing, but it doesn’t have to go that way
Even though it’s not always super useful but when playing Ogryn in a tight hallway or staircase you can jump and hit OVER a bulwark’s shield with a weapon that can do an overhead attack such as the pickaxe, just look slightly up and hit them with the ending animation of a heavy attack or strikedown. imo it’s easier with Borovian. As an ogryn you may not always be able to strafe around a bulwark or two in tight areas due to your hitbox size, but it’s always funny to go over the shield instead of around it
Thanks for the straight to the point helpful guides here. Appreciate the playlist for "how to play darktide" too. Love this game man. Its got its balance issues for sure but they sure crafted a fantastic gameplay loop, along with great feeling combat, ragdoll physics, and graphics. I do wish they would add more maps like rolling steel though. I like the variety and having a quick jump in/out mission as an option. I'd love if you did a map tier list. Curious how you think they rank in fun, difficulty.
This is great timing again bro. First my firs staff psyker now this. A group of the green bulwarks gave me hell in a havoc match yeaterday. I was in a terrible spot getting pushed around and unable to kill. Finally a teammate helped and we killed them but i thought dang i wonder if dude has a vidoe on bulwarks. And i open UA-cam tonight and 😂
He mentions it in passing, but the stagger system in Darktide is pretty unintuitive. At its simplest, if you do enough stagger to an enemy to overcome its threshold, you'll stagger it. But armor type affects stagger reduction, and after being staggered there's a window where they're immune to more stagger, but also after that they're able to be staggered again and go up a stagger level (think stumble -> stun -> fall over as increasing stagger levels), but also also if you don't do enough stagger in one hit then there's a cumulative stagger effect that will eventually stagger the enemy after you hit them enough times within a certain timeframe. Any part of that equation could be why the shove only sometimes staggers, and I'm simplifying it here. j_sat has a thorough breakdown.
It is also possible to sometimes shoot their hand holding the club when they face you with the shield but it's pretty hard to do and it also counts as carapace/unyielding
When I play Ogryn and I see a bunch of Bulwarks I just use Point Blank Barrage with Light Em' Up and burn them to death. Even though their shield blocks all attacks from the Twin Stubber, they still take damage from the applied burn stacks. Their shield becomes their greatest weakness.
dont tell fatshark, thats a bug. way way back before the talent trees where a thing, bleed stacks could be stacked if you hit the shield. so ogryn heavy attack spamming the shield made bulwarks megacucked
Dont forget about the bullwark/trapper special. An audio bugged trapper hiding behind him but shooting the net through him, the shield, anything else and onto you 😐😑. How do you deal with that? I dunno, but i found crying helped coping with not being able to....
There isnt anything you can do against silent specials in this game and the double trapper spawns are so bad everytime i kill a trapper or dodge a trapper im always terrified a second net is coming immediately after. Also before someone says spidey sense nobody on xbox like me has access to mods. Part of the reason why I love weapons with penetration cuz you will naturally kill anything behind the first enemy you shoot anyway without having to worry about it.
Dodge the trappers net and kill it ( if possible) before taking on the bulwark. If the trapper is audio bugged then you'll just have to hope that you dodge its net in time.
@ trappers are that bad and especially if youre playing ogryn. Its to the point where anytime i dodge a trapper I have absolutely zero faith in there not being another trapper inside of it. Also we shouldnt be dealing with something as dangerous as a trapper spawning in this manner in the first place. Also you arent always in a position where you can slide to the left after a dodge because maybe there is a wall there or a horde for that matter. Given the situations you can be in in this game and where, these things are far more nuanced than well just slide and youll be fine. Multiple enemies spawning inside of eachother and moving inside of eachother but only making one spawn sound are extremely common in this game. Playing plasma you will regularly have instances where you cleave through 3 bombers or two trappers but you only ever heard one of them.
Also TNner you didn't mention Plasma Gun, it can shoot through Bulwark Shields but it takes a damage penalty, so even Fully Charged ahots won't do a ton of damage vs when no shield in the way.
Ogryns have a ton of ways to drop that shield, not so many ways to actually kill the bulwark. Charge, Taunt, Rock, Grenade gauntlet. But the Lil'uns are in charge of burst damage
Tanner as much as I'm liking the Flame Staff on Psyker, it can't stagger Crushers OR Bulwarks, I've played quite a lot of games now with the flame staff and when Crushers and Bulwarks are around, it gets rough, especially when playing with Randoms who are using un-optimised gear. So I feel like it playing in a group of friends, the Flame Staff is probably better, but I feel like Trauma can be better when playing with Randoms. And yeah the thing I miss most is knocking over Bulwarks.
got a question i see in your games when you fight things like mutants and bulwarks. Do you ALWAYS dodge left or can you just walk left and they miss? it looks like sometimes you just side step and dont press dodge.
Thses freakin things screwed me over on that all armour maelstrom, couldn't hit anything because these dudes were at the front of the group and every time I tried to bait out an attack I had to dodge an overhead
Does Purgatus staff add warp fire stacks through their shield? Do Ogryn heavy attacks add bleed through their shield? Are there any attacks, like the zealot power sword, that can hurt them from the front around their shield?
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5:06 Since Taylor doesn't play ogryn I'll be the one to mention that bullrush is really good against bullwarks. Fully knocks them over and it's on a 30 second (base)cooldown so you can basically turn every bulwark group into bowling pins at very little cost.
Can you cancel Bullrush early or do you need to commit entirely to the ability?
It's cool to see you here. Love your DRG vids!
@@agedcaskofcritsyou can cancel early by trying to walk backwards mid rush.
You can cancel by pressing the back movement keybind @@agedcaskofcrits
@@agedcaskofcrits you can stop bullrush any moment and attack enemy with extra bonuses
It's all fun and games until a trapper is behind to bulworks
They need to increase orgyn rush speed so that a direct charge will always outpace a trapper net animation.
Finally they changed the ogryns charge isnt stopped by charging mutants, but things like dog pounces and trapper attacks mean it still isnt where it needs to be
Really anything behind two bulwarks will fuck your day up ngl lol, a trapper, two gunners, a flamer, or two shotgunners
@@nexusthenormie5578 I feel like the real (intended) difficulty in Darktide is essentially about how hordes, specialists and elites complete eachother.
On their own, they are no problem, a lone monstruosity is never really a problem, a lone elite (unless it's a sniper and you have no weapon or ability to take it down from afar) is never really a problem, a lone specialist is never really a problem, a lone horde is never really a problem... Unless they start to work together and here come the real problems and challenges: gunners shooting at you while the hordes are preventing you to get them down quickly, snipers/flamers/bombers preventing you from progressing further while you're stuck with multiple enemies away from your teammates who found themselves on the other side of the sniper's LOS/flames/toxic smoke, a trapper in the middle of hordes that you can't shoot at or dodge because of all the thrash mobs around you (perhaps among one of the worst situations I've come across in this game), it's always about the mix of problems rather than single problems.
The Indignatus Crusher on Zealot also has a guaranteed way to knock away Bulwark shields.
For taller ogryns, you can hit them with a downward overhead if you jump or have some high ground over them.
Also 2 Ogryn pickaxes which have special pull atttack can pull it's shield and then you can chain this pull attack into heavy overhead.
Been loving the tutorials, got a fair amount of time in the game but it's been nice to learn more of the fiddly stuff
These new basics videos are great! I love your basics playlist, I share it with others often!
I love this series, helps a lot my new players and some tricks I didn't know, thanks for the effort!
“Krak grenade be upon Yee”
I used to take an Agripinaa Shotgun specifically because I hated Bulwarks, as one slug round opens the shield up.
These days though it's just... bait a melee attack, dodge left/backwards, shoot. Or get cornered and die. One or the other.
The shield bash drains all stamina? I'm so fucking stupid. I can't believe I never noticed this before. This one piece of info is literally a game changer for me.
I'm really suprised no one in the comments is mentioning Trauma Staff can knock these guys over, you can knock over a whole pack of Bukwarks in one Fully Charged Cast, and then again in a few seconds. You feel invincible with Trauma because it doesn't cost any resources and can be cast frequently.
I believe back before Bulwarks got their shield hitboxes fixed/nerfed, Bolter could open them up in 1 shot, as long as you had Collateral over 60. Nowadays I don't feel like it's worth it to spend so much ammo to open them, unless crap already or about to hit the fan.
Took 2 Bolter bullets, yes.
Staggering bulwarks and crushers is where shredder frags really shine.
@@infrared6973personally i grenade max and just spam krak grenades. Its so fun
As long as it goes off behind them
@@prich0382anywhere near them to stagger them is pretty good, like yeah, it’s best if they get knocked right at your feet for easy killing, but it doesn’t have to go that way
Why stagger when you can just kill them with kraks?
@skipperg4436 How many Kracks can you carry?
One of the few good things about the combat shotgun is that the slug version with the right setup can break Bulwark shields in a single shot
Even though it’s not always super useful but when playing Ogryn in a tight hallway or staircase you can jump and hit OVER a bulwark’s shield with a weapon that can do an overhead attack such as the pickaxe, just look slightly up and hit them with the ending animation of a heavy attack or strikedown. imo it’s easier with Borovian. As an ogryn you may not always be able to strafe around a bulwark or two in tight areas due to your hitbox size, but it’s always funny to go over the shield instead of around it
I play max height ogryn and if you get close enough you can hit them over the shield and stagger them open
With a folded shovel overhead you don't even have to jump
@ i only play with pickaxes nowadays so I wouldnt know lol
Thanks for the straight to the point helpful guides here. Appreciate the playlist for "how to play darktide" too. Love this game man. Its got its balance issues for sure but they sure crafted a fantastic gameplay loop, along with great feeling combat, ragdoll physics, and graphics.
I do wish they would add more maps like rolling steel though. I like the variety and having a quick jump in/out mission as an option. I'd love if you did a map tier list. Curious how you think they rank in fun, difficulty.
The video i needed the most tbh, had a good idea for pretty much every other enemy but this boy was a mystery
This is great timing again bro. First my firs staff psyker now this. A group of the green bulwarks gave me hell in a havoc match yeaterday. I was in a terrible spot getting pushed around and unable to kill. Finally a teammate helped and we killed them but i thought dang i wonder if dude has a vidoe on bulwarks. And i open UA-cam tonight and 😂
The Agripinaa combat shotgun can break a bulwark's block with one of its special slugs.
the thing that annoys me the most about them is the psyker force sword shove only SOMETIMES staggers them and i have no idea why
He mentions it in passing, but the stagger system in Darktide is pretty unintuitive. At its simplest, if you do enough stagger to an enemy to overcome its threshold, you'll stagger it. But armor type affects stagger reduction, and after being staggered there's a window where they're immune to more stagger, but also after that they're able to be staggered again and go up a stagger level (think stumble -> stun -> fall over as increasing stagger levels), but also also if you don't do enough stagger in one hit then there's a cumulative stagger effect that will eventually stagger the enemy after you hit them enough times within a certain timeframe. Any part of that equation could be why the shove only sometimes staggers, and I'm simplifying it here. j_sat has a thorough breakdown.
They really should just add health to their shields which have parts broken off with enough damage, exposing more of the Bulwarks.
It is also possible to sometimes shoot their hand holding the club when they face you with the shield but it's pretty hard to do and it also counts as carapace/unyielding
Ogryn has a shovel special that can just headshot bulwarks from the front over their shield
And spyker can deleted them woth purgatuss or any other staff, zealot can burn them, and vet can just grenade them or plazma them...
When I play Ogryn and I see a bunch of Bulwarks I just use Point Blank Barrage with Light Em' Up and burn them to death. Even though their shield blocks all attacks from the Twin Stubber, they still take damage from the applied burn stacks. Their shield becomes their greatest weakness.
dont tell fatshark, thats a bug.
way way back before the talent trees where a thing, bleed stacks could be stacked if you hit the shield. so ogryn heavy attack spamming the shield made bulwarks megacucked
Dont forget about the bullwark/trapper special. An audio bugged trapper hiding behind him but shooting the net through him, the shield, anything else and onto you 😐😑.
How do you deal with that?
I dunno, but i found crying helped coping with not being able to....
There isnt anything you can do against silent specials in this game and the double trapper spawns are so bad everytime i kill a trapper or dodge a trapper im always terrified a second net is coming immediately after. Also before someone says spidey sense nobody on xbox like me has access to mods. Part of the reason why I love weapons with penetration cuz you will naturally kill anything behind the first enemy you shoot anyway without having to worry about it.
Dodge the trappers net and kill it ( if possible) before taking on the bulwark. If the trapper is audio bugged then you'll just have to hope that you dodge its net in time.
Trut your ears and dodge net when trapper fires. Cancel dodge into slide for 100% safety. Trappers are not really that bad
@ trappers are that bad and especially if youre playing ogryn. Its to the point where anytime i dodge a trapper I have absolutely zero faith in there not being another trapper inside of it. Also we shouldnt be dealing with something as dangerous as a trapper spawning in this manner in the first place. Also you arent always in a position where you can slide to the left after a dodge because maybe there is a wall there or a horde for that matter. Given the situations you can be in in this game and where, these things are far more nuanced than well just slide and youll be fine. Multiple enemies spawning inside of eachother and moving inside of eachother but only making one spawn sound are extremely common in this game. Playing plasma you will regularly have instances where you cleave through 3 bombers or two trappers but you only ever heard one of them.
Omg hiii tanner
I've never had trouble with bulwarks. Ragers on the other hand...
Also TNner you didn't mention Plasma Gun, it can shoot through Bulwark Shields but it takes a damage penalty, so even Fully Charged ahots won't do a ton of damage vs when no shield in the way.
Thank you! I’ve always just brute forced them and ended up in bad situations
Just now realising that UA-cam unsubscribed me, potentially for months
thanks for the guide. can u review the Kharn's Saltzpyre Vet build on games lantern?
Salt is a zealot that invalidates the entire build 😂
your bulwark spelling is adorable
2:25
Niice touch
Ogryns have a ton of ways to drop that shield, not so many ways to actually kill the bulwark. Charge, Taunt, Rock, Grenade gauntlet. But the Lil'uns are in charge of burst damage
Tanner as much as I'm liking the Flame Staff on Psyker, it can't stagger Crushers OR Bulwarks, I've played quite a lot of games now with the flame staff and when Crushers and Bulwarks are around, it gets rough, especially when playing with Randoms who are using un-optimised gear. So I feel like it playing in a group of friends, the Flame Staff is probably better, but I feel like Trauma can be better when playing with Randoms. And yeah the thing I miss most is knocking over Bulwarks.
got a question i see in your games when you fight things like mutants and bulwarks. Do you ALWAYS dodge left or can you just walk left and they miss? it looks like sometimes you just side step and dont press dodge.
Tele staff! I choose you!
now they'll fear me
Thses freakin things screwed me over on that all armour maelstrom, couldn't hit anything because these dudes were at the front of the group and every time I tried to bait out an attack I had to dodge an overhead
Bleed damage also causes them to stagger.
Does Purgatus staff add warp fire stacks through their shield? Do Ogryn heavy attacks add bleed through their shield? Are there any attacks, like the zealot power sword, that can hurt them from the front around their shield?
Could you do video on block and stamina curios
What's the best way to fight 4+ Bulwarks with several melee elites and gunners mixed in? Chastise Relic MK2 Throwing knife no aoe stagger.
If you run pinning fire and spend one shot to stumble into a crowd, doesn't it 2 shot their shield out of the way?
My Plasma Gun go pew pew.
b u l w o r k
1:10 I think he was a rager before.
How to fight a bulunemployed?
what ui mods are those?
Bulworks crashers and mollers
Sweep the leg
free funnyguy41 right now.
absolute not
@@TannerLindberg shi tragic 💔
Bulwark not Bulwork. Nice video though.
Lol, nice tekken example.
Bulwork
Marty-dom
Day 40000 of asking how big fov
what his viewmodel fov? just use the weapon fov mod
swolwark
Alright. I'll say it.
Not a big fan of Bulworks.
Bulwarks feel like such a poorly designed enemy imo. 4 of them basically puppy gaurding each other in melee is so unfun to fight.
"They come in groups of 4"
Bad design enemy
that hud is AWFUL
actually its about as good as a hud can possibly be for a game like this. you'd have to be really casual or very unoptimal to think otherwise
☝️🤓@@TannerLindberg
Looks like an mmo HUD but you don't look under your char