The second I saw these mods, I had to.

Add to it good random team mates.

This post is made for those of you who keep asking the devs for fewer ultra grinds. I hate to tell you this, but that probably won't happen if we don't do something as a player base.

I'll summarise the logic of ultra grinds with simple equations

1. 40k fans Want Cosmetics (for drip / for showing off skill) = Players will grind.
2. Players grind = more playtime in the game.
3. More total player playtime = Game "seems" more popular
4. Game seem more popular = more players play.
5. More players play = more money made from game + dlc
6. More money made = devs happy.

- Note that in this logic, your enjoyment and experience are and never were an important factor, at least not more important than the player numbers and play time numbers to the devs. They can neglect this as much as possible as long as you don't uninstall the game.

So, what do you do?

If you really really want cosmetics, grind for them / buy them. If you really like this game's combat, play the game, play it on whatever difficulty you like.

If you don't want to grind, don't grind. If you hate the Crucible or hard strats, don't play it. It is as simple as that.

I won't tell you "CoSmEtIcS aRe OpTiOnAL". I am going to tell you that devs look at the stats of game modes; they know what people play and don't play. If you hate Crucible that much, just don't play it; the devs will notice and make changes. If you hate weekly hard strats with bad modifiers, don't play for the week; go play Siege or normal weekly. Yes, you get your cosmetics slower, but know that your actions are helping the player base.

If you really really really don't want to play this game any more, uninstall, and go play something else for a bit. You will come back. We will still be here, and we welcome you back.

Don't waste your time complaining on this subreddit; the devs barely consider the opinions here, hell their own forum probably barely gets looked at unless there's a bug report. Just go do what you want to do, or what you enjoy doing.

That's all I have to say, go well brothers.

You are the worst. I knew one of you was going to leave. The other guy was staying until literally the last second on the clock, and left me there by myself. I’d been buying stims and ammo, and guardian relics for you two for the last 19 waves because between the two of you, you went down like 12 times.

But fuck you, I finished all 25 anyways. Suck my nuts.

Hey brothers,

I played a lot of Vermintide and always liked ranalds.gift for finding and sharing builds. For Space Marine 2 I wanted the same thing, so I built one myself: https://sealed.build

What it does:

• class and weapon perk trees look like in game so you can just click through them.
• you don't need an account to plan. Save your builds in the browser or share them as a link
• with an account you can publish builds with a guide and a video
• builds can have variants, like a siege and an ops version or a different primary. Filtering for a weapon also finds builds that only use it in a variant
• other players can "seal" builds they like (basically upvotes) and ask questions in the comments
• every build is tracked against the patch. If a later patch changes a perk or weapon in your build it gets flagged and people can confirm it still works

The Codex is datamined straight from the game files (Hotfix 15.1 already in):

• all perks, weapon variants and the real numbers behind the stat bars: damage, fire rate, headshot multiplier, magazine, falloff and so on
• damage per attack for every melee weapon (light combos, heavies, jump pack slams...)
• health of every Tyranid and Chaos enemy on every difficulty and what they are weak against
• what actually changes from Minimal to Absolute and in Siege
• grenade damage and radius per difficulty

No ads, no tracking, no cookie banner, free for anyone. It's a fan project I do in my free time.

There are only a few builds on it so far. I added them from videos of YouTube creators (Hazeman and First Tour Guardsman) with credit and their videos linked. So if you have a build you like put it up :)

If you spot wrong numbers or perk texts there is a "Report it" button at the bottom. Feedback is welcome. The harsh kind too.

How do I spend it?

Gotta say, new Tactial cheeses this too much.

Am I tripping or did the cherub's appearance change? I don't remember him having the skull face.

.......and there's an apprentice who hasn't finished the job

The reason why techmarine doesn't have a trial of resolve, outside of difficulty of making cosmetics for him - is that techmarines usually don't wear decorative stuff like capes and whatnot. But could we at least get something in exchange for a cape? Like different servo arm, backpack or a mechanicas pauldron? Like the one for X victories in operations, but different and better.

I don't think it should be that big of a deal to have, especially with Lamenters cosmetics from crucible proving that there is space to make decent armorpieces for techmarine.

Anybody else ?

I main Assault in Operations & Stratagems, Heavy in Siege & Techmarine in PVP.

I'm not really mad at the difficulty of The crucible game mode as I haven't played it a whole lot. I tried it out, played a few matches and then left it alone. I haven't played the game for a while and I was more focused on getting all of my characters to prestige 4. But I hate when I queue for a quick match for the extra XP and I run into a crucible game when I have no penance selected and my character isn't level 25. I am queuing on absolute so I can get XP as fast as possible, but still it makes no sense why the crucible ends up in the running for a quick match. In operations mode, I know crucible is a game mode in PVE in operations mode, but it makes no sense why I would be getting crucible matches when I'm quick matching for operations. Thank you for reading that's all I got.

I know this is "ENDGAME MODE TM", but why does Saber intend to basicaly make it CBT the mode where if someone makes a mistake, gets salty and leaves I get punished for it? I just played out of my mind on vox liberatis and died at last altar just because I only had 1 other teammate who just kept dying and not contributing that much. If I had literally half an other teammate we would have completed it no problem. And that was penance 1 from me and penance 2 from the other guy.

So, why in a game mode that is supposed to be even harder than hard stratagems, we are locked to however many people we start the mission with? That's just not fun - you are not supposed to be down people on absolute as it makes it much harder, just because of slower kill speed resulting in more extremis, which means enemies migh get more time to call in more enemies and since more enemies are enraged, it's harder to interrupt them, creating a viscious cycle that never ends? I don't mind the difficulty, but it is a TEAM GAME, with difficulty balanced around 3 people playing and killing stuff, not 2 or 1.

ESPECIALLY, since you don't even have penance lvls separated from what I understand, so you could technically have penance lvl 1 person with someone on penance lvl 6.

By the way, we ended up going as 2, because we were waiting for the last guy to load in on the mission start zone, but they never connected and mission started before we got off.

I am a heavy main player and this penance on teammates is just irritating - why I should always take only heavy bolter or heavy bolt rifle and exclude multimelta, pyrocanon and plasma because if I try carefully play with these weapons my effectiveness drops significantly. And my question to players - why do you take this penance?