Basic Questions Megathread

Neutral game is when you're not in your super. in PvP, Nightstalker's Way of the Wraith has a good neutral game cuz of it's wallhack perk and smoke bomb. Arcstrider bottom tree also has a good neutral game due to Focused Breathing and Combat Meditation.

Just from checking your stats alone it shows you're a decent player still (your KD is about the same as mine in comp). Your KD dips a little in countdown and control though, I assume that clash/survival game modes are you favourite?

Is it possible you need some work in those objective modes? A good tip is to look up the best control points in control and to always hold 2 of them while controlling the spawn points so they don't get flipped.

Also, do you play in a team with voice chat usually or have you been solo this far? I've only been able to solo to about 1000~ glory, and it can get extremely hard too. Even just text chat can work wonders.

If it's 1v1's you're having a hard time with, jump into rumble to improve. I even avoid heavy ammo/supers when in rumble to just get a good idea of where I sit in the lobby using guns only.

It's hard to give you tips only based on that though. Have you tried recording a game of yours and rewatching it to see where you failed?

Are you running 5 super mods as you get your super quickly and create orbs for your team mates vice versa? Also controlling heavy is team orientated, get ace of spades as it’s range is very good and probably the best hand cannon in the game to pair with a shotgun retold like you said or farm mind benders. or tlw and sniper is ok as having at least 1 sniper on your team is very beneficial.

post gameplay.

You did it in two days!? wow, nice. I need your friends.

Gemini’s and bottom tree arc will be make a good meme hitter in QP. I wouldn’t say it’s competitive though.

GJ is really strong and has a lot of synergy with bottom tree arc. Lots of players are messed up badly by the disorient. Plus the default roll has traction. I wouldn't call it a purely QP build, you can definitely succeed in comp with it.

I prefer Wormhusk though. The health every 10 seconds really helps escape a lot of sticky situations or reengage quickly.

To piggy back on this question, I just hit 50 on my Titan last night and I've been enjoying middle and bottom tree arc, but what are the most popular grenades? And what's the de facto jump people recommend for Titans?

For general use I'd say Vortex, Arcbolt and Incendiary. Not that the others are weaker, there are stronger options, but these will generally do the job everywhere.

The only one that isn't so good but still works is probably flux. It's competing with arcbolts that can splash a group for ez cleanup and skips that are great at harassing.

Spike is an odd case in that it can do a fuckton of damage but requires careful and creative placement and your enemy to not shoot it, and it doesn't quite work as well as the other two with smoke in that you would want to angle it somewhere else instead of the classic double throw wombo combo.

sentinel is excellent in comp. especially if you get gud at landing suppressor nades on roaming supers.

Bottom tree striker is a lot of fun.

Sentinel bottom tree is my main. OEM is still great and Suppression grenades are amazing right now. The utility of a shoulder charge is nice and the super is average or better. Shields are ridiculous!

I hear mid tree is good, too.

The other response seems a little ambiguous to me, so just to clarify, if you get 5 valor resets this season but are still working on earlier stages of the quest into next season, you're OK. I actually just finished all of the steps earlier this week but did my 5 resets last season.

Nope it is retroactive but only in that season

Math it out. Project what your glory will be the last week or two of the season at 3 games per week with 50% winrate. If that nunber is 2100 plus, stay the course. If you're falling short, you'll need to play more per week and rip a streak at some point.

Alternatively LFG a solid team for a play session or two.

Personally I would prefer Polaris only because it doesn't use up my primary slot but that's just me

You’ve got about 6 weeks left (Ends start of June) so aslong as you aren’t losing all 3 games and keep making gains you’ll get there

Good luck!

Never Glory. Just Valor and Infamy

The scoring in Comp is much easier to build up this season though so still worth pushing

You can't really ever tank a BB. You have to run for it. So if you have your super active and you know they have a BB try to flank them from around a corner, jump towards them, and when they get high up to try to Blade Barrage you quickly swipe backwards to the corner. They travel time on BB may seem fast but its actually long enough that you should be able to bait out a lot of BB's against your average player.

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Without super all you can really do is try to predict the Blade Barrage. Enemy hunter running towards your team with their primary out? 3 of you grouped up together? Run away because there is a 99% chance that they have a super they're looking to pop on you. Solo Blade Barrages are tougher to predict and you'll usually die without really fast reactions + good positioning or the enemy just aiming really badly, but also it doesn't matter too much. If they solo Blade Barrage you without your super popped they just majorly screwed up. If Blade Barrage isn't used for a multikill or super shut down its a waste. Take that death like a champ because now they have one less thing to stop your own supers

Code of the commander shield can absorb a blade barrage. Just keep moving forward, so any blades that land behind you don’t kill you.

It’s a shutdown super. It’s not supposed to be easy to counter. It just has limited utility.

Give Antaeus Wards a try, it's not consistent but if you're both rounding a corner and you slide you have a decent chance of reflecting the BB.

It's the little things.

I'd be willing to

Console or pc? My advice is only really for console. But a helmet with enhanced hc targeting helps me a ton, and pacing your shots is absolutely crucial. If you shoot at max rof youll have ghost bullets going all over, instead, see how fast the gun shoots first, then take one quick pause before firing off your 2nd, 3rd 4th etc round. Just one split second allows your gun to settle back down, and it gives you that extra split second to make sure youre still aimed for the crit shot.

Yes glory gain will be the same if you go to 500 back to 0 and then up again.

Try lowering your sensitivity

Pretty sure it’s a timer per kill. Kinda like a clock that gets rewound every kill.

No. If you finish three games you get it, even if you get a suspension

No extra progress from IB

I think reset will get you 120 points, so congrats guardian!

And yes, the game will remember the highest glory reached in a season. Do you can focus those headshots without a care for winning or losing!