Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marine 2

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Submitted by: David K.

How to Play Melee at Higher Difficulties:
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Written by Antelope.

This is a good example of what I do for melee without coming out of an 
engagement at like 10% health on a Ruthless Solo run. Most people will 
give you bad information or misinformation because either A) the game 
is still early, or B) they don’t know what they’re talking about, or 
it’s just a skill issue. I’ll try to break it down as thoroughly as 
possible.

As a Heavy, you quite possibly have the worst melee option available, 
so if you can pull this off as Heavy, you can mimic it with most other 
classes to much success since they have better tools and melees.

* I always try to keep space first. As a Heavy, it’s tempting to try to get 
extra shots off, but if you’re being swarmed by Hormagaunts, either tell 
your team to peel for you or say “forget them” and focus on getting the small
 ones off you to make space so you can continue your barrage.

* I try to keep the horde in front of me. As soon as I see that there are 
Hormagaunts spawning behind me, I pick a spot I can either chain-roll to or 
run to in order to minimize them attacking me from behind or being shot at 
by Termagants.

* Prioritize small shooters first and then big shooters since they will 
continue to chip you down in melee or find cover where you can’t get shot. 
As you see the enormous horde closing in on my position, I pull back behind 
the berm so I don’t get shot and they have to come to me.

* Once the horde is in front of you and you have cover or have eliminated 
ranged units, you can bait for blue parries or non-blue parries and slowly 
work the horde and use the elites’ execution as i-frames. It’s good to note 
that doing a blue parry or execution will push everything back, and you can 
do stuff like stomp as Heavy or roll out as any other class.

* I try to approach the melee very methodically. I almost never just spam 
lights or combos because that’s how you get nicked, and on Ruthless, one 
Hormagaunt can take out an entire armor segment.

The easiest way to do this is to continue rolling back until you feel that 
they can’t jump attack you, and mix in single heavy attacks/dodge attacks 
when you have room to trigger gun strikes. This is important because you 
need to do more gun strikes than damage you take in order to come out net-
even in armor/health. So you’re always just baiting blue parries and gun 
strikes to continuously get armor while at the same time thinning the horde.

* Gun strikes are deceptive; they look like they have i-frames, but they 
have barely any other than the first startup. So if you do a gun strike and 
at the same time you get pounced on, you will lose the armor you just gained. 
If possible, make sure you have space to do the gun strike by dodging back 
a few times before doing it. Sometimes I get greedy, though, to kill an elite.

* Whip elites are the most dangerous because you need to parry two hits: one 
blue ring parry and one non-blue attack to get a gun strike. If there are 
two of them and you commit to a gun strike or outright miss the parry (it’s 
easy to do because heavy’s guns have very few parry frames), you will get 
punished hard as they easily hit 3 times. If you’re getting smacked by 2 of 
them, that’s an easy death.

But yeah, other than that, it’s simple and will come with practice. It’s 
mostly flow-charted for me at this point:

* Horde is coming.
* Identify barb strangler elites/venom cannon/small shooters.
* Either shoot them first or chain-roll/sprint to where you can’t be shot.
* Once ranged is out of the picture, keep space by rolling away from melee 
  units and keep them in front.
* Use single heavy or dash attacks to trigger gun-strikes while being mindful 
  of being hit in the animation.
* If there are mixed elites, then focus on rolling away from smalls and just 
  baiting the elite’s blue parries.
* Always take small hormagaunt blue ring parries as it’s free armor and pushes 
  everything back.

Also, back dodge is your friend. I know some classes don’t get it, but if you 
have it, abuse it. It’s fast and can easily trigger perfect dodges easier, and 
has less end lag to get hit.

-=It’s even easier as sniper=-
With the fencing knife, you can easily bait non-blue attacks like the jump and 
chain parry them, which kills them outright. However, it comes with its own 
drawbacks: you don’t get gun strikes. But the knife’s heavy and dash attacks 
are already good enough for that when needed and do hit multiple enemies.

Here’s an example against a bigger horde. If there were elites in here, I would 
not dash attack as much and just focus on parrying them.

Your job with the knife isn’t so much how to clear groups of large mobs by 
yourself but to be sustainable and not lose too much health while slowly chipping 
down the horde. Then your teammates can peel for you when they’re free. However, 
this is not an issue at end game when the sniper can clear hordes with the fusil 
because of the ammo perk.

Melee combat is definitely like a scale determined by your armor. Treat armor 
like your HP more than your HP is. At 2 armor, you’re good; here, you can be a 
bit aggressive with dash attacks and heavies. But if you lose one, you’re 
immediately going to want to look for an opportunity to restore that armor pip, 
with blue ring parry being the most free, and dash attack or heavy swing being 
riskier with a chance of being hit or trading. At 0 armor, you have to back off 
big time, roll away, and really start fishing for blue ring parries.



How to Run Game on Steam Deck:
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Those who want to take Space Marine 2 on the go with a Valve Steam Deck, listen 
up. I’ve been running it and it works just fine, minus a few lags, mostly during 
Campaign, but PvP and PvE are good to go. Here is how I got it to work:

Step 1: Go to the Discovery app on the Steam Deck for apps, search for WINE. Its 
logo is a legit wine glass. This is a compatibility layer available for Steam. It 
lets you do many more programs than just SM2. I do Web3 gaming on a different 
server and use other Windows programs through this layer.

Step 2: After completing the download of the WINE program, launch it and let it 
do its configuration.

Don’t repeatedly click the launch button!

Step 3: Download SM2 from your Steam library onto your Steam Deck and run it 
like normal.

Note: You do not have to use the native Proton compatibility; that’s what steps 
1 and 2 were for.

Step 4: Let the game update and launch, and there you go. You are now fighting 
the Tyranid hordes and Chaos heretics of the Imperium. May the Emperor protect!

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