I had a frustrating run on one of today's Hard daily - Decapitation.
Modifiers were:
- Friendly fire enabled
- Max HP reduced by 50%
- Handshake restores full health and armor
- Imperial Troopers spawning
Honestly, it was a really fun setup. Even with the difficulty, as long as no one trolls with friendly fire, it’s completely doable.
I joined a random lobby mid-run as a Sniper. Assault is already down on a respawn timer from a Neurothrope, and there’s no bot—so we’re waiting on a third. I kill the Neurothrope, and a Techmarine joins.
We push forward, set the bomb, and start moving toward the lift. In the corridor before the lift, the Techmarine and I go down but get revived. At this point, I’m not too worried because I know two stims always spawn up ahead. One near the Large Ammo Cache & 1 on the wall of the middle section of the front zone from where Swarm comes in. We each can use 1 stim + Handshake to cure our Mortal Wounds. But I messed up. I accidentally pressed the Stim button(F) while wanting to press the weapon swap button(V). I notice the Techmarine also uses his stim without doing a handshake first. So now both of us still have Mortal Wounds.
We blow up the bridge, and while waiting for the platform that connects to the 2nd lift room, I handshake with the Assault to fully heal. Then I try to get the Techmarine to handshake, and no response. I try again in the lift. Nothing. I type in chat, explaining that the handshake fully heals. Still nothing. We push through, and in the 3rd lift, I ask for a Handshake again and wrote in chat that Handshake will fully heal, and still nothing. We reach the room before the boss with the ammo cache & weapon pod. He’s sitting at ~60–70% HP with a Mortal Wound, no stim, no relic. I ping him again and ask for a handshake.
He turns and kills me, and since I had a Mortal Wound, I go straight to the respawn timer.
Hive Tyrant fight was predictable. Both Assault & Techmarine phase the boss quickly. 2nd Phase starts, 1 Sword Swing, and the Assault goes down. Techmarine tries to solo the boss for 10-15secs but still dies to it. Mission failed.
Sorry for the rant. It was 7 AM for me, and 40 minutes just went down the drain because of a player who didn’t read (or ignored) the modifiers. But I don’t know… maybe I overdid it. Maybe I shouldn’t have kept pinging or typing for a handshake. Should I assume randoms won’t play around the modifiers?