Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – PVE Tips for New Players

A quick guide for people who are new to PVE, and aren’t good at teamworking in it. We also have PVP tips.

Newb PVE Tips

  • Use a fencing weapon.
  • Keep grinding ‘how to parry’ on lower difficulties until it becomes muscle memory.
  • Learn the attack patterns of the enemies.
  • Learn how to keep rolling and use it to get out of trouble.
  • Learn when and when not to take fights, mosh pitting with warriors may be fun but wait that 10 seconds until your sniper trims them to a safer number.
  • Your pistol is actually quite decent.
  • [Fun killer] Don’t watch the execution moveset, scan around you and plan your next move during those iframes (I have my mouse sens up to 13 to do a quick 360 spin).
  • Use frag grenades as an opener, the blast will stun the warrior for you to combo.
  • If the opportunity presents itself, kill the warrior, it’ll kill off the small fries via feedback.

Don’t shoot incapacitated (executable) enemies. It’s really important not to shoot incapacitated enemies that are near your allies, as executions get armour back. Shooting them before they can be executed gets your team killed much faster.

On Refinery, when you get to the generator room (with an ammo box in the middle of the room and endless hordes coming in), make sure to go over to the highlighted generators. If the enemies around those aren’t taken out quickly, the mission fails.

The scoreboard at the end of the mission doesn’t matter. It’s nice to get more kills, but just going for K/D makes missions way harder. The real MvP is the guy who stops his allies from going down/staying down. Lots of enemies can be run past (ignored), especially if they don’t seem to have noticed you yet.

Please don’t take all of the medicae stims, keep an eye on your teammates health and don’t hoard them. If you have one, check if you team has them first, then if everyone has one you can take it.

Same goes for ammo. Dont just take any ammo you come across, unless you are really low yourself. Ping it, see if anyone comes and if not then take it.

Don’t run off without making sure you have 3rd member with you. They will probably get killed. Not everyone plays to speed run.

If fighting ranged enemies, fight near cover and learn their shot timings to dodge. If you are a ranged class, reload behind cover whenever possible. I find that a single bamboo shoot can block shots so when those flying jerks are looking at you, find absolutely anything tall and skinny to line up between you and them.

Melee Weapon Types:

  • Balance – Standard parry window.
  • Fencing – Increased / longer parry window.
  • Block – No parry.

Note: Don’t be fooled by [ooh big number] look at the type.

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