Why i HATE Warhammer 40,000： Space Marine 2

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

I've been playing the brand new Space

Marine 2 game for quite a while now since

it came out, and there's a few things

about the game that I really find

irritating and annoying that we're going

to be talking about in today's video. So

at first I want to say that the campaign

mode is garbage compared to this mode,

which is basically the PvE mode where you

play online with a team of people and then

you do these 6 missions. Now there's only

From what I can see, there only seems to

be 6 missions. So if you go to this

terminal, you see you have different game

modes. You got the campaign mode, the

Eternal War mode, which is basically PvP,

and your operations, which is like the

team-based co-op online part of the game,

which is the best part of the game. The

campaign mode is a complete waste of time

because it's like a watered-down rubbish

version of the operations mode. So you got

the story, but you don't have leveling up.

You don't have a skill tree, you don't

have classes, you don't have all the great

stuff that's in operations. And obviously

you have to play alone unless you've got

friends that you can add to it. So I

didn't even finish the campaign. I got

halfway through, I think. Maybe I finished

this Kadaku planet, which for some reason

only has 2 operations, which is very

short, and Avarax, which has I think only

2 as well. But I really like the

operations in Kadaku where you fight the

Tyranids alongside the Imperial Guard.

The next planet is kind of rubbish because

you're fighting against the Chaos Marines

and there's not really much Imperial Guard

presence. I think there's still a few

Tyranid missions like this one. I think

it's a Tyranid mission. Yeah, Tyranid

Swarm. So the only 2 enemies in the game

so far are the Tyranids and the Chaos

Marines. I don't like fighting the Chaos

Marines because it's just boring, because

when you kill them, no blood comes out.

They don't have fleshy bodies. They're

like these phantom ghouls inside or

encased the armor. So when you kill them

or decapitate them, all that comes out is

like this purple dust, which looks really

lame. I want to be destroying things and

ripping things apart. I want to see gore

and blood flying everywhere. That's the

whole point of Warhammer. So when you

fight against Tyranids, you get that. You

get all the blood and the carnage, and

it's way cooler fighting against Tyranids.

So unfortunately, that makes it means that

half the game is boring because half the

game is the Space Chaos Marines and the

other half is like Tyranids. So I don't

like any of the missions where you fight

the Chaos Marines. I only like doing the

very few missions where you go against

Tyranids. So number 1, that's against

Tyranids. Number 2, Hive Tyrants. Number

3, uh, Heretical Influences. I think

that's Chaos This one seems to be also

Chaos, and this one I haven't unlocked it

yet. And then this one, yeah, Hive City.

So you got like 3 missions out of the 6,

and it's kind of pathetic. You only get 6

missions and half of them are rubbish. So

that means I'm only forced to play 3 of

them: 1, 2, and 6, which is Tyranid

enemies. And I avoid these Chaos ones

because I don't want to fight Chaos. So

once you're done with the campaign, you

won't really be bothered with the campaign

anymore, and this is the main meat of the

game. This the online leveling up bit

where you've got your own character, not

that stupid Titus guy, and you can

customize your own armor. Look, I

customized this. You can choose the

colors, the emblems, the design of the

pauldrons, stuff like that. You put little

things on it like accessories hanging off

it once you level up. And you got 6

different classes. Now this is the main

meat of the game, and you can do cool

stuff like you can teleport to the

armoring hall, and then you gotta wait for

this stupid thing to hover down. I don't

understand why it's just not there all the

time. What does it go up? And then have to

come back down when you approach it. So

this is where you access things like your

classes. You've got 6 classes. You've got

the Heavy, the Sniper, the Tank class.

You've got— for some reason there's 2

melee classes. So you've got the Vanguard,

which is like a melee class, does grapple

launcher. And you also, also the Assault

class, which is also a melee class.

Difference is he's got a jump pack and you

can boost around. And then you've got

Tactical, which is like the ranged class,

I guess, with most of the ranged weapons

are available. As you can see, you've got

7 ranged weapons available to the Tactical

class, whereas this one doesn't even have

a main weapon. This one can only choose

between these 3. The Bulwark doesn't have

a main one. Sniper, you can only choose

between a couple rifles. And the Heavy,

you get 3: Heavy Bolter, Heavy Plasma,

and Heavy Melter. So I want to talk about

the variety of weapons, which are not very

impressive, to be honest. You would think

in a game that's all about war they would

have like a massive selection of weapons

where there's so much variety and

different cool things, but no, there's

barely anything to choose from. So there's

only 4 melee weapons: either the

chainsword, or the combat knife, which is

rubbish, or the power— the thunder hammer,

or the power fist. So you've only got 4

choices. Now the power fist sucks, the

thunder hammer It's pretty good, but it's

kind of slow. Most people will be using

the chainsword, which is really the only

viable melee weapon because it's not too

fast, it's not too slow, does good damage,

got good combos. The combat knife is

rubbish, like I said before. And then the

secondary weapons, you've only got 2

choices. You've got a bolt pistol, which

is rubbish, and you've got the plasma

pistol— no, the heavy bolt pistol. Wait,

you've got the bolt pistol and the heavy

bolt pistol. Heavy bolt pistol is

basically same as the bolt pistol. But it

does double the damage, but it's got like—

I don't even know how it's worse. It's got

a slower rate of fire. But why would you

choose the Bolt Pistol over the Heavy Bolt

Pistol when it does more damage? I don't

understand that. And you got the Plasma

Pistol. Where is it? Yeah, the Plasma

Pistol is the best pistol. So there's only

3 secondary weapons when— and this one's

the best one by far, hands down. So if you

can get the Plasma Pistol, don't even

bother with the Bolt Pistols. So this guy

can only choose the Bolt Pistol. Assault

can choose heavy or the normal bolt

pistol. Vanguard can only choose the bolt

pistol. So most of the classes, you can

only have one choice of a secondary

weapon, which is kind of rubbish. Heavy,

you get plasma pistol. So let's talk about

primary weapons. So for example, the

Tactical class, you got the auto bolt

rifle, the bolt rifle, the heavy bolt

rifle, the Stalker bolt rifle, the bolt

carbine, So you got all these different

versions of bolter rifles which all

basically do the same thing but have

slower or faster rate of fire. That's

basically the only difference in the

different variation of bolter weapons. So

you got this one, you got the Instigator

Bolt Carbine, the Oculus Bolt Carbine.

Basically they're the same, they're just

scoped bolters that do burst fire. So one

of them does like burst shots and And one

of them's single fire. And Bulwark doesn't

have one. You got a bunch of sniper

rifles, bolt rifle. They really like the

bolter stuff, but the bolter weapon sucks.

It's like the worst primary weapon out of

all the primary weapons. The bolter rifles

and machine guns, they're all rubbish

compared to either the Plasma Incinerator

or the Melter Rifle. So you might be

thinking, wow, look at all these weapons

we can choose from, all these different

bolter rifles. They all suck though. This

one is like an SMG. This one's just a

normal scoped rifle. This one is like a

heavy machine gun. It's just got bigger

magazine capacity, but the damage is

rubbish. It takes like a whole clip to

defeat an elite enemy. And yeah, it can

thin out swarms of light armored enemies

pretty easily, just a couple shots.

That's what it's for, I guess. But you go

up against tough enemies, it's useless.

It's rubbish. And this one's rubbish.

This one's pretty rubbish as well. Why are

there so many variations of the same gun

that barely do anything different? We

don't need like 50 bazillion versions of a

bolt gun. So the only good primary weapon

is the Melter Rifle, and when you play

online, you'll see that everyone is

spamming the Melter Rifle because it does

insane damage. Look, it does 8 damage

versus like 3 or 2, which is rubbish.

It's basically like a shotgun, flame

shotgun, shoots out a fireball in close

proximity, and it just, 1 or 2 shots

destroys swarms of enemies, and you can

like spam it, 5 or 6 shots, and you take

down an elite enemy. Finish him off with a

few chainswords and it's down. So the

Melter Rifle is basically the only viable

primary weapon. The Plasma Incinerator is

like a close second, but all these bolter

variations are absolute garbage. Now the

Heavy class has a Multi-Melter. You might

think, well, that must be double as good

as a normal Melter, but it's basically the

same. It's got the same damage, you've got

the same magazine capacity. I don't really

know how it's different to the normal

Melter. You've got the Heavy Plasma and

Heavy Bolter, which is basically just like

all the other bolters, but it's got a

bigger magazine capacity. So it's

basically the same damage, but you just

don't have to reload it because you're the

Heavy class. Heavy class never has to

reload, which is, I guess, the only good

thing about it. It just boggles the mind

how they could have had all these

different weapons. I mean, look at

Helldivers 2, for example. That's got

loads of different weapon choices and

different kind of stuff like lightning

guns, flame guns, shotguns, machine guns,

LMGs. And then Warhammer 40K, you've

barely got any choice when it comes to

weapons. Where are the shotguns? Why is

there not a single shotgun. Look, there

are no shotguns. No shotguns at all.

Why is there only 5 choices of melee

weapons? You've got the power sword,

power fist, chainsword, a dagger, and the

hammer. I feel like they could have added

loads of different other types of weapons

like a polearm, a halberd, like a chainsaw

spear. I don't know, something a bit more

interesting. And you just get stuck either

using chainsword or the sword if you have

it available. So I find the selection of

weapons to be really boring. So this is my

main character, I've got a level 10

Vanguard, and I'm basically forced to use

these weapons because you only get to

choose 3 weapons, and the Melta rifle is

way better than these stupid scoped

carbines. And also I've only got one

choice of pistol, which is this one. You

only get one choice? The hell? Why can't I

take a plasma pistol? And then for my

melee weapon, I I've got either the combat

knife or the chainsword. Obviously I'm

going to use chainsword, but why can't I

use the power sword or the thunder hammer

as a Vanguard, which is supposed to be a

melee character? Because you've got

Grapnel Launcher, which launches you

towards the enemy, which implies that

you're going to be in melee combat most of

the time, doesn't it? But yeah, I'm forced

to use these same weapons every single

time because you don't really get much of

a choice. Also, it would have been nice if

they gave you different pieces of armor

that actually do stuff like add stats or

special abilities. So far it's only

cosmetic. So you've got all this

customization ability to change things.

Like, yeah, you can change— you can unlock

these as you level up and they look

cooler, but they don't do anything

differently. So if you go to Astartes

chapter, you can make your own custom

armor set and you can change the color

scheme. Like, I can make this green.

Wait, I don't know, it's not actually

changing anything. Oh, that's just the

emblem, I think. Oh, that's for the chest.

Wait, so for example, I can change the

color of the helmet to yellow. Gotta

unlock these. Green, black. So yeah, you

can customize your own Space Marine, kind

of like the tabletop game where you paint

your miniatures. So it's a bit like

painting your miniature in in the way that

you want it to look. So that's kind of

nice, but it's only cosmetic. There's no

like armor that adds stats that you can

unlock or buy. Why can't there be a shop,

like a shop where you purchase new armor,

new weapons, actually add bonuses to your

character? That would be nice. And the

other problem I have is with resolution.

So I recently bought this brand new

monitor. It's an ultra-wide monitor. Its

aspect ratio is 21:9, and obviously Space

Marines 2 doesn't support ultrawide

aspect ratio yet. I think they're planning

to implement it, but it's only got 16:9

aspect ratio. So I'm playing it on my

ultrawide monitor. It doesn't look— you

can't really see it in the video, I guess,

because I don't know. But to me,

everything is kind of stretched and my

Space Marine looks really fat and wide.

But I don't really have a choice because

there's no support for it. And if I go to

standard 16:9 ratio, it gets all staggery

and laggy. So if you go to settings, go to

video, you can change the display

resolution. So for some reason,

when I select certain resolutions, it

makes my game really laggy and the FPS

drops down to like 5 FPS, and I have to

get it back onto one of the resolutions

where it doesn't lag. So I usually have a

1920 by 1080, and that's usually fine,

but sometimes even then it lags, and the

only way to fix the FPS lag is is by

changing the resolution to that and then

changing it back to 1080p. I fiddled with

the graphics settings, I put it to low,

didn't make any difference. I fiddled with

the upscaling, didn't make any difference.

The only thing that seems to fix the

problem when you get FPS tanking is by

changing the resolution and then changing

it back. So if I change the resolution to

3440x1440, which is the native resolution

of this monitor, it will go into standard

aspect ratio of 16:9 But then for some

reason I get really low FPS, like 5 FPS

for some reason, and then I have to put it

back down to something lower like 1920.

If you go down to 1600s, the sharpness of

the game looks really rubbish, so I

wouldn't go below 1080p— I mean 1920.

I can go into the 2000s and it's basically

the same, it just makes it a bit slower.

Maybe my system can't handle it. It's just

really annoying because sometimes it

randomly tanks the FPS. I've got 60 FPS

right now and it's buttery smooth, but

then sometimes for no reason it will just

drop down to 5 FPS, and then I gotta

fiddle with the settings and it takes ages

because even the settings menu is really

laggy at 5 FPS, and I've got to like click

it and then 10 seconds later it actually

changes the resolution settings. So that's

kind of annoying. So yeah, in general it's

just kind of annoying. Certain things

about the game are good, like the gameplay

is quite fun And it is quite addictive,

and leveling up your character is quite

fun, and getting new perks— oh, I quite

like the talent tree, the perk system. So

you got this, so you can actually upgrade

the weapons. You've got standard,

mastercrafted, artificer, and then relic.

And then you've got like different

options. You can select perks for the

weapon. So for example, you could either

have better cleaving potential but lower

strength, better strength but lower

cleaving potential. Or for example, the

Melta Rifle, if you get it to

Mastercrafted, you can choose either more

damage and firepower and more magazine

capacity, or you can choose

more range but less magazine. So you do

have some kind of decision-making based on

what kind of playstyle. And then this one

has More range,

more magazine capacity. So it's basically

the same as that but upgraded. And then

relic, we can choose more damage, more

capacity, more firepower. Yeah, so you got

some choices. And then you got perk trees

for the weapon as well, so you can choose

different modifiers for the weapons, like

10% damage against Terminus enemies.

Yeah, it's quite nice. Got this very

simple perk tree. And then for your

classes, you got this very linear skill

tree. You don't really have like the

ability to choose a playstyle, choose a

build, because you basically just get

everything as you level up. So this— get

level 2, level 3, level 4, and then as you

level each level, you just choose the new

one. They might as well just be automatic

because there's no choice or decision

making. So like, oh, should I put my

points here, should I put my points there,

like in Diablo? No, you just get

everything as you level up, so it's a bit

boring. I mean, it's nice to level up and

you get new perks and you become stronger,

but it'd be nice if they gave you like a

big tree and you can specialize into

things and unlock different abilities

depending on which path you choose in the

skill tree. But it's a very dumbed-down

linear perk tree, but I guess it's better

than nothing. Yeah, so I think it'll be

easy to fix these problems. They just need

to add more weapons, maybe less variations

of bolter rifles because I'm so bored of

the bolter gun. It's an okay weapon, but

it's not really that fun to use. I just

wish there's more variety, you know, more

weapons and stuff. I feel like I'm just

pigeonholed into being forced to use the

same weapons because there's only a few

weapons that are really good and the rest

are just kind of meh. And I feel like the

gameplay does get very repetitive. You're

basically just doing the same thing over

and over again. At least in Helldivers 2,

you got all the different stratagems, you

got different types of bombs and strikes

and stuff like that. You got turrets which

you can deploy And you got way more

weapons, but I guess there's no melee in

Helldivers 2, but there is melee in this.

I keep comparing it to Helldivers 2

because this game is a lot like Helldivers

2 because it's squad-based. You're up

against hordes of enemies, and the enemies

are kind of like insects, kind of like in

Helldivers. It just feels like this is

like Helldivers 2 but without stratagems,

orbital strikes, turrets, but you do get

melee. So yeah, take that for what it is.