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Not stock, no. Am using:

• Noctua NH-D14
  https://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-D14-Heatpipe-Radiator-Bearing/dp/B002VKVZ1A
  
• Phobya HeGrease
  https://www.amazon.com/Phobya-31094-HeGrease-Extreme-1-0g/dp/B008EDXAH0/
  
  My case is a Corsaier Carbide 500R, which is nice and roomy for what I have in there, has great cable management so it's pretty clean looking inside. Also has 6x 120mm fans running in silent mode (thanks random black friday sales!) and a big side-mounted one that's 200mm.
  
  It's probably total overkill, but between that and good dust management, and every couple years do a disassemble + reassemble for maintenance, it's performed really well for the 6 or 7 years I've had it.
  
  Arctic Silver 5 is still pretty good, and my CPU fan is totally overkill. Only reason I have it is that it wouldn't fit in a friend's micro ATX case, and so I swapped out my (sadly, discontinued) EVGA M02 fan - which was fairly similar to a Hyper 212 Evo.
  
   
  
  I was able to get my 3570k "stable" at 4.6 ghz, but the additional voltage required in order to not crash was just stupid and instead of running at around 70C during Prime95, it was running at 96C. Still, 4.52 ghz on a 3570k on air cooling is pretty respectable.
  
  Good luck!

Do you play with headphones? If not, buy yourself some.

I personally use the Logitech G930. I used to play with regular 5.1 Surround Sound but it kept happening that I simply did not hear rats swinging (the "swoosh"), Packmasters from behind or sometimes even Assassins (still happens, but it's more like a bug now).

I feel Cata is not just about movement or positioning, but more about being aware of your surroundings. You don't get downed during NM, right? But on Cata you do. Simply because you can't take many hits on Cata, often it's only 3 before you're downed.

Imho there are 3 necessities on Cata.

1. Constantly look around. This (and #2) is what brought me through all maps on Cata without even using headphones. You can only kill rats that you see. So make sure you see all rats around you. A above-average FOV (I play on 90) helps. I still do this a lot, and you can see that I rarely keep my sight steady. I swing around and move my mouse A LOT in high pressure situations. This (18:15 - 20:33) is an example. Look at my HP - I play better & more focused under pressure. In fact I didn't get hit once. (This clutching is why I still play Vermintide - tight situations are an adrenaline rush, over and over again.)
   
   
2. Set player outlines to "always on" (not just "on") and activate subtitles so you can READ special callouts and understand them correctly. Our heroes call out specials even though you didn't see them yet. Kerillian mentiones a hookrat? Look at where she is facing and you'll know where the hook is, even though you didn't see it yet. Every special has a trick. Hook callouts are line of sight. Gas Rat callouts are hearing cone + hearing radius. Assassin callouts are line of sight + hearing radius. Ratlings are weird, like a mix of seeing cone & hearing radius. jsat did an amazing video of the science behind special callouts a while ago.
   
   
3. Use headphones. Honestly, they help a shit ton. You will actually hear Gas Rats behind you. Or that one fckn rat that always hides in the darkness, right after the beginning of Horn of Magnus in the very first street. Learn to understand where a special is. Sure, you have to know the map so you can understand behind which corner the gas rat is, but you should've played all maps often enough already.
   
   So let's say you do all this, and you still get hit. The next step is to think about why.
   
   

• What did you do wrong?
  
• Where did you get hit? In the open? In a corner? From behind? From your front?
  
• What could have you done to avoid it?
  
• What was the reason you didn't see a rat that hit you?
  
  And yes, the game likes to spawn 2-3 rats behind you, constantly. To keep you on your toes. Vermintide is a bitch, and Cataclysm is the mack.

I am by no means very knowledgable about the universe. I know a lot about DnD, but only admired Warhammer from afar. Much like you, I've only gotten interested after the game.

I've recently started reading The Legend of Sigmar by Graham McNeill. In the prolog, he states that most of the lore is stitched together from the role playing books. The book is decent so far, but its setting is thousands of years before End Times.

There are a handful of fictional "End Times" books. Before Sigmar, I read The Fall of Altdorf, which was pretty good. It takes place north of Ubersreik, where the Chaos invasion is most severe. By comparison, the Chaos army makes the rats seem like a inconvenience.

There are some books written about the Vermintide itself, but I haven't read any. One interesting review on Amazon:

>There are two ways to write skaven, there is the William King 'funny' skaven as featured in the excellent Slayers series and then there is the 'scary' skaven.

I haven't read any of them, so I can't comment.

http://www.amazon.com/Vermintide-Warhammer-Novels-Bruno-Lee/dp/1844162869

Another great source is The Warhammer Wiki itself. http://warhammerfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/The_End_Times

Hope this helps.

Yea actually I agree with this, I thought about it and I think unlocking weapons is not that big of a deal.

Yesterday I was thinking maybe the good in-between solution to this grind horror would be to have at least proper essence reward scaling as it sort of was in last beta. If I get 500 essence for W2 at recruit difficulty, I should get at like 1.5X or 2X of that for normal recruit run since its longer than weave. Than it should scale up, with difficulty so Legend should do I don't know ... 3 000 - 5000 or something ? And Cata should do at least 10 000 - 20 000. Because how many players can do it... at least it would now reward you something meaningful. If boxes don't provide crap... (another failed decision btw.)

If you are at the competence level that you can do Legend/Cataclysm ... than you should get crapload of that purple juice so you don't have to farm and slog thru recruit weaves because that is basically just waste of time and nobody will enjoy that.

So you would do few Cata runs and than you could upgrade your weave equip at least for one char for max level super fast and than the key part comes !

And I will again use Path of Exile, because they again solve this kind of problem easily ! And there is no need to try playing genious and invent some crazy mechanics when others already solved the problem

(I very much doubt anyone will argue that Sam Walton had dumb approach : https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Walton-Made-America/dp/0553562835 , short book, very relevant on this topic, the guy did very well with Walmart I think)

In short POE had one league called Delve, which is basically endless dungeon where you progress from easy to harder stuff, running thru "short chunks" of maps (see... kinda like weaves !) But if you play normal game... and do let's say whole storyline, and you are at level 60-65/100 , kinda buffed by that point, you sure don't want to go and run level 30 delve "chunks", forcing players to do that would be just dumb. So what happens there is that it automatically progresses for you up to certain level. It's like up to 60 or something. Which is +- where storyline ends and final endgame mapping system starts.

So... if you are 60-70 level and you did no Delve "chunks" at all, what you do now is just start running the level 60 chunks! And it doesn't feel like complete waste of time. Even if you are L75 lets say, you can do L60 chunks fast, get possibly some nice loot and it's very easy to burst thru 15 levels of chunks to get to L75 area where it will start getting more and more dangerous and interesting!

What a crazy concept! Right ?

So they could do the same thing here, make this kind of automatic progression or just let us farm the essences properly by core game hard content much faster if we can do the hard content so we can than burst thru the boring weaves fast. But imo there should be similar system to POE, meaning if I am L35 and doing Cataclysm with my group easily, I SURE AS HELL SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO PLAY 100 OF EASY WEAVES so I can reach the Legend/Cata weaves.

I should be able to start with the "level 60 chunks like I can in POE" which would here translate to something like spot where Legend weaves starts. All the recruit/vet/champ weave chunks would get unlocked automatically as I would complete lets say all Helmgard maps on recruit/veteran/champ !

POE Delve Chart : https://www.goldkk.com/upload/20190220/6368627945052864627267035.png (You can go anywhere in the dungeon but down = higher level, up = easier, and the middle line is the one that will just progress automatically as you level UP your character so you don't have to do the stupid easy chunks when you are high level, up to mentioned certain point - the endgame/relatively hardcontent)

You sorta skipped over the part where the Skaven live mostly underground, and have been tunneling under the empire for centuries moving around in the shadows with human agents, getting people addicted to warp-dust, and prepping their invasion of the surface world.

Oh and you also didn't mention Morrslieb, Clan Skyre bringing it down, the Chaos Wastes, or that they've been separated for the duration of the empire.

You could have also thrown an honorable mention to Kislev being the bulwark between the wastes and The Empire.


If anyone wants to real some good books I would highly recommend:

Brunner the Bounty Hunter

The adventures of Gotrek and Felix

Mathias Thulmann Witch-Hunter

The Chronicles of Malus Darkblade

The Rise of Nagesh

The Adventures of Florin and Lorenzo

Blood Bowl

The Tales of Orfeo

The Konrad Saga

All those links are amazon ones, most of those books have standalone series and omnibus to choose from, and you sometimes can grab a used copy a bit cheaper than those listed prices on like Alibris, but not all of them. Some are pretty "rare"

well i posted said comment shortly after this one hahah, this is the thing i was thinking of. you really need something like that to keep laptops cool after a certain point. also, you reallllly need to clean out the dust regularly so the cooling stuff can work and the laptop will last longer.

Yeah, controller is definitely more comfortable feeling, the WASD movement does feel a bit more jerky. Maybe you could try an ergonomic gamepad? Some have built in joysticks which might help a bit.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-G13-Programmable-Gameboard-Display/dp/B001NEK2GE/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?keywords=logitech+gamepad&qid=1562266247&s=gateway&sprefix=logitech+gamepad&sr=8-8

I bought this one for 40$ and it’s all I use (holy crap it went up in price!) but just to give an example of some of the stuff out there.

You probably want this heatsink not just a fan. Assuming this fits in your case, it'll be the most cost effective measure to keep heat down. Also, make sure that your case is exhausting hot air quickly.

Handshake mouse really helped my hand strain. Only took me 1 day to get used to it. Can never go back to a regular mouse now. I got the cheap 15 dollar one off amazon, but will look to get a higher end one when this one goes out.

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Ergonomic-Optical-Vertical-Buttons/dp/B00FPAVUHC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1526332258&sr=8-3&keywords=handshake+mouse

You want a good book series that introduces you to a similar group of crazy characters? Read Blackhearts.

I do not know for sure.
From this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Naga-Hex-Programmable-Adjustible/dp/B01DT48W5S
It appears the center is a button.
But, from looking this up, I found this new version:
https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Naga-Trinity-Interchangeable-Programmable/dp/B0788MCRGC
Which has interchangeable plates, and it does NOT look like a button here.

It claims to be a 7 button item, so the center shouldn't be a button, if they use the same numbers I do, but, they are also not counting the two buttons on top, which are also customizable...

I use Turtle Beach Recons. This version.

Don't worry about the version, they work for all platforms. Inexpensive, and I've had mine for about three years now.

Open-backed audiophile level headphones. Left For Dead on XBox taught me to use my ears.

 

For my part I cannot imagine how people play with FOV 120 or whatever the max is. The distortion is unbearable to me, aesthetically. I suspect it would also destroy my ability to headshot, since tracking distances become so variable.

 

Depending on the weapon, I'm typically putting up a 65 - 85% headshot to melee kill ratio. Upward of 200 headshots per map as often as not. North of 300 when team is not putting in work. Doubt I could do that through reverse fish eyes.

 

Even at FOV 120 you still have 260 degrees not in LOS. At most we're talking 67% blindspot instead of 82% blindspot. Either way yo gon' git stabbed in da butt, if you're not listening for the adorable little pitter-patter of rat feet.

 

EDIT: Dude, talking about this made me want to know what actual natural human FOV is so I looked it up. [210 per Wikipedia.] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_view) You would need some huge-ass display to make that work.