Thread 713673586

>Game has been shit for 3 years
>almost died
>finally an actual content update with a new paid class and a coherent campaign
>introduce new plot elements all of a sudden which they'll never end up finishing
Darktide is truly one of the 40k games of all time. Atleast Rogue trader is doing better. How did you find the update?

It is hinted that Eldar corsair is next paid DLC class and Genestealer cults are the next enemy faction btw

>>713673586 (OP)
Has it really been 3 years already?

i stopped around the time they added not!chaos wastes
any major changes to balance?
performance fixes?

>>713673831
If you need performance fixes, you need to just fucking lower the settings. My old build could do the game at 4k 80-120fps easily

>>713673929
does it still randomly have network "issues"
does it still crash when you quit the game even through the menu?

>>713673826
fraid so

>>713673831
Ogryn is S++ tier now. Zealot is pretty powerful but boring. psyker and veteran arent as good now. As for performance, I've never had any and I don't see as many complaints in the forum about performance as earlier but there are still a fair amount of people who complain about it.

>>713673995
It does have network issues. It disconnects once in like 10/15 missions. I think it crashes when you quit but I just have a cmd window pop up and go instead of a crash reporter which used to appear.

>>713673586 (OP)
i stopped playing when the train mission was the only thing on quickplay

>>713674485
you should play the campaign within the next 2 weeks while you have the chance. The game might die down again.

>>713673586 (OP)
The paid class is p2w OP. This is just bullshit.

>>713674321
Ah thats lame. 3 years and it still has the same problems? At least I can get our group to play it again.

I can't be bothered with 40k games anymore

>>713676807
why not?

>>713676807
Doesn't SM2's horde mode come out today?

Honestly darktide launch was genuinely funny. All the non-vermintide players jumped in expecting l4d but 40k but we got some fucking dogshit hellscape of terrible gearing, menus on menus on menus, and boring maps. It's a real shame since 40k is a slamdunk setting. Glad the crpg side hasn't shit the bed.

Darktide still is bad in narrative sense since the main playable characters have very little involvement in the plot. The only saving grace in that aspect is the dialogue snippets of the NPCs, trying to flesh out the setting.

>>713677923
Playtesting? I thought that was just for publicity!

What a trash company.

>>713677923
>40k is a slamdunk setting
It really is but most of its dogshit writers never make much use of it.

>>713678728
They have put 0 thought into most of the games mechanics. I have 4 million coins in the game which has absolutely no use. I can't convert it into mats for crafting or do anything with them.

>>713677923
any smart vermintide player knew it was going to take 2 years for the game to get good or on par with ratclick, but fastshark broke expectations and we still don't have the game to be on par with ratclick

>>713678836
VT 2 took more than 2 years to get good. What are you talking about?

>>713679046
not talking about VT2
I expected too much thinking they got enough experience after TWO games to not take more than 2 years to make their games good.

>>713679138
Silly anon. You were under the delusion that game companies actually get good with time. There is absolutely zero precedence of this happening in the industry. It's always decay and decadence.

>Xeno class
I know they're tolerated when needed but I dunno how you're gonna make that work when most of the rejects like to casually remind you that xenos need to be gutted
Also source

>>713673586 (OP)
Darktide looks fun, but I'm already pretty invested in SM2 and looking forward for Siege mode tomorrow. Nice that 40k is getting some better game support in general. I hope we can eventually get a Rogue Trader port for Switch 2.

>>713679661
You know they are going to make it happen since it is going to be a paid DLC. In fact it is less lore breaking than an inquistor being manhandled by a marshall provost since when does an inquistor allow himself to be bossed around by anyone who isn't a high lord.

>>713679867
Cause Grand Provost Marshall is a high lord, retard but still it doesn't make any sense why he would be concerned about the tithe of a single world like Atoma.

>>713677923
>It's a real shame since 40k is a slamdunk setting.
There is no good 40k game thoughbeit.

>>713680603
dawn of war 1.

>>713676807
Take a look at Void War. It's "Definitely Not WH40k" and plays just like FTL with a shitload of improvements.

Bots yet?

>>713673586 (OP)
>Eldar class before techpriest
Disappointing. Skitarii bros, how do we cope?

>>713680797
bots? yes. customizable bots? no.

Why is it bad? How could the screw it up, is the combat bad? In Vermintide I had fun just by smacking enemies everything else just felt extra.

>>713680905
how could they make skitarii be any different from the veteran in the first place? There is no new niche that skitarii could cover that veteran doesn't.

>>713680928
Its not exactly bad.
Solid gameplay core(barring some questionable balance changes and character tree issues early on) all wrapped with the shittiness of its mtx, menus, server issues, spotty performance and a horrible launch.

>>713680928
The combat is better than Vermintide.

>>713680905
Don't worry, you'll get a $10 skitarii skin for veteran soon.

Game was dead on arrival for me when the sole enemy faction was revealed to be lazy reskinned, reused asset flip zombies. Nurgle and renegade cultist hive dwellers just aren't fun or interesting. Had Fatshark done the needful and made Orks the enemy faction Darktide would have been good even in spite of its other failings, but that would have required Fatshark to create entirely new models and animations and unfortunately they as a company are allergic to actually working

>>713681424
>directly compete with space marine 2
come on, anon

>>713680678
I concede that's the only one. I'm going to buy Rogue Trader but it's an owlcat game so I have low expectations.

>>713679818
SM2 is boring. It's just zero skill parry slop.

>>713681458
>space marine 2
Doesn't have Orks that's the first game, but its immensely detailed animations for Nids and excellent sales kinds of supports my point, effort goes a long way and there just isn't enough in Darktide. Soundtrack bangs at least

>>713681424
>Had Fatshark done the needful
good morning sir

>>713673586 (OP)
>Screenshot looks like shit because you cant get decent frames with high graphic settings unless you have a nasa supercomputer

>>713681458
>Space marine 2
>orks
>>713681424
>ork horde shooter
yeah maybe if we were playing machine marines
sadly, nurgle poxwalkers and cultists constitute the best enemy for scenario fatshark wanted with atoma falling to chaos
not that changing the enemy type would have made launch darktide any better; it's problem went far beyond what were shooting at

>>713681673
that's not true though. You can get like 200 fps without dlss using a 4080 or anything in that range.

>>713680928
the combat is really good and the only reason i think of going back. i just ran out of patience for the awful performance and random mid mission crashes

>>713681751
I'd be fine with a conceptual darktide 2 dropping the varlet garbage and just making you all cool veterans, and then it's more acceptable to improve the common enemies.

>>713673586 (OP)
>release paid dlc class
>its op

Classic Fat Shart

>>713681424
I'm happy I got my nurgle boys.
I doubt a bunch of rejects can fight orks or tyranids well.

>>713681424
>Had Fatshark done the needful
Don't care if you are doing it for memes, the fact you said this has invalidated your entire post.

Fuck off indian scum.

>>713673586 (OP)
>paypigtide
Have you buyed boughted the $40 skins and did the needful?

>>713681424
It's a hiveworld, there's no reason you couldn't have multiple chaos cults, genestealer broods, orc outbreaks.

The is all lipstick on the pig that was the performance and stability of the game. And the lack of thought for progression and gearing. The game didn't need more or different content, it needed to work.

>>713682045
is that an eisenhorn chestpiece on the left?

>>713673586 (OP)
Did you learn nothing from Vermintide?

Nothing from Vermintide 2?

Are you perhaps one of the lowest IQ motherfuckers in existence with pattern recognition so poor you unironically utter drivel like "one race the nurgle race" and blame dreg behaviour on socio-economics and systemic exterminatus?

>>713673586 (OP)
game was always goated, no game on the market offers the same gameplay and gameplay is king, pure adrenaline on the highest diffs

>>713682350
yes, it's literally called Gregor's duster in the store. Now pay your monies to the swede jews.

>generic custom characters instead of consistent ratclick banter
fuck darktide

>>713673586 (OP)
no solo mode, no reinstall. don't care.

>>713682574
>no reinstall
you already bought the game lmao
and who the hell buys a coop game for singleplayer?
go play boltgun or something

>>713682558
They dropped ball hard with the new class. It has much less voice lines per personality than that of the rejects.

>>713673586 (OP)
I do not give a flying fuck about Shopclick's plot elements. Waste of effort that should go into more maps, more gameplay from their already limited working schedule.

>>713673586 (OP)
>It is hinted that Eldar corsair is next paid DLC class and Genestealer cults are the next enemy faction btw
Yeah yeah yeah been hearing bullshit like this for 3 years.

The game is dead, no one gives a shit.

>>713683978
The conversation in pic of >>713679867 and several more like that were added in the recent update thougheverbeit.

>>713683978
>currently in the top 100 played list
>dead
???

>>713684216
It has like 10k players per day at avg. That's a death sentence for a liver service game.

>>713684302
ok rajeesh

>>713684302
maybe if sony is your publisher
don't look at vermintide 1 or 2's steamcharts or you'll have a heart attack

>>713684091
No one gives a shit about fatsharts gaslighting. No content is coming.

>>713684427
VT2 has run its cycle. DT is supposed to be the flagship now but is still ailing.

>>713684427
I think it's worth noting how foolish warham autists are with their cash and time. There were still people playing deathwing years after release.

>>713673586 (OP)
The biggest mistake they did was making the characters interchangeable with multiple voice options and customisations. Fact is people do find the Vermintide series memorable because of the set characters, the banter they have with each other which includes often what they look like to the other characters.

>>713682045
Finally, Zealot gets its 2nd good premium cosmetic set.

>>713684790
what's the first good set?

>>713684525
vt2 during it's peak still has few thousand less players than darktide when it is supposed to be generally shit
>>713684657
you can at least get deathwing for pennies on sale
it's probably duped as many people as hired gun

>>713684864
>vt2 during it's peak still has few thousand less players
FS wasn't a big company back then. Now they're under the management of tencent.

>>713684978
okay industry insider can i see what numbers tencent wants darktide to be doing
my guess is 'more than their previous game'

>>713685119
that is quite the understatement given how rushed DTs release was and how the cashshop was prioritized over everything else.

>>713673586 (OP)
>40k game
>shit
first time?

>>713673586 (OP)
Instead of 40k they should have done a spin off of Vermintide where you are the evil guys. The characters being a Khorne warrior, a Tzeentch mage, a Nurgle priest, a Slaanesh cultist and a Beastman working under Chaos Undivided and do the invading and killing scores of Empire in Reiksland and Elves in Ulthuan.

>>713685681
What's the fun in that? The point of the tide games is fighting against insurmountable odds despite the lost hope. Chaos is winning in both 40k and fantasy so fighting in the side of the winner will be boring.

>>713673586 (OP)
I honestly cant get enough of the combat, its just so crunchy and satisfying. But yeah, the narrative base is there, but the presentation is ass. They couldve done so much more with it

Sure would love to play it, but like thousands of other people, the menu won't pass this stage and NOBODY has ever come up with a fix for it.

Honestly. Look online. Endless threads for this and no solution in sight.

>>713686360
works on my machine :)

>>713686418
kys

>>713676807
>only waiting for the DoW remake to see if UA will work past the three hour mark

>>713673586 (OP)
every one of these l4d/vermintide games give me headaches to play, its too much shit in my face and melee'ing trash hordes is never fun

>>713685681
they should have made a game where you don't play as absolute fucking nobodies, inquisitorial cannon fodder. How about a space marine, a custodian, a sister of battle and some psyker, also fatshark just sucks, someone else should make that game

I got so thoroughly burned out by grinding the shout plasma gun vet meta that I still don't feel like touching it 6 months later.

>>713673586 (OP)
>Eldar corsair is next paid DLC class
He will pump and dump Yrliet and you will have to comfort her (without touching) as part of her companion quest

>>713673586 (OP)
>Genestealer cults are the next enemy faction
These would work really well in the setting

>>713673586 (OP)
>Genestealer cults are the next enemy faction btw
That's been hinted at for years.
Also the horrors that lie underneath Atoma.

>>713686360
have you tried the psych ward mod?

>>713673586 (OP)
Game sucked when it came out. I'm really surprised how much support they gave it. They must make a mint off those cosmetics. It's pretty good now.

>>713688673
the servers are still dogshit

>>713673929
Please enlighten me, I'm trying to get this shit to run at even 60fps and even with everything sitting on medium I cant get above 40 during matches, 3080 and a i7 10700

>>713673586 (OP)
I played this game a lot in the winter/early spring. But I would never BUY a new class. Are they out of their minds??? Failshark

>>713684864
easy answer:
40k is more popular

ratclick is the better game, but 40k is 10x more popular, 40k fans dont want to play a WHFB game
40k fans also have no standards which is why darkclick hasnt had the plug pulled yet and space marine 2 sold a bajillion copies despite also being mediocre

>>713688532
It's just been confirmed with one genestealer even infiltrated the mourningstar and got killed by brunt. I hope they make some missions with the two factions fighting each other while the rejects try to sneak in and then curbstomp them both. They mentioned as mucu that NPCs fighting each other was the next step with the necromancer tech they developed for VT2.

>>713674171
Veteran is the only class that required and rewards aiming. The melee trash is trash for trash people.

>>713686621
skill issue

>Like Darktits
>Have to deal with online-only bullshits
Can't these fag devs bring back offline play and server browser/direct IP connection like the good old days? How am I supposed to play this and shill it to friends in case someone suddenly decided to firebomb Fatshark's server?

>>713686072
>Chaos is winning
It's a setting not a story, you insufferable fucking secondaries talking about "who is winning" 40k is forever eye rolling. Are you so dim witted you can't imagine a scenario which puts servants of chaos against insurmountable odds? Can you picture an apple in your mind?

>>713690201
Ammo becomes really scarce in havoc 30+ so veteran falls off bad. These games were always about the melee.

>>713691191
and there is no tension or any stakes if servants of chaos are pitted against the losing faction because they would be winning either way, retard.

>>713673586 (OP)
>>Game has been shit for 3 years
>>almost died
>>finally an actual content update
The game's been steadily receiving contents update for 3 years nigga. There's nearly twice as many maps now as there was on launch, this didn't just happen last patch.

Anyway to me it doesn't matter if the game needs more content, the raw gameplay is just so good that I don't care. Most satisfying mix of ranged + melee combat I've played, the enemies are great, the difficulty and the way it works is just right.

>>713691298
??? You have MORE ammo due to the amount of special spawns, I run bolter in auric mal and literally never run dry

>>713673586 (OP)
>It is hinted that Eldar corsair is next paid DLC class and Genestealer cults are the next enemy faction btw
No it hasn't been hinted. Something being mentioned doesn't automatically hint that it's going to happen. Darktide chatter also mentions Tau, Plague Marines, Guilliman, the Lion, the Cicatrix, Tyranid swarms, etc. It doesn't mean it's all coming into the game.

>>713691097
If the first question your friends ask about a game is whether its server will be alive, 20 years in the future then you need better friends.

>>713691665
It's directly related to the plot, retard. There's an entire mortis trial worth of dialogue related to the aeldari tailing the ship. That's never been the case for everything else you mentioned.

>>713691463
You really can't picture an apple can you. What the fuck do you mean no tension, what about the tension of being killed?

>>713691670
Hey, we can still play CS1.6 22 years after its launch date, I don't blame him

>>713691824
>It's directly related to the plot, retard. There's an entire mortis trial worth of dialogue related to the aeldari tailing the ship.
Mortis trials lore is just a way to give players insight into a character's history. Morrow's mortis trials lore dumps also mentioned Armaggeddon commissars, are they also coming to Darktide?

>>713673586 (OP)
>It is hinted that Eldar corsair is next paid DLC class and Genestealer cults are the next enemy faction btw
Source? Because I call it BS. Wasn't another class rumor that we would be playing as a SM aspirant?

>>713691589
anything darkclick does, ratclick does better
and doubling the maps from 2 to 4 isnt as good as you think it is

>>713692036
>anything darkclick does, ratclick does better
I will never go back to Vermintide after noticing how frequently the AI director just spawns/teleports mobs right in front of me or behind me. It's extremely grating once you notice it.

>>713673586 (OP)
>paid
>paid
>paid
Cuntshark can go fuck themselves.

>>713673586 (OP)
too late too little
most people moved on already, either away from coop shit or to Helldivers

>>713691463
>i process information on a galaxy wide scale, an eldar killing me is no biggie since they're losing

>>713691984
can you differentiate between the past and the future?

>>713692343
I can. Can you differentiate between clear developer intentions and background lore dumps for the sake of fan service?

>>713692036
Vermintide never gave me the pure joy of a squad of ogryns.

>>713673586 (OP)
How many skulls are in this screenshot? The answer may surprise you.

>>713692679
5?

>>713692258
This but unironically. The eldar are doomed and are inconsequential. However, humanity isn't and it has the slightest chance of winning against all odds.

>>713673586 (OP)
imagine having reinstalled the game this week for Arbites—then uninstalling again 3 days later because you remembered that the lack of new classes wasn't the problem. it's that all the fucking maps look the same, 1/3rd of the equipment is just duplicates of other equipment with slightly different properties, and the enemy variety sucks fucking ass...

>>713678550
The choice for generic PCs after how much the players loved the Vemintide cast was the most boneheaded decision on earth.

>>713692394
How are elements that might lead to unfolding of the story considered as fan service? Do you think grendyl hiding his identity is also just a background lore dump irrelevant to the plot?

>>713693256
play the campaign. the missions are paced out in a manner that almost makes them seem unique despite the monotony of their appearance.

>>713692189
based FS filtering poors.

>>713692679
8

>>713673586 (OP)
>Eldar corsair is next paid DLC class and Genestealer cults are the next enemy faction btw
sounds like the game might finally be good in another two years, at minimum

>>713675641
Could be worse. This doesn't even hold a candle to Sister of the Thorn at her peak.

>>713693349
Yeah but people pissed and shat themselves over the 4 characters they showed in early promos so clearly we need a fucking skyrim character creator.

>>713691463
More than the order factions, chaos members are very individualistic and self serving and preserving. It is very easy and believable to have stakes regarding a chaos group when all you have to do is have the group be under the very simple threat by Archaon or Abaddon of, "if you fuckers screw up your tasks, I will make sure your souls are going to be tormented by the gods for all eternity."

>>713694186
yea but it's not like the whole faction is under the threat of annihilation. The scale isn't the same.

>>713675641
hey don't worry, you can just play with bots and not have three of them on your team every round... wait nvm

>>713681424
>done the needful
anon...

>>713686360
Never heard of that issue and never had it myself, but have you tried enabling/disabling ipv6? Or using your phone as a hotspot to see if it connects? That problem sounds connection related.

>>713693579
doesn't matter, its all poorly lit derelict industrial ship hallways. if i showed random black and white screencaps from each "mission" you wouldn't be able to tell them apart.

>>713682045
I see no problem with this if it's just skins, this is the correct way of milking the whales - although they could have implemented the premium currency as part of mission rewards

>>713684862
NTA but pic related was good.

>>713682045
Did anyone else notice that they raised the price of cosmetics from 2100 to 2400 and then to 2900 acquilas over time?

>>713685119
The cash shop is getting expensive and more effort is imparted to the cosmetics . You should understand what that means.

>>713696564
The regular cosmetics look like shit compared to say even the base cosmetic of arbites.

>>713682113
every hive isn't necromunda, anon. Chaos worshippers are plausible but GSC and orks would mean imminent planetwide invasion.

Do you still have a brave, diverse cast of 20 different epic badass girlbosses yapping in your ear 24/7?

>>713679867
>What you want
>Playable delfs
>What you will get
>Reskinned scab enemies with pointy ears

>>713697635
yes? women are canonically part of the guard in 40k tho.

>>713697714
I bet if we do get it, gameplay wise, the eldar would be a mix of the veteran and psyker. Just like how the arbites is somewhere between zealot and the ogryn.

>>713694054
>2 years
FS effectively works like 4 months out of 12 months with all the state mandated vacations and personal leaves. It would take 4 more years for darktide to get to the level of VT2. worst case is that VT3 releases and completely mogs DT to death.

>>713673586 (OP)
I'd find it more believable that a random Eldar Corsair would become a new NPC character that talks in your ear every other mission like Swagger.

>>713699016
>every other mission
Swagger talks to the team in only the mobian steel mission though.