I’m a professional Veteran who plays exclusively on Havoc 40, the highest difficulty in Darktide. I want to voice some concerns — not only my own, but also those of my community (the Hong Kong server, which consists mostly of Havoc players). Many Chinese players rarely have the chance to express t…

[image] KarlVonValancius: In our community, we usually call Dregs “Cultists” and Scabs “Traitor Guard.” I wish these were the official names :joy: I mean they could now go with Admonition and Traitor Guard

In the code they are cultists and renegades (with the misc stuff like plague ogryns and hounds being “chaos”)

[image] Rvl: And now the same people who said “Crushers and Maulers die too quickly!!! We don’t get to interract with them!!!” complain about Garden/Rotten Crusher packs taking forever to kill. Tons of people were saying they were too easy to kill. Instead of balancing them in any meaningful …

Great post! Thanks for laying things out so clear. This is a discussion about balance so I won’t get involved, I would like new maps.

they decreased the spawn rate alongside the increased HP. which frankly, is exactly the direction I want and hope they continue to take them in. they should feel like unique threats which require proper target prioritization. unfortunately at present the spawns are still too large for them and stuff…

Some of us did say specifically that increasing enemy health is bad way to deal with powercreep [image] Please fix the powercreep (RANT) General Discussion Hope not, doesn’t an enemy HP buff have a good chance of negatively affecting weaker weapon breakpoints?…

[image] Durandal94: increasing enemy health is bad way to deal with powercreep I get the feeling the crew at the game right now is rather maintaining it through number dials than real deep dug restructuring or animating current enemies. maybe the plasma gunner was already “done” at one point…

[image] Index: I get the feeling the crew at the game right now is rather maintaining it through number dials than real deep dug restructuring or animating current enemies. Yeah credit where credit is due though I do think auric is better now than it was

well for starters take out emprahs fading light, get rid of rank or any demotion :poop: like that and we got ourselves an auric maelstrom befitting the current personal character power anyone can do despite 3 failures in a team, hence no party finder or stress.

[image] Index: well for starters take out emprahs fading light, This is kind of a needed evil tho If players get the 90% damage reduction after toughness break in Havoc then they could survive a lot more situations

A Havoc 40 Veteran’s Statement on the Game play present situation

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Some of us did say specifically that increasing enemy health is bad way to deal with powercreep

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A Havoc 40 Veteran’s Statement on the Game play present situation

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