So, Darktide’s player counts don’t look so good. Darktide only beat out VT2’s peak player count by about 3%, at launch, and it hasn’t come close since, with average player counts now only at about 5% of that peak. Last summer Darktide actually had a lower average player count than Vermintide 2 did. …

[image] Ol_Jakal: oh it’s not that don’t have QC, it’s that they aren’t doing anything they consider silly when they test Glad that you agree that they didn’t put any thought into the crafting or the item system. Kind of weird that they consider it silly to interact with but not silly enough…

[image] Ol_Jakal: they put a lot of thought into it, they simply didn’t think people would willingly throw countless hours into it for the 0.000004% chance of getting the perfect roll and why should they? that’s stupid. stop getting mad at fatshark because you have a gambling addiction and look …

“Rejects! We are excited to announce Darktide 2, our F2P mobile game and the next step in the hugely popular DT series. PCgamer gives it a 10/10!”

They have most of the team working on a 3rd project unrelated to Darktide and V2/pvp, it was also just less than 3 years after v1 that we got v2. I think they are going for the soft relaunch, but this is my last fatshark game so I won’t bite.

[image] Molonious: [image] Ol_Jakal: they put a lot of thought into it, they simply didn’t think people would willingly throw countless hours into it for the 0.000004% chance of getting the perfect roll and why should they? that’s stupid. stop getting mad at fatshark because you have a gambl…

[image] Darktides horrendous loot system by the numbers or Why we should demand some promises The designers are aware that finding specific items with a specific perk is a lottery. They had done the math too and when I suggested it was like a lottery I was told I was understating it. Worse tha…

That’s a really old post. At the time we didn’t have Brunts Weapon Lottery, Emperor’s Rewards dropped with some 20% odds rather than 100% and locks were additionally based on category (Changing one perk meant you could only change perks, changing one blessing meant you could only change blessings). …

The current additions to the system gives more “tickets” to the lottery, so to speak. You get more rolls, but that doesn’t really reduce the odds all that much. With Brunt’s you are trading one layer of RNG (item type) for being blind to a more contentious layer of RNG (weapon stats) with a massive…

fatshark: “if we make the odds bed enough they’ll stop trying to play for maxxed out stats and focus on the gameplay, i’m sure” the forums, for some reason: "I HAVE SPENT 8 TRILLION PLASTEEL AND DO NOT YET HAVE MY PERFECT HELBORE, WHAT DOES IT TAKE FARTSHART?!

Because there are other ways to incentivise crafting or de-incentivising min-maxing other than effectively never giving your players what they want and making players ruin their own hopes? If they didn’t want people to craft they could have just removed the crafting and crafting complaints would be…

Active players down over 95% from peak, Crafting thread has 2,000 comments but no dev response, No significant content since Patch13, Studio vacation has been over for months with no product updates. Has Fatshark just moved on?

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion

zaygr March 7, 2024, 12:52am 225

Worse than a lottery.

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Active players down over 95% from peak, Crafting thread has 2,000 comments but no dev response, No significant content since Patch13, Studio vacation has been over for months with no product updates. Has Fatshark just moved on?

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