This has been discussed a lot before, I know it has been discussed a lot before, but I am making this post in the vain hope someone might hear how frustrating this is at its worst.
I love Darktide. I have loved it and been addicted to it since launch. I have put in over 300 hours and would have put in over a thousand if I hadn’t a job. I 100%'d the achievements within the first year, and I’ve been farming penances, min-maxxing my builds for all four classes, and harassing friends to play until they’re sick of it before me. Then I’ve bought other friends the game to play with them afterwards. But I’ve never been much of a ‘community interaction’ guy, I only just made this forum account because of how infuriating this one thing has been to me over every other issue, as it is the one and only thing the devs have refused to change, despite every other update addressing every major issue in the game.
My favorite class is Veteran. I like shooting things.
The gun I enjoy most is the Agripinaa Mk1 Autogun. I knew this within the first 10 hours of play. Its stability, accuracy, and damage balance is most enjoyable to me, personally. Using this gun gives me more dopamine than any other. I have been using it since the very day the game was launched.
I have, since playing my 300+ hours, most of which as Veteran, found and/or purchased 370-380 stats for almost every weapon available. Plasma guns (hate them, personally), Devil’s Claw swords (hate them), axes (don’t use them), chainsword (I use that one), daggers (took forever but I got them), etc etc. I have a veritable horde of weapons I never use that have 370+ stats.
Now here’s the kicker:
-I check Brunt’s armory every day I play, between EVERY SINGLE MISSION, for EVERY HOUR, and he has NEVER ONCE sold a Agripinaa Mk1 with stats over 366.
-I check Sire Melk every week, and he has NEVER ONCE sold an Agripinaa Mk1 with stats over 356, nor any with tier 4 blessings. I haven’t even missed one due to not having enough contract currency- I’ve kept 4k in reserve JUST IN CASE he has one. He just never does.
-I have spent over 500,000 ORDO DOCKETS playing the RNG Brunt slot machine trying to generate a Mk1 that even scratches 370, not just the miracle 380, which I have DOZENS of weapons with 380 I do not care for and likely will never use. Today Brunt is selling another 380 plasma gun. I have three already.
-I have been stuck using a poorly balanced 366 stat Autogun with tier 3 blessings since the first 6 months of the game. The weapon reworks, the balancing, I have come back to play for all of it and I still am perpetually cucked out of the one weapon I want most.
I get it. Maybe I’m just super unlucky. RNGesus has cursed me to never have the one thing I want to use. For the most part, I can get the weapons I want with decent stats and upgrade them accordingly for the other classes. But oh my god this is infuriating. I just spent another 250k ordo dockets and I got a Mk1 with 353 as the highest stat option. This is ludicrous.
So, this is all to say:
I will accept a ludicrous 100+ hour grind option if I can just upgrade a gun’s raw stats to maximum, or trade other players, or get the Omnissiah to melt down five other sacrificial 380 stat plasma guns into the one I want, or just have SOME mechanic to GUARANTEE the ability to have a gun I like at max stats, or even just CLOSE to max stats. Even if I have to pull teeth and grind for a month to do it, I would like a feeling of PROGRESS and not gambler’s fallacy, eternally opening Brunt’s lootbox like a Counter-Strike 2 player chasing the 0.0001% odds of receiving a $3,000 virtual knife.
Please add some way to guarantee the player the ability to get what they want if they try, I am BEGGING to just be able to max out my favorite weapon, I hate this, it’s infuriating.
