I just want to know if this is a possibility. Will be a 6 persons group who’s represent the players. I was thinking for a first rotation : @Reginald for the playtester technician @baldwindc for the wisdom @Khorne_Dawg for the passion of youth @ragnarok741 for the memory of the players @IGN_Vera for the neutral aspect @gpkgpk informatique technical represent
Are all of you interested in this project. I mean can we imagine to have a council ? Will other people of this forum agree ?
I hope FS is at least paying attention to these forums, but trying to form an “ambassador team” is probably gonna cause a political storm of “why these people? why not me?”
These are all users I highly respect, but are we really in any position to be in the super cool elite squad of direct link to FS? We’re just people with a lot of free time and play Darktide for fun and pay more attention to it than we probably should. That doesn’t exactly mean we speak for all players.
The two community mods here are probably the closest the FS forums are going to get to an “official liason” to FS themselves, excluding CMs, and honestly, that’s fine with me. Both seem well-tempered in their opinions and mod actions, and I trust them implicitly.
See also: a lot of the people FS gives sneak peeks and preferential treatment to are streamers like jtclive, people the community are already aware of.
In the sense of trusting the Steam reviews more than the game journalists, sure. But a random player is probably not going to have the in-depth knowledge of the game and community to definitively give an answer that would satisfy (most) everybody.
Just take a look at the forums post-Coptide. Every camp is up in arms. Those who don’t want to nerf anything, those who seek a challenge, those who think others are plebs for picking the braindead easy P2W class.
What about all the takes on ranged combat? I’ve seen a couple of posts saying that you should be allowed to shoot 24/7. I think that’s stupid and forcing melee combat is part of what makes Darktide so fun to play. These are different philosophies on what makes games fun to someone that we can’t really correct using facts and logic.
In the end, it’s what CMs like Kitefin, Strawhat (the late, the great), and Catfish are for. They take all the constructive criticism, angry rants, rancid insults, and stupid takes, and bundle it up into a neat little package to ship off to the developers whose job it is to make something useful out of it.
This is the worst idea I’ve ever seen or heard of.
But on the other hand, it seems you perpetually online people have one common goal - destroying DarkTide. Have at it, you are doing a great job, good luck and let’s put this game in the grave for good.