Personally, I don’t think the new class is terrible. The character seems to fit within the power level of the rest of the cast, and I don’t mind the idea of a “reject premium” dual-wield setup. Plus, I heard of a rocket launcher, dual wielding, that sounds awesome.
I loved the quality of the video, the art style and the looks of the ganger.
My main critique, though, is that we’re in a period where players are particularly sensitive to the “woke” aesthetics and tropes. So, how did they come up with the idea to make the main character of this trailer someone who visibly leans into that kind of style?
You made it so the ganger ends up “saving” us, which is a litle underwhelming.
I’m afraid might alienate new players who associate our game with other recently failing titles.
In the end, I’m still intrigued by the Hive Ganger concept, and I believe it can fit the Darktide atmosphere—but let’s hope for Skitarii soon.
Ultimately, it’s about balancing the thematic integrity of the game with what the community enjoys.
If people are this ungodly levels of threatened by a fictional animated woman saving a fictional animated man and a fictional animated…I don’t think Moebian Ogryns have gender…anyway. If people are threatened by that…these are not serious people nor should they be taken seriously.
Seriously it’s a standard trailer gimmick. A tiny minority of people are just losing their minds because the character doing it is a woman and looks like a hive ganger. It’s honestly sad.
The shrieking ‘culture war WOMEN BAD’ weirdos are a tiny minority of people who play games. They’re just incredibly loud. Fatshark is not catering to them and that’s objectively a correct decision.
I think you have a narrow view of the gaming community likely influenced by who you follow on social media. I suggest de-toxing from your feeds and youtube subs and learning to love and appreciate games again without worrying about whether you are playing as a man or woman.
Trailer also generally sucks at depicting class, like with arbites we got key things, shotgun, dog, hint at one of the ultimate abilities.
Where is use of stimms in trailer? In some one barely visible frame? Ok we get to see garbage weaponry and dual wield. Why not replace garbage weaponry showcase with rocket launcher that class have? Toxic bomb? Flash bang? Make whole sequence of dirty fight, showcase how different it is, instead of some modern tolerance monster easily killing bunch of enemies, some of who is ranged and for no reason decided go to melee.
I don’t really see anything “woke” about it. Just typical hive scum of the 40k setting.
FS aesthetics are always ugly as hell.
My real concern is - is it a superior gun class compared to veteran further reducing veteran to nothing but a shouty cheerleader G.Toughness bot under H40.
(Personally I don’t care for the class in terms of playing it bc uninteresting to me.)
The trailer is indeed poor at showing what makes this class special,
which may stem from the assumption,
that this class isn’t special at all and doesn’t fill a specific niche.
I miss the promise of a good support class like the Scribe.
There should have been some narrative trailer where the rejects are waiting for a hablock door to open or something and you hear a bunch of pistols and knives ripping on the other side and then the gangers are waiting with a line like ‘you’re late to the party fellas’. Instead we got character assassination of an ogryn fearing a tiny blade that probably couldn’t even cut his stubble.
