Arbites Gameplay Reveal

Watch the gameplay reveal and get details on the Deluxe Edition!

During today’s PC Gaming Show, we gave you a first gameplay glimpse at the Adeptus Arbites and announced the Deluxe Edition.

Check out the gameplay trailer below to see the Arbites unleashing their loyal Cyber-Mastiffs upon lexbreakers, and delivering judgment with extreme prejudice.

On June 23, you’ll be able to purchase the Arbites Class in two different editions:

  • Standard Edition: $11.99 / €11.99
  • Deluxe Edition: $18.99 / €18.99
  • Cosmetic Upgrade (Upgrade to Deluxe): $7.99 / €7.99

The Deluxe Edition includes the class and cosmetics for your Arbitrator and Cyber-Mastiff:

  • Arbites Class
  • 1 Unique Class Outfit
  • 1 Unique Companion Outfit
  • 1 Portrait Frame
  • 4 Weapon Skins

We’re not done yet.

In the lead-up to launch, we’ll be releasing more reveals. We’ll also be sharing more over the coming days, including a longer gameplay video on June 12. Additional dev blogs on the Arbites’ talent tree, weapons, and more, will be published in the weeks prior to release.

Thanks for sticking with us through this reveal, we’re beyond excited for you to take control of the Arbites on June 23, 2025! Make sure to wishlist the Arbites Class now so you’re ready to restore order on Tertium Day 1.

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Pre order? When. I have money. Take it.

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Seeing as there are only the 2 weeks before launch, this implies dev blogs will release this week too I hope. :face_with_tongue:

Keeping the shield out during weapon swap is huge tho.

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3rd!

No preorder from steam forum dev posts twice

DLC Preorder is up! (There won’t be any pre-orders for the Arbites DLC) :: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide The Mourningstar - General Discussions

Why can’t we preorder Arbites? :: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide The Mourningstar - General Discussions

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[Fatshark] Quickpaw [developer] 13 hours ago
There won’t be any pre-orders for the Arbites DLC.

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Sad.

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Wait :wink:

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And yet again, the shotgun doesn’t seem to do much more than tickle the heretics… :frowning:
Other than that I liked everything I saw.

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Yeh shot guns are just awful in this game. Need to punch way harder to make up for lack of range

These look like new faces, will there be more faces for “human” characters or are these Arbites specific?

You can’t have law-jaw unless you ARE the law!

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I can live with that. But this should also mean you never take your helmet off so will they have a face at all?

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So… if there’s a deluxe edition why does the base class cost 3 times as much as a VT career?

I assumed that was the case because we had no premium purchase

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We’ll buy the class, but it’s funny to see that it costs almost as much as the whole game.

In what universe is and entirety new class the same as a sub class for an already established character in vermintide? It cost more because maybe they had to pay 6x voice actors for starters.

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Noticed better in mister E’s slow mo take the pistol shield almost looks like a swap might be two shield weapons… being first ranged shield or as initial thought a blitz / maybe two variable weapon specials one activated while blocking electrifies while not whips out pistol.

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Nice one. Now explain why the premium cosmetics are way more expensive than VT2 and work off of FOMO. Or why the in game cosmetic system is so much more sparse by comparison.

Also big whoop you hired more voice actors to say the same whole lot of soulless nothing as the other blank face characters. Unironically VT2 premium classes probably have more memorable and valuable voice work than whatever Arbites will come out with, despite there being less of it.

VT2 also frequently added new dialogue interactions relevant to the current updates in the overarching story. Always in patches for free, usually without even drawing attention to it. Man the cost of voice work must have gone up a lot if what was previously free is now a factor in a significantly bigger price tag.

You see Mummeh, what people are reacting to negatively here is the very palpable feeling that the game value we’re getting out of our dollars just keeps diminishing. You can argue how this is a reasonable price all you like, but anyone watching the broader trends are simply not going to be thrilled about this overall and that’s a very reasonable reaction.

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Is it not the same price increase? 3.99 to 9.99 12.99 to 18.99? Maybe I’m off a buck but guess you got dog cosmetics and double the rigging.

Initial value beside voice actors is talent tree 3x the value of 1 VT2 subclass

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Yeah I don’t think that’s even slightly true. I highly doubt a Darktide fanatic is going to get anywhere near triple the value out of Arbites as an equivalent VT2 fanatic from one of their DLC classes. Double would already be stretching it to my mind.

In terms of player value talent tree only offers more value if it actually offers more distinct build possibilities (that actually have somewhat different feeling gameplay, not just number shuffling). Meanwhile I wouldn’t be surprised if Tourney Balance Mod Zealot in VT2 has more distinct builds that get played than Darktide Zealot (or at least comparable variety) despite doing the three choices per row thing rather than the big sprawling tree with an illusion of choice.

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A class isnt a premium cosmetic…if u dont want a cosmetic dont buy it

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