Why? At some point they heavy nefed RNG in Vermintide 2 by allowing us to craft red weapons. I mean game just have to die to certain point before they do it, but considering the damage they did on launch for this game it should not be that long.
And as for OP: I agree, the lock is the thing that still makes me and my Vermintide crew to not go back to Darktide. We just don’t have time to waste trying to RNG chase perks and blessings like some rats running after carrot. The fact that Darktide with it’s poor content and failed launch tried to be “looter shooter” is is still so funny.
What? Hello, Left 4 Dead? Killing floor? Vampire Survivors? World War Z etc. ? Those games are classic horde clear games and they don’t fall under type like Diablo which is aRPG, which is seperate category. Like who the hell puts Diablo and horde shooters in same category? It’s putting Skyrim and Destiny 2 in same category cause it’s First Person game with gear equpping system, jesus.
I consider the current RNG to be borderline a dark pattern system.
I also believe that good gear just shouldn’t fall down from the sky at the start of the game, but the current casino is something taken directly from social media or mobile games.
Just want to make another impassioned plea for removing the locks. I don’t care if they make removing the locks cost a bunch of resources or require some grind, if that’s the hang up with removing them.
But now that the crafting system is here, I desperately want to be able to build the items I want in order to test things out.
As it stands, the RNG waiting and resulting trade offs you have to make in crafting are just not enjoyable. They are frustrating beyond measure. Immeasurably frustrating.
Here’s an example:
I finally got Brutal Momentum on a combat axe. Of course the axe itself isn’t great stat wise. I also have decimator on another axe that I want to pair it with. That axe also has bad stats. I then have an axe with GREAT stats, but the one blessing it has isn’t great. I have no way to extract the two blessings I want, and that I ALREADY HAVE, and put them on a base item with stats that are good. I’ve been playing for 180 hours and still haven’t been able to put this weapon together. I’m not even talking about perfect stats either! Just good ones (eg 365+ with the right distribution). And all of this says nothing about getting two good perks to go with it or even getting the blessings at a high tier to begin with (the ones I have are only tier 2!!).
Fatshark, please - these locks are just soooo frustrating.
Moreover, the community basically cant engage with each other on sharing and trying out builds as a community, which is a MAJOR source of potential engagement and sustaining interest in playing, because the chances of someone being able to even try out a build someone else suggests is effectively zero. This whole thing is just awful.
Please, please, please get rid of the locks or give us an option to remove them.
On vermintide I didn’t care if I had to farm for many hours to get red weapons so I can destroy them to get multiple red dusts to create the ONE thing I wanted.
But in darktide I care because even if a try and spend a lot of time I cannot make the thing I want to make and I have to bet on getting lucky.
You can even find a way to make us unlock it with money or materials, give us some flexibility so we can enjoy the game the way we like to.