Community Comm-link 15th June 2023

Hey now, you took the extra content away. Not fully accurate.

Better Performance
My performance is worse than before patch 9. Still.

3 new maps
3 new maps? Maybe you can’t read, they added 2 new missions as stated in Patch notes, not maps. All missions are still happening on Hourglass, Throneside, Torrent and Chasm terminus. Feel free to link patch notes where those 3 new maps you dreamt of were added.

a truckload full of weapons
10 weapons. They added 10 weapons all of them duplicates of existing ones. Definitely not a truck load, you would not fill a drivers seat with those weapons.

New Voicelines
Something they HAD to add for the new missions is now a separate point? Noone cares about new voicelines.

New Cosmetics
Those shitty recolors, on which they spend several months working, that were bugged as FOOK, without proper localization, causing slendergrins, clippings or having completely missing textures?
Paid cosmetics are weak as well.

New Penances
No one cares about new penances. People wanted them to fix the old ones. And the fix was private lobby.

Crossplay
Can’t wait to have crossplay with XBOX, that I cannot opt out of. Wondeful idea.

More meaningful changes to Blessings
Potentially something with crafting
You are already saying “hop” before you made a jump.

Looks pretty sizable to me, but ok.
Looks like a lot of words to describe nothing to me. We still have no information stuff that was supposed to be in game on RELEASE such as:

  • Missing subclasses
  • FLASH MISSIONS that still have active penances in the game, but missions are not available
  • Story mode
  • Solo play
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That is actually a good comm-link … I like

  • Crossplay is coming - YAAAY
  • Clear outline on what to expect on Crossplay - Good
  • Changes coming in the patch - Clear and concise, I like
  • Xbox - devout PCMR here so not really my cup of tea - BUT if crossplay will be expanded to them (I’m guessing PC crossplay will be the prototype) that means more ppl to team up with so … Yaaay?
  • FEEDBACK IS ACKNOLEDGED!!! … wow I think this is the first time I see such - YAAAY
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

More and more I think it’s this. Because you have to be stupid to not realize the goodwill that would be generated at this point by being more transparent and forthcoming.

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What extra content exactly ? I see no new clases or the flash missios sp far… ohh scrach the last one that is still part of the technical debt… new content… new content… hhmmm ??? nope i dont see what i missed…

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I just wanna rip the stupid holo sight off my lasguns lmao

Ok, so you did crossplay, which I don’t remember anyone asking for, but nothing with subclasses. Nothing with locks. Nothing with story mode. Nothing with solo mode with bots. Good grief. I’m done.

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So a bunch of Fatshark’s poor development patterns and community communication is surely a function of bad management across the board. I’ll attribute that heavily towards incompetence in various subtle but insidious ways that affect their product development cycle, priority setting, etc.

But, and to go back on my prior quote a bit, I do think there must be some toxic mentality at play in Fatshark’s leadership. They are so unwilling to own up to bad decisions. It just reeks of immaturity. You can see this because when they do make obvious mistakes (e.g. shirtless bug) they relatively quickly and quietly fix them - while the much bigger but intentionally created pain points languish on in limbo, barely spoken of.

Fatshark is a bit sadistic in how they treat and communicate with what is, by all measures, a pretty committed fan base that wants nothing more than to see the game be a resounding success.

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I just wanna attach the stupid holo sight onto my headhunter autoguns lmao

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Im pretty sure some Helbor enjoyer would claim that holo sight

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I am sick and tired of you calling us Rejects. Have a little respect for your customers!

You continue to keep trying to stall us, while continuously undermining any good will or chance of good will and then you have the audacity to call us Rejects on top of it.

It’s enough. I am tired and fed up about it.

We are not Rejects. We are your Customers, and if you want to continue this abusive relationship you believe you can foster on me, then let me show you where you can put it as i am making my way out of the door.

So 150 people working over there and in the past month you managed to create a new Condition that is effectively Low Intensity but with a stat bonus for the NPCs.

Yeah thank. Think i am going to play something else now.

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has games workshop considered having fatshark hand darktide and the tools to develop it over to a company that has some kind of hierarchy/management in place? as cool as it might be to work at a hippie commune where no one is in charge and the CEO fixes the coffee machine, the warhammer license is the only thing keeping these absolute circus game launches from returning fatshark to utter obscurity.

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I’m really happy to hear about the cross play between Microsoft store and steam that’s been a big Downer for me playing with my friends.

What blessings are they tweaking?

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@FatsharkQuickpaw Can we get a sense of what the team’s vision for blessing balance is? Is there a particular focus on overperforming blessings (or underperforming ones, preferably) - while I appreciate that you may not have a lot of details to share, can we get some idea as to how this is being approached?

Additionally, is the 3-week cadence (ignoring the delay for the last Comms Link) remaining in place for the foreseeable future, and is there any particular motivation behind the change in cadence? Given that communication (or lack thereof) is a major frustration for the playerbase, it seems somewhat counterintuitive.

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Excited to show those steam players how to REALLY play the game :laughing:

also interesting we can disable crossplay while they cannot. Xbox almost never gets anything over steam so I’m here for it.

Guessing Msoft requires it on their platform but FS chose not to on steam for reasons similar to scoreboard/gear inspection

I’m a bit worried that if there’s issues with servers you might upset the largest audience (steam) by not allowing them to disable cross-play while a hotfix is being worked out.

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And every single damn bit of that should have been in at launch. And THEN some. Until we hit launch level VT2 content size then I still consider Darktide a buy-in early access game. New games are suppose to be bigger and better than their predecessors! Not LESS in nearly every single way.

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I’ve brought this up many times and @FatsharkCatfish even acknowledged it at one point. But it’s like… the joke just isn’t funny anymore.

Also see my prior post about FS coming across as immature. Them sticking to their little “reject” joke (teehee, haha!) is pretty telling.

Calling us Acolytes, given that’s the rank within the Inquisition that I’m pretty sure everyone still playing this game has achieved, makes much more sense at this point.

Such an easy thing to change to demonstrate “hey, we heard you on this, and we’re making a change.” But no. The sadism continues.

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I seem to recall those weapons and cosmetics being datamined as existing but withheld at launch for dripfeed. Still waiting for release of the ogryn armor that is seen in the splash screen and within pre-release gameplay trailers. I also recall Fatshark telling us that their “games as a service” plan would result in them providing us with things like new classes every 3 months.

Fatshark has not been delivering and has been alternating between spinning their wheels, silence, and going on vacation.

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I really want to be hopeful but this wording has me concerned. It’s like you know the most likely changes are going to be poorly recieved and are trying to reassure us…

“What is important to know is that any upcoming changes aren’t the end of the journey in those areas, rather the beginning as we continue to evolve Darktide.”

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Of course, because they don’t actually want to change anything. They will ‘change’ things for the better, in the same way they ‘had learned from previous games’ and were going to give us player agency and less RNG.

These guys are just full of good ideas. Not least of which is jumping on the GaaS/Live Service six to twelve months after Live Service was utterly and completely dead.

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