Community Comm-Link 30th March 2023

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Announcements
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Rejects,

This is Catfish, Darktide Community Manager, here with another comm-link update! We established these comm-links to answer some of the community’s questions and to give information about upcoming patches.

Last week we saw the Content Drop - Tools of War followed by Hotfix 1.0.41, which contained new weapon marks, new condition combinations, and many balance tweaks.

To give you a quick scope of what you can expect in the coming months: Next week, we’ll release a small patch focused primarily on weapon balancing. Then, towards the end of April, we will release a larger patch. In the first weeks of May, we will release a minor patch, after which you can expect a sizable patch alongside a content drop. I’ll be able to share more information on those in future comm-links!

Crucis Mk II Thunder Hammer

We have seen your feedback regarding the Crucis Mk II Thunder Hammer changes in the last patch. In next week’s patch, we will tweak the self-stun duration from 1.1 seconds to 0.6 seconds and buff headshot damage. We will add more information in the patch notes, which will go live shortly after the patch.

Fire Frenzy Bug Fix

In the upcoming patch, we will implement a fix for the bug with Tier 3 Fire Frenzy. We will also tweak the balance, so changing the power increase to 7.5%/10%/12.5%/15%.

Cosmetics Issues

Currently, some head cosmetics completely hide your character’s facial hair and hairstyle options. This is due to some issues around clipping and other texture bugs. We are currently working on a solution that will reduce the number of cases where we have to resort to this method, and you can expect it to come in with a patch in the near future.

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I like these things. Thanks for posting. Glad to see we didnt have to ring the Bell of Lost Souls for the cosmetics.

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Any news on the possibility to play solo?

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Any plans to switch the colors of the two new ogryn stubbers? Normally the Blue weapons are the ones with faser fire rates and lower damage while the brown are slower shooting but hit harder. The new twin stubbers are the only ranged weapons I can think of that flip this rule

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So one month for bigger patch. thats decent timeframe.

Keep up with this good communication!

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this one, dont break your own internal rules.

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No news about weapons fixes?

I really would like a fix for the rashad (someone has maybe found what cause the bug) and for latrine shovel… And maybe the blessing for hammers (Shock and Awe)

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Can’t wait to get some details on what this next patch is, or better yet, what the plan for character class careers is (it’s really weird how we’ve heard nothing so far)

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No news or mention of shared inventory, locks or RNG at all? As if those aren’t pressing questions and concerns of the community? Come on @FatsharkCatfish the devs really, really need to do something about it - or tell everyone it’s never happening, so we can all leave.

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Adjust the penances please.
Adjust the base rating of items in the shops at level 30 to 340-350.

Other weapon balances are great and some of us appreciate the massive task of making the changes you do. Keep up the great work, and please toss us this tiny bone.

Edit: Please never have a shared inventory or currency.
A list of what is in the backlog would be great, even if there is no timeline. Just so we know what things are eventually going to be presented.

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Sharks of Girth really out here releasing a comlink to tell us that they’re making more comlinks.

:white_check_mark: Informative
:white_check_mark: Funny
:white_check_mark: Uplifting
:white_check_mark: Emotional

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@catfish

Are you guys working on balance for multiple weapons? I assume the thunderhammer buff is just one example.

Weapons such as the revolver, and subtypes of the auto-guns needs some help to bring them in line as well. Hope to see these get some attention.

Also, bring back the cosmetic shop. Many of us are craving appearance variety for our rejects. Thanks!

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+1

My big things left are:

  • shared resources
  • minimum gear score when purchasing items closer to 350
  • unlocking perks & blessings - purchasing the unlock would be fine
  • more agency in choosing map/difficulty/conditions
  • solo mode because you guys said you’d do it shortly after release but that went dark so I’m putting this here for general accountability

These points have been brought up over and over again in all forums & discord. Aqshy even mentioned looking at shared resources way back but has fallen silent on that. Would like to know what the plan of action for these items are.

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90% of the players were waiting for this change, now there is no one to wait

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After the crucian “fix” it ended up in a place where it could use a bit of an upwards adjustment.

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Any news on issues with MS users not being able to update the game?

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We need NERFS!

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Yeah, looks like I’m uninstalling again until some meaningful changes come to this game.

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There is a kind of silence that speaks volumes. Based on the dev blog, they seem to be happy.

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That’s enough to kill yourself on a weapon that has no redeeming qualities. Amazing.

That’s almost enough time to kill yourself.

Which will be irrelevant since you can’t cleave for crap with it.