DARKTIDE makes me feel rejected. A summary of criticisms

[Merdoc]

Now that you mention it, the requisitorium currency should probably be shared by all characters.

[Mayson]

@420vapesmoker

To bad HEDGE the FATSHARK community manager said in a different thread that these posts right here is a main reason why some game devs don’t bother with forums. The community has been saying this post over and over and over and Fatshark refuses to listen to us. We will get a community post here next week that says something like “Rejects! we see how the entire community is upset over our broken game, but this leads to heresay! We are hard at work perfecting our game getting ready for release! Pre-Order now!”

Pretty sure that was specifically in response to the Steam forums, which they don’t moderate that much and also don’t read that much.
Here the rules are different and you do get devs and community managers looking over the posts.

And to be honest, Hedge was kind of right. Steam forums should be what this forum is. Mostly constructive and game oriented discussion, but the Steam forums are so toxic, I feel almost at home in 4chan. Only thing missing is the random grotesque imagery and random people racebaiting with hilariously offensive posts. At the same time it’s also less coherent than threads on 4chan and just full of whining. It also lacks the fun component, Steam forums are literally just “WAHHH REFUND” and “X and Y SUCKS” (but without a proper explanation of why what the OP means).

When a forum is less coherent and less fun, yet more toxic than the basket weaving forums, you know it’s hot garbage.

@Lasastard

What bothers me most is how little FS seems to have learned from their previous game. While VT2 had its fair share of randomness and grind, especially with loot, I always felt that with the combination of classes, careers and weapon types, there was enough for me to enjoy myself. Darktide already feels stale, and unnecessarily grindy to boot. They really need to come up with a better, more predictable loot system. Hate the lootboxes in VT2 all you want, at least you knew how to get emperor chests, and that these would typically yield items to salvage to put together a decent kit. With Darktide not even carrying over resources across careers…man that’s just needlessly cruel tbh. Unless they are planning to tie all this stuff to some planned monetization scheme ^^ Then it would just be mean and greedy

Personally, I am not gonna refund, but FS should be aware that what they are launching here is far from even a half-way complete game. Which after all these delays is really hard to excuse.

It’s painfully obvious they had two separate teams and the Quality of Life additions weren’t taken over because they were not part of the codebase used by the Darktide team.
I’m sure in time it will get better. First few months of gameplay will be a little rough.

At least we did get the servers though, so you can reconnect after crashing or having issues.