Devs should be forced to play Havoc 40

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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Devs should be forced to play Havoc 40, with modifiers, at least 2 of the below:

Rotten Armor
The Encroaching Garden
Contaminated Stimms

Why? Because it’s the antithesis of the point of playing videogames. You have no choice regarding what to do - once your screen is filled with Carapace and Flak enemies, you can only do the 1 or 2 things your chosen build and class can reliably do to do enough damage to these enemies to defeat them.

It’s the opposite of choice, of breaking the routine, of doing something interesting - you just start applying the algorithm as your eyes get used to seeing only the green from the toxic gas from Rotten Armour and your ears get used to hearing

“Your death will be sweet…

BUT NOT FOR YOU!!!”

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I thought that was point of playing Havoc….

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I thought idea was to test skill, not build.

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So while I lean towards agreeing that those difficulty modifiers are pure cheese, at least some devs do play the game. One of them suffered with us for 10 games before we actually managed to complete that mission :joy:

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Our community manager don’t play game, is this normal for online games?

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Which one doesn’t play the game ?

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I thought he may refer to new shark who’s fin is of kite. However their introduction does state they play though very fresh Hello, I'm Kitefin! 🦈

There likely are other heretics among them!… but its not unusual for workers to not partake in their products…

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/about

Point out the HERETIC… jk =p

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While yes it isn’t unusual, this doesn’t mean that Kitefin didn’t start to play when she became a CM.

Game Devs, artists and other roles are still just jobs 1st.

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Quite normal. Aqshy, one of the VT CMs at the time, did actually play the game and was good at it. That was an extreme anomaly though, not just within Fatshark either, I rarely see CMs that actually play the game.

On the topic of the OP: When playing Havoc 40s I often came across 2 different Fatshark devs. I never asked them what their role at the company is, but I assume they could just be random artists/marketting/etc who are into gaming. Going by their balance decisions for Havoc 40, I don’t think that the same people who are directly responsible for Havoc design actually play Havoc.

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