My honest review is that the game play is competent enough to be enjoyable and the visuals and music is on point, but the negative aspects of the game, and the way the developers are handling the game, is overshadowing the positive aspects.
So a negative review it is.
This game peaked at 100k+ players.
Almost 90% of those don’t play anymore.
That’s 90k people that played the game, and decided to never play it again, keep your charade up if it amuses you.
Try handling a community, that since day 1 was posting stuff hoping the company goes under.
Wishing them all kinds of horrible things.
And constantly attacking every single attempt by them to communicate.
never said it was bad, you asked gameplay issues.
What FS does deserve is the focus on predatory money-making tactics > a completed game. A push to release the game before the end of the year when the community knew it would have this impact. The negative reviews, (you’re right most start off saying at its core is fun) leans towards the disappoint because of the potential we saw.
“Bad” only means failing to meet standards or expectations. You can have fun with a bad product or fun watching a bad movie.
Darktide is bad and I love playing it (in mission). It’s rapidly becoming one of my most played games and I gave it a negative review.
Around 90 hours playtime between the beta and first month and a half after release. Haven’t touched the game since and finally got around to uninstalling a day or two ago after deciding to give it another shot and immediately disconnected after loading into the hub. No intention to play again at least until we get a content update or big bugfix patch. Just not worth dealing with all the BS surrounding an otherwise fun core gameplay experience anymore. This is coming off of probably around 1000-1500 hours over VT 1&2, so safe to say I am (but increasingly was) a fan of the series.
My biggest complaints are that the game is clearly unfinished and dealing with the hub is an extremely dull experience that does not respect the player’s time, long load times/too many loading screens, no reason to keep playing past lvl 30, and the game’s performance really seems to break down on higher difficulties.
I left a negative review on steam citing all these reasons and have been telling friends who were on the fence to wait. I keep thinking what if Darktide is someone’s first experience with 40k or a horde shooter, would this game be a good entry point for either of those things? The answer for me is no, at least not without a lot more work from FS.
That’s a design issue. They made penances in a way that people chasing (some of) them are obnoxious to have on a team.
Did you at least add that to your review, that it is so bad you find yourself playing it a lot?
I’ve actually never seen such completely uniform reviews and opinions across the entire internet. They all basically glow with praise for the game, but still mark it as negative. The critque is always the same:
Gameplay, music, art, style, sfx, vfx, are all incredible.
But
The game was released incomplete and still is
Crafting is still unfinished
The RNG shop sucks as an experience
The map makes getting a mission youd be willing to play very hard/unpleasant
The loot grind is bad
Its missing the attachment system that was promised
Its missing the story that was promised
Not enough content, classes, maps, zones, missions, etc
Basically everyone loves the core of the game but its too much like early acess to leave a positive review. It could be saved probably. But it needs some aggressive content releases in parallel with short term friction fixes and long term systems redesigns, in parallel with faster, better, less corporateese communication.
I don’t play it FOR it being bad, I play it because the mission gameplay is fun DESPITE the product overall being bad.
My review was also a response to being lied to twice by FS in rapid succession.
So it’s more of a personal feelings toward Fatshark thing, the reason why you left a bad review?
Would I recommend it now if it was free to play? Yes!
Would I recommend it now if it was sub 20€ and advertised as early access? Yes!
Do I actually recommend it now for the full price and the state that it is in as a full release? No!
And that’s what my negative review says.
And that has nothing to do with me being part of the vermintide community.
if the game was being review bombed it would be at like 20% and steam ould say under the reviews its getting review bombed lol
A combination, overall dissatisfaction as a customer.
but is it with the game? if it wasnt fatshark who made it would you still review it the same way?
Yes.
Considering the lies were pertaining to the product in question, Darktide, what company made it is irrelevant. The creator is not divorced from the product, especially not one pitched as Live Service.
Thats a bit of a strawman argument, there has been more objective feedback than juvenile feedback. Sure there are some bad seeds that went off the rails, but most people try to stay objective and provide feedback with as little snark as possible.
But peoples patience is running thin.
And besides, a lot of the outrage comes from the fact that many people expected Fatshark to use what they learnt from VT2 to avoid falling into the same pit traps that plagued that game, but unfortunately that ended up not being the case, so here we are.
People might be more forgiving if this was a completely new game from a developer that had not already gone through this twice before, but pretty much every game Fatshark has released has been marred by a botched launch and glacial development times.
I just hope they manage to fix enough issues to keep the boat afloat before their contractual obligation forces them to work on the console version, which will pull most of the studios resources towards that project and away from the PC version for a few months.
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I’m sorry but I see way more people complaining about people doing this than I see people actually doing this. The majority of steam reviews and the general response to the game I’ve seen online has been some variation of “The combat/art/music is great but the game is missing core systems/is clearly unfinished/bad performance/etc” and pretty reasonable complaints about the poor state of a game that was released as a “finished product”.
Not excusing or defending the people who are being genuinely toxic and unconstructive in their feedback, but acting like that is a majority of the people complaining about the game or that it’s being review bombed is pretty dishonest.