This is more of a rant then anything. From day 1 of darktide, many people have been wishing for chaos wastes to come to this game (me included). Especially in recent times almost everyone agreed, chaos wastes would be the thing that revives darktide just like it revived vermintide 2… So… Why the …

[image] Orome: The worst part of this is, because these “expeditions” now exists, that means we will NEVER see chaos wastes in darktide. This is the real tragedy. Never say never Although it is funny they’re so hesistant to remake it. Apparently VT2 chaos wastes was made with the help of a t…

Maybe the driving concept for the last added game mode to tide games isn’t roguelike but rather applying tide combat to a genre a couple years after its popularity surge.

What about the Expedition presentation (which honestly doesn’t really tell much) copy Helldiver ? The ability to call a Valk run ?

[image] Orome: The worst part of this is, because these “expeditions” now exists, that means we will NEVER see chaos wastes in darktide. This is the real tragedy. We are most likely never getting Chaos Wastes because that game mode was outsourced to be made by Toadman Interactive, a studio/co…

Wholeheartedly agree. the Chaos Wastes Boons feature itself is what makes the game SUPER REPLAYABLE for me. altho with expeditions, what we see right now would likely become a glorified mortis trials game mode where engagement would fall over after a month or so.

[image] Heretical_Cactus: What about the Expedition presentation (which honestly doesn’t really tell much) copy Helldiver ? [image] Dev Blog - Expeditions Announcements Helldivers 2 is the most accurate analogue to Expeditions, but it also borrows from t…

The ability to play through the map in a non-linear fashion with a timer on it is going to do way more for replayability than a lot of other ideas. There is a reason games like Helldivers, Nightreign, Ravenswatch, etc are successful. Having to make hard choices on the fly to get the most out of a r…

[image] Hextechnician: “walk in a mostly straight line from the front of the map to the back of the map” Maybe FS shouldn’t have powercrept the game to just hold W and spam ult and blitz. Because I remember tide games forcing players to make split second decisions all the time.

While that is a whole different conversation, it still doesn’t change what I said about linear map design. I’m beyond over that whether in Vermintide or Darktide. Once you are skilled enough you are literally always on autopilot with the map design, powercreep or not. I’m never making any hard deci…

I don’t think it does, it requires you to have a much higher mechanical execution, forcing you do deal with most threats up close and personal. I wouldn’t call that a split second decision, but a skillcheck.

Expeditions - copying helldivers instead of vermintide

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Expeditions - copying helldivers instead of vermintide

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