It’s just tiring when they’ve been acting like this since launch.
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It feels insulting.
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I never bothered to create a FS forum account until this point. There is a huge survival bias here because the only players remaining will obviously think the game is in good state. Why would the players like me who left it months ago ever care to give a feedback? I played DT for 500 hours and could not play anymore since march because it is an extremely bad game with the only redeeming feature being it’s complex, unique and interesting melee combat which unfortunately has no competition in the industry. To this day, enemy spawning is bad, no game balance whatsoever, no modding related to difficulty, your game completely relies on mods to be playable. You have one of the best if not THE best melee combat mechanics in the game and yet you completely work against yourself in creating strong ranged abilites, plasma, smite, staffs, kickback, etc. Giving Twitch drops for which someone could be on a vacation instead of Twitch Mode like your previous game.
I will never touch your game Fatshark and rather stick with this small minority of the community who values the game and gameplay because this isn’t about banning your own customers and content creators over map selection and Twitch drama. This is about whether you respect your own game. And you, Fatshark, at the end of the day clearly DO NOT care or have any respect of your own game. These are my two cents if I ever cared about using this forum at all. Have a good one.
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I have spent 3900 hours playing Darktide.
Things stack up.
Patch after patch, spawns do not get fixed
Patch after patch, plasma and psyker do not get fixed
Patch after patch, I cannot choose the map I want to play.
It just kills it for me. What is the point of party finder if it is the same terrible maps with terrible conditions.
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I have never seen someone as dedicated or passionate about the game than Telopots. He is, like the rest of us, upset about the current state of the game.
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If I go to a devstream and ask about a feature that I really want because I’m sick of coming home to realize that there’s nothing fun on the board and that there won’t be anything different for usually at least an entire twenty minutes of the two or three hours that I’m willing to play this game for, the last thing I want to hear even jokingly is a dismissive response.
“You can go to the mission board and then you can pick.”
And I would, if the mission board had anything fun or even just decent on it. But it doesn’t. The game has an excess of modifiers that are at best personal preference and at worst just outright awful and the mission board gets filled up with these atrocious modifiers until its hard to find the ones I actually want to play. And I could have actually borne with this and waited for mission selection for quite a while because “Hey! At least Fatshark will eventually listen to the playerbase and add mission select, right?”. And then I see that somebody has asked them that exact question and just gets joked at and told that there’s no answer for the issue that people have been complaining about for ages and suddenly I don’t really feel like waiting for the mission board to be changed because I no longer believe Fatshark cares about anything other than trying to vacuum our money out of our bank accounts with more recoloured costmetics.
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Problem with mission board. I said this last month and I stand by it.
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First amendment is irrelevant in this situation, as that only applies to government entities in the first place (meaning governments shall not infringe on an individual’s right to expression).
Freedom of speech doesn’t exist in an online streaming platform.
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I believe another issue on top of this is that Fatshark is notorious for not communicating unless it is about 26 minutes away from a major update. When you get next to no communication of substance, then when you ask (not gonna weigh in as to whether or not the “how” was appropriate), you get a non-response, I would imagine some people would be pretty upset.
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i really don’t care about this response from the dev. You guys make it such a big deal.
I also don’t care about the fanbase of a dude who plays darktide all day, looks like an actual homeless man, lives in a dirty appartment with his cat(s), made a big audience from playing a game he CONSTANTLY talks sh*t about and manipulates his audience into thinking that being able to select the mission you want to play is the MOST IMPORTANT THING in this game right now.
Before Fatshark should even take a look into custom mission select i would MUCH RATHER have new maps, new enemies, new weapons (especially ogryn ranged), a FoW map in darktide or a Chaos Wastes-ish gamemode.
Yes being able to play the exact mission you want is great. But you guys act like the maps in Darktide are as memorable and detailed as they were in Vermintide. This is not the case. 80% of the maps in Darktide are just… you know… maps. There is nothing special about it that makes me miss it. I haven’t touched VT2 in a while but i still miss the warm atmosphere of Against The Grain or Athel. I never yearn for map 44f-100x-5555.
Stop ignoring the good things that have happened in the last days. Yes it took a while. But it’s there
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two hours before chaos waste mentioned, I thought it would be more.
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Extremely hyperbolic.
Everything else I agree with, but, the game in vanilla state is very playable (I continue to play vanilla Darktide). It’s probably a better experience with mods, and I really wish the QoL and cosmetic mods were integrated into the base game so we could purge those on the more… iffy end of the spectrum, but how folks choose to play their game is their choice.
Is it in a “good” state?
It’s definitely better with the crafting “fixed”… but we still have Blessings that are effectively mandatory if we want builds to be effective, we still can’t earn aquillas in game, cosmetics as they are are a joke (don’t even get me started on the FOMO garbage) and the rotating mission board is trash (hence why I always just quickplay because it’s gonna be a crapshoot anyhow).
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What’s the point of new maps if you can’t access them? It’s a perfectly cromulent criticism that the underlying system that support maps is limiting and frustrating in its limited scope and how every mission and condition added to it just makes it worse by straining against its limitations.
The maps all have their own layout/gameplay quirks and visual themes and you not paying attention to them is partially because they are so randomly presented on the mission select screen.
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what a delightfully delivered alliteration!
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THIS. Also see itemisation (check!) and cosmetics. Same issues derived from the same flawed core philosophy.
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- Principles exist outside the confines of gubernatorial dictate, and represent an enshrined philosophy as well.
- Public Private spaces exist and are codified in law
- in the US platforms only exist as a consequence of section 230 which only provides certain allowances for moderating content.
- I actually somewhat side with Fatshark on this one as it turns out.
Getting bonked for doing this is kind of the obvious consequence of bad behavior. I don’t see any reason to coddle people who go on a spam raid. I say this as someone who very much likes Telopots and his silly stream. (and I agree with the main thrust of the complaint btw). A permaban is a bit heavy handed though, I’d hope something like that was reversed.
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I see the new Train map constantly on the mission board. When the map released it was on there 24/7 and i believe it still is.
After 2 years i don’t really pay attention to visual themes anymore. I’m sorry. Except Gloriana and Oubliette i wouldn’t call any other map “memorable” in my opinion.
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It’s the same concept as how there was little or no hype for new weapons under the old itemisation system because it was a pain to get something even if you had the resources to keep rolling.
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Yes, it’s a bandaid solution to have the new map replace/be added in a guaranteed slot per difficulty for a week or two, thus further limiting the choice of maps available and skewing the quick play so much that it’s functionally useless. This was after the first new map was released and, you know, people not being able to play the new content because of RNG.
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Stop acting like weapon blessings in this game are soooo important. The game is easy enough to just run around with literally any blessings and it wouldn’t make any difference on how well you play if you already have a decent skillset.
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