Heya, fbolduc. I think this is a great question. I always want to be able to share the community’s concerns with the team (and I do!). A great way of doing it is via the threads like the Book of Grudges, the QoL compilation, etc. If someone creates a thread on a topic and there are a lot of people commenting and sharing their agreement, that is helpful with advocating for change. (Note: I didn’t say to spam anything.) If someone creates a thread and it doesn’t get much traction, then it often isn’t deemed as a more significant issue in the community.
I’ve been keeping an eye on the Mission Select feedback for awhile. But whenever I’ve seen it posted since I’ve joined the team last year, it’s often by the same people, and there isn’t much engagement. The rest of the community doesn’t seem to engage. (I’ve still shared it with the team, though!)
That said, I am reviewing this thread too and I’ll take some feedback from this thread. But if someone wants to create a separate thread and give their thoughts, that would be great. I always embrace constructive and critical feedback. (I know some of y’all are passionate and y’all have wanted this change, but please don’t be too aggressive in the messaging if you can help it.)
its really odd how community managers are used as mall cops when their job should be engaging the community for the purpose of maintaining positive relations and conveying information in a careful manner, and the devs do what community managers should be doing and as a result make a huge trash fire mess with their off color reactions and awkward social skills and lack of forethought. it’s shocking how gross the mismanagement of this project is.
You would prefer to see community managers streaming the game while playing instead, and never see the developers on stream? I think that would be a shame. It was good fun to watch Tim and Ola play and ask them questions relevant to their jobs.
Maybe it would be more efficient to have an official poll toward that ?
Like I understand that it irks some people, but if it’s due to how Servers are made, then so be it.
And for the Prem store, it’s a bad thing that I’m ok with as long as minimal content is gated behind dlc (Only Archetype and maybe new branches. Which I once again would love to see FS clarify their stances)
Not some fancy schmancy clean bowler hat or fedora. I demand you update your avatar immediately using this hat.
If my demands are not met within 3 years, I will start a Twitch channel (OnlyFans rejected me) and send my follower (singular, maybe double if it’s twins) to spam you at least twice, maybe thrice if twins or triplets!
I know the edges aren’t as rough but it’s literally the straw hat that Luffy wears in One Piece!!! I won’t stand for this libel!!! It ain’t no fedora!!!
i would love to see balance devs play this game with shite like achlys axe and shredder pistol and many other abysmal weapons, and put their thoughts on them !
anyway can we get an actual q&a stream and not just bad gameplay
could this be that a good portion of the “non-engagers” accept “making-due” with what we got ?
i in now way got any numbers, but usually I II V E G and C I VI seem the more (most) popular modifiers whenever i engange with people about darktide and discuss this topic.
it´s not so much the “where” in terms of maps as the “how”.
so many great moments on those modifiers that were simply not there with DI IV IX G etc.
when watching my replays i usually remember the next couple seconds of a close encounter and say to myself : “right… wait for it, there´s 2 chaos spawns yeeting us after we clear the stairs in the next room.”
can´t remember a single hunting grounds, mutants, barrels, snipers etc.
why is that ?
now i get that given the current populace it´s hard to add filters into the matchmaker but one thing that seems to be ignored, filter or not, players like me wouldn´t be in that pool anyways.
apart from the current event, i´d never step down into damnation to pick books or grims.
given the chance i pick I II V E G over any other modifier or simple nope out until the rotation runs out.
so me not being in that match out of my own choice or as a result of a non-choice is the same result for the overall player pool, but leaves a sour taste in my mouth personally, hence has an influence on my game experience.
no gamebreaking mind you but just food for thought for the free map/modifier choice discussion.
Oh this is BS and you know it come on. This is just like the argument some FS person made ages ago that went like “if people aren’t saying anything they’re basically agreeing that things are good the way they are”.
Fact of the matter is, most people get used to the shtty way things are and compromise. If you want to be real you’d make an official poll along with other QoL questions and post it in the launcher, but that hasn’t ever happened and never will happen. We all know why.
It’s because you’re so inured to the stimulation your brain no longer registers any of the stimulation Darktide gives unless its on the level of "there´s 2 chaos spawns yeeting us after we clear the stairs in the next room.” or similar. You’re chasing ever higher highs and expect the game to keep catering to the ever upwards spiral forever.
