Leveling is too long, Vermintide 2 had this issue so the EXP was increased but in Darktide its around an hour for a level at least going off my game time and levels. For the 4 classes at launch at this pace it would take around 120 hours just to be able to play each class with all feats and weapons. You can’t use weapons you unlocked on one character on another even if they could use it(a lazgun unlocked on zealot couldn’t be used on veteran). This keeps power low so even if you are good you are incentivized to stay at lower difficulty longer.
A lot of feats are underwhelming or have no impact, especially psyker. Psyker has a fun kit but the feats are bad, really bad. Almost none of them I’ve looked forward to or provide any change in gameplay. A miniscule damage over time to a couple enemies at a time for brain bursting an elite, it does less than 1 normal melee hit. Giving a single nearby enemy that some low damage over time IF you have max warp charges and would refresh them with another brain burst.
Ogryn is a disappointment to see on the team ATM, they are a wall that is hard to see past/shoot past. His role seems to be crowd control for hordes as they get a lot of cleave, OR you can have a veteran with grenades blow up the horde while being able to help with elites and specials. Ogryn can rush towards ranged enemies to stop them from shooting but will take a lot of damage in the process if they aren’t grouped up enough. Veteran just seems to do the job of taking down ranged groups and clearing horde better.
Weekly challenge rewards, I really hope purple and yellow gear isn’t locked behind the challenges. If you want a yellow specific weapon you just need to check the shop every time it resets and hope for it. Not only does it need to be in the shop but some of the items cost more than you may get from doing all of your weekly challenges, over a week to wait on more challenges for a single piece of gear is AWFUL. I don’t want to need to keep a reserve of 2000+ of the weekly currency to get the item I want possibly weeks later.
Ranged enemies shooting through walls/cover is not at all okay but happens all the time. Being sniped by enemies you cannot see while trying to just walk around in a small room or revive a teammate is normal.
Please let us get all kinds of gear from crafting, use gear we have on more than one character when applicable, speed up the leveling process, make more feats viable or interesting, don’t let veteran do the entire teams job just as well or better than the rest of the team, give ogryn some love and have a great day, I know it will be awesome but some issues are off-putting as of now.
I hope launch goes well and you don’t think the criticism means I don’t love your games Fatshark <3