Free the Modifiers

[Frish]

Time to break more locks

[CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N]

@MadMartigan

If they released a new biome with 3 new maps, along with another 3 maps from existing biomes, AND released ALL the modifiers into constant rotation then that would keep me distracted long enough that they could spend a year reworking the entire balance and combat if they wanted.

Do the thing FS. Use the work you already did to buy time for new work.

Surely sunsetting isn’t the lesson you want to take from Bungie’s live service success, is it?

[CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N]

Just two more well received event modifiers that are relegated to nothingness until maybe one day they make it to Havoc for a handful of people to play.

@Terrorgheist

Please make such nice Modifiers permanently into the Game. Its really great to have something more interactive, additional Enemy Spawns/Hordes and Bosses as well as the Inferno Visuals for Starvation Riot. I find it really SAD that its going to be gone entirely once the Event is over. Same as with the Tainted Skulls Event; maybe minus the picking up all the Rations / Skulls - maybe they could be placed a few of them in hidden Spots around the Map like the Heretical Idols and making a decision then is going to be more impactful instead of picking up dozens or hundreds of them throughout the Match where at a certain threshold its causing Angry Ogryn or Starvion Riot but instead theres maybe four-six Rations / Skulls (or something similar) placed somewhere on the Map and making a decision then immediately triggeres the consequence of that decision with an Wave and Boss depending on what you choose. For the Tainted Skulls could remove the Skulls entirely but just have the Totems around the Map which spawn Chaos Spawns and buff Enemies in an increasing AoE; i really loved them because they added a lot of immersion.

@harlekein

Okay, this is honestly a fun event with stuff like this going on.

Now put blighted stimms into regular rotation and have our stimms have side effects in those missions as well.

@Breathingisfornerds

I’ve been loving the Atonement event, and I’d love to see it (alongside Rot Armour) become mainstays in Auric. Having a step up from normal HI(STG) Auric that isn’t Havoc is awesome, and High Intensity Atonement and the Rot Armour event have each been the most fun periods in Darktide for me in recent memory. They have some of the intensity of high Havocs but without the restricted build variety that consequently befalls Havoc, and you also don’t have to spend time dealing with party finder or whatever Havoc modifiers you might not enjoy.

@URKA

I want this event to be an usual modifier.

I echo these pull quotes. Both these events were incredibly fun twists to the game’s stale formula, regardless of the very welcome aquila reward.

[Haydern]

It’s really sad to see old (or not so old) posts with such simple changes for the game that would simply bring more life to it and that are simply ignored… I play on the South America server and most of my missions are solo or duo unless I wait a long time to form a team. Havoc 40? Very difficult to find enough people. Expeditions? Nobody plays them. Maelstorm is equally empty. When I meet old players, most say they’re tired of the same mission modifiers and are simply going to play something else (or are simply tired of the bugs, crashes, aborted missions, etc.).

[CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N]

The saddest part is the work is already done. Unlike some posts, I’m not pitching new ideas that require more dev time. Just put the damn things back in the game via the modifier mechanism already in place.

And if you’re going to sunset anything, retire flucking dogs at this point.

[Hammer_hold]

@CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N

The saddest part is I’m not pitching new ideas that require more dev time. The work is already done.

No it’s not! What about all the icons they’ll have to make to signify which modifier is which?! It all used to be an Inquisition symbol as a symbol of an event.

But now? Imagine how much hard work and long grueling hours will need to be put in to have an icon for each and every single one of the modifiers.

Unbelievable… How could you be so cruel to this small indie studio? They only have 100+ employees and obligatory days off! Be grateful for what you have and go play another 500 hours of DogTide!

[Pirx]

frankly, it’s just unbelievable. something as simple as picking modifiers is a decades old feature in games, yet darktide doesn’t allow it. same as having a single player campaign, btw. you still get a set of modifiers you have not asked for, so you can either play with them or wait for another rotation. this all aligns with this weird fascination for not giving players agency but having them depend on RNG. the worst of it, hadron’s brick factory, is luckily history, but there’s still the RNG weapon base, curio availability, and this RNG on what modifiers one plays with. to top it off, there’s not one explanation why this is still the case. is it because of issues with server load? matchmaking? there’s not one understandable statement on this iirc. maybe you get a “we heard you and are discussing this internally” if there’s any response at all.

[URKA]

@CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N

And if you’re going to sunset anything, retire flucking dogs at this point.

[CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N]

I appreciate people that want full custom lobbies, 100%. But I’m not even asking for that.

I just want ALL the modifiers in an RNG rotation so that we don’t continue to foment frustration in the community and get posts like this:

Tone down the Modifiers already - A small rant

Now for a bit of clarification about the name of the topic: I’m not saying that the way modifiers work need toning down, after all the various curveballs they employ is essentially the appeal of playing with them. [modifierhell1] What I’m saying is that there’s too many of the f***ng things. I don’t always want to deal with swarms of Hounds or Specialist conga-lines keeping me from straying just a little off the beaten path, nor do I want to always deal with Blackout/Fog giving me near-sighte…

Which I had bookmarked for here because I side with the sand eater:

@eatingsand

I think a key issue here is that there’s just like, 4 of them or something.

If there were more of them, they might be less “not this again” and more “oh, havent played one of these in a while”

Not to mention how much new modifiers would enrich and switch up gameplay inherently.

I never played destiny, but I heard of the sunsetting since it was such a ripple in gaming news. But DT is my first game of any type that I watched devs sunset their own work in real time.

I can’t think of any other game that has a similar modifier system that doesn’t put them into an existing rotation after a featured introduction.

[Orome]

As someone that was looking forward to chaos wastes, when i heard expeditions are just normal missions but helldivers… I couldnt even be bothered to boot up the game.
For the past 10 months now? a year and a half? I’ve only booted up the game like 5-10ish times, and every time i stopped playing after 1-2 games for 1 reason :
Its all the same $hit i’ve been playing since the launch of the game.
There is 1 simple fix to this : releasing the modifiers. Not even the new classes were able to bring me back to playing because the problem is with the core gameplay.

Modifiers is what the game needs right now the most.
I love the game, and i want to play it again, but theres only so many times one can play the exact same thing.
Release the modifiers fatshark, please.

[Hammer_hold]

If you were to wager a guess, what do you think is the reason for the modifiers not being reused by being out into standard rotation? It seems like an easy way to boost player engagement with the game in a “you never know what you’ll get this time” way. So why not do it? Lack of communication between the playerbase and the devs?

[CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N]

My opinion at this point would not be nice or flattering, so I’ll let you infer.

I’m currently trying to see it as a small victory that we got blight spreads in expeditions because it marks the first time a previous event modifier that was relegated to Havoc has made it back into another mode, potentially, hopefully (I know, I’m stupid) making way for others to do the same.

No I don’t count the handful of M21st mixing in hordes. Not the same as an entire, abnormally dense horde of M21st. Don’t think I’m forgetting anything else.