Has anyone tried the "endless horde" condition? (solo mod)

Really… this is what I want as a maelstrom… or better, a nez condition on Auric board.

With the ability bug (losing your ability), I have been tempted to retest the solo mod.
I also use better bots mods.
So at first I picked elite resistance… let’s say it… not convinced. Elites die fast and I really don’t see a real difference… or yes, it is a little empty.
Then I tried endless horde. I must say that I have not had so much fun in Darktide since the time when Heresy was buggy with endless hordes.
Oh my god!!! It’s so much fun having to fight all the time and never get one second to breathe.
This is exactly what I want in this game.
Let’s say that I think this bug is still here… but really, Fatshark, please put back endless horde as a condition like HIST. Give us just one mission on the Auric board with this condition at any time… Really, think about this!

If you don’t add too many special or elite enemies, endless waves of zombies are indeed a nice variable to increase tension without making the game too hard.

The condition is buggy as normally it should just make horde enless, not elite… see below… you end up with endless horde, so this means that you really always have groaners / poxwalkers / armored moebians around you, but you will get many, many elites.
Specials seem to spawn at normal rate… but everything else seems to never end spawning.

This creates an intense tension in your game.
Really, I loved this game. As I said, it’s been 3 years that I have not had so much fun in Darktide.

Ok

Just to show how it looks a solo game mode with better bots and this condition.
And yes, I do errors… and yes I don’t use spidey sense… I obviously made a BIG mistake at the end… I wanted to throw a knife on the trapper, and the trapper caught me.

Board: Auric
Mission: Chasm Station HL-16-11
Condition: Endless Hordes
Result: Failed :rofl:

New one

Board: Auric
Mission: Dark Communion
Condition: Endless Hordes
Result: Success

well up until the addition of consoles I guess this would have been a standard condition.

think about rather as in

would anyone think of the… frames.

aint no coincidence hordes gotten smaller with each console addition.
its a shame really since darktide was a game first developed and released for and on pc, something pretty rare these days.

bummer its all about money in the end, if they stuck to proper hardware requirements we could be way further… :man_shrugging:

The crazy Moebian modifier was released post-console I think? And the first time that was released it was a glorious and vast sea of hordes. I loved that modifier on the normal board.

I don’t think it’s console limitations to blame.

horde size though was way smaller and less frequent

got replays from shortly after release onwards and youll never see this kind of density or frequency since :man_shrugging:

besides, sony is a direct pssy-source for censoring post death dismemberment i now need a mod for.

if a single pixel has to be altered to cater to consoles i say its two too many :raised_fist:

besides moebian horde got released september 2024 and ps5 “gracing” us with its presence since december.

so nope, mode was gone out of rotation by then and re-entered in 2025, to my knowledge in castrated density

Ah well if that’s the case then I stand corrected :folded_hands: I thought the ps5 version was launched before.

I miss those hordes :cry:

main reason i hate ps5 with a passion is the sony internal crap fatshark swallowed and had me use mods to uncensor the gore when i could fap to it for 2+years prior undisturbed

you dont mess with my gore-boner and not provoke my undying hatred.

best part about dead island 2 is to beat&kick the flesh from the bones and so is kicking them dismembered punies around in darktide.

not one inch to censorship, ever :fu:

had every game that was “banned” and watched every movie in its uncut form even if it was trash, just to spite those that would keep that entertainment from me.

I think this is maybe the explanation. They restricted hordes to small amount of groaners / poxwalkers by waves just before releasing Darktide to consoles.

But really, this condition is so much fun. I begin to adapt to it. With it, there is really absolutely no breath. You must push push push and getting past a spawn point won’t stop the spawn before… if you get back, there is still hordes coming.

Really I love this condition.

and by that started the cascade effect that led to filling the ranks with elites/specials, which needed the player buffed beyond the gills…and so on and so forth.

so in essence its the source of all evil :squinting_face_with_tongue:

Yes, exactly. They replaced hordes with elites, and Darktide was transformed from a horde game to a cooperation game (sadly).
When they released Havoc, they wanted to restrict the ranged part of the game as well… hopefully we still have it in Auric (and that is why I still love Adventure mode), but all balance tweaks go in this direction.

this does not happen in this condition. See my second run, I have intentionally go backward to see if it works like I was thinking.

(extract from an other thread)

second run with my characters as bots

https://youtu.be/hXM4CIbtuWs

Just out of curiosity, you’re German right? Isn’t it the German government who impose strict censorship on games as they have done for years?

There was always a ‘German’ version of games that had to have the blood removed whilst the rest of the worlds versions had blood.

Not to say if Sony have anything to do with it, but thought the German gov might be more to blame!

There is visual restrictions for several countries once they released the PS5 version. Even on PC xbox there is a restriction (you cannot cut members on floor).

It is well documented, there was even a mod to remove these restrictions on PC. Because when they introduced them, they extended them to steam PC.

https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/437

nope, as stick in ass these creatures in control are, when a media once passed an age restriction and got the green light, there aint any re-censoring.

this is sony applying to any area the same where it “could” apply.

aussies got an issue with the fun meds, japan doesn’t like to be bombed thrice, until recently germans had an issue with gore.

thing is, fighting this sht since the late 80s, we won to the point where swastikas etc are fine in media and gore once age appointed is either released or not.
for the later theres import versions from the getgo, made me an austrian epic account for i dont like extra steps to repatch the gore into dead island 2.

us keys on steam though for dying light etc work right out of the box.

and while for obvious reasons you shouldnt greet your neighbor with a “heil hitler”, games and movies nowadays lost their paranoid fear of historical facts.

so on the game/movie front theres been a victory since around 2010, regulation for firearms though is still the most backwater stoneage… but thats another topic :smile:
i long for the day where i can drive happily with a full auto fn p90 in my lap :squinting_face_with_tongue:

You won? In France, we still cannot.

Exception is for cinema… That’s exactly why The Saboteur was released with Iron crosses.
The censure was effective in Germany and Switzerland also, it seems (not sure however as I have not bought the game in these countries).

I remember it because I have bought this game two times. French version and uk one because I wanted the uncensored version.

Here our law (still applied nowadays)
First paragraph
Wearing or displaying in public a uniform, insignia, or emblem recalling the uniforms, insignia, or emblems that were worn or displayed either by members of an organisation declared criminal pursuant to Article 9 of the statute of the international military tribunal annexed to the London Agreement of 8 August 1945, or by a person found guilty by a French or international court of one or more crimes against humanity provided for under Articles 211-1 to 212-3 or referred to in Law No. 64-1326 of 26 December 1964, is punishable by the fine prescribed for fifth-class contraventions, except for the needs of a film, a performance, or an exhibition involving a historical reenactment.

well wolfenstein in full swastika gallore right out of the box i’d call the last raid boss that was to be slain.

after that they had little excuses for their weird censor fetish :man_shrugging:
mortal kombat gotten waves through for even longer.

honor your ancestors and put them wannabe-bigshots under the guillotine :+1:
“power” isnt writing some hello kittie laws on a piece of paper, its torches and pitchforks gutting you on the market square :smile:

Maybe you’re thinking of the xbox release back in 2023?

Yeah if you go back it will happen for H40 even on solo since the Game will spawn a blockade (I think it happened to me once in that vid, that I get like 7 Bulwarks spawned because I went back for healing on the med station)

I’d be interested in trying endless horde in an Auric Maelstrom solo with something like vet or Psyker tho, could be fun