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Penances
Issue Description (Required):
The Hive Scum “Enhanced” penance where you restore toughness from the special stimm is not picking up any progress. Currently at zero after purposely playing games where I take hits and then restore my toughness with the stimm.
Steps to Reproduce (Required):
- Setup character talents with Chem Foritified keystone modifier.
- Setup character Stimm Lab to have 50% or higher viscosity.
- Get into a game.
- Let a trash mob hit you so you lose toughness.
- Immediately stimm and regain toughness.
- Finish game and see no penance progress.
Reproduction Rate (Required):
Constant (100%)
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PC - Steam
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@FatsharkLev Not sure if you did something on your end, but things are still messed up. Yesterday it said 0 and today when I loaded up my Hive Scum it said 97 instead of zero, even though I hadn’t played yet. So, just guessing something was done on your side.
However, I just played a game, made sure to stim whenever my toughness went down and I’m still at 97, with zero progression from that game. The 97 itself feels sus given how many times I tried to proc it before giving up.
Any ideas what’s happening here?
Thanks for your help.
@myheartislessthan3 oh, that’s strange. Can confirm nothing was changed on our side. There may be a backend sync/delay issue occurring. If you exit and re-enter the hub (or entirely restart Darktide), does progression change then?
Assuming that this Penance may be tracking on a server event when entering the hub, so a failed sync/delay could be why.
Over the last week I’ve quit and started Darktide many times. “Enhanced” has just been stuck at zero until yesterday when it was suddenly 97. Just logged into the hub now and it’s still at 97.
Meanwhile, other penances appear to be progressing fine. I’ve popped all my other ability based ones (screenshot attached). Conclaves Will (which tracks the number of completed missions) has been ticking up (though I haven’t been monitoring it closely, the current number is believable).
It’s just this one penance, Enhanced, which appears to be bugged. Any ideas of what to try to get it unstuck?
@myheartislessthan3 gotcha, thanks for the info! I’ve messaged one of our backend developers about this, and have asked if they can check your account data. I’ll let you know once I’ve heard back from them 
For some reason i have to use my stem and then my stim pack one after another to work.
only getting 10 per match sometimes nothing.
ok found out only the stem works not the stim pack.
In all my tests I was using just the stimm, not the stimm pack. Something is definitely bugged for me.
@myheartislessthan3 , our backend developers checked this, but it appears the Penance is already completed now. Did everything straighten out?
@myheartislessthan3 sorry, false alarm - our developer looked at a different Penance by mistake. They are still investigating ‘Enhanced’. I’ll keep you posted!
@myheartislessthan3 we’ve been able to progress the Penance with internal testing. Our QA sharks have asked if you have the correct talent setup for this? It requires all stimm talent points to be allocated for the Penance to work (for “at leaat 50% viscosity”)
I couldn’t believe this as it would mean the penance text is entirely wrong. That instead of “at least 50%” it should say “at 100%”, in which case lots of people would definitely have run into this. So I ran some experiments and figured what the bug is.
At 100% viscosity (as suggested is the requirement), this tree still doesn’t result in any penance progress:
I’ve highlighted why. You have to have at least one stimm talent point in that upper left section. That’s the toughness restoration section. This is a bug because I am running the Chem Fortified class talent which replenishes 50% toughness on stimm (see screenshot and reproduction steps above). But, that 50% doesn’t count towards the penance unless you have at least one point in that toughness section of the stimm talnet tree. If you do, then that 50% toughness talent is counted. Which is just broken behavior.
My guess is there is a bug in the code that makes it ignore toughness gen if no stimm talent points are in that toughness section even though Hive Scum has a class talent that restores toughness on stimm.
Of course, none of this explains how I magically got 97 points of toughness a couple of days ago (though, I’m wondering if it was because some other Hive Scum was running Stimm Supply and their ability caused me to regen toughness even though using your own ability doesn’t count toward the penance – another bug?).
Anyway, now that I know this, I’m just gonna cheese this one out as I’ve already put in the time and effort to do this via real games.
Appreciate the detailed write up of what you’ve found! I’ve shared this info with the development team to investigate. Much appreciated!
