I believe we (the playerbase) require official confirmation of whether or not this will happen @FatsharkQuickpaw @FatsharkJulia.
Will Hive Scum get new cosmetics in the rotating store, or will they remain on the one, current page?
It’s a simple [Yes] or [No] question, and I believe it should be communicated clearly when releasing new classes in the future.
If fs is consistent they’ll get half of the zealots and half of the vets cosmetics to match the builds.
Yeah it would be good to know tbh.
The real question is are they gonna expand the free rewards track after abandoning it for a year+, despite releasing two paid DLCs in a paid game with mostly paid cosmetics.
maybe it was hidden in the patch this time… maybe… must cope … winter break…soo long…
Silence as usual from the comm team 
Hi Jado, we’re here! Lemmie speak to the team - I’ll circle back to this, please bear with me. 
Thanks. I’ll wait!
And I apologize if my post came out as hostile.
It was not aimed towards anyone on the Fatshark crew, but it’s getting a little annoying as a customer to not know simple things like whether cosmetics will happen or not. 
The answer is clearly that all DLC classes won’t get any cosmetics. At least this is my opinion.
Good news… you won’t spend more money if, as me, you play only Scums.
I have this feeling as well.
Arbites was released months earlier and got the same treatment of “one cosmetic on launch, nothing thereafter”. I don’t know what’s up, but it’s not great business to fail to juice new releases like this, and I think it speaks to the fractured and uncoordinated nature of Darktide’s development and management.
Arbites are one thing because they are one unit that always wears their specific unique armor in the TT.
My personal opinion was that it was a mistake to release Arbites instead of Palatine Enforcers because the Enforcers have a much bigger variation of outfits and they could have done much more with the Enforcer personalities because Enforcers are ex-criminals etc. who gets redoctrinated into getting a new name and personality and one of their personalities could have been one that struggles with the fact of not being themselves anymore while another personality could have been a mercenary bodyguard that is super loyal to Barquette and Margrave: who have them employed.
Arbites could have been a Games Workshop decision though, but I feel that Enforcer would have fit the game much more since just like Hive Scum; Enforcer could have been from Atoma and thus have personal connection with Darktide lore instead of being pulled out of someone’s hole.
However, Fatshark can just draw from Necromunda, as they have done for the OG classes.
TBH?
Arbites and Hive Scum shouldn’t have had ANY paid cosmetics.
Drop them into the free track.
They’re half-assing the monetization with their current approach, not locking it into the rotation (which would be scummy for a paid class but from a business perspective understandable) but not going ‘no monetization since you already paid for it’.
The end result is the whales being left unsatisfied since the expectation the DLC classes would take part in the rotation was created by giving them a store page at all, while the principled guys are unhappy because there’s still further monetization of a paid class.
Would have been nice for sure, but not very realistic if you actually want a big variation so you can create your own character.
If FS stated this, I suspect it’s almost certainly a made-up excuse on their part, as Arbites do actually have different sets of armor in actual tabletop model form and art across the various editions, and if that was really an issue, it didn’t appear to stop things like the Death Korps set from being a radical departure from the actual artwork and models (and wholesale making up Krieg Orgyn and Psykers from scratch in the process).
I’d probably agree with this, local Enforcers being conscripted into the Warband would have made more sense than the Arbites barging into an Inquisitorial action and inserting themselves of their own volition, and been much more open to visual interpretation.
So much this. It’s a really fragmented and poorly thought out product strategy that just doesn’t appear to know what it wants to do. It doesn’t actually appeal to the “not a dime!” crowd, while the people who actually want their e-cosplay experience aren’t getting their fix.
No, Fatshark has not mentioned anything about this as far as I know, but Arbites have a canon look for their current miniatures.
Sure, but so do many other forces/factions that Adia/Fatshark have done and radically departed from (like the aforementioned Krieg cosmetics that don’t resemble either the old Forgeworld line nor the current Plastic models) and have included elements from (or based on) older sets, such as Cadian stuff that’s mostly based on the 2003 and not 2022 models.
If what I learned in this forum is true then you will have to wait. I have read here somewhere that the cosmetics were outsourced and done by some Asian slopshop a long time ago. Now they have enough to rotate them for years. That information was before the release of the new classes. So my guess is they had to outsource again and that takes time, additionally once the paperwork is done there is even more time needed to actually create new cosmetics. Then there is probably a revision process…yada yada. To conclude: if there will ever be a rotation it will probably take at least a year between release of the class and the start of the rotation.
They haven’t added any new cosmetics for the Arbite since its release, so i dont think they’ll make any for Scum. They’re prob spending most of the time working on the New class and what not