Hotfix #51 (1.5.4) - Patch Notes

[CobaltNinja]

@FatsharkStrawHat

Fixed an issue where the Valkyrie briefings would sometimes not finish before loading into a mission.

Now add an option to let us vote to skip briefings

EDIT: Actually make it auto-skip if you’re reconnecting to a mission after a disconnect at the very least. The more time spent in a loading screen is more time spent not helping my team that I accidentally ditched because my game crashed.

[Slammer21]

you know i genuinely dont know why i acted like that towards you guys, i just like using the plasma gun. i usually play with friends so we just play to have fun and to feel like badasses killing everything, i see how it can ruin the fun for other people. the cleave is definitely WAY too high making it extremely unbalanced towards other builds giving an unfair advantage

[Amelia]

can we expect future content soon? new maps/weapons, new special conditions, etc.
what about a halloween/Xmas events in future for Darktide?

wonder about the new commisar in the Mourningstar also, if we will get an expansion of it

also reported few bugs related to missing audio in some spots of the map
and some players spawning far ahead (not accessible to res them, because gate locked because of a mid event)

[1Cake]

If that was a bug it had to be fixed. Plasma could use some nerfs, sure, but it has to be something intentional.

[FatsharkStrawHat]

Yes, I thought it might be this one. I chased it up this morning. I’m making sure it doesn’t get lost. o7 Thank you!

[FatsharkStrawHat]

Yes, we’ll begin talking about it soon! Working on a dev blog right now about something exciting.

And thank you for reporting any bugs! If you include logs with them, it helps a lot with finding these issues (How To Provide a Crash Report, Console Log, or darktide_launcher.log).

[supra898]

Coherency is evil now
awesome

sprint too lol

[CobaltNinja]

loner aura be like

[supra898]

was gore also changed? blood looks different
–or is this just settings being reset case–
yea no something defo changed

[psyk]

@FatsharkStrawHat

• Fixed an issue where the Valkyrie briefings would sometimes not finish before loading into a mission.

this is awful. please I have almost 2k hours in this game I just wanna play it more i dont wanna listen to masozi yap.
we still have issues with infinite loading screens why cant we have the really short ones???

[Shacobi]

did you guys change the blood fx from hitting stuff? it’s way chunkier now than I remember, keep doing more

[sioux]

Anyone else get this like weird grainy effect on their screen after the update? It behaves like a filter on my screen. My settings are the same except for the change to full screen.

Also, no idea why this screenshot turned out like it did with the menu slicing into the picture like that.

[Mezmorki]

@FatsharkStrawHat

we’ll begin talking about it soon

Like next week soon? Or this week soon? Or longer? The drones would like to know.

[wanderingsoul]

Psyker talent "Mettle" is broken since update

Issue Type (Required): Talents Issue Description (Required): The psyker talent “Mettle” does not trigger properly. [image] When attacking enemies (or a single enemy) with the flamer staff in the psykhanium, critical hits usually do not trigger the blessing. The movement speed buff is often not applied on crit. The same thing applies to the toughness regeneration aspect. This is NOT due to the talent no longer triggering multiple times from the same critical hit. In many cases, it will not…

The Psyker's Talent Mettle does not trigger correctly

Issue Type (Required): Talents Issue Description (Required): After testing, the Psyker’s staff Purgatus and Trauma’s right-click attacks were unable to trigger this talent. When testing an attack on a single enemy, the talent will not be triggered, even if the Perfect Timing talent of the lower branch has been triggered multiple times. Both of these talents rely on critical hits, and it’s clear that mettle doesn’t work here anymore. It only seems to work on some single attacks, such as left-…

On Electrokinetic staff, Warp Flurry stacks slows down the rate at which you can chain right mouse button charged attacks

Issue Type (Required): Player Mechanics Issue Description (Required): On Electrokinetic staff, Warp Flurry stacks slows down the rate at which you can chain right mouse button charged attacks. The more stacks you have (up to 3), the more time it takes before a Left click can fire your charged attack. On top of that, the Celerity Stim slows it down even more, with almost a full second after the charge meter is full before a left click fires a charged attack. Spamming charged lightning staff a…

Bug: Warp Flurry breaks Surge Staff charged attack speed

Issue Type (Required): Loadouts Issue Description (Required): The earliest possible release of the secondary attack of surge staff with warp flurry is bugged after recent unlocked&loaded patch. Adding Warp Flurry to Surge Staff decreases the fastest attack speed (earliest possible release of charge) of the secondary charged attack. A similar Surge Staff without Warp Flurry has in fact faster charged attack release speed. Steps to Reproduce (Required): Go into meat grinder or any mission on …

Bug feedback: Psyker Class, after selecting "Warp Unbound" Talent, there is still a chance that Smite will break when the critical reaches 100%

Issue Type (Required): Talents Issue Description (Required): Psyker talent “Warp Unbound” it can make u have more 10 sec attack when u critical on 100%，when i choice smite flash i can control enemy，but ，It still has a chance of interruption, which seems to be related to the network, because sometimes I can see the action being interrupted and then restored to its original state. Steps to Reproduce (Required): choice “Warp Unbound” Talent and Smite 2.use ability of Scrier’s Gaze and Smite…

Here are some bugs that I noticed myself and can reproduce.

[Margeret-Dayhoff]

The grainy effect comes from FSR3 frame generation. It’s really ugly in all games where I have tried enabling it.

I don’t know why, but the FSR3 mod that supposedly also enables FSR3 frame generation doesn’t appear to have this problem of producing this weird grainy/flickering effect.

I don’t understand what the difference is, but the mod makes the game run just as fast if not faster than the in-game FSR3 frame generation, but it also looks much better (it looks like a high quality DLSS version of some sort).

[wanderingsoul]

I don’t think plasma is perfect, it has several obvious flaws.
First of all, its extremely low ammunition efficiency, recovering ammunition has always been very painful for this weapon.
Second, it has a delay in firing, and since even hip fire requires automatic charging, you can’t shoot immediately when you need it most, which often leads to some missed shooting opportunities.
Thirdly, it has a thermal system, which makes it necessary to stop for heat dissipation during high-intensity battles. Created a lot of gaps that could not be shot. There is also a need to take into account the loss of toughness due to heat dissipation
Overall, it’s a powerful weapon, but it’s slow and heavy, and needs to be used at the right time. If you rely on it completely, you’ll soon run into trouble.
Regarding the charge mechanic, the reason why players rarely use it is because it lacks a sufficient bonus, the charge attack is slow and easy to explode, but the damage is not higher than three normal attacks, and this ammo consumption and risk do not encourage players to use it.
If a charged shot only consumes two normal shots of ammo, or if only a charged shot can penetrate a shield or a thicker cover, the player will use it more, and of course explode more, which is a worthwhile risk.
I don’t think it is necessary to drastically reduce the cleavage of normal attacks, and the ability to penetrate the obstacles of ordinary enemies and hit the elite behind is a feature of this weapon.

[ForumWarrior]

Please release a major balance patch.

[Steinar]

Frame Generation ON still causes stuttering when opening the emote wheel in the Mourningstar or sending chat messages (both in Mourningstar and Missions).

Edit: Actually anything that causes the mouse cursor to appear. Like pressing ESC, opening Inventory, Emote Wheel, Chat, etc.

[Scipo0419]

We are also decoupling the required number of players from the private party system, meaning that you will now be allowed to launch a private mission with any number of players. Previously you were always locked to using at least two players if you used the Private Lobby mode. This caused players that wanted to play the game solo but didn’t want to use clunky mods or were on console to be unable to use the private party mode to play solo.

hinthint, nudgenudge, winkwink

[FatsharkStrawHat]

Followed up on all of these internally! Thank you for linking.