# Hotfix #74 (1.8.6) - Patch Notes **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** devpost, patchnotes\ **Created:** [August 26, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053 "2025-08-26T08:54:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zaygr](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/zaygr/32/71131_2.png) [@zaygr](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/zaygr)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/21 "2025-08-26T11:19:23Z")
Rarely any balancing, either. ---
**Author:** ![Eternam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@Eternam](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Eternam)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/22 "2025-08-26T11:23:55Z")
3 crashes for now returning to the mourning star. ---
**Author:** ![Khorne\_Dawg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/khorne_dawg/32/111464_2.png) [@Khorne\_Dawg](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Khorne_Dawg)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/23 "2025-08-26T11:26:15Z")
> [@whiteghost](#): > > You’ve pissed me off with this nerf to Arbi. 99% of the players I meet are very bad even with Arbi. That’s their problem and skill issue. > [@whiteghost](#): > > It’s better to ask for a buff for other classes and not nerf Arbi. Great. The AI Director will have to spam Enemies _even worse_ than it already does to counter that kind of powercreep. We ask for Players to be nerfed because Players are so OP that it’s literally forcing the AI Director to spam so many Enemies that it breaks Enemy Audio in order to create any semblance of challenge. We’re not asking for nerfs to “ruin” Darktide, we’re asking for nerfs to fix it. > [@whiteghost](#): > > I have 2000 levels for all classes and I own Arbi. And…? Having a high level doesn’t equate to being skilled nor knowledgeable about Darktide. I’m sorry but this just seems like an unnecessary and irrelevant flex. ---
**Author:** ![ApeWithButterKnife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@ApeWithButterKnife](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/ApeWithButterKnife)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/24 "2025-08-26T11:34:55Z")
Woo hooo thank you!! ---
**Author:** ![anon73549677](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon73549677](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/anon73549677)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/25 "2025-08-26T11:38:46Z")
The last hotfix was exactly 1 week ago. Sometimes, it feels like no one here has worked an actual job, with coordination between multiple teams, let alone one that bears any resemblance to software development. ---
**Author:** ![laughterkills](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@laughterkills](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/laughterkills)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/26 "2025-08-26T11:49:07Z")
Cool, this fixed a bunch of CTD issues I was having since the last update. ---
**Author:** ![Eternam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@Eternam](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Eternam)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/27 "2025-08-26T12:10:45Z")
you forgot to mention that whit each update come new bugs and crashes. ---
**Author:** ![Margeret-Dayhoff](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/margeret-dayhoff/32/92972_2.png) [@Margeret-Dayhoff](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Margeret-Dayhoff)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/28 "2025-08-26T12:40:41Z")
> [@BatlordCarcas](#): > > Connection issues being fixed is really good Yes this is good news. Who knows, maybe one day the game no longer drops inputs. Imagine. Imagine a game that works. A man can dream. ---
**Author:** ![Latifa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/latifa/32/71258_2.png) [@Latifa](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Latifa)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/29 "2025-08-26T12:44:27Z")
In theory yes, but on the other hand “fixing problems added in the previous patch” is suitable) ---
**Author:** ![anon73549677](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon73549677](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/anon73549677)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/30 "2025-08-26T12:45:59Z")
Hey @FatsharkKitefin, any word on the state of mission backfill, which has been having issues since the last seasonal update? With the shorter on-board duration, it seems to be a real problem. Is this on y’all’s radar? ---
**Author:** ![ZoroDaOtter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@ZoroDaOtter](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/ZoroDaOtter)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/31 "2025-08-26T12:50:46Z")
Sept. 30th. ---
**Author:** ![FatsharkKitefin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/fatsharkkitefin/32/95415_2.png) [@FatsharkKitefin](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/FatsharkKitefin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/32 "2025-08-26T12:54:18Z")
Can confirm it is on the radar and we are looking into it 🫡 ---
**Author:** ![anon73549677](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon73549677](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/anon73549677)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/33 "2025-08-26T12:55:28Z")
Excellent! Thanks, Kitefin! ---
**Author:** ![Warrak](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/warrak/32/75239_2.png) [@Warrak](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Warrak)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/34 "2025-08-26T13:38:33Z")
That person just likes to the very vocal narc of the bunch, best to just ignore and move on. As for the whole working a real job; you’re probably right on the spot for about 80% of the people like this. Also, Thanks Kitefin ---
**Author:** ![MarxistDictator](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/marxistdictator/32/106716_2.png) [@MarxistDictator](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/MarxistDictator)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/35 "2025-08-26T13:56:43Z")
Please extend lobby times. If you get like 1/3 into a level and someone quits nobody backfills because QP only acknowledges your lobby for 10 minutes until it goes off the board. ---
**Author:** ![CobaltNinja](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/cobaltninja/32/71678_2.png) [@CobaltNinja](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/CobaltNinja)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/36 "2025-08-26T14:02:01Z")
I really don’t want to ask for much, but this kind of throughput from a game studio ostensibly in the hundreds feels absurd. I really would have been perfectly happy with the buff bar CTD being patched immediately, since that’s the easiest one to trigger, and waiting another week or two for more fixes. My derogatory comments, on the other hand, are never directed towards Kitefin, but FS as a whole. I trust she’s doing the best with what she’s got - I cannot say the same for the rest of the company. Nobody tells us anything about what’s going on and I tend to be a natural cynic. I gotta repeat that I think the game is great and I didn’t dump a thousand hours into it for nothing, but is it _really_ too much to ask for a _stable_ game that _works consistently?_ Ghost Ship had the courtesy to throw out a maintenance patch to get DRG into a rock-solid (lol) state before declaring that they were going to put it on the backburner in favor of other projects, which sounds just fine with me. We’ve gotten the bare minimum of maintenance from FS and vacations taken with a game that really does feel like a buggy mess at the best of times. ---
**Author:** ![anon73549677](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@anon73549677](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/anon73549677)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/37 "2025-08-26T14:20:03Z")
> [@CobaltNinja](#): > > I really would have been perfectly happy with the buff bar CTD being patched immediately, since that’s the easiest one to trigger, and waiting another week or two for more fixes. Sometimes release/deployment doesn’t work like that. Often you have to batch stuff out. Just look at all of the other crash fixes here. They’re affecting some users, possibly more than the buff bug. ---
**Author:** ![DornIvanotic](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/dornivanotic/32/84585_2.png) [@DornIvanotic](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/DornIvanotic)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/38 "2025-08-26T14:34:51Z")
Twitch mode on official servers, surely this would go well! ---
**Author:** ![DornIvanotic](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/dornivanotic/32/84585_2.png) [@DornIvanotic](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/DornIvanotic)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/39 "2025-08-26T14:36:44Z")
Ultimately, the sheer amount of aoe available counters all density based difficulty. ---
**Author:** ![LukeGlitch](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/lukeglitch/32/97875_2.png) [@LukeGlitch](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/LukeGlitch)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053/40 "2025-08-26T14:53:28Z")
Still waiting for the day i see: “Fixed audio issues that caused specials to not play sound cues” Gj fs [Previous page](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/hotfix-74-1-8-6-patch-notes/112053.md?page=3)