This current event really makes me feel like the next class might be Sororitas related. During the Stolen Ration events, the “Active” Effect of the players engaging w/ the event was either a buff to stims or a buff to guns and ammo. This event has the prayer alters, and aside from being Risk of Rain Shrines of combat, they buff nearby players for an extended period. Effectively, until the bell rings. And this effect is specifically accompanied by the “Light of the Emperor” that you typically only see w/ Zealot.
To be clear, I’m not trying to suggest that next Class will definitely be Sororitas, but I’ve never personally bought into suggestions that they would somehow be too strong or too elite to run w/ the rejects when Psykers, Ogryns, and Arbites are in the game. We also know from the Victor Magnuson interview that there’s roughly Four Classes split across apparently two different internal short list.
Combined w/ the increase in Voice Lines referencing Saint Messelina. We don’t know a ton about her other than the fact that she was involved in some kind of military action/campaign (which could imply she was a Sororitas) and that her “True” feelings on Psykers are debated. The fact that Sororitas notably hate Psykers could generate a lot of fun conversations between a Sororitas trying to educate our Rejects, Arbites, and Scum, and a psyker trying to eff them on. And while I consider the hidden portrait frame cosmetics to be circumstantial evidence at best, there are a couple that I’ve never seen identified and that just feel kinda Sororitas Coded to me. There are some explicitly Ad Mech ones and I don’t think anyone doubts that we will get an Ad Mech class at some point. While all of this, from the increased conversations and even the event focused around Saint Messelina, the Attack Speed Buff you get while in the Light of the Emperor around the alters, and the hidden frame cosmetics could all be for the Zealot, I think that it’s unlikely that Chorus would receive such a drastic change or that Fatshark would even use Zealots as the heralds of those details of the evolving story. So yeah. Those are my thoughts, I just wanted to share them somewhere.
I think its a bit too soon for that kind of speculation maybe its the beginning of the build up… but I’m curious what would have happened if the other team won?
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Maybe we got Hive Scum as a class because we collected rations for the people… and if we destroyed them we would have gotten Sisters of Battle and riot event after….
OH NO YOUR RIGHT… WE SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED RATIONS!!!
That interview comment was very interesting… sounds like there was a short list of 3 and more on the way… perhaps they do have a 3rd class prepared… maybe even after this event? that might be too hopeful…
There’s alot more speculations in this video and incites to their behavior… such as Hive Scub having more cosmetic options and Arbites being kinda screwed in the cosmetic area.
…Thanks OP hes such a gold mine
Wrath & Glory has a Darktide importer with our current classes… but pages of other “tier 2” archetypes so hard narrow that list down…