I'm in a toxic relationship with this game

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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Darktide taught me what a toxic relationship feels like.

I love this game.
There is no other game like this one. I love the lore, the atmosphere, the characters, the enemies, the banter, the gameplay, the dodging, the blocking, the fighting, the challenge of modes like havoc40.

But it doesn’t love me back.
There are soooo many bugs and they keep coming back. Once you think they’re fixed there’s a patch and that old bug from 3 years ago is back. Or they just never get fixed. Or new ones appear and you try to work your way around them. But you die sooo many times just to the bugs. Silent ninja-crushers sneaking up and oneshotting you out of nowhere. Pox Bursters ignoring your push or running through your kinetic shield. Bosses deathpopping you. Or just the gamedirector going nuts and throwing everything everywhere all at once at you.

But still you try to make it work.
An then it hits you with lags, errors and disconnects. You fight through all that bullsh°t for over an hour and suddenly the enemies start sliding over the floor… Error, disconnect, reconnecting and game session ended.

This game could be the goat, and I’d honor it by delving into Fashiontide, but after years of Fatshark not managing to tame the beast, I just can’t spend another dime on flowers.

Long story short: New update and we’re back at graphic problems, bugs, errors and disconnects. Great work Fatshark!

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Don’t worry we all are here
But the moment another dev delivers an experience like darktide but with a competent leadership team with an actual cohesive vision I’m gone

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Love the game.

Hate Fatshark.

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This. In V2 people were annoyed by Fatshark. Everytime new map had textures holes you can fall through you would see in the chat something like “fatshark quality”, instadeath bug - “fatshark moment”, 40 000 of different crashes - “you was fatsharked”.

The vibe was like “yeah, they are clowns, but our beloved clowns”.

But with DT it feels that annoyance evolved in borderline hate.

People want to play tide-like games, but don’t want to deal with FS incompetence and arrogance.

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I really get that, and you aren’t alone with those mixed feelings. The game stability (both client and server), performance or even audio issues should not be really acceptable in a game so many years after the launch.

Also if the game stability issues are caused by mods as it has been suggested…Well, maybe it is time to grow a pair, implement an official OPTIONAL (a toggle in gameplay options) scoreboard… and blacklist all the mods in the official realm?

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I recently reinstalled. Completely fresh, no mods. And I still have all the issues. That is another trait of the toxic relationship: Everything is my fault. Connectivity errors: It’s my ISP. Graphics slushy: It’s my settings/setup. Bugs/errors: It’s because of my mods!

And most annoyingly at the moment: The non-working chat. My toxic GF won’t let me talk to my mates. Just had a great H40 and although I died 3 times due to classic Dorktide bugs we survived it and I couldn’t tell my teammates how awesome they were. :frowning:

This is one of those bugs that have been in this game forever and Fartshark just can’t fix it. How can you build such a great game and then not be able to fix these bugs? Either they don’t care or they are incompetent.

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I think you’ve summed up most people’s experience tbh!

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Haven’t played for 2 or 3 months.
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Login. Some Havoc 35 or 37 pub game.
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Dark communion map, rotten armor+smyker in my team slog run.
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The run is like 90% finished, progressed towards the cathedral district
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YOUR MISSION WAS ABANDONED DUE TO UNEXPECTED ERROR MY ASS

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Yeah, I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt. It is technically possible someone else in the game uses scoreboard mods, and for whatever reason this could crash other clients too, but I bet if we ever tested this with no mods on 4 clients, we would still run into those issues.

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I thought Expeditions would keep me around and it kinda does but it’s just…not enough meat on the bone lately. I could be spending that time painting my actual minis after all.

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With Expeditions and Mortis Trials - You go through lengthy process and then suddenly bit by random match stop bug, disconnect, lag ending it prematurely losing all that time invested.

Quickplay normal missions - OK fine, 15 mins gone, start another game.

But I just can’t imagine the Havoc ladder with such latency, disconnect factor affecting rank.

I’m now a casual time player. 1-2 games, call it a night. Not healthy to over commit hours per day to one game - You end up more frustrated with bugs, latency etc. So now with me a bug, disconnect, re-match make. Toxic player? I quit, re-match make. Nice and easy.

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She made me reconsider with my ex.
Thanks to this bugridden, lagging and disconnecting Craptide I reinstalled CS2. It suddenly looks so much better after all this disappointment.

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if fatshark hadnt invented tide games they wouldve shut down years ago

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Now she’s blocking me.
Just got disconnected from another Havoc game. Can’t reconnect. I can’t connect at all. I should check my internet connection. Backend error. Ofc it’s my fault. This is so sad.

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+1 Same same. I’ve been doing loads of mini painting recently! I’m quite happy about that tbh :heart:

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My condolences. I was once too. But now I have a job… and I’m enjoying the *faeces* out of menace instead.