Level 4 players should not be able to access malice difficulty missions. Even experienced players wont be helpful to the team at such low levels while on high difficulties because they wont have strong enough gear to fight enemies. Heresy and damnation should be reserved for level 20+
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TBH they’ve learned some lessons from both Vermintide 1 and 2. In 1, there was no restrictions to joining higher difficulties once you had them unlocked which caused very similar problems that we have in Darktide. It was both better and worse because a lvl 1 player, with enough skill could actually contribute to the mission but that was such a rarity that there was a cry to restrict who could access higher level missions.
While in 2 people got bored easily by how easy the lower difficuties were, leaving a very poor first impression on a lot of players. It took too long to get to the ‘good’ bits of 2.
It also doesn’t help that the ‘optimal’ gameplay between rank 1 missions are very different then rank 5 missions, because of the specials and elites.
They might as well not have any requirements because the current ones are a joke. Malice should require at least level 5, heresy should require at least level 15 and damnation should be like 25.
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