Seriously, like why hasn’t this been done? We cannot continue to play this game and be expected to “want” to do the crafting side of it with the minor drops of plasteel that we continue to receive. You guys need to consider doubling the drops of ever single game type maybe even triple the drops in Auric and special missions. This is absolutely ridiculous the game hasn’t gotten any easier or more fun especially when you drop into missions and they are absolutely set-up against you and you only walk away with maybe 200 plasteel. This situation is not tenable at all, please Increase the drops of plasteel exponentially!
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I’m sick and tired of having to grind for hours just to get a reasonable supply of Plasteel after I upgrade my new weapons! Upgrading your weapons is something that should be ENCOURAGED.
I get particularly angry at this issue because I almost ALWAYS have tens of thousands in Diamantine, whilst I’ll upgrade 5 weapons and lose most of my Plasteel!
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Facts bro, i spend most of my time playing just for Plasteel just to upgrade 1 gun or melee weapon
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I’m sure nobody would say no to more but they tripled it a while back, how are you only ending up with 200 plasteel?
Are people not picking it up? What diff? I usually end up with 700-800 on damnation.
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Yeah, it’s honestly a part of the giant debacle that’s the… “Crafting System” (the cause of easily Darktide’s biggest community outcry)
Fatshark’s been doing pretty good work lately and they’ve already budged a bit on changing the Crafting System, so there’s a chance that we’ll get more good updates for it next year.
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Maybe he’s a Malice kinda guy. I’m not sure, but regardless it’s a valid point that the Plasteel drops are way too low. Diamantine is fine, on the other hand.
Fatshark, please do not lower the Diamantine drops.
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I think you gotta remember than most people on the forums are top 1% players, but not everyone is. The grand majority of the playerbase is in Malice apparently.
Most of the players there probably don’t explore the map because they are either too uncomfortable, scared, or don’t think to.
I think plasteel + ordo drops/rewards should be increased on the lower difficulties in general. Might have fewer inexperienced players showing up in aurics that way thinking there’s more in it for them.
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I love it when a Level 12 XBOX kid jumps on a Damnation match because their mate smuggled them in via a Strike Team. That’s TOTALLY the challenge I wanted from Damnation 
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Plasteel is fine on Damnation, that’s where everyone should end up after they get used to the game. The materials on the lower difficulties are pretty sad, I think around 400 for Heresy which is already half of Damnation and it continues to drop heavily from there.
If they removed the locks I think it would be fine.
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Kinda. Plasteel is needed for blessing farming, but it would certainly help a ton.
Ew, you are toxic.
^ I always maintained “rewards” should be maxxed on Heresy (like in VT2 legend).
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I’d argue keeping an open microphone without regard to others ears is far more toxic than me making fun of them for it.
Or perhaps you meant the “xbot” comment. I have no rebuttal for that. That was in fact toxic.
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The xbot comment. I don’t like open mics either. But so far I have not met anyone who broadcasts their life there. Hope I never will.
I ran into several. Maybe its an NA server thing paired up with what times I play at.
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Let us scrap weapons for plasteel and diamantine, based up on the weapon’s rarity.
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At this point if I could just use my stockpile of Diamantine exclusively to upgrade gear, I’d at least complain less…
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In all fairness this is ALSO FatShark’s fault: they default voice chat to voice activation in Darktide’s settings, so unless people are more diligent about mic use, they likely don’t even notice.
The people I take issue with are abusive of other players OR intentionally abuse the mic in a churlish attempt to harm hearing (I mean, c’mon that’s borderline assault with those pressure waves). The others would be the ones who KNOW their mic is hot and abuse it at times when you’re unable to determine which player is doing it (Valkyrie load screen and ending screen).
I’m definitely on board for blaming FS. They only know how to make combat systems it seems.
To be fair their disproportionately large QA department (the players) can be a bit mixed in their messages especially when you take the quantity into account.
Fortunately they seem to be cutting down the department size by not breaking the god damn locks.
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