Joining mid game

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Gameplay Feedback
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Hello

I just created account to write this post.

I have over 1000 hours in this game, i know mechanics and maps very well.

I need to say that penalties for joining mid-game has to stop. It comes to very bizarre and frustrating situations like:

  • missing grenades at the stage where NO enemies were encountered at all
  • missing health in the same situation as above
  • a situation where i had half of ammo missing (plasma gun) at the stage enemies are met for a first time
  • being thrown in the middle of the battle with melee weapon drawn and empty clip in ranged weapon, any response to sudden trapper, dog or sniper requires to reload first.
  • being thrown into the battle with 2 hp and rest of health corrupted - one mistake means death
  • joining with 20% ammo
  • joining with no grenades at all
  • being thrown into the battle and immediately being captured by trapper, jumped by dog or shot by sniper
  • a combination of above points

This crates a very frustrating experience where player has disadvantage unfairly, not as a result of gameplay but arbitrary.

Edit: Also multiple times i was added to the game only to see unskippable lost game screen. I don’t think i must add how frustrating it is.

Solution:

  • Either add an option to join fresh game - either: one at the stage of a lobby or one that started no more than lets says 30 sec ago
  • Remove any penalties for player, join with full hp, full ammo and full grenades, also give a player 2-3 seconds of invulnerability after joining.

Cheers

Zyzio

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I can imagine this is just unlucky spawn when joining and I don’t think they can do a lot to make the game not spawn you into the middle of battle.

Every other point you mentioned is valid.
I don’t mind joining a mission late and not having grenades, it would be nice to have grenades but by far the most frustrating thing about joining a mission late is having half my HP and Ammo missing already.