# New Auric isn't good **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Feedback\ **Created:** [June 24, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436 "2025-06-24T03:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Vertraxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a5b964/32.png) [@Vertraxxx](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Vertraxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/41 "2025-06-26T06:51:05Z")
The regular missions, including Auric, might just be a tutorial for intermediate players at this point, and the deves may be trying to push advanced players and beyond to play Havoc instead. ---
**Author:** ![Index](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/index/32/95844_2.png) [@Index](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Index)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/42 "2025-06-26T06:52:40Z")
> [@Vertraxxx](#): > > be trying to push they can push all they want, as long as party finder and demotions stay the šŸ’© sandwich they are, i push back šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø ---
**Author:** ![Vertraxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a5b964/32.png) [@Vertraxxx](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Vertraxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/43 "2025-06-26T06:57:43Z")
Itā€™s truly disappointing that thereā€™s no longer a mode thatā€™s moderately challenging and easy to jump into, especially when you only have time to play one or two matches due to other commitments. Judging from how Havoc has been adjusted since it was introduced, it really seems like they want it to become the new version of Auric, rather than keeping it as a niche mode for a small group of advanced players. ---
**Author:** ![Index](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/index/32/95844_2.png) [@Index](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Index)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/44 "2025-06-26T07:21:22Z")
the thing between havoc and maelstrom, while havoc in a proper equally skilled group can be fun, playing with randoms they fkk up constantly. so i naturally prefer a mode where i can control the outcome mostly myself, sure if i fail to dodge a net thats on me still most randoms are too daft to get you out before the situation tilts. anyways, seeing them lemming away and still brute force the game to a win is much more exiting for me, cause its my influence after all. havoc being 2 steps forward, book/bubble, one step back, does work but the pace of a game with inexperienced randos is far less exiting for me personally, rather a slog that drags on for the wrong reasons. every so often i find a fluent team that works together mute and flawlessly, but thats 1 in 30 or so. premades aint my prefered way of playing either. only so often you can watch the same peeps play over and over before it gets stale. i prefer to get the chaotic element in my content to keep things fresh. ---
**Author:** ![CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/ch3dd4r_g0b-l1n/32/96421_2.png) [@CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/45 "2025-06-26T12:35:56Z")
> [@Vertraxxx](#): > > the deves may be trying to push advanced players and beyond to play Havoc instead. Since Juliaā€™s response, a Tzeentchian voice in the back of my mind started whispering this idea. I truly, _desperately_ hope this isnā€™t the case. Darktide dies to me if that is what happens and Auric stays as it is now. I enjoy Havoc game play, but I am not putting up with the song and dance of starting a match as it currently exists. My time will be spent elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/ch3dd4r_g0b-l1n/32/96421_2.png) [@CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/46 "2025-06-26T12:52:48Z")
> [@Index](#): > > > [@gpkgpk](#): > > > > why HiSTG isnā€™t the baseline for Aurics. > > maybe for the same reason there isnt an auric maelstrom around by default, like it used to be. You sure about this? There is still an Auric Mael always available for me. The new board just doesnā€™t help finding it at all since everything jumps around. This is just from opening, closing, and opening the mission board: ![202506~1](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/1/f/1f16bc63328ff852466f6701184354f4442a040c.jpeg) ![202506~2](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/b/8/b891fd4c5123aea19ce0a7681b77241f74b922ba.jpeg) ![202506~3](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/d/a/da6b7874e8f7aed58bfec49bbfc38fbe9a000f66.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Index](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/index/32/95844_2.png) [@Index](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Index)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/47 "2025-06-26T13:19:53Z")
well today is ā€œbetterā€ yesterday 4/10 no maelstrom, maybe they fixed it ---
**Author:** ![CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/ch3dd4r_g0b-l1n/32/96421_2.png) [@CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/48 "2025-06-26T13:23:39Z")
Did you do the campaign? I skipped and never was missing one. But yeah, lots of little things are off right now, so itā€™s no surprise if this was a bug too. ---
**Author:** ![Index](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/index/32/95844_2.png) [@Index](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Index)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/49 "2025-06-26T13:32:21Z")
after playing for around 1600 hours, i can surely say its not for the story šŸ˜„ so yeah i skipped to 30 as fast as i could in the hopes of at least recording auric maelstrom footage the same day šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![BigJimmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BigJimmy](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/BigJimmy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/50 "2025-06-26T17:30:12Z")
Iā€™ll just link my post from another thread here for the purpose of collecting feedback here: > [@Why can't we just choose any Map we want to play?](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/why-cant-we-just-choose-any-map-we-want-to-play/109813/12): > > I signed up to say that their new Mission Board made the issue worse. You now get quickplayed into easy story missions when you play Aurics, and the changes to how difficulty works are pointless: apparently the New Damnation is just Old Heresy - they just moved everything down by 1 to make space for Auric as a difficulty, thatā€™s why Sedition is gone now. The Many More Try mod used to be viable for circumventing bad mission board RNG, it was possible to just pick an older mission of the type youā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Mummeh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Mummeh](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Mummeh)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/51 "2025-06-26T17:47:13Z")
Auric is boringly easy now after this update ---
**Author:** ![Hoxly](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/hoxly/32/67489_2.png) [@Hoxly](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Hoxly)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/52 "2025-06-26T18:20:55Z")
Playing current Auric has me at times go ā€œWhere are the enemiesā€ which is really weird since itā€™s Auric the game should be non-stop spamming specials and elites even when no horde is active. Iā€™d assume since they made Auric itā€™s own difficulty instead of a modifier to Heresy/Damnation Itā€™d be around the same difficulty or maybe a bit more difficult but it just sort of feels like regular damnation to me. ---
**Author:** ![CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/ch3dd4r_g0b-l1n/32/96421_2.png) [@CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/53 "2025-06-26T18:21:12Z")
Iā€™m starting to worry that the rising theory may be true. That by removing sedition and auric heresy, they have just bumped everything down a level to make room on one mission board page. ---
**Author:** ![CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/ch3dd4r_g0b-l1n/32/96421_2.png) [@CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/54 "2025-06-26T21:35:24Z")
Perhaps Iā€™ve just been lucky or not paying close enough attention: > **[Maelstrom missing? :: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide The Mourningstar - General...](https://steamcommunity.com/app/1361210/discussions/0/597404744772760727/)** > > I see no maelstrom options in auric or damnation. I might've died on a couple auric ones last night, am I difficulty locked or is it bugged? Don't see any info on the steam updates. ---
**Author:** ![Index](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/index/32/95844_2.png) [@Index](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Index)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/55 "2025-06-26T22:04:25Z")
well for today i can surely say its been better. recorded more auric maelstrom matches than youtube allows me to upload in 24 hours šŸ¤£ ---
**Author:** ![Geadly](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/geadly/32/92844_2.png) [@Geadly](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Geadly)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/56 "2025-06-26T22:20:02Z")
I know I am pretty late to the party, but you are correct Every difficulty feels scaled down by one, also **Seduction** difficulty was removed, or am I missremembering stuff Maybe thatā€™s why everything feels so much easierā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Ashrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Ashrad](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Ashrad)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/57 "2025-06-26T22:34:17Z")
Every Auric Inferno + HI-STG I joined were always pretty brutal from what I noticed. I wonder if itā€™s limited to just that modifier. ---
**Author:** ![Vaeneas](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/vaeneas/32/99608_2.png) [@Vaeneas](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Vaeneas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/58 "2025-06-27T00:29:41Z")
> [@Geadly](#): > > Maybe thatā€™s why everything feels so much easierā€¦ Stuff should usually not feel easier than you remembered it in a game like Darktide, after you took a break. The standard reaction of people coming back after a patch is: ā€œWHY IS EVERYONE AROUND ME ALWAYS DEAD!11!!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/ch3dd4r_g0b-l1n/32/96421_2.png) [@CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/59 "2025-06-27T00:42:05Z")
This is very much not the case for me. I have been playing non-stop since Unlocked and Loaded and have been exclusively A5+Maels for the last ~4+ months. This was an immediate feeling between the day before and day of the update, so something is wrong, even if I donā€™t have anything but vibes to prove it. > [@Ashrad](#): > > Every Auric Inferno + HI-STG I joined were always pretty brutal from what I noticed. > > I wonder if itā€™s limited to just that modifier. You may be on to something. Just ran one inferno event and it felt right. What the implications of that are remains to be seen. ---
**Author:** ![CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/ch3dd4r_g0b-l1n/32/96421_2.png) [@CH3DD4R\_G0B-L1N](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436/60 "2025-06-27T01:36:39Z")
In a bit of good news, finally tried new Mortis and Auric is properly juiced. Felt it on the first wave and was not disappointed as it moved along. Downside being, with only a sample size of 1, the new server issues seemed worse and more frequent in that mode for whatever reason. [Previous page](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/new-auric-isnt-good/109436.md?page=4)