New difficulty unlock system needs to be looked at

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Gameplay Feedback
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Matchmaking became way better with the new system.

Maybe playing with randoms won’t be so “random” anymore.

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its not so bad you meet other fellow seats being forced to play uprising/malice we had some nice talks while the dogs did the holdout events

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The calculus just needs to be account wide so it takes into account the level of your other characters. I think you have to win five levels at a given difficulty in order to unlock the next difficulty? Does Auric also still have a level 30 requirement?

Some simple changes:

If you have another character at level 30+ and have completed 5+ Auric-level missions, making a new character modifies the progression as follows:

  • First three levels (up through Heresy) will be unlocked automatically
  • Damnation will unlock at level 10 and after completed at least five heresy levels
  • Auric will unlock at level 15, and after completing at least five damnation levels

If an account as previously completed at least five maelstrom missions, additionally:

  • Maelstrom will unlock at level 20, and after completed at least five auric difficulty levels.
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Yeah, Auric board was always level 30 unless smuggled in by a (bad) friend.

And to all the excuses of “you asked for this,” I never did. I advocated gear score as its the most veteran friendly with our stockpiles of wealth and itemization knowledge. I bet there will still be plenty of players that “earn” their way in to Auric through this system that run under 500, not even orange weapons.

And probably still have those unused perk points to boot.
Ain’t that right @gideon404

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Fatshark delivery disappoints here. Veteran players, with all classes maxed, and 1000+ hours should have been given the class levelled to 30, and all difficulty levels unlocked. I will never get back this 10 or so hours of levelling in the boredom zone.

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Yeah, odd decision to not have it be account tied. At the very least start us on Heresy.

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Pretty much this. Too many new players jumped into Damnation far sooner than they should have before this update. There’s been a lot of posts pointing this out, and Fatshark listened.

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This is not correct, people asked to restrict new players into jumping in damnation, never asked to get restricted themselves.
(FYI I was never advocating for restrictions in the first place but I know majority consensus was different than mine)

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I think number grows with progress, it took me a really long time to go up from damnation to auric.