New Weapon Ideas

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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Ogryn
. Two Handed Mace and/or Hammer
. Power Fists
. Ogryn Charonite Claws
. Dual Cleaver and Mace
. Autocanon
. Ogryn brute shield and mace(smaller shield)
. Two Handed Cleaver(giant machete type “sword”)
. Giant wrench
. Missile Launcher(potentially inconsistent with lore)

Psyker
. Psychic Axe
. Psychic Spear
. Normal heavy Spear
. Reuse Sienna staffs from v2(the ones that are missing from d tide)
. Lightning Claws(lore inconsistent/would need GW approval/new human sized variant)
. Psychic two handed axe
.Two handed great sword
. Psychic Hammer
. Dual Swords
. Plasma Pistol

Veteran
. Meltagun
. Human sized storm bolter variant
. One handed broadsword(more traditional “medieval” type sword)
. Triplex lasgun variant
. Long-Las(las sniper)
. Ryza Lasgun variant
. Merovech Lasgun variant
. Lascarbine lasgun variant(burst fire?)
. Voss pattern lascarbine(steel legion/folded stock)
. Vostroya pattern lasgun variant
. Kalibrax V-1 Pattern Lasrifle
. Sniper rifle( exitus pattern, exuberant, normal sniper, etc.)
. Bolter pistol and sword(ie. victor s rapier and pistol)
. Las pistol and sword(ie. victor s rapier and pistol)
. Plasma pistol and sword(ie. victor s rapier and pistol)
. Plasma Pistol
. Grenade Launcher
. Shock Pole(long caddle prod type weapon)
. Electric Spear(long caddle prod type weapon)

Zealot
. Medieval type broadsword and shield(heavy and/or buckler type shield)
.One handed broadsword(more traditional “medieval” type sword)
. Hammer and shield(heavy and/or buckler type shield)
. Mace and shield(heavy and/or buckler type shield)
. Power mace and shield(heavy and/or buckler type shield)
. Morning star and shield(heavy and/or buckler type shield)
. Power morning star and shield(heavy and/or buckler type shield)
. Dual morning star and shield
. Dual hammers
. 1 handed hammer
. 1 handed power hammer
. Dual morning star and sword
. Dual axes
. Dual axe and sword
. Javelin
. Two handed chain axe
. Acro-Flagellant whips/electro-whip(dual wield, single, or with sword)
. 2 handed axe
. Heavy Bolter(sister sororitas style/size)
. Halberd
. Power Halberd
. Dual power death cult power blades(dual daggers)
. Dialogus Staff(fleur-de-lis type mace/staff)
. 2 handed mace
. Flail
. Dual Flails
. Human sized storm bolter variant

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Some of those wouldn’t work lorewise (and mechanically too for certain of them).

Charonite Claws for example don’t exist in 40k, as they are forbidden tech, as well as being augmentics, which on a mission to mission basis isn’t a problem, but inside a mission is, due to not letting them use ranged weapons, or using their hands for parts where they are required (Hacking, ladders…)

(Same thing apply to Arco Flagellant whips)

Why not simply use Hammerhand/Steel Arm, as it’s a Psyker Biomancy technique, though tbh I think it work better as part of a weapon kit, reusing Sienna’s Fire Sword as base to make the weapon set.

Those only exist for the SoB due to needing a Power Armour to even be able to use them.

Which are not gonna be possible, due to being exclusive to Vindicator.

For the Dual/Paired weapons I don’t think we need that many of them. And they should pick carefully which sets they do.

Dual Flails sound like a mess to animate.

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i just want hellguns lol

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We’re crackheads nearly on the level of Sly Marbo, wielding a Heavy Bolter unaugmented like Harker should be no problem.

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My idea is to give our PSYKERS access to aeldari weapons such as the DARK REAPER LAUNCHER :relieved:

YEAH?

I’d play psyker then.

(I have a mild obsession with that weapon, sorry)

hehe

All joking aside, there have been some seriously cool weapon ideas showing up on the forums again, of late. I love reading them! I think some have been mentioned before in the past, but since the game was like, you know, a bit of a defcon 5 situation back then, this is probably a better time to be throwing ideas around.

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I’d quite to see some sort of primative flail for Ogryn… Basically just a cannonball on the end of a massive chain that he can swing about :smiling_face:

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I wish Eldar were represted in 40k videogame way more. They would be so fun and always ignored for boring chaos.

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Yeah maybe if they didnt doom the entire galaxy by messing up the war in heaven and summoning 4 chaos gods by being degens they would get games

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That sounds like it would make a pretty good game tbh :joy:

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We have an obscene lore breaking amount of thunder hammers and power swords being wielded by “rejects”. I don’t think a lot of my choices are out of the realm of possibilities with things like that considered. That being said, it’s why I put “inconsistent with lore/needs to be GW approved” for a few(missed a couple though). Again, we have crack head zealots killing hundreds of enemies with just a shank, Ogryns using range weapons without burst limiters, plasma guns and Bolters being wielded by ex convict “rejects”, we have 4 mortal nobodies somehow murdering 2,000 plus nurgle worshippers without dying of all sorts of diseases/corruption/logic/lore accurate power scaling, etc. We also have giant 2 handed weapons being placed into our invisible purses while we use our hands for different things in game, so I don’t see why they couldn’t do the same for things like the Arco-Flagellant whips(it’s a video game). My suggestions are not out of the realm of possibilities for this specific game, and especially with the inconsistencies within GW’s ever changing lore.

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I think an eldar “captive”, mercenary, war prisoner, etc. is a possibility for a future class/character. So I don’t think Eldar weapons are out of the realm of possibilities, but only if that happens. I’ve seen people suggest an ork mercenary or captive as a potential class/character, so I guess they could figure out a way to explain an eldar as well. They hand waved a lot of lore for some of careers in Vermintide 2 as well. So yeah, maybe we will get an Eldar in the future with some cool eldar weapons.

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okay but what about hell guns for the vet and the zealot and vet getting duel pistols?

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Oooo, dual pistols for Veteran? That sounds badass.

A loooong time ago, I had a penchance for akimbo pistols in a certain shooter game.

That’d be crazy as hell, but fun! A “Freeboota” or something lol

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Freaking spot on! That’ll learn em! Also didn’t they just spawn Slanaesh? I believe the other 3 were just Bing Chilling in the void already.

@Manlikepegasus I’d love to see any other creature be put into the game as a playable character, but wouldn’t it be even more ridiculous than the rest of the things that aren’t exactly lore friendly? As in, there’s an inquisitor present also, chances are that alone wouldn’t make it possible. But even so I think the Imperium only lets the Xenos exist or cooperate with them in the most dire of the situations in 40K. As a matter of principle ofc, I doubt anyone would consider it to be a threat to the Imperium that a single Orc captive would be used to do dirty work missions .

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Give me the long las from the scab sniper and the two LMGs from the Dreg/Scab gunners.

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Yeah long las, hellgun and the human sized stubber are bogarted by the heretics atm. I’ll trade them Ripperguns for shotgun Ogryn elite enemies if we could have those 3.

Slaneesh and the Eye of Terror were the same event, so yeah you can blame space elves for ruining the setting (again).

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No, that I know, but I mean the other 3 have nothing to do (presumably) with the Eye of Terror. Or do they?

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Slaanesh coalescing is what cause the EoT. The other 3 happened before that (And no the old lore Nurgle born during the Black Plague isn’t possible as it’s coalescing moment, but is the moment Humanity was noticed by Nurgle, same thing for the other 2

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There’s a lot of weapons that could be added, the 40k universe is replete with them.

Many of them however I don’t think fit Darktide, for one of three reasons.

First, there’s already a lot of weapons in this game, and a lot of variants of each, and trying to introduce new stuff that doesn’t step on those toes and either just duplicate or one-up existing will be increasingly difficult. So if we wanted to do a Long Las for instance, what would it do that a Lucius would not? Do we need more Lasrifles when the 9 we’ve already got don’t see enough use?

Second, the Rejects are just that, Rejects. They’re not Inquisitorial Stormtroopers, they’re not Astartes, they’re not Sororitas, they’re not even Munitorum-supplied Guardsmen. The Rejects are prisoners under suspended sentence of death operating as cannon-fodder in the personal employ of Inquisitor Grendyl in his own private war. While the reach and remit of the Inquisition is beyond limit, the Rejects aren’t beneficiaries of that power, they’re Consumables just like ammunition. There’s just certain things that aren’t going to folks like that.

Third, the scale that Darktide plays at is not the scale 40k is typically played at, the biggest and scariest things in Darktide aren’t even proper monsters, stuff like plague ogryn and spawn, they’re just big infantry as far as 40k is concerned. As a result, with no proper vehicle targets to really shine against, it’s hard to imagine a Meltagun being anything other than a painfully short ranged and slow firing Plasma Gun, which doesn’t sound very fun.

For me, if we’re going to add weapons, they should be bringing something genuinely new to the table, not just another variant of something we already have. If the Shock Maul had included a Shield for instance, that would have been a dramatically more interesting gameplay addition. Duel-wield weapons that can do new things like block and attack at the same time and introduce genuinely new melee combat would be fun. A Grenade Launcher for the Veteran could be neat.

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Sounds cool to me. What kind of dual pistols?