Im not sure why so many people defend the game by saying “Well it took them a while to get VT and VT2 right, itll get better”.
NO
They should have learned. Enough of this crap. And the fact the communication since launch has been honestly really fvck!ng bad with not much hope on the horizon aside from a cryptic 1 minute youtube trailer today is honestly worrying. I wish I could refund the game but I got suckered in.
It is clear they work in seperate teams. For a Mtx shop it should not be more than 3 devs and an MTX expert be. Simple layout, and a base calculation to make sure the premium currency buyed never is the same ammount you spend to have left some of the premium. I think this was the easy afast part of development. They simply should not have released the game in this state.
Wow they are really try all tricks, how worse can it go from there …
For me it’s further proof that this matters more to them as content for the base game. Somebody made a conscious decision to take up some of the dialogue for this inane stuff.
Great post and great people so far, come together for a great game (at its core).
Thanks for that!
I just want to add my usual point, that beside all the madness, they only would have needed to use Vermintide 2 as a starting point and improve upon it.
Somehow they did, but failed at many other things (availability of missions/ mission board, classes, contracts, crafting, …)
What’s grinding my gears in this regard: The premium currency store. Fatshark could have left all the dark patterns out of the game and had the same outcome, just better (also being more honest).
For the ones who do not know what I mean:
These are dark patterns. They are malicious by design and have no use except to take advantage of the customer (so the players, their fans).
Real money prices and sales (like in Vermintide 2) would have worked, too, and would have been a gift for everyone.
MTX store isn’t even devs, it’s a marketing team and an art team. The art time has been done for a long time no doubt.
Aquilas are 100% tencent mobile game strategy.
ok just wondering i keep seeing this @Fatshark_Hedge where he says
"Crafting weapons doesnt really fit the theme of the setting.
but i cant seem to find the context or the original source.
could you post a link to the original post, as so we can see it?
Do Tencent really have that much pull on the team? They might be responsible for the mtx store but did they force the devs to ship an unfinished game or to ignore the feedback from VT2 playerbase or even the DT betas?
It’s a discord comment.
Go have a look through here, somebody probably gives more “context” if you really need it.
Problem is the cosmetics in the cash shop are far superior to the base game cosmetics(which are mostly variants of the same thing). There are also cosmetics in the trailers and in the poster for the game that haven’t been seen in-game yet…
The MTX seems to have taken priority over implementing the armor pieces that they used in advertising. Either that or they’re holding things back so that they can release free content updates to good PR but that still relates to the live service model.
Imo Live service should mean that new content gets made for the game after launch, not that content gets cut from launch and delivered later.
Basicly true, but in an profesionel team wich i would asume FS is. You would need at least 2 devs also. 1 for the UI and 1 to implemet the code from there in the core code. But of course maybe FS do this another way.
good weapons? like las pistols and braced autoguns for my zealot?
well then in his defense crafting doesnt fit in with the setting, most of the mechanicus weapons and tools are rather old technology which is why its sought after, their is very little inventing new things when it comes to them,
that said they still included crafting, well upgrading system for now
other than that, what do you mean no comment from fatshark,
you know you posted in this very article their comments on both crafting and the store from PC Gamer. so they have had comments and have been talking about their future plans for Darktide.
we know they are working on fixing what they have, and to say they arnt talking to us when they are im confused on to why the title,… unless click bait, which if it is, well played.
does it suck that the game isnt finished? Yes it does
do i wish we had everything already in it? Yes i do
am i annoyed that this isnt a finished game? Dam straight
do i think FS will finish DT and it will be amazing? Absolutely
am i still mad at FS even though im defending them? Yes
This is a far better piece of journalism than anything the gaming publications have put out on the topic.
“crafting doesn’t fit” So the imperium isn’t crafting tanks in the game? lel
neither does dying and respawning in 20 seconds.
You don’t know what you’re talking about Andi. You’re on an Inquisitorial ship, almost anything is possible.
The cosmetics are content, you know. They’re what the customization system revolves around. We could have had those store cosmetics put into the actual game to give it variety the cosmetic desperately need.
What should be the reason for this? You get nothing out of this.
Defending FS if you feel so is absolutly ok. Because making decisions is the only thing in life what is really free.
But if you consider a moment to look how deep the impact of all they decisions in favor to the MTX shope are …
I dont want to start again with this …
Would just be nice to hear a statement about the whole situation. But i guess the cant. How really could they without telling the real reasons? If they would then the rest of trust would be lost.
But somthing that would at least sounds like you could belive would be nice. Nothing like (does not fit the theme or we forgot) this its just insulting.
This is just standard Fatshark practice, they did it with VT2 and almost killed their game a few times but managed to reel it in again, and i think a lot of players expected them to learn from their past mistakes, but instead they just threw it all out of the window to ended up with another PR disaster, again.
They are probably gonna be either radio silent or never really address the bigger issues with their game and hope that the players will eventually forget about it or find something else to complain about, it kinda worked for them with VT2 so im guessing thats the road they are gonna take this time as well.
I know i give the developers a hard time, but come on, why is it always two steps back with only the occasional step forward with this developer.
