I felt like completing some penances to upgrade my wardrobe and to get a feeling of progression. After just one session of this, i now have enough of playing this game. No matter how much i appreciate new updates, game still runs like a burning dumbster, penances are absurd and borderline imposible to complete in pubs. Instead of enjoying myself, i get more and more frustated after each failed attempt, and a single tiny mistake is enough to ruin a run. Its annoying. I want to play this game, but the game does not respect me. That is all
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Might be better with solo and botsā¦ but yeah. To complete my psyker penances I had to ask a bunch of strangers if they could not shoot the monstrosity. I felt AWFUL. Even with private mode I would need to tell the bots ācease fireā. I think it needs some looking at some of them.
But honestly the RNG and grind is what kills it for me.
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Yeah, gave up on penance quite early as a psyker player. Now I just try some if the opportunity presents itself naturally.
I have noticed psykers asking for help with the monstrosity penance, however only a few actually stay to finish the mission once they finish or fail the penance.
Which usually ends with bots filling the spotā¦ Which doesnāt always end well.
Iām all for challenges and stuff, but many of them are just counter to the team play of the game. Forcing those that aim for penance to act selfish at the cost of the group.
That seems wrong.
Would be nice with some moreā¦ Team positive challenges. 
I feel like hunting secondaries and crafting materials has the same effect.
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in all honesty when a game becomes something I get bored or annoyed withā¦ I quickly turn to the forums to rant at a game I bought and want to have more fun with before moving on to another gameā¦ partially in hope that the devs actually read what people say or have moderators/community managers that can directly affect what happens to the gameā¦ I can say hand on heart throughout my 2000+hours on v2 that fatshark doesnt.
Ye but even getting into solo is scuffed. This is absurd. In V2 at lest you have all the options, to host a pub, to join a pub that specificly havent started yet, to go solo. Darktide is missing this, and it hurts
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Yeah, i had people leave immediately after i asked if we can speedrun for āflesh woundā zealot penance. And i cant blame them. Playing for penances is not the same game. And honestly, it sucks
I have some amazing secret tech for you:
Ignore penances entirely and just play the game. There is literally nothing of substance seriously pushing you to do them other than the brain c@ncer (that word is banned, are you serious fatshark?) that is completionism. Iāve spent over 300 hours in the game now with exactly 0 of them spent in any way actively trying to get penances done. Itās been a great time and I strongly recommend it.
Yes ideally penances didnāt suck but there have been more than enough threads explaining why and how they suck so at this point you either go to LFG on Discord where you will not struggle to find people to help you with them, or you just ignore them entirely.
I have a secret to your happiness Flap:
Ignore them and play the game. I unlocked all of them, except 2 by doing just that.
Penances are extremely, what is that word Fatshark loves using when arguing why we didnāt get a scoreboard? Ah yes, toxic.
Ignore wardrobe. You donāt look at yourself very often.
Ok, now honest comment:
No one forces you to do penances. If you want to do them - ok. Some are tricky. Some need cheesing. Some encourage you to ruin fun for others. And thatās probably lifeā¦ Looking at Veterans challange with not being hit (donāt remember name): itās hard until you:
a) get good enough to get it randomly
b) get good team that will cooperate to help you get this
c) cheese your way by playing as uncooperative, self-centered maniac
In every game doing achievements force you to play the game in (more or less) insane way. (Look at Civilisation V / Borderlands 3 / Risk of Rain 2 achievements) I would sayā¦ this is part of the experience. Some things are for masochistsā¦
I agree, all those penances just create extra stress for little reward.
And because of all those stress, I was happy to stop playing Darktide.
Difference for DT imo is that its practically the only free decent cosmetics you can get. And personally wardrobe is a somewhat decently important thing for me (doubly so as a 40k fan), but not enough to whale out $100 to buy a bunch of virtual skins. Most of the time the achievements are just for the sake of earning achievements (besides RoR 2 like you mentioned, some of the earn a different skill challenges are brutalā¦).
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Canāt complete as psyker pick n mix (kill 5 special/elite in 12s with brain burst) and going with a bangā¦
I have given up.
I want cosmetics
Then jump on Discord and go to LFG. Shouldnāt take you long to get some people who will help. Really though most of the cosmetics arenāt worth the effort.
Itās all the un-learned lessons from VT2 that kill it for me.
Would it have been ālazyā to make āVT2 the 2nd, 40K editionā? Yes. Would it have been the better game? āYesā as an answer is an understatement.
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