This has been the biggest annoyance in the game for me since launch and only gets worse every time there is a big player spike. Why is this game server authoritative? Now I don’t actually know exactly how darktide servers work but it sure does feel server authoritative and I see absolutely no reason for this. Ever get hit mid dodge? Ever get teleported back? Ever have your inputs just not happen? All of that is due to the game being server authoritative and there is absolutely no benefit to this. So what are we afraid that people are going to hack and have invincibility cheats or something? Who cares its a co-op game, its not like it will hurt the other player’s experience that much compared to the horrible server authoritative issues. Just make it full client authoritative. If I don’t get hit on my screen I don’t get hit, if I shoot on my screen I shoot. Will this make hacking extremely easy? Yes. Will this make the combat feel about 10,000x better? YES. Sure the servers are often fine but why do I need to deal with stutters and teleporting and all of that at all? Server issues should only ever appear in minor desyncs that don’t actually matter at all where a enemy suddenly dies or a team mate teleports a bit or something, these wouldn’t seriously effect gameplay compared to the way bigger issues with the server authoritative system.

people would 100% make and use all kinds of very blatant cheat mods which would force fatshark to implement some sort of anticheat system, and it seems to me like they don’t want to do that the alternative is just letting it happen, see vt1 where when you play with randoms you need to install a cheat prevention mod or people will just give the entire team infinite lives. and in vt1 even the cheat prevention mod has cheats built in lol. it’s messy and i don’t want them to go back to that, modders and mod users can’t control themselves for the good of the gameplay that said netcode can improve outside of this with basic logic things. the fact that a skitarii with aimbot active is subject to standard hitreg and can miss is stupid, and there’s no excuse, they just didn’t bother making it work. same goes for poxburster push logic etc

Darktide has a way bigger player base, at worst every like 10 games you might have someone who runs around invincible and I would way rather that then being teleported back into a crusher overhead or getting hit mid dodge every other game. If cheating does get out of hand then we can always go back.

i don’t want that to happen every 100 games, let alone every 10 games. horrible, dystopian nightmare proposal.

The current netcode is worse. Id rather deal with a one off cheater every now and then, then deal with teleporting enemies and my attacks getting canceled and all that nonsense. I straight up cant play the game on one network, its not even a bad one I can play other multiplayer games fine but darktide is completely unplayable with even just a not great network connection. And besides does it matter if your team mate is some omega sweat with 20,000 hours in the game or if they just have invincibility cheats? Does it actually effect your gameplay? Its the same end result and I frankly don’t care about my team 90% of the time. Id rather have smooth and consistent gameplay at all times.

[image] JDLS: And besides does it matter if your team mate is some omega sweat with 20,000 hours in the game or if they just have invincibility cheats? Does it actually effect your gameplay? Its the same end result and I frankly don’t care about my team 90% of the time. Id rather have smooth and consistent gameplay at all times. one option for you is solo selfhosted

[image] eatingsand: people would 100% make and use all kinds of very blatant cheat mods which would force fatshark to implement some sort of anticheat system, and it seems to me like they don’t want to do that I’m willing to not have mods if it means that Darktide becomes an actually good functioning game. I’m even willing to have cheaters if hypothetically they wouldn’t add anticheat back. It’s whatever for me, I just really want this game’s dogshït netcode to be better. I (and many others) have given both bug reports and feedback on the issue since launch but Fatshark does not give a shït. [image] Server authoritative gameplay is terrible and needs to go Gameplay Feedback I believe that first and foremost, a game should feel good to play. Darktide has an issue where all player inputs (except camera movement) are tied to latency and can be denied by the server/host at any point. ALL PLAYER INPUTS except camera movement. The issue, highlighted in the clip above, is frustrating and a massive annoyance for me (and others). I would much prefer a game that feels good to play, but the choice to handle player controls through the server is a terrible one. I stru…

[image] Harridas: I’m willing to not have mods if it means that Darktide becomes an actually good functioning game. implications reach far here. their way to prevent mods in this case easy anticheat, which during the pre-purchase access when it was briefly on was taking 20-30fps flat off the top for most people. for me personally that would be a bad tradeoff. i really think you underestimate how dogshitt giving cheaters free reign is also. i actually really tried to keep playing vt1 even after vt2 came out, but it just wasn’t ever gonna happen and be fun anymore again theoretically, there’s many solutions to this like what DRG does (modded lobbies) or how vt2 handled it or many other concepts. nothing actually truly stands in the way of doing something like that. i don’t think big reworks are going to happen though. this in itself makes the idea of overhauling the netcode to be client authorative unlikely too. if they did put so much effort in they should do it right and come up with a proper system where people can play without cheaters and where people are in control of their own client if they want. this also bleeds a bit into drm concerns so it’s probably a can of worms they don’t want to open i maintain that if fatshark was to actually start doing something about the netcode issues (probably wont) then they should just optimize and improve and straighten out bad logic like with the poxbursters

[image] eatingsand: i maintain that if fatshark was to actually start doing something about the netcode issues (probably wont) then they should just optimize and improve and straighten out bad logic like with the poxbursters The issue isnt with the quality of netcode its with the type of netcode. You cant polish a turd and in the context of precise melee combat games, server authoritative netcode is the biggest turd in existence.

you can totally and 100% improve e.g. poxburster netcode logic. the whole push angle, push distance thing but only-if-it-targets-you thing is just trash. it’s not a fundamental issue, it’s just a terrible implementation. it’s SUCH a low hanging fruit to make this not totally stupid like maybe if the actual stupid garbage like this is fixed, things would be a lot more bearable with the current system, which is very unlikely to change

[image] eatingsand: i really think you underestimate how dogshitt giving cheaters free reign is also. No I don’t believe I’m underestimating it, I do actually feel that strongly about this issue. How strongly? Well you can see the sheer wasted effort I put into compiling a post powered through spite here: Server authoritative gameplay problems [image] eatingsand: theoretically, there’s many solutions to this like what DRG does (modded lobbies) or how vt2 handled it or many other concepts. I appreciate you bringing up DRG mods cuz I forgot that existed, it’s (to my understanding) a genuinely great system they have. I’d love to have that.

Please fix the netcode

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Harridas July 15, 2026, 3:19am 7

I’m willing to not have mods if it means that Darktide becomes an actually good functioning game. I’m even willing to have cheaters if hypothetically they wouldn’t add anticheat back. It’s whatever for me, I just really want this game’s dogshït netcode to be better.

I (and many others) have given both bug reports and feedback on the issue since launch but Fatshark does not give a shït.

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