I know you are very tempted to select Shambling Hordes, cause you love hordes, but that is a given, we will get more hordes anyway, that is barely even an event, was just more enemies at more intervals. You had fun cause more enemies.
But listen to me here for a moment. Heretic Raiders changed the way you played the game fundamentally, it made is super rewarding, and I would give anything to experience it again.
I need this to either return or become a modifier, for havok or auric or anything. So please if you can vote for it as your top pick.
Heretic Raiders was basically an event in which there was no drops, no medicae stations, nothing. The only way for you to get anything was drops off kills. Every enemy had a chance to drop something. Some examples:
Normal horde enemies had a small chance of dropping Plastine and Diamantens
Ragers had a chance of dropping stims
gunner had a chance of dropping ammo
and most fun of all, monstrocities or boss type enemies dropped crates, either ammo or healing. Even the demonhost - which made fighting it worth it in some cases.
What I love about this system is that it makes the fighting more rewarding, and it makes fighting a demonhost a choice, Right now is not a choice, we avoid it. we are told to do so and no benefit in killing it.
However, in this mode, you are low on ammo, or health? you down a demonhost on pourpose and get lucky with an ammo crate or medical pack.
Also for health restore, you got green stims, not full health restore - which made it more strategic. You even fought differently and felt like you earned what you got.
first of all, this is a cheap way to cheat yourself of the experience.
secondly, this is not the case every time, sometimes you have to drop to a new segment and cant traverse back, the demon host wont despawn until much further.
Thirdly, this is a bug, they can fix it by simply making the drop bound to actual death by the hands of a player.
I would want this to be come a permanent mode. You have no idea how fun something this small feels.
Yes it was not fun at all, it did not feel overwhelming at all. You went through them a wave at a time, it did not feel endless or overwhelming, I was hoping to complete my frenzy penance, kill 120 enemies in 30 seconds, but I did not manage that, I came close to 118, and not through the event, but through the first time I was playing which I dont even recall when that was.
I picked Heretic Raiders… although I didn’t play it, it sounds like it was pretty interesting from what I’ve read.
Anyway, am I crazy, or was this event not advertised at all? I’ve looked at the Announcements subforum here, nothing; on Discord nothing (checked all of the news, service updates, and tweets channels); Steam news, nothing. I couldn’t play play as much as I would’ve liked to in late July but as far as I can see there was absolutely no indication anywhere outside of the game itself that an event was going on.
This was during the long holiday, and I think the person in charge of announcing it was not in the office, they rolled out the event, but you had to be playing to know about it. Unfortunately it was missed by many. Greatest fun I had with darktide in a very long while. It change the entire dynamic of the game.
Literally the only event I played it after it was over, others I either not finish, or finished once I hit the portrait or Aquila coins. and man, do the event that give aquilas are one of the worst ones, collecting skulls or books, or whatever, it always the same boring thing. Hope next one is different.
