Press and hold for Instant activation

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Gameplay Feedback
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I would like to see an improved mechanic for activating special items such as stimms and health/ammo crates.

I always just want to instantly use the item when the time arrises, instead of “getting it out to have a good look at it whilst in the middle of a mosh pit” and then have to press another button to throw it down, wasting valuable time on multiple animations and button presses.

Can we have it so holding the equipment slot button for 1 full second instantly activates the item?

Or even just tapping the slot button instantly activates (this could be toggled on/off in gameplay menu perhaps). You can always scroll through weapons if you want to stare at it for a while.

And yes I’m aware there is a mod but I don’t use mods and id actually just like to see improvements in the game by the Devs.

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A lot of mods should be implemented in the game… I would even think that they should do that as a priority cause:

  1. Console players cannot use mods
  2. It is better to have it in the base game
  3. Someone has worked on the concept, making easier to implement it in the game

So, this would bring an improvement of the game that would benefit to all players without too much work.
Also, if they implement it in the game, they can ameliorate it or change a little how it was made when it was just a mod.

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Yep. I strongly agree with this.

I don’t use mods and I just want lots of them in the base game.

Having to ogle a stimm in my stubby fingers before applying it is really frustrating. I don’t need to look at it!

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not only that, only seeing feet and legs sometimes the game denies dropping the pack altogether as to “no viable drop spot”.

i drop a crate for fkssake, do i need to mind which toes i hit while doing so ?
just smack it on the floor and get going…

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Oh! I don’t think I’ve noticed that before. Yeah that sucks.

Something else this riles me about this is the weapon switch bug. I pretty much have to switch weapons twice every single time I want to switch between melee and ranged and having a stimm etc as part of that mess can be irritating.

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Do we actually consider it a possibility for FS to add any QoL features or is this a hypothetical discussion?

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You missed it? they already did it several times.
The contracts you can see in the tab overlay is an example.
When they added an icon that was showing us that this blessing has already been acquired.

Here a little list (I have not really searched, just made a quick search of the word obsolete on Nexus):

(in settings now)

(was a fix - they corrected it)

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fair enough, i guess if its stuff you dont care about you easily miss it

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this seems like an incredibly petty complaint, and if i’m trying to pass a kit to someone i can see this wasting the kit.

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“petty complaint”

Erm, ok then sure bud. Thanks for this valuable input.

You’d still be able to give it to someone. You just click to select it as normal. You’d hold it to apply instantly.

If you think this is petty then I guess you don’t play havoc.

And do you a really pass medkits to people?

I think I have passed or had passed a medkit once in over 1k hours of playtime.

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Yeah, usually the person least likely to die.

Speaking of passing items, the item hand-off is atrocious, maybe due to it being tied to animations? If I lock onto someone to pass it off, it should magically appear in their inventory, even if they moved 3cm to the left.
Oh and deleting items can still happen AFAIK if someone picks up an item while being passed one, or 2 ppl handing off items; it happened recently IIRC.

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Must be a premades occurrence perhaps :laughing: I swear I’ve not seen it more than once or twice in over 1k hours.

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HA! Fair, usually in pugs it’s stimm handoffs, but I swear someone handed me a med crate once on ogryn; did I dream it!?

CoolStoryBro:

I even had one dude express disappointment as we both raced to a medcrate and I got it first, he worried about people wasting them, but then he added “well, you seem like a good player so I guess it’s fine”, we both had a laugh as I told him that’s why I race to the crates too.

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I do that pretty often… but cause players refuses to check chests and take crates even if you tag spamming it… so several times, I had to go to the group, give the crate, then come back to pick the other crate and return again to the group…
Of course, the guys won’t wait.

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Yes, good point. We’ve had to do this too, often.

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Could you please point me to it? I looked for it on Nexusmods myself but couldn’t find anything similar. Thanks!

edit: I found Quick-Inject Stimms, but I’d like to have something like that for ammo and med crates.

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I’ll let others answer that as I don’t use mods and only go by the info mentioned here by mod users.

If you’re going to use the mod then please also nag FS for the mechanic to be included in vanilla.

I worry that mods reduce the vocal requests from the community. I’m sure this pleases FS as it gives them licence to put their heads in the sand!

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often times this risk/reward scenario is at your peril, given the skittish nature of randos.

to the point i rather drop the “less important (usually ammo)” in place for everyone to take or leave be but not put myself in a less favorite position and later paying for the item with my health.

if havoc has one thing going for itself is people being self aware about ressources cause its in your best interest to keep your mates fed :stuck_out_tongue:

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I have trained myself to that. I often go out of coherency. Not a problem. I do it with all classes.