Should I really wait a year or more to buy this game? Is their a demo?

[AsukasHeadphones]

@MarxistDictator

old VT2 dodge that had no cooldown.

There is a cool down if you dodge too much. You go from long dodges to short dodges, then have to wait a bit to do long dodges again. Kind of killer if you spam dodge too much in Cata horde rush.

[MarxistDictator]

hence ‘old VT2 dodge that had no cooldown’. That was a change to the game system people hated almost as much as Winds of Magic, lol.

also 6 dodges in like half a second or whatever VT2’s dodge refresh is, is effectively unlimited.

[AsukasHeadphones]

This is making me want to play Vermintide 2 again tbh. I Found that stuff skillful cause you had to time your dodges in-between walking backwards while blocking/pushing enemies away.

[BongoSkaggs]

@Reginald

I really just don’t understand your position so perhaps I’m the wrong person to judge it. But to me the movement system is leaps and bounds better than the weightless and monotonous movement in Vermintide which felt like a rail shooter for how unengaging actual movement tech was. Meanwhile Darktide succesfully implemented vaulting and sprinting and sliding into useful mechanics that I leverage for effective manuevers into difficult situations all game long.

I don’t see the fun in toggling sprint on between combat encounters purely because my default moment speed is so slow. Sliding could potentially be fun if they found a more bespoke use for it, but as things stand it feels like the same functionality could be had by just slightly buffing the numbers on sprinting & dodging. I’ll grant you that mantling is pretty fun, when the level design allows for it.

I just feel that the solution they arrived at is contrived, inelegant, and doesn’t add to the fun of the game. I don’t know how else to simplify it for you. It’s not game breakingly bad, and it’s far, far down the litany of reasons I quit playing and consider Darktide to be the worst game I’ve played since the likes of launch era Diablo 3. But I did always find it kind of annoying that my vet felt like they moved similarly to an overweight, middle aged asthmatic smoker.

And speaking of contrived and inelegant…

@AsukasHeadphones

Anyways, another thing that bothered me, and still bothers me, is that there’s no function to lean out of cover. In a game where cover utilization is used to defend against heavy enemy fire: you can’t peek out of cover to line shots. F.E.A.R, a two decade old game, had this. As have multiple First Person Shooters that use a cover system to defend against enemy fire.

Not like such a system would be useful in Darktide as things stand. Since enemies always just aimbot for your head regardless and anything that isn’t at least 10 ft high is about as useful at providing cover as a microkini.

[Headhunter]

@AsukasHeadphones

This is making me want to play Vermintide 2 again tbh. I Found that stuff skillful cause you had to time your dodges in-between walking backwards while blocking/pushing enemies away.

I wish I still had friends playing VT2. With randoms there is some meta where people just run forward without checking everyone is moving as a group. People chasing for green circles at mission end. I bet they get surprised doing that in Darktide T4/T5 missions, get wrecked so quickly without backup.

I remember my friend years ago started playing VT2. “My character walks so slow, what’s the run button??”. I said “Your character is actually running, but there is a walk button, hold ALT”

[JanZamoysky]

I squeezed out 800+ hours of gameplay from Darktide before I got tired of:

• the available content
• poor fps performance
• some frankly terrible game design. which affects your experience if you would like to stick with the game for longer (mission select screen, crafting which broke the pre-release promise of less RNG)
• typical for Fatshark slow content rollout

I would grab it, especially if you have some friends to play with. I spent most of my time playing with randoms, as our usual Vermintide 2 team lost interest quicker than I had.

[CGILantern]

@banan

I’m interested in buying darktide as I enjoyed vermintide 2, but lack updates and clear direction for what the devs are planning is very confusing to me. They seem to have backpeddled on everything from including classes, maps, and the whole live service thing. All of my friends say the core mechanics are good but everything else is bad. No updates in a over month for a game is very disconcerting to me, all me friends say wait 1 a year for it to be playable.

Is their a way we can demo the game? I want to play it, but I dont want to pay for vaporware all my friends are saying it’s not worth spending $27 right now.

Buy it now and you will be scammed by unresolved promise’s…

Wait X amount of time and you end up with a more death game than back4blood…

Or don’t give a damn and go play somenever startedgame on your steam acc… I know you have some… Everybody have some that type of game…

[Tzcheese]

If you can, get your RSI treated properly so you can enjoy the full range of movement options without having to do junk like toggle sprinting. I’m betting you’d enjoy the game more if you did. If you started playing again, that is.