I see a lot of people speculating about a new class, possibly Arbites.
What game have you been playing?
That would require new voice lines from every character, 3 new talent trees, new cosmetics. New class specific weapons.
Fatshark has proven they are entirely incapable or unwilling to put that kind of work into this game for years and years now. They’ve done nothing but literally the bare minimum to justify this games title as a live service while raising prices on the cosmetics and offering less in return every time. Darktide has been an experiment about how little effort can be put in and still make cosmetic money, at our expense. If they ever added something as big as a new class (Which they won’t/can’t.) it most definitely wouldn’t be free.
Skulls will be a minor event with a trinket or frame as a reward, mark my words.
FS is fully capable of getting voice actors together to record new lines that slot into existing dialogues, making new cosmetics and weapons and talent trees. They’ve been doing much of this stuff over the last few years.
Would a new class be free? No, and they never said it would be. But with the thousands of human souls dedicated to the game at every waking hour, it’d be worth the investment for them.
i’d buy that, like i have always collected later add-ons or mission packs for games i liked.
realistically it could be a new map and a couple new weapons for veteran, since they announced that a few months ago and iirc that was what we got last year too.
A new class wouldn’t, imo, be one of the seasonal content updates, because those are free. No reason we couldn’t/wouldn’t get maps and the teased vet weapons alongside a new class.
A new class would be bigger update than anything the game has gotten in 3 years and running in terms of the amount of work it would require from FS. Considering the track record of life support level live service I just don’t see it.
The class rework was arguably the biggest single update we’ve ever gotten. I think a new class is more work though. Even if it can share a model with the other humans you’re talking about a lot of modeling and art for new armor and weapons, and new voice lines plus new voice lines from all 4 original classes. Also 3 new talent trees (So 1/4 of the class rework update just in that)
Also it was really only 2 new talent trees per class in the class update as 1 for each class was basically what we had before with the same blitz/active.
There’s a clear monetary incentive for them to put in this extra work. There’s no reason it can’t or wouldn’t be done. There’s really not much more to it than that.
We get cosmetics on an almost perfectly regular basis: every 2 weeks.
But that’s beside the point. Not everyone buys cosmetics. They’ve said since before launch that they’d likely charge for new classes. There’s an incredible hunger for it. Even if the cosmetic sales are great, it doesn’t make much sense to me that they wouldn’t devote resources to appealing to the (wider, imo) group of players who would be interested in a new class.
Every new map has new voice lines, each VT2 dlc Character has new voice lines for all character interactions… why you hate so much? FS has a track record of doing big things just very slow.
the chances of it being an Arbites is 0% at the lowest and 3% at the highest.
i say this because 1-new classes are going to take a long time to make and most likely aren’t going to be teased in a 5 second span for an event. 2-we already have cosmetics for the 4 classes already in game that is Arbites armor. and 3-if it WERE a new class, it would have to be one that fits more, like a bounty hunter or a tech adept, both of which use cyber mastiff hounds. but lets face it, none of these are coming, it’s just a new event for a new mission with a dog that we don’t even get to keep or something like that.
Hive Ganger, wears whatever crap they want, psyker collars and zealot bondage gear. Has dog. Does drugs. Maybe has a Needle Gun and a couple other class-only weapons.