We want to be respected not siphoned for cash. Been playing since Vermintide 1 and that game had some fine value and features for it’s day. Vermintide 2 was also wonderful and I could play both Offline.
Between the working cash shop over the missing crafting features, the RNG weapon shop with very few options that only cycles on the hour and the lack of gear we can find after each mission, I’m starting to become disillusioned by the game.
It feels like there's not going to be any point to playing harder difficulties in this game either because the whole reason we were motivated in Vermintide 1 and 2 to play on Cata was to maybe find cosmetics as a mission reward. Remember those days?
Not it feels like the only real reason to play on higher levels is for more crafting mats and in game currency.
Also as other's have mentioned the fact you can't just buy the proper amount of Aquila for a pack is just downright predatory on people.
At first I was honestly happy that you made grims and tomes spawn in seperate missions but now I wish you'd just stick to the old formula and made it a 40k skin. I realize everything is just to get your Live Service product on the block.
Heck, we’re even stuck with RNG missions that take forever to cycle, at least take a note from deep rock and don’t let missions linger for more than 15 minutes because nobody wants to replay the same mission for two hours.
If I wanted to be robbed of my Dignity and money, I’d go play Destiny 2 or some other live service title that doesn’t care about my time. I always felt that Vermintide had value because you weren’t beholden to a server’s data, it felt like we purchased a product that we could play and enjoy with our friends. Vermintide 2 was much the same and while I was skeptical of premium cosmetics, I see the people who cried wolf were right.
I feel like Fatshark cares more about a cash shop and selling skins over features and players time.
Not to mention EVERYTHING is RNG now. The maps we pick are RNG’d, the weapons we can buy are RNG’d, the cosmetics we can buy from the armorey are RNG’d, the limited time acquisitions ARE RNG’D!!! At least sell some level 300 white gear that’s just a cookie cutter standard so if we want to trade something out for another option we can. Nobody wants to log in every hour just to see if they can get that weapon they wanted from the shop, we want to beat hard missions to get nice gear, not grind money to buy gear. We lose some of the satisfaction by you taking away that experience from us. We used to be able to craft gear that was mostly ok and work our way to getting red gear in Vermintide so we had options to at least make sure we had the loud out we mostly wanted and worked for that dream roll after.
Darktide feels like a lottery, sometimes the missions you like are around and other times you’re stuck with lights out for an hour and have to change difficulty to avoid it in quickplay.
speaking of Quick play, there’s honestly no real benefit to play it compared to Vermintide 2 when you were rewarded for risking quickplay. Right now it’s the only option aside from going on discord to make a premade instead. So we’re stuck with randoms who don’t want to work together sometimes on top of some of the prior issues.
I think initially, Darktidei s going to become quite frustrating due to just how much RNG is involved right now and how little control we really have over trying to fix weapons with bad rolls for example.
The cosmetic thing is a whole other issue and I get it, you need to make your money somehow but I wish you’d just stick to asking for 10$ for a skin for a character ( a full set not just one piece , any more is a rip off and I’d rather spend that kind of money on the actual plastic crack ).
Hell, I would have honestly rather purchased Darktide for 60$ over having a cash shop.
So Fatshark, if you’re going down this route of live service, at least keep the community together. If you’re charging for season pass’s and cosmetics, what I really need from you to justify this is to not charge for DLC like you did in the past games. If you make new maps and I see a price tag, it’s going to be a no because unless you go back to making the game respect players time at least by letting us craft, I can’t say rightly that darktide is a good product in comparison to launch V2.
At least we could craft at launch in vermintide 2.