I’m torn this game has always had solid gameplay and been a good time but darktide has always felt like a half finished game to me from start to finish and even now. It’s not that I dont like the updates we’re getting I think the class system update and the penance update were solid improvements to the game but heres the thing. Those things should have been here since day 1 not added years after release. The updates we’re getting aren’t bad the problem is they should have been there before this game was allowed to be sold in the first place. Darktide is years behind helldivers with a massive head start and that’s after the PSN nonsense and with me assuming sony is still lying. I like the updates and the games bones are good but to me it feels like darktide has become as stagnant as the rot of nurgle we fight against.
I’m honestly half convinced they just moved most dev resources back to VT2 the second they got the Xbox port out and fulfilled contractual obligations.
But yeah. Have you noticed the biweekly cosmetic rotation patches yet? That’s their real priority.
The Chaos Wastes
Announced 13 Apr 2021, released the 20 April 2021
→ 7 days
Grail Knight
announced on 12 June 2020, and was released on 23 June 2020.
→ 11 days
Outcast Engineer
announced on 17 November 2020, and was released on 19 November 2020.
→ 2 days
Sister of the Thorn
announced and released on 3 June 2021.
→ 0 days
WPoS
announced and released on 10 December 2021
→ 0 days
Necro
announced on 23 August 2023, and was released on 19 October 2023.
→ 57 days
And this proves… what, exactly?
Both OP and I are talking about the lackluster pace of actual updates and how much of it is ‘this already should’ve been in at launch’, not the gap between announcements and the actual release.
-1 hour, I remember when she was released and playable an hour before she was actually revealed in the Warhammer skulls stream lol
Agree with OP.
Welcome to FS!
That they have internal teams in each projects that work on different things. And that as usual FS doesn’t announce things before they’re close to release.
Chaos Waste didn’t take 7 days to make.
Vt2 didn’t get faster in its content release or anything.
yea you see a significant difference in the dev diaries it’s 100% clear where their priorities are and I dont blame them but don’t ignore darktide either it needs more work and more support it’s way behind the curb and needs some serious drops in content soon. I really hope the upcoming update delivers on their promises but it’s fat shark so I dont take their word for it I wait for results before I believe them because they have lied about a lot of things with this. Heck we’re still waiting for the bots they promised us for solo play like in vermintide
Yes, Darktide has many design flaws. But its the most fun Warhammer 40K combat game with excellent art.
But, if Darktide wasn’t 40k, I would not play it. And as far as I know, Helldiver is not 40k and is therefore irrelevant.
I agree with most of this but the idea that helldivers is irrelevant since it’s not 40k is heresy! INQUISITORS!!! THIS FELLOW HERE!!!
while i wish that darktide would get the same attention/productivity like hd2, i agree with the sentiment that if it ain´t within the 40k artstyle and darktide first person gameplay, no other game right now peeks my interest.
even space marine 2 will have to prove hard being worth my time being third person in nature.
See I like both I grew up playing both halo and mass effect so I’ve grown a love for both first and third person shooters
while i had doom before wolfenstein, fps it was ever since.
if that aint my own hands strangling the heretic it isnt the same feeling, much like I can’t immerse myself in the world i aint seeing through my own eyes.
oh come now nazi’s, daemons from mars heretics… now we’re just splitting hairs they all need to die! Why kill one when you can kill them all! XD
I will never understand people who play/don’t play games solely based on ip. Surely their opinions hold less weight than those that actually play for the game itself? They’re guaranteed to gobble up a 40k labelled turd and guaranteed to dismiss anything not labelled 40k, even if it’s gold. How are you supposed to draw meaningful conclusions about the game from their perspectives? Comes with the territory of a Warhammer game I guess
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