Hi. Two and a half years ago, I made a poll and asked you all how you felt about Darktide 6 months after launch. Now it’s 2026, and the game is just over 3 years old! We’ve had new maps, new weapons, two new classes, and… well, safe to say it’s very different from the game we were playing three ye…

[image] Pirx: i don’t get this fascination with not giving players complete agency Imbeciles from the management department told it would impact the metric “players stayed loged if for the X ammount of time” causing shareholders moistening. Perhaps it was Tencent managers. Crazy how those p…

Mixed. It’s still surprising how much friction there is to actually get into a game, even with mods, and it’s much worse design-wise without mods; specifically the Mourningstar hub in general and the mission select menus. Once you get into a mission it’s mostly fine, though some technical issues, ma…

Yeah the drain playing this game is palpable like 3 back to back games and it’s not boredom but mental fatigue that has me going yeah I’ve had enough darktide for a bit.

The game is great, but weird content pipeline with half the content hidden behind events, they spread their attention across 3 game modes which I think is wrong, and the game has too many bugs and runs pretty poorly both graphics-wise and connectivity-wise. Other than these three grievances, I’m ha…

[image] alsozara: Personally I FEEL the loss of the previous combat director. The current gameplay feels like it’s slowly turning into a cheap imitation without the weight or thought put behind it. The heart of the matter.

Still no solo mode powercreep/terrible balance barely any new weapons (most of them recycled) “new” melee weapons having terrible combos and animations little to no maps per year buggy mess still taunting bugfixing and repairing systems as “content” terrible monetization Same old same old

[image] alsozara: Personally I FEEL the loss of the previous combat director. The current gameplay feels like it’s slowly turning into a cheap imitation without the weight or thought put behind it. I’m not saying they’re wrong for doing that, it’s probably been a rather lucrative choice, and I’…

I am 2k+ hours in and my over all feeling is mixed i wont go into too much details others already put it much better than i can do.

They could increase the threat and greatly reduce volume of all enemies that are not in a horde…whilst increasing horde size. The horde being pox walkers and groaners. Having a huge horde appear every now and then is great and could work well with fewer, more dangerous specials/elites/etc It would…

State of the Game: 3 years later, how do you feel?

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion

Scipo0419 January 29, 2026, 7:03am 31

I refunded Darktide after 45 hours (Thanks Fatshark Support) because, at the time, it had been a year with no solo mode being added. Here we are over 3 years later and there’s still no solo mode. @FatsharkJulia when are we getting Solo Mode?

Wrapping up 2025 and looking ahead!

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State of the Game: 3 years later, how do you feel?

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