We know there’s been a lot of confusion today, and we wanted to clear it up.
With Hotfix #53 (1.5.11) yesterday, we rolled out some changes to certain regions (Japan, Germany and Austria) in order to be in line with what is required for the various rating boards across platforms and we didn’t communicate that to players properly. That’s on us.
Now that we are on more platforms, we need to ensure we’re compliant across all of them. In the process of doing this we put too many in place by mistake.
In the process of rolling out these restrictions, Germany and Austria were incorrectly given more restrictions than what is required by these regulatory rating boards. This is going to be addressed in Hotfix #54 coming out on December 5th.
From the hotfix on December 5th, Germany and Austria will have their gameplay restored to what it was previously. However, post-death ragdoll interactions will remain disabled to comply with restrictions from USK age ratings. (On-death ragdoll animations will be present.)
For Japan, the restrictions will remain on PS5. The other platforms will go back to as they were before.
Thank you to everyone who left comments and shared their concerns. Also thank you for the patience while we got it all sorted.
So are those restriction being introduced to be able to be on the PS store ?
Where the 2 other weren’t requiring it, or is it a case of Darktide having broken the rules in the past ? (where upon those changes would have happened even if PS5 port wasn’t happening ?)
I’ve already asked for comment from the USK directly but as it looks right now this is straight up untrue.
The game was rated with post death ragdolls and as such has no need for removing them. Austria also doesn’t use the USK at all, yet your post implies they fall under the same restrictions.
Can we (pc players) have more gore next patch or should we just wait for the next game because post post-death ragdoll interactions don’t even really work as much when the layered wound system doesnt even work on em lol @FatsharkStrawHat
If I understand correctly: For Austria, the State of Salzburg uses USK and Vienna uses PEGI. We are unable to separate those players from those cities, so we need to go with USK.
Wouldnt it be possible to maybe have an option in the game to toggle the gore and so on, so for Germany and Austria it can be “off by default” so you’d have to enable it to see it. Or would that just not go with the rating?
Cuz there are many other games that have the “dismember ragdolls” that are still sold in Germany without issue (Vermintide 2 is one of them funnily enough)
Though can we at least have an option to increase the impact on ragdolls? Like a slider or something so they just fly far away when you hit them with a heavy hit (its funny to see in the current censored version where hordemobs just get thrown so far away once they die)
Wouldnt be practical but it would be funny
Austrian here, i do thin all of austria uses Pegi as far as i know, maybe you could bring that uo to the team and they will be able to “change the ragdoll” change
Germany, you can have Salzburg back if they’re the reason we get censorship
Jokes aside I remember many years ago that my Steam version of Team Fortress 2 had the wrong (german censorship) version of the game by default even though that was legally irrelevant where I lived (in Austria). A chat with their support fixed it - perhaps there is SOME way to get flagged for an uncensored version but I understand it’s unfeasible if it’s gotta be done case by case…
Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (Entertainment Software Self-Regulation , abbreviated USK ) is the organisation responsible for video game ratings in Germany.[1] In Austria, it is mandatory in the state of Salzburg, while PEGI is mandatory in Vienna.[2]
Would be more than awesome to get ragdoll interactions enabled for the xbox/microsoft store versions of the game. Haven’t had that since launch and im sad that only the Steam version is the only version that gets it
As Darktide was released in 2022 the USK did a rating for it. If it hadnt do this, the game wherent released in germany. All Games need a age rating BEFORE they get released in germany. So how could you release the game and need to censore it later? this is straight up a lie.
