What’s with the forced 2/5 difficulty. I get gate keeping level 5 but making me do loads of level 2 is pointless.
Half the fun of a new character is seeing how far you can get with a super low level
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Yeah. T1-2 was literally us running trough the map cuz there were no enemies around (the rest got killed by the dogs LMAO). At T3 at least enemies start to appear.
Also dunno why I’m locked out of Auric with the new character after 700+ hours, and why did my Havoc level got set to 30?
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havoc reset to 30, new season
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This is honestly making me mad aswell. Literally a timewaste grind. Fatshark going “Thanks for supporting our game since release, now go help they new players”.
I’ve played diff 1-2 so aggressively that any new player will have learned literally nothing. But I’m not sorry. I’m not playing darktide for a chill stroll through a hive. I’m here for the tempo and the chaos.
I don’t fancy being told by FS “sorry, you’re only good enough for the baby levels” after several hundreds of hours spend on auric and havoc.
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enjoy your gatekept difficulties because some people with thousands of hours still can’t carry people in Aurics
Arbites for old players, should’ve had option to skip straight to 30/
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This was asked by players… enjoy
I love having to play uprising at level 11 
So much fun a game where you can go to kitchen take a glass of water and not fear being down.
Really too good. So good, that I could only play 2 missions and the second I forced myself. Hopefully I entered in the mission close to the end!
By the time they change that, you could already be level 30.
Maybe players should not have asked such feature. Because here, this is not Fatshark will but a direct answer to a demand from players.
Always think twice before asking something… because you could get what you ask.
We are here. Again, enjoy and thank the players that asked such lame feature.
Players have been asking for unskilled players to be gated difficulties. Not people who have hundreds or thousands of hours, ASS title, Havoc-Forged title ect.
There is an entire penance system in place to gauge what players can accomplish.
Instead FS is telling people with hundreds of hours in the top difficulties to grind 1-5 for well over 10 hours before we can start playing the actual game.
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Oh you wanted restrictions for others?
It reminds me real events irl where people vote for things and after are surprised that bad things they voted for apply also to them.
When they announced it, this was my reaction:
Others thanked Fatshark…
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3-4hrs on getting it to level 30.
FS sure love their grind.
They really need to play their own game, they need to sit down and see the perspective from player point of view.
Should of used Account level instead of character level to determine this restriction.
Sometimes it does feel FS want to sabotage themselves in UI design and out of mission terminal mechanics historically as well. All these things stack up.
I mean this was not the only solution. This is the one FS chose. Instead of making us play an arbitrary number of games, they should have extended the level system up to 40 or 50 for example. No talent points given just access to the higher difficulties after you had your practice.
This is just an idea, I am sure there are other, better ways to do this.
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More grind? you want more…
That’s surprising…
Players asked for this. Fatshark implement this. How to blame Fatshark?
Players did not say “you should restrict others”, they clearly said loudly that the low levels had no place in higher difficulties. And it was not just Auric, but also Malice.
So now, enjoy what the community has loudly asked.
As I said, Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
“This is just an idea, I am sure there are other, better ways to do this.”
I shielded myself in advance from any possible criticism 
Look, it is 11 in the morning, I just woke up, I did not think about it. What about an account level? If you are already 50 accountwise, you can choose whatever difficulty, you like.
Here, I solved it.
Also players asked for a million buffs and nerfs. The all regretted it. They are asking for nerfs again (DS, plasma), they will also regret it. People asked for ogryn buffs, now they want it nerfed.
Seems like the players are not a good group to shape a game.
And sorry, did some people really ask FS to gatekeep malice difficulty? Lol, okay.
Ralendil, if I check your history on these forums, will I see any complaints, tips, anything regarding a possible change in this game? If yes, you asked for it too. Also I was not complaining because of the new system, I just showed an alternative version.
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It’s always a question how you implement it. What good is it, if a player gets carried through 5 heresy matches, but goes down three times in each?
I think it should have been five matches with no death at least, if you want to gatekeep. Otherwise it doesn’t help.
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i am something like 1200
But again, the players that asked this talked about the low levels joining a mission from a difficulty they think that is not for them
As an example, when there was this discussion I pointed one of my experience. A level 20 joining a damnation game. At the end, he did better than the 2 other players that wanted to kick him.
But the others players in the thread wanted Damnation behind a gate that would be level 30.
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at least 10% of the mission was alt tabbed for me excluding the parts where i “accidentally” barreled myself
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levelling my second zealot before the update was even worse, match maker would put you with low level players if you are sub 30 so i ended up in a heresy maelstrom duo with another person on their 5th character while two people died 12 times
they really should do something about levelling I feel like when you have 50 auric maelstroms even if you get carried you can still handle everything heresy and below
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Feels like one of those times they could have done something with TrueLevel account ranking.
It’s not even like you get the new full fat story version available, since the Arbites isn’t one of the “core” reject characters.
Anyway. I’m so rusty it’ll probably do me good to work my way up 