Understandable for the vacation but right now I just experienced a situation where the server crash has made it where on Xbox. There is no way to get back on. I want to register this in the bug fixes right now
I respect the vacation but weâre trying to play The Game. Iâm locked out of the game right now when iâm trying to play
Launch finally went back to normal
I personally do not care about solo mode, but what I do care about is companies fulfilling their promises. Just like 343 did with campaign co-op mode in Halo Infinite for example (they did actually pull through, even though it was delivered 60 000 years too late).
Does anyone here who speaks about solo mode have a link to an official statement from Fatshark or something where they literally promised solo mode for Darktide?
I just wish to see it because I feel this discussion has been around since the dawn of time, but I have never actually seen the statement from Fatshark themselves. Enlighten me please, so that I can be even more upset about Fatshark haha.
Cheers! 
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opens the Book of Grudges
Somehow, it went from âtotally nearly readyâ to âironing out issuesâ a few months later, then ânot a priorityâ a year later.
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Iâm still so baffled by the âweâre still working on itâ in May '23 to âwe might return to itâ in October '23. Even if the whole âwhat makes solo play important to youâ came off condescending to me, though I fully admit that Iâm super jaded and cynical about the situation and am likely subconsciously adding a condescending spin to the question
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Iâm still waiting for a new faction to pwn in this vanilla game.
Thanks for enlightening me, Ragnarok.
The Book truly is the one light that unifies us in here. MVP. 
Then I absolutely get the whole ordeal. All they could do is to simply say something like:
âWe have previously stated that solo mode was a part of the development plan. Unfortunately, plans change. Because of x, y, z, we have decided that we will not be delivering this game mode for Darktide. We understand that this will be extremely disappointing news for many of you, and for that we are terribly sorry. Hopefully, we will be able to prove our worth down the line by continuing to add fresh and exciting content to Darktide as we move along. The Emperor protectsâ.
At least then people could get some peace of mind.
But again, this is Fatshark. Am I surprised? Not at all. Am I disappointed? Always.
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That kind of scummy PR response is what any other company would give. Something that kind of maybe sounds apologetic if you tilt your head 90° to the right and squint, but ultimately reeks of âweâre trying to cover our assâ, but Fatshark? No, Fatshark doubles down on the âif I canât see them, they canât see meâ logic and all of us are just staring at them as they squeeze their eyes shut and cover their ears in the center of the living room going âla la la la la, Iâm not listening!â
Iâd take this:
over this:
any day
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Even if the question wasnât intended to be condescending, it still comes off as kind of⌠pointless filler. The majority of Solo advocates on this forum have posted numerous times over why we want the mode. Iâll take it one level further. I donât think Fatshark quite understands the level of sheer stress it induces in me to play with Randoms. Keep in mind, all my friends have long since stopped playing this game, but I still want to.
Now I know the vast majority of folks on this forum do not understand my point of view. But I also know thereâs a handful of you out there who do.
Stress you say? How so? Because when I hop on a game with Randoms, I am constantly stressed out about âAm I playing well enough? Are the people in this game enjoying the game playing with me? Am I enjoying playing the game with them?â And god forbid someone should drop out mid-game and I immediately assume they dropped out because I totally suck. And the amount of sheer stress that induces in me, the worry over whether the other randoms on my team are having an ok time, is one of the most unpleasant, yet easily avoidable, things Iâve ever experienced. I cannot express how much I hate playing with strangers and the lengths to which I will go in order to avoid doing it.
To those of you who would respond by saying âWell then Darktide is not the game for you.â I say back - you are 100% correct. But it damn well should be - in exactly the same way that Helldivers 1&2, Vermintide 1&2, Left4Dead 1&2, Payday 1 2 & 3, and every other 4 player mob shooter ever released before this is.
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The truth is quite obviously to keep the hosting costs as bare-ass as possible for maximum profit. This means limiting the number of live scenarios being held by forcing players to search up together instead of playing how they want to play.
Admitting that would mean admitting that the player experience is secondary to money, even though its obvious and no one would blame them for it. Its just that people want the product to be worth the money.
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Preach! I donât have much anxiety when running dungeons or raids with pugs in mmos (usually just frustration with stupid people causing wipes), but even then Iâd still prefer to play solo w/ bots if available (which, FFXIV did add for the majority of story dungeons last I checked, raids are still PUG or Static only)
But in this genre? Iâve never had fun with randoms, itâs always been annoying and unfun. I leave the game with this âthat was the worstâ feeling. And Iâve tried multiple times, itâs not the lack of VC because I donât mind random people joining my hunts in Monster Hunter or when my friend and I duo Vermintide 2 when I canât hop on Discord for whatever reason, itâs literally just the random people forcing me to adapt my playstyle in a way that I find unfun that other games donât do.
In an MMO the tank and healer dictate how fast you go in a dungeon, but itâs so rarely so fast/so slow that itâs unfun and youâd rather kick them or leave. In monster hunter the addition of random players doesnât change how I hunt the monster except someone might capture instead of kill and I might have to use a lifepowder to heal the party. In the Horde Shooter/Slasher genre, all it takes one person to run off into the distance to trash the partyâs coordination. Everyone gets so focused on following them that specials from behind start wreaking havoc or the director says âslooow down!â and launches waves of elites and hordes while youâre still in the âspecial spawn triggerâ timer and then everything goes to crap. Some people thrive in that chaos, good for them, I prefer going through these games more methodically like a tactical shooter than like Rambo on speed. I canât do that with randoms because the speed is always dictated by the fastest person, not the slowest
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