Yup! My other picks would be a bolt pistol power fist combo lol
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That could definitely work if you base it on Victor Saltzpyre’s Rapier and Pistol from Vermintide 2!
The Power Fist would ultimately be your main weapon, but your special attack would be a singular offhand Bolt Pistol shot.
… why would you have ever thought that…? No company does that. “Hey, dumbasses, here’s your update slop” is a weird thing to ever have thought when EVERYTHING was branded as “Rejects [Will] Rise”…
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Even Overwatch has better dev communication with its players.
I honestly wouldn’t be able to tell if you guys were on vacation, which is understandably well deserved, everyone needs a break, but…given the glacial pace of updates, and how even glaciers advance steadily given good conditions, what’s the excuse for pushing back the crafting part of “Secrets of the MACHINE GOD,” which is all about the people who make all the crap that people use?
Hey, Fatshark, I think I know why the game had 107k players when it first debuted and only has… 6,872 players right now.
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Of all my 20ish years of gaming, i have never heard of a Dev team telling whats left of their community that they are going on holiday, never mind a Dev team with zero goodwill left that’s managed to kill their game not once but twice within its release because of complete inaction and inability to do anything that the community wants or asks for. Being brutally honest, you have done absolutely nothing to warrant a holiday, your game is still riddled with bugs, crashes and performance issues, not to mention lack of content and literally zero endgame, and if that wasn’t bad enough, after your latest super duper new content update your game is still bleeding players and can’t even manage 7k players at peak time for USA and after peak for Europe on a Friday night. Whats worse ? Space Marine 2 is right around the corner, which if the last 2 years and now this is anything to go on, will kill this game for good. Embarrassing.
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You’re a pretty cool person, Strawhat, I like you.
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Are people actually upset about being called rejects?
A wee bit sensitive for the grim, dark future no? 
The characters in the game are literal rejects.
My wife calls me much worse so I’m fine with ‘reject’ lol
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No!
Some of us were a bit annoyed at being called “rejects” aaaages, ago, when the game was in a really really poor state and comms were non existant. But its certainly not a hot topic or anything, lol! Not these days thats for sure. Though I think its in the Book of Grudges, since its an old Grudge. And such things must not be forgotten, by my beard!
@FatsharkStrawHat are you savvy on Warhammer dwarves and their grudges? I hope so. Otherwise some of the forum goings-on could be misinterpreted
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It ended up being complained about on Reddit a couple times so I included it. It’s not a major complaint but it is a complaint.
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All good. I couldn’t tell if it was serious or a running joke of old. Sounds like it’s a bit of both from before my time here so I’ll just let it play out
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You mean at the initial time where everyone who wants to try a game for the first time will and with everyone else wanting the same, which will be spiking the player count for that brief window in time? Are people so confused by people wanting to try a game at the earliest possible moment?
They are getting better, hopefully it will continue.
It’ll get a bit better if the new update is good and they can follow through with more content. That said, alot of time has passed since Darktide’s release and entertainment will always be in competition with other forms of entertainment so unsure how much more people you could expect to start playing.
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@FatsharkStrawHat I have to say, as someone who has definitely been a grumpy participant in this forum before, I’m really pleased to see how it seems like communication & feedback is opening up.
It’s good to see that feedback is being heard, what specifically is being heard, and how that is (in theory) having an impact on decisions.
Please keep it up, it would be thrilling for this to continue and I think is pivotal to fixing the relationship between Fatshark and the ornery grumpy fans like myself.
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I agree with my favorite Ogryn, Ulgo. <3 Would be nice to actually see some more content, what you’re working on, hotfixes.
Tbh am afraid Space Marines will take away more players from Darktide. I love this game and am afraid of it dying 
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@FatsharkStrawHat It’s ok to have vacations, everybody deserve some vacations … but after the first week of August GO ! GO ! GO !
No more silence, no more apologies. You know fans here criticize your game not to spit venom freely but because they care about and want it to succeed. Fatshark have the tools and capacity to make Darktide one of the best 40k game available now, the same as Vermintide is for Fantasy. But sometimes it’s really painful to watch your healthy goldmine being dig up with a toothpick.
The fact you are communicate since before the “Secrets of the machinegod” update is already a good step in the right direction, if you also say you are working on a PS5 port of the game it make much more sense since you took the same amount of time for Vermi 2 and had a lean period before “Winds of Magic” just to port on PS and Xbox. But that’s exactly the goal of communication I am right ? ^^
Anyway you need to add more content especially maps and weapons before the end of the year if you want to keep players.
Add a real end goal reward for your events : portrait, skins, aquilas or whatever (plasteel and ordo are cool but for 1k+ hours players like me who have a load of ressources it’s not attractive enough).
Make serious changes toward cosmetics Comissary and Emporium and a way to acquire Aquilas just by playing for example we can convert 1000 Melk’s money for 100 Aquilas, that way you fix 2 problems (Melk being pretty much useless, even more with the Itemizations rework coming up and Rewarding players taking time to do contracts) with one stone.
And lastly toward the work of the OST you mentioned I can just say one advice : Don’t make the same mistake between Bethesda and Mike Gordon for Doom. Jesper Kydd is literally the God Emperor’s hands toward Warhammer OST and raise the bar so much it would be a crime. Don’t f*cked him up please !!!
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Call me Ishmael
Enjoy your break, and I love the new outlook on things!
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Talk is cheap.
I hope you prove my skepticism wrong.
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Glad to hear it! Keep up the good work and enjoy the time off
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Soz for piling onto your original post, but it seemed related. I was plastering this all over their social media for months but seemed to get very little response so gave up fighting for this when each update news said nothing of this kind of system - but seeing an opening in the communication from them and mostly @FatsharkStrawHat has given me hope!
I’ve got 600+ hrs and god knows how much Aquila currency I’ve spent, I want that motivation to come back and a sense that my previous time and money is being respected by FS and their publishers.
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Considering the games been crashing every day since path of redemption update, I’m not playing until it’s fixed. It’s a total waste of time to play a game with performance as bad as yours.
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