Devoted Rejects! A promise is a promise here is our deep dive blog on the talent trees. We figured you might want to enjoy a studious weekend, dissecting each class and getting ready for the launch of Patch #13 and Xbox on October 4, 2023. Make sure to check out our previous dev blog on the design …

[image] MeatShield01: If you want to be upset, that’s your prerogative, but we are getting a ton of new class options. This - the new skill trees are much more interesting for me then if they were seperated new classes!

They are there, basically 2 new class for each archetype.

They NEVER promised new archetypes. As for the classes that they actually did promise, we are getting 8 new classes in less than 4 quarters so they have more than doubled the promised rate.

There you go, bud. [ABILITY SHOWCASE - All New Abilities (Warhammer 40k: Darktide)] Redux Kinetic Barrage discussed on that timestamp. But now supercharged. It says 75% faster which is insane given it was only 25% before. Combine it with Scrier’s Gaze, Reality Anchor, and Precognition…

Pair this with Run n’ Gun, and just sprint around shooting everything? :smiley:

[image] MeatShield01: If you want to be upset You got “upset” from that? [image] deusvult6: They NEVER promised new archetypes. [image] Classes in Darktide Announcements Let’s talk about Classes in Darktide. As many of you know, we just started dropping our…

Sooooo, we agree now? That’s also the infamous post where they claim that Classes in Darktide are a completely new and separate thing from Careers in Vermintide 2 which, sadly, seems was scrapped in order to meet the deadline but now they are making good on that. So surely you must be excited that …

Are you trying to suggest that the ‘deep’ talent trees they promised per class, is now suddenly a new class? How much copium are you huffing? What they’re doing with this patch is fixing their release promise of the classes actually having meaningful talent trees. They’re not adding classes.

They informed us very early on exactly what they defined as a “Class” and as an “Archetype”. If you choose to define them differently, then that is on you.

They also informed us very early on that each class would have deep and meaningful talent trees. They also informed us very early on that unlike V2, this game would totally not rely on RNG or, say, arbitrary crafting locks so that we would be able to freely experiment with builds and make meaningful…

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JanZamoysky October 2, 2023, 7:54pm 247

You got “upset” from that?

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