I really do think it’s darkly comedic how basically every single major update has Fatshark just immediately kneecap itself because it can’t help but do the most player-hostile thing imaginable as a reflex action.
Like c’mon. The grumbling over Arbites being paid-for was incredibly minor, and even the complaints about low-effort cosmetics were things the masses would ignore. All you had to do was release a normal human class like you outlined alongside the (quite servicable) narrative update and campaign. That was it. That was all you needed! But nah, gotta squeeze the last drop out of people and screw them over to the bitter end.
Recent reviews have dropped to Mixed on Steam already. Hope y’all enjoy it.
Did my part. Left my first-ever steam review, specifically to tell people not to buy this game after all of this.
Its so frustrating, because at its core this IS a good game. But everything surrounding that core is a complete and utter trashfire run by some of the most incompetent buffoons to ever step foot in an office.
Seriously! I bought this game because I thought it was gonna be as close to my dream Guardsman FPS as I could get. I was prepared to spend hours running around with a lasgun shooting cultists and traitors.
And then there was no solo mode. And then there was absurd prices and shop layouts for the cosmetics. And so on and so forth.
And every single time stuff starts to look even slightly better, Fatshark shoots themselves in the foot again. Its insane.
This would be THE game in my library if they’d pull their crap together.
what the hell is your darktide budget? Have you seen what minis cost these days?
Also, unrelated. @Scipo0419 has finally lost his last bit of patience and published a guide for the discontent to request a refund. I’ll be leaving a link up in the main post.
To be clear. I lost my patience and refunded last year. Which is the example letter in the guide. This latest patch + dlc is the most discontent I’ve seen on the forums in a while though so I figured (with motivation) it would be helpful to people who know Steam won’t refund them but want to try and stick it back to Fatshark
I laughed when I followed Rannick’s encouragement to go to the Commissary and found, to my expectations, that there was nothing there for my Arbites. The moment I first visited the Commissary back in Nov 2022 I knew it would follow the typical fate of in-game currency vendors of being implemented and then ignored forever more.
May they prove me wrong and add new stuff to it, but that would be the moment I would really be (happily) surprised. As for the tracker? I’d say we’ve got more chance of Arbites cosmetics showing up there, but goodness knows when that will be.
LMAO. When people raised an eyebrow at the price tag of Arbites some defended it as several times the work of a VT2 class, thus the cost was warranted.
Turns out they didn’t even give the class all the base content of the other classes.
Still think we protest too much while looking out for our consumer interests @CopperBack1?
Has them removing universal human cosmetics from Arbites also perhaps given you some insight into the picture some of us were already looking at?
Yes as pertains to cost of class, voice work, talent trees, new dog mechanics. I’d have to dig to my original comment to see full context for more of an answer on “protesting too much”
The choice of removing human cosmetics from Arbites is scummy and hopefully in process of reversing. Penance cosmetics available, havoc meh I kind of write off the whole mode, but I’d doubt they’d leave that empty. More attribute to their lack of ability to pump out content in timely manner.
I still cant believe they had the gall to use the excuse of “oh well we dont want people to be ovetwhelmed” when many wanted to get rid of the FOMO item shop
Not only are they essentially calling their players r*tards, but also blatently lying to everyones face as if we cant see the several other game mechanics that require a mathematics degree to understand what any of them mean or do
I’m sure they will… If we make them. You might want to thank those of us who are refusing to buy (or in some cases even refunding it) if they do walk it back. Because it sure won’t be because of those who have happily eaten it up. If they can get away with it you bet they’re gonna sell recolours of those cosmetics Arbites can equip.
Your mentality here reminds me of those who roll their eyes at unions, while enjoying all the basic worker rights’ unions have gotten for them.
Nope boycotting what you disagree with is vital, I don’t think so about Arbites as a class but do find all cosmetics extremely wasteful of funds especially with arbitrary lack of cross usage, I’d think ogryn variants of similar enough objects should also be shared. But also cosmetics are superfluous and unnecessary to enjoy game.
So by all means. How you perceive my responses as hostile a bit tunnel vision though.
Ah you really don’t remember what you posted before huh?
The assumption of hostility mostly comes from this earlier extreme condescension.
I was hoping you might realise that being sceptical and pessimistic about video game products is simply a wise general approach, not fuelled by some deep psychological issue.
Again, as I said originally, value prospect is dependant on what you value. For me, no, it is most certainly nowhere near double the content of a VT2 class, certainly nowhere near triple.
My whole original point in that previous thread was that you can’t math your way to a “fair price” here (I say this as a professional Maths teacher no less). It’s a significant fraction of the cost of the base game for 1 class and a small smattering of weapons we can’t even use with other classes (you could use some of the new weapons with other classes in VT2).
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll watch some videos and maybe decide it’s worth it for me. But not before they walk back the universal human cosmetics decision, because I simply refuse to give someone money who’s currently trying to screw me.
