@FatsharkStrawHat @FatsharkKitefin
I really want to note this.
I started this thing about a year ago, initially with the intent to catalogue ‘forgotten’ bugs and issues, then expanding to just cataloguing the consistent pain points of the community.
The single. Biggest. Problem. Is the cosmetics store. I want you to see the year of consistent, uninterrupted complaints, because virtually every single person I can find at minimum thinks the FOMO store has to go, and virtually no aspect of the store in its current state or the lack of free alternatives is considered acceptable.
Yet y’all remain totally silent, and nothing changes. This is the single most hated aspect of Darktide left standing and you won’t say a word on it.
So please. Look at the evidence here.
Cosmetics are near-universally agreed to be overpriced, especially regiment-specific ones. This is also accompanied by complaints about ‘reskins’ and ‘palette swaps’, where all that materially changes about a given cosmetic is the color, despite being sold at full price - OR AT A HIGHER PRICE. Bundles have had all their interesting bits stripped out while being sold at the same price as other, more complete sets. The below bullet points sum up the issues in the linked threads.
Free cosmetics, whether weapon skins or outfits, have a lamentable lack of variety as well. They typically go un-updated for new weapons.
In addition to being overpriced, cosmetics often are cheaply and shoddily made to the point of not even having different body types to accommodate the two different body types offered at character creation.
There also used to be weapon skin bundles for 800 Aquilas, that had skins for every single weapon . These have been replaced by individual skins for around the same price points, effectively something like a 2000% price increase.
A single mod - For the Drip - uses the exact same tools Fatshark itself uses to recolor and resell cosmetics. For free, you can unlock far more variety and superior fashion than hundreds of dollars worth of cosmetic buying.
The FOMO store element is, obviously, very irritating, and is still being complained about virtually constantly. I would personally consider it the most complained about element after crafting and game stability. Ninety-five percent plus of forum users would prefer it be replaced with a catalogue.
Nobody even likes the stuff on offer, with polling in 2025 being over 80% negative about upcoming rotations.
Please, rotate the store every week instead of every other week or just have all of them for sell… it sucks never seeing all the cosmetics available in the game and it takes forever for them to rotate back around if they ever do.
Really want to see more weapons
I’ve noticed that the new release of cosmetics include an increase in prices.
Individual head cosmetics used to range roughly between 400-900 aquilas. This release there’s some head garments that are 1,400 aquilas. Edit: apparently this has happened before, I personally don’t recall them ever being that high but I’ll take others’ word for it.
Both the Zealot & the Psyker have a head garment that’s the (rough) equivalent of $10 Canadian. For a hat. You guys are asking me to pay 20% of the entir…
I prefer to try and be more positive minded on things but this I feel strongly hurts the experience for people I’ve met and known.
People are put off seeing things they want to earn or get only to find they came and went.
The promise of “maybe” returning isn’t enough to swade the disappointment and bitter taste in their mouths.
the game runs dry of content eventually and sometimes the work towards a shiny trinket is what gives them joy, to cosplay some new imperial degenerate.
The shop rotat…
Here’s what ogryn got for his entire ranged arsenal.
[wep skins]
Here’s his entire choice of options for melee skins (plus one knife skin from the penances. One)
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I get that wep skins are monetized now but come on man. VT2 has monetized cosmetic equipment too but still has a lot of free choices.
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/any-plans-to-expand-the-commissary/94777/8
https://warhammer-40k-darktide.fandom.com/wiki/Commodore’s_Vestures#Weapon_Skin_Bundles
What is for the Drip?
It’s a mod that lets you freely color, combine and attach armor elements from virtually everything in the game.
Why is it so great?
It leverages existing systems to give the user limitless freedom. The targeet audience of 40k loves customizing their stuff. They love recreating certain characters and looks. Hence the desire for customization and why people love the mod.
It allows you to freely combine patterns, materials and elements to live out your perfect little gore-…
I admit I almost forgot it existed. I went today to see if there were any boring red or green skins for pickaxes, Pauls, bolt pistols etc (half expecting to see a skeleton behind the counter)… And OC there is nothing new whatsoever.
Please can we get some new colours/patterns for old and new weapons to spend some dockets on?
Its pretty bad that we have not gotten any new skins really(just recolors) and new weapon skins since launch for the non aquilas shop, but every week get new skins/weapon skins for the aquilas(ie. real money shop). Especially when you consider that they are adding things like black weapon skins(a very desired/generic color for guns) to the paid shop. Black, silver, gun metal, etc. type weapon skins should already be in game and obtainable in the non aquilas shop. Its dumb that we only have a ba…
okay so, i hate not being able to play the missions i actually want to play. some people have actual jobs and can’t play stuff for weeks or even a full month after it gets released and it makes penances take longer than they should because of the fact that waiting for refinery delta 17 or warren 6 19 is something that we NEED to do and not everybody has the time to do that after getting home from work. not everybody wants to just constantly play darktide either, most people would rather play at …
As someone with 1400 hours in this game I have probably spent about $20 on cosmetics. That number would be closer to $100 if they didn’t have this god-awful store rotation. I hope they realize they are only shooting themselves in the foot with these tactics. Majority of people playing this game are only going to be around for 40-60 hours. That means with a two week store rotation the average player will only see that store rotate ONCE. Fatshark has screwed themselves out of probably tens of…
Just came back on here after a long break to be a broken record and complain about the cash shops inane rotation system again.
I wanted to buy a chainsword skin months ago (The one with the shark tooth pattern), but was in the prime of “I don’t support your awful practices and am not interested in spending more money on this game after you gave Xbox players 10k Aquilas and gave PC players some reskinned blue armour”, and now that I’ve come back after some updates, guess what? Couldn’t buy it if…
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Is this really the best you’ve got?
Thirty-seven years of lore, art, and cool stuff to draw on, and we’re getting rags and recolors, with weapon skins gone from the bundles a long time ago, again.
I guess this does show where the company’s priorities lie. They’re fine with getting someone to actually do their job and tell us things - but they will never change the cash shop to something good.
This is what a kasrkin looks like
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[The Tithes - Ork Assault]
Also the guard with the ballistic goggles and balaclavas look sick as well
Please make your Chinese sweat shop ‘premium’ cosmetic designers study this material closely
These animators who work for gw can get the guard spot on so should you.
Are you serious about the increased price cause more work??
Here the vet cosmetic proposed:
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Here one that I have bought a long time ago:
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Seems for me really similar. In fact the more expensive has one detail less and is just a recolor. So, why the increased price??
Also, the helmet has already been proposed by the past…
So, really we are far away an increased work on this cosmetic.
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I own the eye and hat separately, now they put both together and call it a new cosmetic with full price. Really? Shouldn’t the people who got both of this items get this one for free or at least with a BIG discount? Same with recolors.
This is the kind of thing that makes me not buy anything from you, or at least nothing similar to those cosmetics because I will be thinking about waiting until you add the combination I want and no FOMO will justify buying because your prices are just …
Seriously, Fatshark. Your itemization update looks really good, everything looks promising and I see a light in tunnel for future of this game. Hell, I see it enough that I would gladly throw some $ to you right now buying some cool looking cosmetics.
But I can’t. Your FOMO makes me unable to find products I would like to purchase and give you money. Becasue of your FOMO, there is fat chance that I will burn out again in game before any cosmetic that looks good for me will be available.
Time t…
Like I know alot of people do not like the cash shop but I do enjoy getting a weapon skin and supporting the game devs every now and then when I can. That being said this has to be one of the most disappointing rotations I’ve seen, 4x Witch fingers! is taking up space for some real content throw out 3 of them and give us good content. can we decrease the time it takes for a rotation to happen or at the very least stop duplicates from appearing in the shop.
For the love of the big “E” Fatshark make the premium shop rotate weekly.
At this point everyone and their grandmas have accepted your low quality uninspired lazy cosmetics made of reused and recolours of previous lazy half baked cosmetics; so there is absolutely no point in prolonging each atrocious batch of cosmetics for a week more.
This way players could find something let’s say “interesting” at best sooner and devs should produce the same crap… ehm i mean “premium” cosmetics at a higher r…
Just wanted to say the current rotating system for the Commodore’s Vestures is very disappointing. Ages go by not knowing if the next cycle the thing you want will be there. What makes this more strange is Vermintide 2 already has a decent shop with everything available and weekly specials. The same type of system as VT2 would work well in DT. Please, change it.
I don’t fear missing out, I only fear being disappointed again.
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Kiaora! Hello!
As a long time fan of Fatshark games, I just wanted to leave some feedback for the team in charge of business decisions. This post may end up long but the feedback is brief:
This is my favorite game. I have no desire to spend money on it and struggle to recommend it to others.
This is a problem. I love this game. The gameplay, art and music are all phenomenal. Why then, do I still feel like I’m being ripped off? Why do I struggle to recommend it so much?
I’ll try and explain t…
So, we’re now seeing the Death Korps of Krieg cosmetic set recycle into the FOMO mtx store.
However, there are some issues with this that painfully undercut the value of these “premium” sets, and the fact that Fatshark is charging extra for these is quite frankly…somewhat absurd.
First, the Zealot seems to have gotten a proper helmet this time around. The set previously just had a stupid zealot flap gasmask with a Death Korps Grenadier skull on it, that looked truly stupid, now it’s got a prop…
The rotating store is terrible guys. There’s lots of cool cosmetics I see on other players. I want to get them, but I missed them. Now we get new stuff rotating into the store ever what, 2 weeks? I have no idea when the stuff I want will come back.
I’m playing the game right now with my friends. No idea if we’ll still be playing in a month or two when the items I want rotate back in. The attempt at a FOMO store is literally just blocking me and my buddies from buying the items we want.
Make th…
Just in case you were still not sure with how much love and care the premium cosmetics are made, it appears for this one someone copypasted a russian coat of arms off google and ran it through some filters. I guess whoever this was outsourced to did not realize that there could be plenty of 40k references to copy an Aquila from, if he was really this averse to making something original.
The backpack:
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The game has been out for over two years now. As someone who took breaks, and for someone with friends who got into the game later… think of how many people don’t have outfits they want? Some people may not buy things immediately because of it, but SO MANY outfits have been released over the past couple of years that there are most certainly a lot of people who would like to get in on some of the old things. Like for me, it’s the Aribites stuff. Why not let me give you your money? Why not make a…
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This happens with other cosmetics too, but take this examplo:
Karrum-Class Rebreather with Augmetic Eye Implant
The eye implant is available for all 3 human classes. (Spectrus VI model bionic eye)
The Mask is available only for the Zealot. (Adacore Rebreather)
Both the mask and the eye implant is available only for the Psyker. (Karrum-Class Rebreather with Augmetic Eye Implant )
What is the logic behind this? Why not make it available (Mask+eye) for all 3 at once…
Pretty sure it’s been well over a year at this point and still most of what’s in the commissary is literal slop. Why would I want to wear a checkerboard blue version of my zealot penance outfit? Not only is it ugly to me, but this isn’t even subjective - I’ve literally never seen a zealot wear a blue checkerboard outfit, everyone can see that it’s slop and nobody wants to use it.
So yeah, I’ve been hoping for a commissary update literally since it was introduced to the game, because again, most…
I dont understand this undying love for FOMO from devs.
I already know what I would like to buy, but its not available, because its not in rotation.
Its like you dont want my money.
Who knows if Im even playing the game when it comes back in rotation.
Surely, everyday something is not listed is potentially a missed sale. I cant fathom that FOMO is more profitable than a catalog with everything available. You can still FOMO by running rotational sales/discounts..
Other than that, pretty fun …
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/this-fomo-is-terrible/107053
So we’ve got the Veteran chest, pants, and hat on top.
Psyker’s helmet and chest are shown below. The Psyker headgear is the same as in the previous rotation, except the circlet is of a gold color instead of bronze and now has a blue collar, matching the “Rogue Trader” Psyker headgear.
The books to the right is the new humans’ backpacks.
Unfortunately, I can’t show Zealot and Ogryn slop because I don’t have their fits memorized, so I had difficulties determining which pieces were new to them. …
2 week rotation is criminally insane when your offerings are significantly not as good as some previous options. To be honest if you did it every three to five days it would give some Playstation folks a chance to see some of the cool options that others have been enjoying for much longer. Also recolors should be cheap upgrades to the base outfit not another entire outfit cost. Just an opinion
Normally I try to approach things with with a better outlook on things.
But the fomo shop is tiresome to say the least.
but I reckon everyones in agreement but at the very least it seems somethign is being done about it.
[The Law Finally Caught Up, EVERY AAA Is In Trouble]
[Now this is directly for fatshark if they see this.]
I hope this gives a rightious slap upside the head to whoever pigeonholed so many cosmetics to the store when players late game are starved for things to un…
This bundle cost 2400 collectively. It’s since been split off and no further bundles come with weapon skins or trinkets.
In November 2024, skin bundles returned to the store!
At 2900 Aquilas for five weapons, and a bunch of 400-900 individual skins. When the first skin packs cost 800 for EVERY WEAPON.
You were already pushing it with 700 aquilas for stuff like green autogun + bandages. Not to mention when you tried to sell the look of Ironhelm Thunder Hammer as a “premium skin”.
Some of the more unique skins were “fine” for their price, like Ogryn’s Rumbler/Kickback, Flamethrower skins with lots of new details on the model, gold and silver shotgun/boltpistol skins from a couple months ago.
But now you’re just selling black recolors with a jpeg of a skull for 900. When people datamined thos…
12 thousand aquilas to recolor all your weapons black with a little skull icon.
its costed 800 aquilas for the camouflage recolor FOR ALL WEAPONS.
Can someone do a wellness check on the Fatshark HQ?
edit ITS NOT EVEN ALL THE WEAPONS LMAO
Not only are these new weapon skins hideous and overpriced, they’re also misleading
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that hellbore lasgun has a sight and torch on it which the actual skin doesnt have, and the image has a bolt pistol that isnt even in the bundle, it has a bolt gun instead
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Look, I don’t want to come across as offensive or aggressive, but WTF Fatshark?
Not satisfied with basic color swaps, Fatshark have just decided to start reselling IDENTICAL cosmetics:
I’ll give it one last shot before I make a whole YouTube-video on this subject.
Fortunately, there are many tools I can use in Photoshop to compare colours.
First technique is called Difference blend mode. The way it works is that when you combine two layers on top of each other, the similarities of the two will be represented by the black colour. The more black, the more similar the two layers are. Here is the result:
[Difference blend mode]
Just to make it clear; this result means they ar…
