The Crafting Memorial; lest we forget

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@Kambrin

ll of them expressed interest in buying it again once the current RNG crafting is gone, and all of them found the VT2 system more acceptable. It’s just crazy how many people were completely turned off the game via this RNG gacha pull weapon system.

Pretty much. I have over two thousand hours in Vermintide 2. I’ve been playing since launch day. I originally started with Vermintide 1 but I don’t have as many hours in it as the sequel. So when I read this blog about them realizing the mistakes of their progression systems in regards to loot acquisition in Vermintide and how they plan to do better:

@Fatshark_Hedge

We have learned a lot from our previous choices and gameplay surrounding crafting offered within the Vermintide series. For Darktide we wanted to take those lessons to expand and improve in such a way that crafting would become a central pillar of player progression, while giving more impact and agency to you, the player in your preferred playstyle.
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The nature of randomization and repetitive actions sometimes seen within crafting is something that we are steering to avoid in the crafting system within Darktide. Meaningful choices will be made with strategy and goals behind them, as you set your eyes upon that perfect combination of melee and ranged weapons for your class.

Well. Suffice to say. Imagine my disbelief when I realized they somehow created a system that was far, far, worse than anything I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s worse than grinding wafius in free to play gacha games. It’s worse than grinding Rivens in Warframe. They even admitted how screwed the whole thing was:

@Fatshark_Hedge

The designers are aware that finding specific items with a specific perk is a lottery. They had done the math too and when I suggested it was like a lottery I was told I was understating it.

Add on to the fact that people had to wait real life hours to even get chance at the lottery and you have the perfect recipe for THE most player antagonistic system I’ve ever seen in my 20 years of gaming. They unironically created a skinnerbox and thought this was okay to greenlit: