With the Talent Tree Out, we could use it in a way to make it more fun for End Game level 30s.
Vermintide 2 Chaos Waste has a good foundation for it. and it was the most replayable mode for me and my friends. we kind of never touched the campaign at all cause of it. so lets bring something similar over to Darktide. it’ll feature as follows:
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** we can have a set of 5 levels (perhaps with branching paths) each level gets progressively harder. so like the first level is Malice, then the next levels become increasingly difficult
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** each level also has modifiers to them too like how we get hi intensity or hunting grounds, increased boss spawns, weaker bosses, horde of muties etc… Bosses may also have buffs with them. some of them cant get staggered, some of them are even immune to ranged damage.
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** the shrines/Boons/Terminals you find across the level will give you either a talent (yes you can have an exta talent, so imagine having 2 blitzes, possibilities are endless), a unique buff (with downsides or not, you can have a buff that gives massive amounts of Stagger when you perfect parry, or a buff that prevents you from getting disabled once, or a buff that helps duplicate any item your team is carrying), upgrade your weapon with a randomized perk or blessing. so through the RNG given by the Emperor you’ll get either a good run or bad run from what you and your team gets in this level. THIS is the MEAT and BONES that gives the Good Replayability and Fun factor this mode can give.
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** there will be a currency system in place that will have to be collected in the levels that you can use to pay for upgrade shrines/terminals
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** also each level has POSITIVE modifiers. so perhaps increased toughness regen, increased material pickup, or increase currency pickup
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**there will also be levels in the set that you choose to go through where you can purchase a list of buffs for yourself or a list of buffs for your team (like doing heavy hits give 1% toughness for your team or get like a single ogryn sized bomb that any class can throw)
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** you start out with just the basic grey weapons of course. but you can bring any weapon you like. Curious wont have any effect (unless we can bring them though) whatever weapon perks or blessings you bring will not count. youc an bring your level 30 character’s talents though.
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** You can find Challenge Chests or something similar that will summon either a horde of elites, a boss or specialists. then you get rewarded with one buff out of 3 to choose from.
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** What Vermintide didnt do tho, they can do here. ability to SUSPEND the Game Mode momentarily. and continue it later since its a set of 5 levels or so.
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** also you still get rewards even if you fail mid level. perhaps from material you collected, or GEAR with a rarity that depends on your Team’s performance. you can also get some Experience.
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** As for the Rewards at the end, since its intent is for End Game players to have something to do for fun (its not a mode to test your skills as most of it is RNG based), we obviously get more Plasteel, Diamantine and cash thats more valuable than doing a quickplay Damnation run 5 times…but to add to that perhaps we can also get 3-4 Weapon/Curio which gives a rarity based on our performance in the mode.
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** obviously we can also get Cosmetic rewards based on penances related to this mode. so more Free cosmetics isnt so bad once in a while.
Why Even Bother?
The Current Gameplay loop is personally getting stale for me. Running the same missions over and over again, and the way to make it more fun is do mutations in Auric or Hi intensities. but Still it feels samey. dont get me wrong, I am still playing the game but I am afraid that It will eventually become stale for me and I’d have to force myself to find fun in the game. this is added with the way the reward system is, when you try to get XP at level 30 you dont get much out of it and trying to farm shops to get the God Rolls isnt really that…Fun…So to break up that Monotony, I suggest this kind of game mode.
FEEL FREE to add more to this, because this Idea is open to suggestions.