The Mourningstar Memorial; lest we forget

[Khorne_Dawg]

The Mourningstar Memorial

Hello, everyone. I’m starting this thread to compile any and all suggested upgrades to the Mourningstar that’ve remained relevant in alphabetical order. Yes, this was inspired by @brosgw 's “The Crafting Memorial; lest we forget”, and I most certainly hope for both of our threads to one day become obsolete so players can finally have the optimal Darktide experience.

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• The Mourningstar Catwalk
This’d be an emote system for the player to show they’re too sexy for their shirt, too sexy for their shirt and so sexy it hurts. Y’know… like in Vermintide 2, where it’s accessible whether the player’s in the Keep or in a match.

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Emotes and Stances Should be More Interactable

Emotes should be usable during missions. Stances should consider the weapons you have equipped, so if you have an axe and your have a kneeling stance it should show you kneeling with the correct weapon.

Emote during the match, please

People do not look at me when I emote in Morningstar Please let me do funny emotes in the match It will be very funny

@Geadly

I want to emote during the match please!

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• The Mourningstar Compendium
This’d be a Tome for the player to research allies, archetypes, concept art, enemies, Darktide Short Stories and weapons à la The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Glossary.

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@Dysphoria

A must have for me would be hub hotkeys and a compendium/bestiary.

I just pop into the Psykhanium whenever I’m waiting on my mates to finish pulling the levers on the slot machines. Now that I’m thinking about it, maybe be able to join each other in the Psykhanium?

General feedback: I would like more of the story/lore to be in-game as opposed to on forums or Youtube. Do you agree?

Making a forum post because I believe this is what helps Strawhat see and catalogue feedback the best, and it’s what @Lt.DavinFelth suggested. With the event of Dukane being introduced via a forum post, it highlighted to me that one of my remaining gripes is that we’re getting very little lore or story development in the game itself. We get posts about new characters, new lore about new missions, youtube videos that tease stuff, splash screens in the launcher about the infected Moebian 21st and…

Hey, fat shark, check this out

A lot of players contribute great ideas to you in the forums, why don’t you respond at all? The player’s ideas include: 1. Open Mourning Star Bar, 2. New game modes (Defense mode: Map: S.H.I.E.L.D. Station and Mourning Star), 3. Each player has their own custom room, 4. New enemy factions, and 5. Detailed, readable enemy descriptions with backstories." Why don’t you adopt, or even communicate with players too much? I know the new confessional system is good, but it’s not enough. The Dark Tide h…

Solid additions to the game would be

I won’t go into any gameplay or mechanics tweaks or techinical issues. Please take the same approach and leave out complaints about the game. Thank you. -For the game’s lack of character and general story; Written lore could be added, Warhammer is a source of bottomless pit of lore, why not implement some scriptures or even books in the game both for newcomers and lore veterans, the Mourningstar could even have a library room or the loading screens could have some cool scriptures of lore. Anoth…

Suggestion: Add enemy map

In order to better understand the enemy, at the same time add description, background, and enrich the game content. I think Fat Shark should add an enemy map in the dark tide and give a detailed description of the enemy

The mourning star is always dull, it's time to make it vibrant

The mourning star is always dull, it’s time to make it vibrant. Players need private quarters where they can purchase decorations to decorate their rooms. Or they can acquire loot during missions and decorate their rooms with it. After all, the mourning star is now our second home. Players need a bar, as well as some board games, you know, having a beer at a space bar after a tense and exciting battle, and playing some board games casually is a great choice. Players need an archive, where we …

Why is there not a compendium?

Why is there not a compendium, what do all these random stats on weapons mean, what does cleave mean, what does shredder mean, why can we not work up to learning about enemies and such. I shouldn’t have to tab out of the game to learn and see all this stuff.

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• The Mourningstar Defence
This’d be at least one Defence Mission set on the Mourningstar, most likely against a Scab boarding party.

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Fleshing out a defence mode

So I’ve been getting a few ideas for a defence mode that would be fun related and lore relevant. Game mode: Distraction / feint Overall idea: An imperial engineer and recovery team is ready to go onto hostile territory, we have agreed to assist them since they are giving us a cut of the recovered supplies. Go to a location, hold out for as long as you can, and give the team time to recover as much as they can. The longer you hold out the more supplies they can recover Mission structure: gene…

Hey, fat shark, check this out

A lot of players contribute great ideas to you in the forums, why don’t you respond at all? The player’s ideas include: 1. Open Mourning Star Bar, 2. New game modes (Defense mode: Map: S.H.I.E.L.D. Station and Mourning Star), 3. Each player has their own custom room, 4. New enemy factions, and 5. Detailed, readable enemy descriptions with backstories." Why don’t you adopt, or even communicate with players too much? I know the new confessional system is good, but it’s not enough. The Dark Tide h…

Map ideas

So I’m still having loads of fun in the game but obviously some new maps would be fantastic and give some new energy. I got thinking on what would be some nice map ideas. Catachan jungle facility - make your way through a secret xeno testing facility that has lost comms. Investigate and Retrieve/destroy all the data before it falls into enemy hands. Retrieve a lost artifact/relic from a battlefield graveyard. Could be any planet. Remains of a huge battle littered with destroyed tanks, mechs,…

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• The Mourningstar Expansion
This’d be a generalised expansion of the Mourningstar to allow room for the other suggestions.

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@dragomusic

Anyways the thing I want the most is that a pre-mission lobby would be an actual place to walk around in the hangar bay. The mission start countdown wouldn’t start until 1 or 2 people readied up, and you could also change your class if necessary.

Could throw some fun mini games in there to do while waiting. This would let players coordinate runs better, see what penances people are trying to do, and would provide an easier way to form bonds with people in your strike team rather than that only being able to be done in mission.

@Ryshek

Genuinely have no idea what, if any further plans they have for the Mourningstar, as of the last update they removed those elevators, which implies something grim to me, and that is that we won’t be leaving the bridge.

@MeatVegetable

Some spots in the mourningstar of interest

Here is a set of levers I found on the outside of the hub area, man, i really want to press E on them, I bet they do cool things - like making hadron dance. [20240306213618_1] there are currently only 2 areas that have anything behind the closed doors on the mourningstar, they are both elevators that are to your immediate left/right as you come out of the starting area [20240306213710_1] [20240306213752_1] the obvious implication is that they are there to allow you to go to different flo…

Who actually cares about the morningstar

the concept of a main hub where youre able to interact with other random players and visit multiple shops, like destinys tower, is appealing. but it just doesnt work for these tide games, especially not darktide. it adds bloat, it isnt fun to traverse and it doesnt incentivize socialization for comparison, we have v2s horn keep. it was pretty large for its purpose as a main hub, but at least you were in a gameplay state. you could swing your weapons, shoot your ranged, jump, equip and use items…

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• The Mourningstar Gangs
This’d be a “guild” system in which the player would be able to join one out of a variety of gangs, all of which’d be dedicated to different goals.

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@dragomusic

In game clans would be neat. Especially if there was a special meeting hall for your clan that you could level up etc.

Missed opportunity (Clans)

Hello! To see that this game has a social hub really warms my heart. It is something that’s missing in a lot of games nowadays but i wonder why is there no clan/guild/cabal (you name it) creation feature ingame? Not everyone uses discord! It would boost the social aspect of the game by far and i find it a missed opportunity. Even Warhammer Martyr had a Cabal creation even though the game wasn’t very multiplayer supportive and here you have a Multiplayer game without it. Makes you scratch your…

Player Groups - Clans/Guilds/Gangs/Cells/KTs

FOREWORD I understand that most of this stuff will probably, conceptually even, never come to Darktide. Nor necessarily should it. There are far more pressing issues that deserve dev time. A lot of players, myself included, would probably appreciate more weapons, maps and add ons to the Penance system than anything listed here. This was mainly an overly long collection of ideas I had fun coming up with for @Khorne_Dawg 's Mourningstar post The Mourningstar Memorial; lest we forget . This is a …

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• The Mourningstar Hangar
This’d be an additional accessible area of the Mourningstar where the player has the ability to browse any currently active lobbies.

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@dragomusic

Anyways the thing I want the most is that a pre-mission lobby would be an actual place to walk around in the hangar bay. The mission start countdown wouldn’t start until 1 or 2 people readied up, and you could also change your class if necessary.

Improve Putting Together a Squad Through Mourningstar Storm Hawk Hangar Bay

Back in Vermintide 2, we had a very effective method that balanced putting together a squad with random players without running out of player’s patience. I think the design of the loading in (or sometimes out) of players into Tal’s Horn keep, but then having to have everyone run to the bridge of shadows to begin the mission when they were ready worked really well. The advantages of this approach was that the players had full control over when they wanted to begin the mission, could discuss team…

Lobby browser for Darktide please

Hello, or perhaps g’day from Australia! [bartvsaustralia14] Figure 1: Australia I know I’m part of a population-challenged region, but with the ebb & flow of player count I doubt I’m the only person experiencing this issue. It’s becoming an increasingly long process match with a squad via quickplay at basically any time of day / day of week. Damnation Maelstrom / Aurics are often seemingly devoid of fresh matches, and spending time sitting and socialising in-game on the walk up to mission st…

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• The Mourningstar Holidays
This’d be a set of festive events implemented with the intention of spicing things up around the Mourningstar.

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Any plans for December holiday events like Vermantide?

Vermantide has a fun holiday event going on right now that has great rewards. Is anything planed for Darktide?

No holiday gifts or events?

[image] One of the reasons to have the predatory shop this way was to be able to do gifts and such. Where are they? Why is it every explanations or excuses you give falls apart 2-3 weeks later? You cant even say the system doesnt exist. ITS ONE THE EXCUSE YOU GAVE FOR THE STATE OF THE SHOP.

Seasonal content?

I think the success story of DRG can be directly borrowed plus Darktide is live serviced model. Nowadays I don’t see any better ways to keep a minimum 10k+ daily players for years than providing with free earnable cosmetics+ special challenges every few months especially for holliday themes. So is some form of this is planned? can we get a confirmation?

Seasonal Events

As the title states. Wouldn’t it be something if we had seasonal events? Was playing Destiny 2 and DRG and the hub areas are decorated neatly for Halloween. The game is great and all, but its seriously needs some form of events that keeps the community going. Add a seasonal vendor with tasks that upon completion rewards a cosmetic. (Like armor sets or weapon skins) Decorate the hub area according to the season. Have each season last 2-3 weeks Add different kind of seasonal cosmetics to Commod…

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• The Mourningstar Perspectives
This’d be the player’s ability to swap between first and third person perspectives while they’re on the Mourningstar.

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@AsukasHeadphones

One thing that I really disliked was how the game had different movement controls for when you’re in the hub area. It uses this weird third person control scheme that is awful for me. It makes the game more clunky and awkward to control, since it uses an entirely different movement scheme than 1st person. A solution could be to simply allow the player to toggle between first person or third person at the press of a button.

It doesn’t make much sense that the game is first person but then switches to a weird third person when you’re in the ship.

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• The Mourningstar Quarters
This’d be a crew quarters featuring a private quarters on the Mourningstar for the player to decorate. On a side note, Zola’s private quarters would also be accessible and that’s where the player could read Zola’s Journal.

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Darktide Wishlist

A thread - I currently have over 50 hours in Darktide, and I absolutely love the game! A few things I’d like to see in the future tho: some emotes to engage with team legendary weapons that look and feel legendary. (Effects like diablo) modifiers to make missions harder if legendary weapons are too strong. legendary armor pieces. nurgling pets! a mission where you can assist a space marine a room aboard the mourning star that you can decorate and craft decorations for troph…

Hey, fat shark, check this out

A lot of players contribute great ideas to you in the forums, why don’t you respond at all? The player’s ideas include: 1. Open Mourning Star Bar, 2. New game modes (Defense mode: Map: S.H.I.E.L.D. Station and Mourning Star), 3. Each player has their own custom room, 4. New enemy factions, and 5. Detailed, readable enemy descriptions with backstories." Why don’t you adopt, or even communicate with players too much? I know the new confessional system is good, but it’s not enough. The Dark Tide h…

@Ryshek

I’m not trying to get into anyone’s personal drawers, but it would be neat to see hadrons room, melk’s quarters… And if you’re looking for a place to leave Zola’s journal, her quarters would be a good place.

It's time to make the Dark Tide more social

“Secrets of the Mechanical God” got off to a good start, and Fat Shark’s promise restored some confidence. Like I always say, Mournstar bars, players’ personal rooms, card battles and board games. Fat shark should put these on his to-do list

Possible living quarters?

Just a thought, What if the morning star had living quarters you could visit, to see your trophies, a wardrobe, something to store your extra weapons or items or maybe a bed with a log out function?

The mourning star is always dull, it's time to make it vibrant

The mourning star is always dull, it’s time to make it vibrant. Players need private quarters where they can purchase decorations to decorate their rooms. Or they can acquire loot during missions and decorate their rooms with it. After all, the mourning star is now our second home. Players need a bar, as well as some board games, you know, having a beer at a space bar after a tense and exciting battle, and playing some board games casually is a great choice. Players need an archive, where we …

Why not give us a private room to decorate when we reach 30

personally, i believe that the game would be improved if we had a private fireteam room after we reached TL30. 4 bunks, a mission terminal, a table, a penance station, you know, small versions of the stuff that we already have along with some extra stuff that we keep in our barracks rooms like dressers and the such. we should also be able to decorate them with free stuff we get from penances and some things that we get from paying real money. tell me what you think!

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• The Mourningstar Shortcuts
This’d be the player’s ability to quickly access any and all of the Mourningstar’s vendors.

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A Big List of Sound/Visual/UI/etc. Feedback

DISCLAIMER: I want to be transparent on my feedback and where it’s coming from. I worked at Fatshark on the V2 account (and very briefly on the Darktide account) from late 2021 to mid-2024. Saying that, while I understand the general tone of the forum right now, this is not the place for me to answer questions about my employer; I just want the comms team and the devs to know where the feedback comes from the context surrounding around it. I do hope that everyone in the tank knows I love their w…

@Dysphoria

A must have for me would be hub hotkeys and a compendium/bestiary.

I just pop into the Psykhanium whenever I’m waiting on my mates to finish pulling the levers on the slot machines. Now that I’m thinking about it, maybe be able to join each other in the Psykhanium?

Features & Updates the Game needs (imo)

New Weapons and Red-level Weapons Theres a ton of Weapons the 40k Setting/Lore has to offer for our four Rejects, here someone made a lore-accurate list of Weapons : Steam Community :: Guide :: DARKTIDE WEAPON WISHLIST And Red-level Weapons like in Vermintide, since the current ones have 80% as their max Stat the Red ones could go up to 100% and maybe have an unique effect New Maps and larger Map Pool First is self-explanatory and with larger Map Pool i mean more Maps should be ava…

@zaygr

Hotkeys for PC and all Mourningstar functionality accessible via menu (like penances and the cash shop) for everyone

@zaygr

Hub hotkeys

@Kurt

I think they should combine the shops somehow. I know they have their NPCs and stuff but for beginners these menus and options aren’t really easy to navigate.
In most games it’s like: Get weapons here NPC 1, get armour here NPC 2 right next to NPC 1 and if there is a crafting station it’s right next to NPCs 1&2. In darktide you get this from NPC1, that from NPC 5, the other stuff that’s the same as the first one from NPC 3, then for crafting go to NPC 4 and while you’re running around between all of the NPCs the other 15 NPCs (most of them you can’t engange with) are talking sh*t on the vox

@MeatVegetable

I was thinking as I was driving home today that the Mourningstar is in serious need of an asset crunch. For a Hub area there is far too much travelling around in total. If I want to use the Armoury, Melk, or Hadron I need to move quite a distance in game. The entire space is a ton of just wasted space. Then the consmetics are across a grand hallway, and I have a lot of friends who forget that the Psykanium even exists. The mission queue up area is also needlessly massive.

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• The Mourningstar Strategium
This’d be a way to access the Strategium outside of the cutscenes and track any available information surrounding the current situation on Atoma Prime.

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@Mr_Zombie

Also would be cool if fatshark copied what Helldivers did with the game master role evolving the story based on where the players decide to fight and if they either win or loose.
I would love to see the percentages like you can in Helldivers, something like this for each sector of tertium “heretic presence x%” the problem is that darktide has a limited number of maps and not randomly generated worlds like Helldivers.

Strategium should be changed to look like helldivers galactic map

So, i’ve seen a lot of videos of helldivers 2 and i had an idea about the darktide strategium. The actual mission selection in darktide is boring and doesn’t add anything to the game, however it has a lot of potential. I think if fatshark changes the strategium (mission selection system) so that it is divided in the different game zones (throneside, metalfab, hourglass etc.) and then copies the helldivers approach, every x amount of time fatshark decides which zone is high priority, and if the…

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• The Mourningstar Tavern
This’d be Darktide’s equivalent of Deep Rock Galactic’s Abyss Bar.

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@brosgw

And put ordos in a juke box for music.

And maybe the secret soccer game hidden away in the bowels of the ship away from the prying eyes of “management”.

@KamiUnitY

Boxing Ring in B4B was also one of my favorite

Can the Morningstar have some interactable areas?

G’day, Let’s get some bench seat’s or a mess hall somewhere on the Morningstar please. Just wanna lounge as Ogryn whilst the lads I play with grab a beer.

Darktide football in the Mourningstar during downtime

We already got a ball in the game, just gotta add some online functionality to it and a play space and voila! Darktide football.

Hey, fat shark, check this out

A lot of players contribute great ideas to you in the forums, why don’t you respond at all? The player’s ideas include: 1. Open Mourning Star Bar, 2. New game modes (Defense mode: Map: S.H.I.E.L.D. Station and Mourning Star), 3. Each player has their own custom room, 4. New enemy factions, and 5. Detailed, readable enemy descriptions with backstories." Why don’t you adopt, or even communicate with players too much? I know the new confessional system is good, but it’s not enough. The Dark Tide h…

How do we feel about "hub" activities?

With them saying the hub is a social space and one of the trailers showing the charecters playing some form of card game. Unwinding with some cards or something at the hub could be quite fun as long as 1: it does not detract from the CORE gameplay 2: Aquilla are NOT the betting currency as they are a premium currency and “real money” gambling concerns 3:it is not a required activity in case some do not wish to do this and are only concerned with shooting more heretics. I am almost positive t…

Hub Idea: Pub

The Mourningstar has nowhere for us Rejects to order a round of pints for our Strike Team. Even for a 40K game, that’s a bit too grim dark.

*Idea* Downtime Activities in The Mourningstar

I’m sure this has been thought of previously however downtime activities would be a welcome feature in the future of Darktide, especially given that we have an open-ish lobby. Reasoning behind this is best explained with an example, I’m waiting for a strike teammate to finish customising or upgrading their operative, this can and has taken up to 10 to 15 minutes not that I’m complaining as I enjoy hearing them waffle on about the personality and synergies, I notice that there may be a few othe…

I have an idea

If the Mourning Star’s bar is open, players can play the Warhammer board game in the bar. Players can spend some money to buy a battle pack, and then you can fight in a bar, which is definitely a good idea, we play a Warhammer board game in the dark tide. I think it’s interesting.

It's time to make the Dark Tide more social

“Secrets of the Mechanical God” got off to a good start, and Fat Shark’s promise restored some confidence. Like I always say, Mournstar bars, players’ personal rooms, card battles and board games. Fat shark should put these on his to-do list

@Lt.DavinFelth

I’m all for any changes that will make Mourning Star a place to spend at least some time.
I’ve just (yesterday and today morning) was caught by surprise with one of the more awesome moments.

Our Grumpy Rogue Trader is trying to inspire Rejects (not working) and then Zola joins in (all in white) with “Who do you fight for?!” and everybody on the Mourning Star responds “FOR THE EMPEROR” – Awesome!

More of that. Bit of R&R is necessary when every mission could be our last.

@Ryshek

I wish that they would have given us the Mourningstar we see in glimpses… The mess hall… the bar…

@brosgw

Jumping puzzles like in VT2 at least.

Minigames to play solo or against other players while waiting for your friend to finish microwaving their left overs so you can finally play.

@Garfielf

More than anything, I’d like a little bar area similar to the Space Rig in Deep Rock Galactic, as well as a variety of rooms and crannies like Taal’s Horn Keep.

@Wahid

Love this!

In short, I want Fatshark to remake the Mourningstar.

It has an uninteresting appearance. One factor is the “mall” atmosphere of the place, but it simply does not appear appealing. It is dark, industrial, and dready, which I get from WH40K, but when you have a player hub and have designed emotes that I assume you want players to use, you have to:

• 1. Make the area visible enough so that other players can see the emotes.
• 2. Make it so that players want to interact with the hub and each other in the first place.

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This may not be the best concept for what I had in mind, but here’s a screenshot of Owlcat’s Rogue Trader. While the Voidship is dark and broody, it is also filled with warm colors, browns, and reds, making it appear a little cozy:

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Arm wrestling, as seen in Monster Hunter, could be a fun activity while hanging out in the Mourningstar.

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Drinking competition from Monster Hunter:

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Some type of bar and the ability to sit in chairs. I understand that I am posting a lot of Monster Hunter images, but I am just trying to show what I would like to see done with the Mourningstar:

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I understand that we are on a Voidship and it is Warhammer 40k, so it must be dark, edgey, and broody, but I want it to have a purpose as a player hub other than being a dark and boring walking shopping mall where nothing happens.

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We are all familiar with Deep Rock Galactic, a player hub that is perfectly designed by not being too large, using warm, bright colors, and including both a bar where you can drink and dance and a shoot-put game.

Everything you need can be easily accessed here without using a Player Hub Hotkey mod:

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I also understand that not everyone is as into RP as I am, and when I say RP, I do not mean interacting with each other via chat, but rather being given the tools to immerse myself in my character and escape reality for a few minutes/hours.

The current design of the Mourningstar feels exactly like a “game”; it does not draw you into the world, with menus scattered around as “shops,” and it completely lacks the appeal of, say, Necromunda: Hired Gun’s Martyr’s End hub.

Unfortunately, I could not find a good picture of it, and I am too lazy to reinstall the game, but Martyr’s End includes a shooting range, a bounty board (missions), Gladiatorum (Psykanium), shops (Brunt), and named characters such as Kal Jericho and Artificier (Hadron).

Obviously, some of those things are already in Darktide or add no value, but if I could have found a better picture of Martyr’s End, you would see that things are actually happening there, rather than being dead and boring like the Mourningstar.

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The best pictures I could find of Martyr’s End on youtube; NPC’s standing and walking around, a bar etc makingthe place feel lived in:

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The quality of the last image is terrible due to the player’s use of Motion Blur, but it can not be too difficult to simply place some cool NPCs that walk around on the Mourningstar (bounty hunters, rogue traders, whatever) doing things, right?

It breathes a lot of life into the world:

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Pub brawl (A Quiet Drink) from Vermintide:

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@Mr_Zombie

Just let me pay for 5 rounds of beer for everyone on the mourningstar just like I can do in DRG.

Mourningstar is a useless trash of a hub

I’ve said it before and other people said it before but I’m in a bad mood so I’ll say it again. Besides, the more something is complained about, the greater the chance FatShark will do something about it. Mourningstar is large but with absolutely nothing to do in it. It has zero customization (as opposed to VT2 and even VT1), zero social activities (as opposed to the good old times when we had drunken brawls in VT1, a feature which I will never not lament losing in the next games) and little in…

Mourningstar Roleplay

Hello Developers i hope even one of you will see this Fingers crossed Hi to everyone else aswell!! I love 40K Story and lore so this game really pulled me in with my closest friends, we are all huge Roleplay nerds The SHIP is amazing! i have spend time just walking around admiring everything but i really miss the Canteen from one of the amazing trailers. Hopefully it’ll be added in game someday in the future. So i was pondering what i’d love …

Morningstar tavern social hub

[fsfsdf] It would be great for community building to have a place in the morningstar hub where players could meet and interact ! A place like the “tavern” we saw in cinematics ! Here some ideas that could be nice to do in this place : Minigame to lose our millions ordo dockets : Maybe a simple card game with bet, dart, knife throwing, arm wrestling, or wathever ! Wall of glory : Each week we could see portraits on the wall of the player who killed the highest number of heretics, the pl…

Suggestion: Open bar for Mourning Star

The Mournstar bar should be open, we often see bars in the publicity, the scope of the Mournstar to explore is too small. The Mourning Star bar should contain the following features: Drink (Drink to get temporary buffs and DEBUFF) Card games Special tasks [a5485ea9ee64b0ddabdd4de13b481e7]

@Rocker_Fox

The big issue that i have is we always hear activity but never see it unless it’s one of the rare moments that a bunch of people get on and then it’s just…well…a bunch of people standing around. I think there was a lot of opportunity to expand on this and have more interactions with the world in general but instead we mostly have something that is fairly flat. A few more ideas off the top of my head just sitting here thinking about it.

Off world traders - Off world traders brought in stock from a specific place. This gear has stats tuned to the planet they came from (Krieg weapons more tuned for higher damage and range but lower fire rate, necromunda weapons feature weapons with higher emphasis on close damage and spray + pray, etc. Similar daily thing to malks but just uses normal credits.

Salvage team LT - A salvage team LT spends most of his/her time in the bar when not on planet. They are tasked with helping local PDF by supplying weapons from any source possible including what the agents / convicts pick up. After a certain level you can trade in weapons to them for salvage, special cosmetics, or favours which can be traded in to give buffs during some missions (higher chance to find ammo stashes, grater chance to find stims, stuff like that). They also has an hourly weapon that is a high stat roll gray which can be bought for plassteel and / or credits due to the need to continue filtering it towards the war effort. In addition they are willing to make direct trades from diamante to plasteel and vice versa based on what is in demand for the war effort on the ground.

Ronald “Footshank” McConnel - A ratling cook with a morbid sense of humour, he showers the player with tales of serving with the steel legion before being picked up for the warband. He was a forward scout and recon sniper before an untimely injury separated him from his lower half, now he operates the bar and uses his skills as a cook as well as making some exchanges for various clients. As a basic function he serves foods that give minor buffs which help for a mission. As a secondary function when reaching trust level 30 he offers rare trinkets in the form of curios he “found” either during his time serving or via recent “business” transactions.

Assignment officer - Allows the player to hire different bots which give different boosts and boons which can be swapped out much like gear when playing with less than a full squad. While by default they can select help from their own characters for a fee a specialist can be assigned to the squad with unique weapons, skills, and abilities that even player characters don’t possess. This comes at a heavy cost though as agents don’t work for free and it takes great effort to reassign some agents from their current assignments without causing disruption to current operations. These agents may request special resources beyound dockets such as malk currency, plassteel, and diamantine.

The mourning star is always dull, it's time to make it vibrant

The mourning star is always dull, it’s time to make it vibrant. Players need private quarters where they can purchase decorations to decorate their rooms. Or they can acquire loot during missions and decorate their rooms with it. After all, the mourning star is now our second home. Players need a bar, as well as some board games, you know, having a beer at a space bar after a tense and exciting battle, and playing some board games casually is a great choice. Players need an archive, where we …

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• The Mourningstar Trials
This’d be a set of challenges conducted in the Psykhanium and they’d be available in both single-player and multiplayer.

Citations:

@brosgw

Multiplayer meat grinder. Turn on enemy aggressiveness.

Advanced tutorial sections. How to dodge slide, practice enemy ques and attack patterns.

“Scenarios”/challenges to complete in the meat grinder. You are in a specific situation, with specific enemies spawned in specific locations, and you have a specific load out, specific talents and stats and have to beat the situation. (you have 1 health left, a sniper on the far side and a couple bulwarks, 0 ammo and an eviscerator, etc.)

Never ending voyage

Imagine. What if we had a task from Sefoni. Task that can only one, not four, achieve. What if “captives” that we shoot in psykanium is slowly corrupting Sefoni mind. Solo mode. The endless one. Main task is purge corruption from Sefoni mind by killin those heretics. The idea is to have rooms that we already know, into endless labyrinth. Like this room from hab-dreyko, and next from arcivum sicorax etc. To pass the room u need to kill some number of enemies. Every next room is harder then …

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• The Mourningstar Vox
This’d be a Vox-caster for the player to listen to any and all promotional Vox Transmissions and Vox Intercepts.

Citations:

The vox transmissions are just fanfiction. Why should we care?

Oh what’s that? There’s this deep and intriguing story about a Wyrmwood agent desperately trying to escape capture as the entire planet rises up from underneath them? Things are getting precipitously worse? There’s hidden, lurking threats which may or may not be hinted at in the vox logs? Cool, Fatshark. Sounds neat. Put that stuff in the game. I’m so, so tired of live service titles pretending there’s a plot when, in reality, the way they are built so frequently precludes them from functiona…

Wyrmwood voxs should be ingame

I believe there should be some way ingame to view the Wyrmwood Voxs. Either as an audio file someone can listen to while walking around and doing things in the hub or as an ingame video player. I’m aware it isn’t particularly difficult to view them on YouTube or on Twitter, but I still believe the option should exist. Especially if a player isn’t particularly active on social media platforms.

Vox Transmission and Tertium Vox Intercept Transcripts

I had trouble making out what people were saying in the vox transmissions so here are the videos in readable text form (taken from the very well made closed captions, or edited where missing): Vox Transmissions I II III IV V VI VII Tertium Vox Intercepts I Vox Transmissions I [static/distortion] This is Wyrmwood. I repeat, this is Wyrmwood. This is Wyrmwood calling Mourningstar. I am using Secure Vox Encrypt Alpha Six. Mourningstar, respond and confirm. This is Wyrmwood. I repeat,…

Vox Transmissions

Not sure entirely where to put this but I just wanted to ask if the YouTube Vox Transmissions would also be added in-game. I think it’s great they’re on YouTube but I would really love to access/hear these somewhere on the Mourningstar. Is there any plan for that? I’m not asking to stop putting them on YouTube - just if they can be accessible in game.

VoxTransmissions/Interceptions

Hey Fatshark, You’ve put out a load of Vox Transmissions/Intercepts via Twitter and YouTube. Whilst that’s cool and all, I think you’re missing a trick in not having them accessible in-game as well. Might be a nice feature to add the ability to access them in the main hub from terminals that are currently not in use. [voxtransmissions.PNG] I think I recall these particular terminals being used to access inventory back in the closed beta, but I think this is a better use for them. Considering…

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Do your part!

Please let me know if I’ve missed anything so I can add it to the Mourningstar Memorial. If you leave a like and/or a suggestion you will earn yourself a spot on the Wall of Martyrs!

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The Wall of Martyrs

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[Ddkiller]

@FatsharkCatfish @FatsharkStrawHat
come and look

[zaygr]

Hub hotkeys.

[Khorne_Dawg]

@zaygr

Hub hotkeys

You’ve been added to the Wall of Martyrs and your suggestion’s been added to the Mourningstar Memorial.

[Riku]

Tomboy SoB, Appreciation altar

[Khorne_Dawg]

@Riku

Tomboy SoB, Appreciation altar

How about a Tomboy Sororitas Appreciation TEMPLE? Y’know… with a Femboy Sororitas wing!

[Wahid]

@Khorne_Dawg

The Mourningstar Memorial

Hello, everyone. I’m starting this thread to compile any and all suggested upgrades to the Mourningstar that’ve remained relevant in alphabetical order. Yes, this was inspired by @brosgw 's “The Crafting Memorial; lest we forget”, and I most certainly hope for both of our threads to one day become obsolete so that players can finally have the optimal Darktide experience.

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Love this!

In short, I want Fatshark to remake the Mourningstar.

It has an uninteresting appearance. One factor is the “mall” atmosphere of the place, but it simply does not appear appealing. It is dark, industrial, and dready, which I get from WH40K, but when you have a player hub and have designed emotes that I assume you want players to use, you have to:

• 1. Make the area visible enough so that other players can see the emotes.
• 2. Make it so that players want to interact with the hub and each other in the first place.

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This may not be the best concept for what I had in mind, but here’s a screenshot of Owlcat’s Rogue Trader. While the Voidship is dark and broody, it is also filled with warm colors, browns, and reds, making it appear a little cozy:

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Arm wrestling, as seen in Monster Hunter, could be a fun activity while hanging out in the Mourningstar.

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Drinking competition from Monster Hunter:

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Some type of bar and the ability to sit in chairs. I understand that I am posting a lot of Monster Hunter images, but I am just trying to show what I would like to see done with the Mourningstar:

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I understand that we are on a Voidship and it is Warhammer 40k, so it must be dark, edgey, and broody, but I want it to have a purpose as a player hub other than being a dark and boring walking shopping mall where nothing happens.

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We are all familiar with Deep Rock Galactic, a player hub that is perfectly designed by not being too large, using warm, bright colors, and including both a bar where you can drink and dance and a shoot-put game.

Everything you need can be easily accessed here without using a Player Hub Hotkey mod:

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I also understand that not everyone is as into RP as I am, and when I say RP, I do not mean interacting with each other via chat, but rather being given the tools to immerse myself in my character and escape reality for a few minutes/hours.

The current design of the Mourningstar feels exactly like a “game”; it does not draw you into the world, with menus scattered around as “shops,” and it completely lacks the appeal of, say, Necromunda: Hired Gun’s Martyr’s End hub.

Unfortunately, I could not find a good picture of it, and I am too lazy to reinstall the game, but Martyr’s End includes a shooting range, a bounty board (missions), Gladiatorum (Psykanium), shops (Brunt), and named characters such as Kal Jericho and Artificier (Hadron).

Obviously, some of those things are already in Darktide or add no value, but if I could have found a better picture of Martyr’s End, you would see that things are actually happening there, rather than being dead and boring like the Mourningstar.

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The best pictures I could find of Martyr’s End on youtube; NPC’s standing and walking around, a bar etc makingthe place feel lived in:

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The quality of the last image is terrible due to the player’s use of Motion Blur, but it can not be too difficult to simply place some cool NPCs that walk around on the Mourningstar (bounty hunters, rogue traders, whatever) doing things, right?

It breathes a lot of life into the world:

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Pub brawl (A Quiet Drink) from Vermintide:

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[Khorne_Dawg]

You’ve been added to the Wall of Martyrs and your suggestion’s been added to the Mourningstar Memorial.

[Harridas]

I’ll upload that clip of what Darktide football might look like since the original video was hosted on Discord.

@Khorne_Dawg

Citations:

We already got a ball in the game, just gotta add some online functionality to it and a play space and voila! Darktide football.

(Video heavily compressed because upload limit)

[Khorne_Dawg]

Ogryn FC can finally be a reality.

Day in the Life of a True Ogryn Geezer | Warhammer 40k meme dub

[Lt.DavinFelth]

I see you’ve joined war on Chaos on side of Chaos…

[Wahid]

[Khorne_Dawg]

@Lt.DavinFelth

I see you’ve joined war on Chaos on side of Chaos…

I only wanted to be called beautiful!

[Khorne_Dawg]

[Lt.DavinFelth]

I’m all for any changes that will make Mourning Star a place to spend at least some time.
I’ve just (yesterday and today morning) was caught by surprise with one of the more awesome moments.

Our Grumpy Rogue Trader is trying to inspire Rejects (not working) and then Zola joins in (all in white) with “Who do you fight for?!” and everybody on the Mourning Star responds “FOR THE EMPEROR” – Awesome!
More of that. Bit of R&R is necessary when every mission could be our last.

Also Melk needs some dire rework in terms of rerolling missions. I’ve just spent 1 million (1 000 000) ordo dockets to reroll missions on ONE operative. I KARKING HATE MELK!

Edit: And I’m still not happy! I’ve left with "Melk you karking lady of negotiable affection for low amount of currency! Enough! I don’t have time for 8 missions on Vet, I need to get to leveling up my Ogryn! Wait… he’s not for low amount of currency, it’s costly extravagant for unsatisfactory value!

WHO THE FETH WANTS TO DO 8 MISSIONS FOR KARKING 310 DOCKETS?!
IF I REROLL IT I DON’T WANT TO SEE IT 7 MORE TIMES!
(I know it’s not that related to the topic, but Melk is technically on Mourning Star, so I’ve decided to vent - every Monday morning it’s the same karking story).

[Khorne_Dawg]

@Lt.DavinFelth

I’m all for any changes that will make Mourning Star a place to spend at least some time.
I’ve just (yesterday and today morning) was caught by surprise with one of the more awesome moments.

Our Grumpy Rogue Trader is trying to inspire Rejects (not working) and then Zola joins in (all in white) with “Who do you fight for?!” and everybody on the Mourning Star responds “FOR THE EMPEROR” – Awesome!

More of that. Bit of R&R is necessary when every mission could be our last.

You’ve been added to the Wall of Martyrs and this segment of your suggestion’s been added to the “Tavern” area of the Mourningstar Memorial.

@Lt.DavinFelth

Also Melk needs some dire rework in terms of rerolling mission. I’ve just spent 1 million (1 000 000) ordo dockets to reroll missions on ONE operative**. I KARKING HATE MELK!**

WHO THE FETH WANTS TO DO 8 MISSIONS FOR KARKING 310 DOCKETS?!
IF I REROLL IT I DON’T WANT TO SEE IT 7 MORE TIMES!
(I know it’s not that related to the topic, but Melk is technically on Mourning Star, so I’ve decided to vent - every Monday morning it’s the same karking story).

This segment is part of a broader issue, but I MIGHT add a new area in the Mourningstar Memorial to cover it… I only hesitate because this could more so be Crafting Memorial territory.

[Khorne_Dawg]

@brosgw we probably need to discuss what constitutes “Crafting Memorial” territory and what constitutes “Mourningstar Memorial” territory. I may be a copycat but I’m not a usurper.

[Eisenfaust]

Making the mourning star more then a glorified shop interface? Awesome ideas!

Yes please

[Khorne_Dawg]

@Eisenfaust

Making the mourning star more then a glorified shop interface? Awesome ideas!

Exactly! The Mourningstar shouldn’t be a place that everyone wants to avoid because it’s literally an in-game SOCIAL HUB. I merely aim to help make the Mourningstar the best that she can be!

[Darth_Coffee]

Nice, great idea thank you!