reddit comments on 2000 upvoted post and steam comments almost unanimously praising the nerfs despite half the people on the forums insisting that they were fine.

[image] adam.szitas: ThE eLiTe “This is amazing, perfect design, fun enemy to fight” The elite never really talked or gave a singular flying F about them… [image] adam.szitas: Anyone who is normal said “look its the new enemy” and moved on never to visit the topic again, off to clear …

The whiners won is all that happened. Vanguards were a good, core addition to the game - perhaps their spawn numbers could have been tuned down, but now you can just m1 spam into hordes again with near-full effect. So yay for backwards, bad design . . . ?

Vanguards were above all completely meaningless as anything worth of objective attention, because their addition and brief unnerfed existence coincided with record breaking increase in how fast the runs are cleared! [image] BizarreSalp: The whiners won is all that happened Not even that, the…

They were fine except when the game spawned 10 of them and they all targeted the same person.

[image] Vanguards Don't Exist Now General Discussion title says it all, they functionally have stopped existing. You can go back to mindless m1-spam into hordes with no consequence! You’ll kill the vanguards easily. slight_smile Good job guys, for a moment w…

From the other thread: [image] Vanguards Don't Exist Now General Discussion People are conflating design and difficulty here. The vanguard’s were designed poorly. Very poorly tbh. That poor design had a byproduct of added difficulty/challenge. The design need…

On some level they were clearly not fine because a lot of my QP teammates were flat-out ignoring them and leaving them to be taken care of by the backline. An enemy nobody wants to interact with (or who doesn’t offer much to interact with) isn’t much of an addition to the game.

You’re still wrong on that in this thread, though. They were well-designed, the best shielded enemies in a 'tide game, and I’ll re-iterate that from scratch here. Other 'tide-game shield enemies have had major problems. Shield Skaven and Shield Marauders were not a serious issue; their shields br…

Except Vanguards were not “challenging”. Crushers are challenging, ragers too. Vanguards were just boring HP-bloated walking turds you had to poke multiple times to get them off your way. They didn’t feel like trash mobs they are supposed to be at all. They are at much better spot now, when it goes…

Vanguards finally nerfed

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion

MadMartigan August 12, 2026, 1:26pm 14

From the other thread:

Topic		Replies	Views
Vanguards need a rework Gameplay Feedback	77	704	July 3, 2026
Vanguards Don't Exist Now General Discussion	135	1772	August 17, 2026
Nerf vanguards Gameplay Feedback	94	1323	August 8, 2026
Vanguards are fun to fight and don't need a MAJOR nerf General Discussion	115	1406	July 17, 2026
Shield mobs shouldn't have 2100HP General Discussion	172	1302	July 7, 2026

Vanguards finally nerfed

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