Darktide has been met with a mixed reaction by many of us - the core gameplay is good, but there are some flaws etc, I won’t repeat the entire thing. There’s a reason so many are on this forum instead of having refunded immediately or giving up on the game at least for the time being, there’s no denying that.
But there’s also no denying that there are - at least seemingly - broken promises on behalf of people at FatShark when it comes to features. I won’t go into the lot, and I’m sure I don’t even know about all of it, but I will use this article from the previous thread as an example:
Fatshark aims to take the lessons it has learned from Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 to make Warhammer 40,000: Darktide a bigger and better experience across the board.
You shouldn’t expect to binge Warhammer 40,000: Darktide for a few weeks and be done with it – Fatshark is leaning heavily into the live service model and will release new campaign episodes on a weekly basis.
There’s customization here, too, of course. You’ll be able to trick out the Lasgun and various other weapons with scopes and attachments, allowing you to perfectly tailor your weapon to your preferred style of gameplay.
What I’m asking for, and believe many others do, too, is a statement on whether that article was misleading, and, if it was, why you didn’t bother to correct it.
If it wasn’t, what happened to those promises? Are they, along with many others, still in the works, or were they dropped during development?
Of those that are still planned, when can we expect them? And please, no more “soon”, just please, start speaking to us straight.
You have a dedicated fanbase, and while yes, announcing that some features will not be included any more will get people to abandon the game, I think trying to keep silent and hoping that it all blows over soon will do so even more.