Weapon attachments were not added to the game because "[Darktide] isn't COD, nor was designed to be COD." - Fatshark Hedge

[SlenderBarracuda]

Hey all, I’d like to direct you to a post I made. I believe I and many others misunderstood the ‘doesn’t fit the setting’ excuse for RNG to mean ‘they can’t make guns, it’s a dark age’ which is wrong but also not the original meaning.

I think the original meaning was ‘they can’t make guns in a blacksmith shop’ …which is also wrong, and I give the context to take both possible meanings apart in the new post linked below. TY.

I think the RNG crafting excuse is mistranslated, but both possibilities are wrong

I believe the RNG crafting excuse is mistranslated, but both possibilities are wrong. Generally, we are told we cannot ‘craft weapons from scratch’ because it 'does not fit the setting. Most people believe that this statement means “Weapons cannot be made in W40k.” That is not true in the lore. While many ‘super tech’ items are difficult to make, or source the ingredients for, and there are indeed relic super weapons that cannot be replicated, I do not think this is the intended meaning of th…