Because you definitely don’t need 1 day of downtime…
WTF… if they need 1 day of Downtime I guess they know what to fill it with. If they need 3 or 5, let’em. You sounds like their boss 
Honestly; I Wish they would take 2 Weeks Downtime to get all those open bug reports sorted -before- launch.
Honestly? My guess: Server migration.
They probably had very few servers for this Pre-Purchase Beta and on release they will need more for all the additional players.
On top, migrating server data from one to another and getting server structure ready can take a while. This is the most likely scenario.
It’s possible they’re doing a bigger update than just a version increase. They might have a completely different final build for release to protect release stuff from datamining or because they’re removing analytics or other beta back end bits. Also as someone mentioned later in this discussion the server infrastructure is probably part of it as well as if there were more critical / engine based fixes they want to implement that requires them to take everything down and push updates to be internally tested before pushing back out to the public. I would say there’s a decent chance it’s because they’re trying to roll over peoples data and want to make sure everything is compatible with the final live build client and they don’t have any egregious bugs or data vulnerabilities. Also like someone said, hype.
Oh, sweet summer child…
I know it’s not really justified, but I wish they would have left up the meat grinder test zone, just so I could zap my lasgun a bit.
Serious withdrawal. How am I suppose to go over 24 hours without headshotting a poxer?
What is the actual reason for the 1 day downtime? :: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide The Mourningstar - General Discussions same clown farmer I think.
Just there’s no clowns to farm here.
Its more theatrical that way. But after a month+ between the last beta and this one a day won’t have me pining for a return to grimdarkness
Go touch grass OP, watch a movie, animu, fap or whatever.
They need to run server maintenance routines probably and upload the actual game client, if you didn’t notice we are playing on a beta branch.
calm down who cares lol
I hope it slays the enemy, brother. May the emperor protect.
Always does. Put the red dot on the intruder, and the cat does the rest.
I was there, the day Horus (the cat) slew the Emperor
Updating all the various regional servers, adding additional capacity to handle the day-one/week-one/ spike. And taking them offline allows for patching and testing without affecting gameplay for players.
Just speculating. Who knows.
Also, yes. I actually do like it, it adds a sense of closure to the beta period. It feels like a new thing is happening tomorrow.
They’re probably triple checking everything because last time they didn’t, they launched with an old internal build, denied almost all bug reports during launch, until they finally checked after a few weeks and realised that their internal test machines had the correct build but Steam didn’t.
I heard it’s a magical place, this so called outside.
Magic is heresy, get back inside!
It’s called work, you might want to try it one day.