I think we all know that best Darktide killer is Fatshark.
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This is so true even if you were half-joking.
Most if not all online games die not because they had competition but because the developers themselves killed it by either negligence or dumb decisions.
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The real Darktide killer was the friends we made along the way.
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Or the publisher, but usually that mean the dev studio get disbanded too
Your best bet might be Arma 3 with mods then. Arma 3 never really clicked with me but there were a bunch of role-playing groups using it back when I was looking at it. Some advertise/recruit on the game forum and have their own discords or whatever.
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I have arma three but as great as the game is in many ways - it canāt simulate trench warfare at a satisfactory level.
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Thats a theory
No it was a shitpost
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Die Hard Warhammer 40,000 fans that play the video games, like me, happen to really get into having the games in our playing rotation. I play Darktide alot, and when I need to take a cooldown break, Ill put on WH40K BoltGun, Tacticus (usually on a work break/lunch), and I intend to play SM2 where if its anything like SM1, I play by chapters/stages a step at a time. If the multiplayer on SM2 is even better than SM1 I will enjoy running around fragging PvP/PvE as an Astartes for sure. I still find Darktide to be a great game to jump on and have fun with, there are those handful of Penances I still been working on, which I am guessing I will still be pursuing until there is new ones possibly released.
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The 3k people whove always played V2 would find a reason to also play DT.
The rest is/are verbiage.
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Darktide will be almost entirely unaffected most likely, because weāll be shown how overhyped Space Marine 2 was and because itās quite something else. It cuts into a completely different niche in all aspects.
Itās setting is uniquely separated from Darktide despite being WH40K, itās story is more present, the characters are unique heroes as opposed to our nonames and the gameplay is a different genre entirely.
This reminds me to the APB Reloaded days when people said, GTA5 would kill APB. GTA5 did not kill APB (that feat was later achieved by itās new publisher). Same situation here.
Darktide will keep chugging along, until either a truly legendary overhaul such as (good) itemization happens -or- it will limp on month after month, slowly bleeding players.
I donāt see it being threatened at all by SM2.
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The core might come back in a few years, but Darktide doesnāt have the luster of Vermintide, there is nothing memorable about the characters or enemies. It purely piggy backing off of the 40k universe, which is a huge advantage donāt get me wrong. Its just, for me, the integrity of the devs having their pants down since launch is disappointing.
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The short answer is the Darktide playerbase has already bottomed out. When the game is pulled from gamepass, the devs will take the final blow. Currently the half-in half-out gamepass players like myself are a source of pain for the playerbase.
As far as Space Marine 2 and its viability as a replacement, people need to severely reduce their expectations. Their developer, Saber Interactive, is not known for making anything that someone might call polished, full priced titles that they solely developed. They are known for horrendous bugs, severe persistent framerate issues, and patches desperately needed for months to years later. Theyāve developed several conversions of big games to consoles and other platforms, but some of those have gone about as bad as they could go.
The first Crysis Remastered was one of the worst remasters for years, and it took the release of the third one for them to regain any sort of reputation.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection multiplayer was never fixed.
The Spintires series games are incomplete and broken for at least a year after release and all should have had at least another year of dev time.
Road Redemption is a Road Rash knock off that was never close to being as compelling. It was also delayed over a year.
World War Z is the game with the swarm tech they are touting as using in space marine 2, and itās basically the only interesting thing in the game. The shooting isnāt bad though.
This will not be a solid Gears clone or anything close to it. The multiple modes are actually a massive negative given the studioās history and problems with multiplayer modes. Itās more than they can chew. We arenāt talking about a single game failure of development here, we are talking over a decade. After looking at the list, Iām actually surprised they are still around.
It would be nice if I am wrong, but will I be wrong? Iāll be the first to admit it.
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wdym?
SM2 is a singelplayer game and probably be played 8-15 hour
Most of DT coreplayers have over 1000 hours and It got way more replayability.
Not shitting on Space marine and hope itās gonna be good fun for a playthrough but why would you stop playing a online game beacuse a singelplayer game drops?
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Did you like miss all the stuff on the co-op mode
6 levelable and customisable classes for it and the pvp
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- Campaign can be played solo or in co-op with up to 3 people total
- Thereās a 3 player co-op random mission mode. Similar to darktide
- And finaly a pvp mode
Theyāre definitely going for replayability.
edit:
hereās the overview
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Literally me when this comes out.
When it comes to the question posed by the OP itself the answer is that really the game has already lost all the players that could be lost to the āthere are better games out thereā mindset. The only players left are those who are locked into this game as their main thing. At most this game stands to lose a couple hundred out of their 3-5 thousand players, but that was going to happen in time anyhow.
Personally, Iām just waiting for something thatāll scratch the brutal power fantasy of 40k itch for me better than Darktide and to me, that looks like SM2. Maybe others are in the same boat.
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for me itās the itemization changes thatāll determine if I bother to stick with the game or not. Nothing to do with other games releasing or w/e
I agree that any players that could be lost to other games have already jumped ship and SM2 wonāt ākillā DT given HD2 hasnāt killed it either. If anything is killing or going to kill DT, itās FS
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I will be playing both games!
I will likely take a break from DT but Im always gonna dip in and out. I just cant grind games like I used to and I have no desire to do so.
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So what youāre saying is if they indefinitely delay the itemisation changes youāll stick around forever
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