That kind of introspection requires integrity, transparency, as well as the ability to hold one’s self accountable to past mistakes. Suffice to say, such transparency is absent from this company. Indeed. Fatshark has shown time and time again to not hold any sense of decency by either manipulating information in an attempt to exonerate themselves from wrong doings or going silent on critical issues brought forth by the community. Such citations include when they revised their earlier statements about earning premium currency. The embarrassing interview from the CEO about micro-transactions. Of course we shan’t forget the controversial “Design Intent” about Darktide’s inherent flaws, then failing to provide clarifications in relation to Darktide’s intrinsically player-hostile systems. There’s also the way “Beta” was handled and the many mishaps that happened thereafter.
Many more instances documented within this forum.
To put it simply the apparatus of Fatshark will neither acknowledge nor address the sore points that the community has been repeating ad nauseam since “Beta” days. This is the conclusion I’ve personally drawn from months of commentating and lurking on the side.
I’ve yet to see any sensible explanation from Fatshark on why they’ve diverged from Vermintide 2’s received features:
To Darktide’s misery simulator feature package of algorithmic RNG annoyances.