I’ve been pushing gatekeeping on Reddit and here forever now, the bigot part was a nice touch. Where’s that crazy dude who used to call me an fat nerd bigot here and worse there as it’s not censored?
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I also like the part where they instantly deflect and start calling YOU a bad player who needs carrying when you mention hordes of clueless passengers infesting Auric. Soviet Army syndrome at its finest.
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I don’t really ever play this game (or other like it such as HD2 or DRG) without at least one other person I know online, and so even the worst experiences with other players don’t tend to be too bad, we’ve had a couple edgelords doing things like dropping racial slurs or trying to mess with people (like refusing to get into elevators) but we just drop those games and start a new run when it happens (which is very rare). If we get undergeared/underleveled/incapable players, we just roll with it and accept that bad team members are part of the setting.
Trying to play this game solo however and just hitting “quicklyplay” the way many do feels like a guaranteed ticket to terrible experiences with others. I can’t do it.
So, aside from that my worst experiences largely have been around the support elements for this game. Crafting, Cosmetics FOMO and crappy Adia Chinesium offerings, Melk, trying to discern mechanics and understand wtf things like Finesse vs Strength vs Damage actually mean, etc.
LOL always the cherry, “you’re just bad!111!!1”.
At this point, solo quickplay is how I’ve spent most of my time in Darktide. Thanks to the game requiring very little communication to play successfully, I’ve found it to be a pretty great experience. People aren’t conditioned, or expecting, to talk, so most matches are dead silent. But then I also turn off voice chat! 
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Not sure if it’s my worst experience, but it happened just now and I hate people like that:
Playing Havoc Level 19. Me, Zealot, Stealth, Relic Blade, Bolter. My strike team. First try.
My strike team was 2 lower level guys,
who sticked with me.
Both struggled, but they stayed close.
So it was no problem to rez and support them and they did well enough.
But the fourth one, a high level knife zealot, rushed right ahead and left everybody behind.
I asked him very politly to stay closer.
He said like:
“I’m on a clock” or something like that.
We went further until one of the low-levels died. I couldn’t help him in time.
I backed the other one, but we both got downed.
Now instead of rezing me or the other downed guy, the Knife Zelly decided to RUN AWAY.
I asked him “WTF are you going???”
He " You are all dead.",which we were not, just downed.
So he rushed away and died.
I hate people like that.
Not only did I do my best to support the low levels, but I have to fight the 4th member of MY strike team, because he’s a bad, egoistical teamplayer with main character syndrome.
We could have won this one, IF PEOPLE JUST STAYED TOGETHER, for the Emperors sake.
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When I did play with randoms which I don’t anymore… I usually would put on Shroudfield because of the very fact so many people in pubs go down too often & it was just a way for me to work around that to clutch. Which is pretty sad if you think about it, but after all it really did save games reviving all those downed players.
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I think a tutorial for new account is required
In Apex Legends when creating a new account you’re forced into a training area and taught basics of slide, revive, weapon handling, mechanics etc. The game won’t let you match make until you complete this.
So in Darktide’s case it would be visual/audio cues and initiating blocking, dodge, slide dodge, ping system etc.
Ghost of Tsushima has it at beginning where you are asked to perform different melee movesets against attacking NPC. You needed to prove you understood why you are doing it and how to identify the cue otherwise you’re not going to continue the story.
New players might not know for example melee block is 360 regardless of where facing or during slide you can reload or prepare heavy attack. Adding in these into tutorials and check against live enemy attack 3 times over as checklist to complete. I believe showing someone 3 times is best rather than once.
Add checklist tutorial for new players to pass this before allowing match make.
This isn’t gating. It is actually useful to have.
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My worst experience overall is the continuing experience of having teamates that are either way under-leveled or under-skilled for Damnation / Auric and end up being a detriment. We’d largely worked through all that but there’s been a massive resurgence since the introduction of cross-platform play.
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Very much a skill thing, not level. (I assume you’re referring to true levels) I’ve routinely been the one having to salvage stuff on my veteran for example (He’s at +15 now) while the triple digit players make idiotic basic mistakes.
Bad players are pretty spread out at all levels in my experience, even if the mistakes they make might differ.
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Just wondering if you meant to say opt out and not obt out.
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whichever is the correctly spelled version 
So I guess “opt”
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They will complete the tutorial, then get to their first level 30, get their baby’s first orange gun and hop to Auric T5 HISTG. Nothing will change.
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If I had to hazard a guess, fatshark only added the option to opt out of cross play for Xbox due to a contractual obligation.
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Someone blew up a pox burster I was about the push. Not even exaggerating. This triggers me more than anything I’ve experienced in the game for some reason.
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This is my #1 annoyance. I think this actually tops off everything for me on the list of shitty things you can do to teammates. All I say in chat is “Not cool” or something. When any pox is near somebody, I don’t touch it. If it’s clear, I shoot it. It’s a hard concept for people to grasp on pubs, apparently. It’s way too advanced for their thinking compacity.
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I’ll step.out of the Poul the Preacher character for a bit of real talk here, down low.
Let me start with saying that the Darktide communiyy in general is so heartwarmingly non-toxic and kind and I love the game and the player community. I’ve played CS, COD and oh man, I know how bad it can be and truly appreciate Darktide for not being like that.
Mostly. 99% of the time.
But this thread is about that 1% that isn’t playing co-op on a co-op game and wants to hurt or demean and insult other players and ruin their game experience for laughs or whatever reason.
Toxic immaturity, bullies that hurt inside and want to take their shortcoming out on others to feel a little better, be the big man for just a moment and even all the way up to proper Narcissistic personality disorder are the likely reasons.
I pity their sad little lives. Yet that’s no excuse to do things like this.
I have 8 people I’ve blocked and all for good reason. Because I won’t block an unskilled player or someone looking to do a penance unsuitable to non-private games. I only do it for the obviously trolling and those toxic in chat or on the mike.
Anyway I’ll share a handful of things I block for.
The “songbird”
I go into a random lobby on Damnation, one player is clicking his mike in an annoying way, probably tapping the tip of the mike with his finger repeatedly.
Ok… might be a mistake I think, lets give him a chance.
Then as the mission starts he breathes in and screams “Waaaaaaaaah!” Into the mike at the top of his lungs. Then laughs.
Trying to give us a jumpscare I guess?
Then he starts to annoyingly hum and sings in the open mike as if it was a less talented entry in American Idol.
Within 30 seconds he’s promptly kicked from the team.
After the mission I scroll bach through the chat and find his name and block.
As I do this I keep thinking this is someone who’ll run out of non-blocked random players on the server eventually.
The “Barrel assasin”
A random game, on Heresy.
This Ogryn with a kickback stays in the backline giving basically zero support and whenever a player is close to a ledge with a barrel next to them he shoots it with his kickback.
I got shot off a ledge to just go out of bounds and die. I thought the first time it was an accident and asked him to please be more careful with barrels. I get this weird toxic response as if it was up to me if I was standing too close to a barrel.
He kept doing this systematically.
If any player managed to hang on to a ledge he walked past and just left them.
I left the game and blocked him after he did this twice in a row to me and a few times to other teammates.
The unhelpful Ogryn
Let me first say that I love Ogryns, they’re funny and loyal big brutes. They’re good bois I always encourage and compliment when they do good.
I play the class myself fairly often and I try to be exra helpful when I do while I als rp Ogryn.
That made me extra annoyed at these two doing the absolute opposite.
This was a pair of ogryn players but one was worse than the other.
At 1/3rd into the random lobby game they started writing insults how bad everyone else was in the game. We all sucked and should stop playing Darktide apparently. This from two mid-level players not pulling their weight.
Ironic since me and the fourth random player were carrying them.
I’d un-netted one of them and ressed another, no big deal but I do expect if the situation is reversed they’d at least get me up and not be toxic about it. It’s part of the game after all.
But no.
As I pick one of them up I get netted and the ogryn I just helped stands there, pauses looking at me and then walks past. Despite the area being clear by then. Despite my pleas to please un-net me. I think he replied something like “If you’re good enough you don’t get trapped” or similar.
I eventually after a long, long time get killed by the net.
So for some unknown reason one of the Ogryns leaves the game and that one who just walked past me is still playing.
We’re nearing the end of the run and he gets netted just next to me.
So I walk up to him, look at him and walk past.
He eventually dies from the net and spawns as a prisoner. We let him stay like that. None of us wanted to release him.
Then as the rest of us are about to go on the shuttle home I pause, talk to the others and we decide to kick him so he doesn’t get any reward. A bit petty and the one time I’ve ever done this but maybe he learned something from it.
I don’t think I blocked this one but maybe I did.
The “Stealth-runner in a big hurry”
Random game, I play Zealot (Yes as Poul, my main). This is a high difficulty game, I think Damnation maelstrom.
This other player is stealthing and running ahead to the next airlock triggering hordes and specials on the rest of us while we keep telling him you’re killing us, stop running ahead.
He doesn’t answer. Not until he happens to run into a bit of resistance at the ladt airlock before the endgame. Having weathered the storm the three of us, working as a team and sticking together despite all the triggerd hordes, specials and several monstrosities we have some breathing room outside the airlock.
Another player tells the stealthrunner “Just so you understand. we’re going to kick you now.”
He replies “but I carried!”
The three of us reply in the chat sumultaneously “No you didn’t”
So then we vote to kick him.
We end up having a really cool player spawn in while we cycle through the airlock.
I’d have though the time was over when the mission was still seen in the board but yeah, this Auric storm survivor jumps in and she’s an incredible player!
This was a year ago before the title got so common.
The end was a breeze compared to before with four contributing players.
I blocked that stealthrunner.
I know, that build can be good, it can be played well and I’ve had players do great with it. Pulling off impossible Clutches and that’s awesome when they do things like that.
But those players aren’t simply cloaking and running ahead all the time, doing that is barely even playing the game.
I saw some other posters here having similar experiences.
Someone pushing a bit is all right, unless it’s Auric or Havoc, but this extreme behavour creates team wipes and isn’t really a skilled use of the build.
Luckily it’s not very common nowdays.
I got 1700+ hours by now, the Budding Interrogator title and pretty soon I’ll have the Purge the heretics 1 000 000 penance that now gives another gold title. I guess it’s time I get Storm survivor too but I don’t play to get tiltles, they’re more of a nice gift that appears from.time to time.
These bad apples are 1% of my in-game experience.
I do so love this community. Stay wholesome, non toxic and stay strong and as Poul would say “For the Emperor! May his light guide you”
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I try to not get wires crossed with players setting up to push the Poxburster but sometimes accidents happen.
I do make a point to at least apologise when I mess up and do this.
Better yet, offer a heal stim if available.
But I also get to be the subject of others shooting bursters I’ve obviously set up to push and I agree it’s really annoying.
If there’s time to write in the chat I say “Whyyy!” Or “please stop shooting my poxbursters.”
I do find that when people use their mikes this happens far less often so part of it is most likely lack of communication.
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Honestly, the worst experience I’ve had isn’t gameplay related; just a player being “edgy” and toxic for the sake of it.
My “main” character is female, who I managed to make the least-ugly I could manage, given Darktide’s character creation options.
I’m hanging out near the mission board, waiting for some friends to log on, when this guy with the full facial skull tattoo runs over and starts circling me. No big deal, I think; maybe he’s intrigued by my cosmetics combination.
Then the sexual harassment starts.
I won’t go into details, except that it was very explicit - and vile. Suggestions he wanted to sexually assault my character - in several different configurations, chosen kinda randomly - were involved. It was quite clear he was trying to be as crude as possible to be “edgy,” since he ALSO dropped in several lines about Hitler - for no apparent reason other than to be edgy, because they very did not flow naturally from anything else he’d been saying; they really were just stuck in randomly.
That was how I found out Darktide had no way to report a player! Because I took screenshots, then couldn’t do anything with them. At least I learned how to use Darktide’s block function, real quick.
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