Is this game doomed?
Yesn’t. It’s just outcompeted by other co-op shooters in the oversaturated multiplayer market. It’ll probably just stay as a lowkey coop shooter like KF2 but it’ll never be popular like L4D2/PD2/Helldivers
Yeah. There's a lot I like about it, especially the feedback you get from the gunplay (CoD WaW was the last game I played to have something similar), but at the same time it is extremely forgettable and there is a lot wrong with it. Like the way it handles its campaign, which is essentially random after you play through it once, meaning you'll probably play through only popular maps over and over again rather than something like how L4D is structured where you're likely to at least have some choice.
>entire 40k universe to explore>enemies are just zombies>'uh no it's actually CHAOS cause NURGLE' fuck off. they're zombies. it's a zombie shooter. fucking hate all the tongue-in-cheek humor too. yes I want my grimdark to be taken 100% seriously by all parties and all npcs
>>720574303the game is technically inferior to left 4 dead 1, which is almsot 20 years old at this point
It'll remain at a low-but-serviceable population until Fatshark releases a new game to replace it. They bungled its launch and subsequent maintenance too badly to hope for anything greater. Hell, they've released more content for their previous game--Vermintide 2--since Darktide released than they have for Darktide itself. Honestly, they should just call it a wrap (internally, of course) and shift dev efforts towards developing Vermintide 3.
>>720574303Remains to be seen.FS just finished digging DT out of the metaphorical hole.Now FS needs to focus on content and expanding the game's audience.
>>720577606I think with how 40k is pretty in the spotlight again with recent announcements nows the perfect time to expand but something tells me their heart was just never in it and they arent 40k fans and just did it for the money based on how VT2 gets more content to this day
>>720576637The hordes are zombies. Those aren't the primary enemies.
THE LEXIS THE LEX!
>>720578002>the zombies are zombies>the primary enemies are enemies that have been zombifiedstop being pedantic
>>720574303Are we getting an update before they go on break?
>>720574303It looks barely better than Vermintide but runs 3x worse.Never have I played such an unoptimized shit. FPS is anywhere from 55 to 90 every minute.Refunded
>>720578323Stop being a retard.
>>720574303I like the game but it get's boring after a while there were some fun additions that keep me for while like new swords, new class, and sefoni trials but aside from that it's same maps(that also feel samey) same enemies and same weapons, even cosmetics are meh. A shame really
>>720578583imagine if these were our playable characters instead
>>720578405https://youtu.be/mBM0_acEQQs?si=8KfErQrRNbZ0FK8AYes!
>>720578583WOW are those insane people who are missing parts of their flesh and are mindless?? Damn, you got me. Those are definitely not zombies, and absolutely don't look and feel like every other zombie enemy in every other videogame imaginable. Having these not-zombies is so much better than having orks or necrons or eldar or tau or tzeentch
>>720578826>A special enemy and the trials mode no one cares about but is easy to shit out for “”content””Yeah its over
Vermintide 2>SOVLDarktideSoulless
>>720578826>it's more mortal trialsGrim. Dark even
>>720578826I have not played since before trials were introduced. Do you play with other players or is it solo?
>>720574303It was from the beginning.Fartshart really thought they could replace 10 years of these goofs with a randomgen missions bullshit live service slop with 10x more mtx than actual ingame content.But it's ok because 40keks are such battered wives, they are happy to consume this Tencent fueled slop if it means they get a 40k bone thrown at them.
>>720576637>brainlet
>>720576931>they should just call it a wrap (internally, of course) and shift dev efforts towards developing Vermintide 3.darkniggers are adorable.why you say that because you think fatshark will give darktide the same attention vermintide 2 is getting if that happens, right?pathetic sore losers.go buy more commodore outfits; the rats want their next update funded and shipped pronto.
>>720574303still so funny to me that the devs just outright lied about solo play. prior to launch bots were "imminent" and then they just memory holed it after money changed hands
>>720574303played it a bit ago, its pretty goodlack is content, but gameplay is amazingits weird since vermintide 2 had shitton of content, in this one they cant be assed to even create map variety
>>720580307This. No single player was an instant refund from me
>>720578583>Nurgle AGAIN
>>720578965Every enemy there displays intelligence and uses weapons.Being fugly and diseased doesn't make them zombies. You clearly are a fucking retard that hasn't played the game if you are going to suggest the plague bomber operates like a zombie. The Dreg gunner? When did zombies corner the niche on "laser lmg fire".Dipshit.Quit fucking replying to me. You're too stupid for this conversation.
I don't like that they made the new VT2 map time-gated.
>>720580797I agree. Would prefer anything else. Still doesn't make them zombies.
>>720580953Available for a limited time*
LOOK OUT!!!A ZOMBIE... with a... flamethrower..
It's a good game at the core, but everything around it is so dogshit that it's a complete commercial failure and it's not being developed properly as a resultThey just revealed their big hail mary update after like half a year of nothing and it's >1 new map for an arena gamemode where the map doesn't matter (the gamemode also sucks and is unfinished) >1 new enemy who is a reskin of an existing enemyAll their devs are working on the new game it seems
CAREFUL!!!Those zombies have sniper rifles!!
>>720578965>mindlessyou are clueless, they're 100% intelligent, only the small cannonfodder enemies are deranged/mindlessThe traitor guards are literally just guardsmen but traitors. They're not zombies, they look fucked up but that's just the gift of nurgle giving them immunity to illness (so they dont feel their flesh peeling off anymore)
THAT ZOMBIE HAS A NET!!!!
>>720581602My favorite part about the zombies in darktide is how when you run out of ammo, you can hear them on their mindless zombie comms, going >HE'S DRY, MOVE IN
>>720581126It's just like my japanese anime's
OH NO THAT ZOMBIE IS 8 FEET TALL AND HAS A HEAVY MACHINE GUN
>>720574303faggot devs won't let me mute their tranny self-insert characters, not to mention the amount of obnoxious women in the game.
as retarded as fatshark is, darktide is still the best horde shooter out right now, look at the sad state of helldivers 2, deep rock doesnt get any updates of substance only cosmetics, space marine 2 is fun but not as well designed
>>720576931What could VT3 even add to anything that isn't just a reset of VT2? There's already so much content in VT2 that it's actively cannibalized VT3 ideas.
Those damn ZOMBIES and their ranged LASGUNS
>>720578826>oh hey there is something new com->absolute nigger enemy with a plasma gunWhy do enemy plasmaguns function like the lore implies but my plasma gun is a weird railgun?
>>720582531>look at the sad state of helldivers 2Oh yeah, such a sad state
>>720574303Vermintide is better in almost every way. Setting, combat, characters, crafting, leveling. The only thing that could appeal for darktide is being a horde shooter, rather than a horde cleaver. Which sucks because ammo is stilla rare commodity and you end up using your melee weapon 90% of the time anyway. The soundtrack is cool but it doesn't carry a mediocre game by itself, especially one that favours grinding and a lot of time investment.
>>720583094retard, use critical thinking skills. HD2 is incredibly unoptimized and 140+ gigs at this point, all content of interest (weapons and stratagems) are in warbands now (which have been steadily decreasing in value, and often come out untested and buggy). wasn't the big gloom update that was hyped riddled with crashes and bugs to the point it was unplayable? try thinking for once
>>720583408Try thinking yourself. None of the bullshit you're spewing is going to save Darktide. Its fucked. Meanwhile everyone is enjoying HD2
>>720580917>>720581462>>720581401>>720581602>>720581901So their flesh is peeling off, they have zero desire to retreat or not perish themselves, they are not scared of death, they work directly alongside the zombies. BUT they have guns. So guns cannot equal zombies. Ok! Thanks or clarifying! Yeah you're all right this game is 100% not a zombie shooter. How could I have been so silly. Great job Fatshark. You really captured the expanse and wonder and potential and possibility of the 40k universe via endless hordes of zombies, and their endless compatriots of fleshpeeled emotionless completely-unafraid-of-death do-not-feel-pain NOT zombies. Whew!
>>720583094>Much higher playercount>Higher reviews (if only slightly)Grim indeed
>>720574303No, it still has a dedicated audience that'll be with them until Vermintide 3.
>>720574303>load up game>press play on any difficulty at any time of day>load into match in secondsnone of you niggers have every played a dead or dying game
>>720583640>they have zero desire to retreat or not perishWrongYou should probably just kill yourself after getting btfo so hard. This is embarrassing. At least you get to be anonymous, right?
>>720583640Brain-damaged retardditor in the wild, wow
>>720578826>more mortis trial sloprelease full missions you swedish fucks
>>720585057The fuck are mortis trials anyways?t.Last played late last year
>>720574303no, it's been left four dead'd
>>720585187>what are mortis trialsRound based horde mode on a static mapExtra mods and perks that stack round to roundTrials are run by sefoni and you get bits of character memories/lore between roundsIt was fun for a week but gets repetitive fast
>>720578965the enemies wielding weapons are cultists with working brains and speak in full sentences, some of them will even run away from you to make better use of their ranged weaponry. only the chaff are truly mindless
>>720574303>people cry about feeling neglected>FatFuck treats their 40k fanbase same as GW>BUY SLOP FROM US THEN FUCK OFF
>>720583640>they have zero desire to retreat or not perish themselvessnipers and bombers actively run away from you, dogs who fail to jump you (and survive) will retreat and try again moments later, enemy gunmen will retreat to cover of they have any available, you literally don't play this game
>>720574303Fumbled from the start and is currently receiving less support than VT2. As it should be honestly.The playerbase is basically non existent as well, just paypigs that shill out for cosmetics that nobody can see in the gray/dark repeating corridors.Also nurgle is fucking boring. I don't care how much the assmad autist spams this thread, the designs are inherently less interesting than anything in Vermintide.
>>720581126> mom said we have iron warrior''s at home.
>>720574303I just started trying aurics on my ogryn. I'm having a lot of fun so far, playing with my girlfriend, who can actually aim in FPS. I mainly just bash my way through things with a very sturdy build and occasionally fire off my rumbler at distant targets. Actually managed to get the Auric Exemplar title last night, even though I almost died in the tenth match right as I spawned into the game. Good times.So I hope the game doesn't die too soon because I just got into it recently and am still enjoying it. Oh and fuck that pox burster event that shit was cancer
I'm pretty much done at this point, though that being said I got my monies worth. Whether or not the game is done, it's made fatshart enough money to hold them over until they release their next scam.
>>720589273forgor picrel.
>>720583640>they have zero desire to retreatCut to my retarded ass chasing down a netgunner with my bully club
>>720589350Yanno, my partner keeps saying they're p2w while playing one, saying it feels like a crutch, but I've seen plenty of really shit Arbiters so far so I'm not sure if I agree
>>720583640>they have zero desire to retreat or not perish themselves, they are not scared of death,They literally do retreat sometimes, it's in their AI, there's even a mechanic called "suppression" that makes them pull their heads in and cower in fearAt this point I really think you should not talk about games you clearly haven't played, this is very embarrassing!
>>720578275SANCTION THAT MUTIE
>>720589760They are pretty strong but this game has a very important skill floor. No amount of minmaxing and meta and OP talents will stop you from getting raped by 3 poxwalkers if you don't know the basics
How much do people seethe at you for using off meta in this game?
>>720581126I don't care what anyone says, using the stove click for the audio cue for a fire enemy was a stroke of design genious
>>720590181maybe in havoc 40 where meta can actually make a difference
>>720574303It's one of the best games currently available but it suffers from a severe case of slow devs and barely any new content, also it's a better experience than Space Marine 2 multiplayer but that game overshadows it because they went with space marines and guardsmen vs chaos is more of a niche part of the franchise as seen by faggots here who call the chaos cult just random zombies.
>>720578002They're actually the worst part of the game and simply represent a tax on your wrists.Large groups of heavily armored enemies (Maulers) that you dance and weave around to stab or use skills or whatever to take out are fun.Even shooty lads posted up in a spot are more engaging than "do your m1 dance combo on chaff while techno music blares for several minutes">>720584043>>720585010>>720589525>>720589807To normal people it's a generic zombie shooter just like Warhammer in general is a Gears of War ripoff.>THAT'S NOT FACTUALLY TRUE!Doesn't matter, that's how normal, healthy, well adjusted, sex having, money possessing, home owning humans see the game.That's why there's barely 5,000 people playing. It's a derivative, tired, ripoff in a tired genre dominated by far better games.It's effectively a microcosm of your dating life: Invisible, unwanted, unloved, uncelebrated; any good aspects or valuable features are correctly ignored, shunned, and even lambasted. Darktide is not good, you will never be happy, you deserve to suffer, and these facts are objectively good.
>>720589940And people do the weirdest shit sometimes, like absolutely refusing to heal up at the medicae station. Some veteran or arb will have mostly purple health, and I'll ping the medicae and they'll just... run on by. But why? You're not a martyr zealot, what's the point? It's the same with ammo too. It's like some people play this game in a blind stupor. And they often have Havoc titles and shit like thatThen there's people that habitually run off on their own and get jumped but I guess that's every co-op horde shooter.
>>720574303we're just between major content drops (genestealers). game's far from dead.
>>720589760imo Arbites were insanely overtuned at the beginning. They have done a couple of nerfs, but still the class feels op. They get insane buffs on elite kills that affects damage, crit, speed, cooldown, rending, reload speed + that the mastiff gets something like 100%+ damage from one of the keystones.
>>720590475>Doesn't matter, that's how normal, healthy, well adjusted, sex having, money possessing, home owning humans see the game.That's what your pathetic argument has boiled down to?
>>720590645Gimme a hit of that copium bro
>>720574303Devs should just move on and make a Vermintide 3 already
>>720590645Please god not genestealers.Anything but nids and nurgle for fucks sake.
No but at the pace the eternal swede updates it goes through content droughts where there's nothing going on and no reason to play for months.
>>720589760Arbiter's main strength is just having the dog around to kill elites/specialists for free and smack enemy Hounds off you. Otherwise it's just a combination of Vet and Zealot that leaves me feeling like I should be playing the other classes. Or at least I would play Vet for range more if Vet wasn't such a pathetic glass cannon. It all comes down to the dog being a freebie. imo. Even the grenade ability isn't very good for the dog it's mostly just infinitely recharging and doesn't take grenades away from a Zealot or Ogryn.
>>720591025How about some Khorne? Instead of waves of enemies that cough, you could have waves of enemies that yell!
>>720591213Yeah, I guess waves of enemies that screech is better...
>>720591659we need slaanesh cultists, enemies that moan...
Orktide when bros
>>720592037zombies dat waaaagh
>>720588885Pert's such a fag
>>720592370YOU'RE a fag, Rogirl Dork
>>720578275It's funny how this line on its surface is borderline goofy grimdarkism, but is actually an extremely apt and succinct way of describing the Maul's entire ideology (and the Arbites as a whole since he is an idealized Arbitrator)
>>720580165What the fuck is this disgusting indian niggerbabble you're spewing even supposed to mean? Also, are you genuinely such a retarded brown that you think I'd be asking for Vermintide 3 if I was a devout shopclicker?
The hound won't trouble us now.THE HOUND WON'T TROUBLE US NOW.
>>720594409>random indian, brown or ESL being thrown inclassic darknigger.i accept your concession.
>>720574303doomed to be fun, yeah
>>720590475>it doesn't matter what it's like, this is how people who havent played the game see it uhhI dont really care but okay
>>720596572>why you say that>pathetic sore losersI can actually smell the curry wafting off of your posts.
>doomedhow?I decided to give it a try a couple months ago and spent the entire month playing it over and over again until I was completely fed up, it's a great fucking game>b-but /v/ saidoh noes
>>720576931I tried VT2 because I fucking loved DT and was extremely disappointed, VT2 feels like a prototype for DT, the melee is slow and basic, you can't sprint so everything feels slow, the enemies are much less interesting, the missions are so shortI really thought I'd go in enjoying VT2 even more because I'm usually more of a fantasy guy, but the game just feels bad to play after playing DT for so long, tho maybe a VT3 would be better with all they learned from DT
>>720591025Genestealers are cool, fuck you.Admittedly they wouldn't really add anything but 4 armed versions of already existing enemies.
>>720599457Yeah, that's more or less what I was getting at. I love the fantasy setting more than 40k and I feel like Vermintide has so much more soul than Darktide thanks to immeasurably better characters and more unique enemies (at least, on the rat side of things; chaos is still very much just shit-coated zombies for the most part), but mechanically there are improvements found in Darktide that just make Vermintide 2 feel rough to return to.
>>720574303I last played it around November 2023 and put 150 hours into it, for what it was I enjoyed ithas it seriously not become any better since?
>>720600787I started playing again recently and since launch it's basically:>a few map/mission additions>weapon modding overhaul(?)>overhaul of talent/perk/whatever system and thus more builds>complete difficulty overhaul>new player """"""campaign"""""" aka forcing them to play missions in a specific order>new paid classI don't know what I missed or when it specifically came out so I don't know what came specifically since 2023, since I last played in 2022. Most of the stuff has just been overhauling the absolute state of launch.
>>720598381FAGGOT LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUH INDIAN MUH CURRY LUMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
All they need to do is let you choose whichever mission you want, whenever you want. The game would improve 10x, though the levels themselves would still be shit. It's such a disappointment, I would honestly play VT1 over it.
>>720601509Uh-oh, he's an ANGRY indian!
>>720601398baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaased
>>720601548>ANGRYLUMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>720600787Red rarity weapons and paid classes. It's so great. Do you think I would have ever paid to be a stinky ogyrn zealot veteran arthoe? Imperator is the beginning. We are going to the future I want to be a spare neophyte from the raven guard with a funny accent like the guy that played the crow Bruce Lee's son. I don't know where Atoma is but I'm sure something can be arranged
>>720601808please speak english
Wow I can't wait for psycho-indoctrinated personality in a world that only knows war and is completely miserable
>>720574303boring cast of playable characters, boring missions, extremely good gameplay.
>>720574303I am patiently waiting for its sale to go down to at most $5. I probably would have paid full price if it granted 4 copies so I could surely play with a couple friends. That is what the game is meant for, so if you can't convince others to buy it, it might as well be worthless. desu
>>720602085>>720601808Why is this thread full of retarded brownoid babble?
Would a diagraced commisar character work?
>>720590475>Warhammer in general is a Gears of War ripoffwarhammer predates gears of war you imbecile
>>720599457Sprint and slide feel more like a chore to me, and the levels are ~30 minutes just like Darktide. There's honestly not anything from DT I want them to take for VT3. Not even the specials.
>>720590181playing meta outside the havoc try hard mode will get you more hate (deservingly) than playing off meta will (especially by me meta cucks fuckoff and stop trivialising the game for everyone else)
>>720602194>game isn't worth it without friends>you have to buy them copies or it's uselesslol what a cuck. do you also measure your self worth with what others think about you? retard who doesnt even have the balls to play pubs.
God I hate what pea shooters guns in space marine 2 feel like. This game is probably the closest to get 40k guns right
>>720602651I don't even know what the meta is and just play random shit to get penances and mastery done. Might I ask what the metashit is?
>>720579993trvthnvke!
I have this game but havent played much because of the issues in the beginning. Is it worth getting back into?
>>720603607It's a much better game now, yeah.
>>720588885your image is bait and not serious, surely.
>>720603205dueling sword, rumbler, club, bolter, plasma, flame staff, smite, anything on arbitrator. Things that are needed in havoc 40 to perform (for the average player at least) but completely completely trivialise the game in aurics. Im sick and tired of seeing shit like vets with a boltgun mag dumping at every opportunity killing everything I was going to melee (robbing me of my fun) and then immediately dying whenever they run out of ammo cause they fucking suck and never learned how to actually play the game or arbitrators killing everything in 2 seconds before you can even get there because of how overtuned they are. Once you get good at this game playing aurics literally just feels like getting blueballed constantly and racing against your teammates to be the first person in the room before everything dies and you get to do nothing.
>>720583640I love how *edditors out themselves like this.
>>720603792I understand everything but the dueling sword. Is it just using the weapon perk that refreshes dodges on weakspot hit and sperging out like a tard? Why club over anything else?
this trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp44GNRzvCc originally had me excited for it, but then fatshark let me down like always.
>>7206040344 set characters with good writing = 4 nameless niggas > shit >>>>>>>>>>>>>> liquid feces >>>>>>>>>>>> 4 create-your-own-retards spouting canned lines that don't even properly make a conversation
>>720604018dueling sword has the best mobility in the game on par with the knife and insane damage, you can 2shot crushers with it on the right build. Agile is a mediocre talent and you don't need it if you just learn to time your dodges well, I used to rely on it a lot when I was new but its always just better to take more damage blessings. The special can also stagger anything but bosses on a weakspot hit. It is the most powerful melee in the game save for branx pickaxe. Club is ogryns meta cause its a toughness printer. In aurics you can perfectly face tank bosses and get through almost untouched just cause of how much toughness it gives you back. Its also extremely boring to use as it is just spam m1 with the occasional special
>>720604218Biggest bait and switch.
>>720591197Vets feels like shit ever since they reworked the talent trees
>>720578965No, they're not mindless at all
>>720574303Seems to be doing alright. It'll never hit 999999999999 concurrent players on Steam or whatever but it'll keep going.
>>720579980Other players, it's not solo
>>720604034I wish I got this game instead of that marvel quips faggots.
Don't worry Darktide 2 will be announced whenever it's actually in a good place
