[Warhammer 40K: Darktide] Chaos Is A Ladder

Hahnsoo1

PLATFORMS: Microsoft Windows (Steam, Gamepass): 30 November 2022
Xbox Series X/S: TBA

Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series.

In the depths of the hive, the seeds of corruption threaten to turn into an overwhelming tide of darkness. A mysterious and sinister new force is seeking to take control of the entire city. It is up to you and your allies in the Inquisition to root out the enemy before the city succumbs to Chaos.

As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

Create your own, unique character and customize their physical appearance, voice, and origin. Choose your class to determine which unique traits and skill sets they will make use of in battle. Will you be a seasoned veteran of the Imperial army, a snarky outsider, or a fiery zealot? The choice is yours.

Built on the legacy of Vermintide 2’s best-in-class melee combat, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide introduces intense WH40K gunplay to the mix. Master the balance between ranged and melee combat as you fight through a slew of enemies. Feel the impact of each swipe, swing, and slice of a chainsword, or fry some flesh with a lasgun.

Step into the violent, dystopian world of Warhammer 40,000. From boiling hot industrial factories to the decaying water maintenance zone afflicted by constant acid rainfall - Tertium Hive is a hard and unforgiving place even at the best of times. Your role is to serve the zealous Inquisition by embarking on missions to exterminate the threats lurking in the depths of the hive city, or die trying.

Adapt to the erratic whims of Chaos with conditions- mutators that add a spontaneous challenge to your mission. Your team must learn to adjust, adopt new tactics and change up their loadouts to face these ruthless challenges.

https://youtu.be/D0Z53bk4lvc

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit) / Windows 11 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel i5-6600 (3.30GHz) OR AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (3.4 GHz)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 OR AMD Radeon RX 570
DirectX: Version 12
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 50 GB available space

RECOMMENDED:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit) / Windows 11 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel i7-9700K (3.70GHz) OR AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (4.2GHz)
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 / RTX 2060 OR AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
DirectX: Version 12
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 50 GB available space
Additional Notes: An SSD storage device is highly recommended

Hahnsoo1

Because apparently deleting the owner of the original OP messes with thread visibility, I ported over the OP into this thread.

NFyt

Reposting in new thread:

Double PSA:
1) They are running another time-limited mission condition. This one is nurgle-blessed variants of enemies that have extra tentacles and explode when shot. Reward for doing missions with said condition is currency items and a portrait frame.
2) It also has the unlisted modifier of increased monstrosity spawns. Dress appropriately.

Fencingsax

Got this through Humble Bundle, and it immediately feels way better than Vermintide.

Decatus

Darktide is really fun! I picked it up a few weeks ago after seeing a huge surge of goodwill due to the Unlocked and Unloaded patch. Playing an Ogryn right now, swinging a pickaxe and throwing rocks. Good stuff.

Zealot or Veteran next, though? I'll do Psyker eventually but I'd rather play another more durable class while I'm still building up reflexes and game-knowledge.

altid

Really wish they'd drop the FOMO store rotation bullshit. I was very tempted by the steel legion outfit but put it off since I wasn't actively playing again yet. Store updated, outfit has been rotated out and won't appear again for god knows how long.

Moridin889

Fencingsax wrote: »

Got this through Humble Bundle, and it immediately feels way better than Vermintide.

I think the banter and character work was better in vermintide, but the gameplay is super solid in this one

NFyt

The extra monstrosity spawns with the new mission condition make things pretty spicy, the veteran free grenade restocking is not quick enough for back to back to back spawns

surrealitycheck

darktide?

no

karktide

Thegreatcow

altid wrote: »

Really wish they'd drop the FOMO store rotation bullshit. I was very tempted by the steel legion outfit but put it off since I wasn't actively playing again yet. Store updated, outfit has been rotated out and won't appear again for god knows how long.

Same there was an outfit set that looked like some robotic biohazard team and looked cool as hell with like a yellow/almost iron warriors motif going on with full facemask/rebreather setups, and I haven't seen it in months. That's literally been the only set i've been interested in and I have no idea when it'll be back.

Fencingsax

The Beasts of Nurgle spawn pretty friggin quick sometimes.

But leveling my zealot has been fun

PS, which is more important to determine the actual strength of a weapon, rarity or the power number?

NFyt

Fencingsax wrote: »

The Beasts of Nurgle spawn pretty friggin quick sometimes.

But leveling my zealot has been fun

PS, which is more important to determine the actual strength of a weapon, rarity or the power number?

Power number, since it is what determines how full the stat bars are.
Rarity just indicates how many additional stat boosts it can have.

:edit: and Hadron can increase both values, though power number requires sufficient Mastery rank with the weapon class to get all the way up to 500.

Fencingsax

So, playing for awhile, are there weapons that are traps

surrealitycheck

all weapons are usable now, some stronger than others but nothing unusable

Decatus

It's not explained well in game, but as you level up a weapon category Mastery, you get the ability to hit the "Marks" button and change the item. I bought a heavy pickaxe for my Ogryn because it had 60 Mobility (so 80 everywhere else, perfect stats) and used it for a few missions to unlock the light pickaxe with a better moveset for my playstyle. Big winning move, imo, to make it so players only have to get one perfect weapon for each category.

NFyt

Been working on the Veteran penances, I got spoiled by the toughness refill/break in getting attacked of the other two abilities and now I gotta unlearn the overly aggressive style I'd adopted since executioner's stance won't save me.

Dac

I would like to ask whoever designed the Helbore Lasgun why it doesn't have a fucking scope. Or at least a basic optic like a red dot. Sure would make hitting distance headshots easier and it, like, does seem to be the 'sniper' weapon. It having to use iron sights is fucking terrible.

surrealitycheck

Dac wrote: »

I would like to ask whoever designed the Helbore Lasgun why it doesn't have a fucking scope. Or at least a basic optic like a red dot. Sure would make hitting distance headshots easier and it, like, does seem to be the 'sniper' weapon. It having to use iron sights is fucking terrible.

you're aiming down the sight mount which is very funny and yes it has long been asked, we will see. but in the short run weapon customisation mod can help

Dac

I forgot that mods were cool to use, thank you. Normally I wouldn't go for gameplay altering effects like that, but in this case I feel compelled to make an exception.

Slapped that mod in, and the gun is so much more pleasant to use.

Fencingsax

Limited visibility extra snipers sucks big time

surrealitycheck

Fencingsax wrote: »

Limited visibility extra snipers sucks big time

in the land of the blind the executioner stance vet is king

Fencingsax

I don't have a vet. Only a zealot and a psyker which the game insists on giving combat axes.

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

how is this game's performance? It seems like there were a lot of complaints about that but it's hard to tell how much has been fixed by now

surrealitycheck

Eat it You Nasty Pig. wrote: »

how is this game's performance? It seems like there were a lot of complaints about that but it's hard to tell how much has been fixed by now

almost all the major stuff is fixed, but it's still somewhat heavier than you would expect and has some performance inconsistencies on random rigs

but certainly anything from launch is no longer relevant

Fencingsax wrote: »

I don't have a vet. Only a zealot and a psyker which the game insists on giving combat axes.

throw the axes at them

Karoz

https://youtu.be/oC1HRacColU

Hey another hard mode I probably won't be able to do but s'all good.

Dac

New ogryn weapon? I can't wait to see - oh it's a gun.

NFyt

My penance poking at has drifted over to psyker, man some of these choices just feel bad to work on.
"Ok for this penance you need to brainburst a bunch of guys while running the keystone ability that gives you nothing but a pittance of extra damage on it while also preventing you from using your combat ability for a temporary charging boost because your combat ability eats the charges you need a full stack of for this penance"
It's real easy for specialists/elite to get sniped out from under you when brain burst takes that long to spool up.

Karoz

There are definitely some penances from the first iteration of the game since all you had was warp charges and brain burst and IIRC they worked a bit differently.

I finally got the masks but alas they voice modulation of my preemo mask which I'm sad for. I dunno if I'll ever get the blue armors without doing aurics which I never feel cut out for.

NFyt

Hmm, did the lightning force staff lose access to a blessing at some point? At full mastery I've got 4 points to spend and no blessing left to spend them on, resulting in an eternal yellow dot of new thing.

Gabriel_Pitt

Anyone else run into a bug where you can't change curios? I've been trying to help a friend with this problem, and it's just 'huh?'

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

bought this a couple days ago, it seems fun

the difficulty curve is weird though, two pip leveling missions are super easy but it seems like there's a big jump when I try three pips

Vic_Hazard

The difficulty bumps themselves aren't going to get smaller from there.

But honestly your gear and level are the choke here, you're probably getting out scaled. With better stuff you probably wont feel like it's so damn hard anymore.

Donnicton

Okay now we're finally getting into the real grody body horror shit on the cosmetic shop, now finally tempting me to spend money.

The texture blending kind of sucks on the edges though, but this is probably the most fun one I've seen in a while.

Karoz

I just wish they showed which had the deep voice modulation.

Having my Loner? Psyker go from this upbeat whine to deep eldritch was perfect and want it for all my characters but only get the more regular muffled/modulated.

surrealitycheck

Eat it You Nasty Pig. wrote: »

bought this a couple days ago, it seems fun

the difficulty curve is weird though, two pip leveling missions are super easy but it seems like there's a big jump when I try three pips

while you're learning the game don't worry about it too much - you just need a certain amount of mileage before stuff like specialists become second nature, and then you can really enjoy the F I E S T A. perceived difficulty will vary wildly depending on what your teammates are doing, ai director, etc until your brain is comfortable not having to think in most situations

surrealitycheck

Donnicton wrote: »

Okay now we're finally getting into the real grody body horror shit on the cosmetic shop, now finally tempting me to spend money.

The texture blending kind of sucks on the edges though, but this is probably the most fun one I've seen in a while.

we don't talk about the texture blending for implant cosmetics if your character has dark skin... proud owner of an oculus cosmetic that i can never use

evilbob

surrealitycheck wrote: »

Eat it You Nasty Pig. wrote: »

bought this a couple days ago, it seems fun

the difficulty curve is weird though, two pip leveling missions are super easy but it seems like there's a big jump when I try three pips

while you're learning the game don't worry about it too much - you just need a certain amount of mileage before stuff like specialists become second nature, and then you can really enjoy the F I E S T A. perceived difficulty will vary wildly depending on what your teammates are doing, ai director, etc until your brain is comfortable not having to think in most situations

tldr become ogryn

Fencingsax

I wish the activated state of the melee weapons lasted just a bit longer.

Gabriel_Pitt

I wish yhe game detailed how to do the console minigames when they inteoduce new ones. Got the plague tree mission for the first time in a long while and just went 'wha?'

NFyt

Gabriel_Pitt wrote: »

I wish yhe game detailed how to do the console minigames when they inteoduce new ones. Got the plague tree mission for the first time in a long while and just went 'wha?'

yeah that one is a bit of a headscratcher until someone explains it to you.
move cursor to a spot, wait a moment to see if it turns red or white. White is the correct spot.

Fencingsax

To be fair, the other alternate one on the train is more intuitive.