Warhammer Darktide Reveal

Parky · 7 Dec 2022 at 16:38

Embarrassing moment just now, jumped into a level 1 difficulty to quickly level a new character.

We were all dead within a minute, a Plague Ogryn appeared immediately and smashed us all off the ledge one by one to instant death......

loftie · 7 Dec 2022 at 17:48

@Parky But you got a funny story it of it

. I do find it seems to go zero to a hundred much more than V2 does.

PinkFloyd · 7 Dec 2022 at 19:17

Darktide's favourite thing today. Crash to desktop at the end of the level. 90 minutes of playing and I've been present to get reward at the end of the level once. Sigh.

Glanza · 7 Dec 2022 at 19:44

PinkFloyd said:
Darktide's favourite thing today. Crash to desktop at the end of the level. 90 minutes of playing and I've been present to get reward at the end of the level once. Sigh.

Unlike the beta you no longer loose your progression if you make it to the scoreboard, if your crashing just before that then potential of time wasted and 0 rewards.

greatash · 7 Dec 2022 at 21:10

My minimums have gone from 60s to 90s, either was the patch or changing worker threads to 8.

Cantankerous · 8 Dec 2022 at 23:45

New blog has been released with some good changes announced.

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DEL 707 · 13 Dec 2022 at 18:18

Oh sweet EMPEROR, I just had a terrible team on my Ogryn.
Joined a mission in progress with 3 Zealots.

We got taken out by a sniper and a grenade guy.
Was doing my best to block the sniper with my shield, but had to keep moving due to the fire grenades. Not sure if they were all running with shotguns or something, but they did nothing to help.
We basically ended up wiping because of 1 sniper. :mad:

Good Warhammer 40k story here.

loftie · 13 Dec 2022 at 19:16

DEL 707 said:
Oh sweet EMPEROR, I just had a terrible team on my Ogryn.
Joined a mission in progress with 3 Zealots.

We got taken out by a sniper and a grenade guy.
Was doing my best to block the sniper with my shield, but had to keep moving due to the fire grenades. Not sure if they were all running with shotguns or something, but they did nothing to help.
We basically ended up wiping because of 1 sniper.

Good Warhammer 40k story here.

Zealots should run flamers. Only flamers.....
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Heretics need to be purged in fire

Cantankerous · 14 Dec 2022 at 00:18

loftie said:
Zealots should run flamers. Only flamers.....

And if I ever see one that's not an awful roll I'll give it a go. Still not used one in a mission yet.

Currently using a dagger as it was a good upgrade although can't say I'm a huge fan of it vs cleave swords.

The only thing I I want them to rush right now is cross platform play. I don't care about transferring save games between steam and gamepass and I doubt most people do either.

loftie · 14 Dec 2022 at 01:26

Cantankerous said:
And if I ever see one that's not an awful roll I'll give it a go. Still not used one in a mission yet.

Currently using a dagger as it was a good upgrade although can't say I'm a huge fan of it vs cleave swords.

The only thing I I want them to rush right now is cross platform play. I don't care about transferring save games between steam and gamepass and I doubt most people do either.

Yea I wasn't a fan of the dagger IIRC. Chain sword I like, chain axe not so much, normal axe i like. I use the flamer because a) I like seeing all the things burn and b) i didn't really like many of the guns I've had tbh.

PinkFloyd · 14 Dec 2022 at 08:51

Tried Zealot for the first time last night. Feels so mobile and sturdy after playing the Psyker as my main and getting an Ogryn levelled up. Just spring everywhere swinging power attacks with the starter axe, great fun.

Glanza · 14 Dec 2022 at 12:30

Flamer on Zealot doesn't work right imo currently on higher tiers as it loves to spawn ranged mobs that chip away at you before you can get close with a charge and get into melee range, the range on the flamer isn't large enough to touch them otherwise, braced or normal autogun feels lot better to run around with.

loftie · 14 Dec 2022 at 17:35

Glanza said:
Flamer on Zealot doesn't work right imo currently on higher tiers as it loves to spawn ranged mobs that chip away at you before you can get close with a charge and get into melee range, the range on the flamer isn't large enough to touch them otherwise, braced or normal autogun feels lot better to run around with.

Yea I agree with that, even on malice ranged groups can be a problem. That said, as a flamer zealot that's not my issue to deal with IMO, I normally play with a friend who runs ogryn and he'll explode them with his rumbler if they're grouped, or explode them individually if our ranged lot are being irritatingly slow and I've not managed to flank them.

An, what I thought was interesting, discovery - I find it fairly hard to dodge either the charging fellas, or the hounds, on gamepass. I don't think I've dodged a single one even when I've seen it their right arm go past me as a I dodge left. Compare that to steam where I've dodged them semi effectively. Might be the difference between the axe (gamepass) and the chain sword (steam), but I wouldn't have thought it would have made that much of a difference.

BS Dave · 14 Dec 2022 at 20:40

I'm playing the zealot but don't really know anything about builds. I did it mostly because I didn't want to do the obvious thing (for an fps player) and play the guardsman. The rapid fire lasgun looks amazing fun though, so I might have to swap soon

Devrij · 14 Dec 2022 at 23:19

BS Dave said:
I'm playing the zealot but don't really know anything about builds. I did it mostly because I didn't want to do the obvious thing (for an fps player) and play the guardsman. The rapid fire lasgun looks amazing fun though, so I might have to swap soon

Zealot is my fav class. Eviscerator plus flamer makes for a lot of fun clearing crowds. It is a tanky class once you get familiar with how the feats work.

loftie · 14 Dec 2022 at 23:56

loftie said:
An, what I thought was interesting, discovery - I find it fairly hard to dodge either the charging fellas, or the hounds, on gamepass. I don't think I've dodged a single one even when I've seen it their right arm go past me as a I dodge left. Compare that to steam where I've dodged them semi effectively. Might be the difference between the axe (gamepass) and the chain sword (steam), but I wouldn't have thought it would have made that much of a difference.

Asked my mate who I play with - who has far better reactions than I do - and he agreed. Also tried out the hammer on the zealot and had no issues dodging the dogs/charging guys while playing on steam.

Cantankerous · 15 Dec 2022 at 16:27

A new patch is now out for Steam.

Good chunk of fixes and balance changes. And the next crafting system has been added. Refine Item.

Refining can replace one of the perks, costs quite a lot however every time you refine it (to get a different perk) it becomes cheaper. And it does become FREE

If you don't manage to get that three star perk you're looking for, you will eventually it seems.

DEL 707 · 18 Dec 2022 at 18:09

Spending more time on my Veteran, only lvl 11 but what guns do people recommend?
Don't have access to the bolter yet.

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Have found a few good swords but nothing beats the dagger that I have so far. The weakspots, bleeds and crits are too good with it. Do have an ok flamer though which was fun to use but I don't feel is worth it on T3 or less. There isn't the need to stun hordes over just killing them.

Devrij · 18 Dec 2022 at 19:59

DEL 707 said:
Spending more time on my Veteran, only lvl 11 but what guns do people recommend?
Don't have access to the bolter yet.

Kantrael Las is the only way. I'm quite enjoying the plasma gun since they buffed the cool downs on it, although it is only really good for picking off specials (biiig specials) or clumps of shooters.

It's really important for vet to shoot other things that shoot so the plasma kinda hinders that important role. It's good when you have 2 vets: one running lasgun and one plasma/boltgun.

Obvs power sword is the only melee weapon you should bother with right now, even after the nerf. Just worth speccing into cleave stats.