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 BrookM wrote:
I've had a few runs where level 30s will trigger the daemonhost on purpose, then disconnect.

Seen that, but more often it's the barell bursters. Utter gakweevils.

Ah yeah, barrel poppers are also an annoyance, especially because they only launch players and don't do all that much damage to the enemy.

Still waiting on single player support to happen at this point, but did spy new cosmetics which may, though this may be just me, be inspired by an old Guard story about a squad escaping a jungle before it gets glassed from orbit.

Well.. it's something?

Booooooo. More delay on Xbox. Oh well, on the back burner it goes.

I've been wanting to jump back in, but not with fething randos who feel the need to speed run every map, single player support was promised to be implemented in December, I've been waiting on that to happen, but I guess that's also a few extra months out now.

Ouch.

deserved really.

I like the game, i like the loop.

I dislike the artificial grind and RNG bs.
I dislike the cashshop being more functional than the normal shops.
I dislike the horrendous optimisation.
I still have crashes.
I still have loading times long enough to go make coffee and still not finished loading. ( i suspect it's DRM though because if i crash and load the game again loading times get significantly shorter like measurable in minutes shorter.)
I dislike their communication.

Certain mechanics are not fun, cue random bs corruption from grims.
Bad placement and warping in spawning cultists.
Balance for some classes is off.

In the same boat as you really, the loop is good, some of the weapons are so satisfying to use, but yeah, aside from my griping about a lack of single player.. spot on.

🤞🏻 that this can become the next redemption story with enough time.

The lack of single player is why I haven't bought it yet. I hate playing games like that with randoms, and with the rest of life it's too hard to organise time with a dedicated group. Would rather play with brain dead AI than randoms, lol.

Too bad no LAN play? or PVP, but that's just me.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
The lack of single player is why I haven't bought it yet. I hate playing games like that with randoms, and with the rest of life it's too hard to organise time with a dedicated group. Would rather play with brain dead AI than randoms, lol.

Brain dead people are far worse than brain dead AI.

Darktide is currently on sale until 9th March, I plan to pick it up and get some games in at last.

If you have friends to play it with, enjoy! Core loop and whatnot is really great, just don't play it with randos as a new player.

Me and my mates got Darktide during xmas holidays, but we all got bored with it within two weeks. Game progress stalled and we ended up grinding the same missions day in, day out.. Can't really recommend the game as a former L4D2 junkie, its a nice try but ultimately a forgettable affair.

Yeah, it could use more maps and missions. Twice as many maps would be a good start.

Due to how the map pool rotation is done (away with that gak already!) I've yet to play the entirety of the limited offering of maps myself, heh.

End of the month we should be seeing a large patch being rolled out, followed by another update which will hopefully give us an idea of when to expect single player.

This is a shooter.

The ammount of boomsticks is horrendous.
The ammount of making the boomstick usefull is horrendous aswell. Give me a reddot or a low zoom on my guns already.

But i don't think we will get that, since that'd show just how attrocious the hitboxes are...

Careful now, you'll upset the grognards and other piss & vinegar types who think that modern optics have no place in these games or the setting as a whole. 😉

But yeah, slapping an optic onto other guns (like the Lucius), or dare I say, swap out the flashlight for a stabby (not slashy, I hate those!) bayonet attack would be ace.

 BrookM wrote:
Careful now, you'll upset the grognards and other piss & vinegar types who think that modern optics have no place in these games or the setting as a whole. 😉

But yeah, slapping an optic onto other guns (like the Lucius), or dare I say, swap out the flashlight for a stabby (not slashy, I hate those!) bayonet attack would be ace.

considering i fit the description of a 40k grognard of the worst type, aka a chaos grognard, in many ways i feel like i am immunised from such things.
Also scopes etc are commonplace on units like inquisitorial stormtroopers etc.. We know of differing ammo for Autoguns, and modified lasguns. And we work for an inquisitor, not only that but we get integrated as fully fledged acolyths and are semiregularly fighting off daemonhosts, daemons and plague ogryns... yeah i think we should be able to get piercing ammo, subsonic ammo and a silencer, laserpointers krak nades and other equipment...nvm a 2 times scope. the issue is that the hitboxes, netcode and enemy behaviour is simply not up to the task.


also ffs, whoever thought that it'd be a good idea for pitchdarkness relying upon flashlights and then not giving you one f.e. if you are a psyker or ogryn. Abhumans prohibited from owning flashlights? NVM the fact that it being dark AF does not impede the nurgle cultist mortals that wear rusty sheetmetal facemasks? For real`?


The fact that you can not stab and flash for creating the illusion of having 2 differing lasguns has to stop. I take one of them and working bajonett drill over whatever it is fatshark thought to accomplish with this fixed attack system.

With regards to the power failure scenarios, IIRC all characters have a weak flashlight as a standard? At least, that's what I remember from when we tried it once or twice during the beta. It's not a fun game modifier to begin with, certainly not worth the pittance in reward XP.

I really hate that there's no way of telling what kind of melee attack is performed by what type of Lucius. I really like to use stab attacks instead of swapping to my power sword for mobs, but I hate it when the melee attack on some of the Lucius types is not a stab, but an overhead chop of sorts, really slow and leaves you wide open to the enemy. 😑

Yeah, my friend and I bought the game recently and our first run was with power failure, and we both hated it, luckily, we powered through and tried another map, this time without the modifier (which we weren't aware of at the time) and it went a lot better.

The power failure got even worse after the introduction of the daemonhost, as power failure usually means 99,9% chance of multiple daemonhosts also being present.. 😓

We faced... four, I think, but since we were on Sedition, so we only lost one person each time

The key to Daemonhosts is to either have an Ogryn with a shield OR enough DPS to kill it in a few seconds(not really possible on higher difficulties) while its waking up. If you have an Ogryn with shield the DH is pathetically easy on any difficulty.

It's kind of bad design IMO. The Daemonhost needs to be weaker but also switch who its attacking so its more dynamic and an actual challenge. Right now its just check the boxes for a free monstrosity kill.

Less so for level 1 rejects, I must say. We never had shield-gryn support, unfortunately.

As a veteran I triggered a host by accident, leave it to randos to not ping it when they see it and for the entire fight all I could do was block it while the others piled in to kill it with melee attacks. I did not take much damage, if any at all, as I had enough stamina and just about a good enough regeneration to keep up the blocks, but oh yes, a verm with shield would've been amazing in that scenario.

Still don't want them in my party though! 😅 Nine times out of ten they are in the way, soak up your special ability or use their stupid charge attack to scatter nicely packed hordes, making more work for others.

As for hosts, they either need to be toned down, or there should be a reward attached to making the effort to kill one, aside from an achievement you get doing it first time around.

I found myself looking for drops from the Plague Ogryn and the Beast of Nurgle, out of habits from grabbing the Loot Dice in VT2, only to find nothing, yeah, I agree with you.

You do get a bonus to score at the end of a mission for killing a DH just like with the beast or ogrun. It does effect the XP, money, and technically the quality of the Emperor's gift you get at the end. It would be nice if it gave a lump sum of diamantium and plasteel, but sadly it does not.

IIRC next update will fix the drop ratio of plasteel and diamantium, or was that already implemented?

 BrookM wrote:
IIRC next update will fix the drop ratio of plasteel and diamantium, or was that already implemented?

They increased the rates at which you earn, especially on higher difficulty.

But i am still stuck with 10:1 diamantin vs Plassteel ratio.
Which is absurd.