Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

This games been out for almost three years. All I want is to be able to play solo so I can explore the maps. It was promised it'd be added after release. Three years is a joke.

A varlet walks into a morningstar queues up into an Auric spends 30mins to an hour and gets right at the end Error Code 2014 you have been disconnected.... A enjoyable game ruined by it's netcode

This game is designed and ran by a real life nurgle. Cons - Forced Cross-play - Uses fatnurgle's own servers instead of steamworks - Netcode so bad that it makes nintendo's look decent - No real difficulty, Havoc 30+ is more annoying than a challenge due to bloated enemy design and horrible boss design. - Nonexistent balance in both builds and AI director. - Constant yabbing on radio during missions/hub - Veteran(s) Pros: Jesper Kyd Voice acting player created characters Superior gameplay to eg Space Marine 2 Art Direction FatShark you stink like a nurgle

I didn't find myself enjoying this game after playing it, but it still has potential to be better, especially if more variety missions and maps were added similar to Deep Rock Galactic and Vermintide 2. Combat is decent but the gameplay itself feels repetitive and boring. It's not terrible however, since there is still plenty of room for improvement, and not to mention the crashes and disconnects I usually get throughout the game, which has been a huge problem in the game.

My god, what a fun game. The combat is absolutely unparalleled, the sound design and gameplay loop is excellent, and every single shot, slash, bash, punch feels impactful. The absolute best Warhammer game in existence right now, here's hoping for more and better games like this in the future.

This game gets me immersed with the fast game play and time flies when I play it. Great core game and combat system, and the game actually looks beautiful when you stop and look around. The sound design is perfect. Sound cues, specialist sound and the OST helps with the immersed feeling. A little unbalanced weapons makes you play with a smaller selection of weapons because some of them are a bit underwhelming. Solo queue is fine but the game really shines when playing with a group friends. Overall a great game and well worth playing.

Alright, after almost 100 hours, I'm ready to give my final take on Darktide, not just on the game it is, but on the game it isn't. First of all, I'm a huge fan of 40K, the lore and the setting are incredible. But Darktide never actually delivers on it. You never feel like you're in that massive, galaxy-spanning nightmare where humanity is always on the brink. Instead, you're just some reject tossed into endless, copy-paste missions inside a random hive, fighting the same handful of Nurgle cultists and plague zombies over and over again. It's a massive missed opportunity. If they weren't going to do anything meaningful with the lore, they could've at least given us spectacle. Imagine actually playing as a squad with a Space Marine, a Tech-Priest, an Eldar, or an Imperial Assassin caught in the mess, fighting on worlds that actually matter. Instead, we got: "Here’s your generic prisoner #572. Now go swing your shovel at another recycled horde of plague fodder"... It’s the 40k equi...

darktide shouldve been launched in early access, and even now, almost 3 years after launch? the game is still pretty much in a state of early access. The gameplay itself is very tight and fun, but the game has like 10 maps, and there's very little reason to replay missions after you beat them (like, why am i basically doing the same objective every single time? payday 2 ten years ago had this shit figured out, of course payday 3 forgot it, but whatever. the monetization practices are an entirely different problem, though. Why the fuck am I getting a monthly fortnite item shop rotation of premium skins, (the original justification for them being that it would "pay for free updates" but you still had to buy arbities so lol) instead of unlocking these skins through challenges like every other fucking shooter in existence? Fuck you fatshark, seriously, the slop shop is an insult to every person who plays this game, and if you buy from it, i'm assuming you're a child who has literally NO...

This game is so much fun. Is it a perfect game? No. But it more than makes up for its short comings with an awesome core gameplay loop, fantastic soundtrack, and perfect art design.

A tentative poor review, but nonetheless a poor one. The core gameplay of the game is good, and both environment visuals and soundtrack are fantastic. It's just a shame that the rest of the game is so heavily let down by the developer. Performance issues exist which have persisted for years at this point. New content is barely released, coming at a snail's pace. Even the cosmetics which should be an ongoing revenue stream come at a comically slow rate. All of this speaks to a developer which, as with previous games, launches and then reassigns all but the slimmest of skeleton crews to maintain the game. It's true that the game as it currently is is a fairly solid experience. But it's also true that it took years to get to this point where other developers would have fixed issues within three months. There's very little to look forward to because even if new content can be expected, it won't arrive for years because there's nobody actually working on it. Regrettable. The game dese...