Ah, probably should've added the caveat that we were doing splitscreen and only had two controllers, so with two bots the highest difficulty was a pain in the ass.
Eh, loot as such is fine. The problem is how they handled it in Darktide, which is atrocious when compared to their own earlier game! You have to buy weapons with in-game currency after unlocking them, because in Darktide you don't get weapons via free lootboxes, like it was the case in Vermintide 2, where you could get a new weapon and instantly go play with it to see if it's any fun. So you have to buy weapons blindly, when you don't even know whether they'll suit your playstyle or not.
Neat, this game is free to play?
Of course it's a matter of taste, but I hated loot even as it was handled in Vermintide 2. The first Vermintide was way better in that respect and the entire game didn't revolve around it (at least early on, I only played for a few weeks).
Yeah, I don't know if it's talked about in this thread or I just saw it on Steam forums - the achievements for this game are excruciatingly bad. One class has an achievement for killing a boss enemy all by themselves ... meaning if the pickup group of randoms you're working with fire a single shot, you're fucked. Another ach, for a marksman class, rewards you if you complete a level without missing any shots ... so the lobbies are filled with marksmen who use only melee to try to get the achievement, often leading to a team wipe because they can't pull their weight.
bro it's a f2p game they need to fund the development bro
How else are they going to release all the "SeAsOnAl CoNtEnT" like classes, weapons and maps (that they've clearly not cut from the base game) without the support of their
heard a crazy guy suggest they bundle the content together and sell it as this weird thing he called an "expansion pack"
Milking paypigs with cosmetics and then releasing actual content for free is much better for long-term engagement.
And you can buy it all at once? That sounds pretty cool but I'm pretty fond of buying a pass and than grinding daily and weekly meaningless side-quests to get what I paid for. And also the opportunity to support the developer even more through battle pass xp boosters.
That guy had an even crazier cousin who had the wild idea of bundling it all together and calling it a "game"
Yeah, also the paradox method of nickle and diming you for convenient features that should have been in the game to begin with is pretty solid. I don't think this new fangled "expansion pack" thing will catch on.
40k lore is actually surprisingly monocled, or at least it was something around like 3rd edition when the Rogue Trader weirdness wore off but it was before the new lore. The setting was so hilarious grimdark that it was unique in its own right.
It does? I got the impression that the character creation is trying to impart some of the lore to you. The rest goes via characters in-game dialogues.
Probably Vermintide 2 veterans.
If nothing else this will make Fat Shark sweat a little.
