Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - co-op action from Vermintide devs

[Jaedar]

Nothing inspires less confidence in a game's release than it being delayed by a handful of weeks. Something worthy of delaying the release of a game can't be fixed in a few weeks.

Eh... they're also further delaying the console versions. I'm guessing they are having unforeseen performance issues, which they expect to be able to fix in a few weeks for PC. And this is not unreasonable.

 

[ADL]

The first Closed Technical Test will take place on

August 12th

From 16:00 - 20:00 GMT
And 21:00 - 01:00 GMT
Wanna test with friends? Have them sign up here!

 

[ADL]

If anyone else got in hit me up.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Let us know how it runs and plays.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Dexter]

Do I see character creation with Male/Female for most classes and customizable appearance? Cause their "character design" in the Trailers so far was one of the main things that was rather off-putting. I wonder if they were trying to do a Vermintide party with pre-defined characters but rethought it, or if there's some sort of campaign component where you have to play these chars that's different from the Multiplayer or something?

 

[throwaway69420]

Thank God I don't have to play as gross bowlcut asian lady for my zealot main.

 

[ADL]

The character creation is very extensive and you even go create their backstory "you were a *son of a wealthy merchant/orphan/conscripted into the military as a child*" like Mount & Blade.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Beowulf]

The character creation is very extensive and you even go create their backstory "you were a *son of a wealthy merchant/orphan/conscripted into the military as a child*" like Mount & Blade.

And what does this backstory do in gameplay terms? Is it even acknowledged in character dialogues at all?

 

[Wild Slop]

ADL What is your impression on the game?

Are you still able to play it or was it for one day only? One day only sounds odd to me, but based off the wording on that notice it may have been.

 

[ADL]

ADL What is your impression on the game?

Are you still able to play it or was it for one day only? One day only sounds odd to me, but based off the wording on that notice it may have been.

Only one day but I loved it to the point where I'm gonna pre-order the imperial edition. Feels like a better Vermintide 2.

 

[Machocruz]

One of the few big production games I'm looking forward to. I have nothing that can run it when it launches though. Hoping for PS5 release while I mull over if I want to get a new PC in the near future.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[ADL]

Beta announced October 14th-16th no NDA signup http://darktide.live
Jesper Kyd has done it again. Glad they finally made this available, I was idling for this music during the tech test.

 

[ADL]

 

[throwaway69420]

Recycled Zealot class from VT2 but whatever, at least we can play with 2h hammer and flamethrower this time around.

 

[ADL]

 

[throwaway69420]

After some suspicious wording was found in the Sharpshooters corresponding class webpage, the community pressed for answers and the worst possible outcome has been confirmed:

One class for each archetype on release, future classes will be paid DLC. What you're seeing in the videos is all there's going to be for a while. Confirmed by Aqshy and Hedge on Discord, respectively.

They've literally designed the game around being a disposable game pass piece of trash that you spend 10 hours on after subbing to game pass for a dollar and then drop for 6 months before resubbing to play another 10 hours when new content drops. The announcement that the levels were just a tile set swapped around every few weeks was really bad already, then this. For a 40 dollar (starting) game.

It's over.

...I'll see you guys on the closed beta test next weekend, though.

 

[Spark Mandriller]

After some suspicious wording was found in the Sharpshooters corresponding class webpage, the community pressed for answers and the worst possible outcome has been confirmed:

One class for each archetype on release, future classes will be paid DLC. What you're seeing in the videos is all there's going to be for a while. Confirmed by Aqshy and Hedge on Discord, respectively.

That's going to look incredibly awful in character creation. It tells you to pick your archetype and gives you four options to choose from. Then it tells you to pick your class except you don't get a choice because there's only one class available.
And this game was originally meant to release in 2021. They delayed it for over a year and it's still obviously unfinished. What were they doing?

 

[Machocruz]

The decline is undefeated.

 

[karoliner]

They finally send me the key for the beta see you in the weekend.

 

[ADL]

Haven't gotten my key yet which is extremely frustrating since I was in the technical test a month ago and they revoked the client.

Available for playtest registration on Steam

 

[Wild Slop]

Thanks for headsup. I would not have checked my email otherwise. I got an invite!


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Congrats to all the Rejects who have already been chosen to lay down their lives for the Emperor. We’re certain you’ll accomplish
great things in Tertium this weekend.


As we all know, the Emperor provides -
so we have now opened up for sign-ups via Steam as well
. Navigate to our Steam page and click the “Request Access" button for another chance to be included in this weekend’s Closed Beta Test

Looks like the rejected Rejects might have a 2nd shot.

 

[manifest]

Haven't gotten my key yet which is extremely frustrating since I was in the technical test a month ago and they revoked the client.

Available for playtest registration on Steam

Did you buy this because the business model resembles Star Citizen's?