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

[mediocrepoet]

Besides removing content because they can't compress their shit or manage to create a modular installer, I can't knock Bungie for their seasonal content. They do a really good job at it and moving the narrative forward between the yearly expansions. I just hope they don't repeat the same mistakes as they did with Vermintide 2 because they really killed their own momentum with the console ports taking priority over actual content for people who bought the game on PC. That's the sort of thing they should've outsourced.

I've never played one of these things before (the Vermintide, L4D, etc. style of game). Are they any good? This is the first one that's looked interesting to me because I don't care about fighting rats or zombies.

 

[Reever]

 

[Zombra]

The more different kinds of currency there are, the less I like it, but this sounds fine. (Not good, but fine.) V2 has a very similar setup with cosmetics and it's nonintrusive so whatever.

 

[ADL]

 

[ADL]

IGN has some gameplay

 

[Zombra]

IGN has some gameplay https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNF_jEUc9YE

God damn it. They wait 5 seconds and make you think you can just see the gameplay before the whiny annoying voiceover starts.

 

[randir14]

The Asian lady looks too much like a warrior priest from WHFB

 

[Beowulf]

Journos gonna journo...
IGN working hard for their reputation.

 

[PanDupa]

20 minutes gameplay from pc gamer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBoZkeoook, basically it looks like reskinned vermintide which is both good and bad thing imo

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

I don't understand what he's doing with the lasgun. The player appears to be cocking it? Why would you cock an energy weapon?

 

[Zombra]

I don't understand what he's doing with the lasgun. The player appears to be cocking it? Why would you cock an energy weapon?

I'm sorry. Did you just nitpick the technology in 40K? Because if that's how you want your life to be you have a long road ahead.

 

[ADL]

Visually this looks significantly better than Vermintide 2 and doesn't look as floaty. Does anyone know if they have full engine source? AutoDesk ended support for it back in 2018.
https://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray

 

[Reever]

IGN has some gameplay https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNF_jEUc9YE

Can these gaming "journalism" companies please hire someone that actually plays video games? I don't think the guy playing ever touched a mouse in his life.

 

[Black_Willow]

TBH In Vermintide you also have some cosmetics that can't be bought with in-game currency, only for real money.

 

[Reever]

TBH In Vermintide you also have some cosmetics that can't be bought with in-game currency, only for real money.

That is true, but at least it told you the price right there instead of using these currencies to obfuscate the price and get you into this loop.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Discussion about some of the mechanics and differences between other games in this genre.

 

[Fedora Master]

Can these gaming "journalism" companies please hire someone that actually plays video games? I don't think the guy playing ever touched a mouse in his life.

These people all play on consoles.

 

[PanDupa]

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I want to play this.

 

[throwaway69420]

I have paypigged and pre-ordered the deluxe micro transaction edition for 60 bucks. It's okay when Fatshart does it.

 

[Lazing Dirk]

As someone who's played a lot of Vermintide, it's weird watching the gameplay of Darktide. Everything about it is so familiar; the animations, the sound design, the movement. The guy on the radio sounds like Kruber, one of the characters sounds like Bardin, another one sounds a bit like Sienna, and one sounds like some unholy mixture of Victor and Pusfume. If they keep the combat as fun as it is in Vermintide then great, but hopefully they won't carry over all the bugs and their shoddy development style. I mean they will, I'm sure, but it'd be nice.

 

[ADL]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

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.

 

[Latelistener]

I expect it to be like an Early Access game and I have some doubts about the amount of content on release. That's why I'll wait for a couple of years.

 

[Wild Slop]

Speaking of less confidence in the game's release, as the date was getting closer to September they were still not releasing the system requirements - made me think why. A delay itself doesn't bother me though.

You can sign up for (Beta) Playtest here:

https://www.darktide.live/signup

Send your email, they'll respond within a few minutes to your email with a link. The link is a fairly short questionnaire with focus on what your system specs are.