Hardest Darktide Difficulty as Zealot Preacher 

This will be my last Darktide video for the time being. I’m incredibly unimpressed with the game and it’s a step back from Vermintide 2, and to some extent Vermintide 1, in pretty much every aspect. For those that are familiar with melee games and also have experience with playing Vermintide 2 at a high level (i.e. modded difficulties), then there’s a good chance you already share my sentiment. I won’t go into a lot of detail for the sake of brevity, but I’ll try and sum up my main concerns with a reply I left on the forums: “Vermintide 2’s combat is designed in such a way that if you are able to manage your resources properly (i.e. dodge count & stamina) you would always have an option available. Whether it was a defensive or offensive move, using all of these actions in tandem with one another allowed the combat to scale with any amount of enemies on screen if you were skilled enough. This is not an easy feat for most melee games to pull off, and it is why there’s a dedicated competitive community (Onslaught Series) for a PvE Co-Op game no less. Lets not forget about all of those grinding out true solos as well. Darktide’s combat currently reminds me of a more janky Vermintide 1. Naturally, I’m surprised to see it move back in that direction considering a lot of the changes in Vermintide 2 seemed to be in response to Vermintide 1’s combat. Fatshark managed to pull off such a robust gameplay loop with Vermintide 2, which makes it all the more painful to not see it return in all of its glory. I seriously hope the developers read this thread and take the feedback to heart, or at the very least provide some insight into their current combat design philosophy that would justify such a regression.” You can find the full thread here: forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/core-gameplay-sum-up-issues-bad-changes-from-previous-games-and-illogical-approach-to-core-mechanics-loop-mega-thread/59809 If you have the time to read through it, and also through some of the other replies people left, it does a reasonable job of summing up Darktide’s issues without me personally having to write-up a 15 page document. Although… I might still do that, even if it’s for my own sake. I’m just exhausted with the current state of the video game industry. Instead of games pushing boundaries, expanding, and progressing on their previous iterations, I feel like they’re actively regressing and unlearning design lessons and practices. Vermintide 2 had a rocky launch, but at least it had Vermintide 1 as a foundation and you could tell the developers were improving a lot of areas and taking feedback on board (not all areas mind you, but broadly speaking it was an improvement). It took a few years to get Vermintide 2 where it is now, but fundamentally it always felt and played well from day one. Darktide completely throws all of that progress out the window. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s because most of the development team from Vermintide 2 has left the company. That’s just speculation on my part, but it wouldn’t be out of character for the games industry. A lot of franchises have gone downhill in the last decade because of veteran talent leaving, and you can’t blame them either. The industry is miserable to work in, and it’s better pay and hours to just move to software/tech instead. Presumably the work culture is better because of that too. Anyway, I digress. I don’t expect people to care about my opinion on the game, or to even put aside the time to read all of this, but for those that were interested in some of my thoughts then there you go. TL;DR: If you haven’t played Vermintide 1 & 2 then you won’t know what you’re missing out on. If you want a decent Warhammer 40k game then you’re in luck! If you want a reasonable first person co-op cover-shooter, then Darktide is serviceable and fairly average. If you want a good melee game, then I’d strongly recommend playing Vermintide 2 instead. Hell, maybe even Chivalry 2 or Mordhau… that’s just how low Darktide has set the bar. You know a game has problems if it makes me want to go back to Chivalry 2 or Mordhau.

While your opinion on the game is %100 understandable, i will admit ill miss your darktide videos as i was really enjoying them :(

This game had so much potencial… I went back to Vermintide 2 after like 100h of playtime since it’s so frustrating to see all the stupid mistakes they made that were already fixed in vt2

It's a shame that Darktide has had such a poor start. Classic Fatshark snatching defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. Hopefully they'll see that they've done nothing but regress from the VT2 formula, but I don't have high hopes. oh yeah also good video very nice clear :^)

Pretty much agreed with everything you said :( All that on top of 24h maintenance for adding nothing but a complete scam of a cash shop just leaves a sour taste currently, it's sad.

Hey Trix, given the design of Darktide, do you believe there will be a True Solo community as prominent as the one in Vermintide 2? I had a conversation with someone who insisted very heavily that VT2 veterans would very quickly figure out the game and its meta and that true soloing would surely happen. I've played a ton of Darktide and at least to me it felt plain as day that the game is designed against True Soloing, I've got the impression they wanted to emphasize co-op over any kind of solo play. Clutches are grueling slogs now, from my experience saving pubs. Anyway, I mostly just pubbed Legend and Cata, never True Soloing, so I thought I'd ask someone who is talented at it for their opinion of the future of True Solo in Darktide.

Great Video!

It has many issues, a Degenerate Monetization Shop, not enough content, 0% Optimization, the Classic Unbalance, tons of Bugs. Smart People will just have to wait on offer when they finish it. They are charging for an Incomplete Tencent Gun Gacha that should be Free to Pay in the first place lol. The only thing they forgot to add was Denuvo ROFL.

I just discovered your channel. What is your favorite game rn?

The new winter update in Chivalry is amazing

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