Who are the Auric-Class Operatives in Darktide? 

imma guess it was removed cuse of speculation and lore they where not ready or ever going to expand on. If considering the patch and change in how the lore progress vs the launch that makes sense. at launch you where a recject, and was (and still is) one until lvl 30, where you finaly became an acolyte. the most basic henchmen to Grendel,. Yet you still got access to armour and gear to that of a normal soldier even before becoming an acolyte (i am refering to armour spesificly here) and this has now been corrected to actual handmedowns and scavanged gear from the field, this makes much more sense given the "reject" tittel. i love the game, but some aspects screamed they where being rushed in certain aspects. thankfully it is looking like they are making strides in making it seem like a way more consistent story and world. Sad thing is that veterans of the game is gonna have all jank and its gonna feel like a fractured experiance for them (if they care about the story at all) while newer players are gonna have a much better experiance.

What's weird is I remember not, but yesterday I was hearing voice lines about Aurics but maybe I was wrong

I heard them recently as well

In the Carnival cutscene the rejects around the mission table are Aurics and during the Carnival Morrow mentions how ‘my aurics would have been done by now’ so either we ARE aurics or maybe not, but regardless they exist and ARE in this war

They probably got rid of the dialogue because of the addition of Auric missions, which would probably make players think they were these auric class operatives, which is something Fatshark probably didn't want.

Yay!

Has to be true then

​@Grouse1999 If you think that's bad, you won't like what actual aurics have to go against...

@Grouse1999 have you seen a heretic be hailed as a hero of the Imperium? No? Then that’s why, hierarchy and prejudices play an important role in the Imperium

​@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 You think the pox gas is bad just wait until I flood my walls with flea repellent and peppermint

yep, even some NPCs on the ship say this if you approach them.

I think the main issue with this theory is that Oska Krall still doesn’t let my beautiful lvl 30 ogryn get cybernetics, and Zola still says the munitions goes to the Auric ops and not poor Frug 😏

@@dystopianchimp Hopefully this will change. :)

i guess todays dev blog proved you right ;)

@@ALPH4RIUS Yes Auric missions for Auric operative are now a thing. I had a hunch and got lucky. I would have liked all weapon locks broken open, not just added a little more freedom, but if this is what I can get I'll take it.

@@thunder2434 I wonder how far they are gonna expand with the Auric class operative content. Someone who was datamining on the server found a 5th item upgrade called "sainted." Maybe they will even add cybernetics sometime in the future? Perhaps they will even add some sort of above level 30 skill trees and whatnot. The veteran becomes a scion, the zealot your typical puritan, or maybe even radical inquistor, the ogryn a sort of semi-independent bonehead bodyguard, and the pysker a rare inquisitorial pysker?

It’s interesting because in the latest hot fix, Fatshart said they "Removed outdated voicelines pertaining to Auric Level Operatives” - this coupled with the new Auric mission system pretty much confirms that lvl 30 rejects have become A-class ops. Fellow rejects, we made it.

@@dystopianchimp started from the bottom now we are here. Makes me wonder if we can be mortis operatives too.

"good"

@@thewizned "gets wiped by a sniper"

Whats at lol 30? Only reached 25 today. Can you use other class weapons or something?

Considering you survived all those suicide missions thus far, you can’t even call “real” missions real anymore, they’d feel like a day off.

My theory is that the "Darktide" is not the forces of the Dregs and Scabs (The Cult of Admonition and the Moebian 6th), but the Tyranids. There is mention in the lore that the "Darktide" is being fought in the Fringe Wars at the edge of the Moebian Domain, and that those forces consist of Xenos and Chaos forces, but the information is highly classified and anything that gets out is all rumors. The Moebians 6th also defected cause they suffered greatly during the Fringe Wars, of which they were told nothing about what they would face until they were on the frontlines, so perhaps it was the horrors of fighting against Tyranids that turned them to Nurgle worship, and subsequently making contact with the Cult. I hope Tyranids come later, get a whole invasion on our hands.

they can just add it in as a dlc or update in addition its explain we the rejects are not soilders and simply helping the real soilders in the backround

@@Jester4460 yeah sure someday somewhere over the rainbow.

It sounds like the Auric-Class operatives will be the new classes, and the level cap increase to 35. They'll probably add the longlas sniper and meltagun amongst other weapons

@@Jester4460i believe the current state of Darktide is actually a prequel to something. As when we reach to level 30, its only then we were welcomed to the inquisition.

@@Lupercal1901 I very much hope so.

No way would it be Custodes. They answer only to the Emperor himself, as they are his personal bodyguards. They march to war now, yes, but at the command of the Emperor was Guilliman's call heard. No way would the Custodes obey any order of the Inquisition, as they hold no power over them. No, the Auric class would be those *within* the Inquisition

Ah yes, random ass custodes in the middle of bumfuck nowhere for no aparent reason

@@ranbojd1070 It could happen to you! seriously though corax has done weirder things, i don't put it past a custodes to pull that off

@@ranbojd1070, are you familiar with the Eyes of the Emperor?

Custodes are 8 feet tall and move faster than the eye can see. Also they wouldn't take any crap from an inquisitor lol

Very possible! Since the inquisition can basically conscript anyone, A-class ops very well could be either partly or wholly made up of temp scions

Stormtroopers wear carapace armor. We have those skins currently although it does nothing for our stats lol

@@bengonzalez5215 Pretty sure we just wear normal flak armour, carapace armour is what kasrkins wear, which is usually like plating and such. Although it does nothing for our stats i kinda wish it did lol.

I think the Ordo Malleus isn't really so much a secret anymore afaik

​​@@FarremShamistMalleus is still secret because the existence of daemons is still very much repressed. Also, their association with the Grey Knights means they must operate in secret. Ordo Hereticus and Xenos use the Adapta Sororotas and Deathwatch, respectively, which are not secret.

@@Khashmonet It's starting to be less of a secret, considering they've stopped mulching people by the billions because they heard about it.

My bad.. hope I didn't make you break your streak

Those cybernetics were received prior to imprisonments

I’m hoping they haven’t given up yet, I think they just have the wrong priorities

This^. I still hold on to hope.

With the Xbox release and Patch 13, things look significantly better in terms of player numbers on Steam and Gamepass (I believe it hit 11th most played Xbox game on release - given it was on GP) I hope Fatshark can keep some of the momentum with more actual content release. Although given VT's rate of content it isn't exactly "live service" standards. Esp. narrative progression. Finding mission reports like the lore pages for V1 and art for VT2 would be a good start.

Have you seen how vermintide II expanded over the years? Ofcourse Fatshark won't give up.

​@@dystopianchimpyep. Their more focused on sellable cosmetics. They started their console gamepass by putting out another variation of their top selling cosmetic.