BrookM wrote:
WE ARE YOUR SONS. WE ARE YOUR DAUGHTERS. WE HAVE COME HOME.

Just hits hard. 👌🏻

We have heard the feedback from our long term players about our Xbox launch offers. We understand that you feel unappreciated. We couldn’t have made this journey without you and we are currently looking into providing you with a proper reward for your support in the coming weeks.

Hi everyone,

It has been a joy to watch players, old and new alike, jump into Tertium following the release of Patch #13 - thank you for your support.

A few weeks ago we said we’d get back to you regarding concerns raised by our PC community - today we’re laying out how we’re addressing them.

We’ll be granting the Vanguard bundle to PC players (Steam and WinPC) who have played Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on PC before November 17, 2023.

The Vanguard bundle includes:

Exclusive cosmetics for all classes: inspired by our first teaser trailer released in 2020
1 blue backpack for human classes: matching the blue of the cosmetic sets
2 portrait frames
1 insignia
The Vanguard bundle will be added to the game at the end of November where PC players will find it in their inventory. Thank you for being part of our journey for the past year.

The Darktide Team

Spoiler:

 BrookM wrote:

So, to compensate us for this, we will soon be getting a PC exclusive set of cosmetics as an apology for how they handled the free Aquilas for XBox players feth-up. 🙃

 BrookM wrote:
After installing a bot-mod I've finally had a chance to try out the new carnival map, which is nice and big, has some nice challenging moments in there and a tough enough final act, maybe a bit too large and open for my tastes, snipers are having too much fun there.

Also decided to give the psyker class a try, curious to see how that one will play for me after playing nothing but veteran over the last year.

 nels1031 wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
After installing a bot-mod I've finally had a chance to try out the new carnival map, which is nice and big, has some nice challenging moments in there and a tough enough final act, maybe a bit too large and open for my tastes, snipers are having too much fun there.

Also decided to give the psyker class a try, curious to see how that one will play for me after playing nothing but veteran over the last year.

For the end of Carnival, you gotta pick one of the alleys and funnel them in. The alley where you enter is ideal. Have one dude press the buttons to start the end scenario, maybe heal up at the station and run back to where you started. They come to you and there is plenty of cover from gunners/snipers. The natural bottleneck makes AoE abilities so much more powerful. I have yet to wipe on that part of the map. I couldn’t imagine playing it any other way.

All I play now is Psyker. The walls I put up are absolute lifesavers and they stop muties in their tracks and I can headburst them before they recover. I don’t mess with the darts or electric spray, but they are powerful. I just prefer a more defensive playstyle.

New Consumables - Stimms: Loot four different Stimms from the field to aid you in the fight against the heretics; restoring health, boosting damage, increasing speed or hasten cooldown regeneration
New Weapon Marks: Quartermaster Brunt has new weapon variations available to diversify your playstyle introducing, amongst others, the foldable Munitorum Mk III Sapper Shovel and the Agripinaa Mk XIV Quickdraw Stub Revolver with its fanning technique
New Mission - Warren 6-19: explore The Carnival’s back alleys and destroy the Moebian production facilities
Time-Limited Combat Encounter: The Karnak Twins have been sighted ambushing strike teams across Tertium
Quality of Life: Among several tweaks and fixes brought to the game, we have adjusted the Veteran talent tree based on player feedback to make the keystones quicker to reach
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Foldable sapper shovels!
Included in this patch there are new foldable shovels for both the Ogryn and the Veteran. These come with a new Weapon Special that folds the blade, turning the shovel into a makeshift pickaxe for one powerful strikedown attack that then resets the weapon back to its unfolded state after a successful hit.

‍The new Veteran Sapper shovels use the pointy end that is exposed when folded to make a precise strike that gets stuck in the enemy when hit, and also gives extra damage when the weapon is yanked out. The Ogryns Latrine Shovels goes for a more simple, powerful hammer blow that crushes most opponents.

There are two variations each of both the Sapper and the Latrine shovel giving players different movesets catering to different preferences and playstyles, but focusing mostly on crowd control and horizontal sweeps to compliment the weapon special strikedown attacks that favour single targets.

R‍eworked chain weapons!
For this patch we have decided to make some changes and addition to make chain weapons play nicer. We hope that this will make all chain weapons more appealing and appreciated on all difficulties.

One big problem with the chain weapons was the risk reward of the sawing attacks. The reward rarely outweighed the risk and frustration of getting stuck and unable to defend yourself. We added so that you can dodge cancel out of these attacks, at the cost of stamina and missing out on the big damage pay off at the end. This will make the iconic sawing less risky and make the weapon more flexible and adaptable in combat.

The Orestes Mk IV Assault Chainaxe has been a problematic weapon leaving much to be desired both when it comes to damage output and usability. With this patch we made some changes to it. Along with making the sawing attacks cancelable we made the light chain and the activated heavy attack more vertical to make target acquisition easier and avoid hitting enemies at edges of the screen. It also got a bit more bite in all of its attacks.

‍We also introduce variations of all chainweapons with the new Orestes Mk VII Assault Chainaxe, Cadia Mk XIIIg Assault Chainsword, Tigrus Mk XV Heavy Eviscerator that mix things up with horde handling lights, strong elite shredding strikedown heavies and fast stab attacks to stagger enemies.

Agripinaa Mk XIV Quickdraw Stub Revolver
A lighter Stub revolver with a quick loader that reloads all bullets at the same time. Compared to the Zarona Mk IIa it has shorter range, is a bit less accurate and has lower damage, but it excels in close range with a higher fire rate and a new braced stance that allows for fanning the gun for even higher fire rate.

Kantrael Mk X Heavy Laspistol
A heavier, heavy laspistol. Compared to the Accatran MG Mk II it has higher damage per shot and slightly longer range for the cost of a slower rate of fire.

‍Catachan Mk VI Combat Blade
A knife that brings more horde controlling capabilities with sweeping vanguard heavies and a different light chain than the Catachan Mk III; the jab weapon special has also regained some of its lost power and should be able to stagger enemies again on both this Mk VI and the old Mk III knife.‍

[Encryption active] It seems the so-called “Twins” have become a priority target. Any of the senior traitors are scalps we need to take, but these two…

The Karnak twins. Brother and sister. Tertium born. They need a better name, I think. In briefings, we talk of ‘The Twins this…” and “The Twins that…” almost as though they are acquaintances. The term seems too fond, too affectionate. We should call them what they are. Butchers. Monsters. Traitors. Traitors of the worst kind.

From the intel, it is clear they are close to Wolfer, the elusive Wolfer. In fact, they are Wolfer. He trusts them, clearly, so deeply, that they have become his direct proxies, acting in his stead, working in his place, performing his crimes for him. They are his primary weapons. They are extensions of him.

They are also frighteningly capable. The Twins are cunning, and brutally efficient. If I didn’t loathe them so, I could almost be impressed. They match Wolfer in capability, and exceed him in accomplishment, for he hides in the shadows while they do his work for him. I don’t have the precise figures to hand tonight, but they have, between them, killed more of our poor rejects in the last two weeks than any other positively identified traitors.

We need to stop them. We need them dead. I will not rest until this is accomplished. [Recording ended]

 BrookM wrote:
They made mention of it, but won't give anybody a straight answer on anything any more these days, they'll only announce something if it's done and ready to be rolled out.

We’ve been working on an option to play exclusively in Solo Mode, where you will be hosting locally your own instance with bots. Because you will be hosting the AI and other game systems locally, this will increase performance cost. However, we continue to monitor and improve the performance where we can. Solo play is in its final stages of testing as we fix the last issues that remain. We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December.