Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

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i love this game this is my favorite game right now its the best game ever

Praise be the Emperor

A very fun but imperfect game that you can sink hundreds of hours into. If you like dark dystopian settings and mowing down hordes of abominations with weighty and powerful weapons you will enjoy Darktide. Starting with the positives, the fundamental core of the game is very compelling: - The gunplay feels great with a wide selection of options throughout the classes that have unique feel. Assault rifles, submachine guns, laser guns, revolvers, flamethrowers, shotguns, plasma rifles, explosive boltguns, magic staves, you will inevitably find something that will annihilate heretics in a manner of your liking. - The melee combat, while being less of a primary focus of the game as it was in Vermintide, still remains core to the gameplay loop. Among FPS games, the melee combat in Darktide is as good as it gets. There's great depth within the design of the movesets of various weapons and combos between their light and heavy attacks. Attacks are very responsive, allowing tech like turning your camera with horizontal swings to extend the hitbox cleaving off heads and sawing enemies in half with extreme brutality. - Speaking of gore, it's UNBELIEVABLY good. Absolutely no complaints there. - There's a lot of skill expression available and the difference between a good and a bad player is extreme. Mechanics like horde management, pushing and dodging effectively, map knowledge and coordination, managing resources and difficult modifiers provide a sense of personal accomplishment through time invested and what difficulties you're able to clear. - The game is of course visually stunning. - Exceptional soundtrack and sound design. - Most enemies are well designed and pose interesting challenges with some egregious exceptions that hopefully will be rebalanced in the future. - Class customization is very detailed and each class feels unique. The newest release Skitarii has a very balanced talent tree that allows for many viable setups and builds which I expect to be the new standard and Fatshark doesn't shy away from updating older classes that fall behind in power or variety, even if it takes a while to happen sometimes. And the leveling progression for the classes is fun and straightforward. However, there's also notable flaws: - The game is not well optimized, has memory leaks and crashes quite often. - There isn't an easy way to practice without playing actual missions, and if you play for long enough and want to get into higher difficulties installing various mods can start to feel essential. - There's a lack of content and there aren't regular content updates. The endgame boils down to replaying the same 20 or so missions in ever increasing difficulty settings. The new content added is either a new mission map every half a year or a game mode that looks good for investors but no players actually enjoy or care about. - The game isn't balanced with some classes and weapons trivializing encounters while others perform like wet noodles in higher difficulties. Every class can clear the highest difficulty but not every build and not every weapon. Unless you're a god gamer but in that case you are making the game harder on your team regardless by bringing a weak set of tools to the party. On the other side of the spectrum, some builds and weapons annihilate any challenge the game throws at you to such an extent that nobody is having fun (*cough* purge staff psyker *cough*). The existence of such builds means the game needs to scale encounters and challenges to meet their power, further polarizing the experience by making weaker options feel completely miserable when facing the same scenarios. - A few of the enemies are either bugged and don't function as intended or are designed to waste your time. Poxbursters are bugged at the moment and their intended counter doesn't work consistently, while also being one of the most punishing enemies to mishandle. They should just explode upon being pushed once no matter what state they're in. Bombers and tox bombers need to be reworked or removed because they only serve to waste your time by leaving large area of effect denial zones of damage that linger way too long and prevent you from progressing through the map. And trappers are occasionally silent and are actually the most punishing enemy as getting disabled by them can end a run instantly. I'd like to at least see trapper approach made louder. In conclusion, Darktide is a very fun game with a strong gameplay core that has potential to be the pinnacle of the co-op horde killer genre if balanced and optimized. I'm not so pessimistic about the future of this game as other people regarding the recent trend of Fatshark's focus on releasing new classes. Eventually they will run out of classes to add and it's an arduous process of doing so given how much they need to cooperate with Games Workshop. I feel like this year or the next we will either receive new lore and maps or an actually good new game mode. Something like Chaos Wastes from Vermintide would bring an immense amount of longevity to this game. The main source of worry is what the Tencent ownership decides to prioritize. Current score - 8/10

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Amazing game, captures 40k very well