Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

It is hard to translate just how satisfying it feels to tear through a horde of heathens in Darktide as its thunderous soundtrack plays to words. The best way to do so seems to be simply saying that it is spot-on enough to surely please any fan of Warhammer or horde shooters. Darktide is a Primarch amongst Warhammer games, and it serves the corpse emperor admirably.

If it goes the distance, Warhammer 40K: Darktide will get better with time. As it stands it's an enjoyable romp through an almost endearingly macabre world.

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a worthy successor to Vermintide. Fans of good first-person melee combat shouldn’t hesitate to check this one out.

The gameplay is great, brutal and dynamic, at the same time the game came straight with a decent selection of maps, albeit very similar. You will enjoy slashing, shooting and throwing out hordes of enemies with grenades. But the authors have literally not put many systems into the game yet, and more content will come later.

One day, Warhammer 40K: Darktide will be a great game. Fatshark, like many developers, has yet to perfect the art of the rough landing. A polished core experience can't overcome woeful performance and blatantly unfinished features, like the (almost) entirely missing crafting system. I'm confident, however, support will continue until Darktide ends up being the game we all hoped it would be.

Frustrating technical issues hold Darktide back from being the definitive Warhammer 40,000 experience on PC.

One should expect more from the extremely rich Warhammer 40k lore. Darktide has some good ideas but commits the ultimate sin for a game: it becomes boring due to its extreme repetitiveness.

As far as I understand game was not as good before patch 13 but I started playing juast when patch 13 came out and the game is AMAZING, pure action, non stop hordes of enemies great mechanichs weapons and classes, either playing with a squad of friends or randoms the game is oure fun.

𝑊𝑎𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 40,000: 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑡𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑙 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛, 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔.𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑑 𝑃𝐶 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔.

Darktide in its current state is probably the best co-op horde shooter on the market. The skill based combat mechanics are a refinement from Vermintide games. Combat feels smooth and rewarding and could be considered 10/10 by some. Darktide also offers the most immersive WH40K visuals, atmosphere and appropriate music out of any current game. There is a story there, but it is not presented in an easy to follow manner, nor does it feel complete. After a rough start the game now feels mostly complete, besides some QoL improvements and the odd omission of a mission end scoreboard. PC players can add desired features through mods, but console players are left hanging. Biggest downside is the new content release schedule. Free updates are appreciated, but feel small in their contents for the regular player. Cash shop is another strike against Darktide. Best looking cosmetics can only be purchased with real money instead of in-game currency. To make matters worse, the cosmetics rotate in and out of the shop, making it difficult to obtain desired skins even if the player is willing to further open their wallets. What the game needs are chunky content rich updates or dlc and a roadmap from the developers to inform the loyal playerbase what to expect in the future. For fans of WH40k universe and the co-op horde shooter genre, Darktide does deliver.

Wouldn’t recommend this to a friend of mine due to it being boring. 9 hours into the game and no enjoyment has been found.

I realy wish Fatshark would replicate their great models, maps and gameplay in a different engine. I still sometimes play Darktide but it is 100% DESPITE the effing garbage engine that they use. I cant get a stable framerate at even the lowest settings, hit registration issues are even more evident given the amount of ranged weapons compared to vermintide. There has been 1 new Map sinsce release which honestly i realy like a lot. But still the awful bugs, performance issues and also weird rendering of smoke and sometimes light are ruining the experience for me. Just make the same thing in something like Unreal and might even purchase something from the stupid cosmetics store.