This game is great. Everyone who is into space fantasy loves 40k. Most 40k games are sub par knock offs of other popular games, some form of turn based or real time strategy game. We all remember playing Dawn of War or watching our siblings play and just thinking how cool the whole 40K universe is. Darktide is the first person godsend we all want in a slew of bad 40k videogames. Fatshark did an incredible job with VT2 and everyone had massive hopes for this game when it was first announced. I played the closed beta and the "prelaunch beta" and racked up many hours in the game. It IS a great game. More vermintide fun which is exactly what I want, but in the way cooler setting of 40k. The atmosphere, music, combat. You will read about people singing its praises for these categories, and it is deserved. The issue though, is that FatShark clearly has a gem of a game they are covering in absolute filth. We had so much more at launch with vermintide 2 and it is STAGGERING how much they have tried to push the envelope with the term "minimum viable product". They obviously had multiple new systems in place and scrapped em throughout the 4 different delays this game saw, resulting in them copy pasting the talents system from vermintide2 in the most uninspired way possible. We were told only 4 classes because the were going to be SO MUCH different than the career system in vermintide2. What we got instead is just the exact same thing as careers, and 8 less of them. OH but guess what, they plan to roll out new classes quarterly and "are still debating if they will be free or paid". ILL GIVE YOU TWO GUESSES, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED ONE FOR WHAT THEY WILL DO. Every progression system is RNG grind, not fun and deterministic grinding. You want a force sword for your psyker since its a psyker exclusive weapon? Good luck, i played mine to 28 and went from levels 3 to 26 without seeing a single force sword in the hourly RNG shop. Whatever, I will just go craft a sword and upgrade it myself. NOPE, didn't carry that system from VT2. Wanna experiment with gear? Sorry, maybe you will get a random emperor's gift after 15~ games that is the weapon you want to try out and play with. 70+ guns in the game at launch? LOL 40 of those are literally different laz or auto guns with differences as major and game changing as "full auto vs semi auto". Special weapon attacks on every weapon? HA its a dam on/off button for a flashlight or a terrible weak melee attack on all of them.

There is a gem here, the gameplay is good, and fatshark deserves praise for making the best first person combat system I have every played and refining it even further in darktide. However, they also deserve scorn for all the missing systems, and releasing a BARELY viable game missing nearly all core features that FatShark said we would have on launch. DONT FORGET THOUGH, the cash shop is in game now and fully functional. With the lovely "buy 2100 coins but the skin costs 2400 coins and wouldnt you know it, we don't sell coins in bundles besides 2100 and 4000. only available for 24 more hours!" Absolute scumbag practice THEY BOUGHT INTO. In VT2 you could buy skins for ACTUAL CASH THROUGH STEAM. This is anti consumer and anti gamer. If the game was F2P, these are pretty excusable systems to let the devs make money, BUT YOU PAID FOR THE GAME.

Buy this game on sale, and get it at least a year and a half after launch because that is when this will be out of early access and have full features. The game going gold today is an absolute lie and scam from FatShark and their investors.

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This game is great. Everyone who is into space fantasy loves 40k. Most 40k games are sub par knock offs of other popular games, some form of turn based or real time strategy game. We all remember playing Dawn of War or watching our siblings play and just thinking how cool the whole 40K universe is. Darktide is the first person godsend we all want in a slew of bad 40k videogames. Fatshark did an incredible job with VT2 and everyone had massive hopes for this game when it was first announced. I played the closed beta and the "prelaunch beta" and racked up many hours in the game. It IS a great game. More vermintide fun which is exactly what I want, but in the way cooler setting of 40k. The atmosphere, music, combat. You will read about people singing its praises for these categories, and it is deserved. The issue though, is that FatShark clearly has a gem of a game they are covering in absolute filth. We had so much more at launch with vermintide 2 and it is STAGGERING how much they have tried to push the envelope with the term "minimum viable product". They obviously had multiple new systems in place and scrapped em throughout the 4 different delays this game saw, resulting in them copy pasting the talents system from vermintide2 in the most uninspired way possible. We were told only 4 classes because the were going to be SO MUCH different than the career system in vermintide2. What we got instead is just the exact same thing as careers, and 8 less of them. OH but guess what, they plan to roll out new classes quarterly and "are still debating if they will be free or paid". ILL GIVE YOU TWO GUESSES, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED ONE FOR WHAT THEY WILL DO. Every progression system is RNG grind, not fun and deterministic grinding. You want a force sword for your psyker since its a psyker exclusive weapon? Good luck, i played mine to 28 and went from levels 3 to 26 without seeing a single force sword in the hourly RNG shop. Whatever, I will just go craft a sword and upgrade it myself. NOPE, didn't carry that system from VT2. Wanna experiment with gear? Sorry, maybe you will get a random emperor's gift after 15~ games that is the weapon you want to try out and play with. 70+ guns in the game at launch? LOL 40 of those are literally different laz or auto guns with differences as major and game changing as "full auto vs semi auto". Special weapon attacks on every weapon? HA its a dam on/off button for a flashlight or a terrible weak melee attack on all of them. There is a gem here, the gameplay is good, and fatshark deserves praise for making the best first person combat system I have every played and refining it even further in darktide. However, they also deserve scorn for all the missing systems, and releasing a BARELY viable game missing nearly all core features that FatShark said we would have on launch. DONT FORGET THOUGH, the cash shop is in game now and fully functional. With the lovely "buy 2100 coins but the skin costs 2400 coins and wouldnt you know it, we don't sell coins in bundles besides 2100 and 4000. only available for 24 more hours!" Absolute scumbag practice THEY BOUGHT INTO. In VT2 you could buy skins for ACTUAL CASH THROUGH STEAM. This is anti consumer and anti gamer. If the game was F2P, these are pretty excusable systems to let the devs make money, BUT YOU PAID FOR THE GAME. Buy this game on sale, and get it at least a year and a half after launch because that is when this will be out of early access and have full features. The game going gold today is an absolute lie and scam from FatShark and their investors. WAIT TO BUY THIS GAME