Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

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4.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 121 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 121
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 121
  3. Negative: 57 out of 121

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  1. Lukano
    Dec 15, 2022
    3
    After a while the magic wears off and you start noticing all the infuriating bugs, specials killing you through textures, materializing out of thin air or weapons not firing at a whim. I really regret buying this game and wouldnt recommend it to anyone at this stage, It is clearly focusing mainly on selling you the ingame currency rather than the actual game. And they are doing really badAfter a while the magic wears off and you start noticing all the infuriating bugs, specials killing you through textures, materializing out of thin air or weapons not firing at a whim. I really regret buying this game and wouldnt recommend it to anyone at this stage, It is clearly focusing mainly on selling you the ingame currency rather than the actual game. And they are doing really bad job of hiding what their focus really is.… Expand
  2. Gurrdin
    Jan 26, 2023
    1
    Simply put, this game sucks. It's worse than Vermintide II, and that game was already significantly worse than Left 4 Dead 2.

    The game runs terribly. Constant FPS drops and performance issues that the game doesn't look anywhere near good enough to justify. The game averages a crash every 2 hours no matter how much the settings are adjusted. The game itself isn't unfun, but again,    Simply put, this game sucks. It's worse than Vermintide II, and that game was already significantly worse than Left 4 Dead 2.

    The game runs terribly. Constant FPS drops and performance issues that the game doesn't look anywhere near good enough to justify. The game averages a crash every 2 hours no matter how much the settings are adjusted.

    The game itself isn't unfun, but again, it's worse than Vermintide II and the gameplay is essentially the same. Heavily melee-focused combat with weird dodging and blocking that don't seem to take when they should. The game's enemies are poorly balanced and are just obnoxious to play against. The levels are boring, lifeless, and ugly.

    Legitimately, the only redeeming thing about this game is that some of the voice interactions between the different kinds of characters can be funny. That's it. This is an early access game that is years away from being even decent, let alone good, and it's still going to be filled with grindy, exploitative microtransaction nonsense that bogs down the good bits even more.

    Take the $40 you could spend on this game and buy four copies of Left 4 Dead 2 to play with three of your friends. It runs better, it's cheaper, it wasn't designed by monkeys, and you can mod it to have more fun on it.    … Expand
  3. dontcare123
    Dec 3, 2022
    4
    Grindy progression paired with constant crashing and other technical issues makes this entry a chore to play. Maybe in 6 months it will be worth playing.
  4. BaconMage
    Dec 10, 2022
    4
    Just like Vermintide only there's a 50% chance that when you finish a mission that you'll be disconnected or receive an error and lose all progress.
  5. vgmkyle
    Dec 7, 2022
    4
    It's not the worst game I've played, but I have a hard time understanding how someone could see this as enjoyable or as how they would want to spend their time. The mechanics certainly aren't completely broken but they are nothing special; like most games in 2022 it's a repetitive dinosaur that was rushed out the door.
  6. Agr0
    Dec 11, 2022
    3
    worst optimization ever. You can crash beacuse of putting one item on a equipment slot, can crash if you go to quickly while the game is starting, can crash in game beacuse yes, can crash in a raid beacuse of the frame drop, the frame drop itself is so brutal that i cannot even imagine a raid without two or three. Horribly classic gameplay with poor rewards and a ridicolous large progression.
  7. Tango16
    Dec 12, 2022
    0
    Buggy unfinished mess. You're paying for early access even though it's a full release. Many key systems aren't even implemented, such as crafting and private lobbies. The developers and support team is a joke as well and will insult you and ridicule you if you have an issue.
  8. YourMoustache
    Dec 15, 2022
    0
    Fatshark has outdone themselves this time, now we're getting patches that are missing content mentioned in the patchnotes for said patch/update. fix your trash game
  9. Varmithras
    Dec 4, 2022
    0
    I'm ready to tolerate low FPS, a huge number of bugs and crashes, but after the beta I can't even enter the game anymore, fix your **** 0/10
  10. Death-Honk
    Dec 2, 2022
    0
    Did anyone really expect FatShark to competently make a game? Terrible developer, always have been. They chose a fully functional cash/mtx shop over basic features or game optimization. Thats how little you matter to them. F this game and this company. 40k deserves better.
  11. Silooh
    Dec 8, 2022
    1
    No scoreboards, boring weapons, lack of fun build routes, all while a lot of is a copy-paste of Vermintide 2 content with less refinement and depth. Gameplay just plain feels bad, and have fun with 0 movement mechanics because the new sprint mechanic bulldozed all the map design.
  12. Ysandre
    Dec 9, 2022
    0
    Absolute scam, early access disguised as a full game, waiting for DLC to sell us the full content, like they did with their previous game.
    Pro : Music, vibe.
    Cons : Story inexistant, characters dull as possible, less classes, less weapons, less maps, less bosses, less feedback, boring specials enemies, no private parties, no crafting, greedy skin shop, FOMO rotations, bugs everywhere,    Absolute scam, early access disguised as a full game, waiting for DLC to sell us the full content, like they did with their previous game.
    Pro : Music, vibe.
    Cons : Story inexistant, characters dull as possible, less classes, less weapons, less maps, less bosses, less feedback, boring specials enemies, no private parties, no crafting, greedy skin shop, FOMO rotations, bugs everywhere, etc.
    In fact the game itself feel like a voluntary badly done 40k reskin of Vermintide 2 to sell us more things.
    Good job Fatshark on losing the minimum respect we had for you.    … Expand
  13. thecrius
    Dec 5, 2022
    4
    This game is the quintessential "Fatshark experience" with a sprinkle of greedy GaaS on top.

    The developers ignored any feedback received in the last years of Vermintide 2 and went ahead with a vision they had that disregard everything that could have been good of the previous titles and implement some terrible user abusing mechanics that are meant to exploit the players. Every    This game is the quintessential "Fatshark experience" with a sprinkle of greedy GaaS on top.

    The developers ignored any feedback received in the last years of Vermintide 2 and went ahead with a vision they had that disregard everything that could have been good of the previous titles and implement some terrible user abusing mechanics that are meant to exploit the players.

    Every single system in the game is designed around the idea of creating "engagement" meaning that things are either time gated (shop, weekly quests, missions types, etc) randomized or straight up locked behind some way of progress that require an absurd feat or amount of time to be unlocked.

    You are not paying for the game, you are paying for the possibility to have your time wasted behind some abusive mechanics that will make you hate the time you wasted.

    Onto more details:

    - Items are not dropped either during the run or at the end of each mission. Rarely you will get a single item, randomly in terms of type and power level.
    - Items are meant to be obtained via the shop, which refresh every 60 minutes and range between the unlocked weapons type (for your level) and weapon rarity (white, green, blue).
    - Items of higher rarity (purple, orange) will be obtained via a "premium" currency that can be obtained doing some weekly quests in the range of "kill 1000 of this type of enemy in melee" or "find X amount of this secondary mission item" and so on. Usually you manage to unlock ~2000 units of this extra currency. Weapons of the orange rarity will cost slightly more than a week's quests so you'll need to weeks to buy one of those prestigious items. This system already stink of "buy X amount of this premium currency to save time farming" written all over.
    - Most weapons are just the same skin and a different name (MKIII, MKIV, MKVII, etc) that will simply change either the attack combo animation for melee, or the fire mode for weapons (single, auto, semi-auto, etc) which feel a very cheap and lazy way of introducing variety when things like that could be managed with weapons mods eventually.
    - There is an upgrade system which basically allow you to upgrade an item to a superior tier. To do that you need to find, in missions, some crafting materials that are randomly spawning around. The higher the upgrade, the more it costs in terms of materials. There are also advanced features like saving a stat of a weapon to be reused on another weapon or reroll the properties of a weapon... but they are not yet in the game.

    - Missions are randomly selected from a pool and you will usually have the same mission available in multiple slots but some "plain", other with a secondary mission, others again with a random "modifiers"
    - This means that the mission you might want to run, at the difficulty you want, might not be available and...tough luck.
    - Modifiers for missions makes it, most of the time, quite harder for zero improved reward
    - Secondary missions are simply "find X of this item that will spawn semi-randomly around and occupy your utility slot or have your health being slowly eaten away" for a meagre reward of experience and golds. Not enough to justify the effort and surely not relevant once you reach the experience cap anyway

    - Combat feel clunky compared to the previous titles from Fatshark. The overall feeling is that things are slower in terms of animation but that fade away after a bit of playing as you get used to it.
    - The previous beta had shown a frenetic and eclectic combat feeling, which is in contrast with the current state of the game in which combat feel more slow and clunky. Adjustment might be made but currently it's not leaving you euphoric after an intense fight, more like relieved that it's ended
    - Some enemies have pathing issues that lead them to do impossible movements and contribute to the janky feeling of the combat's experience (hounds, chargers)
    - Some physics are absolutely broken. Explosions tend to shove you in the wrong direction, charging enemies doing absurd corners and maintaining speed, other grabbing you when you shouldn't be grabbed (behind corners, warping back onto you, etc)
    - There is an overall "obscuration" of mechanics which benefit no one and makes enjoying the game harder

    - There are a grand total of 4 playable careers and most of the weapons for careers are shared between them, leaving a feeling of "already seen" when switching between them.
    - Most careers have broken feats, talents and mechanics. You'll quickly end up finding a meta that is working around the broken aspect and deal with it that way

    - Difficulty is currently an hard evaluation because, beside lvl 1-2-3 missions, lvl 4-5 have sometimes the AI director spawn so much stuff all at once that makes it a miracle to be able to survive, leaving a sense of "relief" when finishing a map more than feeling like you dominated the mission or anyway raised to meet the odds.    … Expand
  14. Telamont
    Dec 5, 2022
    3
    Grind aside, it's impossible to play with bots, they are just too useless, only choice is to start a match and pray for someone to join. Extensive loading times. Classes are dull, can't tell one from the other (big one aside) while playing. The graphics are great, but again, that doesn't make a good game on its own.
  15. fimbulg
    Dec 7, 2022
    3
    Really want to love this game because of the core game-play loop and the aesthetics. However the progression is dull and it's not very original. Also it crashes at least once an hour for me even though they have patched it a lot and many things are not implemented yet. I see some here saying that "come on, they'll fix it soon" and sure some leniency can be afforded but crashing almostReally want to love this game because of the core game-play loop and the aesthetics. However the progression is dull and it's not very original. Also it crashes at least once an hour for me even though they have patched it a lot and many things are not implemented yet. I see some here saying that "come on, they'll fix it soon" and sure some leniency can be afforded but crashing almost every mission? That will affect the score. Would have been a 6-7 but is a 3 when it's somewhat unplayable.… Expand
  16. Voidtoker
    Dec 4, 2022
    0
    Hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade of technological improvements….and Left for Dead 2 is still taking fat dumps on your unfinished trash.

    What was the moment? Why are games released as unfinished trash now?
  17. AgentGanja
    Dec 4, 2022
    0
    For poorly handling the release and despite showcasing for Xbox series you’ve left the console in the dust with an indefinite delay.
    Pushing the coming to Xbox game pass mantra which genuinely means nothing if it isn’t launching on console. You gave many people a rude shock, even YouTube content creators got it wrong
  18. fredv2
    Dec 4, 2022
    0
    Cant play with friends using gamepass. WTF were all using computers. stop releasing incomplete games!
  19. marco7474
    Dec 1, 2022
    1
    Since the first phases of testing, players have warned the developers to further delay the release of the game.
    They didn't listen.
    This game is still full of bugs, and some of them are still not fixed since weeks. This game is not finished, and they say that this is a final version! - The game keeps crashing again and again. - The optimization is a real disaster (even with the    Since the first phases of testing, players have warned the developers to further delay the release of the game.
    They didn't listen.
    This game is still full of bugs, and some of them are still not fixed since weeks.

    This game is not finished, and they say that this is a final version!
    - The game keeps crashing again and again.
    - The optimization is a real disaster (even with the settings at their lowest)
    - the crafting system is missing, although it was announced.
    - it misses other characters (vs Vermintide)
    - There are a lot of ergonomic problems. A lot of things in the interface have been very badly thought.
    - At the creation of the character, you are asked several questions, with the validation of these choices, to know a little better the type of character that you take, your planet, your life etc.. I love the LORE, but this is not it, because there is no immersion in the game according to the choices. you have to go through 3-4 windows of choices to ... nothing... No interest.
    - The number of different bugs reported on the official forum shows how the quality control is a disaster.

    This game has a lot of potential, and they should have waited, at least, 6 more months before being clearly announced in final version.
    It's a bit of a shame though, they're not afraid of anything...

    You pay for a game that is in early access, but certainly not a final version...    … Expand
  20. Twickk
    Dec 1, 2022
    0
    Horrible Launch. Missing a suite of QoL features that were implemented in VT2. Essentially Fatshark wasted the entire development cycle of VT2 and learned nothing. As of right now there is a bug that makes you take extra damage when you have over 100 toughness, not even fixed day 1. BUT HEY THE CASH SHOP WORKS.

    Totally disappointed. Fatshark should ashamed.
  21. Esdeath2016
    Dec 1, 2022
    1
    With all due respect Fatshark needs to be relocated to a country where developers actually have to work. What the fresh hell have you guys been doing for 4 years??? This is a mess!

    You copied systems design, fundamental enemy decisioning, enemy types, etc. from your last game, and while I understand enough about game development to know that this doesn't mean you were free of work on    With all due respect Fatshark needs to be relocated to a country where developers actually have to work. What the fresh hell have you guys been doing for 4 years??? This is a mess!

    You copied systems design, fundamental enemy decisioning, enemy types, etc. from your last game, and while I understand enough about game development to know that this doesn't mean you were free of work on the backend, it does put you further ahead than almost any other company releasing a game - sequel or not. The number and type of things transposed from Vermintide seems unparalleled in the industry. And yet, somehow, you did not spend the extra time this gave you in the above-average development time you had for this game on optimization or content. You have fewer classes than VT2, the game only looks better because of RTX lighting in dark environments, it runs on my 12700K/3080/nvme SSD at sub-60 FPS in 4K even with medium RTX, your "70" weapons are mere variations on theme, your "story" is an intro cutscene that leads into a style of campaign that even F2P pseudo-MMOs like Warframe and Global Agenda before it have executed better, and your shop UI/UX simply screams that you intend to fleece your community further post-launch. Maybe some of the monetization model could've waited until the game, you know, actually functioned with a comparable amount of content to your last release.

    At the point where you have to frontrun a beta release with multiple press statements "setting expectations" for your product, it's time to sit down and have a conversation about why you're not ready to go to market. I sincerely hope Darktide doesn't get a pass simply for being in a genre that's been going the way of the RTS for the last ten years. If it doesn't, and the game is treated fairly by fans and the media, this release will be incredibly damaging to your brand.

    But I guess you don't need to care about any of that: Once the Tencent acquisition retention bonuses are paid out, you'll probably lose more than half your talent anyway, just keep working with your fantastic cash grab partner. Great job, Fatshark.    … Expand
  22. Ichigo16
    Dec 22, 2022
    0
    My advice w8 a few months before trying it. At this moment it's completely unplayable, terrible lags and the DC are constant issues. Add to this terrible performance issues and lack of any kind of endgame once you hit lvl30 you got nothing to do. On top of that as i said DC's and lags are biggest issues patches have actually made it worse and my connection/hardware is fine i got like 10msMy advice w8 a few months before trying it. At this moment it's completely unplayable, terrible lags and the DC are constant issues. Add to this terrible performance issues and lack of any kind of endgame once you hit lvl30 you got nothing to do. On top of that as i said DC's and lags are biggest issues patches have actually made it worse and my connection/hardware is fine i got like 10ms 300-400mb/s on average but in game it feels like 500+ms. Also to note this game has got zero plot to speak of gameplay is great and smashing hordes doesn't get borring but with all the other issuesit's just not worth the nerves you will get when you will be kicked out of server with no way back 2 min before the end of the mission.....… Expand
  23. hajkli
    Dec 16, 2022
    0
    No crossplay between XBOX Game Pass for PC and Steam..... They are forcing XBOX Game pass users to buy the game also on PC and vice versa if they want to play with friends

    also no scoreboard where you could review team's results etc...
  24. MilSprin
    Dec 3, 2022
    0
    Darktide is raw, with many bugs and crushes game, with bad optimization, and with only 4 charecters without classes, unlike warhammer vermentide 2
  25. Or1ator
    Dec 3, 2022
    0
    Crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash. That's pretty much the best you can hope from this pile of trash some people call a game. The best, because if you're staying in game long enough to actually experience it, you'll quickly realize why the studio is named (fat) SHARK.
  26. Kaku_gou
    Dec 5, 2022
    0
    Bugs crashes and disconnect on top of a launch with incomplete feature and non-existence new content. But hey they made sure the mobile-like microtransaction store is working while core features like crafting still have "coming soon" label on it.
  27. wubingwayhotmai
    Jan 10, 2023
    1
    Quality control is terrible. If they have a QA officer I'm sure he has a liquid brain. Even now, there are character traits that don't work or work strangely. FS sold 'enough' unfinished games and went on a long holiday. It's down from 100,000 peak players to less than 6,000 players today. They are so happy to reduce server costs even on vacation. Still, the game crashes every day. FallingQuality control is terrible. If they have a QA officer I'm sure he has a liquid brain. Even now, there are character traits that don't work or work strangely. FS sold 'enough' unfinished games and went on a long holiday. It's down from 100,000 peak players to less than 6,000 players today. They are so happy to reduce server costs even on vacation. Still, the game crashes every day. Falling infinitely from the terrain or being unable to pick up objects every day. Still, major features are coming soon. It says, but it's not an early access game. Their shamelessness is GOAT.… Expand
  28. pokeaatrox
    Feb 4, 2023
    0
    one of the worst games of my life. everything is bad. It's insane ! Only frustration
  29. SnoopyCool
    Jan 3, 2023
    3
    Ich würde Warhammer darktide gerne eine bessere Bewertung geben, aber das hätte es im momentanen zustand nicht verdient.
    Es macht Spaß es mit freunden zu Spieler (Blut/violence and Fun ^^)
    Freunde des Warhammer Universums haben ihr Spaß, die Maps sind schön gemacht (düster und unheilvoll) Das größte Problem, die andauernde Abstürze, ob beim Start des Spieles bei Beginn der Runde oder    Ich würde Warhammer darktide gerne eine bessere Bewertung geben, aber das hätte es im momentanen zustand nicht verdient.
    Es macht Spaß es mit freunden zu Spieler (Blut/violence and Fun ^^)
    Freunde des Warhammer Universums haben ihr Spaß, die Maps sind schön gemacht (düster und unheilvoll)

    Das größte Problem, die andauernde Abstürze, ob beim Start des Spieles bei Beginn der Runde oder mittendrin im Gefecht, wenn es einem selber nicht passiert, dann seinen Teammitgliedern, andauernd, werden Spieler durch Bots ersetzt, weil sie disconnecten, neue hereinkommen und wieder paar Minuten später von Bots ersetzt werden.

    Fazit: da muss dringend etwas getan werden, sonst ist sehr schnell Schluss    … Expand
  30. camclarke
    Jan 11, 2023
    0
    This buggy, broken, unfinished mess is not worth your money. Ignoring the fact they refused to port QOL features from Vermintide 2, there is still only a quarter of the content that V2 had on its own launch day.

    Additionally, Fatshark has effectively abandoned the game. There has been nothing but silence post-launch beyond two hotfixes. Things will not get better and the community will    This buggy, broken, unfinished mess is not worth your money. Ignoring the fact they refused to port QOL features from Vermintide 2, there is still only a quarter of the content that V2 had on its own launch day.

    Additionally, Fatshark has effectively abandoned the game. There has been nothing but silence post-launch beyond two hotfixes. Things will not get better and the community will leave before very long, and a dead community is a death sentence for a multiplayer-only game.    … Expand
  31. Goreaffection
    Feb 1, 2023
    4
    This was the first time playing a Warhammer game and boy I got disappointed. I thought this was a classic FPS with a story. But no, this is just another Destiny like looter shooter. Cant they just make a nice singleplayer game?
  32. frostinfernal
    May 29, 2023
    0
    This development team should be fired. The most useless, laziest team ever.
    Not only did they sell the alpha version of the game for $60 (I don't remember exactly), but since then nothing at all has changed in the game.
    Updates are as incompetent as the people who make them. I can say one thing, such people cannot be supported, they must disappear.
  33. Dethstarr
    Jan 31, 2023
    2
    I gave it some score at all on the basis of a good looking game engine and nice art style. It looks great. My first impressions were buoyed up by the initial look and feel.

    Then you realise that there was the high point of the experience as there is virtually no content and no game behind it. One you can finish in a couple of days but will wonder why you wasted your time waiting for    I gave it some score at all on the basis of a good looking game engine and nice art style. It looks great. My first impressions were buoyed up by the initial look and feel.

    Then you realise that there was the high point of the experience as there is virtually no content and no game behind it. One you can finish in a couple of days but will wonder why you wasted your time waiting for it to get better and feel more satisfying. This is an exercise in bad game play, poor game design and blandness (again except for the art style and graphics which are very good).

    Unfortunately, they forgot to make a game that makes anyone want to play it for long. The weapons are limited and feel like unsatisfying to use. Reloads take forever and spamming melee with 1 button is basically most of the game. You could make the worlds most simple macro and its done.

    There is almost no purpose to your objectives and missions. There are 4 maps you basically do over and over as if the game was never finished and the character development and customisation is practically non existent.

    It doesnt even tell you how many enemies you killed etc after each mission. There is literally nothing in this gameplay that is not done in a way that feels like it was just to tick a box without really delivering anything.

    Definitely a contender for worst game of the last 12 months. I wont list all the ways in which this game is badly designed and a poor experience but just think, pretty much every aspect of it but how it looks.    … Expand
  34. Palomino_17
    Feb 14, 2023
    3
    The Game is a bit of fun with friends. I've always loved the Vermintide games but this just lacks the soul and intrigue that those games bought. Character customization is Okay, nothing amazing or groundbreaking. Gameplay is familiar to anyone who has played Left4dead, vermintide or vermintide 2 and that's no bad thing. The environments are gorgeous but again lack a bit of soul. WhereThe Game is a bit of fun with friends. I've always loved the Vermintide games but this just lacks the soul and intrigue that those games bought. Character customization is Okay, nothing amazing or groundbreaking. Gameplay is familiar to anyone who has played Left4dead, vermintide or vermintide 2 and that's no bad thing. The environments are gorgeous but again lack a bit of soul. Where this game SERIOUSLY fails is in the optimization, with some players even on high end rigs seeing load times of 10-15 minutes, graphical errors a plenty and FPS drops left right and center. The Playable classes are not good in my opinion, The Ogryn can flat out break the game and renders the veteran unplayable in some circumstances (Due to blocking every single corridor they stand in and stopping the Veteran in particular from being able to do what they're good at) and there's not enough that makes each one feel unique, to add to this even now nearly 3 months after release there's no career paths available at all.

    The main Hub is pretty to look at but pointless, yes you can see other players but there's no interaction and you can't even have fun shooting things, breaking things or even jumping. The missions all feel pretty much the same and have minimal interaction past shooting things and maybe scanning something - this leads to it getting boring pretty quickly for a lot of people. Honestly I would say it's not worth buying in its current state unless you have a good group of friends you just want to have a laugh with.    … Expand
  35. lastorres
    Jul 20, 2023
    3
    This is a weak 3 at best. Game is pretty barebones compared to what the game set out to be. Most of the functions promised aren't in the game, and the ones that are aren't well implemented. If you like the genre then Vermintide 2 is a better game from the ground up. This game could only be enjoyed with friends, and no one is going to trick three other people into buying this game, and ifThis is a weak 3 at best. Game is pretty barebones compared to what the game set out to be. Most of the functions promised aren't in the game, and the ones that are aren't well implemented. If you like the genre then Vermintide 2 is a better game from the ground up. This game could only be enjoyed with friends, and no one is going to trick three other people into buying this game, and if they do then those friends should re-think that friendship.… Expand
  36. Kaspier
    Aug 23, 2023
    0
    Basically unplayable, i spent over 5h in this game (bought on release) just trying to solve errors. I couldn't even run one mission because i can't even connect to lobby. After starting the game i'm getting disconnected or the game crashes. Waste of time, waste of money.
  37. Nananhu
    Sep 10, 2023
    4
    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 sinsceI 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.… Expand

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 69 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 69
  2. Mixed: 32 out of 69
  3. Negative: 0 out of 69
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 24, 2024
    80
    You can also enjoy the game on your own, as the game searches for mission partners automatically, or you can play against a bot. However, since it is mainly a coop action, it will always be better with friends. [Issue#324]
  2. DarkZero
    Feb 21, 2023
    60
    All of these details come together to form a fairly lifeless game – one with all the fixings and foundation of another epic showcase but without any of the polish or love that is so evident in the team’s previous undertaking. Now I know for a fact this game is going to be incredible. I have confidence in Fatshark; they’ve earned that by showing how much they care about their work and their player base. But, right now, in its current state, there’s simply no way I can call it a worthy successor. The gunplay is wonderful and I’ll no doubt continue to dip in here and there, but longer sessions quickly become dull and there’s no real hook, no grand finale, to motivate me to push on. I can’t wait to see what it’ll become but, in the meantime, I think I’ll take a look back and revel in the masterful predecessor, Vermintide 2, and all of the juicy extra content I never got to dive into. TL;DR Age of Sigmar > 40k.
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  3. GameCritics
    Feb 13, 2023
    70
    Darktide has a lot going for it — a beloved IP, crunchy gunplay, and a gorgeous presentation. Sadly, it’s not the endlessly-playable showstopper some had hoped, instead offering a repetitious gameplay cycle made more apparent by slow progression and little mission variation. It’s clear Fatshark has further plans for their latest endeavor and it may yet reach its full potential after a few patches and expansions, but for now it’s best to set expectations.
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