Warhammer 40,000: Darktide was one in all my most anticipated video games of 2022. I couldn’t wait to play Fatshark’s first-person shooter evolution of the rat-infested melee frenzy that was Vermintide 2. Sadly, it had its justifiable share of points at launch, from efficiency frustrations on PC to a lackluster development system and loot financial system. Now, the studio is engaged on a kind of fated live-service sport turnarounds, and it apparently begins with a giant revamp of its RPG talent tree.
Fatshark informed PC Gamer it’s presently engaged on releasing a significant replace in October that can add extra nuance and customization to character builds. Darktide is a darkish fantasy loot shooter about repeating the identical missions time and again as they get remixed by procedural technology, random spawns, mutators, and your personal arsenal. However with solely 4 lessons at launch and a smattering of talent upgrades, the squad-based dungeon crawler ran out of fuel actual fast. The October replace is meant so as to add a bunch extra passive and lively talents with new choices for the way to combine and match.
“We wished gamers to get a bit extra company into the lessons, a bit extra experimentation, help much more totally different play types,” Darktide sport director Anders De Geer informed PC Gamer. “Principally what we’ve finished is reimagine what a category in Darktide is. That is our big replace: we’ve expanded the expertise timber, added a ton of latest choices and skills, passives and actives.”
As a substitute of getting one perk level to experiment with each 5 ranges, every level-up will let gamers progress by the brand new talent tree and tinker with one thing as they progress. Examples of latest talents embrace a dome protect for Psyker (the mage class) and extra taunt and grenade choices for Ogryn (the tank class). From the look of the talent tree it looks as if a extra Borderlands method to construct crafting, with various paths that increase the underlying class position in additional methods. Backside line: leveling up ought to really feel extra rewarding and provide you with extra possession over your character.
Whether or not or not that in the end finally ends up being the case stays to be seen, however hopefully it will possibly assist pave the way in which for a Darktide turnaround. The co-op shooter was supposed to return to Xbox Sequence X/S someday in 2023 after being delayed. It’s presently free to attempt with a paid PC Recreation Go subscription, although at this level it’s in all probability value ready for the October replace.
Replace 8/23/2023 4:09 p.m. ET: Fatshark confirmed at Gamescom 2023 that the sport fill lastly come to Xbox Sequence X/S and Recreation Go on console on October 4. Right here’s the announcment trailer:
