Is Darktide worth picking up yet or does it still need more work? (2024)

until vermintide 2 vanishes from the face of the earth, darktide will never be worth picking up

if on sale then go for it
and if you run out of things to do then put it down for a while and come back when/if they still add more stuff

it's fine I guess, but it'll be better in 1.5 years
biggest complaint is still doing same missions over and over and over

it's fine. not as fun as Vermintide 2 but maybe one day it could be.

Nah too grindy in spite of how fun melee is.
I'd rather play drg or helldivers because then I don't have to think about building a character.

Get it on a sale. The gameplay's really satisfying, the maps are good, the higher difficulties are great, but it can only sustain you for about 50h until it starts feeling extremely repetitive. Instead of designing more maps, more guns, more game, the developers try to artificially delay the moment you drop the game by gacha-tier delayed RNG rewards. There's also no story. The progression system is also sh*t and it's best to ignore it.
It would be an 11/10 game if the progression and variety were as good as the core gameplay, but they're far worse.

it's fun but unless the game has any major additions in the future, you missed its live service patented golden era. now it's just youtuber wannabes that have EZ MODE ACTIVATED mods and console brain-dead morons that can't get through the default difficulty missions with Max level characters. All the charm of people being good and having fun with challenge is gone

It's helldivers 2 but in first person and the Devs don't nerf anything fun into the ground to force you to buy the new battle pass

how many fricking thread do you need to understand it's unfinished. Everytime it's the same question, are you a fs employee

Nope its dead.

In my opinion Darktide 2 has better maps than Vermintide but the game is dead. In the last year all they've released is one boss fight. There's no new content coming and half the content they promised is still missing. They haven't even finished the content they promised for Vermintide 2 yet. The games are just stagnant, grindy, and boring. The unlock and progression system immediately turn off new players because of how moronic they are so there's zero chance of the game ever gaining popularity.

its abandoned, they only care about VT (which has less than half the players) for whatever batsh*t reason

frick no
I put in over 300+ hours got all my operatives to 30
waited patiently for fatshark to deliver but only to be slapped in the face. Everything in this game can break but the cash shop and fatshark will think the game is still fine. But let the cash shop break and it's all hands on deck.
Utter disappointment if it wasnt for Jasper Kyd putting the entire studio on his back for this game it would not even be worth talking about. There is something magical about hearing Moebian Six while a horde is coming at you.

I bought it last time it was on sale, It does have flaws but I really love the dog hordes modifier and the ability to stack any combination of characters is such an improvement on Vermintide. It is worth picking up for 25 bucks. I got a couple hundred hours out of it and still come back to it with some bros

>chatgpt responses
fatshark shills I mean rajesh please go and stay gone.

I still desire an Eldar game.

it's a 40k game, 9/10 its not worth it if they paid you to play.

it's fun if you have a good enough PC to run it

I like how there's this one fatshark employee here desperately defending this sh*t kek

It's grindy as hell to get weapon upgrades and there are really no good cosmetics you can get with earned in game currency. So no, play DRG or vermintide instead.

Do you want it to be your new "forever game" that you put 1000+ hours into? Then no, the late game grind is awful. If you just want to have some fun for a couple hundred through, it's a really damn good game and honestly always has been.

I played it for 1000+ hours and only now started to feel burned out on it.
It has amazing melee combat and very satisfying gore. Music and atmosphere are top notch. It is the best realized 40k world so far.
Others have said that gear grind is total cancer (frick Hadron and her sh*ttalk after putting some trash blassing on your weapon).
Some enemies are just really annoying:
>trappers shoot their net through hordes, shields, whatever
>dogs jump on you silently
>mutants scream for 15 minutes straight while running at you from the other map
>every heretic is a marksman with autoguns who never miss a shot if you are in line of sight

>New update is 1 map, a bolt pistol, a club and a pickaxe
How are you going to send us to a forge and have no dark mechanicus enemies? It's just so lazy. This should have been a huge expansion with new enemies, mechanicus weaponry and a new tech adept class.

If you like doing the same thing over and over for 50 hours, sure, buy it

Yes. I'd say it's decent enough these days. It has better legs than Helldiver2 as well.

the core gameplay is fun but the release and post content actively made you think the devs were just lazy buttholes.
takes them a long time to add content and the only content that is constant are the premium cosmetic they show every two weeks.
last update they just renewed the achievement page to be more fancy and give you recycled sh*t cosmetic and useless sh*t like fricking titles on your name, this is hardly gameplay content.
game is worth if it goes cheap and if you have friends because public are either hit or miss, the worst kind of players i encountered are russians so far, they keep ramble random sh*t on the mic and never shut the frick up.