Any chance we can play as a Servitor?

[Gnarl]

And just kind of fly around and help solve puzzles?

Maybe do traps?

[Angarvin]

i think you mean a servo skull, not a servitor.
gears of war did that in their last installment and, while personally i got a kick out of it, it's not very engaging.
also you're either suggesting increasing player count in a lobby by one, or removing one of the four players from combat for the entire game and in both cases that's a total rebalance of difficulty which is not gonna happen.

[Some Bloke]

That's a cool concept for A.I. Team Mates... Servitors are mind scrubbed, almost lobotomised, only able to do simple tasks. A true fate for most prisoners or criminals. The Imperium has no A.I. used by the Adeptus Mechanicus because of the Age of Technology late 23rd Millennium, where A.I. turned against man. Hence human mechanical servitors doing anything from moving cargo containers to licking weapons clean... It would also give an excuse if they were not perfectly scripted to do things in game.

[Blackest Yuggyth]

I thought playable Servitors would be in the base game. I'm all for it.
Servoskull - hard to hit, low health can only use a pistol but can solve tech puzzles faster
Combat servitor - Slow with normal health but uses HEAVY weapons IE Heavy bolter/Multimelta
What ever the tank tracks one is. Biggest health pool and damage reduction can have two heavy weapons. Is most likely to get hit and raises the difficulty by one level per "This servitor type"

[XIX Victorious Aut Mortis]

Originally posted by CS Skins Asset Forfeiture:

I thought playable Servitors would be in the base game. I'm all for it.
Servoskull - hard to hit, low health can only use a pistol but can solve tech puzzles faster
Combat servitor - Slow with normal health but uses HEAVY weapons IE Heavy bolter/Multimelta
What ever the tank tracks one is. Biggest health pool and damage reduction can have two heavy weapons. Is most likely to get hit and raises the difficulty by one level per "This servitor type"

Kataphron Battle-Servitors Destroyers/Breacher.

[deusvult6]

I like the combat servitor for bots idea. Perfect in-universe reason for retarded bot AI too. The conversation is probably pretty unengaging but I like it.

[Heretical_Cactus]

Would be harder to explain rather than using a Tech adept or a Skitarii

[XIX Victorious Aut Mortis]

instead of Human AI could we have Kataphron Battle-Servitors Destroyers/Breacher. instead

[Heretical_Cactus]

Not at all

Kataphron Battle Servitor are even less likely than a Servitor because they are not sentient anymore

[deusvult6]

I don't think Kataphrons are going to be jumping down ledges or vaulting over railings. A servitor that moves at a steady jogging trot that seems to be our standard pace is already a pretty big ask. Arco-flagellants are a type of servitor and they are pretty nimble little things but they're also pretty expensive.

[Pappa Nurgle]

nope

[XIX Victorious Aut Mortis]

Originally posted by deusvult6:

I don't think Kataphrons are going to be jumping down ledges or vaulting over railings. A servitor that moves at a steady jogging trot that seems to be our standard pace is already a pretty big ask. Arco-flagellants are a type of servitor and they are pretty nimble little things but they're also pretty expensive.

how are they expensive?, if anything there Cheap and expandable. as all you need is a Ministorum temple of sufficient size and a Heretic and/or dissent.

[deusvult6]

Originally posted by XIX Victorious Aut Mortis:

how are they expensive?, if anything there Cheap and expandable. as all you need is a Ministorum temple of sufficient size and a Heretic and/or dissent.

They are certainly more expensive than a standard basic combat servitor. Who can say what arcane technology they employ to make them? In Dark Heresy, they cost more than a penitent engine. And they're an effin' nightmare incarnate.

[Gnarl]

So there's a chance? Sweet.

[Medicles]

I assume that one of the reasons they didnt went with specific characters that have a defined background, like in Vermintide, is to be able to add new characters later one without much problems.

Darktide will be a promising base game, we already know that Fatshark can do it, and the potential to pump out new content for it is vast.

[Digby]

Originally posted by deusvult6:

Originally posted by XIX Victorious Aut Mortis:

how are they expensive?, if anything there Cheap and expandable. as all you need is a Ministorum temple of sufficient size and a Heretic and/or dissent.

They are certainly more expensive than a standard basic combat servitor. Who can say what arcane technology they employ to make them? In Dark Heresy, they cost more than a penitent engine. And they're an effin' nightmare incarnate.

Don't take dark heresy prices as absolute.
Mainly because their prices relating to things that affect the action economy is extremely high because of how unbalancing it is.
You're basically buying another character