Darktide deserves every bit of the mixed review score.

[Devil Shiroe]

I want to love this game to death and tell everybody to pick it up but i cant. The state of the game is a organized mess. The game banner still says pre-order beta, if you look at it from your library. If that doesn't tell you the state of darktide, idk what will. It still needs months worth of work.

[SLDFMechwarrior]

Everything is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ too. And I'm so tired of all the defenders letting FS poo poo into their mouths and screaming how "good" it is.

The balance is totally off. High Intensity on Malice is literally aids, shouldn't exist. Half the weapons are garbage, the other half are useable, but unfun and uninspired. Character models blocking shots for 90% of the screen (Ogryn) and that's just the start. This game needed to go back to DEV and stay there until at least November of 23. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ embarrassing.

[Riepah]

My game banner says no such thing, but aside from that, I agree. It is utterly shameful that they threw the game into release in this state. Whoever made that decision deserves to lose their job.
Aside from the unfinished state, there are also several mind-boggingly stupid decisions they made. The core gameplay, the graphics and the sound are all amazing, but everything around it is a terrible letdown, and it's downright puzzling how they could drop the ball like that after having made Vermintide 2 before.

[Beatbeat Goodbeat]

Originally posted by Hero of Vraks:

Everything is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ too. And I'm so tired of all the defenders letting FS poo poo into their mouths and screaming how "good" it is.

The balance is totally off. High Intensity on Malice is literally aids, shouldn't exist. Half the weapons are garbage, the other half are useable, but unfun and uninspired. Character models blocking shots for 90% of the screen (Ogryn) and that's just the start. This game needed to go back to DEV and stay there until at least November of 23. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ embarrassing.

I agree the game needed another year to bake. However, I don't the complaint of High Intensity on Malice being horrible. That game mode could have every environmental affect and still be easy.

[Antearz]

Originally posted by Devil Shiroe:

I want to love this game to death and tell everybody to pick it up but i cant. The state of the game is a organized mess. The game banner still says pre-order beta, if you look at it from your library. If that doesn't tell you the state of darktide, idk what will. It still needs months worth of work.

If you think that there is an Easy Solution.
Take a Break for 3 Months and wait for them to get things done.

Simple as that.

[Sev3nBelow]

game deserves to be negative

[Bo]

Originally posted by Antearz:

Originally posted by Devil Shiroe:

I want to love this game to death and tell everybody to pick it up but i cant. The state of the game is a organized mess. The game banner still says pre-order beta, if you look at it from your library. If that doesn't tell you the state of darktide, idk what will. It still needs months worth of work.

If you think that there is an Easy Solution.
Take a Break for 3 Months and wait for them to get things done.

Simple as that.

But that requires patience, which is something modern gamers simply don't have.

[Emilia Tempest]

Originally posted by Bo:

Originally posted by Antearz:

If you think that there is an Easy Solution.
Take a Break for 3 Months and wait for them to get things done.

Simple as that.

But that requires patience, which is something modern gamers simply don't have.

Darktide got delayed for a whole year and V2 came out in a similar state (both had roughly the same dev time, speaking from steam release of V1 to V2 to the steam release of V2 to DT) yet V2 had way more content on launch and not so many regressions in game design as DT.

So ofc nobody is patient, the game has no excuse to be this bad. And its also fault of the devs for repeating their mistakes and making them worse while claiming "they learned".

[Kalgert]

Originally posted by Antearz:

Originally posted by Devil Shiroe:

I want to love this game to death and tell everybody to pick it up but i cant. The state of the game is a organized mess. The game banner still says pre-order beta, if you look at it from your library. If that doesn't tell you the state of darktide, idk what will. It still needs months worth of work.

If you think that there is an Easy Solution.
Take a Break for 3 Months and wait for them to get things done.

Simple as that.

Ah yes, just not playing the game. Good thing you're not on the marketing team otherwise you'd be fired.

Anytime I see people say this, I can't help but think that they are in need of Captain Obvious to point out to them, that "Don't play and just wait until it gets fixed" isn't exactly a winning strategy for games. There is a good amount of games that have seen their end when people decided to take that route of "Waiting three months" but then never came back to the game.

Originally posted by Bo:

Originally posted by Antearz:

If you think that there is an Easy Solution.
Take a Break for 3 Months and wait for them to get things done.

Simple as that.

But that requires patience, which is something modern gamers simply don't have.

I'd say that the mindset of "It's okay for a game to be released as a pile of ♥♥♥♥ and be patched later" is more of a modern gamer mindset than "I'd like the game to be good from the get-go".

I pity you.

[Lammeth]

Gamers these days are expecting the masterpiece of their lives else it is basically trash. You guys are hilarious. This game is fantastic and, as every other game out there, it also has issues. If anyone really think this game deserves to be negative, you must be on drugs.

Issues will be fixed in time and most of them are not tied to the core gameplay. Gameloop is great and addictive and I would agree if the issue was actually there but it is not.

The game deserves to have a review hit yes and this will keep designers, devs and shareholders pressing for dumb designs on their toes but to say this is a game deserving a negative review, you must be a troll or an idiot

[Kalgert]

Originally posted by Lammeth:

Gamers these days are expecting the masterpiece of their lives else it is basically trash.

I'm not even gonna bother reading the rest of your drivel.

No. People don't expect a "Masterpiece", they expect a game that doesn't scream "Early Access" on release day and have missing features or design flaws that make no sense.

Worse yet when the game is stepping several leagues back from previous entries. I don't remember Vermintide 2 on launch day being this much of a disappointing mush.

[Plarik]

Originally posted by Lammeth:

Gamers these days are expecting the masterpiece of their lives else it is basically trash. You guys are hilarious. This game is fantastic and, as every other game out there, it also has issues. If anyone really think this game deserves to be negative, you must be on drugs.

Issues will be fixed in time and most of them are not tied to the core gameplay. Gameloop is great and addictive and I would agree if the issue was actually there but it is not.

The game deserves to have a review hit yes and this will keep designers, devs and shareholders pressing for dumb designs on their toes but to say this is a game deserving a negative review, you must be a troll or an idiot

for 40eur I expected a completed game...

[Stone]

Vermintide II was also best after a year or so. I'm gonna wait to reinstall until then. There will be hype when new classes appear so not worried about playerbase.

[Lammeth]

Originally posted by Kalgert:

Originally posted by Lammeth:

Gamers these days are expecting the masterpiece of their lives else it is basically trash.

I'm not even gonna bother reading the rest of your drivel.

No. People don't expect a "Masterpiece", they expect a game that doesn't scream "Early Access" on release day and have missing features or design flaws that make no sense.

Worse yet when the game is stepping several leagues back from previous entries. I don't remember Vermintide 2 on launch day being this much of a disappointing mush.

You are the one comparing those two games for some reason. I don't think they ever said the DT would be an exact copy of VT2 systems under a different theme. So blame yourself for taking those assumptions. I've came from VT2 as well and I like the changes.

DT is a new game with new design approaches. You are free to dislike them but it does not mean any deviance from VT2 is a design flaw.

[Outlaw Mugen]

It's live service with MT's.... in my book this should belong to F2P shelf. Maybe after a year or two this game will be worth the price but right now I don't want to be an early adopter.

[Kalgert]

Originally posted by Lammeth:

Originally posted by Kalgert:

I'm not even gonna bother reading the rest of your drivel.

No. People don't expect a "Masterpiece", they expect a game that doesn't scream "Early Access" on release day and have missing features or design flaws that make no sense.

Worse yet when the game is stepping several leagues back from previous entries. I don't remember Vermintide 2 on launch day being this much of a disappointing mush.

You are the one comparing those two games for some reason. I don't think they ever said the DT would be an exact copy of VT2 systems under a different theme. So blame yourself for taking those assumptions. I've came from VT2 as well and I like the changes.

DT is a new game with new design approaches. You are free to dislike them but it does not mean any deviance from VT2 is a design flaw.

Just because it's not a sequel ro Vermintide 2, doesn't mean it can't be compared to it.
And it also doesn't excuse being an inferior product out the gate.

I'm sorry but if you think that the game releasing with a crafting system that isn't even properly implemented yet and look at it as "Good", then something is seriously wrong with your receptors.