Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Vs Back 4 Blood

[Ho.Ly_MO.Ly_SexXY㊣]

Which one is more fun and worth your time ?
i havent bought Darktide so need to collect opinions
i thought it was meh & soso after watching B4B gameplay footage in youtube, but after i played it for a few hours , it is actually a blast fun to play... so same thing happened to Darktide, but still hesitated about it...

[Internet Waste]

If those are your only options, I'd get neither.
Otherwise, get whichever one you have friends playing with - both are a chore to play "solo"/matchmaking.

[Brutal]

Originally posted by Dr. Moist (scammed):

If those are your only options, I'd get neither.
Otherwise, get whichever one you have friends playing with - both are a chore to play "solo"/matchmaking.

LOL no Darktide isn't, you're full of rich, creamy, butttery poop. Solo is fine in the game.

[Monarch]

I'm a huge fan of FPS Co-Op games, and been playing since the L4D era.

I've played, and tried Back 4 Blood on gamepass (which is essentially free).
And I've paid, bought, and played Darktide.

And for all of its flaws, Darktide still managed to help me kill 200+ hours so far.
Back 4 Blood however? You might have to pay me, just for me to re-download it, and pay me some more, just to play a single match.

[Brutal]

Originally posted by Monarch:

I'm a huge fan of FPS Co-Op games, and been playing since the L4D era.

I've played, and tried Back 4 Blood on gamepass (which is essentially free).
And I've paid, bought, and played Darktide.

And for all of its flaws, Darktide still managed to help me kill 200+ hours so far.
Back 4 Blood however? You might have to pay me, just for me to re-download it, and pay me some more, just to play a single match.

Same here, DT is just fun as hell. However, it does have the whiniest community I've ever seen in a game. Full of crybabies.

[ghst]

Played both, Darktide is definitely better.

[BigJ]

Originally posted by Brutal:

Originally posted by Monarch:

I'm a huge fan of FPS Co-Op games, and been playing since the L4D era.

I've played, and tried Back 4 Blood on gamepass (which is essentially free).
And I've paid, bought, and played Darktide.

And for all of its flaws, Darktide still managed to help me kill 200+ hours so far.
Back 4 Blood however? You might have to pay me, just for me to re-download it, and pay me some more, just to play a single match.

Same here, DT is just fun as hell. However, it does have the whiniest community I've ever seen in a game. Full of crybabies.

Because unlike all the newcomers, we see fatshark regress in any gaming progress they made with vt2. Not deliver on their own promises multiple times and outright insult the consumer intelligence.

[BeelzeBob]

Darktide, even with its flaws and feeling of being in early access (even though it isn't), is vastly better than Back 4 Blood.

[tools guy-kun]

B4B is a pretty alright game, not the most fun when playing solo though. definitely possible though since the bots aren't too bad. best recommended to play with friends who have the game, or make friends that have the game and squad with them.

gameplay is above average, has its annoyances with certain aspects though. being able to customize your guns throughout the run with attachments you can buy/find is satisfying when it works out, adding more variation to your runs.

it's also not trying to seep in microtransactions with any time-gated cosmetics/content, although they have holiday events where you can EARN cosmetics for in-game points you get from completing runs. the game does have paid DLC but the DLC includes new levels, unique characters, cards to build your characters with, and an entire set of randomly generated "level extenders" called "hives." hives have a chance to be generated in a level you play in, and they're purely optional but they have a high risk/high reward situation, making your runs even better or worse.

the way you can unlock content is through investing in-game points with generated supply lines. they can be time-gated, but you're given an entire day to make up the points needed to get everything you need, which isn't a terrible grind but not a short one either.

in short, content is being developed and there's a fairly good amount of it already. and tbh I don't remember much of the negatives aside from the fact that some of the special enemies are pretty damn jank, and the dialogue is awfully repetitive and sometimes cringe. I hate the word "cringe" so much but when I use it, it means it's honestly that bad where I can't think of any other word to best describe it.

mind you, this game had at least a solid year to exist. I forgot how it was at launch, but it wasn't terrible back then either.

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Darktide is a sad case right now.

-the gameplay is there and it's definitely fun (to each of their own). sometimes, good things come with huge costs. the costs being that there's a good amount of aspects of the game that isn't up to par to help balance out the positives.

-the game has only been publicly release for not even a month, and it's already has its priorities on getting players to spend more money on time-gated cosmetics rather than focusing hard on the core gameplay at hand.

-there's incomplete features.

-not a lot of character customization making build variety pretty small and possibly nonexistent.

-the game is PAINFULLY HEAVILY based on way too much RNG to the point where it kind of breaks my heart sometimes because it just doesn't work well in a game like this. this includes the weapons we see in the shop (timegated), the perks we get on them (only the small perks are able to be rerolled currently, but rerolling one small perk locks the others), the missions we get to play and the side objectives/modifiers (also timegated)... it's just way too much.

-the best way to get solid loot is through weekly contracts, but those weeklies are seriously grindy and you don't always get a lot depending on the contract complexity, so if you do all your weeklies and still don't have enough to get a weapon from the weekly shop, all you can do about it is watch it slip from your fingers.

-loot and progression is all kept to each individual characters, meaning it's not shared between them at all, worsening the grind.

-certain enemies are very clunky and can easily kill you, doesn't matter how careful you are.

-still has crash issues that can occur at any time, ranging from when you're in the hub or at the very end of a mission.

the list goes on and on. the gameplay is fun, but that's about all I can say in regards of anything positive. good gameplay is important, but what's the point if everything else that matters is left in the dust?

this game just needs more time, and serious love and care from the devs if they even give a flying ♥♥♥♥ about this game's future, because right now it really seems like they don't. it is not recommended to buy the game at the moment, but still, your money your risk.

[Dootslayer]

Originally posted by Brutal:

Originally posted by Dr. Moist (scammed):

If those are your only options, I'd get neither.
Otherwise, get whichever one you have friends playing with - both are a chore to play "solo"/matchmaking.

LOL no Darktide isn't, you're full of rich, creamy, butttery poop. Solo is fine in the game.

It's clearly not, have you tried damnation pubs, with bots it must be even worse.

[Anus Wizard]

Between those two i'd choooose....Vermintide 2

[MrHugz]

After playing B4B pretty consistently over the last year, I'd definitely (and currently am) jump ship to Darktide. Regardless of what you say about Darktide being incomplete, the core gameplay is there and it's very entertaining. B4B's core gameplay at launch was fundamentally broken and heavily user frustrating. Not to mention that future updates would often break the game further by introducing game breaking bugs, exploits, or straight overpowered design choices.

[Bastila Shan]

Back4blood is a choir boy compared to this

[Nahmy]

Originally posted by BeelzeBob:

Darktide, even with its flaws and feeling of being in early access (even though it isn't), is vastly better than Back 4 Blood.

It pains me severely to agree with this. I just have way more fun in Darktide, even if Back 4 Blood is a far more full-bodied title. If you could only pick one of the two definitely go Darktide.

[Sir Smite]

I'm a 40k guy, so my decision should be obvious.

[Songbird]

I own both, Darktide is better.