Why psyker even called psykinetic?

[Nomad]

I mean where all that kinetic powers?No some force fields, no some "crushing bones" abilities. Just knockback on F button. In lore kinetics can levitate, literally turn off all weapons and engines nearby, throwing boulders, deploy force dome and pulverizes enemies armor and flesh just by Darth Vader grip. This is sad.

[mdcpaladin]

idk. because? best reason i have

[AzZotik]

That's Telekinetic. Psykinetic manipulates warp, that is how every staff produces different result, that is how he psychically overloads people brains until they burst, that is how he creates small psychic explosion that makes people around recoil, that is how he creates psychic flame that lingers after his abilities.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by AzZotik:

That's Telekinetic. Psykinetic manipulates warp, that is how every staff produces different result, that is how he psychically overloads people brains until they burst, that is how he creates small psychic explosion that makes people around recoil, that is how he creates psychic flame that lingers after his abilities.

As far as I can tell, psykinetic is a word made up for darktide and not the adjective form of "psyker." The description of the class definitely does seem to imply they intended to lean into kinesis as well.

Originally posted by Class Description:

Your Psykinetic mastery allows you to manipulate the fundamental forces of motion with the power of your mind,

I guess that's meant to be what brain burst is doing, using magically applied kinetic force to explode heads. Definitely an underwhelming kit if you go into it wanting that sort of thing.

[Garudazeno]

It's because Psykinetic is the class name, that's the only correct answer. In the future we can expect different classes e.g. : Psyker - Pyromancer or Psyker - Diviner

Zealot - Preacher
Psyker- Psykinetic
Ogryn- Skullbreaker
Veteran - Sharpshooter

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Garudazeno:

It's because Psykinetic is the class name, that's the only correct answer. In the future we can expect different classes e.g. : Psyker - Pyromancer or Psyker - Diviner

Zealot - Preacher
Psyker- Psykinetic
Ogryn- Skullbreaker
Veteran - Sharpshooter

The question is pretty clearly about why they chose that name.

[The_Gay_Agenda]

Psykinetic is definitely a made up thing just for Darktide. As the OP said the name PsyKINETIC lends itself to a class that focuses on moving things around in some way. That doesn't really come out in the game at all. The Psyker we play uses a little bit of every Discipline and outside of weapon choice we only have a single ability that causes motion of some kind.

Fatshark making up new Psyker terms makes me think we wont be seeing anything like a Biomancer/Pyromancer/Telekin/Diviner/Telepath based class. They are not going that route with the Psyker. Instead we will see a Gun focused Psyker and a Melee focused Psyker later down the road. The Psykinetic is basically the "caster" focused version of the Psyker.

[IIFriggII]

effort+brain= they wont do it

[AzZotik]

Sorry for Necro but after reading Imperium Maledictum core rulebook, Fatshark only made up the name. Apparently now warp fire is minor power aka any idiot with warp powers can use it.

While stuff like Brain Burst, Deflection, Trauma staff explosion and Palpatine staff actually belong to Telekinetic powers (Crush/Deflection/Gravity Well/Phychic Maelstrom).

[FeedMe]

As others have said there is no reason to have subclasses in this game instead of new classes all together..

Originally posted by AzZotik:

Sorry for Necro but after reading Imperium Maledictum core rulebook, Fatshark only made up the name. Apparently now warp fire is minor power aka any idiot with warp powers can use it.

While stuff like Brain Burst, Deflection, Trauma staff explosion and Palpatine staff actually belong to Telekinetic powers (Crush/Deflection/Gravity Well/Phychic Maelstrom).

Yeah this is due to the destruction of cadia increasing the general number of psykers as well as the average power level of psykers