Top 5 Darktide Cheats (yes its all mods)

[CHAO$$$]

The first and most important question is obviously why should you cheat?

As every good cheater you have to come up with some arbitrary rationalization such as "the game doesnt work properly", "the game is unfair". Bonus points for the nihilistic approach that turns the whole world into a garbage bin ala "everyone cheats anyway so it doesnt make a difference if i do it as well"



#1 Reconnect mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/132?tab=description

This mod effectively removes disablers and ledges as threats. Whenever you do get disabled or fall off a ledge and are hanging you simply use this mod to reconnect to the current session and are freed immediately.
Funnily enough this mod doesnt actually let you reconnect after your game crashes. It only works in this cheat way while youre still in the game.

Make sure to set a keybind for it and make it automatically reconnect into the match (in mod options).

DOWNSIDE: Biggest downside is that it resets the scoreboard so you cant properly tell people how much worse they are than you after the match. It also doesnt work when youre already dead BUT, thanks to the hotkey, if you got fast fingers you can still reconnect while youre being launched far off a cliff.


#2 Spidey Sense Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/268?tab=description

The author of this mod claims it (quote): "will add visual indicators to audio cues". That is of course a blatant lie.
What the mod actually does is give you echolocation for all major threats in the game by pulling some arbitrary ingame nontifications allowing you to get a huge amount of information that you couldnt have otherwise.

For example this mod will show you idle ambient crushers standing 40 meters away from you behind a wall and a ton of other stuff. You know those damn idle crushers that basically scream in your ears all the time with their obnoxiously loud audio cues.

DOWNSIDE: Makes your UI look awful. If you did everything correct your game now looks something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBis6h3NTuE


#3 Healthbar Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/16?tab=description

Adds customizeable Healthbars to enemies. Great for tracking specials in low visibility areas. Also very useful so you know which melee elites to prioritize in order to thin out large packs of elites faster. Improves resource management so you dont waste grenades on that crusher with 5% hp. Generally useful in various scenarios for tracking and counting priority targets.

DOWNSIDE: none


#4 Third Person Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/111?tab=description

Gives a vastly improved field of vision allowing you to visually identify targets behind and beside you much easier. Pretty self explanatory.

DOWNSIDE: If you started playing this game in first person the melee aiming in third person takes time to get used to. Probably much easier if you started out just using this. Also walls.


#5 Decode Helper
https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/252?tab=description

Personal favourite because it really does absolutely nothing but add information that you cant access in normal play at all by showing which areas the decoder will use ahead of time. This allows you to reset slow patterns on start and easily get decodes with symbols that are directly on top of each other.

DOWNSIDE: none


Fatsharks official stance:

Originally posted by Fatshark:

"Using mods that directly affect unmodded players’ experience of the game and/or is used to grief other players.

Examples: Speed hacks, outright cheating in missions, etc."

see here:
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/darktide-modding-policy/75407

However that said all these mods have been around for quite a while so theres absolutely 0 chance at this point that they care whatsoever.

[Zaqq]

Why even use these chea... I mean mods? If the game is too hard for you that you need something like this, maybe just play on Sedition?

[Formous]

Still on this train I see. Uninformed, and malign. I wont pretend some mods are basically cheats, but hp bars bother you? A reconnect mod? Sure if you use that last one only for purpose you state. But that isn't it's intent. You strike me as a person who would look at a Skyrim overhaul mod or a Skin mod as a cheat. Which is of course, not something that a sane person would conclude.

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by Formous:

S A reconnect mod? Sure if you use that last one only for purpose you state. But that isn't it's intent. .

Thats the best part about the reconnect mod.

Like i said it doesnt actually have any other use besides getting you out of disablers/hanging.

It doesnt save session IDs or anything so everytime you REALLY disconnect the mod doesnt help you whatsoever. It only works while youre still connected to the current match.

[Ponyeater]

OP is salty because he doesn't into mods. Confirmened.

[Silhouette]

They all sound like "training wheels" to me. ;)

Do what ya gotta do, but I would never consider using any of these.

[Aaron]

Originally posted by Ponyeater:

OP is salty because he doesn't into mods. Confirmened.

Was thinking the same thing, this just sounds like an attempt to discredit Mods as a whole and trying to get FS to ban all Mods.

Im currently using eleven (11) Mods but not a single one of the listed above nor the Scoreboard one.

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by Aaron:

Was thinking the same thing, this just sounds like an attempt to discredit Mods as a whole and trying to get FS to ban all Mods.

Im currently using eleven (11) Mods and not one of the listed above nor the Scoreboard one.

Not all mods are cheats but as it so happens all these amazing cheats in the game are mods.

As Fatshark themselves initially said: They are commited to disabling mods that are outright cheating.

:)

[Gaugamela]

There were mods such as highlighting extra enemies for veteran back in the day with their ability which changed gameplay and such and fatshark had them removed, all of these are fully approved by fatshark along with all other mods which were officially allowed in the game, but its always nice to see someone doing bending backwards mental gymnastics coming to cry on the forums.

So glad we have these whiny god knows who, that can say with authority what is cheating and what isnt, they must be working for fatshark. Otherwise who are you and why are you crying here making nonsense up about whats cheating and what isnt. Pathetic

[Silhouette]

I mean, if you find the base game too difficult and require mods to make the experience more easy, I guess go for it.

But if you do use mods, you can never complain about the performance of your fellow teammates because you're basically playing with training wheels on. XD

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by Gaugamela:

There were mods such as highlighting extra enemies for veteran back in the day with their ability which changed gameplay and such and fatshark had them removed, all of these are fully approved by fatshark along with all other mods which were officially allowed in the game, but its always nice to see someone doing bending backwards mental gymnastics coming to cry on the forums.

So glad we have these whiny god knows who, that can say with authority what is cheating and what isnt, they must be working for fatshark. Otherwise who are you and why are you crying here making nonsense up about whats cheating and what isnt. Pathetic

I honestly couldnt care less at this point. Just like fatshark.

I just want to make sure its fair for everyone and everyone gets to use the same amazing quality of life features.

[Formous]

Originally posted by CHAO$$$:

Originally posted by Aaron:

Was thinking the same thing, this just sounds like an attempt to discredit Mods as a whole and trying to get FS to ban all Mods.

Im currently using eleven (11) Mods and not one of the listed above nor the Scoreboard one.

Not all mods are cheats but as it so happens all these amazing cheats in the game are mods.

As Fatshark themselves initially said: They are commited to disabling mods that are outright cheating.

:)

Nothing you said validates your claims. Abuse of a function doesn't make the function a cheat. Simply a loophole. This game has issues with disconnects. That reconnect mod was made to fix that issue. Calling it a cheat is a reflection on your own persona instead of a issue with the mod. Mate, being able to say "For the Emperor" in your mind is a cheat. You have no validity.

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by Formous:

Originally posted by CHAO$$$:

Not all mods are cheats but as it so happens all these amazing cheats in the game are mods.

As Fatshark themselves initially said: They are commited to disabling mods that are outright cheating.

:)

Nothing you said validates your claims. Abuse of a function doesn't make the function a cheat. Simply a loophole. This game has issues with disconnects. That reconnect mod was made to fix that issue. Calling it a cheat is a reflection on your own persona instead of a issue with the mod. Mate, being able to say "For the Emperor" in your mind is a cheat. You have no validity.

I already told you. You cant actually reconnect after dropping from a session with the reconnect mod. It only works while youre still in the session. The mod doesnt save session ID or anything that would allow you to do that. It straight up just tells you "youre not in a mission" when you try. its only function is freeing you from disablers/hanging.

Also

What is the non abuse function of decode helper?

[Formous]

Originally posted by CHAO$$$:

Originally posted by Formous:

Nothing you said validates your claims. Abuse of a function doesn't make the function a cheat. Simply a loophole. This game has issues with disconnects. That reconnect mod was made to fix that issue. Calling it a cheat is a reflection on your own persona instead of a issue with the mod. Mate, being able to say "For the Emperor" in your mind is a cheat. You have no validity.

I already told you. You cant actually reconnect after dropping from a session with the reconnect mod. It only works while youre still in the session. The mod doesnt save session ID or anything that would allow you to do that.

Also

What is the non abuse function of decode helper?

I don't have to answer that. My point is that you have made a single claim. That all mods are cheats with no exception. You are the exact kind of person who would look at a 6000 mod set up for skyrim that overhauls visuals and gameplay as a cheat. You don't offer point or counterpoint to your argument, define your line between cheat and non-cheat, how it negatively or positively affects the game, or any actionable claim that can earn support.

For example, a visual indicator to pair to audio queues. Sure, this is a cheat in the sense it says where the indicator of a sound came from. But see, in my life, I can't always put on sound to avoid waking others. That sounds like a tool that'd enable my play. But it's arguably no different then a good sound headset. It enables those with hearing issues even. So I can't really go against it.

Reconnect as you said won't protect you from a crash. That's fine. But it can from a DC. By your words, it helps someone escape a grab by disconnecting and reconnecting. Provided the time out isn't reached, you can rejoin a lost game. Well, that is useful for when suddenly, the game stops, and Im in the morningstar. Just as a thought. If you feel this is abuseable, then talk to the mod author about the issue and adjustments. They need feedback as much as FS to fix a issue. But this is not itself a cheat.

If you want to bring someone like me who enjoys cosmetic mods to your side, you must clearly outline your definitions, look at availible mods, find the ones that directly create cheats, discern between a helper tool and a cheat, and go from there. For example, there is a mod that will endlessly spend your cash trying to achieve a I rating of a spceific weapon from brunt's armory, selling anything that does not match your defined requirement. (For example, any item under 365 sell, and aim for 375, spend constantly). This is the same thing as me clicking 50 times for the same effect. This is a tool.

[Aaron]

For the reconnect one when downed or thrown off a ledge you can also do it w/o Mod by just Alt+F4 and then reconnect into the Match, this also works when you get stuck out of the Map.

However comes with its cons as well because many just abuse it by Alt+F4 and then staying out of the Game which will prevent a new Player from filling up the Slot of a Bot which unfortunately happens quite a lot.

[PhellAsleep]

Originally posted by Aaron:

For the reconnect one when downed or thrown off a ledge you can also do it w/o Mod by just Alt+F4 and then reconnect into the Match, this also works when you get stuck out of the Map.

However comes with its cons as well because many just abuse it by Alt+F4 and then staying out of the Game which will prevent a new Player from filling up the Slot of a Bot which unfortunately happens quite a lot.

Was wondering why the other day we played an entire mission with a bot and no one ever joined in. Still finished the mission without any issues, but that's an interesting way to troll I guess.