Will Future Story Expansions be Free or as Paid DLCs?

[Panzershrekt]

Hey guys, I'm a Vermintide player that's recently getting into the 40K universe. I haven't purchased Darktide yet.

I'm just wondering, have the devs mentioned anywhere whether future story expansions will be free or as paid DLCs?

Vermintide 2 had "Back to Ubersreik" and "Shadows Over Bögenhafen" as paid story DLCs that were released back in 2018. And also "Winds of Magic" as a proper expansion in 2019. But they haven't released any story contents as paid DLCs since then.

Have the devs mentioned which route they will take for Darktide?

Thank you and really appreciate your response on this!

[kozerd.lb]

Unlike VT, there is no story or dense storytelling in Darktide.
You have short background stories introducing maps or events but that's all.

They mostly earn their money by selling paid cosmetics.

[Phantom Limb]

Every piece of content in this game is free, except those premium cosmetics.

Didnt the devs said once that there wont be paid dlcs due to their pricing modell with ingame shop and not being able to buy cosmetics with ingame currency? I mean actually there is no space for paid dlcs. Dlcs are way too slow developed and there is no real back story. I actually doubt that we will anything like karnak twins in the future again where the story was a little bit expanded. Very sad tbh but thats an other topic.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

There's literally no story for this game, past the "You're a traitor or are believed to be a traitor, you get recruited by the Inquisition and are sent on missions to deal with Nurgle cults while your boss tries to figure out if you're the current traitor who's selling out the Inquisition or not". They'd have to create a story and that's going to be a hard sell to GW.

[Lokaror]

Dan Abnett is too busy to write more for darktides "story" i think.

[EJR]

The "story" for this game is really simply if not generic: you are a heretic - a traitor to the Imperium - and was imprisoned and being sent somewhere to serve your sentence. However, you claim you were falsely accused but being the Imperium no one listens to you. Fortunately for you, some chaos (Not Chaos, just chaos) breaks out on the ship transporting you and you manage to gain entry into a commander's fighting force. To prove your worth and innocence, you are sent out on missions.

That's it, it is just narrative fluff to explain why you are doing this kind of gameplay in the first place. Even the story "progress" just serves as narrative fluff to open up more mechanics and systems available to you as you level ie "You earned enough trust and merits among my officers, so I am sending you to this person so you know how to upgrade your equipment," then the game shows you the upgrade system.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Panzershrekt:

I'm just wondering, have the devs mentioned anywhere whether future story expansions will be free or as paid DLCs?

The Devs are busy redoing the "release" stuff.

So far they have redone the penance system twice, and now they are working at the 2nd crafting rework.

They also keep redesigning the levels that are in the game. Again, also something they have done twice now.

So no... we ain't even past "release" yet... they are still working on getting the game into a state where it could be released. Which, by all accounts seems to coincide with the Xbox and the future PS release.

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

You're a traitor or are believed to be a traitor, you get recruited by the Inquisition

That isn't even remotely the story. The story is that you are a Prisoner, for whatever reason you chose (all of which are basically the system being unjust to you). When the Prisoners break free on the Prison ship, you safe an Inquisitorial Agent, that had been sent to secure a high valuable asset prisoner the ship held, and thus are given the chance to join the retinue of the Inquisitor.

You, like many taken from the Prison ship that day, are used as cannon fodder for suicide missions in a desperate bid to stop the 2nd city from falling. And while you slowly, and surely, prove your locality a Traitor sabotages various systems aboard the inquisitors ship.

And then the story falls apart when Rannick has a big speech about they identified the mastermind behind the sabotages and looks all stern at your Ogryn operative.... which results the other person in the room to go "You are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me, right? You F-ing Imperial Scum, at least have the decency to execute me! There is no reason to mock me like that!"

Then Rannick starts laughing and goes "I am just messing with ya.." and shoots the other guy.

Thus you become a full fledged Imperial Agent of the lowest rank. You are never a traitor or believed to be a traitor. The whole plot happens while you are busy doing something else. You are appraised of what happens when you are off doing something else. Matter of fact... the fact that you are off doing missions and such, is likely the reason why you are above suspicion in the first place.

It's just so confusingly and badly written, that you spend the next few characters you level up trying to figure out "Where is Waldo" to see if you can spot if the traitor is in the cutscenes you've seen.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Lokaror:

Dan Abnett is too busy to write more for darktides "story" i think.

Dan Abnett was only consultant. There is actually an Interview with him where he explains his role on the game and the story he proposed. And i recommend not to look for it, because it will make you weep when you realize just what kind of hackjob Fatshark did, after getting a pretty cool story suggestion from Abnett.

It's one of those "this could have been a thing" moments.

Like.. Abnett gave them a recipe for a 9 layered cream cake... with various flavors and detailed instructions on how to bake it. And Fatshark basically replaced sugar with salt, and shat in the bowl because they were all out of coco powder. Then mixed it up, dropped it twice on the way to oven... and left the milk on the counter, so it would turn sour, shrugged and turned it into cream anyway. And then dropped it two more times while trying to slather the cream over the cake with their bare, unwashed hands.

And then showed it off as "Dan Abnett made this!"

[Lokaror]

Originally posted by Ishan451:

Originally posted by Lokaror:

Dan Abnett is too busy to write more for darktides "story" i think.

Dan Abnett was only consultant. There is actually an Interview with him where he explains his role on the game and the story he proposed. And i recommend not to look for it, because it will make you weep when you realize just what kind of hackjob Fatshark did, after getting a pretty cool story suggestion from Abnett.

It's one of those "this could have been a thing" moments.

Like.. Abnett gave them a recipe for a 9 layered cream cake... with various flavors and detailed instructions on how to bake it. And Fatshark basically replaced sugar with salt, and shat in the bowl because they were all out of coco powder. Then mixed it up, dropped it twice on the way to oven... and left the milk on the counter, so it would turn sour, shrugged and turned it into cream anyway. And then dropped it two more times while trying to slather the cream over the cake with their bare, unwashed hands.

And then showed it off as "Dan Abnett made this!"

Yeah, i was being tongue in cheek. Doesn't convey well over text, my bad. The whole Dan Abnett "wrote the story" is one of the hugest fumbles fatshark has had with DT, which is rather impressive.