Top 5 Darktide Cheats 2024! - Yes its still the same 5 mods because FS does nothing about them

[CHAO$$$]

Still as relevant as its always been. Based on a couple of comments reconnect might not be as reliable as it once was so spidey sense might take top#1 now. But boi does spidey sense have a ton of downloads now.



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.

[Dr. Merkwürdiglieben]

Slithy님이 먼저 게시:

Spidey-Sense and Healthbar are legit cheats. The rest of that is just goofy stuff.

Emphasis on 'legit". Sanctioned by FS. Suck on it....

[Someguyinhere]

CHAO$$$님이 먼저 게시:

Bandit Ferret Ell님이 먼저 게시:

Someone who is deaf or has poor earring would benefit greatly from spider sense without it giving them an advantage over a player with no issues

The problem with spidey sense is that it shows you a large amount of information that simply isnt there in the actual audio system. That is on top of other issues like perfect directional hearing and indicators staying longer than audiocues which by itself wouldnt be that bad.

It really just comes down to the fact that whatever ingame notifications spidey sense pulls, its way way more information than just the ingame audio. As a result using this mod instantly makes absolutely everyone substantially better at the game because you simply have more and earlier information about important threats, better tracking etc etc.

I invite anyone who reads this who has perfect hearing to use the mod and see for himself. Its pretty nuts.

That was discussed at length in the old thread that is still around somewhere.

Who. Cares. Are you just upset that someone using these mods might get more green circles than you on the scoreboard mod?

[CHAO$$$]

DuneLoon님이 먼저 게시:

i dont agree with mods either but screaming about it is only going to attract unfavorable comments

the only really bad ones are hp bars and spidey

if you dont bring up issues nothing is going to change, period.

Honestly i wish i had the energy to campaign more, especially about stuff that is really wrong with the real world but the state there is already so scuffed that the point of entry to influence anything is beyond what i can spare in terms of time invested and nerves lost.

[OTMOPO3OK]

Bibliophylax님이 먼저 게시:

I agree that "spidey sense" feel like a cheat, however i can understand why so many people are using it.
The game sometimes fail to give you audio warning, like trapper and dog not doing any sound clues before firing or jumping. Or sometimes crusher and mauler being silent without any footsteps sound.
The best audio bug I had not so long ago was attack warning out of nowhere puting me in a paranoid defensive posture before realizing nobody was around me.

The best one is when one of your teammates gets targeted by a crusher and is close enough to you for you to get hit as well, they get the sound, they get out, you get nothing but a "splitting headache". Not a problem when there is just 2-3 of them but sometimes you get a swarm, and if the fight lasts longer than usual, this really becomes an issue, especially in tight quarters....

[Solus]

Op managed to find the way to milk these steam rewards. Steam peasants fall for it every single time.

Op you are full of crap but i salute your resourcefulness of leveling this profile of yours ...

[Solus]

Pinkqueen님이 먼저 게시:

Personally i think Fatshark's mods tolerance policy is their greatest selling point on DT. Mods improve this game in every aspect possible providing their utility to everyone who is willing to use them - they aren't some privilege of the few.

In my experience, after having tested extensively vanilla and modded sessions I literally noticed zero difference in my performance on aurics.

Soo, op what are you drooling about? Please have the decency to crawl back into your cave and let the players enjoy playing DT the way they want.

Ps. In case some knuckleheads haven't noticed yet DT is an pve coop game with no pvp competition whatsoever. Also no mod posted on Nexus is considered cheat as they are approved by FS themselves. What more needs to be said?

This exactly

[Theutus]

Your tears are delicious

[Dragon]

CHAO$$$님이 먼저 게시:

DuneLoon님이 먼저 게시:

i dont agree with mods either but screaming about it is only going to attract unfavorable comments

the only really bad ones are hp bars and spidey

if you dont bring up issues nothing is going to change, period.

Honestly i wish i had the energy to campaign more, especially about stuff that is really wrong with the real world but the state there is already so scuffed that the point of entry to influence anything is beyond what i can spare in terms of time invested and nerves lost.

In what way are any of these cheats? What actual gameplay advantage do they give you? Maybe being able to see around walls with TPP, but enemies are AI so all you get is slightly more information before going around a corner? Slight target prioritization because you have slightly more information than your teammates about enemy health?

The biggest change any of these mods make is spidey sense because it gives you a MUCH clearer indicator of where a special is. With enough gametime anyone can do this anyway, since audio/spawn queues are so telegraphed and pigeonholed into maybe 2-3 spawning areas/doors in every game arena.

None of them are cheats and fatshark has sanctioned mods for this game that are not blatant actual cheats like changing statistics, currencies or gameplay values (or bypassing the cosmetic shop of course).

[Qau'lthir]

Upon further consideration I've come to the conclusion that the only mod that needs to be looked at by Fatshark is the reconnect mod as it is abused by people who do toxic speed runs where they do not attack enemies.

I understand its QoL aspects but given that it is abused as much as it is, it'd be better if it was removed.

[Respawn]

The best thing you can all do is ignore this clown.

[Someguyinhere]

Qau'lthir님이 먼저 게시:

Upon further consideration I've come to the conclusion that the only mod that needs to be looked at by Fatshark is the reconnect mod as it is abused by people who do toxic speed runs where they do not attack enemies.

I understand its QoL aspects but given that it is abused as much as it is, it'd be better if it was removed.

The healthbar mod constantly being claimed to be a do-it-all wallhack that gives you superpowers and grows extra limbs out of your back is the funniest thing. You can use that mod easily for two minutes and see that it doesn't give you wallhacks or anything else. Healthbars do not pop up until after you have damaged the enemy or tagged it, meaning that NO, it doesn't show you the 20 gunners behind the next doorway.

[Qau'lthir]

Someguyinhere님이 먼저 게시:

Qau'lthir님이 먼저 게시:

Upon further consideration I've come to the conclusion that the only mod that needs to be looked at by Fatshark is the reconnect mod as it is abused by people who do toxic speed runs where they do not attack enemies.

I understand its QoL aspects but given that it is abused as much as it is, it'd be better if it was removed.

The healthbar mod constantly being claimed to be a do-it-all wallhack that gives you superpowers and grows extra limbs out of your back is the funniest thing. You can use that mod easily for two minutes and see that it doesn't give you wallhacks or anything else. Healthbars do not pop up until after you have damaged the enemy or tagged it, meaning that NO, it doesn't show you the 20 gunners behind the next doorway.

OK, that has nothing to do with what I said but I agree with you.

What do you think about the aforementioned exploiting of the reconnect mod that some people are doing?

[Someguyinhere]

Qau'lthir님이 먼저 게시:

Someguyinhere님이 먼저 게시:

The healthbar mod constantly being claimed to be a do-it-all wallhack that gives you superpowers and grows extra limbs out of your back is the funniest thing. You can use that mod easily for two minutes and see that it doesn't give you wallhacks or anything else. Healthbars do not pop up until after you have damaged the enemy or tagged it, meaning that NO, it doesn't show you the 20 gunners behind the next doorway.

OK, that has nothing to do with what I said but I agree with you.

What do you think about the aforementioned exploiting of the reconnect mod that some people are doing?

I have no opinion on it because I wouldn't use it and I only play with friends. Sounds like something I'd expect from people who play these games in pubs. Nobody in random pubs in these kind of games has any interest in co-op, they just want to be the best in front of a crowd, and they'll do anything to achieve that even if its only in their head.

[Qau'lthir]

Someguyinhere님이 먼저 게시:

Qau'lthir님이 먼저 게시:

OK, that has nothing to do with what I said but I agree with you.

What do you think about the aforementioned exploiting of the reconnect mod that some people are doing?

I have no opinion on it because I wouldn't use it and I only play with friends. Sounds like something I'd expect from people who play these games in pubs. Nobody in random pubs in these kind of games has any interest in co-op, they just want to be the best in front of a crowd, and they'll do anything to achieve that even if its only in their head.

The impact of such a mod cannot only be taken into consideration within the vacuum of "I only play with friend". My friends don't abuse it either but that doesn't mean that the effects of actions taken by people who do misuse the mod aren't negatively impacting the game as a whole. Your feelings on random groups have no bearing on this discussion.

Something as simple as preventing a reconnect when the game is forced to close would do the trick.

PS. For clarity, because people like the person I am quoting don't seem to be reading posts before they reply: I am talking about the reconnect mod in the context of people who rush through levels without attacking any enemies.

[CasperTheRamKnight]

By Omnissiah!
Have you talked with a Techpriest if you are allowed to do that?