It is hard to translate just how satisfying it feels to tear through a horde of heathens in Darktide as its thunderous soundtrack plays to words. The best way to do so seems to be simply saying that it is spot-on enough to surely please any fan of Warhammer or horde shooters. Darktide is a Primarch amongst Warhammer games, and it serves the corpse emperor admirably.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the 40K-version of the Vermintide games and Fatshark delivers again a fantastic co-op experience. The combat feels visceral and meaty and is a true upgrade compared to the former games. There are however a lot less classes, even though they all feel unique. Some features are clearly removed during production, so hopefully they will get added next to more classes. Fatshark has already released some updates, so the future is looking bright for Darktide.
J'ai acheté le jeu en mai 2023 et j'y joue depuis avec beaucoup de plaisir.
Je n'avais pas ressenti cela depuis left for dead 2.
Les niveaux sont géniaux avec une architecture organique, on ne se lasse pas d'y revenir.
La puissance des armes est superbement retranscrite se qui contribue à une immersion totale.
Les graphismes avec des effets de lumière sont excellents.
Je recommande grandement.
Love this game! Glad it's on GAME PASS, would've never stumbled into it otherwise.
Pro:
+NO SILLY STORY (i can finally play an actual GAME without watching a DAMN MOVIE!)
+NO STORY (God damn i'm so happy about that!)
+Graphics / No UE4 Engine (it actually looks very "next gen" and has some great lighting
+Atmosphere
+Enjoyable Gunplay
+no story
+no bugs (started playing at patch#4)
Con:
-none. i simply love it for what it is!
Warhammer 40,000 Darktide is a title that needs more content and some tweaking. Graphically it is excellent and the play of light and shadow, in particular, make some moments even memorable. However, the balance between the classes needs to be reviewed, as well as the in-game economy and the cost of aesthetic elements. In any case, when lived with a handful of connected players, Darktide manages to be appreciated at its best but in some hours the shadow of repetitiveness makes itself felt. As for the Warhammer 40,000 lore, the game is steeped in it, but an audible and non-influential background radiation remains. The launch on Game Pass can help support the experience in the short term, when the novelty effect is still hot but it is clear that the production will need worthy support from the developers to continue to entertain the public.
Darktide looks great, sounds fantastic, and even with all my complaining… I've spent 53 hours playing it. 53 hours of the kind of fun that no other game this year gave me. And I'm sure that in six months, or a year, Darktide will be a game that will deserve a much higher rating.
One should expect more from the extremely rich Warhammer 40k lore. Darktide has some good ideas but commits the ultimate sin for a game: it becomes boring due to its extreme repetitiveness.
If you are a "Vermintide 2 player with 2000 hours", then you are in the infinitesimal minority. You are less than 0.0001% of the community. If you are NOT "Vermintide 2 player with 2000 hours", then you are in the 99% category. Is this game for you? Yes it is. It is a great game.
i will keep my review for darktide short and simple
the game is fun as hell in terms of gameplay and visuals and i go to say that it really is heaven for 40k fans such as myself to venture into a hive city with your friends/teammates and kill nurgle followers while being treated like sht is all i could ask for but the game lacks a lot like a proper story mode subclasses maps options and so much more so yes the game is fun and yes i do recommend it but not right now and not at the state that this game is in if you wanna buy it now wait for the price to drop a bit or wait sometime for them to add all the missing features and then buy it
until then this game is a solid 7 out of 10 only because of its fun gameplay loop beautiful map and music and funny/interesting dialogue between your created characters
I realy wish Fatshark would replicate their great models, maps and gameplay in a different engine. I still sometimes play Darktide but it is 100% DESPITE the effing garbage engine that they use. I cant get a stable framerate at even the lowest settings, hit registration issues are even more evident given the amount of ranged weapons compared to vermintide. There has been 1 new Map sinsce release which honestly i realy like a lot. But still the awful bugs, performance issues and also weird rendering of smoke and sometimes light are ruining the experience for me. Just make the same thing in something like Unreal and might even purchase something from the stupid cosmetics store.
This was the first time playing a Warhammer game and boy I got disappointed. I thought this was a classic FPS with a story. But no, this is just another Destiny like looter shooter. Cant they just make a nice singleplayer game?
SummaryFight together with your friends against hordes of enemies in this new Warhammer 40,000 experience. From the developers of the best-selling and award-winning co-op action franchise Vermintide, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a visceral 4-player co-op action game set in the hive city of Tertium. In the depths of the hive, the seeds of corru...