If you played Darktide on Game Pass (or bought it), consider another look.
I’ve played Darktide most days since the two-part launch of its anniversary update,The Traitor Curse.
Mostly it’s the new missions.
To be clear, you’re still largely be doing the same stuff.
I’m fine with that.
Darktide is plain fun to play.
It just needed more.
The new area and new missions added with The Traitor Curse give me hope for future updates too.
I’m always here to destroy giant scientific glassware bubbling with lurid green demon drugs.
I’d be dead pleased if developers Fatshark do more of this.
Even playing old levels is often different now.
Over the year, Fatshark have expanded the ‘Conditions’ which can alter missions.
My favourite of the Condition additions and changes is ‘Maelstrom’ setups which turn several on at once.
A great time bumbling through a pitch-black maze with Chaos Spawn and Plague Ogryn rampaging all over.
Fatshark have also added loads more dialogue options across the years, reducing repeated conversations.
A few new enemies have arrived too.
Even if the mission were exactly the same, you might be quite different.
replaces the boring series of three options every five levels.
Effectively, it now has distinct but semi-freeform subclasses.
I’m still not enjoying the craft-o-looting mess of random rolls for weapons and trinkets, mind.
The Omnissiah would consider it heresy that your first experience with 40k’s iconic bolter is tempered with disappointment.
It’s miserable insecurity.
I think Fatshark expected the gear guff to provide long-term draw and satisfaction and counterbalance the repetitiveness.
More than failing to do that,it actively pushed me away.
I’m not saying Darktide has become a game of infinite variety, but it’s enough.
Fatshark have done enough.
Might give you a good few hours of gut-ripping grimdark ultraviolence.
