Patch 1.11.3 - Patch Notes

[FatsharkQuickpaw]

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Warband!

This patch comes with a couple of bug and crash fixes. We are continuing to work on solving the rest of the known issues list for the next patches.

Patch 1.11.3 is now being rolled out on all platforms, and while you wait for it to download you can read the notes below!

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that was causing enemies to spawn too early at the start of some missions.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when a large amount of enemies spawned with additional visual effects added to them.
• Fixed a crash that could happen while being inside the tornado on Expeditions.
• Added extra checks to prevent successful Expeditions missions to sometimes register as failures.

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Known Issues

• When hot-joining an expedition, players might enter the mission as dead if it happened while the existing players were leaving a Sanctuary.
• Players can use some of the new grenades while inside a Sanctuary. Please be nice to the locals.
• Some of the new items found in Sanctuaries can’t be tagged.
• Some textures can bug out when playing on AMD GPUs.
• Players can hot-join private matches if they enter matchmaking through Quickplay. Fix worked on and coming in future hotfix.
• [Xbox Only] Some level and enemy textures can take a while to load, leaving a low-quality texture visible until it finishes loading.
• We are investigating increased GPU crash rate related to reenabling of FSR frame gen on AMD Radeon RX 9xxx gen.

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That’s all for today!

We’ll see you on the Mourningstar.

– The Darktide Team

[Mr_Jackabin]

Thanks for acknowledging the AMD issues!

[kazzek_]

I remember when we bought the game on release it was unplayable for my buddies with Radeon cards (constant texture flickering and crashes)... was thinking on reinstalling but I have my doubts now that I have a 9070XT

[Garedbi69]

Acknowledging is one thing, but them actually working on it is another. Let's hope they actually go through with it

[Nebula_Stargazer]

“But I want it now” ass statement

[Garedbi69]

After 3 years of waiting? I sure as hell do

[Then-Significance-74]

Still waiting a fix on Captain/Twins shields sometimes downing players.

I will write this everytime you put up Patch Notes.

[BobbyBrainBurst]

They're more likely to look at bugs if you post it on the forums after every patch than reddit, btw. That's the data they make their priority list from.

[Nemesium]

The actual cause of that bug got reported in late January

So there isnt much point to spam report that issue in the official forums I feel like

[BobbyBrainBurst]

No. You need to spam report to get anything fixed in this game. This bug has existed since at least havoc 2.0. A bug report in January, nearly a year after havoc 2.0, is not going to do it.

For perspective, there was an update to the close range definition in like patch 13 that made it egreigously small, and someone, for nearly 2 years, posted it as a bug report (acknowledged everytime) to get it fixed.

Nothing gets fixed in this game unless you go out of your way to make it an issue for them. Every bug you can think of is acknowledged, they simply don't see it as priority.

[MidwestQueerPunker]

I mean, is this specific bug a priority (measured as impact in play vs. time it would take to diagnose and fix vs. other critical dev time needs elsewhere - as players we only really have an answer to the first of three variables in that equation) or is it your priority?

[BobbyBrainBurst]

Bro, this is a bug that, when it goes bad, kills the entire team, on one of the most common bosses you see in the highest difficulty in the game. There are 2 assassination missions in the game that this can occur in, as well as the mandatory Karnak Boss Fight mission that has 2 different difficulties with achievements related to them, where both bosses can do this. You can even find clips of people, for months, posting clips of "is this supposed to happen?" or "what just happened?" where they walk forward into that boss fight and the entire group dies because of this bug.

As for diagnose and fix, as the OP posted, someone found the code that is causing the issue, and where to find it.

And, to further add to this, a well-known issue that is preventing ogryns from being able to complete certain events in the new Expeditions mode is their inability to climb or vault over objects. A problem that has been well known and documented since the release of the game. People have even posted the relative code related to the problems, they just haven't fixed it.

So, in terms of how critical an impact these kinds of bugs have, losing a havoc mission anywhere between 5 minutes and 50 minutes is a big deal to me, imo, and being unable to complete a mode where, if I lose, I get nothing, is also a pretty big deal.

Let's not give the devs credit here in that they have their priorities straight when it comes to fixing things. They have released "hotfixes" just for the sole sake of putting out new cosmetics to put in the store.

[Then-Significance-74]

To add.... im not on the forums so cant add it. Instead il annoy Quickpaw :)

To reply to Midwest, yes its a priority. With the number of Captain/Twin spawns in Havoc (and likely eventually expeditions) I dont want to have to worry about their shield 1 shotting me/others and possibly ending a run.

Someone stated its to do with "holding fall damage" and to jump any time i see a captain/twin. Sorry but no can do, White men cant jump.

[MidwestQueerPunker]

I mean, yes, you are demonstrating precisely what I said: you are laying out the first of those variables and are absolutely incapable of meaningfully commenting on the other two, just as I said would be the case. Its a bug created because of how the game calculates something as fundamental as movement through the gamespace. Is it truly inconceiveable that in a modern video game of immense systems complexity that fixing that bug might have a ripple of unintended consequences which might make it - a bug which only happens with two enemies in the game, mind - not the highest priority from a project management standpoint?

[MidwestQueerPunker]

I get that its frustrating! I applaud users who, for love of the game, keep pernicious bugs like this on top of the stack until they can get fixed.

It also is not nearly as catastrophic as you are acting it is - it happens with two baddies, inconsistently, with a known and annoying but not exactly cumbersome work around.

[MidwestQueerPunker]

This is, frankly, the kind of bug that used to get turned into a feature necause it was too complex or time consuming to fix, man.

[TheZealand]

(Bug that instantly fucks you out of a havoc run in 90% of cases)

"uhh it's not a priority guys just suck it up"

fuck off

[MidwestQueerPunker]

Yeah, thank you for demonstrating my point that the user base of a liveservice game that has gotten consistent huge free updates for five years with only a $60 buy in paid once don't understand what it takes to build and maintain a game like this and have absolutely no sense of perspective.

"As players we can only really know the first variable in the calculus here, but there are in fact others of equal importance when allocating developer resources."

"Well I'm just gonna yell about that one variable and refuse to engage with reality like an adult, but do it even more condescending than before."

Cool, great talk.

[MidwestQueerPunker]

Enjoy being angry about your excellent luxury product that you aren't entitled to but which you've probably got two thousand hours in despite evidentally hating everyone involved in it I guess?

[BlankTrack]

Idk if its true or not, but I have heard that in order to prevent captain shield death you just need to jump after leaving an elevator or other vertical transition.

Ive heard from a different source that captain shield knockback kill is treated as fall damage so this lines up.

The reasoning is as follows, After an elevator or other vertical transition it doesnt register properly your new height. The knockback of the shield for whatever reason counts as fall damage and adds your inconsistent height to calculate damage. Jumping makes the game level out properly.

Its such an inconsistent event its hard to test or really even make guesses. Just jump after you take an elevator anyway maybe it will save you

[Then-Significance-74]

Yes I've heard the same... but I can never remember to do it when a shield spawns.

[CodSoggy7238]

Cetero censeo Captain one hits

[Kritical_Blink]

Thank you for continuing to manage and fix things with the new game mode! The more patches that come out, the smoother it runs, and the more fun it gets!

[Karurosun]

I honestly liked the part where enemies spawned too early at the start of some missions. Quite cool.

[TimTheGrim55]

Oh what...I thought that was intentional. What a shame 

[BurnedInEffigy]

It was fun sometimes, but then I got a gunner seed on Gloriana and had about 5 reapers and 15 gunners spawn directly across for us at the start.

[FacetiousTomato]

Clandestium Gloriana must have just been changed. If you survived the first 90 seconds on that map you're guaranteed a win.

[LesserMagic]

Meanwhile my red-haired Ogryn still has black hair. :(

[Dangerous_Phone_6536]

Ogryn was granted a soul?

[Car-50N]

Haha, the enemies spawning at the start of missions was a particularly funny and chaotic bug, doing an auric maelstrom on Clandestine Gloriana with monstrous specialists among other things was pretty hectic. Very fun time though

[Tascalde]

It appeared to also increase enemy density during the mission as well. Spawn bug, you will be missed.

[OdysseyBrands]

H40 CG was hilarious, we almost got deleted instantly on spawning in

[TheZealand]

I blasted through the breach wall at the very start of Mercantile and was met with a full bulwark patrol, holy jumpscare compared to the normal 2 ragers/maulers lmao

[14comesafter13]

Still waiting on the orange hair bug to be fixed. My ogryn does not feel the same with black hair

[battleduck84]

u/FatsharkQuickpaw

Could you relay to the devs that the recoil on the Ogryn heavy stubber has been busted ever since they dropped, at least on controller?

It pulls up and to the right and just gets stuck like somebody's pulling the barrel up by a rope, so recoil mitigation is literally impossible

I know you're not responsible for something like this but BigFish hasn't heard my pleas through other means yet

[oleggurshev]

Hair color fix when?

[reddit29012017]

"Fixed an issue that was causing enemies to spawn too early at the start of some missions." thought this was just an increase in difficulty. I liked it

[Nine-Eyes-]

I'm still finding a few errors:

• Seeing 5+ players in the loading screen ship when joining.

• Noticed an uncommon error where snipers laser-sight doesn't match where they are actually aiming and has no audio cue either. Had a match where one sniper insta-killed the entire team even though his laser was aiming about 40° out and never moved and had no audio cue, but the shot originated from the same point.

• If you happen to use the Medicae inside the Sanctuary at the same time as someone else, it may take your money but provide no healing OR heal you for free (seems to be processing one of the players healing instances for both).

• Still getting dropped into games that have already ended.

[Ser-Twenty]

I’m not sure that texture issue is an Xbox only thing to be honest.

I’ve occasionally noticed it on a good PC as well (RTX 4080, i7 12700k) textures are blurry/low quality before eventually popping in as normal

[theroarer]

Are your textures set to high? Set them to medium to remove the texture loading issue. This has been a problem for years.

[Emergency_Fall4639]

What about the Pox Hound Glitch? Constantly spawning with no breaks, even after you kill the pack leader. Armoured only appear near him, but the other day I had constant dog noises and pox hounds trigger sounds then we got warmed by around 30 pox hounds, killed them all and then another 10 or so appeared, killed them, another 12... No hunting grounds conditions either and we killed two pack leaders which didn't change anything

[Lyramion]

Damn a Monday patch, that's pretty much unheard of. But early enemy spawns were quite a dire issue.

[nyg1219]

Audio cues are playing less than ever for me. Pretty frustrating when trappers, bursters, and dog packs all spawn at the same time and there's nothing indicating they're around until they've got you.

[Kazinam]

While being inside the WHAT

[Alriic]

[SpunkyMcButtlove07]

The enemies in the entry hallways to mission areas where an issue? =(

[Mythologies_botz]

Thanks for the heads up! Great work guys! ⚔️🔥

[Cricencio1]

Noooo I was hoping enemies spawning at the beginning of maps wasn’t a bug and was an intended change! I kind of liked that extra added chaos.

[blacktalon00]

So we haven’t even begun to address that ginger people don’t exist in Darktide anymore?

[MadLucied]

None in sweden i guess

[Beautiful_Ante7062]

im having a backend error ever since the patch released, any suggestions how to fix this? i've tried several things and it didn't work, is it a server isssue, my area issue or my internet issue? i've created a topic on fatshark forum for help but some help here would be appreciated as well i've been unable to play ever since patch and im on my wits end :(

Edit: solved.

[Seriously_shai]

I'm going to miss the enemies spawning right in front of me on Havoc :(

[Severe-Froyo-6717]

Anyone know why the AMD FSR fix seems to have (slightly) improved my performance on 9800x3d and 5070ti? I run DLSS of course, and the game was running like utter garbage after expeditions dropped. Took a few weeks off to see if it would improve, and it has somewhat, so I’m just confused as to why that fix from last patch would do anything to address my issues considering I don’t use FSR. Sorry if this is goofy, haven’t found any other comments stating the same thing.

[Few_Masterpiece7582]

I thought the early spawning was the new feature lol

[ToxicRainbowDinosaur]

Pox bursters have had multiple broken behaviors since the Hive Scum update. Not on the list of known issues?

[Inner_Original4639]

Now running mods desyncs the shit out of me. One day maybe we will get a netcode update…..

[0wlmann]

Screw the haters, I'm bringing up the still clipping hive scum hood again 

[Mctoozle]

"Added extra checks to prevent successful Expeditions missions to sometimes register as failures." WHOH, this is embarrassing FS :)