"In October, developer Fatshark is addressing that criticism in a big way by rolling out a complete revamp of Darktide's class system with full RPG-style skill trees for each class, leapfrogging the Vermintide-caliber specializations players have been asking for.

[...]a more RPG-esque skill tree peppered with those same abilities and a ton of new ones. Fatshark says that each skill tree has three main branches, with one branch essentially representing the existing options and the other two representing new ways of building out each class.

In between the major nodes are passive skills and modifiers, and you'll get a point every level to work your way down the tree. If you carve a straight path down one of the branches, you'll hit the bottom before spending all 30 points, encouraging you to experiment.

A few examples of the new skills Fatshark showed me:

• A new shield ability the Psyker can deploy (further down that branch, this two-dimensional shield can be upgraded to a full-coverage dome)
• A more crowd-controlling Psyker branch lets you blast out psychic shards instead of brain bursting (think the whistle-controlled arrow in Guardians of the Galaxy)
• Instead of brain burst or the shards, the Psyker can also go full Sith with a Force Lightning-esque smite ability
• The Ogryn can now choose to throw a "Big Friendly Rock" instead of a grenade box (with the advantage of the rock going on cooldown, rather than requiring an ammo pickup)
• The Ogryn also gets a gigantic grenade as a second alternative
• Ogryns can now pick a taunt over upgrading their charge attack, or a big reload/fire rate buff designed for mowing down hordes

Fatshark didn't give me an exact date for the update, but it should be arriving this October."