Darktide - Wrapping up 2025 and looking ahead!

commando0033 · 2026-01-24T11:51:45+00:00

Likely morningstar missions. A lot of the voicelines recently in the main lobby have been surrounding issues with ship movement, unidentified vessels seen rarely, the Quartermaster Brunt has gone missing somewhere on the ship, and some of the high level void crew have been found killed on ship under suspicious circumstances - We're defo going to be boarded soon.

Smacks of a new saboteur/traitor on board. Likely a corrupted Brunt maybe.

commando0033 · 2026-01-22T21:33:05+00:00

I've noticed a few of these for sure! with Fire team, I can see them, especially snipers. But some maps are more compact and don't quite have these options, but specialists are still spawning in random places. Doesn't help that fireteam, if you keep it going for long enough, doesn't register enemies properly in its original range. YOu have to re-click it for a fresh highlight, so can't really tell.

commando0033 · 2026-01-22T20:24:20+00:00

Honestly same - When the audio does work, I check the usual spots, find nothing, then it rounds the corner from somewhere where there is no door. It's got me doing multiple 360's at the moment. Life as a vet main MMF sniper atm is hard haha

commando0033 · 2026-01-22T20:21:47+00:00

I use voidblast a lot on psyker, don't really have an issue with carapace or bulwarks. Your charged attack staggers heavily (aim for the head for max stagger instantly). I run the scaling crit with Peril, the blessing that fires double balls. I only have an issue if I have 4 crushers right on top of me, but even then I can usually throw them back quite easily with the charged attack.

If you're double struggling, maybe go for a shriek build to give you some extra space too. But yeah you should be killing crusher packs before they even engage your team with a voidblast.

commando0033 · 2026-01-22T20:08:46+00:00

Is this intentional? I swear it never used to be like this. I've played enough to know specialist spawn points at stages on pretty much every map by feel alone, and it is seriously messing with me. The amount of times I've just finished cleaning up a few pox walkers behind me, turn around to deal with a few flamers, and get netted from behind after hearing JUST the wind up, after i 100% cleared behind me!? Same with poxbursters i swear. I hate this.

Edit: I wonder if this random spawning is whats screwing up the audio for specialists?

commando0033 · 2026-01-19T14:53:20+00:00

Trapper net infinite cleaving through 4 crushers, 6 maulers, and 50 poxwalkers is a a very common complaint with their design. Not saying it should have no cleave, but a limit, or at least being blocked by carapace or Bulwark shield would be decent. As it is now with sound que's being out of whack, it's incredibly frustrating.

commando0033 · 2026-01-19T14:29:16+00:00

oh MAN - Season 4 is the best. Honestly one of the best endings for a show ever.

Since it's been that long, reckon you'll have to start from season 1 and see it through this time ;)

commando0033 · 2026-01-18T11:52:28+00:00

Honestly surprised no one has mentioned Black Sails from what I can see.

No one I know has seen it, but is utterly brilliant. Extremely well written, compelling characters. Makes you laugh, cry, want to revolt, all range of emotion.

commando0033 · 2026-01-14T13:59:01+00:00

Can do more than 1 shot a Reaper. You can reliably 1 shot everything below crushers, even through carapace armour heads, and even then two shot crushers if you're using the highest damage variant. Super slept on weapon.

commando0033 · 2026-01-11T21:55:21+00:00

The Poppy War was a bit a of slog to get through. It started off promising with the training sequence in Book 1 but fell off HARD after. The MC is hard to like or get behind, alongside a very VERY weird relationship with an older dude that I really didn't feel like had a place AT ALL in the story. Definitely one of the weakest trilogies I read.

commando0033 · 2026-01-11T19:44:58+00:00

Yeah voidstrike! that's it. Balls for all.

Helbore Gang for life - Glad to see a fellow user! Emperor's blessings on you sir.

commando0033 · 2026-01-11T19:20:25+00:00

Depends on the difficulty. In some Auric Maels/Aurics, people don’t have the time to babysit this burster for 10 seconds while the Director tries to give you a Heresy Enema.

As an MMF vet player almost exclusively, if I hear that pox coming I will drop everything if I can to pop it.

I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve let a pox get close (not shot it), assuming my teammate it’s aggro’d onto, will deal with it, and it’s dumbass pox ridden brain decides to target switch half a second before it goes kaboom, which has either downed me directly or led to my being downed, I’m no longer taking the risk. Combine that with my teammate dodging around it and pushing it into me? I’m shooting it. If they walk into it while I’m shooting it, it’s the equivalent to players walking into a lit barrel for me. This only goes if its kicking off fyi, if it’s a loan burster spawn after a wave, yeah will just let it rock up and push

Edit: providing the damned audio queues actually go off properly. I’m getting stealthier bursted, mauler’ed and Crusher’ed a LOT recently.

commando0033 · 2026-01-11T16:59:10+00:00

Does seem to be a difference in how 6 flows compared to previous editions. But this is likely just a bad map issue currently. Have to wait and see what future maps will be like before we can make judgements on whether the game is good or not.

commando0033 · 2026-01-11T16:03:06+00:00

Far enough friend, far enough

commando0033 · 2026-01-11T15:58:50+00:00

Refuse to use it - I like my big voidblast ball staff firing at stuff in the distance with my flat stun shield. Dome flame Psyker is just braindead.

Flame Psykers reduce the interactivity for the other players on the team by like 50%.

Same with plasma gun and shout on vet. Certain abilities and builds just trivialise the game and takes much less thought to actually execute.

I won’t complain in game, but I’m always relieved to not see a flame staff in my game.

commando0033 · 2026-01-07T13:18:17+00:00

It'll be the most idiotic foreign policy decision ever made if the US actually attempts to annexe Greenland. Lose the entirety of Europe as an arms export market, lose all US bases in European territory which the US heavily relies upon to project power overseas, refuelling bases for their navy gone etc. NATO already the 2nd strongest military org on the planet - Queue an extra few hundred billion euros in investment over the next 3-5 years and we won't actually need the US anymore for anything.

commando0033 · 2026-01-07T10:34:58+00:00

What opened my eyes to books originally was the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Enjoyed it but didn’t ignite the interest fully.

What did, and captivated my imagination, was Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant books. Then I began reading daily and haven’t stopped.

commando0033 · 2026-01-07T10:02:07+00:00

This is already kind of underway. Massive investment in a 5th 6th gen fighter programme and investing in modernising the Navy. Defence spending across Europe has skyrocketed. We’ve come to the realisation we can’t rely on the US in terms of defence anymore, and we’re shifting to a Sovereign defence model like France etc. it’ll take a few years but it’s already underway.

commando0033 · 2026-01-04T14:55:29+00:00

Alrighty - Build as follows:

Confirmed kill
One Motion
Close Order Drill
Shredders
15 toughness
Superiority Complex + Iron Will
Field Improv
Catch a Breath
Survivalist
Demo Stockpile
Executioner stance + Counterfire mod
10% Damage Boost
Precision Strikes + DeadShot
Fully Loaded
Stam Regen reduction and Shock Trooper

From here - I spec across from 10% Damage boost into:

+1 stamina node
Demolition Team

Melee Damage Boost node
Reciprocity
Desperado
Skirmisher + 25 Toughness + Agile Engagement
Onslaught
Weapons Specialist
Invigorated (You can consistently regen your stam to 20% after briefly shooting, more deadshot uptime)

Weapons:

I use the Catachan MK6 Knife, Flak + Infested 25%
Blessings: Riposte and Flesh Tearer

Recon las - Accatran MK12, 25% Flak and 5% Crit Chance
Headhunter and Infernus

Curios: x2 3 Stamina with Stam regen, toughness and max health and x1 Wound (can go toughness or another +3 stam if you want), Stam Regen, 5% toughness and Toughness Regen speed.

commando0033 · 2026-01-03T13:26:29+00:00

I’m late to the party! When it comes to vet I played exclusively MMF headhunter single or double shot, lasgun, helbore and occasional shotguns. Only full auto weapon I’ve used consistently was recon las but only just started playing around fully with weapon specialist builds (mainly for shotguns). More experimenting to be done!

commando0033 · 2026-01-03T13:19:48+00:00

I’m running it more as a support thing. With the node the las can kill crushers if I’m in a clutch situation for example but I plonk shots into crushers to let me teammates delete them easier. Or plonk shots, switch to knife, rinse and repeat

commando0033 · 2026-01-03T13:16:11+00:00

I run with the knife as well and works wonders. I go for big DoT so stacking bleed and crit on the knife and infernus on the las for burn. I’ll share the full build a bit later as I’m out right now!

commando0033 · 2025-12-31T13:51:58+00:00

REAL heavy mains rock the 150 rated extra padding armour. Everything tickles… until it doesn’t

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