27 January 2023

DO NOT BUY Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - unfinished game

27 January 2023 · 9:40

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Summary

After over 140 hours, he says Darktide’s progression largely ends at level 30, leaving boredom and little meaningful endgame. Maximum difficulty feels easy with competent teammates and rewards only 20,000 dockets; accumulated money becomes useless compared with upgrade materials. He criticizes repetitive industrial maps, unbalanced weapons, and absent loot, crafting, customization, varied enemies, housing, and challenging raids.

Insight

He enjoys gore and social play, but continued engagement depends on substantial developer expansion.