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Warhammer 40k Darktide hotfix removes player outlines, temporarily
There’s a new Warhammer 40k Darktide patch out today, which makes some improvements to stability and adds AMD ray-tracing support to the co-op’s game launcher options. However, one change is going to be immediately noticeable when you hop into a mission: player outlines have been disabled.
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Darktide Grimoire locations and uses
The Darktide Grimoire locations are randomly placed in each mission, and should you survive and escape with these collectible items in your inventory, they can net you some excellent rewards. As we know all too well, you can’t take your eye off the hordes in Darktide for a second, lest you be torn limb from limb, but if you’re planning on leveling up fast, you’re going to want to take a few detours to find the hidden Grimoires.
Anyone familiar with one of the best Warhammer games, Vermintide, may already be familiar with the idea of Grimoires. They were a kleptomaniac’s dream in the co-op game; the collectibles were in set locations during each mission, and finishing the level with one in your inventory increased your rarity of loot. However, grimoires in Darktide don’t work in the same way and may leave some players scratching their heads.
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Darktide made us hungry for sick Warhammer 40K art, so here’s 40 wallpapers for your desktop or phone
The next Warhammer 40k Darktide patch adds a new map and new weapons
You know that big club the Ogryn is holding in the cover art? That’s coming in the next Warhammer 40k Darktide update, due out December 15. The content drop, which developer Fatshark has called The Signal, adds a set of power maul weapons for the Ogryn and zealot, as well as a new map, private play mode, and some new special conditions for missions in the grimdark co-op game.
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Warhammer 40K: Darktide review: brilliantly grisly co-op
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is not for the squeamish. Fatshark’s spiritual follow-up to Vermintide and Vermintide 2 is ferocious, violent, and involves a whole lotta gore. It’s a grisly co-op multiplayer where instead of brawling your way through torrents of gross rat humanoids, you and your rag-tag team are now up against hordes of scabby zombies all in favour of a Imperial fascist overlord.
Several of the RPS Treehouse folk have jumped into the fray, carving their way through Darktide’s industrial world of Gothic factories and towering cathedrals. The verdict? Uninspiring progression systems and short, repetitive missions aside, Darktide still remains a bone-crunching gorefest best enjoyed with pals. Preferably ones with strong stomachs.
James: I was actually braced to bounce off this, in the same way I bounced off Vermintide 2 and its monotonously melee-focused ratman slaughter. Nope – I’m 22 hours in and not even close to abandoning interest in my greasy crew of Imperial screwups. I think it might be because Darktide strikes a finer balance of slicing and shooting? Like there’s more of a dynamism to horde fights when you’re switching between the two. It rarely feels like I’m just swing, swing, swinging, unless I have a new Power Sword I want to try out.
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Warhammer 40K: Darktide runs shockingly well on the Steam Deck
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Warhammer 40k Darktide review – Chaos incarnate
The time I’ve put in for our Warhammer 40k Darktide review has been split, roughly evenly, between gleefully scything my way through hordes of shambling Chaos monstrosities shoulder to shoulder with my ragamuffin comrades, and poring over graphics options menus and forum posts, trying to get the co-op game to run. When Darktide is working, it’s brilliant: its action unfolds in the most vivid depiction of the 41st millennium ever seen in a game, and it’s told from a fresh outsider’s perspective.
Unfortunately, all of Darktide’s fantastic worldbuilding and dynamic, teamplay-based violence often gets sidelined by the host of technical issues still storming around like a rogue plague ogryn. Simply getting things to the point at which I could finish a run on my PC, which includes an AMD Ryzen 9 3900x and an Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti running with 32 GB of RAM, has taken constant tweaking and fiddling. Using any of the ray-tracing options has resulted in frequent crashes, and performance across the board is well below what I expect on my hardware setup, given the Darktide system requirements.
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