I think the update is not only a big step forward its really refreshing and focusing on progression is fun with QoL sprinkled in. Its great. The new map which is free but also short it hectic and hella fun with a great atmosphere i really enjoy. I love looking at the train go by the entire hive city. Going forward i would say having more diverse maps and more maps in general, this is a live service game and i can see big potentional to progression and play retention with more content such as maps, higher level cap, new weapons, new abilities, new classes even. I personally want more maps and some seems samey and theres only a select handful to grind on. For a multiplayer game i would basically adpot an mmo style/destiny for content. Because in the future player retention is what matters most.
@@fedweezy4976 yeah it ain't that bad though the new mastery system makes it a breeze to get them back. Just keep running Auric Heresy and then dump it all into weapons bought from Brunt and upgraded to green by Hadron. Sacrifice about 30 of those for a full mastery on a weapon.
@@roachies4242 if you going for high rounds specifically Ben is usually the way to go since you can jump start your economy pretty quickly with him, however if you want a hero to preform well into the late game Adora/Psi/Geraldo/Sauda are also solid picks.
I don't know who has the stiffy for RNG at Fatshark, but they need to get stop and get some help. It's an unhealthy obsession. They can't seem to kick it, so they kept it in for the base weapon potential. It seems like a compulsion that they _need_ to have some sort of RNG in the end game progression. We can't have the weapons at the end game be able to be customized the way that we want, oh no. We have to have some RNG system saying what the maximum can be for our stats. I know that it's minimal effect on most people's gear now. What's the point of keeping it? Either it's so insignificant that there's no point to keeping it instead of allowing us full control, or it's significant enough to matter and that is enough to frustrate players away from the game (as RNG has been doing since launch).
Cause the whole game is shit has been since day 1 hence why they keep trying to restructure the terrible foundation no solo mod bugs on bugs and each update with a new feature that it breaks not even to mention the new class we were suppose to get every quarter they have been playing catchup for 2 years this game needs to die and hiring influencer shill bricky that will happily bounce on anything that has a games workshop logo on it is not gonna help this terminal game
Especially when the progression system they made is good enough to stand on its own now. Seems so out of place. The RNG presumably existed to extend playtime due to a lack of a progression system. That's not a problem anymore
i like the new mastery system. previously i just stuck to a weapon set i liked (or two) and never used anything else. since the update dropped, i've been levelling up new weapons and some of them genuinely grew on me
theres only one thing we need now, them to change the cosmetic market to not be a rotation, but be like the vermintide 2 system (you can buy anything at any time)
Game finally feels like it's at a baseline. Having real progression is huge and something they can realistically build on top of. Hopefully this means we will start seeing more maps/missions and stuff in the nearish future. Really hate that we basically went through the same cycle as VT2 to get to this point. It unironically did take 3 years for VT2 to get to this point as well. We are right about at the same level that it was when VT2 started to gain traction back.
Gotta love getting a message from the astra telepathica requesting my attention. Decided to download Darktide again only to see a big itemization rework has finally arrived. PRAISE THE EMPEROR!
Its still so fucked because i bought a Series S specifically for Darktide right when they pulled it from the store without telling anyone. Gonna switch ti PlayStation in the mext gen or pc because this is bullshit
@@jeambeam3173Please switch PC. Many PS games come to pc now and 100% of xbox games are on PC. It's just a better investment (long term) You can still play on Tv and with controller.
Can I just say Bticky thamk you for introducing to the beautiful world of Warhamet 40k, I began playing spacr marines 2 and I realised most of the lore in the game I also realised how much of a great game it is far beyond just the gameplay
Grabbed a weapon from Melk after the update for giggles and he gave me a purple heavy sword with quad 80s at the maximum potential on my Zealot. Violence will be happening with that once I i can afford to max it out.
OMG. Nobody tolled me you actually have to PUT the Blessings ON the Emperor lovin Weapon for it to work!!! And there I was thinking my guns OP as fk without any actual blessings on the damned thing.
Didn't like how after the update, the first time I loaded in, my veterans prior talents were completely gone. I only knew cause when I had 3 teammates down and pressed F, he didn't yell and nobody got up, and then had to respect. All my other characters were completely fine, I wonder how many others had this happen, cause I've never experienced that before.
Thanks Bricky! As someone who dips in and out of the game, looks like it will now be easier to experiment with a wider variety of weapons and builds rather than just stick to the few that I've gotten comfortable with. Can someone confirm for my snotling brain that it doesn't matter anymore when you roll a weapon what rating it has, as they can all be pushed to max eventually, perks and blessing can be swapped out, and what matters is just the distribution of stats on the weapon?
Although I believe max potential for stats shifts around for each individual weapon but it's not really that noticeable unless you're running auric damnations all the time
I bet some players of darktide will complain about the itemized update is bad and they spent alot hours and ingame resources to take out a 1: (mini bosses) plague ogryen/beast of nurgel/chaos spawn/deamon host as quickly as possible. Or 2: take out a hoard as quickly as possible. (I.E. don't get me on the required skill lists to speedrun the game)
Performance is a million times better than at launch. I've got an old laptop with a 1650ti and 16gb of ram and I'm now able to run it at 60 fps on medium settings with barely any issues of frame dips or input lag. Game looks gorgeous even at those settings. For comparison, at launch darktide basically didn't work at all on my laptop, with maybe 15 fps maximum at the lowest possible settings, and space marine 2 currently has horribly textural issues and tons of input lag on my laptop.
now fatshark can focus on DLCing the fuck out of us like vermintide and having weapons and maps locked behind. which is fine. as long as they dont pull a winds of magic
Just spent hours leveling up a recon lasgun to max level to find out I cannot increase it's damage from 66/80 to 80/80. What a waste of time. Guess that's me done with darktide yet again. What a joke, what was the point of this update exactly?
Can someone explain what the warp happened to the game ? Last time I played was back in january, the game ran smooth, I played again yesterday and it ran like shit with the same settings...
Shader cache generates over an hour or two as you play instead of pre-generating in a long loading screen when you start the game. Every time the game updates, the shaders need to regenerate. Honestly, it’s best to click the “reset graphics settings” and “empty shader cache” buttons in the launcher after every update. After the shaders regenerate, it’ll go back to being buttery smooth.
The 27% is what you currently have, but the maximum potential is 60% after you empower it. For example, i have a weapon like the Shock Maul, and the Power stat is 70%, but it can reach 80%, which is the max cap for all weapons for power. All weapons have different potentials like I can have the same weapon, but one has a max of 80 in Defense while another, which is identical, has a max of 60% instead. Keep playing to find the perfect stats for your builds.
I mean the malestoms/reg map pools are pretty good at cycling though so idk what your on about lol. Rn there is the train mission that is perm there since it's the new one.
Biggest problem i have with the update is lack of actual content dropping. Especially for me who already maxed out all 4 classes and thats the most interesting part of the game for me. The changes to the perk tree are nice but.... Theres not really enough meat for me to grind out the weapon levels. Orygn needs so much more to his roster. Big boy needs more stuff to play with. This is a good first step i would call this game now at ehh 1.0 status? For a new player this is a perfect time to jump in and check out everything. The mark system is actually really exciting because it gives a framework for the next update which is the one im waiting on now that we have gotten rid of the horrible slot machine bingo.
You get bots as far as I can tell. At least that's what happend to me when all 3 of my teammates left because the got bopped and got angy. And the bots are actually pretty okay.
@@majyek your damn right they don’t especially with this well below subpar game if you want a fun l4d like, deep rock galactic is way more worth your time
great, cool. but still no solo mode or campaign or anything. that was a deal breaker for back 4 blood, it still is for darktide. i don't have friends to engage in wh40k and i sure as shit am not playing with randos, because it's a horrible experience in this game. i'm still not gonna replay this.
@@Redditor6079 i understand that. i also find it very entertaining. however, trying to upgrade any gun with a pick-up group is almost impossible in Darktide *exactly* because it's chaotic. one minute everything is fine, the next, we lost the mission because two people committed suicide just because they weren't patient enough to just walk past the Daemonhost without pressing buttons, we wasted precious time, ammo and resources, and a beast of nurgle appeared on the way to their respawn point.
@@Redditor6079 perhaps. and maybe this game is not even for me to begin with. but still. if Fat Shark want to *advertise* they're doing a bad job at it. because giving me the choice of either sweating my ass off for an entire run, or be okay with people throwing games because it's "only a 2-stars mission" i'm not gonna put up with it. still to this day i'm annoyed that i paid 45 dollars on this game.
I take it'll not be an endless grind for that lucky blessing? Unless i missed the point of this whole rework / update (beimg a while away from the game and wasen't capped)
THIS JUST IN:
Local Night lord sympathizer shows how to create the best skinning knife.
Bricky laying out the info brick by brick.
Brickem bois
He's a Brick and I'm drowning slowly
And rocks 🪨
This is horrible for Bricky because now we can unbrick the bricked weapons
Great, succinct rundown. Minor critique: When talking about a UI element make sure that element isn't behind your cam.
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I think the update is not only a big step forward its really refreshing and focusing on progression is fun with QoL sprinkled in. Its great.
The new map which is free but also short it hectic and hella fun with a great atmosphere i really enjoy. I love looking at the train go by the entire hive city.
Going forward i would say having more diverse maps and more maps in general, this is a live service game and i can see big potentional to progression and play retention with more content such as maps, higher level cap, new weapons, new abilities, new classes even.
I personally want more maps and some seems samey and theres only a select handful to grind on. For a multiplayer game i would basically adpot an mmo style/destiny for content. Because in the future player retention is what matters most.
This update Bricked my Power Level 506 Force Staff :(
But it's otherwise a lot of fun!
Rip my 506 revolver
I deleted my entire inventory 40+ transcendant because I didn't know how the sacrifice feature worked. Oh well, at least RNG Hadron is gone.
Game is a lot less rng and has actual proper progression now so I'm not even mad
@@Redditor6079 Oh fuck, guess you gotta work for all those level 4 blessings
@@fedweezy4976 yeah it ain't that bad though the new mastery system makes it a breeze to get them back. Just keep running Auric Heresy and then dump it all into weapons bought from Brunt and upgraded to green by Hadron. Sacrifice about 30 of those for a full mastery on a weapon.
"Am out of points you get the point" was that a pun bricky 😂😂
Bricky, tell me how to get to round 300 on bloons tower defense 6. Since you know how to deal with inept bloons players after playing with coddon.
Conrad Curze favourite game, bloons td 6. So sad he only got glue gunners in the end.
The easiest is having a good farm setup and spam paragons.
Sniper Monkey
@@camolot2102what hero is the best?
@@roachies4242 if you going for high rounds specifically Ben is usually the way to go since you can jump start your economy pretty quickly with him, however if you want a hero to preform well into the late game Adora/Psi/Geraldo/Sauda are also solid picks.
Literally bricking myself up rn fr fr
I needed this guide last night. I became more confused as I kept looking at it last night 🙌🏼👏🏼
I don't know who has the stiffy for RNG at Fatshark, but they need to get stop and get some help. It's an unhealthy obsession.
They can't seem to kick it, so they kept it in for the base weapon potential. It seems like a compulsion that they _need_ to have some sort of RNG in the end game progression. We can't have the weapons at the end game be able to be customized the way that we want, oh no. We have to have some RNG system saying what the maximum can be for our stats.
I know that it's minimal effect on most people's gear now. What's the point of keeping it? Either it's so insignificant that there's no point to keeping it instead of allowing us full control, or it's significant enough to matter and that is enough to frustrate players away from the game (as RNG has been doing since launch).
Now that you mention it, it *doesn't* really add much to the experience, huh? Weird...
Cause the whole game is shit has been since day 1 hence why they keep trying to restructure the terrible foundation no solo mod bugs on bugs and each update with a new feature that it breaks not even to mention the new class we were suppose to get every quarter they have been playing catchup for 2 years this game needs to die and hiring influencer shill bricky that will happily bounce on anything that has a games workshop logo on it is not gonna help this terminal game
Especially when the progression system they made is good enough to stand on its own now. Seems so out of place. The RNG presumably existed to extend playtime due to a lack of a progression system. That's not a problem anymore
I was looking for a TLDR on youtube and wasn’t expecting to see Bricky doing it lmao.
The sound effect when the blessing level goes up sounds like a Techpriest Mongolian Throatsinger
i like the new mastery system. previously i just stuck to a weapon set i liked (or two) and never used anything else. since the update dropped, i've been levelling up new weapons and some of them genuinely grew on me
oh they miss labeled the catachan knives. i mean "KNOIFE"
theres only one thing we need now, them to change the cosmetic market to not be a rotation, but be like the vermintide 2 system (you can buy anything at any time)
Thank you so much for this video. I was so lost after coming back from a break
Game finally feels like it's at a baseline. Having real progression is huge and something they can realistically build on top of. Hopefully this means we will start seeing more maps/missions and stuff in the nearish future.
Really hate that we basically went through the same cycle as VT2 to get to this point. It unironically did take 3 years for VT2 to get to this point as well. We are right about at the same level that it was when VT2 started to gain traction back.
Man. I was so confused when I logged in after almost a year.
Did Bricky steal this from the Darktide channel? I already have seen it there from someone called "Bricky"
Hadron my beloved
I had never looked up, thanks bricky, i didnt know there was a roof in the ship
I was hoping the masteries would act as passives that get added to your character as you unlock them rather than just options to add to a weapon
It sounds like he's getting bricked up just by the notion of new Night Lord themed knives.
Gotta love getting a message from the astra telepathica requesting my attention. Decided to download Darktide again only to see a big itemization rework has finally arrived. PRAISE THE EMPEROR!
thanks, I hadn't got in to the update yet so this was pretty useful
git blessin' ya git
Thanks for doing this video. It helped my dad navigate the new update.
it's the best time to start. I would start from zero if I could, just to experience the progression
Its fun to find a Quadruple 80% stat weapon and lvling it up by empowering it.
Thank you for the lesson, Brickazoid
Glad the game is finally out of early access. This system was supposed to come with 1.0 like a year ago lol.
Its still so fucked because i bought a Series S specifically for Darktide right when they pulled it from the store without telling anyone. Gonna switch ti PlayStation in the mext gen or pc because this is bullshit
@@jeambeam3173 PC. Sony is insane these days. I wouldn't support them at all.
@@jeambeam3173 I'd highly recommend PC
@@jeambeam3173Please switch PC. Many PS games come to pc now and 100% of xbox games are on PC. It's just a better investment (long term) You can still play on Tv and with controller.
@@jeambeam3173just buy a PC bro
Can I just say Bticky thamk you for introducing to the beautiful world of Warhamet 40k, I began playing spacr marines 2 and I realised most of the lore in the game
I also realised how much of a great game it is far beyond just the gameplay
Pretty dang based move form the Devs to get Bricky explain the update.
Grabbed a weapon from Melk after the update for giggles and he gave me a purple heavy sword with quad 80s at the maximum potential on my Zealot. Violence will be happening with that once I i can afford to max it out.
OMG. Nobody tolled me you actually have to PUT the Blessings ON the Emperor lovin Weapon for it to work!!! And there I was thinking my guns OP as fk without any actual blessings on the damned thing.
Bricky:" *finishes intro* ...fantastic"
All the 40k loyalist fans: *frothing at the mouth* "... HERESY!"
LOL 🤣
After 186 hours I will finally get the blessing I've farmed for since like hour 4!
Yay I've been waiting to stream this update
Nice, I will have to give this a try.
I still don't understand what I do with my grey/white items if I don't want to update them. I can't even sacrifice them if not updated to green...
I know this is two weeks old and all but the answer is Discard them which will give you Ordo dockets
Get that bag king
Not once but twice
Didn't like how after the update, the first time I loaded in, my veterans prior talents were completely gone. I only knew cause when I had 3 teammates down and pressed F, he didn't yell and nobody got up, and then had to respect. All my other characters were completely fine, I wonder how many others had this happen, cause I've never experienced that before.
Max 380 stats would explain why I rolled a bunch of 80/80/80/80/60 weapon. Unfortunate
DUS I HAV MOAR SHEILDS SAH?
Thanks Bricky! As someone who dips in and out of the game, looks like it will now be easier to experiment with a wider variety of weapons and builds rather than just stick to the few that I've gotten comfortable with. Can someone confirm for my snotling brain that it doesn't matter anymore when you roll a weapon what rating it has, as they can all be pushed to max eventually, perks and blessing can be swapped out, and what matters is just the distribution of stats on the weapon?
Yeah pretty much, it's honestly everything I was at least looking for
Although I believe max potential for stats shifts around for each individual weapon but it's not really that noticeable unless you're running auric damnations all the time
@@draskk3471 thank you sah 🙏
@Dextrous no problem big man, keep braining muties with that rock
Bricky getting sticky
So what does the color of weapon means now?
Ill get the game when it goes on sale for ≥50% off
It's on 50% sale right now!
Also Gamepass. Which is worth it as you get Darktide, Insurgency Sandstorm, and Hell Let Loose which i play all the time
So . . . right now?
I bet some players of darktide will complain about the itemized update is bad and they spent alot hours and ingame resources to take out a
1: (mini bosses) plague ogryen/beast of nurgel/chaos spawn/deamon host as quickly as possible.
Or
2: take out a hoard as quickly as possible.
(I.E. don't get me on the required skill lists to speedrun the game)
Do you think if he could, bricky would mod it so thr ogryn threw a brick instead of a chunk of concrete
The emperor wills it
Thanks for the info Bricky.😺
Can you play Solo with Bots now, like in Vermintide 2?
Can’t believe Darktide added the Marx system this is sick
So the game finally released
Honestly this is amazing and so so much nicer then what they had before it was so nightmarish To handle I hated it
How is the performance nowadays?
Performance is a million times better than at launch. I've got an old laptop with a 1650ti and 16gb of ram and I'm now able to run it at 60 fps on medium settings with barely any issues of frame dips or input lag. Game looks gorgeous even at those settings. For comparison, at launch darktide basically didn't work at all on my laptop, with maybe 15 fps maximum at the lowest possible settings, and space marine 2 currently has horribly textural issues and tons of input lag on my laptop.
Optimization is the one thing that has been getting better almost everytime I do like a few weeks of darktide
It's way better
Better, but turn off FSR 3.1 if you wanna avoid crashes, as its apparently bugged.
@@Howesterino Overall just turn off the fancy shit that brings basically nothing to the game. Like ray tracing and such
Are these weapon trees account-wide or character-bound?
Account wide, makes boosting yourself if you're already at level cap much easier
Another brick on the wall
That's coold and all, but did they fix the sound?
Its fixed for me and I had problems with it even after their previous 5 fixes
@@Poppenheimer69 That's good for you. I played a month ago and it was worse than ever. I'll try it out then for myself.
How do you get blessing points?
By increasing the mastery level of your desired weapon
@@willb1405 thank you!
MAN WHAT
now fatshark can focus on DLCing the fuck out of us like vermintide and having weapons and maps locked behind. which is fine. as long as they dont pull a winds of magic
Oh thank god it's not one of those progressions you have to reset to raise level cap. Those are bad feels.
But also more apropriate. Currently you need to complete like 7 missions on the highest difficulty to max your masteries. Thats a lil too fast i think
Just spent hours leveling up a recon lasgun to max level to find out I cannot increase it's damage from 66/80 to 80/80. What a waste of time. Guess that's me done with darktide yet again. What a joke, what was the point of this update exactly?
fucking finally
Love to see it
Thicc charadon ftw
Can someone explain what the warp happened to the game ? Last time I played was back in january, the game ran smooth, I played again yesterday and it ran like shit with the same settings...
Check that settings menu before you enter the game. I think there is a frame generation option turned on for AMD even if you're using nvidia.
Also check your GPU drivers when big name games like this get big updates it's not uncommon for gpus drivers to have updates
Shader cache generates over an hour or two as you play instead of pre-generating in a long loading screen when you start the game. Every time the game updates, the shaders need to regenerate.
Honestly, it’s best to click the “reset graphics settings” and “empty shader cache” buttons in the launcher after every update. After the shaders regenerate, it’ll go back to being buttery smooth.
@@Kobrenko Thank you, will check 😁🤚
@@brandonkinchsular6437 true, thank you 😁
As long as the game does cross character weapon leveling then I'm down to clown
They hired the right person for the job.
Jethro Tull had no idea there would ever be a brick this thick 🎉
Bricky can you ask FS when we will be given a Scoped Hotshot Ryza lasgun or a Scoped Hotshot Marksman rifle?
The only thing I didn't understand is the fluctuation in weapon stats.
The fuck you mean my Thunderhammer has between 27% and 60% in defense?
The 27% is what you currently have, but the maximum potential is 60% after you empower it. For example, i have a weapon like the Shock Maul, and the Power stat is 70%, but it can reach 80%, which is the max cap for all weapons for power. All weapons have different potentials like I can have the same weapon, but one has a max of 80 in Defense while another, which is identical, has a max of 60% instead. Keep playing to find the perfect stats for your builds.
To answer the question plainly, the 60% is the max potential stat if you upgrade it fully while 27% is your current.
that's cool and all. can't wait to upgrade my weapons by playing same three maps over and over again.
I mean the malestoms/reg map pools are pretty good at cycling though so idk what your on about lol. Rn there is the train mission that is perm there since it's the new one.
@@camolot2102That's because you're happy to eat slop as long as a 40k logo is on it.
@@barnebyoconnell8176 what a good retort, really got me with that one!
Biggest problem i have with the update is lack of actual content dropping. Especially for me who already maxed out all 4 classes and thats the most interesting part of the game for me.
The changes to the perk tree are nice but.... Theres not really enough meat for me to grind out the weapon levels. Orygn needs so much more to his roster. Big boy needs more stuff to play with.
This is a good first step i would call this game now at ehh 1.0 status?
For a new player this is a perfect time to jump in and check out everything.
The mark system is actually really exciting because it gives a framework for the next update which is the one im waiting on now that we have gotten rid of the horrible slot machine bingo.
Cool. Good to see that the game keeps improving. One question though.
Can you finally play solo?
You get bots as far as I can tell. At least that's what happend to me when all 3 of my teammates left because the got bopped and got angy. And the bots are actually pretty okay.
To answer your question no you can’t
@@XOSKELENTON Ah shite. Welp I guess Fatshark doesn't need my money.
@@majyek your damn right they don’t especially with this well below subpar game if you want a fun l4d like, deep rock galactic is way more worth your time
@@XOSKELENTON I had fun with it. Not ever game needs to be literal perfection.
FATSHARKKKKKK, GIVE ME A CROSS PLAYABLE PS5 RELEASE, AND MY WALLET IS YOURS.
great, cool. but still no solo mode or campaign or anything. that was a deal breaker for back 4 blood, it still is for darktide. i don't have friends to engage in wh40k and i sure as shit am not playing with randos, because it's a horrible experience in this game.
i'm still not gonna replay this.
Nah randos is the shit! My favorite is when gunlugger ogryn gets netted by a trapper in the middle of a mixed horde.
@@Redditor6079 i understand that. i also find it very entertaining. however, trying to upgrade any gun with a pick-up group is almost impossible in Darktide *exactly* because it's chaotic. one minute everything is fine, the next, we lost the mission because two people committed suicide just because they weren't patient enough to just walk past the Daemonhost without pressing buttons, we wasted precious time, ammo and resources, and a beast of nurgle appeared on the way to their respawn point.
@@Wargulf2838 maybe it's like that on Damnation but Heresy runs with randos aren't that bad.
@@Redditor6079 perhaps. and maybe this game is not even for me to begin with. but still. if Fat Shark want to *advertise* they're doing a bad job at it. because giving me the choice of either sweating my ass off for an entire run, or be okay with people throwing games because it's "only a 2-stars mission" i'm not gonna put up with it. still to this day i'm annoyed that i paid 45 dollars on this game.
Yep
It's et cetera, not ec cetera
Ayy
Ah yes… The nightlords simp explaining why knifes are the best to make enemies feel the most pain
Do you like this game now?
I don't see how this fixes what the game is missing.
I take it'll not be an endless grind for that lucky blessing?
Unless i missed the point of this whole rework / update
(beimg a while away from the game and wasen't capped)
And explain what's missing? Because I don't see how your comment makes sense without you explaining what you mean
Too little too late. Should have listened to the community 2 years ago.
This dude doesn’t even play this game
Ah yes… The nightlords simp explaining why knifes are the best to make enemies feel the most pain