skitarii-class

[twin oxide]

Amaul having stupid CC, stupid ADMs, and stupid damage all in one while smaul is over there being a Sunday driver

[golden marsh]

I mean how many of vulkans relics are left

[silk lantern]

at least 3

i think

[acoustic dagger]

I don't understand the pfalch hate tbh
Perfectly fine weapon imo

[silk lantern]

its bad

[sour lava]

powersword exists

[silk lantern]

rashad exists

[sour lava]

rashad my beloved ...

[golden marsh]

Rashad?

[sour lava]

combat axe

[acoustic dagger]

OP weapons get boring after a while

[golden marsh]

Power sword is op?

[silk lantern]

ye

[sour lava]

ok

[acoustic dagger]

Also ps needing power cycler blessing to really maximize that output is miserable, why does that blessing exist

[silk lantern]

one of the best melees in the game

[silk lantern]

because PS with slaughterer+sunder/bm would be even more fucking busted

[acoustic dagger]

Fair I suppose

[sour lava]

it should be incorporated

[golden marsh]

Idk I swear some ppl are cheating. I have tried to copy builds and they never do the insane damage I see in vids

[silk lantern]

in its current state fuck no

[sour lava]

you need autism

[sterile tendon]

vet moment is when you can use psword but its psword so you dont wanna then theres pfalchion but its pfalchion

[acoustic dagger]

It's because builds are only one part of it, you also need the mechanical skill to pull off a good run

[lime mauve]

To hold it back from utterly dominating

In Dark Heresy (and just about every other lore or game depiction), Power Weapons basically just slice right through mundane weapons, they are far superior and limited only by rarity (which wouldn't apply in this game)

[acoustic dagger]

No kind of op build can be a substitute for practicing positioning, attack timing and target priority until you have all of that internalized

[sour lava]

haha psyker go zap

[sterile tendon]

power weapon propaganda actually

not that good

[acoustic dagger]

Smykers are the worst players in the game lol

[sterile tendon]

rarity is also making artificial scarcity to sell more power weapons

[sour lava]

other zap

[sour lava]

big relic doesn't want you to know

[lime mauve]

Big Power Weapon enshittifying Power Swords, used to be able to go way longer between reactivations smdh

[sterile tendon]

you need the subscription to get longer activations

[silk lantern]

anyways pfalchion sucks

[sour lava]

power sword app

[sterile tendon]

but it damages the blade so you gotta spend more

pfalchion no aura no damage no uniqueness

[silk lantern]

not really any redeeming qualities on it to make it worth using over other options besides being bored of those other options

[sour lava]

i was hoping itd be like relic blade when it was announced
oops its terrible

[lime mauve]

Yeah
Power Falchion doesn't need to be busted but giving a weapon an extra limiter like a heat bar, and then making it not very good even when powered on, just makes it miserable

[silk lantern]

mechanically it is like relic blade
balance wise it is one of the most pointless weapons in the game

[sterile tendon]

aura wise it has none

[lime mauve]

We got all kinds of weaoons that are mid and don't overheat on you

[sterile tendon]

why would you want a weapon thats just relic blade but lamer

[sour lava]

relic blade is just goated

[median steeple]

Anything that isn't a shovel or a pickaxe is cringe, change my mind :3

[silk lantern]

and fatshark still refuses to give it actually meaningful buffs

[oak ember]

what about fists

[acoustic dagger]

I like it because it's what I wanted the chsword to be

[lime mauve]

Rock

[silk lantern]

wdym

[median steeple]

Ok for fists, and the bully club because the slap-a-thon is fun. Alright fair

[sour lava]

ogryn brass knuckles when

[median steeple]

Anything not a shovel or an Ogryn is cringe

[acoustic dagger]

Jack of all trades with a good special

[median steeple]

I dont like the chain sword, i find it lacking in damage

[acoustic dagger]

Pretty much

[sterile tendon]

chain weps in this game have alawys just felt "ok"

[silk lantern]

idk if i would call it that

[acoustic dagger]

Mediocre damage and a special attack that mostly just puts you in undue danger

Also the quintessential 40k larp weapon

[sour lava]

cant wait to complain about skibitarii in skibitarii general

[silk lantern]

falchion damage is also eh

[acoustic dagger]

It's just generational aura loss that chsword is such a low tier choice yknow

[silk lantern]

and falchion unpowered is just abysmal

[sterile tendon]

shoulda just been pfalchion and gun

[median steeple]

Embrace shovelness

[acoustic dagger]

Yeah good vs trash and unarmored only rlly

[sterile tendon]

so its not literally just relic blade

[silk lantern]

falchion needs a lot of tweaks to be an actually good weapon

cause rn the only reason to use it is if youre bored of the other options

[acoustic dagger]

Perhaps

Anyways where skit blogpost grrrrr

[silk lantern]

tomorrow

[acoustic dagger]

I'm a readjak I wanna read

[mellow storm]

Did someone says fists? https://youtu.be/Abrgd1SZgrk?si=k3RR_hlfVBMIG2N6

[acoustic dagger]

Fr?

[silk lantern]

yes

same as skitarii

[acoustic dagger]

Excellent

[silk lantern]

which are tomorrow

[acoustic dagger]

SKITARI BLOG TOMORROW WOOOOOO

[silk lantern]

skitarii tomorrow

[mellow storm]

Skitarii blog is probably today

[sterile tendon]

fs took too long ogryns going out with no weapon to protest

[oak ember]

skitarii faction focus today

[median steeple]

Secutarii class with Gravitic Shield and Electro-lance tomorrow

[oak ember]

onager dunecrawler class tomorrow

[lime mauve]

Administratum Clerk tomorrow

[marsh lagoon]

I don't have a lot of info about the Skitarii, are they cyborgs?

[little plume]

The servo skull should automatically proceed scanning missions

[merry relic]

https://tenor.com/view/skitarii-warhammer-40k-skitarii-skitarii-warhammer-40k-warhammer-40k-gif-11143260426097156241

we should have this guy

[last dagger]

skitarii wait is tooooo long we need a servo skull to acquire this technology

any voluntary servo skull??

[stark fiber]

is the dev blog coming out today?

[silk lantern]

tomorrow

same as skitarii

[golden marsh]

Nah skitari blog in 5 minutes

[sterile tendon]

tomorrow

[golden marsh]

Oh yeah

Mr smart guy

[acoustic dagger]

That's tomorrow

SKITARII TOMORROW WOOOOO

[golden marsh]

Where it say

[golden marsh]

How do you know it’s not today?

Isn’t stuff usually announced mid day?

[silk lantern]

because skitarii tomorrow

[golden marsh]

What about skitari today?

What about second breakfast

[sterile tendon]

its always tomorrow

[acoustic dagger]

Because it's literally tomorros

Tomorrow

[silk lantern]

tomorros

[golden marsh]

Today is tomorrow is today

[sterile tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/that's-bait-fishing-thats-bait-time-to-go-fishing-dark-souls-gif-12687109592345272249

[pure portal]

Skidrowri

Man I sure do hope its gonna be peak musket gameplay

[karmic verge]

Perchance

[old otter]

They is like Hadron, but Hadron have a plasma gun and a power sword

[pliant hollow]

The base armor and Vanguard set are enough for me anyways

[pliant hollow]

They're the cybernetically enhanced foot soldiers of the Mechanicus that are overseen and commanded by tech priests. Ours are alpha primus though so they're able to operate more independently than the usual Skitarii.

[wet ginkgo]

I am fucking laughing at this

[jade thistle]

I don't think it's Vanguards, I think it's Rangers and an obscure variant of ruststalker.

Actually what kind of blades again?

[pliant hollow]

Rangers are the base cosmetics, in the trailer they showed a look at the Vanguard armor

[mellow storm]

it's actually a ton of fun to play, ngl. Took a shitload of work to get everything working more-or-less right too. Probably needs another balance pass, but it's fun and the fantasy is great

[jade thistle]

Those are rangers, not vanguard.

Vanguard look like this

[pliant hollow]

I know.

[wet ginkgo]

its a visual mod?

Or you made some funny customization

[jade thistle]

Concepts are concepts, not certain these are going to be in or if they were on the drawing board and they said no.

http://puu.sh/KNFOX/770393da56.jpg

Rangers are the base, which are on the right.

[wet ginkgo]

That is more likely the premium shop set tbh

[mellow storm]

it's a custom weapon I made with this mod I wrote https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/648 to give the mk2 bully club that moveset, and then I used extended weapon customization to make the club itself invisible

[jade thistle]

No the premium set is what's on the left.

[pliant hollow]

Alright well I'm 90 percent sure its gonna be a store cosmetic so if I'm wrong smite me

[wet ginkgo]

shop*

[white drum]

SERVO SKULL DRIP!

[glossy pebble]

I wonder when we'll get some sort of info on skitarii. I remember with Arby's and hive scum,when they released the trailers it wasnt long until we got a deep dive/info on it

[jade thistle]

I do hope it is in there, but I also don't think we're getting any weapons that are exclusively in use by the Vanguards.

[wet ginkgo]

they will drop weekly devblogs

[jade thistle]

Lemme see something

[pliant hollow]

I don't rlly care about that all I care about is the armor

[wet ginkgo]

it is usually on tuesdays or thursdays but few cases they release on fridays

[pliant hollow]

Looking good is more important than killing

And all I will be using is the Galvanic rifle

Because its my favorite looking 40k weapon of all time

[lean glen]

It's drip or drown in Atoma, and baby... I'm fuckin' floating

[jade thistle]

Sure but the cosmetics also appear to be tied to the wargear, the ARC weapons and galvinic rifle are used by the rangers for example.

If we get plasma cavaliers maybe.

That'd be fun.

[silk lantern]

the images for the other deluxe editions showed the default/penance cosmetics on the right

[pliant hollow]

Arc weapons and radium carbines are also used by Vanguards

[jade thistle]

We don't have word on radium weapons at all, and Vanguards don't use the galvinic rifle is if recall.

[pliant hollow]

They don't usually

[silk lantern]

the skit on the right is also straight up just one of the three from the trailer

[jade thistle]

Yes.

[jade thistle]

Ranger alphas take radium pistols sometimes.

Actually aren't we getting a phosphor pistol?

[pliant hollow]

Yeah

[silk lantern]

phosphor blaster ye

[jade thistle]

Forgot where though.

[silk lantern]

steam page

[jade thistle]

Anyway Galvinic rifle I think.. Isn't it the weapon of choice for the Rangers?

[wet ginkgo]

Talking about the concept art

[jade thistle]

That makes sense.

[pliant hollow]

Its the standard issue for Rangers

[jade thistle]

Hence why the default is the ranger.

[silk lantern]

what about the concept art

[wet ginkgo]

Potentially being a premium cosmetic set

[silk lantern]

could also be penance

[wet ginkgo]

Too drippy to be penance

[silk lantern]

nah scum penance cosmetics were fire

[pliant hollow]

Just like Arbites got their trench coat alt set in the shop, I am staking my life we will get Vanguards as the shop set for Skitarii.

And it'll be the only set I use

[jagged marten]

oh my gawddddd haiiii talviiiiiiiiiii

[pliant hollow]

Haiiii Yamato

https://tenor.com/view/hi-signalis-eule-gif-1545556238155719569

[warm pulsar]

https://tenor.com/view/dogdiesamengodbless-gif-23866738

[jade thistle]

There are two kinds of Tau fans.

Or

I'd post the image but I start burning if I do horny.

[silk lantern]

skill issue ngl

[pliant hollow]

I like long range infantry, mechs, and the gue'vesa

[jade thistle]

Never goon.

[jade thistle]

See, I will say, the Tau would benefit from actually being the multi-alien alliance they are in lore.

There should be significantly more auxiliary infantry.

[jagged marten]

i like commander farsight

[pliant hollow]

Glory to the farsight enclave

I wish we got to see more Tau in games

I wish to fight something other than Chaos

[jagged marten]

i remember people getting mad over the little tree branch on his standard btw

they said it was too weeb

[jade thistle]

40k got generational trauma from this one image since 3rd edition

[silk lantern]

i dont get it

[jade thistle]

Almost all the hate stems from this image and most people don't even know.

[pliant hollow]

Faction inspired by NATO with the Aesthetics headed by weebs

[jade thistle]

"Previously, the Devilfish transport for the Tau counted as a skimmer at all times. It was also very large for a transport (a Devilfish is notably longer than a Chimera, for example). The general gist is that a player would park 2 Devilfish close together in a chevron formation, have the troops disembark, and fire from a basically assault-proof bunker caused by the pair of Devilfish. Units couldn't charge around the 'Fish (because they were too big and due to the rules on charges), and while they could charge the 'Fish itself, Skimmer rules only let you hit on 6s, so it was likely to be a futile gesture.

The tactic was insanely powerful, though not unbeatable. Canny players knew the disadvantages Devilfish had and would ergo target them with lots of heavy weaponry - but because of Disruption Pods, Devilfish often proved surprisingly difficult for many factions, especially those with limited anti-tank options, such as the Orks, Tyranids, and Necrons. The 5th-ed tactic of rushing in a METAL BOX and unloading Meltaguns into the fish was suicidal, because 4th ed brought us the chance to destroy vehicles with glancing hits - and two full formations of Fire Warriors (not to mention the Devilfish transports if they survived) would mean a mulched Rhino and the Marines inside facing down 30+ S5 shots in Rapid Fire range.

The only reliable tricks to beat Fish of Fury were deployed by Chaos, the Imperial Guard, the Inquisition, and the Space Marines. These four factions either had ways to get big ugly close-combat troops right into the enemy's midst (Chaos, Inquisition, Space Marines), artillery that could fuck up the shit of the entire Devilfish-bunker (Imperial Guard, Inquisition, Space Marines), or big fucking ordnance weapons that could render the tactic a moot point (all of the above). Even for these factions, however, the tactic was infuriatingly hard to stop: one Devilfish-bunker could dictate the flow of an entire battle, and attempts to destroy the damned bunker would invariably be met by Stealthsuit and Crisis Suit teams ambushing your forces, markerlights showering everything, and of course, railguns. "

[jagged marten]

tldr

[jade thistle]

You could make an impenetrable bunker really easily and there was genuinely no counter.

[jagged marten]

i see

[jade thistle]

Worse if you weren't chaos, guard, inquisition, or space marines.

Since they had arty at least.

Anyway in game

[undone palm]

skitarii to far away .-. need naooow

[silk lantern]

skitarii tomorrow

[pliant hollow]

Skitarii today

If you pray

[uncut cloak]

Skitarii in a certain amount of hours

[pliant hollow]

Skitarii is a mindset

I am already Skitarii

[jagged marten]

this is u

[pliant hollow]

Not enough Vanguards

[rocky gust]

Quit posting in this server.

[undone palm]

I really hope skitarii has a good melee build

[jade thistle]

No. 🗿

[zealous eagle]

skitarii will not have a good melee build

it just veteran 2.0, and we know veteran canno't do melee

[rocky gust]

I'll fucking get you...

[jade thistle]

I'll get and fuck you.

[jagged marten]

https://gif.fxtwitter.com/tweet_video/HI3j5LiWQAA8zlp.webp

[jagged marten]

my servo skulls are going to zap to the extreme!

[zealous eagle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1496429927724089406/1508264351054692493/Freeman.gif

[silk lantern]

surely

[pliant hollow]

Say that to my combat knife

[zealous eagle]

nope

review said so

veteran 2.0, no melee

[undone palm]

https://klipy.com/gifs/arnold-schwarzenegger-knife

[white blade]

Mr e confirmed Skittles vet 2.0?

My opinion has been formed for me?

[zealous eagle]

mr wee

[astral apex]

ADMECH

ADMEEEEEEEEEEECH

SCREAM ADMECH IN CHAT

[undone palm]

well i was gonna but now im not

[silk lantern]

skitarii tomorrow

[sharp aurora]

how are you here 24/7 typing skitarii tomorrow

[undone palm]

its always tomorrow

[jagged marten]

skitarii yesterday

[pliant hollow]

Its always TODAY!

[jagged marten]

new poe2 league tomorrow!

https://klipy.com/gifs/path-of-exile-path-of-exile-2-2

[pliant hollow]

Just play FF14

[jagged marten]

noes

[little plume]

Just play Dwarf fortress

[pliant hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-halo-wars-arbiter-forge-sgt-forge-gif-5480559627726524633

[jagged marten]

https://klipy.com/gifs/poe-2-path-of-exile-2-1

[jade thistle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/938172286131924993/1336027740197093386/Y2Mate.is_-_Rasknitt_Im_bored_Im_gonna_kill_you-pEnEa4_6Ub0-720p-1654580424894.mov?ex=6a19260b&is=6a17d48b&hm=0e4e4cc6aa4b485d9bef618ee99ae63decd882129f479f16e2612f6f057642e1&

Best chiropractor in Helmgart.

[astral apex]

Not this meme resurfacing....

I have enough nick-cage ptsd

please...

[dark ravine]

Beep beep boop

[marsh lagoon]

I assume they’re going to be high damage but quite squishy

[young panther]

the fuck you mean squishy ?

[jade thistle]

Less hp.

[young panther]

Skitarii are a bit tougher than a guardsman I would be surprised if they go for a more glass cannon-y angle for them

I'm more expecting an all rounder that leans to certain aspects based on which of the 4 trees you go down

[silk lantern]

we also already saw what happened last time fatshark tried a glass cannon

[young panther]

yeah I doubt they would repeat the mistake again in the same game

[jade thistle]

[regal cobalt]

We already have HS & Psyker

[pallid rock]

Nobody is actually allowed to be squishy in this game lol

[uncut cloak]

Hivescum is very squishy

looks inside

It's all top tier defensive talents

[regal cobalt]

Foids still fold & say its bad

[uncut cloak]

people were too traumatized by the first 20 levels of release hivescum

[grand sluice]

Every Darktide “glass cannon” class be like

[uncut cloak]

i don't blame them tbh

[regal cobalt]

Best part is; i wasn’t
But then again thats me…

[pliant hollow]

They're more steel than flesh so I doubt it

They're more durable than a Vet would be realistically

[uncut cloak]

i mean if you go by lore, they should be the most armoured

more than arbites even

as they wear something like a power armor (but it's carapace)

[jade thistle]

I've been putting off leveling ganger and it's genuinely agony.

[uncut cloak]

you shouldn't

[jade thistle]

Past tense.

Everyone knows armor is just cosmetic and this fellow is about as durable as the conscript in a t-shirt

[uncut cloak]

i mean isn't that just flak

[jade thistle]

Sure but people underestimate that flak genuinely is pretty good for the standards of what we're fighting.

I think in-game thus far the only character who is 'in-universe' is for sure wearing carapace is the arbites.

[uncut cloak]

yep i think so

[jade thistle]

Although and to be fair, this armor might also be carapace

Might.

[dense solstice]

Look at em

Lookin like a proper lad

[jagged marten]

https://www.kkinstagram.com/p/DY4vkcOlmHt/?igsh=MWdoaWJ4dG4xNGk4aA==

[spring ether]

that should be ult

[uncut cloak]

wow highguard crossover

[stiff pier]

I mean when 2 must have talents that are about toughness generation are at the bottom of the tree

People are gonna suffer

[heady aurora]

early hive scum I just ran a bunch of toughness regen and dodged a bunch, being used to psyker made it much easier to figure out

it was fairly squishy though

[uncut cloak]

you mean toughness regen on the curios?

[heady aurora]

that and the stim that gave toughness regen. I used it specifically while not overextrending to gain the actual regen from it because the durability was so bad at that point

dont have to now, but man what a time

[haughty galleon]

Stealing far far west's swag I see

[lusty granite]

Slopmancer inbound

[lean glen]

Look, I'm not saying that it would be a bad idea but robot people on robot horses SEEMS to be a winning idea. Also, imagine if one of the skit personalities is just YeeHaw

[left drift]

Doesn't the next devblog come out today?

[spring ether]

personality trained on ancient Western movies

[sand stump]

it's 9 pm in sweden

so unlikely

[radiant steppe]

Calling it, one of the personalities will only speak in numbers/dial up tones

[young panther]

While you hunger for news hunger for reals

at cream cheese, tomato, ham, seaweed sandwich

[uncut cloak]

yeah this made my hunger go away

[jade thistle]

Random annoyance I wish our infantry lasguns had aquillas on them.

Also, seaweed,

Maybe if it was toasted and you had strong mustard.

[brittle mortar]

ay yo new skittle render

[tough wedge]

No dev blog today? 😔

[lean glen]

I mean, it's a nice picture

[rose spoke]

dump stat on arc maul?

[lean glen]

Mobility, the motive force can move us enough

[spring ether]

Hype +5

[lean glen]

(I joke but that might really be the stat)

[silk lantern]

damage :3

[rose spoke]

oh ma gaaad im gonna arrrrc im arciiing ahhhg

[prime minnow]

arbites club part two

and arbites club was just shock club part two so

this is actually shock club part three

[silk lantern]

no

its shock club part two part two

[dense solstice]

[undone palm]

Shack club the tri force.

it'll be shockingly effective..

[fiery onyx]

i love blunt weapons

[jade thistle]

I love blunts.

[prime minnow]

counterpoint

We could have had ommnissian axe

[crystal token]

I kinda wonder how this one will compare to the other two

[prime minnow]

instead of Electric Club Part Three

[crystal token]

Omnissiah Axe would have been wonderful but I see why they didn't

Lore compliance

[silk lantern]

not really a skitarii thing

[crystal token]

Skitarii are cool but not cool enough for an Omnissiah Axe

[prime minnow]

Admech is an Admech is an Admech is an Admech

[lean glen]

The axe is a symbol of office. Priests get that, we don't

WE, however... get really fancy guns

[wet ginkgo]

https://x.com/i/status/2060081053822263342

Warhammer 40K: Darktide (@Darktide40K)

With their inhuman resilience and lethal precision the warriors of the Machine God will be instrumental in exterminating the taint of Chaos from Atoma.

X · May 28, 2026, 7:29 PM

Now that's a hot camera angle

[young panther]

I really do wonder

[jagged marten]

why is bro aura farming so hard

[young panther]

if we'll ever go into another hive

since we already went outside

[jagged marten]

why mention a sister hive if fatshark has no intention of letting us go there

morrow tells us to stfu about it because we dont have the clearance

and its dangerous information

[oak ember]

unrealistic, skitarii hold melee in left hand

[wet ginkgo]

The arc effect on that batton is so peak

The skitarii design too with the armour plates

[silk lantern]

prob because theyre already holding something on their right hand

[wet ginkgo]

Dual wield arc batton

[young panther]

They had to get the pimp slapping hand for this one

[opal thistle]

It’s gonna be like DT 4th or 5th mode or smth

[young panther]

Engaging the disrespect protocols

[jagged marten]

or turn expeditions into a massive community campaign

and once we reach the sister hive fatshark flips the switch into chaos wastes

[opal thistle]

lol u wish

But no the sister hive is just a map for expeditions

[young panther]

Honestly

expeditions in a hive ? I would not mind

cuz admittedly what else could they do with a sister hive's interior

that we don't already have

unless we were to go to like

the upper echelons of sister hive

[silk lantern]

havoc 2

[jagged marten]

i mean

[uncut cloak]

holy shit let's go more scrap buildings and grey

[jagged marten]

something is going on for the sister hive to be classified intel

[lean glen]

Make it like DRG Deep Dives. We going into the sister Hive for three back to back missions

[jagged marten]

like what if the sister hive is just 10x worse than atoma

[pallid rock]

Sister hive fell to the GSC and that's why nobody can talk about it.
Sefoni revealed it to me in a dream

[jagged marten]

with full on daemon incursions genestealers a blackstone fortress a massive whaaaaaaaagh and like 200 escaped khymera

[pallid rock]

Seriously though how do you hide a whole fuckin hive. Tertium is like 1/4 the visible planet from orbit

[silk lantern]

big blanket

[jagged marten]

The sister hive might be so desolated or jammers

Maybe there are extremely powerful psykers masking the pressence of the hive

[lean glen]

You know, if we could go the sister hive and experience a total war between Admonition and a GSC which Wolfer was NOT told about would be funny. Basically it's Wolfer having an active heart attack with the Cult leaders telling him that they have it under control and we are there to, as the kids say, raw dog that shit.

[jagged marten]

were already making the cult members go insane because of our actions

[lean glen]

You'd thing stress induced heart disease was Nurgle's doing

No, twas us!

[spring ether]

sister hive is where the leadership party

[deft dune]

give us more missions 💀 but they could do that already so whatever

[uncut cloak]

nah

how about another failed sidemode

[young panther]

the second hive having genestealers would be funny

like yes nurgle plague there, genestealers there

[deft dune]

What’s unfortunate is Mortis trials and Expeditions could easily be amazing modes if they leaned harder into it. Mortis trials needs more rewards and an unending mode and more modifiers.

Expeditions just needs to have a better goal, or to be made more fun—because while the environment is interesting it’s effectively darktide without a primary objective which turned out to feel really aimless

[silk lantern]

third hive has eldars

[young panther]

fourth hive has gretchin for some reason

xD

[silk lantern]

fuck is a gretchin

[uncut cloak]

don't worry, they got it now

they have one actual mode divided into two

now they just need to do 2+2

[deft dune]

at least we got skitarii

[opal thistle]

I like we all subconsciously consider havoc fked beyond repair

[deft dune]

I like havoc the way it is. But i’m also a masochist

I like feeling hopeless and having to fight against ridiculous odds. Auric doesn’t do it for me anymore

Side note: everything in the game could use more earnable cosmetics though.

[white blade]

Idk how you fix it

[silk lantern]

havoc 41

[white blade]

I mean clearly

[opal thistle]

3 difficulties (21, 31, 40) and remove the rest, make those 3 progressive unlocks

[deft dune]

Why those numbers specifically?

[opal thistle]

21 is the start of damnation base
31 is the start of fading light 2
40 is max scaling

The rest are irrelevant

[deft dune]

Oh but you’d call them something else right? I only asked because labeling them those numbers seemed odd

[opal thistle]

Uh

[white blade]

Dark, darker, and darkest tide?

[deft dune]

I like that

[white blade]

Thanks I'm shitposting

[opal thistle]

Havoc novice
Havoc intermediate
True havoc

Smth like that

[deft dune]

Honestly I like that and it funnels more players together

[silk lantern]

fake havoc
havoc of dubious veracity
true havoc

[opal thistle]

Get rid of diff deranking as well

[white blade]

I'm ngl you could just have one havoc difficulty

[opal thistle]

U just unlock diff as u go up

[white blade]

Like

People are only gonna play whatever their maximum available diff is

It could just be havoc

[lean glen]

Maybe Havoc can be customizable? Like, you pick the modifiers and depending on what you pick, you get more rewards?

[opal thistle]

Not necessarily, some people play havoc only for resources and beginners should get smth to ease in (like h21)

Do u rly want every fresh lv30 beginner to go directly to h40 after they get carried through a single auric maelstrom

[silk lantern]

https://youtu.be/ayDQNI5Xtgw

[white blade]

That's kind of exactly what it feels like anyway path I'm ngl to you

[opal thistle]

Also remove seasonal mutator rotations and seasonal derank, make all mutators in same pool at once

[brittle mortar]

real

[white blade]

Tester confirms havoc difficulty tweaks?

[silk lantern]

all mutators in the same mission at once

[hard rune]

maybe start with not having dogshit tiny rotation of maps and modifiers as a start

[opal thistle]

You might need to barrel urself

[silk lantern]

:3

[brittle mortar]

the whole rank/derank system sucks in my opinion. i don't see a need for havoc to have lower ranks at all. it should've just been the next step above auric

[white blade]

I don't understand why havoc has difficulty below auric

[brittle mortar]

if they were going to listen to any of this they would've done it already

[uncut cloak]

me when i add an elo system to my pve game

[opal thistle]

Either do just h40, or do what I said with 3 tiers of diff that offer smth for everyone wanting more challenge

[white blade]

Even with rankings

[brittle mortar]

getting fatshark to listen to anything that isnt directly gameplay related is like pulling teeth

[white blade]

Like I thought the entire point of havoc was difficulty progression, so why does Havoc 1-25 or so even exist

[brittle mortar]

remember how much and for how long the community had to complain about crafting before they finally made it suck less?

[white blade]

Yeah, I remember quitting for a year

[brittle mortar]

broader appeal

[uncut cloak]

it's funny because vermintide still has that

[opal thistle]

The malice gamer who just bought the game on a 50% sale needs to be carried

[brittle mortar]

letting casuals try the new mode

never exclude anyone

[hard rune]

so that people who take a long break from the game can't possibly contribute to a group's map pool if they return

[brittle mortar]

I think it's that sort of thing.

[opal thistle]

Yea so my idea fits that too

Just 3 levels

21, 31 and 40

21 for those that are new and want to try

31 for most people that want challenge but aren’t good enough

40 for the unloved

[pallid rock]

Like twice with each game lol

[hard rune]

I mean I know some casual dt players who enjoy havoc "until it hits 30s" or they get shit like blight/visual modifier

[pallid rock]

There was this small period of hope between VT2 crafting rework and DT launch

[uncut cloak]

blight modifier could literally be on an heresy mission and i wouldn't touch that shit

[hard rune]

not Handing It To Fatshark or anything but it did eventually end up happening, same with some eventual nerfs to shit like shout, cdr etc (Do not mention purga please)

[uncut cloak]

only two years

[hard rune]

hell people are screaming about manbow zooming quickly in vt2 to the point where they said "yeah sorry we'll fix it, sorry"

[opal thistle]

We got uncanny nerf after 3 years I think anything is possible now

[brittle mortar]

my ideal havoc is just a single difficulty above auric with the current baseline stuff baked in and then you can pick your map and add mutators a la hades heat system to make the experience as hard as possible for your group as you want, with no additional rewards beyond the enjoyment of the ball crushing factory and bragging rights

[opal thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/charlie-kirk-tony-stark-avengers-kirkified-gif-4618820868378725995

[brittle mortar]

then we take the havoc 25 shooters and put them into auric

as well as twins spawns and maybe some of the havoc pacing changes that are enjoyable

and i think everyone wins

[silk lantern]

then we add deranking into normal difficulties

:3

[opal thistle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/396860171541807105/1232138126441582642/mfw_deadass.gif

[silk lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-15677826050545973054

[brittle mortar]

anyway powder that makes you say skitarii tomorrow

[hard rune]

still gotta deal with whatever massive brainlord at FS thought that adding stagger resist to purple solved the Psyker Problem in any way

[silk lantern]

skitarii tomorrow

[brittle mortar]

i don't know if that had anything to do with psyker

[opal thistle]

I wonder if they’ll make shock maul and/or falchion good with skitarii release

Prob not

[silk lantern]

lol

lmao

[hard rune]

I just hope psword more broken on skitarii than vet so that the latter can mald over it

[opal thistle]

It’s not the same weapon anyway

[brittle mortar]

the inf cleave problem can be solved by removing inf cleave and adding limits to purga/rumbler/etc. agayek has been experimenting with it in his mod and he managed to make functional hitmass limits for them

it's pretty peak

[opal thistle]

I think inferno needs reduced attack speed

And tick apply rate

[brittle mortar]

or that, sure

[opal thistle]

Nah, and

And ~100 other psyker nerfs

[hard rune]

"the stagger resist means they'll push past the rest of the mob and be more vulnerable/isolated" or such was the Down The Grapevine shit I heard from another playtester

[haughty galleon]

Pretty sure they talked about how rushed that crafting system was, seems more likely that it's the usual 'Fatshark takes forever to dev things' rather than them not listening to feedback.

[white blade]

Fundamentally ig I get it, even tho practically it kinda just seems like malice maelstrom lol

[wet ginkgo]

This should have both smiling instead

Peak change

Punish all ragequitters

[last nova]

We will get radium jezzail? or it is too much?

[pallid rock]

Id be inclined to give them that grace if they had only done it once instead of taking like four steps backwards with their very next title

[marsh stratus]

no radium weapons sadly

probably for lore reasons too lol

[silk lantern]

no

[last nova]

sad

[brittle mortar]

I do not think it is advisable to send skitarii armed with radium weapons on missions with organics in a hive city that is meant to be inhabited afterwards

[pallid rock]

Skit power sword, arc maul, transonic sword+dagger, galvanic rifle, phosphor blaster, arc rifle.
Along with whatever base set weapons they will have access to

[marsh stratus]

and also for the mourningstar crew

[last nova]

the phosphor balster and galvanic rifle will do then

[white blade]

But Hank it's not grim dark if I'm not causing collateral damage

[marsh stratus]

i believe the specific name of the sword and dagger is the blade and razor

[last nova]

well, i mean we get swalloed by a beast of nurgle on the daily basis

a little of radiation it is not that bad lol

[brittle mortar]

You can wash off Nurgle stink with Mr clean and a little prayer, everyone knows that. No such luck with radiation

[silk lantern]

do they shave with it

[brittle mortar]

Getting infected by Nurgle pox is quite literally a skill issue. You just didn't believe hard enough in big E. That's science

[marsh stratus]

definitely

[brittle mortar]

What's left to shave?

[marsh stratus]

there's no other way to get the freshest cuts in the imperium

[last nova]

if the galvanic rifle make a big boom, i am happy

[marsh stratus]

^^^

[silk lantern]

balls

[marsh stratus]

i'm hyped for that the most

and servo skull ofc

[last nova]

i saw it is equal the bolter in destructive power

[brittle mortar]

Are they really

[silk lantern]

never specified what balls

[marsh stratus]

skitarii shaving is cable management

[pallid rock]

Galvanic is non explosive I'm fairly sure

It'll probably be sorta helbore like

[last nova]

yeah, i am saying it is a rifle that hit very hard

and i pray for a overpenetration mechanic

[silk lantern]

thats just cleave

[lavish smelt]

Cleave doesn't hit through objects or terrain, that's a separate feature used on uuuuuuuh the bolter (for thinner objects) and the plasma gun (for thicker objects) right now

[opal thistle]

Terrain penetration stat

[sleek thorn]

I see there is a channel for skitarii, but I assume its just setting up chat for when its released. Theres no details we actually have yet right?

[lavish smelt]

Maybe it'll be like the bolter and have the chest hitbox have a higher priority than the arm hitboxes

No details beyond the info currently available on the blogpost and the steam store page

and the developer interview video

we're supposed to get a post about their visual design this week

[sleek thorn]

gotcha

[wheat timber]

Correct. This is a hype, speculation, also shitposting zone lmao

[silk lantern]

hype moments and aura

[wheat timber]

As soon as a pixel of information comes out, this channel explodes

[jagged marten]

no the galvanic rifle isnt a transuranic arquebus

[crystal token]

There are some fun details if you check the pinned comment

[sleek thorn]

I feel disturbed, but pleasantly disturbed.

[sharp aurora]

btw skitarii probably has a mechanic similiar to hive scum stimm lab

it is mentioned that it has a core that power its abilities

enhancing them and all that

[wheat timber]

I just want them to show us more

[misty ravine]

Ugh I know!

I can't wait for the dev diaries to start dropping

I'm so interested in the personalities and customization of the Skitarii

[sharp aurora]

when did they start showing stuff with hivescum?

[opal thistle]

Skitarii first blog prob tmr

[sharp aurora]

bruh be fr

when did they show hivescum

[opal thistle]

U can look it up in FS forums

[sour lava]

binary dialogue when

[misty ravine]

HS reveal was Nov 18th

First dev-blog was the 21st

But HS reveal was also delayed a week so I don't know how that factors in

[small onyx]

Dw skitarii will also be delayed

[remote scroll]

its delayed by a week every time someone says skitarii tomorrow

[small onyx]

Cole basically owns gw so whatever he says

Goes

[misty ravine]

Arbitrators were revealed May 22nd, first dev blog was Jun 4th, then there were blogs every 2-4 days from then on

So I guess we gotta wait until Jun to get our dev blogs 😞

[hard rune]

Whats the secret code to delay purga nerfs

[remote scroll]

not telling you

[young panther]

I mean

thursday is not far away

at least for those of us who have jobs

though waiting for so many things this turbulent year has been a bit annoying

[grand sluice]

Whats the secret code to accelerate purga nerfs

[next meadow]

Purgatus is gettin nerfed?

I dont beleive it

[jade thistle]

Remember to make sure that you keep the skitarii from chewing on the copper in the Mourningstar's walls.

And the Gangers from stealing it.

And the loose cannon, also from stealing it.

[next meadow]

How dare you accuse us of such things

[jagged marten]

Skitarii yesterday

[undone palm]

no video today huh

[silk lantern]

skitarii tomorrow

[neat laurel]

https://gif.fxtwitter.com/tweet_video/G3LvXKQXAAAUkI1.gif

[frigid monolith]

Kitarii

[vernal crater]

It will be further archived into my inquisitorially allocated memory banks everytime FS sees Skitarii Tomorrow

[gusty siren]

UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE SERVOSKULL!

[pure tangle]

powder that makes you say

powedr that

podwer

https://tenor.com/view/leuze-adeptus-mechanicus-tech-priest-chad-gigachad-gif-16989754678889066260

[candid saddle]

DO NOT LOSE MY SERVOSKULL!!!!

imbeciles....

[dense solstice]

She wouldn’t dare insult her beloved skitterbugs

[wheat timber]

Suspiciously Necron shaped mechanicus mogging me wtf

[twin wasp]

Powder that says skitarii model kit for free (i cannot afford a full admech set)

[echo laurel]

i have a skitarii question
do they usually get names? if so, what are those like?

[echo laurel]

if I had to guess they're like H-3945 or somet- turns out I'm not that far off

[light hornet]

They do and can be like Hadrons extended name.

Although you can technically name them whatever you want, there's not a super strict naming scheme in the lore afaik.

[echo laurel]

everything I've heard of them makes them sound like soulless killing machines with 0 personality, but I'm guessing that's incorrect

I'm not really sure to what extent their mechanical stuff goes

[light hornet]

You could call yours T-800 or something if you want that I guess 🤖

[karmic verge]

They are also tribalistic berzerkers in the mars trilogy and titanicus books. They have a bit of range id say

[mellow storm]

so skitarii as a rule are basically meat terminators plugged into a C&C network that the nearest tech priest manages to distribute orders and move troops around and whatnot.

The player characters for Darktide, however, are Alpha Primus, which is a new thing created specifically for this game, and they've been upgraded to operate independently so they could fit into warband missions

[echo laurel]

so all the people that were like "ummm Alpha Primus Skitarii would not be in the same missions as societal rejects umm" were just talking out their ass?

[light hornet]

pretty much.

[mellow storm]

kinda sorta not really. Normal skitarii wouldn't be on a mission for Grendel, because they need a techpriest giving them orders or they're not very good at the whole tactical flexibility thing

the Alpha Primus thing is nonsense they made up to solve that lore problem

[karmic verge]

They didnt make it up, its from the lore

Just not very commonly referenced

But it was in the skitarius novel

[mellow storm]

coulda sworn it was new

oh well, neat

[karmic verge]

2016 is when the book came out

[light hornet]

Random thought, but imagine General Grievous in the Admech and bro just goes around collecting various types of energy swords.

[karmic verge]

The alpha primus in the book is named stroika

He leads a cohort on a mission and stuff happens

[karmic verge]

I mean tbf the only ones reading skitarius are die hard admech fans

Its a neat book and i like the admech novels but they are still niche compared to guard and marines for better or for worse

I am convinced the chord claw will be in the game but not as a weapon, but some sorta upgrade to an ability. Like choosing the upgrade grants you the claw and you swing with it when utilizing the ability for some mechanical advantage

Or im insane

Who knows

[ionic fable]

Skitarii dev video tomorrow?

[karmic verge]

I hope so

[echo laurel]

I gotta finish up my hive scum penances before skitarii come out

I'm so close to being done but God I wana stop playing hive scum lmao

[mellow storm]

devblog sometime this week they said, very possible it oculd be delayed or whatever. No idea if/when more videos are ocming though

[ionic fable]

I was expecting Thursday or Friday, based on past dev log release schedule, but i was hoping Wednesday or Thursday

[sterile tendon]

i was expecting tomorrow tbh but i guess it'll just have to be tomorrow instead

[acoustic dagger]

It depends, the current descriptions make it sound like hadron found some tech that gives these special skitarii we're playing some of their personality back, alongside not needing to to rely on a techpriest to feed them orders and data about combat and weapon usage via the noosphere

[sterile tendon]

hadron took off their limiters

[acoustic dagger]

Took off the horse blinders but for skitarii

[sterile tendon]

horse obliteration cannon on arm

[acoustic dagger]

Finally a peak dlc class

Can't wait for skitarii tomorrow...

[sterile tendon]

crazy to think theres 7 tomorrows every week

[vital elm]

Meat detected

[oblique schooner]

What if i wanted a lil meat on my cogboi?

[sterile tendon]

we outta flesh

[brittle mortar]

The definition that Fatshark and GW have attached to it for this game is somewhat new

The Alpha Primus described in the Skitarius novel is much more uniquely augmented and described as a commander above commanders among the Skitarii iirc

[mellow storm]

Probably just a convenient reference for what they needed

[sterile tendon]

so it means awesome cool

[brittle mortar]

Yeah my assumption is that it was vague enough to be repurposed but it laid enough groundwork for the idea of Skitarii that have been raised up to the Crux Mechanicus from a variety of backgrounds to operate autonomously and with a wider gamut of available weapons and abilities than any individual Skitarii type

A more specific ranger/vanguard/marshall designation could've restricted the options further or something.

Or sicarian or whatever they're all called

[mellow storm]

Yup that's my thinking. Makes perfect sense

[sterile tendon]

i remember people going "no way" to the alpha primus leak lmao

thankfully saber skulls solved that

[mellow storm]

I didn't think the leak was legit, ngl

I was pretty sure it was gonna be a mechanicus class and skitarii was the obvious option, so that part passed the sniff test, but the rest of it sounded overly complex

[sterile tendon]

somehow all the leaks were true

probably

[brittle mortar]

That leak first appeared on 4chan a good two weeks before the rest of the internet caught wind. I think people were so skeptical it barely made waves at first

[mellow storm]

Made it feel like a 4channer spinning bullshit

[sterile tendon]

lmao

[brittle mortar]

It is a bit complex but otherwise we probably wouldn't have been able to get so much variety

[mellow storm]

Yeah for sure, I'm not complaining. I just wasn't expecting that level of complexity to be something fatshark would go for. It sounds like the dev cycle on skitarii was a lot longer than i was thinking though, which goes a long way to explaining that

[brittle mortar]

Or well, I think so. Disclaimer: I don't know what goes on between FS and GW either

[sterile tendon]

scary dark twisted secrets between fs and gw

[brittle mortar]

But if you read between the lines of the devblog it seems pretty apparent

[mellow storm]

Funny way to say really quite boring corporate meetings

[brittle mortar]

How FS and GW worked together to make it possible or smth

[sterile tendon]

imagine how much incense gw priests have to burn to greenlight a single trailer

[mellow storm]

It's roughly 45 years worth

Gdi I've been reading too much xianxia, that shit is an actual unit of measure to me now

[echo laurel]

I have a guess as to what the most popular Skitarii name is going to be

HadronOmega6-7

i hope everyone enjoyed my internet post, you can expect many more like this in the future

[mellow storm]

I think I'm gonna call mine Cayde-7

[jolly grotto]

rho sigma BALLS

[lusty granite]

Respect.

[queen aurora]

No devblog yesterday?

[lusty granite]

Idk.
25d 12hrs and counting till Skitarii

[sterile tendon]

if its not yesterday that means its Tomorrow

[bleak nimbus]

Skitarii tomorrow

[lusty granite]

Most likely tomorrow(Friday)

[cinder leaf]

Haven't FatShark released one pic of a Skitarii to ease the Darktide content withdrawal symptoms?

[harsh dagger]

Dir-7395 is one I'm considering

[honest magnet]

JamesBot-007

[next meadow]

Jimmy J3NK1N5 lmao

Based

[storm mountain]

Metal Guy Solid is genius

[lusty granite]

Yes there is a pic.

[serene cargo]

radium carbine tomorrow

[proven storm]

They said it was being worked on pre arbites at least

So over a year

[jagged marten]

Hehe

[brittle mortar]

I don't know about worked on but in the plans, sure

[proven storm]

Words from god

[mellow storm]

Tbf "in the works" covers an extremely broad spectrum of possibility space

[sharp aurora]

must be fire if they worked on it for years

hope for some stimm lab like mechanic too

[mellow storm]

There's been mention of a "core power" mechanic

[brittle mortar]

Yeah but I think that just means that they had preprod for it, not that they were actively developing the class and its assets the whole time

[mellow storm]

No idea what it'll be like, but it sounds like a secondary talent tree type thing

[proven storm]

Given Sanic is still around I'd say no hehehehe

[sharp aurora]

yep

exactly

I would guess its literally a stimm lab

with finite energy

and you just spend on the abilities you want

they said it fits any role right?

hopefully they made cosmetics to go with each role

front line with vanguard stuff

etc...

[proven storm]

Or its like peril

[sharp aurora]

or that yes

I hope its not though

would be a copypaste

[proven storm]

Reverse Peril

Goes down with use

[queen aurora]

Lights out and the Skitarius switches to lidar to see would be cool

[jagged marten]

Fatshark for some reason showing a post it note with a nurgle cultist

[proven storm]

That was funny

[jagged marten]

https://tenor.com/view/kian-brose-this-is-called-foreshadowing-gif-10914951375295921195

[proven storm]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/786208719200583710/1508226374136238290/any-idea-what-this-character-is-supposed-to-be-a-potential-v0-9me6z8f7g53h1.png?ex=6a1a0ac5&is=6a18b945&hm=52505294451b59ed2a0ccf0189f7839740fb16a841c625bbe60523fd162e0033&

For context

This is in the dev interview

[jagged marten]

they 100% showed this intentionally lmao

[sharp aurora]

whats this supposed to be

[brittle mortar]

you think?

[jagged marten]

yarr

[serene cargo]

no vanguard guns so I doubt it

[proven storm]

Idk lol

Banner bearer

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/786208719200583710/1508226428897071206/any-idea-what-this-character-is-supposed-to-be-a-potential-v0-vcw7pp1mm53h1.png?ex=6a1a0ad2&is=6a18b952&hm=013279669f1243570aaeffcf0b0eeac75419caa575bd378c84418bc13a51e6b6&

[sharp aurora]

any chance radium carbines are added later on?

[proven storm]

Probably not

[acoustic dagger]

very likely no, what we see now is all we will get

[jagged marten]

could be a thing if our pattern produces significantly less radiation

[sharp aurora]

is there a class that got new weapons after release?

its literally just radium carbines missing, why would they not make them?

being in the works for years they say

[brittle mortar]

only launch classes

[brittle mortar]

my guess is that radioactive weapons in an actively inhabited hive are a bad idea

but tbh i have no idea lmao admech lore isnt my strong suit. i don't know if they've done that before and just said fuck it

[boreal reef]

Cancer-inducing weaponry probably isn't very useful against Nurgle followers

[proven storm]

Hadron: "Interrogator Rannick I bring good news"
Rannick: "Yes technoarchologist?"
"The local forge worlds have agreed to supply us with Skitarii support."
"They're not allowed the radium weapons."
"But I didn't-"
"No."
Grumbles "... Fine..."

[brittle mortar]

it also sounds like the sort of weapons you shouldn't be using when a veteran guardsman is standing shoulder to shoulder with you

unless you want to kill him too

[acoustic dagger]

Me neither and I think the team very deliberately picked only a limited set of weapons for each of the DLC classes to prevent too much role overlap with others. Imagine if the arbites had a grenade launcher, a light machinegun and a sniper rifle like people have been asking for because they're all tabletop things, vet mains would be genuinelly incensed

[brittle mortar]

the light machinegun can now also be a vet weapon as per recent killteam releases

so fatshark really has no excuse now

humansized heavy stubber for vet and arby when

[proven storm]

This happens in one of the horus heresy novels!

The guardsman asks if the skitarii is pretty too

[brittle mortar]

no chance dawg

[acoustic dagger]

True, having that backpack fed hstubber from the veteran talent tree would be awesome

[proven storm]

It's from Echos of Eternity, fairly early in the book.

‘Tee. Tell me something before we die, yeah?’

She turned to regard him, gazing at his deteriorating form through her monovisor. She said nothing, but he had her attention. The look in his eyes was what she suspected to be amusement. This was it, then. One last joke.

’Are you pretty under all that?’

It took her a moment to process this. She’d never been asked such a thing.

Beneath her armour, she was an irradiated foot soldier of the Machine-God. Her skin, deep brown at birth and not unlike Envaric’s in that regard, was a starved and sunless grey. She’d been ritually delimbed, her extremities replaced with arms and legs of inexpensive cybernetic purity. “within her mechamorphosis that more of her body was now comprised of holy iron than what remained of her flawed birthflesh.

Under her helmet, she was pockmarked with cryo-controlled radiation tumours. She possessed no eyelids, no hair, no teeth, and no nose – and what hadn’t been surgically removed had rotted off over the course of her years of sacred service.

In short, she was skitarii.

[boreal reef]

Didn't she say yes

[worthy knot]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-running-beta-half-life2-gif-19730760

she got that stalker fit

[foggy elk]

would

[worthy knot]

https://tenor.com/view/so-fluffy-bunny-eating-cherries-monty-gif-14070315

[sharp aurora]

At least Skitarii get quite a few new and unique weapons

unlike arbites that got just 2

7 new and badass weapons its good enough

pet servitor also cool

[brittle mortar]

Shield and maul, maul, executioner shotgun, shield and shotpistol

That's 4

[proven storm]

No suppression bat shaking my head FS (has worse stats on tabletop than a guardsman's fists)

[lavish smelt]

Wonder if the skitarii are getting the same innate suppression immunity the vet has, or if it's going to be a talent

[light hornet]

Should be innate probably.

[ashen jay]

I want power sword/phosphor pistol as a single dual handed weapon like salzpyres rapier so bad

not gonna happen but it would be just so dope

is such a thematic skitarii alpha thing too

also really curious how the arc weapon is gonna turn out, that thing is pretty inconsistent in how it shows up in video games

but given one tree is supposed to be AoE electricity I would guess its gonna be that

question that remains is wether its close range only with a flametrhowery vibe or if you can snipe something downrange and it arcs from point of impact

[proven storm]

It puts a debuff on enemies and then the lightning will chain together

At least that's what the steam announcement post implies

[ashen jay]

yeah, question for me kinda is if the point of origin can be chosen by firing something like a normal projectile from the arc rifle

or if its going to be a "it will hit stuff in a 45deg sector in front of you" cqc type thing

Mechanicus 2 has arc rifle as single target very long range, rogue trader has arc rifle as normal rifle range with arcing from point of impact, Mechanicus1 has sector AoE iirc, the datasheet is single target anti armor iirc

tl;dr all bets are off lol

[jagged marten]

itl probably work like the rogue trader one but you need to have arc stacks on enemies

[fiery onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCR7ovEwtCA

I love mechanicus ost

[ashen jay]

yeah I would expect/hope it works like the rogue trader one. You mean we will somehow apply some sort of status effect before it starts to arc?

[jagged marten]

we need to apply arc stacks to enemies before the arc rifle chains enemies together

[ashen jay]

Interesting idea. Mentally I had arc rifle kinda locked in as a horde clear anti chaff device. Given that galvanic rifle is gonna be probably heavy single target, single shot, long range option

if the AoE aspect of arc rifle is locked behind some kind of ability enabling its multi target it could be kind of a jack of all trades thing

as in you do single target, and AoE with extra steps

hope we get some skittle content today, they said next week last week right?

[jagged marten]

yah

[earnest ember]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7qrbBJ11Gw

[oak ember]

[willow goblet]

just to hype the arrival of skitarii i say this in binary

01010000 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001111 01101101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101000 00101100 00100000 01110011 01100001 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100110 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000

common word say as **Praise the Omnissiah, sacred father of the forge of man **

[oak ember]

don't you know the omnissiah is a lie made to sell more machines ?

[silk lantern]

What about the monossiah

[tough wedge]

Dev blog today hype!

[glossy pebble]

There's a dev blog tosay?

👀👀👀👀👀

[brittle mortar]

should be

[silk lantern]

Dev blog tomorrow

[brittle mortar]

since they said more news this week

[tough wedge]

We havent been fed the crumb this week yet, so it gotta be today right?

[silk lantern]

Tomorrow

[proven storm]

Sunday

23:59pm!

[tough wedge]

*Today

[silk lantern]

Blog tomorrow

Alongside skitarii

Which is also tomorrow

Therefore

Blog tomorrow

[acoustic dagger]

Skitarii blog tomorrow 🔥 🔥 🔥

[silk lantern]

So true bestie

[silk lantern]

We should get skitarii tomorrow as a sticker

[willow goblet]

why not having hadron give a cog as sticker for our skitarii

[golden marsh]

Devblog today

[fiery onyx]

Good skitarii get golden cog stickers

[golden marsh]

Not possible

They don’t release things on weekends

[silk lantern]

Blog post tomorrow

Along with skitarii

[jagged marten]

itl be today

[queen aurora]

we got some informations ingame from current event

[golden marsh]

What’s the next lore bit

[queen aurora]

atm its still only about the Arc Rifle

[golden marsh]

Oh I thought It was close

[silk lantern]

How much yall betting itll be another plasma gun situation and we'll just spam hipfire and never do charged shots

[golden marsh]

I mean we don’t even know how it’s gonna work

[silk lantern]

The text seems to imply its going to have a charged shot feature

[queen aurora]

hopefully ads will have some difference in how it arc's

[oak ember]

I think its ammunition will reload over time

regular arc rifles are linked to back pack capacitor

[queen aurora]

yeah, but we get the "Branx-Pattern"
giving up longevity and stability for mobility

[oak ember]

this one isn't

[queen aurora]

its replaced like magazines

for a replacable activator coil

prob. the "drum"

[oak ember]

I wouldnt mind a rilfe that isn't reloaded through ammo but rather through time

[silk lantern]

Or the big rectangle on the top

[oak ember]

nah the drum is on standard arc rifles

[queen aurora]

this weekend I guess

[oak ember]

the only difference this one has is that it's not linked to a backpack

[silk lantern]

That doesnt sound like something that traded out "ammunition longevity and stability"

[queen aurora]

yeah, sounds like Plasma Gun case

[barren flax]

No backpacks for our Skitties is a tragedy

[oak ember]

whar

tf you mean they have backpacks

[barren flax]

The Arcrifle thingie DOESNT get a backpack

"Something something branx pattern more maneuverable without backpack something something"

[queen aurora]

we get something looking like a vox pack thing

[oak ember]

oh you meant the additional pack

the standard capacitor

[silk lantern]

Its prob a cosmetic

[barren flax]

Ye

[oak ember]

it's the standard skitarii backpack

every skitarii that isn't specialised into something else has one, except dunecrawler crewmen

[queen aurora]

yeah, but the right side looks like the vox unit

[oak ember]

...

yes

every skitarii backpack has one

not every single but most of them

[oak ember]

tbh it looks like they made it into a vox because on the miniature it looks more like a geiger counter

[tough wedge]

Loose Cannon would see this and giggle: "Kark rifle"...

[oak ember]

it's the same thing

I just cant take picture of mine because they're all broken

due to how it's molded on the sprue, it tends to break easily

[queen aurora]

for the darktide one, I guess they just used also what they already had ( in their asset library)

[oak ember]

yup

[queen aurora]

also prob. a reason why the Arc Rifle has similarities to the Recon/Las Gun

or for ingame lore reason
Branx-Pattern

[proven storm]

Yeah you can see bits of the inf autos in there

Probably used it as a base and worked from there

Not a complaint by the way

[willow goblet]

imagine if in real life the mechanicus and the Omnissiah exist and then they give you the choice to be part of the great machine spirit leave the flesh and join the purity of the machine..would you accept the offer ?

[storm mountain]

One can dream

[main wing]

Not sure I'd wanna pledge felity to the Void dragon beneath Mars.

[willow goblet]

even it won't probably be a dialogue i can tell hadron and kayex would be very happy to have the skitarii around the mourningstar

[wheat timber]

imo I think it'll work by requiring you to hold M1 to charge for a brief moment in order to fire

E.x. helldivers arc thrower, most vidya game railguns, etc

[silk lantern]

Like the prefire delay plasma has?

[wheat timber]

Kinda? But more like you can just hold it

So you have a bit more control rather than just having to expect your weapon to take a breath first

What if it's something wild like the OG Battlefront darktrooper blaster where holding it causes it to arc fruther and to cleave more enemies?

https://tenor.com/view/yeahh-gif-5371913741399768223

[silk lantern]

I still think itll be plasma gun 2

[golden marsh]

Dev blog today at 12 source trust me bro

[acoustic dagger]

Devblog tomorrow!!!!

[ashen jay]

The tomorrow thing was funny for a while, at this point it has the same appeal as the 6,7 nonsense

[ashen jay]

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-40k-techpriest-binaric-screeching-screeching-gif-20192683

[silk lantern]

Embed fail

[ashen jay]

yeah sounds like charged shot overheat plasma gun 2 literally electric boogaloo

[ashen jay]

discord being a hunk of junk as per usual

[wheat timber]

No just you being a brand new user lmao

Yap more and you'll earn your red privilege

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-40k-techpriest-binaric-screeching-screeching-gif-20192683

[ashen jay]

pretty sure I have joined other discords before this one and when I hit the button from the built in gif panel and it doesnt work I think its a hunk of junk pretty independently from the user using it

[silk lantern]

This server block embed permissions from users until they send a certain amount of messages

[wheat timber]

Oh no I just mean you're new here

The lil sprout is given to folks who just recently arrived

[ashen jay]

ah

[wheat timber]

It doesn't take too much for you to get servitorized processed

Soon™

[long eagle]

Welcome to the server

[wheat timber]

While pragmatic pessimistic everywhere else in life, I choose to be optimistic and think that Fatshark has learned from things like the plasma and wont just make it again

Or I'll be wrong and it'll just be plasma in reverse, which could be funny

Posts cropping up after class release like "seeing arc users not charge their shots hurts my soul"

"homie you can one shot body a mauler why are you just spamming left click and tickling them to death"

[silk lantern]

We'll see how it works out

[wheat timber]

So very hype

[ashen jay]

I've had darktide in my library collecting dust for years because vermintide goated. Skitarii is what brought me here

hope their "this is our passion project" messaging carries through into implementation

[long eagle]

Many of us have been eating the powder that makes you say "Skitarii tomorrow" for years. Lots of the community is hyped for it to finally come out

[ashen jay]

Yeah I followed the memery on the reddit

[long eagle]

the next month cannot go by fast enough lol

[ashen jay]

honestly I am good with it taking a while but give dovblegs lol

show me the numbers

fluff text that is alluding to how it works can take a hike

[long eagle]

I can understand that, as a player whose been here awhile now though the wait for me has been literal years lol, so being so close is a bit painful lol

[ashen jay]

I mean the datamined leak was a few months back right

[long eagle]

tons of leaks on the lead up, still from way back when I started, to arbite to hive scum I always wanted Admech so the wait feels long for me

[foggy elk]

people've been asking for skitarii literally since beta
I was there

[ashen jay]

I mean people ask for everything and nothing. Lifecycle of the game has been pretty rocky to say the least

[regal ruin]

Inb4 next class is a space marine

[ashen jay]

fundamentally to me the "give class or weapon xyz pls" feels to me as if it is symptom of the lack of pull of the game itself

I mean sure people want x and y in VT2 but my superficial impression is that its way less

[jagged marten]

40k is more popular than fantasy

its just that simple

[ashen jay]

I mean dt has roughly 2x the population of vt2 from what I remember when I checked last.
But fundamental critiques of expeditions in dt vs chaos wastes in vt2 are pretty valid regardless of that

[jagged marten]

well get chaos wastes at some point

expeditions can be reworked into that

[acoustic dagger]

darktide is newer than vermintide so it kinda follows it'd have a larger playercount

also if you're here from vermintide, please don't do the common new player mistake of ignoring ranged enemies, thanks

[long eagle]

personally currently I just want more maps after Skitarii, that, a bit of QoL and optimization, throw in the odd weapon for a class or two and the game would be perfect imo

[ashen jay]

thats pretty much what I mean, DT has these weird situations where core aspects of the game that were on point in vt2 and make it great are absent or came in later in dt. Which is what I connect the "give content" thing to

[ashen jay]

dont really get how a decent vt2 player would make that mistake lol

[acoustic dagger]

I wouldn't either but apparently that is or was a common complaint from VT players coming into DT

[long eagle]

happens more than you know, a lot of people under estimate gunners early on and get melted

[acoustic dagger]

apropos of that randoms have an infuriating tendency to both waste ammo on melee trash and pretend ranged trash doesn't exist

[ashen jay]

sounds pretty much like lower difficulty vt2 situation lol

like exactly to the letter

[acoustic dagger]

I use a mod called player deathfeed and one of the more common causes of downs in auric pubs are shooters and stalkers

[long eagle]

I still haven't touched mods after years

[ashen jay]

I'm mostly curious how pubs etiquette is overall.

if people are bad thats okay with me tbh

if people are mad thats much more annoying lol

[long eagle]

don't shoot barrels next to cliffs or teammates, and push the poxbursters, only shoot them if they are far away and not close to a teammate. Those are big ones for starters

[marble obsidian]

I almost exclusively play with a support mindset precisely to handle players that are both tilting AND/OR bad at the game. It really helps keep spirits high when you have a guy in the backline covering all of the more troublesome aspects

[brittle mortar]

Only very rarely

[wheat timber]

This one mostly

Typically folks quit when they aren't doing well or getting upset rather than getting vocal

There's always keyboard warriors tho

[brittle mortar]

Sometimes I encounter people malding in Havoc when i have a bad day

That's about it

[ashen jay]

actual coop in a coop game, thats illegal.

I smell drg

[marble obsidian]

Hey a support vet or an ogryn doing ogryn voice in VC is a boon to morale that should not be underestimated

[marble obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-suspicious-puppet-gif-2729624127692369191

[ashen jay]

there was a engineer main in DRG that kept dropping tech priest quotes in the chat all the time, was pretty goated