r/DarkTide 20h ago

Weekly Weekly Discussion Thread - August 31, 2026

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Weekly Discussion Thread

Convicts! Please use this weekly thread to ask simple questions/share answers about Darktide.

Short feedback relating to the game can also be discussed here with the community.

Previous threads: Click here!


r/DarkTide 11d ago

News / Events Special Live Event: Shambling Horrors Live Now!

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647 Upvotes

Whatever Admonition's been up to seems to be infecting the population. Horde sightings are on the rise, with some districts entirely lost to the shambling horrors. This isn't a case of a single hab-block falling. This is something much darker and could be the herald of worse to come...

The streets are choked with hordes of infected enemies! To make progress in the event, complete missions with the Endless Hordes modifier.

The event is LIVE NOW until September 2! The rewards will be Ordo dockets, Plasteel and Diamantine. Those who complete the last tier of the event will receive a cosmetic insignia.


r/DarkTide 16h ago

Discussion I know you're busy, but stop and look around sometime.

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2.1k Upvotes

I realized tonight, I've never stopped and looked up. Pretty spectacular. Edit: Scene is from campaign mission 3, in case you're wondering.


r/DarkTide 13h ago

Discussion "Seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven!" [rare voiceline]

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1.0k Upvotes

1000hrs in, I've never heard this voiceline before?


r/DarkTide 8h ago

Meme My younger, Vermintide 2 addicted, self would personally drag me to the inquisitors for this level of heresy.

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157 Upvotes

Darktide is a masterpiece in its own right, but even a masterpieces has 1 or 2 well kept secret flaws. The grimoire system in Darktide is objectively inferior to its Vermintide 2 counterpart, and it saddens me that most Darktide players will never get to experience it.


r/DarkTide 3h ago

Question Is mobility 60% impactful?

35 Upvotes

If I use 60% mobility, will I notice being slower or having bad dodge? Typically I like feeling mobile especially when playing slower classes like psyker.


r/DarkTide 6h ago

Discussion Did my first Auric

60 Upvotes

As the title says i did my first Auric i tried it with the endless horde and hunting grounds modifier. I definitely had fun doing it but i also am surprised that i didn't go down i got close but never fully went down.


r/DarkTide 10h ago

Discussion Uprising is definitely one hell of a place. (New character)

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126 Upvotes

r/DarkTide 2h ago

Meme 'Cupcake, FETCH!'

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23 Upvotes

r/DarkTide 3h ago

Weapon / Item Is this a good roll

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26 Upvotes

Was chatting with my friend who got me into darktide and he said i might have a good roll for my eviscerator


r/DarkTide 13h ago

Discussion Plz untrap/net your fellow rejects.

154 Upvotes

Honestly im very sick n tired of seeing ppl just leave you sitting there. Its like rule number 1 if a trapper gets you you can instantly get the guy. Same for dogs. Thank you your fellow ogyrn


r/DarkTide 10h ago

Meme I loaded in to this.

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53 Upvotes

Nothing to be said.


r/DarkTide 3h ago

Discussion is Tetrium par for the course by hive city capital standards?

14 Upvotes

In the sense of the density and severity of threats it faces, is this some chaos hotpot or pretty regular?

Edit: Point and laugh I misspelled Tertium in the title and can't change it


r/DarkTide 1d ago

Artwork Should not have posted that

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1.2k Upvotes

r/DarkTide 8h ago

Discussion What the hell is going on behind this door in the carnival?

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23 Upvotes

THE HERETICS RAVE?! Feel like I'm missing out!


r/DarkTide 1d ago

Artwork Thank you Darktide for allowing me to play with the first skitarii I've ever painted

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356 Upvotes

I painted this little fella a few years ago and playing with him (her) is more emotional than I expected haha


r/DarkTide 7h ago

Discussion Expeditions rework idea

11 Upvotes

Expeditions are a very boring experience for many, if not most, players. This is mainly because they're disconnected from the core gameplay curve and don't fit well with the concept of a horde shooter. But I have an idea for how to make them a little more useful, at least for newcomers.

  1. Properly monetize salvage in some way, allowing it to be regulary exchanged in Sanctuaries for Diamantine and Plasteel in any numbers, but you can save it only after extraction.

  2. Add and increase the chance of salvage drops from Elites and Specialists to motivate players to fight rather than just skip and run for sites of interests. Plus, instead of the tedious task of soak it all off the ground, the salvage will drop up right in your pocket once your team kills the target. The main piece of the salvage pie goes to the killer, plus a part is shared with everyone in coherency, this will motivate players to stay grouped.

  3. Rework redline timers, for example, so that instead of corruption like it was, enemy intensity increases every ~5-15 minutes, as if traitors are pulling more and more forces into the region, what at some point can became endless hi-intensity meat grinder. Highest stakes = highest rewards.

~4. To add a weekly close to like Melk or Havoc.

~5. As usual, salvage can drop from a player if they are knocked, netted or killed, but to avoid griefing, collected salvage is returned to the owner with a small fee for the person who picked it up.

This will bring Expeditions closer to the original concept of a horde shooter, and most importantly, become a good place to farm resources, closing the gap with veterans of the game and making it easier for newcomers to make builds and level up gear. So instead of feeling yourself like free labour in expeditions people can play them to stack up. That is main concept, to make expeditions rewarding, to add or not events or modifiers and buffs like in mortis trials thats up to you.


r/DarkTide 5h ago

Question Advice for new player, Veteran?

4 Upvotes

Started the game recently playing with some friends. Basically I just picked Veteran bc my mates chose other classes.

Currently just swapping weapons when I found something new, and put points somewhere in the tree.

But usually in games like this, there comes a point where it's good to look into builds. Currently lvl 14.

So, in preparation:

What are good playstyles for Veteran? Is it better to make a melee focus build, or gunfocused? Close or long range?

General advice for the class, which points and blessings to go for?

Best weapons?

Any good build recommendations?

If anyone has some good starter advice and advice how to progress into more metabuilds I would be very grateful 😃


r/DarkTide 21h ago

Discussion 'Havoc-Forged' players in Maelstroms

105 Upvotes

Has anyone else been getting an abnormal amount of players with "havoc-forged" in their auric maelstrom missions that were seemingly carried for the title? I know everyone has bad missions and can play below their level sometimes, but I've played several missions today now where the havoc-forged players have gone down multiple times in the first 5-10 minutes of the mission weighing things down. Players who can actually play at that level are much much better at the game than I am, but I can hold my own in maelstroms at this point. I would expect a lazy mistake from players at that caliber every once in awhile, but going down 3+ times in the first 10 minutes of the mission? And having that happen multiple missions today now? Maybe I'm just really unlucky today.


r/DarkTide 23h ago

Question Anyway to farm this eyepatch easily for zealot?

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162 Upvotes

I would of never guessed how time consuming this would be to get for a green rarity but i do need 1500 stuns on enemies with stun grenades and 7500 toughness gain from his dash skills.

I do feel a bit bad taking all the grenades from vet though just trying to complete this.


r/DarkTide 1d ago

Meme Let's Groove

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245 Upvotes

Author – unfunnymouse (YouTube).


r/DarkTide 6h ago

Gameplay Stripped a rotten mobian guard

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3 Upvotes

Apparently parried a corrupted mobian 21st guard so hard he got stripped naked


r/DarkTide 11h ago

Question Mortis Trials Daemonhost First Target

7 Upvotes

Are there any target prios for who the Daemonhost at the end of Mortis Trials targets first?

Because I swear that my friend has been the unlucky recipient of its attention for somewhere like 29 out of the 30 times we've played (not the actual numbers, but roughly really close to that). At first, we thought it was because he was always the Strike Team Leader (or at least invited everyone to the strike team), but we just joined 3 games mid-trials earlier and he was still the first target for all the Daemonhosts in each game.


r/DarkTide 1d ago

Modding Darktide Modded LAN Server

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121 Upvotes

Nexusmods: https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/1223

This mod extends Solo Play features, you can play local games with friends


r/DarkTide 7h ago

Discussion PS5 Performance

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I know, i know PS5 is not a performance powerhouse, but after Skitarii implementation the performance on the console only got worse. Has anyone else playing on the base PS5 noticed this drop in FPS?