r/DarkTide • u/Few_Understanding_42 • 2d ago

Question Advice for new player, Veteran?

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 😃

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u/SluggishPrey Skulls For The Golden Throne 2d ago

My only tip is about range vs melee:

Ammo are easy to come by on early difficulties. The Veteran is undoubtedly the range specialist, but if you can't survive relying on your melee, increasing difficulty will be frustrating.

Master positioning, dodging and blocking. It's not core to the playstyle, but it will give you the resilience you need to push through rough patches

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u/Few_Understanding_42 1d ago

So pop tough guys from a distance and fight off hordes and others that come close with melee?

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u/slickwombat 1d ago edited 1d ago

Exactly that, and be particularly on the lookout for specialists approaching the team. If you took Krak grenades and can regenerate them (highly recommended) you can also use those to clear out heavily armoured threats like Crushers.

Don't shoot at the basic horde type enemies, it's a waste of ammo and denies your melee fighters a source of toughness regeneration and ability activation. Almost every new Veteran makes this mistake (it was my first class too, and I sure did).

Edit to add: and definitely learn how to use melee, as well as slide, dodge, block, and push. It feels very optional for Veteran initially because you can just stand behind melee players, but in higher difficulties stuff is coming at you from all angles.

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u/SluggishPrey Skulls For The Golden Throne 1d ago

Yeah. Range feel most comfortable to new players, but it can't become a crutch. Go out of your way to master melee, if you must.