Warhammer 40k Darktide Review (Xbox Series S)

For our Warhammer 40k Darktide Review, Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op-focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

Warhammer 40k Darktide Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 53.8GB download size.
• 1000 Gamerscore.
• Penance is basically the game’s own in-game achievements.
• Officially licensed.
• First-person shooter/melee gameplay.
• Opening Prologue that has tutorial pop-ups.
• Cross-play support.
• You can skip all the opening splash screens.
• Graphics settings – brightness slider, motion blur, and field of view slider.
• Seven controller presets.
• Gameplay settings – center of screen dot, and input hints.
• Subtitles options – subtitles, speaker indicator, letterbox opacity, text opacity, and text size.
• Accessibility settings – Hud scale slider, camera sway intensity slider, and Peril FX intensity slider.
• Other settings – profanity on/off, show crafting pickup notifications and enable portrait rendering.
• Four operatives – veteran sharpshooter, Zealot preacher, Psyker Psykinetic, and Orgyn Skull Breaker. You can view info on each of them before deciding.
• Loadout – primary weapon, secondary weapon, and up to three curios.
• Cosmetics – head, upper body, lower body, accessory, frame, and insignia.
• Create your character by choosing operative, the home world (Crucis/Messelina Gloriana/Rocyria/Branx Magna/Incron/Cadia/Mornax/Pavane), childhood (Agri – Toiler/Militia Lackey/Grox Prodder/Algae Farmer), Growing up (escaped to the wastes/isolated/self-reliance/forged by toil/grinding toil/outcast/visions), defining moment (spell of madness/declared a witch/the black ships/mutant incident/psychic awakening/captured/the voices), and appearance.
• You can have four operatives saved.
• Movement settings – hold to crouch, hold to sprint, stationary dodge, dodge on diagonal forward, and always dodge.
• Open hub social area amd is 3rd person.
• Character cosmetics – head, upper body, lower body, accessories, frame, and insignia.
• Takes a lot of the gameplay from Vermintide or Left for Dead if you prefer.
• Mission selection shows the difficulty, mission, and what order you play them in to unlock more.
• Quick play option.
• Cool mission loading screen for missions where you see all the players waiting.
• In-game cutscenes.
• The Psykhanium is where you can do basic and additional training in the hub.
• Amazingly detailed locations.
• Earn trust (EXP) and and level up your trust, you then get a talent point to put into your massive talent tree and can freely swap them out anytime.
• The mission select terminal has quick play (complete with bonuses) and all unlocked levels can be selected and each has different difficulties that affect rewards.
• You can play levels in any order.
• Each level has primary and secondary objectives.
• Mission terminal settings – matchmaking server location and private game on/off.
• You can do private games if you have a full-strike team of four.
• Earn credits to buy equipment at the armory exchange.
• Sell unwanted gear.
• All gear and rewards are doled out at the end of a mission.
• You can edit the appearance of weapons.
• Full editable emote wheel.
• You can heal and revive each other when on a mission.
• very addictive.
• The idea is that you replay levels to get better loot and go up the difficulties.
• A lot more fun with friends but it is totally playable in solo with randoms.
• You can tag and ping ammo, health stations, etc.

Warhammer 40k Darktide Review Cons:

• Cannot play the game without having Xbox Live, the game will just error back to the menu every time.
• Broken code lines with the code showing instead of text.
• You play the game in first person and the hub is third person there is no mixing it up.
• Doesn’t have cross-save/progress.
• When playing with randoms it feels like a racing game as everyone always tries to rush through as fast as possible which is fine once you learn the level but starting out it’s not a great experience.
• The tagging and pinging system is very basic and kind of clunky in its execution.
• Forces you to get a Fatshark account.
• Not the fastest loading time.
• At random times the screen wouldn’t keep its resolution.
• Matchmaking times are sporadic.
• Constant difficulty spikes.
• Never sure when it saves.
• You cannot play solo offline with or without bots.
• Online play is forced on you.
• So much to take in and you never feel in the know.

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Warhammer 40k Darktide:

Official website.

Developer: Fatshark

Publisher: Fatshark

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