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Devoted Rejects, Here are the patch notes for our latest update, Path of Redemption. It is live now on Steam, and will shortly follow on our other platforms.
 
New Additions
Shrine Penitentax Welcome to Shrine Penitentax, Sister Hestia Prine’s alcove on the Mourningstar’s main deck, and where she will be recording the penances the rejects undertake in their fight to liberate Atoma. It is located straight across from Sire Melk’s Requisitorum, and has been newly renovated to accommodate the expanding number of records and scrolls needed.   

(We had simply too many penances to be able to fit them all in the patch notes, so be sure to check them out in game!)


Reworked Penance menu The screen where penances were collected has been replaced with a new overhauled and extended menu, composed of three main elements.
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Heroes!

The Versus map will be changing back to Righteous Stand from 10:00 CET for the remainder of the Alpha Test. Just a reminder that the Alpha Test ends on 17th March 23:59.

Thank you to all those who have played so far!

What’s coming up in Darktide?
Our first update will focus on a comprehensive revamp and expansion of the penance system, including adding many additional rewards and a completely new way to earn them. We will be sharing more information on this update by the end of the month along with a dev blog, so keep your eyes peeled on our Communication channels to learn more.

Following this, we are working on an overhaul of our current itemisation process. With the new system we want to remove a lot of the unpredictable grind that came from an RNG heavy system whilst giving players more agency and a steady manner to progress toward specific loadouts, blessings, and stats refinement.

Although these are significant portions of each update, this is not our full plan for 2024. We will be adding new elements to Darktide throughout the year as well includi... Read more

Heroes!

Thank you for all your incredible feedback on the 'Righteous Stand' map so far, we will now be swapping map to 'Screaming Bell' from 13:30 CET 12th March - 10:00 CET 15th March. We will swap over gradually so it may take some time before you start to queue in to the 'Screaming Bell' map.

For those who played or watched during our Closed Alpha Test here are the changes we have made to 'Screaming Bell' for this test:

• Increased enemy presence (including enemies triggered by certain events)
  
• Reduced pickups / health
  
• Added a Reach objective stage after the Bell event (before the Bridge of Shadows)

## Devoted Rejects,
Here are the notes for Hotfix #32 which just went live on Steam and will be out shortly on our other platforms!

• Fixed a crash which would happen when reaching the mid-event in the Warren 6-19 mission if the “Mostly ranged Enemies” Maelstrom modifier was active.
  
• Fixed an issue where the crash reporter was assigning the wrong category to crashes.

Devoted Rejects,
Here are the notes for Hotfix 1.2.11 which just went live on Steam.

• Fixed a crash which could happen if a player joined a mission while a projectile was traveling in the air.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Veteran "Onslaught" talent did not affect melee attacks.

Missed Patch Notes from The Traitor Curse:

• Achlys Mk VII Twin-Linked Heavy Stubber: decreased time to fire first shot from 0.22s to 0s, improved deploy speed, reload speed, movement speed while firing, tighter spread while braced, even tighter spread while braced + crouched.
  
• Fixed a bug where Hand-cannon weapon blessing effects were applied globally.
  
• Fixed an issue with the physics of the Death Korps of Krieg Upperbody.
  
• Reduced the Ogryn Lorenz Mk V Kickback minimum...

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Devoted Rejects
Here are the patch notes for Patch #15: The Traitor Curse Part 1 which just went live on Steam and will be out shortly on the Microsoft Store.



Mission: Mercantile HL 70-04
Wyrmwood reports indicate that the Moebian VI have set up a base of operations in the Carnival. What's more, they are using some of the more disreputable areas of Mercantile HL 70-04 to produce stimms and distribute them out to the rest of the Hive. Get in there and recover samples we can analyse for traces of the Blight.

Dev note: This mission will be available on the mission board 1-2 hours after the patch release.



Veteran Tree Enjoy many changes and tweaks made to the... Read more

Rejects
Here are the notes for Hotfix 1.2.3 which just went live on Steam!

• Fixed a crash which could happen when rapidly switching between wargear presets
  
• Fixed an issue where every part of the "Chem-safe rebreather (red)" head gear cosmetic incorrectly appeared in red color
  
• Fixed an issue where candles visual effects could appear in first person view when having one of the following Zealot upper body cosmetics equipped:
  • Saintly Lazar's Vestments, Krieg Greatcoat (marked by faith), Saintly Mendicant's Vestments and Saintly Missionary's Vestments
• Fixed an issue where specific types of male facial hair were incorrectly displayed when equipping the "Incantata MK IVN Obedience Helm" Zealot head gear cosmetic
  
• Tooltips for equipped Talents can...

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Hotfix 1.2.1 just went live on Steam, check out the full patch notes here[www.playdarktide.com]

Devoted Rejects!
Here are the Patch Notes for Patch #13: Class Overhaul. Not all our notes would fit in one Steam post! To read the rest of the patch notes please click here[forums.fatsharkgames.com] to continue reading on our forums.




New Features & Improvements
Talent Trees
We have replaced the old Feats with new Talent Trees!

Instead of unlocking a new row of feats every 5 levels, you will now be granted one Talent Point for each level you reach, to a maximum of 30 poi... Read more

Devoted Rejects!
A promise is a promise here is our deep dive blog on the talent trees. We figured you might want to enjoy a studious weekend, dissecting each class and getting ready for the launch of Patch #13 and Xbox on October 4, 2023.

Make sure to check out our ... Read more

Hello Devoted Rejects!
My name is Mats Andersson, also known as the resident Combat guy, Lead Combat Designer or just “Ratherdone” around the interwebs. I’d like to tell the story of the Darktide team's new take on classes and all the player choice and build availability that comes with it. This update is the result of a wide collaboration throughout the project as changing the core of what defines a player character has far-reaching implications on many parts of the game.

First off, we’ve always looked at Darktide as a game where you define your own character and play style. Much more so than in our previous tide-games. The idea that we’d be less prescriptive in the way we present who you play always has some friction with the class system. It is just natural that presenting a class, full with loadout restrictions, abilities and talent packages, comes with a heavy lore-package and a specific “you’re choosing to play THIS GUY”. We wanted to change that. We wanted to make... Read more

Devoted Rejects,
Here are the notes for Hotfix 1.1.22 which just went live on Steam, and will be out shortly on the Microsoft Store.

• +X Stamina perks now give incrementally higher bonuses (+1 / +1.25 / +1.5 / +2).
  
• Refining "+% Curio Chance as mission reward" perk should no longer display an error.
  
• Minor fixes for various cosmetics items.

Devoted Rejects,
In this dev blog we are going to dive into three topics and upcoming changes that we will be making to them. The three topics are the Mission Board, Crafting, and Currencies/Resources within Darktide.

All the changes that we will be discussing in this dev blog have been in development, and are being prepared to launch in Patch #12 (1.1.20). These changes mark the next step in our support to the game, we will keep on monitoring feedback and evaluate future changes.

For clarity, these changes are not the only changes currently in development and being worked on by the team. We’re also still hard at work on Darktide for Xbox!

Mission Board We’re making some key changes to how the mission board generates its missions, while also expanding upon the available content. We are going to cover the details further into the dev blog, but for those of you who want a high level summary here are the changes that will be made:

Maelstrom Mis... Read more

Rejects, This is Catfish, Darktide Community Manager, here with another comm-link update.

The comms team is back from its break and so are comm-links! Due to the summer hiatus, this edition will be shorter than usual. We will also have a slower pace of Comm-links for the foreseeable future, to make way for more varied types of comms, such as dev blogs.

Here is what you can expect for the coming weeks on Darktide:

• On August 3rd, we will publish a Dev Blog focusing on upcoming changes in Patch #12 (1.1.20), giving you an in-depth look at our plans for account based currencies, perk refinements, adjustments to crafting locks and options on the mission board.
  
• In the first half of August we will be releasing Patch #12 alongside its patchnotes.

See you next week for the Dev Blog!

Rejects!
Here are the notes for Hotfix 1.1.11 that just went live on Steam and will be out shortly on the Microsoft Store.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using a Flamer with the Showstopper Blessing.
  
• Fix for a crash that could occur when using Chastise the Wicked rapidly twice in a row.
  
• Fix for the Elite Resistance Condition giving wrong rewards on some difficulties.
  
• Fix for long load times for users with very large inventories.
  
• Fix for valid set of Japanese characters not being approved during Fatshark Account renaming.
  
• Fix for a crash that could occur when inspecting the Chem-Safe Rebreather with Goggles.
  
• Fix for horde numbers being fewer than intended.
  
• Fix for the item rating level numbers missing from the Armo...

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Rejects
Here are the notes for Hotfix 1.1.3 which just went live on Steam and will be available shortly on the Microsoft Store!

• Fixed a crash that could occur when looking at the new penances.
  
• Fixed an obstruction before the drop to the mid event in the Power Matrix HL-17-36 mission when playing with the Power Supply Interruption condition.
  
• Fixed clipping issues for the “Desolation” Cap cosmetic in the “The Kalidar Wars” bundle.
  
• Fixed an issue where “Invert Look Y-Axis” was not working as intended.

Mission Board Changes:

• The increased presence of Ascension Riser 31 on the Mission Board will end after deployment of the 1.1.3 Hotfix.
  
• Power Matrix HL-17-36 is once again available to play on the Mission Board.

Rejects! Here are the notes for Hotfix 1.1.2 which just went live on Steam, and will be out shortly on the Microsoft Store.

• Fix for crash when throwing projectiles and hitting destructible scenery.
  
• Improved decision logic for the Chaos Spawn leap trajectory to minimize cases where it gets stuck on something along the leap (e.g. small box).
  
• Patch #10 included a change aimed at fixing sprint and firerate interactions, which had an unintended impact on charge attacks while sprint-sliding. Fixed so that sprinting into slide does not break charging on ‘Brainburst’ and all Psyker staffs.
  
• Resolved an issue where the background colour of weapon or curio cards in the Loadout / Inventory view would not appear.
  
• The rewards of the first community challenge, “Memento Mori” helmets, now has properly a...

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Here are the notes for Hotfix 1.1.1 that just went live on Steam, and will be out shortly on the Microsoft Store.

• Fix for startup crash on AMD machines.
  
• Fix for a crash that sometimes occurs when inspecting character stances and emotes.
  
• Fix for VoIP not working after completing/failing mission.
  
• Added further localization texts (this should solve some unlocalized string issues).

Rejects!
Here are the notes for Hotfix 1.0.52 that just went live on Steam, and will be out shortly on the Microsoft Store.

• Fixed an issue of missing animation package loading for cutscene characters.