Warhammer 40K: Darktide’s newest replace will proceed to flesh out developer Fatshark’s Left 4 Useless-like, increasing the sport’s Mortis Trials mode whereas additionally including a brand new enemy sort, further weapons, and extra.
The free Sure by Obligation replace will go dwell September 23 for all platforms, and brings some vital additions. As detailed in a Fatshark blog, the majority of the brand new content material is for Mortis Trials, Darktide’s wave-based roguelike mode. There can be a brand new area, the Theatre of Rectitude, the place gamers can check their mettle, in addition to new Indulgence archetypes that may supply new fight types for gamers to experiment with. Further Reminiscence Echoes added to the mode will develop on NPC backstories to disclose extra concerning the sport’s solid of characters and the historical past of the ship that serves as the sport’s hub, the Mourningstar.
Whereas the Mortis Trial additions make up a big chunk of the replace, there’s loads new for gamers preferring the sport’s mission-based gameplay. A brand new weapon for the Veteran, the Energy Falchion, will work equally to the Zealot’s Relic Blade, permitting gamers to empower the weapon till it overheats. There can even be new Mark variants of the Bolt Pistol and Boltgun, each of which emphasize explosive injury.
These new weapons can be put to the check towards a brand new enemy sort, the Scab Plasma Gunner. Wielding a robust Plasma weapon that offers excessive injury, gamers will wish to give attention to these enemies at any time when potential.
Fatshark fully revamped Darktide’s courses in 2023, including tremendously expanded expertise timber and new talents for every of the sport’s 4 (now 5 with the addition of the DLC Arbites) courses. In Sure by Obligation, Fatshark takes one other swing at balancing the expertise timber. The Veteran, Zealot, and Psyker timber have been reworked to be extra open and permit for “extra flexibility and participant company,” in accordance with Fatshark, whereas the Ogryn and Arbites abilities have additionally seen a “mild touch-up.”
Rounding out the replace is the addition of a dodge counter that informs gamers of what number of dodge fees they’ve remaining, in addition to a brand new occasion known as Smuggled Munitions that may see gamers taking over squads of the sport’s new Plasma Gun enemies whereas in low visibility circumstances. For these trying to snag some free cosmetics, Twitch Drops for Darktide can be dwell from September 23 by means of October 13.
In different Warhammer 40K sport information, House Marine 2 will obtain a long-awaited class subsequent 12 months in a free replace. In the meantime, Amazon’s Warhammer 40K TV present is probably going nonetheless years away.