Why i HATE Warhammer 40,000： Darktide

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing a lot of the

brand new Warhammer 40,000 Darktide, and

as an avid fan of Warhammer and also the

Vermintide games, I just knew I would

really love to play this game.

Unfortunately, there's just a few things

about the game that have been really

irritating me that I felt the need to make

this video criticizing the game. So this

game is basically just a ripoff of Left 4

Dead. If you've ever played any of the

Left 4 Dead games, then you'll know

exactly what this game is all about. It's

a 4-player co-op game against against

hordes of enemies, and then you've got to

fight off these hordes of enemies, get to

the save points, get to the end of the

mission, and fight some boss. It's so

identical to Left 4 Dead, you would almost

think that the same company and the same

developers made the 2 games. So in Left 4

Dead, you've got special infected, which

are like special zombies that have special

abilities that can pin you down or blow

you up and cover you in vomit and bile

that attracts more zombies. And guess

what? In Warhammer Darktide, you've got

the exact same types of infected. You've

got very similar types of special enemies.

For example, there is a Pox Hound, which

is like a dog that jumps on you and pins

you down, and you can't get up until a

teammate helps you, which is just like the

Stalker zombie thing on Left 4 Dead,

which would leap at you. You've got the

Pox Trapper, which casts like an electric

net over you and you can't move unless

someone comes and helps you. And this is

like a ranged pin, which is just like the

Smoker special infected in Left 4 Dead,

which would use its tongue to wrap around

you and stop you from moving. There's even

like a fat overweight zombie thing that

charges at you and then explodes at you

when it too close, which is just like the

Boomer from Left 4 Dead. There's also a

big muscular mutant that charges at you

and pins you down by slamming you on the

ground, exactly like Left 4 Dead 2. And

there's also like this demon thing that

floats around, which is just like the,

the witch in Left 4 Dead. There was this

little girl who sat on the floor crying,

and if you attacked her or got too close

to her, she would just destroy your entire

team, and it'd be very difficult to take

her down. So you had to avoid her. In

Darktide, you've got this demon ghoul

thing that floats around, and And again,

if you get close to it or you shoot it,

it will almost wipe out half your team,

and it's very difficult to take down. So I

feel like it's a very lazy and blatant

ripoff of Left 4 Dead. They don't even try

to make it original or very different to

Left 4 Dead. The game mechanics of this

game are so similar to Left 4 Dead, you'd

think you're playing Left 4 Dead. I would

think this is a prequel or a sequel to

Left 4 Dead if I didn't know this was a

Warhammer game. There's so many similar

things like falling off the edges and

having to be helped up and getting to a

safe zone and having to wait for an

elevator to come down whilst you fend off

hordes of— well, they're not even undead,

they're called heretics, but they look

basically the same as zombies. The enemies

you fight in this game are not really

anything you would think that would come

from a Warhammer universe. So I used to

play Warhammer 40K, the tabletop game,

when I was a kid, a teenager at school.

So I'm very familiar with things like

Space Marines, Orks, Tau, Eldar, Chaos.

But the funny thing is, even though this

is a Warhammer 40K game, you will find

none of those things in this game.

There's no Space Marines, there's no Tau,

there's no Orks, there's no Tyranids,

there's no Necrons, Eldar. There's nothing

from the Warhammer universe that is in

this Warhammer game. The only thing that's

kind of Warhammer-ish about this game

would be the odd random Leman Russ tanks

you find scattered around some levels,

and maybe the gothic-looking spaceships

would remind you of Warhammer. You play as

a convict that has escaped from prison and

then captured and sent aboard the Morning

Star, which is a big spaceship, and then

you get given a chance to fight for the

Emperor and redeem yourself and you have

to go down to these levels which all look

the same. They all look very industrial.

Every level looks exactly the same.

There's no variance or variety between the

different levels, which is really

disappointing because in Vermintide 2,

which I was a big fan of— I loved

Vermintide 2— and the levels in Vermintide

2 were so beautiful, like medieval

European Gothic-looking cities with great

scenery and landscape in the background.

I don't know how they made such

interesting and beautiful-looking levels

in Vermintide 2 and then managed to make

such boring and tedious-looking stages in

Darktide. Look at this level. All of the

levels in Darktide look like this. It's

just like metal corridors, industrial

complexes. It's just so bland and boring

to look at. And the worst thing is some of

these levels are so damn dark. Look how

dark this level is. You can barely see

anything apart from when there's some gun

flash or bit of lightning coming from a

psyker. But apart from that, most of the

level, it's like you're walking around in

pitch darkness and you've just got a tiny

little flashlight to see where you're

actually going. This is probably one of

the most annoying levels. I swear me and

my team were getting lost in this level

and just walking around in circles over

and over again trying to find out which

way we're supposed to go. The game does

help you and give you checkpoints, so you

never really feel completely lost and you

kind of have a sense of direction which

way you should be heading. But this level

just takes the mickey with how dark it is.

I think a level in a game should never be

this dark. So the only thing that really

makes this game stand out and feel

different to Left 4 Dead or the Vermintide

games is the MMO elements, such as you can

create your own character And there's

different classes. So you've got the Ogre,

which is a big tanky melee kind of

character, the Psyker, which does magic.

You've got the Zealot, which is also a

melee class, and you've got the Veteran

Sharpshooter, which focuses on shooting

guns. And you can also level up in the

game and create your own custom character

using the character creation toolkit.

There's also roleplaying elements that you

can choose for your character. For

example, your homeworld, your upbringing,

the kind of childhood you had, the kind of

soldier you are. And this all contributes

to the kind of characters personality

during the cutscenes. There's not really

cutscenes, but during the elevator scenes

where you're going into an elevator and

going down to the next level of the stage,

the characters will engage in some

dialogue with each other. And this

dialogue will depend on the choices you

made when you created your character.

Then they'll have specific dialogue based

on what you chose, which is a nice little

touch. And the character creation tools

are quite good, but the women in this game

are so damn ugly. I've never seen such

ugly-looking women character models in a

video game before. After playing

Cyberpunk, where I was able to make quite

an attractive looking female character.

Coming to Darktide and trying to make a

female character who looks semi-decent is

just impossible, so don't even try. Now my

problem with the character customization

thing and being able to create your own

character is I feel like it ruins the game

a little bit because something nice about

Left 4 Dead and Vermintide was the fact

that the characters you chose to play were

actually characters that were created by

the dev team and they've got personalities

and backstories. And they had their own

unique personalities. Like in Left 4 Dead,

you had Louis and you had that woman, you

had that old veteran army guy, I think his

name was Bill, you had the biker guy, and

they had all very unique personalities.

And it was fun to hear the banter they

would have between themselves during the,

the quiet parts of the game when there was

no fighting going on. Now that does happen

in Darktide, but because everyone is

playing their own custom-made character,

you never really feel like any of the

characters are so special. They all just

feel like random MMO characters that other

players have made, and it kind of takes

away some charm and some personality and

some character from the feeling of the

video game. Now I do enjoy the MMO

elements. It makes the game feel very

addictive. So you've got money. After

finishing a mission, you get money, you

get paid dockets, and you also get some

other kind of resources for upgrades. And

then you can go to like an auction house

where you can buy weapons. Now there's a

lot of weapons in the game that are all

true to the Warhammer 40K universe. So

you've got chainswords, flamers, you got

bolt guns, you've got lasguns,

autocannons, autopistols, laspistols, all

the kind of weapons you'd expect from a

40K game. And all of these weapons have

levels and stats and different perks, and

you can assign different perks to it by

upgrading the weapons. And this creates a

very addictive gameplay loop. Number one,

the gameplay is pretty satisfying and

pretty fun. It is repetitive and very

tedious. You're just spamming your mouse

button over and over and doing some

blocking and There's not really much

complexity or depth to the gameplay, but

it feels satisfying. It feels fun just

whacking all these hordes of enemies

coming at you. The game is very visually

visceral and violent and gory, which I

enjoy in my video games. So it creates

this addictive gameplay loop where it's

fun to play the missions and you feel

incentivized to play loads of missions and

make more money and level up your

character so you can unlock more abilities

and feats. There's also a talent tree

system called feats. So every 5 levels you

get to add a point and choose one special

ability out of 3, and it's usually just

little percentage modifiers that can alter

the way your character plays. And you can

create like a build style, a play style

based off certain build depending on your

weapon perks, your weapon choice, and your

feats, which is quite a nice little touch

to the game. I think it really makes you

feel invested in your character because

you're leveling him up and you're altering

the character's playstyle and abilities

depending on your own preferences, which

gives it a very MMO feel. So when you're

not doing missions and fighting, you'll be

in the online hub, which looks like an

MMO. So you'll be in third-person view,

you'll see other players running around

inside of the ship, and then the annoying

thing is you have to run to the center of

the ship to the map, the green map, every

time you want to start a new mission. If

you fail a mission or finish a mission,

it will start you at the beginning of that

hallway, and then you have sprint down it

back to the map to access the missions.

And this is kind of frustrating,

especially if you recently just failed a

mission, you want to quickly get back into

a mission. The ship's pretty cool to look

at. The inside of it is very impressive,

and I love the design and the architecture

of the interior of the ship. And there's

different shops spread out around inside

of the ship, so you can change your weapon

or buy new weapons, upgrade your weapons.

You can get haircuts and change the way

your character looks. So it's quite fun

being able to run around inside of the

ship. However, if you want to quickly get

stuff done, you'll find that the shops are

spread out quite far from each other and

you have to do quite a lot of running

around, which can get a bit annoying at

times. As for performance issues with the

game, it does run pretty smoothly for the

most part, and usually there's no problems

with it, and it's a fun and satisfying

experience to play the game. However,

sometimes it does randomly crash. The

entire game just closes itself. It says

Sorry, but Darktide has experienced a

problem. And then when you try to log back

in and join the game again, you'll find

that you've been kicked back to the lobby

and you're no longer in your party, and

you can't rejoin the mission that you just

got kicked out of. And this is just really

frustrating. It happens way too many

times. If I'm playing for like 10 hours,

it will happen at least 5 or 6 times. And

then I've got to wait for the really long

loading screens. I don't know why the game

has such incredibly long loading screens.

It takes like 1 minute to load into the

main lobby. I don't know if that's just a

me problem with my computer, but I do have

a fair fairly expensive gaming laptop. I

have a 17-inch Razer Blade Pro gaming

laptop with RTX 3060 graphics card, and

for some reason the game just loads really

slow. It takes like a minute or a minute

and a half to finish the loading screens,

and when you get kicked out of the game,

it's really annoying because sometimes

I've been on a mission and we nearly

finished the mission, nearly finished all

the secondary objectives, and we would

have gotten a nice reward— well, I would

have— but then the whole game crashes And

then I can't even rejoin my party that I

was playing with earlier. I think it

should give you a few minutes to give you

a chance to relaunch the game and get back

on so you can continue where you left off

instead of just booting you out and then

making you find a brand new party and

start a whole new mission. It is really

frustrating. I also find the enemy types

kind of bland and boring. After a while

you notice they're all just kind of big

ogre-looking mutant things holding shields

or miniguns, or they're just kind of

zombie-looking heretic swarms. I would

like to see a bit of variety in the

enemies, maybe go to different planets.

And fight Orks or Tyranids or Necrons,

or maybe play as a Space Marine. I don't

understand why they don't let you play as

a Space Marine. I think the game could

have been much more interesting if instead

of being a squad of ex-convicts, maybe

you're a squad of Space Marines, like

hardened veteran Space Marines plunged

into some kind of horrible hellhole that

they have to survive. And I saw some

people say on the subreddit for this game

saying that the reason why you can't play

as Space Marines is because Space Marines

are too overpowered they would just

destroy everything. But the entire game's

premise is based off just 4 people

fighting off against hundreds or even

thousands of enemies. Isn't that basically

what Space Marines are known for? Space

Marines are known for having few numbers,

but they can fight off against hundreds or

thousands of enemies. So you have like a

squad of Space Marines, maybe just 5 or 10

Space Marines should be able to hold their

own against hundreds and hundreds or even

1,000 Ork Soldier Boys. And I also think

being able to play as Space Marines would

have made the game much more interesting

because you could have had cybernetic

implants, kind of like Cyberpunk 2077,

because Space Marines are full of

cybernetics and implants. So you could

have had all different kinds of implants

that you could upgrade or purchase at the

shops on the Morning Star. And then they

could also have different abilities like

cloaking or maybe put more power into the

arms or legs so they can run faster. I

just feel like they could have taken the

game in a more interesting direction

instead of this weird convict heretic kind

of storyline. I don't know what's so

interesting about these Heretics, but

they're very boring and bland as enemies.

I don't really find them scary, or I don't

really care about killing them either. I

think it'd be more interesting playing as

Space Marines fighting something else like

aliens or Orks. Even being able to play as

the Imperial Guard would have been more

interesting than just being a bunch of

ex-convicts. Imagine you are part of the

Imperial Guard and then you have to like

defend your homeworld that's under attack

from Tyranids or Orks. Or something. I'm

just not really a big fan with the

storyline or the races they've chosen to

be part of the game. I feel like there's

much more interesting things in the

universe of Warhammer 40K, and maybe

they'll add extra things to the game in

DLC in the future, or maybe make an

expansion pack where you can actually play

as more interesting characters. But as it

is right now, I find it a little bit

bland, boring, and lacking in luster. Now

I do think it's a very fun game. It's

definitely my favorite game to play right

now, and it's very addictive. However,

there are a few things that annoy me about

it, and I would like to see these things

fixed or rectified in an upcoming patch.

But I do think it's a fun game, and I

would recommend buying it.