DO NOT BUY Warhammer 40,000： Darktide - unfinished game

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So I

wanted to make another video about

Warhammer 40,000 Darktide. I now have over

140 playtime hours on it, and you might be

wondering, if I dislike the game so much,

how come I'm still playing it? Basically,

that's because there's literally nothing

else to play right now. I cannot find

another game to entertain me. So Darktide

is still quite an entertaining game to

play, but I am pretty bored of it right

now. So the main problem I'm having with

Warhammer Darktide is the fact that once

you get to maximum level, which is only

level 30. Doesn't take too much time to

get to level 30, maybe about a week of

solid gameplay, or maybe less than a week

if you just play a lot. But once you get

to level 30, there's basically nothing

much to do. It seems like most of the

gameplay, most of the fun in the gameplay,

is getting to level 30. And then once you

get to level 30, you feel like, okay, so

now what? The only thing else to do once

you reach to max level is just get a load

of money and then buy some of the other

weapons to mess around with, and also try

doing the maximum difficulty. So I managed

to do the maximum difficulty pretty

easily. Now I always play on maximum

difficulty, and I can easily finish every

single map as long as I have a fairly

competent team. Sometimes I finish a level

on maximum difficulty and I'm like, was

that really maximum difficulty? It was so

easy. And it was just because I had a

fairly good team. Also, the reward for

finishing a level on max difficulty is not

that great. You would think, oh wow, I

just finished it on max difficulty.

Imagine all the rewards and loot and money

I'm gonna get from it. All you get is

20,000 order dockets instead of 15,000 if

you're doing it on level 4 difficulty. If

you're on level 5 difficulty, you'll get

20k dockets, which is not that great. And

by the time you're level 30, you've

probably got like quarter of a million

dockets anyway because you already bought

everything, and now there's nothing else

to buy. Your money is just starting to

pile up. So when you get to max level,

dockets and money become kind of

meaningless. What you really want are the

other materials, which I forgot the name.

I think it's like steel, plastic steel,

something like that, because these can

upgrade your weapons and make them go from

blue items into epic purple or legendary

orange. That's the main resource you

really want. So the main thing you'll be

doing once you hit max level is you're

going to be farming for these materials so

that you can upgrade your weapons and

eventually upgrade them to legendary

status. But the problem is, once you've

upgraded all your weapons to legendary

status and you've gotten as strong as you

possibly feel like you can get, then it

feels like, what's the point? Because you

don't get any extra legendary raids or max

level 30 raids or levels or stages that

really require you to be very strong. You

don't really get any extra missions that

you haven't already done a thousand times

whilst leveling up to level 30. There's

not many levels in this game. There's like

5 or 7 levels, and after you've played

over 100 hours of this game, you realize

you're just playing the same levels over

and over and over again. There's barely

any variety. All the levels look kind of

the same in these very metal-looking

steelworks, factory environments,

industrial complexes. Every level looks

like it's all just the same level just

chopped into tiny bits and then separated

into different stages. There's no variety

in the levels. Also, the weapons are kind

of boring. You'll realize that there's

only a few weapons that are very

overpowered, such as the energy sword.

The electric sword is probably one of the

most popular weapons that basically

everyone uses because it's so overpowered.

You just energize the electric sword and

then it can one or two-shot nearly

everything. The chain chainsword sword

thing is okay as well, but you see more

people using the electric sword basically

because all of the other melee weapons are

kind of crap. You've got that knife,

you've got that sword that can do like a

flurry, you've got a 2-handed axe, but

what's the point using a 2-handed axe when

you can just use the chainsword or the

energy sword? So most of the weapons in

the game become kind of redundant. Same

thing about the ranged weapons. There's a

lot of different rifles and machine guns

in the game, so it's great that there's a

lot of variety and choice, but you soon

realize there's basically only 2 weapons.

That are worth using: the bolt gun, which

I'm using now, and the plasma rifle,

which can almost one or two-shot almost

anything, and also the flamethrower. So

you want to do crowd control and wipe out

huge mobs of the easy zombies, then you

want the flamethrower. And if you want to

one or two-shot the big elites, then you

want the bolt gun or the plasma rifle. So

if you got one guy with a flamethrower and

then another guy with a bolter or the

plasma gun, you can basically take out

mobs of enemies and also the elites really

easily. And all the other guns like the

machine guns, rifles, the pistol, the

lasgun pistol is so pathetic, I don't know

why you would ever use that. The handgun,

the autogun, and the lasguns, they're all

crap. There's one high-capacity lasgun

that shoots out like a huge barrage of

lasers, but it takes ages to kill anything

with it, and then you just end up running

out of ammo and having to reload all the

time. It's the most pathetic weapon ever.

So I find it kind of annoying that there's

so many weapons, but then only 2 of them

are actually viable. Why would you use

these weak, inferior weapons? That are

just frustrating to use and not fun. The

boltgun is pretty fun because it just

blows enemies up and it can destroy elites

in maybe a couple of shots. It's just a

bit annoying because the reload speed is

very slow, but I guess it's a weapon that

Space Marines are supposed to use. So the

game gets pretty repetitive because you

kind of feel limited to the weapons you

can use, and then there's not really much

else to buy because I think by the time

you get to level 30, you would have bought

basically every weapon off the auction

house because you're curious and you want

to try them out. And then you'll usually

find your favorite weapon and then just

stick to that and then focus on upgrading

that weapon. I think they really missed

out a trick on making this game more like

an MMO. So I think they should have added

loot. They could have made this game so

much more addictive if they had chests in

the game that gave you loot and then you

rolled on it like in World of Warcraft.

Or maybe the bosses or the mini bosses

should drop something. They don't drop

anything. And I don't even know if you get

extra bonus in order dockets or materials

by killing them. There should be more

items, more weapons that are actually

viable, and they should drop as loot from

the enemies. In the game. That would make

the game so much more fun. And they should

also have some kind of crafting system as

well where you could craft your own

grenades or add-ons or weapon attachments.

I think if they added COD-style, Call of

Duty-style weapon attachments to the guns,

it would make the game so much more

interesting. Imagine you could customize

your own weapon, like customize the Bolter

so you could have different kind of scope.

They could add 5 or 6 different variations

of scopes with different zoom levels and

also maybe muzzles, different ammunition

magazine clip sizes, different stocks,

different types of bullets. And also I

think they should add more armor pieces

that actually have stats, that actually do

something, instead of just purely cosmetic

outfits that don't really serve any

purpose apart from making you stand out a

bit more. I think you should also be able

to have your own room, your own quarters

in the spaceship that, that you could

decorate with things that you would find

during the levels. I think they could add

so much to this game. To make it a lot

more fun. Right now it just feels very

bare-bones and basic. I hope they add more

DLC and they use the ideas I've suggested

in this video. It'd be so much better.

And also they need maybe 10-man raids with

epic bosses, maybe harder levels, so like

dungeons with really tough elite mobs in

them that really require teamwork, and

it's much more challenging and you can't

just blitz your way through it. And also

they have to offer much more interesting

rewards. Because as of right now, I'm

finding it very hard. I'm struggling to

continue to play the game because there's

just nothing left to do in it anymore. I

really hope they're going to add different

planets in the future so you fight against

different races. I want to fight against

Orks or maybe some kind of Chaos Marines

or something like that, or maybe the Tau,

the Eldar. I'm just getting kind of bored

of fighting these same heretic-looking

mobs and these ogre things. So as of right

now, I don't know if I can fully recommend

the game. It's a pretty good game and I

really enjoy it. But it's just lacking in

something and I'm not sure what that is.

Well, I do know I've suggested a lot of

things that could make the game a lot more

fleshed out, and I hope they add a lot

more to the game because I do enjoy

playing it. I still think the gameplay

feels fun and it is fun. I love how gory

it is and I love how the game looks and

plays, and it is a nice social bonding

activity game. If you feel a bit lonely,

want to play with a bunch of other people,

it can be quite nice.