The unfortunate bottom line is this: Darktide is a fundamentally fun, and literally incomplete game. Or you could buy some much worse cosmetics for in-game currency, or slightly better cosmetics for cold hard cash. Tired of looking like a bum who just crawled your way out of Shawshank? Prepare to engage in team sabotage as you try your hand at some ludicrously difficult, and sometimes, purely luck-based “challenges” in the form of penances that unlock cosmetics. If you thought unlocking weapons was hard, wait until you try your hand at cosmetics. There are no alternatives to the Ogryn’s shield, for instance, so if you’re having trouble finding one that’s good enough to take with you on harder missions you’re out of luck. This is incredibly frustrating, as entire playstyles can live and die by your choice of weapon.

Also not included at launch is the full crafting system, which means you aren’t able to craft your favored type of weapon that’s level-appropriate and are instead relegated to the luck of the draw in the rotating shop, the prohibitively expensive upgrade station, or the chance rewards at the end of missions.

Experimenting with different weapon combinations is rewarding, but the promised weapons at launch (after the pre-order ‘beta’ concluded) have yet to be added, so pickens are still a little slim.

Luckily, you’ll also be leveling up and collecting better weapons as you progress, so the medium difficulty and higher become much more manageable down the line. There are five difficulty levels to choose from, ranging from very easy to very hard to very very hard and beyond.

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