My TOP 5 DARKTIDE Tips |Pro Tips From a Vet Vermintider

[@MR.R3B00T]

Late at night when the moon is at it's peak, & the bitter chill of loneliness snaps at my tormented soul, I turn to these videos for solice & comfort. Thankyou Kryptkick, from that deep dark place inside, thankyou.

[@kryptkick441]

Thank you Mr Reboot

[@88Spint]

Got some tips of my own: 0. Along with the settings you spoke about also up the brightness. 1. Always turn around and see whats behind you every 5 seconds. Almost like you have Tourettes and randomly found a massive gold bar on the street in a bad neighbourhod. 2. Always check your allies position, like you have separations anxiety. 3. The rule of 2! Never be alone and never let anyone be alone. 4. Tag everything! I'm seriously considering rebinding my left mouse to also be tag. 5. Block, push, then melee a bit, then block, push. Throw in a dodge now and then, as dodges makes the enemies miss their attacks. As in they stop tracking you and swing where you were instead. If you just move left and right they will move with you while swinging. Here is some incentive: In Vermintide when an enemy is staggered from something you did they take increased dmg, here that seem to be the case too. 6. Ranged enemies stop being ranged enemies as you close the distance into melee, they can also be suppressed and forced to duck in to cover. Zealot and Ogrim can make awesome work with this knowledge. 7. Enemies have armor, just don't attack em where they are armored. Maulers for example need to be attacked in the belly, not the head. You can test all of this out in the training room. 8. If you don't know the location of grims and scriptures, just ignore em for now. There are some guides out there but they are not conclusive yet. Check em out and use them rather then spending an hour of your party's time to look around for them. For you who have a thing to get them it's great, for the rest of us you are just wasting our time. it's 200xp-ish. just ignore unless you know. 9. Bosses can be rushed down quite quickly so attack with fervor and smash their bloody skull in! it's only a problem if people ignore and run away from them and go for the endless hordes. Yes you as a vet should not run away from the boss, be ready to melee the shit out of it the moment you run out of ammo. 10. When it comes to gear I assume the power of the gear functions similarly to Vermintide. So higher power means higher dmg, BUT just because you don't have your highest power weapon equipped does not mean you will not be able to gain higher power gear. It should be like in Vermintide that it counts teh highest gear that has been added to your inventory. But it also seem to just be a level thing. So don't stress it and use the weapon that you find most effective for the build you got going for u. 11. Do bring different weapons for different situations. Mostly just one to deal with hordes/multi targets, and one to deal with armor/single target nuking. You wanna know why you are using what weapons, and ofc you first need to know how they funciton but this should be your goal. 12. Learn the tricks of each melee. For example you all know the axe is kind of shitty at dealing with many enemies right? But the push attack is amazing at doing just that. Esp. if you swing your view around as if you are playing chivalry.

[@kryptkick441]

This is a great list, I especially like 11 and was going to put it on this list then decided on meme'n about the flame thrower lol.

[@88Spint]

@@kryptkick441 totally worth it. I just wish i could use one on my vet.

[@IamtheWV17]

I'm with you except the secondary objectives.... you've gotta learn where they are by finding them the first few times.... and they don't take that long to find.

[@KUM0]

Thanks for this video

[@kryptkick441]

Thank you!

[@roamingrook9489]

Good shit man, keep it up

[@kryptkick441]

Awesome thanks brother1

[@smp1396]

I like my tag on the mouse wheel

[@kryptkick441]

The problem with that is you can't fire or block at the same time as tagging

[@wtfronsson]

specials > shooters of all kind > elites > horde Flamer is awesome, but so is your gun shooting nothing but crits after you use Chastise. You can shoot a T5 Crusher 100-0 during the buff with certain guns, and a bit of luck on headshots.

[@HumanTarget777]

I think Vermintide 2 is more fun and the visuals looks way better. In Darktide every place looks the same so far, dark and metal. Zealot was fun to play though.

[@packlimo]

thanks!

[@88Spint]

Got my first purple gun yesterday, was one of those cool chargeup lasrifles so I was stoked to try it out cus I never seen one before. Hopped into a mission and THE ENTIRE MISSION WAS FOG! Deep, assholeian fog that refused to let me see more then 20m ahead. I tried to turn it off in which case it's all just a visual green barrier that looked so much worse I have to turn it back on so my brain could understand what was going on. Why, is there fog inside a superstructure??? I get the open spaces but in the corridors, hallways? THE ELEVATORS???? I'm playing a vet here... I'm all ranged and I got a new longranged gun and the only time I see the enemy is when they try to melee me! It was like a kick in the balls.

[@kryptkick441]

ahaha yeah man I think they must have been playing a lot of Silent Hill when they were deciding on how to make the game atmospheric

[@IamtheWV17]

I don't think the lucius really is a long range gun 🤔 it's more of a mid-range elite hunter. Which, I think, is why It needs the bayonet, as it's trash at dealing with the horde, so you'll find yourself in melee with the horde often.

[@dust921]

my pro tip kee map your tag/spot to your fire button :) its got its pros & cons but if u r like me & to buzzy fighting in the front line to care about tagging stuff it will basically auto tag. & if the devs didn't let me do that i wouldn't even use tag because i no what big bad looks like

[@CrypticBlight]

I still don’t know why my games frames drop a ton in most areas. I have a 3070 ti and an i9 and it still runs like shit.

[@wtfronsson]

Certain maps have issues, although these have been improving at a good pace. Server performance has been seen affecting client performance too, which really sucks.

[@dust921]

its fun but the lvl cap is to low & its skill tee is lacing kinda hope thy do wipe sitting at max lvl is boring no reason to keep going. & i got all the classes to max lvl in a few weeks :(

[@panzerfaust7672]

Cool, a Slayer video would be cool!

[@cherrysoda4462]

Good video! One tip I'll add for Psyker to mirror your opinion on the flamethrower- *use the Surge Force Staff.* Seriously. You can shock bulwarks into dropping their shields, stop mutants mid-charge or make them drop someone, same with hounds. You can stop poxbursters from blowing up [a little zap, even if they're already jumping, entirely stops their detonation]. You can stun reapers, maulers, ragers. Everything except monstrosities and assassination bosses. It's extremely OP. Probably going to get nerfed, but I'm going to abuse it while it's good. It makes Heresy runs so much easier [even if I've yet to sin one, it's helped me get really close several times].

[@kryptkick441]

Hell yeah thanks for the info!

[@Mr-Kitty]

I'm not sure I'd call it "OP" personally. If it did more damage then maybe, but right now as a staff to support and control then I think it's good. It does no where near the damage of some veteran weapons and on higher difficulties I found the staff paired well with a good team, or even a decent team. Bad teams would die despite having one or multiple of these staves. I think the staff is fine considering the power of some weapons on other classes. (I ran Psyker main, then ogryn and some vet in pre-order beta) I'd say "Over powered" would be if it stunned enemies AND did a ton of damage on top of it, while for me the damage seemed middling. But this is all on opinion from me. XD I'm no game dev like many people who levy their opinions. (Not a slight toward anyone in saying that.) I'm just hoping that all classes feel fun and all weapons are viable in gameplay (Lore be damned) and that no one feels undervalued because of their weapon choices. I'm sure everyone can agree that hoping the game remains fun overall is a good mindset.

[@cherrysoda4462]

​@@Mr-Kitty Since the 8 days ago I made that post- I have to agree with you, yeah. I've actually seen a lot of usage in every single staff in the game. Trauma, admittedly, gets outclassed pretty quickly, since the AoE explosion right-click isn't exactly fantastic [albeit not bad], but the other three? *Man* are they good. Surge, as I said, has amazing CC. God-tier CC. Although, I suppose with a good team that kills specials fast and on-callout, it's value is reduced slightly. Still very good. Void is apparently a beast. Haven't used it much, admittedly, but I've seen Psykers tear through hordes with it, and it looks damn good. It also has the standard LMB for the force staff, which I honestly think is amazing. 1-tapping troopers [at least, on Malice, idk for the other 2] is very useful. Purgatus quickly became my favourite. I thought it sucked at first, but when I put on Kinetic Flayer and started focusing on Warp Weapon damage, *man* is it good. Amazing at horde melting, amazing against non-armoured enemies- and imo the coolest attacks. I've not had the chance to play anything but Psyker and Sharpshooter yet- but every single class in the game rn feels exceptionally well balanced. My friend thinks Ogryn needs to be a little bit better [he doesn't like that not using the shield in Heresy+ just makes you worse off], but I think all the classes are fantastic. Fatshark really blew it outta the water with Darktide. Can't wait to hop back into this game on the 30th.

[@Mr-Kitty]

@@cherrysoda4462 Voidstrike is quite satisfying, but as you go higher into difficulty 4 and such the CC of surge can be life saving. I'd say voidstrike is the best until past malice (dif-3) then surge's utility begins to shine despite the damage. Purgatus is good, not my flavor for staffs but I can understand the power. I just like having the feedback which the flame staff doesn't offer much, just a wall of blue-white fire and everything is mostly dead where you were pointing. I never used it much past malice though so idk it's worth there... and I abandoned trauma quickly. Surge seems to have a hidden value against flak armored enemies (dregs can resist it more than scabs which were flak armor it seems and I had no bonuses against either group on my staff.) so killing groups of armored enemies was easier than hordes or groups of unarmored / unyielding foes. But the worth is definitely in the stun that lets your allies shoot past bullwark shields, lets you stun mutants and any other specials. I can't wait to play tomorrow and I'm quite curious if they plan to re-tune anything between the last day of the pre-order beta and release. But I'm sure I'll enjoy it no matter what. I wish you luck when you play again, and hope you have fun in it as well, friend. Give void more of a go if you play malice alot, nothing more satisfying than throwing a fully charged bolt down a narrow hall of enemies in my experience. XD

[@cherrysoda4462]

@@Mr-Kitty I usually play Malice, since I find that randoms on Heresy just don't seem to play well [unfortunately this is also kind of true for malice but it's a new game so I'm surprised]. Voidstrike is definitely something I'll need to give another ago, it seems like a good horde clearing build that doesn't need too many feats to worn like Purgatus. The main value of Soulblaze for me is the fact that even on Heresy, one burst to a basic enemy will eventually build up enough to kill them. People tend to leave enemies behind for some reason, and the unexpected chip damage can get annoying. Surge *does* actually seem very effective against anything armoured. A godsend for Maulers, Crushers, etc. The utility of the staff is something I cannot praise enough- the ability to stun enemies has saved my teammates many times, and even myself a few. I think when we get the game back tomorrow, we might get a larger arsenal or some balanced toys to play with, since I'm fairly sure that they haven't yet added all of the weapons they intended to. Part of me wishes the Force Sword wasn't outperformed by the Power Sword in terms of utility, but everything else on Psyker is just amazing rn. They really made it feel powerful. Genuinely wish there was some way to scale brain burst though. Being unable to one shot dogs on Heresy without warp charge is a scary thing.

[@MihaiDurus]

I actually disagree with flamethrower being op. Yes, it can melt hordes and maybe the range is too much, but you can do the same using your melee or a grenade without cutting the line of sight of your teammates. I would rather use something that can deal with range units, because those are usually the most dangerous in darktide. Or using the long range weapon while dropping a heal on the ground and keep position during a boss fight. For this task, I think that the boltgun is the best. One shot, one kill on any range unit, maybe 2 shots on some armored elites. That can also shread bullets in a horde on fully automatic mode (a.k.a. spray and pray). Another good option would be any autogun, especially Agripinaa MK I, it has insanely strong firepower, and if your aim is decent, you can deal with any long range threat.

[@nolifeSnorlax]

Flamer is trash… you can’t see shit when using it and it doesn’t help you clear specials… it’s a trap

[@BreakOutOfYourTrance]

Pro tip: Just play Vermintide 2 instead.

[@DumAzzFairy]

Set tag as attack and you can do both with a click

[@kryptkick441]

This is very interesting information

[@DumAzzFairy]

@@kryptkick441 and it only tags enemies you dont one tap so no comms clutter/overload

[@PomaReign]

Flamethrowers aren't that great at higher difficulties where specials and elites have higher HP and stagger resistance so they can walk up to you and stop your shenanigans. They're memes only at easier difficulties.

[@01talima]

err dot always focus specials , if everyones always doing that the little guys run rampant if someone else is oont he special cover them! the flamers a noob trap. not only do you blind your team to dangerous specials coming in and give up any real ranged weapon damage all you get is superior trash clear.. and well its trash, a combat knife will do that!

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

Brother, get the flamer The Heavy Flamer

[@nex4613]

Very much agreed, having a blast rn. Went from dogshit open beta to gigachad preload beta - certainly not used to such a development anymore nowadays :)

[@kryptkick441]

She def shaping up to be a pretty tasty meatball that's for sure

[@gepsal209]

If this game is going to implement loot boxes or some other luck-based crap, I'm out. People glitching reds on Vermintide 2, then say they played for those and were not banned. Fatshark in a nutshell.

[@kryptkick441]

I hate to tell you my guy but there kind of is mystery boxes already :(

[@gepsal209]

@@kryptkick441 Shit!

[@garfeildmeat9999]

I’ve been waiting for some darktide stuff 😈😈😈

[@kryptkick441]

It's coming!

[@DumAzzFairy]

The flamer can stagger a dog off of you mid pounce with alt fire