Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - Disposal Unit / Warp Traveller | Reacting To Video Game Music!

[@lukusridley]

Disposal unit plays during an assassination mission where you have gone through the sewers to kill a boss. You're in a disposal unit acting as a disposal unit! And the drop and vocals hitting during the fight was certainly v memorable

[@123Juniiorr]

very memorable for about 8 seconds until we all collectively melt the boss

[@RPGHSGAMING]

@@lukusridley deliver the Emperor’s judgement is so freaking awesome!

[@VojtechMartinec]

Warhammer 40K is a decades old setting (like DnD) about galaxy at war about 38 thousand years in the future (hence Warhammer 40K, 40000 years). There are many video games that adapt some part of it. Darktide is about couple of prisoners essentially being used as Suicide Squad, Mechanicus is about the priesthood of mars acquiring cool mechanical shinies. Very different games about very different people from the same setting. Also, chaotic and dark is very much the vibe. Darktide is just four entirely disposable people (its a multiplayer team game) purging chaos cultists. And yeah there are guns and shooting, but there is also lot of meele, smashing people with warhammers and chainswords. There is also Warhammer Fantasy, which is, as name suggests, less sci-fi more fantasy setting, with its own vibes and set of videogames that adapt it.

[@Dracobyte]

Yup!

[@Dracobyte]

Jesper Kyd is a legend in creating soundtracks for videogames. Being a fan since the Hitman days.

[@lauraiss1027]

Please check out Sega Genesis Batman and Robin soundtrack. Also by Kyd.

[@Razor921]

Jesper Kyd is one of my favorite composers so I'm always glad to see some tracks by him on here. Disposal Unit especially got so much listening from me after I played Darktide.

[@GOPerks-jo7mg]

Jesper Kyd does not miss. The Darktide OST is probably the best soundtrack in the setting.

[@AbominationalFailure]

Its either Darktide or Mechanicus, both are top tier

[@Scaevola9449]

I still think Mechanicus is better but Darktide is a close second

[@JM-nothing-more]

Warhammer 40k is not a series but a franchise that has been going for over 30 years it started out as a tabletop wargame, and has also spawned a lot of video games of many different genres over the last couple of decades it is the origin of the term "grimdark", thanks to the opening text of the rulebooks, and embodies that vibe: everything sucks, everyone is at war with just about everyone else and often themselves and wanton destruction is the norm Darktide is focused on a conflict of humanity, zealots in the name of the god-emperor, and chaos cultists that worship demons, so every single mission is either set in a church, desecrated ritual site, military or industrial building - or basically any combination of the above

[@JM-nothing-more]

as for the gameplay, there's lots of shooting, but also lots of first person melee with everything from knifes to chainsaw-axes to magic-infused swords

[@Silidirian]

A quick way to define the "Warhammer 40k" and subtitles, the 40k tag is basically the universe/setting, a futuristic grimdark setting where everything is bad and there's only war. Warhammer without the 40k tag is a more fantasy past style setting. For the subtitles such as Darktide, Space Marine, Mechanicus, etc, those are the specific story point within the univese (when someone says the 40k universe, it litteraly has it's own galaxy map and everything, it's been around for a long time and the lore is pretty fleshed out by this point) Your comment though that it feels very mechanical/industrial is pretty on point to what they wanted; it's set on a industrial planet that's responsible for producing some of the highest quality metals for tanks and such for the frontlines, but also one of the people giving you field info is a techpriest, someone who has altered themself so much they're more machine then man at this point and spiritually worship a machine god. And finally, to explain what they mean by "action game", I'd say think back to Left 4 Dead style, it's a horde shooter with melee capabilities. Darktide focuses more on the melee aspect though, as like everything in the setting, ammo is sparse, and the volume of enemies running you down makes any gun you can carry just too slow to clear through enough (also they're not exactly quick to kill, Nurgle cult which is about plague/disease and that mutates them to be harder to put down). But yeah, just a few things to clear up what you had wondered throughout~

[@aubinclemens3648]

1:58 "Souds really, Huh" Exactly what I was about to say !

[@zachsmith1676]

Disposal Unit typically plays during the final boss fight in the Sanction Redactus Missions where you head into a certain location and defeat a Chaos corrupted Captain of the Moebian 6th (An Imperial Guard regiment that fell to chaos after many campaigns in the Eastern Fringes region of the Milky Way Galaxy)

[@N008ST3R]

4:01 dark, chaotic, mechanical -- yes. this is Warhammer 40k.

[@NIewERO]

He's an Assassins Creed's 2 Composer as well as; Borderlands 2, Kane & Lynch and a much more GOOD stuff... Disposal Unit IS an assassination theme. (A boss battle basically) and what's good about this theme is; It kinda works with what happens in battle itself; - At the start of the fight boss has shields you need to take down first. (No lyrics - just music itself) - And then, when you bring shields down you got what you heard at 3:38... and it fu**s ._____________. in a best way possible. You - yourself drowning in a wave after wave of a trash-tier heretic filth, and yet you kick boss's ass harder than he would've guessed... And dont get me wrong, at hard difficulties he's quite ABLE to defend himself. If recommendations are a go: - "The Gauntlet" - Same game, same composer. Song of fighting for your life as you being caught in a trap And god damn it's even harder EDM than Disposal Unit. - "Light of the Imperium" It's.. well.. how would I put it... It's a Main Theme remix, but it's also a theme of The "Moebian 6'th" a guard's regiment that is a heretical now - Basically a "Bad-Guys of Darktide" theme :P They both are quite worthy of listening. - If anything that is absolutely MUST be heard in a Darktide, that - it's "Imperial Advance" (Main theme of guys you playing...) AND THEN "The Emperor of Mankind"... Do I even need to explain why? And just as a bonus :P If you want to FEEL (in your bones) the MOOD of this universe currently - you might as well try to hear "The Admonition" -> It kinda hints on fact that Humanity is FUC*ED, since chaos steps on it's feet, orc's bite everything they can bite, and we're surrounded by Tyranids from EVERY angle of the Deep Space (and I'm not even mentioning 5 or 6 more conflict sides), and at some point they're ALL gonna be here.. And they're know no peace, since there's only WAR. ._____. And thank god (Emperor, no doubt) you chose an Imperial Mix of Disposal Unit, there's other version without lyrics.. for some reason.

[@MrLyramion]

DarkTide currently is one of the best 4 player co-op experiences in existance. The gameplay, atmosphere, fight mechanics, dialoge between the player characters and the music are top notch. Spent 1400 hours so far. Game got held back by its awful itemization, crafting, FOMO shop with recycled items with more expensive bundles every time and FatShark being slow to react to player feedback. Otherwise it would be much bigger right now.

[@ibysdagon4659]

There are at least 30+ Warhammer 40k games. But in context to Mechanicus, there are a lot of factions with their own identity. Like Mechanicus features the Tech Priest of Mars. Which is a faction of humans diffrent from the Imperium of Man. Which has diffrent theme than the Orks which tends to have straight up rock and metal themes. In context to these songs, the Imperium is a religous totalitarian regime. But Darktide is more about lowlifes (by the Imperium's standards) fighting a zombie horde in a giant city on the behest of the secret police. Also it is boss music. It plays on assasination missions. Well, assasination in the vain of a witch, a giant ogre man, a gun nut, and a crazy person with a hammer run screaming at the top of their lungs, fighting through 100s of guy to get to the target.

[@notaninquisitor7274]

warhammer 40k is a tabletop wargame that has been around for over 35 years. There are probably hundreds of novels set in the Warhammer universe. To get a general idea of the setting's vibe you can think of movies like Event Horizon and Starship Troopers.

[@c-love6753]

Id say novels are in thousands by this point. And unfortunately a huge chunk of them are pretty mid

[@Twelvegage30]

In Warhammer, the soundtrack depends on the factions because of how different they are. This is why Mechanicus sounds like Gothic dubstep because you are playing as a cult that literally worships machines. Darktide, you play as rejects of the Imperium of Man in a hive city but with still very heavy-handed religious zealotry, so it's like church club music. I do like that, Mister Kyd managed to sneak the Skavin Fiddle from Vermintide in (find "The Skaven Come Out to Play")

[@c-love6753]

Both Vermintide and Darktide have some amazing soundtracks. Especially for the One man stantding scenarios

[@phntmthf5505]

Warhammer comes in two varieties. Warhammer, sometimes called Warhammer Fantasy or Age of Sigmar, which is a fantasy setting and has games like Vermintide and Total War: Warhammer. Warhammer: 40,000, or just 40K, is the distant future version of the setting (originally, they’ve diverged more over the years) with games like Mechanicus, Darktide, Rogue Trader, and Space Marine. Darktide is what’s known as a hoard shooter, where a team of around 4 players work together to shoot and/or melee their way through a hoard of enemies to complete objectives and get to safety. Mechanicus is an isometric, turn-based strategy game.

[@PeppyToe]

Warhammer fantasy and Age of sigmar are technically two different things with age of sigmar basically being a sequel set after the end times

[@phntmthf5505]

@@PeppyToe love how they ended their entire fantasy universe, only for it to get super popular again so they had to retcon the end of the universe

[@RikkiNakesone]

I eat up 40k games when they have good OSTs and i listen to jesper kyds ost for this game every time i crave 40k, it's just so good. I hope you can cover more darktide :)

[@RikkiNakesone]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war..." This universe is the 41st+ millennium, hence "40k"!

[@discountdisco2273]

Disposal Unit plays during the boss fight at the end of an Assassination mission. We, the player team, are the disposal unit to "dispose" of a high value target.

[@Hussman493]

This song really gets you pumped when you're matching melee swings with the beats.

[@kayckdaniel1570]

"In the Grim Dark Future, there is only War"

[@drhapi5308]

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only War.

[@Arksimon2k]

Ooh more Warhammer! Darktide is a fun game, and it has some good music across it, but Disposal Unit hits really hard. It's not just a well crafted song for the grimdark theme, but the first time I heard this we were facing off against this really tanky badass, all the while clearing away swarms of chaos minions. It's great.

[@leristamerello8225]

One of the best things about Darktide is the music. That music starts pumping during a big horde and you can just feel yourself get into it. By First Person Action, more because its a mix of some rpg elements and a mix of melee and ranged combat. Then there are swarms. It can get really hectic especially on the higher difficulties.

[@Vesryn240]

I was so excited to see this pop up in my feed! I can't get enough of this game, and the music is big reason why. About half my workout playlist is combat tracks from this OST. If you're interested in more: Nightsider, The Emperor of Mankind, and Light of the Imperium are all amazing

[@guyman91]

so the thing about darktide is darktide is set in a thing called a hive city, think a city that's a giant spire that reaches into the atmosphere of a planet with billions of people living there, the players are fighting a war in the hive city, it's why the music is so varied in its style, you have certain places where it's like a military battle hymn, other places where it's more electronic, other places where chaos just errupts

[@bilateriannewt4222]

This soundtrack slaps so much that I can't live a day without thoughts about it

[@misterbin00]

Basically there are two parts of the Warhammer franchise, where Warhammer is a fantasy setting, Warhammer 40k is a sci-fi setting. Both of them have in common a grim-dark universe where humanity is completely screwed.

[@ramireini]

I hear the Tekken 5 - Hall of Fate background music and I am happy about it.

[@Thretch]

Yooooo I was waiting for this !!! Thank you !

[@rickallen8767]

I love how the Darktide soundtrack could seamlessly fit in Cyperpunk 2077. Both are great soundtracks.

[@calvinospina7307]

Donkey kong 64 music is underrated, somebody refer to him mad jack boss theme, or crystal caves boss theme by Grant Kirkope

[@Blutwind]

Warhammer 40k is a very vast setting by Games Workshop. The setting has so many different things going on you can basically fit every kind of music in it and it would not be strange. Like in Mechanicus you play a group of technophile religious Zealots called "The Adeptus Mechanicus" fighting/looting an Alien faction of undead egytian themed Robots named Necrons thus the electronica mixed with churchmusic. In Darktide the players are basically condemed "criminals" tasked with purging a Hive city(a giant City/Fortress with inhabitants counting easily into the double digit of Billions) from Cultists, said Hives are often filled to the brimm with production facilitys and the cultist come at you in swarms of mindless zombies and whatnot therfore the more pumping/technoid soundtrack making sense. But you could easily find something for all othere music genres and styles. Like you could easily go with rock music or metal for the orks in the setting. You could have country music and a slow paced farming simulator on an Agri world(giant farming planets). Heck want some folky music? Fits right in on Feudal planets(basically medival planets), and if you want folk with electro combined? Do something on a knight world(also medival planets but they have noble houses with giant mechs) If you can imagine it, it could exist in warhammer 40k but it will most likely be the most evil/dark/horrible version of what you thought it to be.

[@Haigen-MI]

5:20 A shovel and a dream

[@Squeenix1]

Darktide is currently on sale atm in steam summer sale for anyone interested in the game

[@LucentBlack]

Warhammer as a whole is a massive rabbit hole, the entire setting is so massive and there are so many things to Wahrammer like all the media, lore, tabletop game and then there is even Warhammer Fantasy which is the setting reimagined in a fantasy setting. Video game wise there are quite a lot of Warhammer games set in different parts of the galaxy and each games soundtrack is vastly different, though the general consensus after Mechanicus, Darktide and Rogue Trader is that the general ost vibe is dark church techno music and in Darktides case: Churchstep. I highly recommend listening to Darktides Main Theme as well as "Light of the Imperium" to get the broader picture of what Jesper Kyd was cooking here.

[@Ploxxy-JG]

Glad to see some more Warhammer songs love 40k so much

[@austinmartin612]

Warhammer 40k is the grimdark future, things are bad, nothing is going well for anyone, war is a constant. It's such a huge rabbit hole to go down, and going down it at all requires you go all the way down to really understand it. Definitely some cool concepts but it's basically all violence all the time; fighting isn't just a way of life but the ONLY way of life.

[@slayeroffurries1115]

Disposal Unit plays when you have to dispose of a cultist captain. The boss has a shield that soaks up damage, and that crazy chorus shouting at the beginning of the song only shows up when you break the shield, and you start to deal permanent damage to the boss edit: I think you should look up Warhammer 40k on your own to learn about the universe, it's a really awesome franchise

[@MakooWallinen]

Warhammer is a fantasy setting and Warhammer 40k is the future setting. However, it is a medieval future setting where science has mostly been lost and tech priest handle all tech. The mechanicus game is about sis tech priests fighting living metal Aliens. This game however is about humans fighting demons in a hive city. Which is why there is less organ music in this game, less priests and more soldiers in a technological city that operates like modern and medieval city. Post Apocalypse is not a bad word yo use. The warp is a hell scape they travel through to move through space quicker than light since the laws of physics don't exist there.

[@Gladiatorat]

Warhammer 40k is a tabletop game setting. There's many video games based on the setting. 40k is because it's in the 40th millennium in the future. It's a very grim dark setting - main quote is "In the far future there is only war!". Darktide is a 4 person co-op game where you're a redeemed criminal kind of... hens you're thrown into combat as a disposable unit of misfits. My favorite piece of the Darktide soundtrack are "Immortal Imperium" & "Emperor of Mankind". Human faction in Warhammer 40k is the Imperium of Mankind led by the God Emperor - humanity has colonized millions of worlds around the galaxy by is besieged on all side by incredible horrors and threats.

[@kedolan4992]

""besieged on all side by incredible horrors and treats" Treats?! This is Commissar, this one right here! Jokes aside, what a great spot for a typo/auto correct!

[@Gladiatorat]

@@kedolan4992 ahahhaha... well they are a delight for the Emperor's warriors to do battle with :D

[@Starn3rd]

It's First Person Action, but not because there isn't any focus on shooting. There are just too many things to kill, and not enough bullets in a magazine to only use a gun. Melee doesn't require a reload

[@SiroccoShorts]

would love to see you do the newer stuff like The Gauntlet, Empires Will Fall, Mobien 6th and of course Light of The Imperium

[@daroth7127]

warhammer fantasy came first, its like Lord of the Rings, then warhammer 40k came out (sci-fi spinoff) but when 40k(the spinoff) got more popular than the original it became the main version of warhammer. there is also a second more recent Fantasy spinoff called Age of Sigmar, which is like an epilouge to the original fantasy story. 40k and fantasy have no story connection(besides chaos existing).

[@Speediermantis1]

Music in 40k, at least when it’s themed around the Imperium of Man faction, has to always sound equal parts mechanical and liturgical.

[@JuicyCubical]

broooo I think you would vibe HARD to Offworld Auspex When I heard the synth come in while I was in a mission, it became my favorite track

[@SultanOfAwesomeness]

Warhammer originally started as a tabletop fantasy-parody franchise strongly influenced by lotr; since then, it’s evolved into several different settings with similar attributes. 40k is the ‘sci-fi’ version, basically. There are many different interpretations of it because the creators essentially toss their license to whoever is willing to play around with it, resulting in a variety of different sub-settings and genres. The music they choose to use, while often sharing some aspects like chanting or organs and such, help reflect that. Mechanicus, for example, is about a bunch of tech-worshipping zealots exploring/pillaging/excavating the planet-spanning ruins of an ancient advanced civilization. As a result, a lot of the music has more overtly religious parallels, is slower, methodological, and mysterious. Darktide on the other hand, is an action shooter/hack n slasher that takes place in what basically amounts to ten versions of New York stacked directly on top of each other. It’s more grungy, punk-metal/electro-cyber-ish as a result. But as religion and its use/consequences is a major reoccurring theme across all of 40k, you can still hear the implementations of things like chanting and organ music here and there too. It’s really interesting and it shows what sort of mood the devs wanted to convey.

[@windsgrace688]

Darktide is described to be a "first person action game" because a significant portion of the game involves first person melee combat (swinging swords/clubs/axes/etc., blocking and dodging attacks, shoving enemies away, etc.) in addition to shooting. I haven't played in a year and a half but from what I remember I think I'd say you're doing melee combat maybe about 50% of the time, though that's mostly depending on your class (and now apparently class build). I'd hazard to guess that some classes can be in melee upwards of 90% of the time and, on the other extreme, probably only spend about 30% of the time in melee. The ranged weapons are powerful but have limited ammo and you're also often fighting swarms of weaker enemies interspersed with more powerful "elite" enemies and occasionally bosses.

[@maliwan516]

The OST is great, but with the exception of a few, on their own it doesn't do it justice. You really need to experience them banging off in game when shit starts to go sideways and you're surrounded by hoards of seemingly unending horrors.

[@Heathcareguv]

Waiting to Strike and The Emperor of Mankind are my favorite tracks in Darktide. I am a banana after all

[@KitsyX]

I wouldn’t say it’s completely ridiculous to listen for similarities between Warhammer/40k games, but it is probably worth noting that many of these games are licensed games, based on the same property, rather than a cohesive series of games…They vary in theme, location/setting, genre of story, genre of game… The original Warhammer is a fantasy, tabletop war game, with a decent part of the hobby being collecting, assembling and painting the models, then rolling lots of dice to defeat your foes lol… Warhammer 40k is pretty similar, except they take the original game and convert it into science fiction, set in a backwards, post apocalyptic future, where another apocalypse has started lol. It’s set across a vast galaxy, with next to endless possibilities… You have farming worlds, hive cities (basically a city built on several other cities, with a population of a country… Cyberpunk dystopian…), crazy alien planets, forge worlds… Demon dimensions… Their version of faster than light travel is essentially popping in and out of hell to save on distance… Strategy games tend to be the main game type, given the origins of the franchises, but the universe works well for various genres… There are some shooters, there’s RTS, turn based strategy, at least one RPG…

[@DudokX]

Rogue trader has some absolute bangers too

[@Gr33nOfGrundleburg]

I'd definitely recommend you listen to Immortal Imperium followed by Light of the Imperium. Fantastic songs both

[@betathoughtexperiment]

That's not even the best songs in the game. Check out "immortal imperium."

[@rbwbr]

5:36 its not a 100% shooter because it also has a bunch of mele👹

[@ItsLerez]

You should def react to more Darktide OST. Data Interference, The Gauntlet, and especially Light of the Imperium are bangers.

[@thekeeper6570]

Warhammer 40K is a setting. There are multiple games in that are unrelated to one another other than they share the same universe.

[@WildspeakerYT]

im nothing close to be a wsrhsmer conosseur, but smth I know is that is very sci-fi with aliens and their own gods and stuff and that there is Warhammer like base universe, and Warhammer 40000 is literally the same idea but the whole universe setup is 40.000 years in the future so it goes extra sci-fi

[@Waluigiisbest99]

some more mario song reactions like the final boss of partners in time or superstar saga originals, or sonic his world both original and zebrahead version would be amazing. "Surprised nobody has requested that"

[@tubalord3693]

I have to say the second one was a weird choice I would’ve done imperial advance

[@segafan2437]

the genra and setting of Warhammer40K? fantasy? religous? factory? sci-fi? techno? machines?! dark?!!? yes. yes it is.

[@woodchuck94og]

@@segafan2437 industrial

[@terrorsanity]

40k is a franchise like starwars, they have a lot of different staff like darktide game

[@TheWeaklingg]

Oh boy, oh boy!

[@wiaf8937]

first one is boss music. hjnad we say 40k "forty k"

[@WRSH101]

We want ur reaction for divine beast dancing lion ost , it is great 😊

[@ButterPacket]

Woah! Awesome that you are finally reacting to Jesper Kyd's work. He was amazing in Vermintide 2, but he really reach new heights with Darktide. It was a crime that he did not receive any awards for this amazing soundtrack. Never did I ever seen music perfectly encapsulate: Desperation, Religious Fervor, Heresy, Military, Sci-Fi, and Epicness as Darktide's soundtrack did. The whole OST is a straight-up banger that I keep in my own playlist, which I listen to often. His other tracks like Broadcast Apparatus, Immortal Imperium, Main Theme, The Gauntlet, Data Interference, Moebian Sixth, Emperor of Mankind, Light of the Imperium, and so much more is just breaking the sound barrier! I hope there are more requests for this legendary OST, you are in for a treat. Emperor guide thy ears! Favorite line in-game: "Take courage, Pilgrims, we fight in His holy name!" - Zealot

[@hyperhyion2300]

You should give The Solitary Warrior - Leroy's theme from Tekken 7 a try. You will not be disappointed is all I will say

[@kyero8724]

do CODE VEIN Human Qua Human/Humanity (Io's theme)

[@Zaque-TV]

That's sick af wtf

[@hummir]

"Grimdark" is the genre spawning from 40k, being alive in that universe sucks. Warhammer and Warhammer 40k are both a thing. They share some similarities with different races like High Elf - Eldar, Dark Elf - Dark Eldar, Chaos Demons being the same; but the universes are not directly connected. The Warp (like hellish magic place) and the 4 Chaos Gods exist in both. The universes are V A S T, especially 40k. Some games follow lore, some does not. Darktide is basically the 40k version of Vermintide, which are like game series Left 4 Dead. A lot of blood, a lot of action.

[@SockDealer]

Oughhhhhh I love darktide music!

[@I_urge_to_count]

85

[@Wolf0Donnelie]

2:24 UwU ... x)