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You are servants of the Emperor that with the actions you have cast mud on the glory of the Imperium and are now held in the sacred prisons, not desperate. The emperor from above of his benevolence is now giving you the opportunity to demonstrate how loyal you are to the empire and your human brothers. You have been granted the right to find redemption in liberation of the city Tertium. It was attacked by the Chaos forces, bears on bears of mutants are infesting its backgrounds, scum worse than you.
Background - Lode to Warhammer 40,000, Lode to Emperor
I would like to say that I don't have much experience with Warhammer's brand, but I'm getting more and more at this time. Previously I had played and reviewed Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector, starting to explore his immense and glorious Lore.
However, Battlesector, as I had analyzed during the review, did not lend itself well for the newcomers to understand the greatness of Warhammer 40k's history, being explained in an English "archaic" and long written texts that gave most of the background for already known.
Here we see already one of the best features of Darktide:despite there is an unexplained background, the title Fatshark lends itself as great for Warhammer 40k neophytes, so that they can know more in depth its magnificent lore. The story in Darktide is narrated in a dark but exciting way at the same time, going to make us breathing the atmosphere of Warhammer 40k and fetida Tertium.
In this chapter we will be called to free the backgrounds of "Tertium", a city-hiveon the planet Atom Prime, that after an attack by the gentlemen of the Chaos and the Xeno, he saw hispopulation transformin mutants,whose only usefulness is to die by your hand.
So you will be the creators of your history, creating the entire backround of your character, thus making you know even more about the vastness of the empire. Creation that will inevitably lead you to your prison, also chosen by you, for having indisputated a central figure in the Imperial administration or doing a crime against the wrong person. The prisoner will be given an opportunity of redemption: serving the empire as a soldier. So here is how your character comes in Mourningstar, flagship of the Imperial fleet.
The story in Darktide will have cadence updatesdictated by developers, quite common in this era of video games, which away will expand and change the setting and what we will be called to do, and they will almost certainly miss seasonal events.
Gameplay - The Way to Redemption
As previously announced, the benevolent Emperor He wanted to put you under the conditions to prove once again your attachment to the empire.
♪ you configure as a FPScooperative PVE, where teams of 4 people will face the bears of insects / mutants that will attack you. They will consist of simple "grunts", specialists, some mini-boss and end-level bosses.
Starting on board Mourningstar choose which one missionand these will bedivided according to objective and difficulty, 1 to 6. You will be sent with 3 other death buddies to the Tertium area to be cleaned up and, as you will understand from the dialogues, the fact of having 3 other players alongside does not necessarily make you allies (the allied fire however does not exist), but depends on the background chosen during the creation phase of the character.
By virtue of necessity you will have to "bear" the presence of your misfortune companions, as it will be inevitable for you to advance side by side against the hordes of enemies, as alone you will be nothing but slaughtered meat.
In every mission that I found myself facing, alone or in the company of other members of the editorial staff Kotaworld, even without speaking they shared ammunition and health, aware that if not all of us were equally well equipped, the end would have been inevitable for all. This is definitely a sign of a excellent balance of gameplay made by developers, in which mechanics, like that of the shield that regenerates in the presence of allies, create a necessary and very intuitive cooperation.
For how the hordes of enemies are managed, at least initially, will be favorite classes of the "Preachers" and above all "Bestioni", as more suitableto falcidate the infinity of insects that will insurrect our weapons with their bowels.
The warriors will have difficulty "Psionic, who can initially engage one enemy at a time, will hardly be able to give a decisive impression during the first games. They will also have to manage an additional mechanic, that is, that of the "danger": the power of the Psionic comes from their sick mind and exploiting it excessively without the right rest will lead them to mad and then leave us pens.
Finally,"Schools"lend themselves as more balanced class, being able to discreetly draw both in distance and close combat. As you climb the level you will unlock class upgrades and new weapons, drawing up stronger and more capable of facing the most fearsome levels (currently there are 5 levels of progressive difficulty for the various missions).
It is however necessary to mention the fact that as you proceed with the game and you gain levels, even the classes of "Psionic" and "Tirator Chosen" will have skills that will make them real war machines.
Most weapons will be shared between all classes but, not even to say, the class weapons will make you feel more the difference and the unique qualities of each warrior, as the flamethrower of the Zelotithat will be of great help in abruptizing the first rows of the bears in the body to body.
Please note:do not be too "holy" with difficulty, you might soon regret it, as death is always around the corner in this game, and already at the third degree of difficulty will not be a rare event. Be sure to take confidence with the game and its mechanics at lower levels of difficulty (there is no shame in this), equipped with a worthy equipment gear and then try the approach to the most arduous levels with humility and imperious faith in the Emperor.
Graphics - Admire the luster of the empire
"Morte and oblivion to the one who smells on the splendor of his creations".Warhammer 40k Darktide is one of the games in which settings are so incredibly realized and inspired that you would never tire of admiring them.
Cathedrals alternate with market squares, suspended bridges in decadent and grotesque steampunk metropolis. The religious essence of humanity of 40k breathes from every shortcut, in every closet, in every city head down. The work done by Fatshark artists has incredible, I can't even imagine the number of hours that have been necessary to recreate so well each game map, hours of course all well spent.
It will be the setting the greatest creator of your Attack on the Warhammer Lore, the desire to understand why all this has been created, because humanity has enclosed itself in search of external enemies but above all within it, where the only certain faith is that in the Emperor and where all the others must be extinguished.
Technically speaking
We tested Warhammer 40k Darktideon the following configuration:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 @ 3.20 GHz
MSI GeForce RTX 2060 6Gb
Corsair Vengeance 2*8GB DDR4 3200MHz
Monitor HP Gaming 27xq resolution 1920x1080 (16:9) 144Hz
Discard the "performance" settings recommended by the game, as these They zeroed out the anti-aliasing and made the graphics say a little "unfocused".We prefer a downward balance to get a certain stability around 60fps, stability that often slides on 50fps, especially during the bears. Optimization is certainly not the strong point of this title, but already from day-one we could notice remarkable improvements as for general performance and frame-rate stability. The use of the DLSS is strongly recommended and makes gaming experience much smoother.
Interestingly, it was noted that this was the first game in eat in full my RAM, while it is usually rare to exceed 45% of use. This is nothing but a sign of what this game requires further improvements in optimization but, given the progress made in this couple of weeks, we have excellent hopes for the future.
Attention to third-party applications that will be active on your PC during your sessions, as it can create different compatibility problems:I personally had very frequent crash experiences while using programs for calculation of FPS, in particular Razer Cortex.
In Conclusion - Faith in Darktide
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide represents one of the best titles if you want to learn about this universe. The gameplay "open to all" combined with aunique settingin its kind It will fascinate you by approaching this historic brand and the desire to understand more and more the sick and distorted history that engulfs it.
Few things don't work in this title, launched on the market at a good level of finishing, rare in recent times. Stay to see how and how the narrative and content sector will be expanded, but seeing the good level of Lore put in the field, we are confident that the developers will be able to express themselves at the best, in the immensity of glory of the Emperor.
