Warhammer 40K: Darktide is on “an excellent trajectory” for steady launch

There’s an replace out now for the Warhammer 40K: Darktide early entry beta that fixes varied crashes and bugs which have popped up because the grimdark co-op sport turned accessible to gamers who pre-ordered. Developer Fatshark says it’s nonetheless “removed from glad” with the place stability and efficiency are in Darktide, however that the information generated by 1000’s of beta gamers has put issues on “an excellent trajectory to have a steady sport” when Darktide formally launches November 30.

Darktide replace 1.07 fixes a “vital quantity of crashes,” together with cases that may happen when gamers fell out of bounds, tabbed out of the sport throughout cinematics, geared up weapons with sure traits, and encountered the Beast of Nurgle (a monster so fearsome that your sport consumer would simply shut down). The patch additionally addresses some stray bugs, such because the veteran sharpshooter’s ‘overlaying hearth’ means not working accurately and a bizarre one which made characters’ heads spin round 180 levels in the event that they stared straight on the ground.

Fatshark has additionally tuned among the character courses on this patch and made changes to assist the Ogryn, Zealot, and Veteran synergise a bit extra naturally.

“We’re removed from glad and seeing extra crashes than we had hoped,” Fatshark says, addressing efficiency issues gamers are reporting. “On the similar time, we additionally anticipated a few of this and want to the pre-launch beta to check and assist tackle many of those points.

“Specifically, there may be one large class of crashes manifested as ‘GPU-hangs’, that most likely nonetheless will present its ugly face at occasions,” the studio continues. “That mentioned, we’re on an excellent trajectory to have a steady sport on the time of launch due largely to the various gamers which are serving to present us with the required knowledge to assist tackle these points.”

We spoke with author Dan Abnett, who helped Fatshark create the world of Darktide and Hive Tertium, about his tackle Warhammer 40K’s sense of humour final yr. The sport will formally launch November 30.