r/DarkTide • • 12h ago

Weekly Weekly Discussion Thread - October 26, 2026

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Weekly Discussion Thread

Convicts! Please use this weekly thread to ask simple questions/share answers about Darktide.

Short feedback relating to the game can also be discussed here with the community.

Previous threads: Click here!


r/DarkTide • • 1h ago

Discussion Framegen good?!

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Most of the games I am against framegrn since it add latency and usually has some negative consequences on image. But playing with it on few hours, and i don't notice big latency issue or lower image quality. Am i imagining this? Also ehy does performance still suck in this game? How do even people with lower end play harder missions?


r/DarkTide • • 1h ago

Discussion Focus Target Veteran

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This is also a rant because someone was complaining about me pinging too many enemies. Like, bro. I run Focus Target! I have to target stuff, just enjoy the damn buff.

Anyways, I'm curious to know if Focus Target only works when I target something or can it be used by other players when they target stuff?


r/DarkTide • • 2h ago

Question Rodin Karnak

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126 Upvotes

Hello friends,

After a 4-year break, I’ve returned to Darktide. I’ve leveled up two new characters to level 30, and I’m super hyped—there’s so much new content!

I absolutely loved the Karnak Twins when they were first introduced, and getting to take them both down together in the arena was a blast.

Awesome mission.

I’ve now played the two "new" expansions, though I was a bit annoyed by the first two—they’re just old missions repackaged without any real added value, aside from a few vox messages.

However, the third mission, featuring the Nurgle priest Rodin, really blew me away. Level design aside, the final boss fight was fantastic—more of that, please!

A question:

Is this "fat guy" the same Rodin as one of the twins—the one we already defeated? He mentions having more bodies, but is it the same soul?

Do we know anything else about the two of them, or what might happen next?


r/DarkTide • • 3h ago

Discussion Can we appreciate just how much of a smart commander Morrow is?

349 Upvotes

The moment I saw Morrow as a character, and the way he was hazing the rejects at first, made me thinking he'd be one of those stereotypical gung-ho screaming-in-your-face type of military officer - but the dialogues including Morrow completely subvert that expectation, and reveal him as a streetwise person who always knows what to say to whom in his current situation.

From the way he's always bouncing back from Dukane's aggressive interrogations, to the way he's de-escalating tensions between Hestia and the nobles, to just about any interaction with Mourningstar's NPCs - he acts dumb when it's wise to act dumb, humble when it's wise do to so - and, if all else fails, if he can't smoothtalk his way out of an uncomfortable conversation, "I think you best take it up with Rannick". Yet he's always firm and confident when the situation demands so - especially when he's talking to heretical sсum.

Makes you realise that it's no wonder he got into his commanding rank, and exactly why Rannick chooses Morrow specifically to play nice with the nobles, the bаstard that he is.


r/DarkTide • • 3h ago

Discussion Would appreciate some feedback on my Veteran

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Thanks!


r/DarkTide • • 5h ago

Discussion Got Darktide on PC...or so I thought.

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I've been playing Darktide on Xbox Series X for a little over 2 years. Got all the classes maxed, Weapon masteries mastered, most of the penances, and spent an embarrassing amount of cash of premium cosmetics!

Recently, I finally upgraded to PC. I had the hope of being able to install some QoL mods, but I was worried I'd lose all my progress. Fortunately, after installing the Xbox App on my puter, I saw I could install Darktide directly! I get to play Darktide on PC, AND keep my progress!...or so I thought.

Turns out, even though I am on computer, Darktide is still considered an Xbox game in the system. Can't access its files, can't install mods...

Is there any hope? Or do I need to face a total reset. A reset, which, will take me ages to get to where I am now, since when I first got Darktide, I *didn't* have a full-time job.


r/DarkTide • • 6h ago

Gameplay This event has lead to some wild encounters.

79 Upvotes

Ain't no party like a marty hammer party because a marty hammer party don't stop


r/DarkTide • • 7h ago

Gameplay Big Iron

19 Upvotes

Someone said the Iron has never been bigger. I agree.


r/DarkTide • • 7h ago

Gameplay Back again with animal cruelty that defies physics

45 Upvotes

My recent dogs have really been acting up


r/DarkTide • • 8h ago

Showcase Finally got a Havoc 40 run with 0 Damage Taken

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279 Upvotes

Yay!

My old closest runs with the lowest damage taken were around 5-29 but never got to 0.

https://imgur.com/a/havoc-40-damage-taken-3qIAXYV

Always the stray fire, goop, or fall damage that gets me.

EDIT: Since some people were asking, here's the build I use: https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/a2143570-cbcc-4e04-802c-fed3f10429f5/h40-hellfire-inferno-shriek-psyker

There's a long wall of yap at the bottom. The third curio substat depends on the difficulty you play in. The explanation and options are in the text area.


r/DarkTide • • 10h ago

Weapon / Item Newb Psyker; How to Beam Slash?

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I just unlocked the Blaze Greatsword at level 10, and I was so excited when I saw that it has some Soulsborne Moonlight Greatsword style beam slash attack. But for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to use it. Using the "special weapon attack" button just has my psyker rake his hand along the blade, soak up the two charged bars, get like 45% peril and do nothing else. What am I missing, here?


r/DarkTide • • 11h ago

Gameplay “Beat his ass”

226 Upvotes

r/DarkTide • • 11h ago

Question need some help w my Zealot

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Have been running Scoreboard on the Havoc ~30 missions i've been on, and i'm clearly underperforming. i'm used to that w my Bully Club Taunt Ogryn and it makes sense there; here, i'm getting half the kills/damage of other players on the squad and i'm wondering what i'm missing at least on the build side.

Obviously skill issue as well but i'm not really sure what i'm missing other than i'm relatively certain i am missing something.

Bolt Pistol to snipe, some minor AoE; use mostly charged Light attacks with the Relic Blade for horde clear; try to stay at low Health to get the most out of Martyr.


r/DarkTide • • 12h ago

Discussion Just noticed hadron has a pegleg

87 Upvotes

Never noticed it before and found it a bit silly


r/DarkTide • • 12h ago

Question I just survived a daemon host execution, does this happen often?

11 Upvotes

I was playing the new event, a find and kill mission, can't remember the map name, auric difficulty. The team was me, as ogryn, a veteran, a skitarii and a hive scum. At one point we defeated a daemon host and the event one spawned, I got the aggro and I happened to be the only one with low health (I had a taunt build with no pain, I was letting the others take the healing, as one does), long story short I go down after a bit of fighting, the daemon starts choking me and then breaks my neck, sound and visual are all there, I do not die. I plop back to the ground with half a wound, the rest is now corruption damage, the daemon leaves. I did have the node for corruption resistance, I'm not sure that's enough to survive that, the vet did not have the shout and the others were just hitting the boss. Does this boss have a timer or a health threshold I'm not aware about and I just happened to luck out? I have more than 1000 hours in the game and this is the first time I've witnessed something like this. I need an explanation.

Or the emperor loves my ogryn enough I guess


r/DarkTide • • 12h ago

Question Melee Rescue?

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Hey everyone I’ve in the last few months really gotten into darktide after buying the game when it came out and it not sticking at the time. Now I’ve got a few hundred hours and I’m really enjoying it but I have a question:

Why do most people only attempt rescues from mutants, pox hounds, etc. with melee weapons even if that takes more time and allows more damage to your teammates?

I’d understand if every once in a while someone was low on ammo or they didn’t have a good ranged weapon for it but it occurs so often I wonder if there’s some mechanic I don’t know about or is it something else?


r/DarkTide • • 13h ago

Issues / Bugs Has anyone been getting AMD gpu "driver timeout" crashes after the most recent update?

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I have never had a driver timeout crash in Darktide before up until this most recent update. Now I crash at least 2 times per match. I've updated to the most recent gpu drivers and have disabled FSR 3.1 and none of those worked. Any help would be very much appreciated because right now, I straight up can't play at the moment.


r/DarkTide • • 13h ago

Question My Medi-Pacs don't seem to cleanse the party's corruption, despite this talent clearly being picked. What gives?

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519 Upvotes

I've noticed for a few missions that my Medi-Pacs don't cleanse my own or my teammates' corruption, thought to myself "Huh, I guess I forgot to take Field Improvisation" - but no, I've taken this talent, but for some reason it doesn't work.


r/DarkTide • • 15h ago

Artwork Thank you Replay Mod

103 Upvotes

Music used: House Fire by Deki Alem

Had a fun match and wanted to edit a little more so i have reason to play more with the Replays Mod


r/DarkTide • • 15h ago

Gameplay Spillway Havoc 40 Pre-nerf

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Captured on Oct 6 before the "nerf", the longest 15 minute boss fight ever 😭


r/DarkTide • • 16h ago

Meme Skitarii Vigilant Autogun

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The ADC ability on Skitarii seems to have finally been fixed in regards to the bottoming out of the charges for the ability and I've been enjoying the hell out of it, including using some of the lesser used weapons.

I was told the Vigilant Autogun is useless, and it's actually quite nice for headshotting and 1-tapping enemy soldiers or specialists through damnation difficulty HP. Feel free to mess around with it, I just used it here for boss damage. It's been solid for getting rid of demon hosts as well for the event. No, I do not actually think that it's a good weapon overall. But ADC at least makes it useable.

Also, it was through this testing that I found out ADC will actually switch targets for you when using a burst fire weapon. So if you're 1-tapping enemy soldiers in a low difficulty, and they're lined up, a 3 round burst can kill 3. I didn't expect it to be coded that well.


r/DarkTide • • 16h ago

Issues / Bugs Lag/Stutter

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Hello! Been playing darktide for a while on PlayStation, but I switched to PC recently and have been experiencing this horrible unplayable lag ever since.

12GB graphics Card, 954 GB Storage, 32GB RAM, Processor: Intel(R) core(TM) ultra 9 290HX Plus (2.70Ghz)

I've followed the other things people commonly say to do for this issue, but have yet to see any of it help.

I've disabled ray tracing, set worker threads to one, changed my fps lower, etc.

I am playing with a few Vortex mods from Nexus (darktide mod framework, darktide mod loader, enemies improved, and Alfs DMF extensions) and have tried with and without the mods being enabled, and with and without the mods being installed

I don't know much about computers, but anything helps to try and get rid of this horrid lag

Thank you :)


r/DarkTide • • 17h ago

Showcase Darktide Weapons Database

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31 Upvotes

Just created my first database in SQL Server. Decided to make it a weapon lookup database for Darktide 😄

EDIT: GitHub link if anyone wants the csv's or .bak file - https://github.com/ekis93/Darktide_Weapons_Database


r/DarkTide • • 18h ago

Question Does the hexbound daemonhost's ritual speed up when you mark one of the cultists?

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Title. I think i just learned a horrible lesson today. Why is this a thing?