Warhammer 40K: Darktide is on “a good trajectory” for stable launch

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

Darktide replace 1.07 fixes a “vital quantity of crashes,” together with situations that might happen when gamers fell out of bounds, tabbed out of the sport throughout cinematics, outfitted 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 fireplace’ skill not working appropriately 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 a number of the character lessons on this patch and made changes to assist the Ogryn, Zealot, and Veteran synergise a bit extra naturally.

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

“Specifically, there’s one massive class of crashes manifested as ‘GPU-hangs’, that most likely nonetheless will present its ugly face at occasions,” the studio continues. “That stated, we’re on trajectory to have a steady sport on the time of launch due largely to the numerous gamers which can be serving to present us with the required knowledge to assist deal with 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.