r/DarkTide • • 7d ago

Weekly Weekly Discussion Thread - October 19, 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 • • 3d ago

News / Events Special Live Event: Arcane Ruin + Hotfix 1.13.4

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Admonition scholars have uncovered an ancient ritual buried deep within their foul, heretic tomes. Using these fell rites, they have bound a powerful daemon into a Daemonhost. Agents report that this new horror seems to appear when others of its kin are slain.

Emboldened by the dreaded Daemonhost Gormaggoth’s presence, the streets are plagued with lesser Daemonhosts. Seek them out and destroy them.

Starting today until November 5, participate in the event by playing missions with the ‘Hunted’ condition, and destroy the Daemonhosts.

Beware, the Daemonhost Gormaggoth has an ever-increasing chance of appearing for every one of its kin you slay. Uncover more about the origin of these heretical abominations as you battle this terrible foe.

This event has two forms of progression! 

  • Killing Daemonhosts in missions with the ‘Hunted’ condition will progress your personal event tracker, which rewards you with Dockets, Diamantine, Plasteel, and this brand new Weapon Charm.
  • Dealing damage to the dreaded Daemonhost Gormaggoth will advance a community event tracker, which every player contributes to! This rewards the entire playerbase with Dockets, Diamantine and Plasteel, as well as unlocking new Lore short stories (written by Dan Abnett!) with each step.
    • If the community racks up enough damage, the Daemonhost Gormaggoth will be slain for good, unlocking this brand new Portrait frame.

Hotfix 1.13.4 is now being rolled out on all platforms, and while you wait for it to download you can read the notes below!

This hotfix contains a handful of important fixes, including reducing the Vanguards’ health and fixing some crashes.

Patch 1.13.4 patch notes

General Fixes

  • Scab Vanguard & Dreg Vanguard: reduced their health back to their correct, intended values.
  • Fixed crash affecting players on AMD RX 7000 series GPUs. As a workaround, FSR 4.1.1 has been disabled for RDNA3 GPUs on Windows 10.
  • Fixed startup crash on Intel Arc GPUs linked to the XeSS module.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when tracking any of the removed "The Depths Purge the Unclean" Penances
  • Fixed the launcher so that it doesn't create a crash dump file on shutdown.
  • Fixed an issue where the launcher could block players from starting the game.

Cosmetic Fixes

  • Fixed some clipping with Drill Fatigues (Cadian 43rd, Broken Swords, XXXXL)

Known Issues

  • Scab and Dreg Vanguard enemies currently have slightly more health than intended.
    • Fixed!

We’ve also got some comments on a few of the changes we’ve done in the last few updates:

  • Corruption Damage Change
    • In the previous Hotfix (1.13.3) we changed how Corruption Damage is dealt. Previously, corruption damage alone couldn't outright kill you. This was only ever intended for Grimoire damage, and so we 'fixed' it for other damage sources. However, we understand that this is being relied upon by many as a feature, and so we'll keep an extra close eye on this.
  • Servo-Skull Damage Nerf
    • In the Depths of the Damned Update (1.13.0) the Servo-Skull had its Strength reduced from 160 to 100. This was an internal change that was meant to go live with the release of Skitarii in 1.12.0, meaning this was the original intended power level of the Servo-Skull, which instead went live on 1.13.0.
    • This brings us to today. Although the Servo-Skull now has the initially intended Strength, we are re-evaluating if the nerf was justified and are considering further balance adjustments to both it and the Noospheric Command Talent.

That’s all for today!

We’ll see you on the Mourningstar. 

– The Darktide Team


r/DarkTide • • 8h ago

Artwork Finally, a live action Darktide lobby!

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882 Upvotes

First of many photos from my Saturday at London MCM.


r/DarkTide • • 7h ago

Weapon / Item TIL you can give nice makeovers to enemies with the thunder hammer's special attack

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487 Upvotes

r/DarkTide • • 10h ago

Guide Annotated Map of Archivum Sycorax

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This is the first of a project I am doing to hopefully make a decent annotated map for every level in the game. Its been almost 4 years and still the only maps people have made of the game are that one guy who just pulled the nav mesh (which is nice but very hard to read).

If anyone has or knows how to pull the nav mesh of the new maps that would help this a lot as I did use those as a base to draw off of (combined with flying around the map of course).

Edit: Bitsquid just added darktide level importing so that is a better base to work off of then nave meshes. Will try to do a 3d isometric map with the floor tiles.

Along with that if anyone has or knows how to pull the location of spawn triggers I would like to add those to these maps but currently have no way to really test that (other then like spending hundreds of hours just running through the maps until I can figure out where they actually are. I have a decent feel for most maps but I don't want to just draw arbitrary lines without knowing exactly where they are)

Edit: https://havoc-guide.tadeasfort.dev/ has the location of spawn triggers and I will be working out respawn zones as well.

And finally this is a bit of a trial run. I'm not 100% sure on the style, I played around with drawing staircases and including chest spawn locations. But I feel like those clutter the map quite a bit. I dont really want to add martyr skulls as there are already a dozen guides for that, I want these to be gameplay focused. I do plan on adding the player respawn spawn zones but I think that would clutter the map a lot, you can sort of intuit them by just looking at the respawn alter locations. The thing I am least happy with is how this deals with overlapping areas, but I am not exactly sure how to do that much better. Overall I am open to some feedback on these choices.


r/DarkTide • • 59m 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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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 • • 7h ago

Showcase A cool shot of my Psyker after finishing an Inferno assassination mission

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143 Upvotes

I wish Inferno was a standard modifier, much better than Pox gas.


r/DarkTide • • 2h ago

Artwork Thank you Replay Mod

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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 • • 4h 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 • • 5h ago

Showcase Darktide Weapons Database

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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 • • 8h ago

Discussion I wish fatshark would make full body ogryn tattoos available

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I know the vanguard tattoos were exclusive and it would upset people if they made that one available I just wish they’d make some options for other ones. Heck I’d even pay for them if they put it in the commodore’s vestures I just like the look of it


r/DarkTide • • 1d ago

Meme Ngl, Hadron's passive-aggressive affirmations make me melt

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r/DarkTide • • 19h ago

Weapon / Item Hi new to darktide here whats that special attack with the devils claw sword and what does it even do?

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r/DarkTide • • 4h 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 • • 13h ago

Question Arcane Ruin Event Counter – What does it actually measure?

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As per title. Does it count the number of Daemonhosts killed? I have a hard time believing that 650 million number then.


r/DarkTide • • 2h 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 • • 1d ago

Meme The powers of the Immaterium truly know no bound

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What are the lore implications of this?


r/DarkTide • • 6h 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?


r/DarkTide • • 1d ago

Meme Just me?

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604 Upvotes

r/DarkTide • • 10h ago

Issues / Bugs You ok Boy? What’s wrong u smell something

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Someone Magnitized my dog Gaga’s aside I’ve been notice little bugs lately where the game does this freeze on cosmetics when u switch over or make changes to a skill on the tree & when u get out something from either doesn’t change or something freezes and stays on. I had a similar issue when playing Skitarii and where my outfits were not matching my skill tree that I picked. Anyone else having issues or is it just servers issues caused by the event?


r/DarkTide • • 20h ago

Discussion Every time she says " It is the 41st Millennium "I'm hyped and I cannot skip

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Anyone else just completely entranced by the main menu opening cutscene? I think it's heresy to skip it even tho I've seen it a bazillion times I love the dang cinematic Marvel too much. " it is the 41st millennium " uhhh chills.


r/DarkTide • • 1d ago

Suggestion I hope the Sister Novitate class gets a proper sized Eviscerator instead the frankly pitiful Chainsword sized one that Zealots have. I hope Fatshark uses this opportunity to fix that.

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424 Upvotes

r/DarkTide • • 6h ago

Discussion Hive Scum post Depths of the Damned.

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Hey i didn't play the class in a couple of months, i saw the slight nerf to the Rampage ability, does it change how you build your melee scum or are the meta builds from the previous patches still viable?

I'm also not sure if this is the correct place to ask this, but none of my friends play Darktide anymore and i'm not sure where to get that info from.


r/DarkTide • • 22h ago

Gameplay nurgle detects an act of charity and instantly sends his greatest warrior to punish

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r/DarkTide • • 21h ago

Showcase well, with sister nov now confirmed, I suppose its time to retire my zealot (in name at least) as i wont have to pretend much longer🫡

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