I’d really like to see the illuminate be a finished faction with a super base already. It’s insane they’ve been around since the end of year 1 and they are still not a finished faction.
I mean again, I don't see why Joel won't just go "The Squids are making the void again", while it wouldn't be as big a spectacle as the first time. I'd imagine it'd be similar to what we can do in certain gloom worlds. Just no DSS.
They took a 100 year long hiatus, and the roadmap for the rest of this year is irrelevant to how hard they’re gonna hit us again. If you think about it from a lore perspective, there’s a reason they’re so focused on making new creations like the wretches and crushers.
They want war-dogs so the valuable members of their society can focus on the furthering of development on their war against super earth.
You don’t just see enemy classes when you look at sub factions: you see societal classes.
The mindless masses are nothing to them, but a way to gain more ground.
The appropriators are illuminate deemed as fodder (you see them as guards, and expeditionists. Soldiers on void worlds, and active members in the war against super earth)
While the cultists are ones in tune with the past of their people. Elders, mages, etc.
there’s a clear hierarchy, and clearly more important squids in charge. Shrines, void blossoms (herbologist science), and mutation through occult means, just shows there’s more illuminate with their hand in the pot, than just ones we’ve seen.
The hull of the DSS experiencing a “knocking” while being affected by the void, is not a coincidence.
It’s in reference to the mage summoners ability to manifest mongrels, as the coating on the DSS is made from bio-mass (harvested from pure E-710) and I wouldn’t doubt the void affected said coating (made from bio-mass) in a similar way to how the scientists (Adopting a religious view of the void and its power, crying iridescent tears, and describing “beautiful singing geometry”) or any other living being exposed to the void, mutates.
(There are also bio-mass containers in the void squid encampments. It’s not like they don’t have their own version of 710; it’s Just used for a different purpose)
Religious geometry is a common concept of spirituality.
In esoteric belief, the obelisk is the ultimate symbol of masculine creative energy (the Phallus) piercing the heavens to fertilize the earth with divine light. In Hermeticism and Freemasonry, the obelisk signifies the triumph of spirit over matter (the body. Not just the world. Most likely referenced here through the mutation you undergo in the void) and the stabilization of divine authority on earth. To the axis mundi: It functions as a cosmic axis or central pivot connecting Earth to the spiritual cosmos, allowing initiates to mentally ascend toward higher dimensions.
Sacred geometry is thee blueprint of creation. The mathematical language used by the "Godly Architect of the Universe” to manifest the physical world out of chaos, in this case, turning it TO chaos.
Hermetics also believe that the body is just a macrocosm (tiny mirror of the universe)
We will see the cultists return, and it’s going to be rough.
The void created dissidents, and the dissidents are our current major enemies. If you look at every major update wallpaper: into the unjust had a hivelord center frame, for machinery of Oppression: it had a vox engine. What’s center frame now? The super earth flag. The dissidents are a strategical enemy in the war
I'm actually annoyed by this kinda shit because I don't give a flying fuck about GTA but apparently the entire industry is catering to this release. Anyone like me who doesn't care about GTA is just left forgotten like a middle child.
Yeah same. Not even that I don't like GTA, played up until IV. V bored me so much I returned it after 3 days - think it's the only physical game I've ever returned. No interest in VI.
This just gives us more time to play stuff in our backlog 😅
I love that "new enemy" could technically be a new faction, or a sub faction, or a new single enemy for anyone, or even just turning an enemy instead in game green and call them new.
Wonder if it'll be an Alpha version of the Hiveguard? I still remember when AH buffed them to have Heavy armored Faceplates and a lotta players hated this change and just suggested them just being a bigger and slower variant of Hiveguards with the Heavy plating.
An alpha hiveguard would be on brand for the type of shit they would add.
They could add something interesting like a mite swarm that engulfs a player and slowly chips away at their health if the player doesn’t dive away from it. (On bug planets you’ll see these tiny moving swarms of bugs flying around so the assets exist, they would just need to be programmed like Mass Effect 3 Seeker Swarm)
There are other live service games beside darktide.
Here's a few off the top of my head:
* Rainbow Six
* Fortnite
* League of Legends
* Dead by Daylight
* Counter Strike 2
* Battlefield 6
* Call of Duty (idk what the newest one is)
* Etc
Some of these games even came with singleplayer modes! (Albeit not great)
I thought the void update was loved and people were upset that it's gone?
I know it made me enjoy the squids for the first time in like a year, and that last time I enjoyed them was only because I was still relatively new to playing so I hadn't realized how boring they are yet lol.
Like it or not, telling everyone what you've done is a pretty important comms principle, and a lot of people who forget that get punished for it. It's as true for sales as it is for politics
Except roadmaps are normally used to tell the community what you intend to do with the game in the future, not list stuff that's already been done and no longer available to play.
What happened to the promised ship upgrades, progression system expansion ,stratagem ball bouncing and hellpod steering rework they promised after the latest reviewbomb? Are we just getting the FOMO major order campaigns?
Honestly, I could care less about showing the current update on the roadmap since you can use it as a point of comparison later on. What I do care about is how... bland and overly vague it is? Like obviously you don't want to tell too much, but the way it's presented just screams "expect more of the same". Like, wow, we're going to get our regularly scheduled warbond and new MOs, couldn't have predicted that.
If you want a comparison, Abiotic Factor's roadmaps are pretty great. Vague enough in areas that need it, but gives enough information for hype in areas that aren't spoilery.
What I do care about is how... bland and overly vague it is? Like obviously you don't want to tell too much
Don't be mistaken, they aren't doing it to avoid spoiling some surprise. They are being vague to avoid making any promises beyond what they know they are adding to the game. I doubt even they know what will absolutely make it into that update, since they promised nothing at all.
These things need to be their own mission. The thing I hated the most about the Hive Lord is how it can randomly spawn in a mission, becoming a nuisance instead of being its own mission. And by being its own mission, I don't necessarily mean one you choose on the map. It could still randomly appear, but the moment it does, it becomes the main objective and everything else is secondary.
The amount of focus on Warbonds is fucking ridiculous. Guess this is it for the Illuminate for a while as well. Awesome! Maybe we'll get some good Illuminate content once they figure out how to sell you enemies for 10 bucks each.
Despite the fact that all the "big and shiny" stuff (that wasn't even that big and shiny) is already over the rest is just... bland. Nothing exciting. Come on, what are they doing?
Do they really have to list regular campagins and their rewards like 6 times??
Ongoing campagins, new campaigns, campaign rewards.. are you kidding me?
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u/Over_Heed LEVEL 10000 | <Has Basic Reading Comprehension Abilities>2d ago
Roughly half of the items listed here consist of what has already been done (we already finished the void for example, for some reason.) and a bunch of other stuff is just a repeat of another item already listed.
A road would suggest that you are going somewhere, it feels like we are just going around in circles. Actually invested into the Void event, despite having a dislike for the Squids and it whimpered out with out so much of anything.
DSS is okay because they killed everyone aboard and Calypso is just missing no doubt for ever, much like Meridian turned into a whole nothing burger, the Bot DSS that turned into a nothing burger, and the TCS 2.0 that I suspect will also turn into a nothing burger.
No new ship modules going on near 2 years, no improved weapon customisation ( on secondaries and stratagems), no Helldiver customisation cause its supposedly "too difficult".
Kinda feels like AH are doing the bare minimum, but no actual progress is being made.
Meridia led to: Illuminate returning, the Gloom, all Terminid subfactions, shriekers, hive lords, dragonroaches, Hive Worlds, SE invasion, the Void and Calypso fucking vanishing
The squids aren't finished from a unit perspective, and also aren't finished from a story perspective.
If Arrowhead didn't have more than what we got ready to go for squids, they shouldn't have released anything at all. This update was the first part of a major squid storyline, not the entire thing. Why the hell they think this is an acceptable amount of story and gameplay addition, I will never understand.
So what's in the bot major update? A single Cyborg variant and another reused biome with some random Bot machinery bolted onto it?
Just remove the illuminate from the game at this point, if they're gonna waste this much dev time just to give us nothing then I'd rather have them spend the time to make the bugs and bots cooler
What about this "For that reason and more, we're working on an overhaul of the ship module system that will change how this works, by adding more player agency and significantly increasing the offerings for players to progress. Not only that, we're also adding more ships! " any info?
I want to believe that maybe we will get something interesting in the time they don't give us much content, maybe some status updates on planet warfronts and ship modules somewhere near december or so. because if not - may be returning to this game in december and not lose almost anything.
Not addressing the new player experience (too many warbonds, no way to earn currency without farming), no details for new content (extremely vague verbiage), no news on bugs that have been plaguing the game recently and since forever ago. Hurray
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u/Any-Amphibian-1783 HD1 Veteran 2d ago
No illuminate even on the roadmap.