Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will delay the discharge of its Xbox model in addition to the deliberate seasonal content material indefinitely, in accordance with developer Fatshark.
Warhammer 40K: Darktide developer Fatshark delays launch of the seasonal content material and the Xbox console model of the sport indefinitely. (Photographs: Fatshark/Video games Workshop)
The Warhammer 40K tabletop miniatures franchise has been having fun with a streak of profitable variations to different media. In 2022, it had a profitable tie-in with Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering as a Secret Lair standalone, in addition to a sequence of video video games set in its universe. Darktide was one in all these, nevertheless it has additionally been plagued with points since its announcement in 2020.
In an open letter posted on social media, CEO and Co-Founder Martin Wahlund of the sport’s developer Fatshark defined the reasoning for the prolonged delays:
— Warhammer 40K: Darktide (@Darktide40K) January 24, 2023
We take huge delight in our means at Fatshark to ship a recreation that thousands and thousands can get pleasure from[…] to create a extremely participating and steady recreation with a degree of depth that retains you taking part in for weeks, not hours.
We fell in need of assembly these expectations. Over the following few months, our sole focus is to handle the suggestions that lots of you may have. Particularly, we are going to concentrate on delivering a whole crafting system, a extra rewarding development loop, and proceed to work on recreation stability and efficiency optimization.
The second half of the open letter confirmed that the seasonal content material and the discharge for the Xbox sequence X|S consoles would even be postponed to a later date:
This additionally means that we are going to delay our seasonal content material rollout and the Xbox Collection X/S launch. We may even droop the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics.
The remainder of the open letter thanked the Warhammer 40K: Darktide participant base for his or her suggestions and assist of the sport.
So how lengthy will the delays be? Sadly, Fatshark didn’t give a transparent reply. Thus, for the interim, gamers of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will probably be an indefinite delay of the aforementioned content material and rollout for the Xbox consoles.
It needs to be famous that this isn’t the primary time that Warhammer 40K: Darktide has suffered delays. After it was introduced in 2020, the unique launch date was to be someday in 2021. Nonetheless, this was pushed again to a tentative spring 2022 launch. However even this was pushed additional to September 2022, earlier than the ultimate precise launch in November.
With that mentioned, the Darktide participant base are typically keen to simply accept the delays, primarily as a result of many points plaguing the sport.
As of the time of this writing, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has acquired over 53 thousand Combined evaluations (with the latest being Largely Detrimental) on its Steam web page. Though hailed for its spectacular graphics, immersive audio and music, and well-balanced fight, Warhammer 40K: Darktide can also be criticized for its ridiculously low likelihood of upgrading and incomplete crafting mechanics. The rewards system has additionally acquired criticisms for being largely unsatisfying.
Primarily based on the favored Warhammer 40K setting from Video games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is presently accessible for play on Home windows PC.
