Fatshark has released Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Hotfix #80 (version 1.9.4), focusing on refining class balance, fixing persistent crashes, and adjusting enemy health values. This update fine-tunes several abilities across all classes, ensuring a more even and fair gameplay experience. The Arbites, Veteran, Zealot, Psyker, and Ogryn classes all receive targeted tweaks to ability durations, cooldowns, and damage modifiers. These changes aim to address overperforming abilities and improve defensive and offensive build diversity.
Additionally, enemy balance has been modified with a notable reduction in Scab and Dreg Captain health to correct previous unintended increases. A series of stability fixes address multiple crash issues related to in-game icons, loadout screens, and equipment management. Cosmetic and animation improvements also enhance the visual quality of the game, with particular attention given to clipping issues and attack animation consistency.
Full Patch Notes
Class Balance
Arbites
- Vigilant: Duration increased from 10s to 12s.
- Retaliatory Force: Attack Speed increased from 10% to 15%.
- Castigator’s Stance: Cooldown increased from 45s to 50s to reduce overuse.
- Walk it Off: Healing reduced from 15% over 3s to 10% over 3s.
Veteran
- Covering Fire: Duration increased from 3s to 6s.
- Lock and Load: Clip Size increased from 15% to 25%.
- Redirect Fire: Bonus increased from 2% to 2.5%.
- Kill Team: Damage increased from 5% to 7.5%.
- Duty and Honour: Bonus Toughness Duration reduced from 15s to 10s.
Zealot
- Punishment: Impact increased from 5% to 8%, Duration from 5s to 8s.
- Pious Cut-Throat: Cooldown Regeneration reduced from 100% for 2s to 75% for 2s.
- Riposte: Melee Damage reduced from 4% to 3%.
Psyker
- Inner Tranquility: Peril Reduction increased from 6% to 8%.
- Kinetic Presence: Damage increased from 7.5% to 10%.
- Psykinetic’s Aura: Cooldown Regeneration reduced from 100% for 3s to 60% for 5s.
Ogryn
- Stay Close!: Toughness Increase raised from 15% to 20%.
- For the Lil’Uns: Cooldown reduced from 30s to 20s.
- Feel No Pain (Keystone): Stack Replenish Rate decreased from 3s to 2s.
- Get Stuck In: Duration increased from 4s to 6s.
- Delight in Destruction: Stacks increased from 4 to 6, Damage Reduction per stack adjusted from 8% to 5% (total 32% to 30%).
Enemy Balance
- Scab Captain Health Adjustments:
- Uprising: 24000 → 20000
- Malice: 32000 → 24000
- Dreg Captain Health Adjustments:
- Uprising: 21000 → 17500
- Malice: 28000 → 21000
- Dev Note: These changes correct unintended health increases and restore intended difficulty levels.
- Reduced spawn rate for Scab Plasma Gunner during events.
Fixes
- Fixed multiple crashes related to:
- Rendering in-game icons and portraits when switching loadouts.
- Starting the Auspex minigame simultaneously.
- Equipping items to operatives with old preset data (some loadouts may reset).
- Mission voting during weapon sacrifice.
- Loading icons in appearance modification and deleted loadouts.
- Cosmetic Fixes:
- Corrected color labels for the Veteran “Scavenged Kantrael MK XF Flak Helm.”
- Fixed clipping of facial hair with Psyker “Krieg Witch Mask.”
- Resolved backpack clipping issues with Zealot “Pilgrim’s Jerkin.”
- Weapon Adjustments:
- Lawbringer Mk IIb Power Falchion: Increased reach of Light 1 attack; smoother Heavy 2 animation.
- Catachan “Devil’s Claw” Sword: Corrected third-person animations and several talent interaction issues, including “True Grit,” “Remote Detonation,” and “Crystalline Will.”
- Fixed various talent bugs, ensuring abilities like “Charged Strike” and “Steady Grip” trigger correctly.
- Fixed incorrect information showing in Penance unlock popups during missions.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a four-player cooperative action game developed by Fatshark, blending melee and ranged combat in the Warhammer 40K universe. Set in the Hive City of Tertium, players take on the role of Inquisition “Rejects” battling against the corruption of Chaos. The game launched for PC (Windows) on November 30, 2022, followed by releases on Xbox Series X/S on October 4, 2023, and PlayStation 5 on December 3, 2024.
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