Warhammer 40,000: Darktide News

Best Darktide Zealot build, weapons, and feats

The best Darktide Zealot build, while primarily focused on hand-to-hand combat, has a versatility that is vital to your squad's chances at survival. The Zealot's central ability, Chastise The Wicked, propels your forward into a group of enemies, but what do you do when you're in the midst of the horde?

This build connects your sustainability and your damage; by utilising the Zealot's Martyrdom ability, you're able to deal consistently high damage as long as you're able to manage your health appropriately, with the Until Death ability saving you should things get out of hand. Your primary focus with this build in the co-op game is to get into the mix and stay there, with your teammates providing additional damage when you need it. Being a one-person army, however, it's likely you won't need any.

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Best Darktide Psyker build, weapons, and feats

Want to craft the best Darktide Psyker build? As the magic users of the Imperium, Psykers channel the warp, manipulating it to cave in the craniums of your enemies under intense pressure. They also get buffs for every Warp Charge they gain, which with the right tools equipped, can make them more formidable as the mission continues.

To get the most out of the Psyker, which out of the four Darktide classes, is the one who will likely deal the most damage out of the group, you need to commit to a strategy that may not be the most obvious at first. Since your role as a DPS dealer in the co-op game requires you to stay relatively far away, you will need protection from ranged gunfire - a common threat in the 40K universe.

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Darktide Penances guide

Darktide Penances can be a bit of a mystery at first, as you'll be receiving points from seemingly out of nowhere when you're bashing heads in Tertium. You'll gain a lot of these points if your missions from the Emperor go well, but what are they, and can they be spent on anything?

If you've been successful in clearing out Pox Walkers from the Tertium underground, then you'll no doubt have a small fortune of Penance points at your disposal. There are multiple forms of currency in the co-op game, with gold perhaps being the most useful of all as it enables you to purchase some of the best Darktide weapons in the armoury, but what can you spend your Penance points on?

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Darktide classes guide - Ogryn, Psyker, Veteran, and Zealot details

Each of the four Darktide classes has distinctive weapons and several skills that define their play style. Your choice at the beginning is just the start, as with every trust level gained, you get access to new feats and guns to turn your lowly prisoner into a heretic-purging hero.

As for character archetypes in the multiplayer game, the four Darktide classes are the ranged specialist Veteran, the Psyker, who is Warhammer 40,000's equivalent of a magic user, and two classes that excel with melee weapons: the Zealot and the Ogryn. If they all look a bit drab at first, don't worry, as you can earn Darktide cosmetics by increasing your trust levels or completing a bunch of unique challenges, known as Darktide Penances. Join us now as we consult the codex to get the lowdown on these classes.

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Best Darktide Ogryn build, weapons, and feats

The best Darktide Ogryn build is more utilitarian than destroyer, but that doesn't mean you can't cave heads in while you're keeping the rest of your squad alive. The Ogryn is as close as you're ever going to get to a living tank; a hulking beast, standing head and shoulders above anyone else in your squad, they wield huge chunks of metal like they're a child's toy, and can withstand an immense amount of punishment.

The Ogryn is such a large target for your enemies that creating a DPS build leaves you extremely vulnerable to ranged fire, especially on harder difficulty levels. Creating sustainability not only helps you stay alive longer, but while you're drawing the ire of the horde in the co-op game, your squad can operate around you and decimate your foes, perhaps even earning some Darktide cosmetics by completing some of the many Penances.

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