Patch #14 Brings Changes to Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

Publish date: 2024-07-09

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s new update, Patch #14, is now live. This update is particularly significant as it includes feedback gathered from community testing over the last two months.

The patch mainly focuses on game balance, with changes affecting all characters as well as the Psyker class specifically. For instance, the “Suppression Boost” modifier has been ramped up significantly, from 5% to 25%.

Psyker abilities, particularly the Blitzes, have been tweaked to be more fluid and powerful. Specifics around weapon balancing are pretty detailed and are split into two parts, available on the game’s official forums. Overall, the patch aims to refine the gameplay experience based on player input and observed issues.

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Patch 14 Notes

Blitz – All

Blitz – Brain Rupture

Blitz – Assail

Blitz – Smite

Dev Note:

Smite being able to channel without cost when Empowered Psionics was active was a bug. We do however feel that without it Smite can feel a bit lacklustre in combination with Empowered Psionics, so we’re further increasing the power of it. We’ll be keeping an eye on it, and are up for doing something related to cost in the future as long as it’s more balanced this time around!

Combat ability  – Psykinetic’s Wrath

Combat ability – Scrier’s Gaze

Combat ability – Telekine Shield/Telekine Dome

Talent “Soulstealer”

Talent “Perilous Combustion”

Talent “Prescience”

Blitz – Blades of Faith

Combat ability – Shroudfield

Combat ability – Chorus of Spiritual Fortitude

Talent “Inexorable Judgement”

Talent “Second Wind”

Talent “Shield of Contempt”

Talent “Bleed for the Emperor”

Dev note:

These slight changes to damage reduction talents are to avoid high stacking damage reduction

We are currently working on an update to the Veteran’s Talent Tree, including Keystones, which will be coming in a future patch. We hope that these changes to your Abilities will still be interesting enough and open up for a few more build paths, while we finalise the larger update.

Blitz – Smoke grenade

Blitz – Krak grenade

Combat ability – Volley Fire / Executioner’s stance

Combat Ability – Infiltrate

Combat Ability – Voice of Command

Talent “Only in Death Does Duty End”

Talent “Duty and Honor”

Talent “Deadshot”

Talent “Exploit Weakness”

The Description currently reads Rending, but should say Brittleness

Talent “Rending Strikes”

Talent “Keep Their Heads Down!”

Talent “Demolition Team”

The gameplay change was already in, but the description didn’t get updated properly.

Blitz – Big Friendly Rock

Blitz – Ogryn Frag Bomb

Combat ability – Loyal Protector

Combat ability – Point blank Barrage

Talent “Batter”

Talent “Pained Outburst”

Talent “Dominate”

Spawning

Mutants

Plague Ogryn

Beast of Nurgle

Full details on damage values, armour modifiers, etc. are found further down.

General:

Dev Note:

This was 40 before Patch #13 Class Overhaul

Duelling Swords:

Heavy Swords:

Chainaxe:

Kickback:

Grenadier Gauntlet:

Ripper Guns:

Force Swords:

Dev Note:

We believe infinite dodges aren’t healthy for the balance of the game and decided instead to give Force Swords the same dodge count as the Combat Knife(one of the best dodging weapons). This change was made together with an overall bump in Force Sword damage and cleave output to compensate for the dodge loss and other weapons power increase.

Infantry Lasguns:

Laspistol:

Thunderhammers:

Crusher:

Tactical Axes:

Ogryn Club:

Combat Swords:

Combat Axes:

Headhunter Autoguns

Braced Autoguns

Boltgun

Infantry Autoguns

Force Staves

Ogryn Cleavers

Orox Mk II Battle Maul & Mk III Slab Shield

Standard-issue Munitorum Sapper Shovel

Catachan Mk III Combat Blade

Power Swords

Dev Note:

This change was made to make Munitorum Mk VI Power Sword more focused on defensive chaining, by allowing the block chain to be activated. The activation animation also matches the block animation so the transition from block -> activate is smoother.

Voidstrike

Surge Staff

Rumbler:

Human Shotguns

M35 Magnacore Mk II Plasma Gun

Grenades

Fire Frenzy

Stripped Down

Speedload

Limbsplitter

Ruthless Backstab

Infernus

Can Opener

HUD/UI

Weapons, Curios, Blessings, and Talents

Localisation

VFX, SFX, and Animation

Mourningstar and Mission Board

Misc

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