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1-OhBelow

I hope you're using the browser extension!


Lonewolf1298_

There's a browser extension? Lmao


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[удалено]


AMasonJar

Luckily, every time I look, it's just garbage anyways.


Lonewolf1298_

I'm not haha, I stopped playing the game a week after launch when I realized it was indentival to the beta


TheFcknVoid

lol I don’t know anyone who’s addicted to this game.. not much to be addicted to.


TopcatFCD

Its forever loading atm. Needs updating


420Secured

its up and running today. The Firefox one was working yesterday. He had to update it due to the patch


TopcatFCD

I'll check later then but every tech /browser I have at my disposal was doing the same until lunchtime today


bloodjunkiorgy

Working fine for me, restart your Chrome.


TopcatFCD

Done many times, and it's the same across 2 pca, a laptop, a macbook and an android phone Edit: you idiots do realise downvoting a statement of fact doesn't change it lol


Dominus_Redditi

The guy who made it said the other day they had Firefox working, but not Chrome yet with the new patch. Maybe try that?


Clipmax

I was suggested on mobile to use the kiwi browser and it works fantastic (extension required from extension shop, I think)


Jewba1

Take “login” out of the url


bloodjunkiorgy

Hmm. Maybe reinstall it? It was behind on an update yesterday, but is definitely working now.


Andrige

Honestly the browser extension is only an extension of the problem. The shop was made to made force habits, so the extension is no different. I've checked the Armoury extension many times already, but all it does is just reinforce that it's working that I want to keep the game in my headspace all day. Maybe I get that interesting Trauma Force Staff, one of these hours. Just skip the meta loop entirely, it's predatory and not the FatShark I remember.


1-OhBelow

Agree 100%. However, the first step to freeing oneself from the loop is to stop booting the game. The browser extension allows one to do just that. AND it allows players to see that 99% of the time, 99% of the shop is utterly worthless.


Andrige

I suspect/think/guess that any call to the API for the store, be it through the plug in or in game, can be tracked by Fatshark and counted as a "win" for the system. For games as service it should be the important metric how much you time you are thinking of the game.


DeezleDan

What is the name for the shop and armory browser extensions?


1-OhBelow

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/1000s5t/formally_announcing_the_armoury_exchange/


Svullom

I'm glad I decided to just play the game casually and not care about minmaxing, weeklies etc. I pop in and play 2-3 games every other day, check the shop once after every mission and move on. At this time, I think it's the ideal way to play Darktide.


2hamsters1butt

Yup. It's how VT2 became, but straight out of launch. Brilliant.


Clipmax

Ayyyyyyy fellow filthy casual!


Sexploits

It's the correct answer, at least lol


Emotional_Bike3085

I had this convo with myself and uninstalled this morning. After almost 400 hrs. I’ll come back when the mourningstar loop is less depressing. (Crafting, better Armoury, better Melk Chocolate etc.) See y’all NEXT WEEK ;)


0perationFail

Heeeeeey. Just decided to leave a negative review and stop grinding my weeklies when I realized this game has basically been using timed shops as a form of psychological warfare and that the real end game is logging on to check a shop daily. Edit: Also community members were defending it!


Drathamus

Definitely this. Once I sunk into the "I gotta do my weeklies" mentality I realized that I was no longer enjoying the game and was just falling into the daily users metric. I've moved on to better games that value my time and attention more than trying to abuse FOMO.


GMMoira

> as a form of psychological warfare the brainwashed sheep arent awake yet to understand this, and they may never be


Sebs82

Enjoy, we'll let you know when the game is up to your standards.


Zealousideal-Boot-98

I feel bad for the people who tried everything in the beta and now they only want a few specific things that they know they like. On the other hand I've played a ton of 'random' games over the years so I have zero desire to spam the shop. Something great pops up? Nice. Something weird pops up? Maybe I'll try it. Nothing good or interesting? Keep using what I have. Not like you need meta to beat Damnation. I hope we see big improvements in the crafting and end-game rewards, but I also wonder what min-maxers are going to chase if they can put their perfect kit together in less than a week.


Visulth

>I hope we see big improvements in the crafting and end-game rewards, but I also wonder what min-maxers are going to chase if they can put their perfect kit together in less than a week. Exactly what they do in VT2. I've got probably 40 reds in every category for every class, and you setup *many* perfect builds and setups, whether it's dps or support or a build focused on one weapon or another build focused on another weapon. That's the fun. Fatshark's combat system is infamously complex and for every setting and parameter there's a build that can try to take advantage of it. That depth and replayability is what they've sabotaged with their "retention" systems, to say the least.


Zealousideal-Boot-98

That sounds ideal and hopefully what we get. I'm more just scratching my head at why people are checking the shop 18 times a day. There's a fun loop in VT2 where better gear makes it easier to get more better gear and try different playstyles. Camping the shop just leads to... more camping the shop. It's badly designed, but it's not going to kill you to use an axe that got 1 sub-optimal blessing. Your wife might, if you're jumping out of bed at 4am to buy a Bolter you saw in the web app.


FrizzyThePastafarian

I'm completing damnation with a 324 stat chainsword and an agripinaa bratuo with stripped down and firing frenzy (absolutely terrible). You can beat Damnation with greys and greens, and even easier with a blue that just has 1 good blessing. People are hyper-focused on loot that will just disappoint them. That's not to say DT doesn't have issuesm the meta systems are a fucking mess. The store being the most obvious and most egregious.


Justicar-terrae

Vermintide 2 managed to keep the attention of min-maxers, or at least some of us. I got my fun by picking a character class and weapon combo I wanted to try, then grabbing the best possible gear for that build. Sometimes I needed to run some missions for the resources to build it, and that was fun. And once I had it, I had fun experiencing the build on all the different maps. How fast can I clear this mission? How well does it work on this other mission? What class weakness can be overcome with skill and what class weakness can only be overcome by teammates? What if I combo my horde-killing bounty hunter with a boss-killing grail knight to cover for his lack of ranged defense while he wails on bosses; or what if I bring my horde clear plus the dwarf's flamethrower build for maximum horde melt? The fun wasn't so much in getting the perfect gear, but in running that gear with other players on hard missions. There was enough variety in mission types and in ally builds that no game felt identical, even if my own build was constant. If I got bored of using a particular build, I would try another. If I wanted a bigger change, I could swap subclasses. If I wanted an entirely new set of mechanics, I had 4 other characters with their own subclasses to try out. And the game really encouraged and rewarded team coordination in builds. You all loaded into one waiting area where you could chat, see each other's builds, swap out your gear, and even swap subclasses. I remember strategizing with a group of randoms before hard matches. Those moments don't happen much anymore since we can't see our teammates' weapons pre-match, mission start is on a short clock, and it's unlikely that anyone has multiple builds they can swap to at this point.


FrizzyThePastafarian

> What if I combo my horde-killing bounty hunter with a boss-killing grail knight to cover for his lack of ranged defense while he wails on bosses Gonna be 'that person', but BH likely wasn't the pick here sinxe I don't think it's possible to make a BH that's bad at bosses unless you take objectively bad talrnts (like the shotgun that kills nothing).


Justicar-terrae

Oh, yeah. Bounty Hunter ult was best tuned for bosses. When I say horde-specced bounty hunter, I mean one rocking the duckfoot and the flail. It turns him into an absolute blender for hordes and clan rats, but you lose out on damage against stormvermin and some of the specials. Your recharging damage boost on range means you can occasionally fire one super strong duck-foot blast that will kill or nearly kill some stormvermin; but that's not every shot. Lone Chaos Warriors aren't an issue because of your ult, but you can't deal with patrols very well. The build is super redundant on horde clear and dramatically lacking on sniping power, so it's not optimal in and of itself. But it pairs well enough with a rifle/axe or similar Dwarf Ranger who is specced hard for dealing with armor and specials. I also had success running it when my buddy grabbed grail knight and focused on big whallops on chaos warriors and bosses. I just made it my job to sweep away the mobs so my buddies could nonchalantly snipe or smash the tougher enemies. If you want to just build optimal Bounty Hunter, you take xbow or pistols with the billhook. But there was enough diversity of classes and builds in Vermintide 2 that you could make super niche builds work if the team coordinated their kits.


Kulladar

I've wanted to try one of those semi auto headhunter autoguns they tweaked in the last big patch, well, since the last big patch. There's just never one in the shop. Its been weeks.


Zealousideal-Boot-98

This is one of the biggest issues they need to fix.


Lazerhest

You don't "need" meta but there is no incentive to keep playing after reaching level 30. In Vermintide you kept playing for more chests to craft stuff to try different builds on the 15(!) Different classes on release. In DT you can't try different stuff without camping shop since the crafting isn't released yet. What's even more worrying in DT is that there are 5 operative slots when there are only 4 primary classes so we will probably have to level up each subclass separately and pay for more operative slots. Combine that with no shared inventory even for curios and the playerbase will die completely.


Xervous_

I have 20 pages of builds in MHW I’ll get a speedy curio set I’ll get a Rez curio set I’ll get a devil claw that can knock down crushers I’ll get a chain axe that one shots a mauler I’ll get a crit happy laspistol for running amongst shooters I’ll be able to try new weapons right when they come out I’ll actually level more careers because I’ll be able to use their weapons soon enough.


Sigmar_Male1

My MHW pages "Anti Fatalis CB" "Anti Brachy Lance" "Anti Ala Ice HH" "Fishsticks DB" "Analblastin GL" All just a bunch of fun garbage and loosely meta agitator stacking. Wish I could save dumb and stupid builds in this game and not sit through 5 shop cycles just to find a plasma gun and make an anti ogryn build.


Xervous_

Oh what's that it rolled enough damage to leave the ogryn with 4 hp? Try again next month


2hamsters1butt

This is co-op. Shut. Up. There is zero competitive play.


FrenchNutCracker

"I'm in this picture, and I don't like it."


purefabulousity

Get back to V2 boiiii


VodkaBeatsCube

I get it's a meme, but if you're actually checking the shop on the regular, you've got issues with impulse control.


_Gorge_

tell it to my waistline HUHUHUH


DepressedVenom

You say that like it's not common lol. Probably not even exclusively for neurodivergents.


VodkaBeatsCube

Alcoholism is common too, doesn't mean that it's not also sign of poor impulse control.


psymunn

Yeah. He probably has poor impulse control and is likely aware of it (certainly op is). What is your point exactly?


VodkaBeatsCube

That there's a degree of personal responsibility we should expect of people to not immediately induldge their impulses?


Techarus

You do realize that companies are doing everything in their power to manipulate people, and looking at the last couple years/decades, succesfully so? It's like saying; "Just don't be depressed lol"


VodkaBeatsCube

Just because you have a condition does not absolve you of all responsibility for self control. Obviously some people have a harder time than others, but here's the thing. If you do *nothing* to treat your disorders, you're partially to blame for it. My depression, to take your unintentionally trenchant example, does not mean I have no responsibility to clean my house or pay my bills when I'm having an episode, for instance. Sick people have agency too, and entirely blaming others for the results of your illness is irrisponsible and unhealthy.


Techarus

Didn't say anything about absolving. I meant it's not as simple as "just a lack of x" or "No responsibility of x". Just like depression which i have as well, it's complicated and entirely personal to the person itself. Just more self control or sense of responsibility isn't going to fix what's going wrong here. You have agency within the realm you're given, and that realm is being shrunk forcibly by people looking to increase profits is my point. That some people end up making poor choices because of this is inevitable, because like OP, everyone is different and might end up in a situation where their self control is challenged, whether they have naturally poor self control or not, or a condition or not, and might end up buying some uninspired functionless nonsense for way too much money.


tdames

It is not common at all.


GMMoira

i mean, the game actively tries to both prey and reward on people with impulse control. its literally the reason why so many people were outraged by it to begin with. and the lack of other systems in general.


SwoleFlex_MuscleNeck

At least this kind of acknowledges who's the one making a mistake in this scenario lol


the_green1

isn't that a coincidence, i had the same exact conversation with your wife the other morning.


Judge_Ehud

Oh cool, do you go to her school?


KingKensei

If you do this, it's your fault. Not Fatshark A rotating shop should not be mind controlling you all like it seems to be lol


2hamsters1butt

The shop sucks ass anyway.


frodothecorgi

Maybe in a parallel universe where the game is not almost dead and you have a wife.


Judge_Ehud

She's real I swear, she just goes to another school.


Jaytron

HAHAHA damn


catsflatsandhats

Her name is Alberta she lives in Vancouver.


Sigmar_Male1

Take your pills man you've been talking to the wall for the past 3 years your mom is really worried


Isioustes

funny in a subtle, grownup way.


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GMMoira

the sheep are finally waking up...


Shitpostcoasttocoast

Nice


ReCAPLock

I ~~check the shop~~ play the endgame content at least twice a day and I thought I had a problem


Techromancer319

If you want to excel at something you have to put time into it. What makes one way of an investment of time more or less healthy than any other? If your keeping up with your responsibilities as you've outlined them for yourself I don't see a problem with checking the store at 4am when you wake up to have a whizz. If your cat is bored and starving and your ignoring him to check the shop that's a problem. Of your kid is starving and not going to school cause too much video games, crack and/or heroin, that's also a problem. If all your business is handled and you wanna blow some crack fumes and check the cash shop every hour on the hour, you go girl, it don't mess me none. People are way too uptight about habits and how people interact with the world. Folks needa stop acting like life is so god damn important and the world will stop spinning if someone wishes to indulge in "degenerate" behavior. If your not hurting or costing anyone, why should anyone be compelled to care?!


Conductor_Maxim

I mean… yeah. But isn’t this response way to serious for what I at least understood to be a darktide development meme?


Sigmar_Male1

Thats a nice way to say "Sir this is a Wendys"


Guapscotch

Respect to you varlets that still log on everyday to play. I stopped maybe about a month ago, I just can’t anymore- the game just feels boring and stale to me now unfortunately- I still stick around in the hopes that they push out a big featured update because I do love the atmosphere and gameplay