WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE
PC Gamer US Edition|October 2022
A confident, carnage-filled step forward from Vermintide
Wes Fenlon
WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE

NEED TO KNOW

RELEASE Sep 13

DEVELOPER Fatshark

PUBLISHER In-house

LINK playdarktide.com

My favorite thing in Darktide is the skull. OK, let me clarify—there’s definitely more than one skull. But I was enamored with one in particular: The skull decoder, a grinning cranium with spider-like legs used to interface with computers. There won’t be a better interaction prompt this year than “Press E to prepare Skull Decoder”.

“There’s no hacking in 40K,” says Fatshark head of design Victor Magnuson, who spent about two hours talking to me while we played through a few missions. Thankfully, 40K does have skull decoding—at least now. “Everything we do we check with Games Workshop. They check every asset, every voice line, everything. It’s a back and forth. But especially since we’ve done Vermintide, they trust us.”

This story is from the October 2022 edition of PC Gamer US Edition.

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