Warhammer 40,000: Darktide – Beginners Tips

A quick and simple guide that goes over a couple pitfalls for newbies, whilst explaining good to know mechanics the tutorial doesn’t cover sufficiently.

Tips for New Players

Please note: all credit goes to Ketrai!

Notable Resistances of Enemy Variants

  • Dregs generally wear yellow.
  • Scabs generally wear some kind of armor, looking scrappy.

Dreg ragers

  • Takes less damage from heavy melee attacks. This doesn’t apply to scab ragers.

Maulers

  • Takes more damage when hit in the legs.

Crushers

  • Generally takes more damage from heavy attacks, or chainsword/axe rev attacks (Hold down the special attack button briefly before doing a heavy attack).
  • Prime targets for headbursts as most other weapons don’t harm them much.
  • Extremely fire resistant.
  • Weak to explosives, grenade launcher, bolter.

Reapers

  • Extremely strong body armor, aim for the legs or head.

Flamers

  • Fire resistant.

Scab units in general are armored, and any of their specials won’t take much damage from light swings, when using a weapon that isn’t armor piercing (like an axe).

Class Tips

Psyker

  • headbursting can still be used when slightly below 100% peril.
  • You can use your special to cancel a peril overload death.

Zealot

  • Chastise the wicked will only recharge 50% of your toughness, not 100% as the tooltip mentions. Curio that increase toughness boost this effect.
  • The lvl 20 feat, faith restores all, does not trigger on toughness damage.

General Weapon Tips

Bolter

  • Doesn’t care about headshots, only armor values since it’s explosive damage. Penetrates a large amount of armor.
  • Consider using the rapid fire left click instead of aiming for any ogryns type enemies up close or medium distance. Trading ammo efficiency for a quick kill.
  • The AOE effect is extremely weak.

Shotgun

  • Considerably more effective when aiming for heads or weakpoints.

Flamer

  • DoT effect increases the longer an enemy has been burnt for. Starts decaying after a couple seconds.
  • Because of this, it can be a strong monstrosity killer too, don’t be hesitant if you can spare the ammo.

Axes

  • Unlike swords, axes will still damage lightly armored targets through their armor with light attacks.
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Egor Opleuha, also known as Juzzzie, is the Editor-in-Chief of Gameplay Tips. He is a writer with more than 12 years of experience in writing and editing online content. His favorite game was and still is the third part of the legendary Heroes of Might and Magic saga. He prefers to spend all his free time playing retro games and new indie games.

2 Comments

  1. Something i’ve Noticed with Bolters is the AOE is better too just do a Constant Stun on large groups of like shooters and such as its a Micro nade launcher

    also may i suggest that you add in the breakdown of different things Such as the Different enemy’s cause for some reason i have yet too see the 8th type of Dreg for an achievement and idk its kinda just odd to me i suppose

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