Edit 10/25/2024: Unlocked and Loaded means they finally finished the crafting system. It's good. Still can't select missions. I'm sick of looking at the auric board and not seeing a single damnation high shock trooper gauntlet. Get your heads out of your ass fatshart. I don't just play whats available. I close out the stupid game and go play something else. The moment another company copies your combat system you may as well declare bankruptcy, because you're gonna be dead.

Edit as of 6/26/2024: Another six months, another six months of crap updates. Newest update just causes crashes. Played for 4 hours, and still haven't finished a match without a crash. Please, can some other company please, for the love of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ emperor, make a good 40k game with good melee combat. At this point I'd ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ take EA over Fatshart.

Edit as of 12/12/2023: Still a buggy, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess.


Edit as of 10/10/2023: Fatshark really needs to stop Pearl Clutching.


Edit as of 6/17/2023: Still way to buggy, deamonhosts spawn right in front of you, mobs ignore pushes or are unstaggerable way to often, looking at you dogs and busters. Things that have been broken since the launch of the game. Content is coming way to slow. I'd be perfectly fine with slow content releases but holy ♥♥♥♥... what are you even doing? You're not fixing bugs, you're not making new content... you sitting on your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ asses with your thumbs up them fatshark?

Edit as of 4/5/2023: I'm changing my review to positive for two reasons.

1. To counter the crybabies that are trying to review bomb the game over the power sword nerf. It was needed, and it honestly needs more of a nerf. It's still insanely overpowered. Sure, it's not a charge once and delete everything on the screen in a couple swings, but it's still OP as hell with it's insane cleave, and power cycler. Give other charge weapons power cycler, and a perfect move set... and maybe I'll change my opinion on that... Or nerf power sword a bit more. Vet shouldn't have the, still, best *melee* weapon in the game.

P.S. Give Krieg outfit please. My shovel needs love, and cosmetics are the only buffs it needs.

2. Fatshark is stupid, trashed their game from the start, and well, did a really ♥♥♥♥ job at absolutely everything. The game is still super fun, and they have drastically improved it. They don't deserve praise for finally moving the game to a "launch" like state almost six months after they launched it, but... it's in a decent state now, and if it launched as it is now...? People would be giving the game a lot more praise.

Note on the RNG of the game: The RNG system is still absolute garbage and way too steep. I know many people never even got power cycler on power sword, myself included, though I play all classes, so not all of my hours are on just vet like some other people who never got it, not to mention I still don't have slaughter 4 on my psyker where most of my hours are... took me 300 hours to see deflector. So yeah, RNG is still garbage system and too punishing/expensive. It's just not fun to never see a blessing that is needed to make a weapon feel good to use.

Old Review:

At Launch Dec 12th:
Gameplay is fun, but it's a buggy, unfinished product. Crafting system when? Weapons in promotional videos when? Ogryn getting more than two weapon choices when? A storyline when? To many things not even close to being done. Refund everyone their money, and pull it off the store for another year, then try again Fatshark. Want to do a mission on a specific difficulty? To bad, RNG decides what difficulty you play on and what missions you can do. Honestly just frustrating.

Expected Vermintide 2 but 40k. Got Vermintide 0.5 but 40k.

Edit After Month of Silence(Dec to early Jan) from devs with forced dogs: We got bugged dogs, that are basically undodgeable, and considered by almost everyone to be horrible, buggy, unfair, and glitchy, that disable you even when you push them, or dodge them, will turn 90 degrees while leaping to get you behind cover. Fatshark: LETS MAKE IT SO THEY SPAWN EVEN MORE! Lets add a modifier that spawns on all the maps of the difficulty you wanna play so you're FORCED to "enjoy" more of the least fun part of the game! Being disabled from a bug.

Look, I get it. We all miss dodges. It happens. Sometimes we make mistakes. But when it's *every* single dodge... well, I don't think that's me when I can dodge everything else in the game just fine...

Game is fun, and I want to play it, but every time I play a match or two, and the shop cycles and I'm stuck staring at the same garbage weapons I just quit and play something else. =/

Edit 10/25/2024: Unlocked and Loaded means they finally finished the crafting system. It's good. Still can't select missions. I'm sick of looking at the auric board and not seeing a single damnation high shock trooper gauntlet. Get your heads out of your ass fatshart. I don't just play whats available. I close out the stupid game and go play something else. The moment another company copies your combat system you may as well declare bankruptcy, because you're gonna be dead. Edit as of 6/26/2024: Another six months, another six months of crap updates. Newest update just causes crashes. Played for 4 hours, and still haven't finished a match without a crash. Please, can some other company please, for the love of the fucking emperor, make a good 40k game with good melee combat. At this point I'd fucking take EA over Fatshart. Edit as of 12/12/2023: Still a buggy, shitty mess. Edit as of 10/10/2023: Fatshark really needs to stop Pearl Clutching. Edit as of 6/17/2023: Still way to buggy, deamonhosts spawn right in front of you, mobs ignore pushes or are unstaggerable way to often, looking at you dogs and busters. Things that have been broken since the launch of the game. Content is coming way to slow. I'd be perfectly fine with slow content releases but holy fuck... what are you even doing? You're not fixing bugs, you're not making new content... you sitting on your fucking asses with your thumbs up them fatshark? Edit as of 4/5/2023: I'm changing my review to positive for two reasons. 1. To counter the crybabies that are trying to review bomb the game over the power sword nerf. It was needed, and it honestly needs more of a nerf. It's still insanely overpowered. Sure, it's not a charge once and delete everything on the screen in a couple swings, but it's still OP as hell with it's insane cleave, and power cycler. Give other charge weapons power cycler, and a perfect move set... and maybe I'll change my opinion on that... Or nerf power sword a bit more. Vet shouldn't have the, still, best *melee* weapon in the game. P.S. Give Krieg outfit please. My shovel needs love, and cosmetics are the only buffs it needs. 2. Fatshark is stupid, trashed their game from the start, and well, did a really shit job at absolutely everything. The game is still super fun, and they have drastically improved it. They don't deserve praise for finally moving the game to a "launch" like state almost six months after they launched it, but... it's in a decent state now, and if it launched as it is now...? People would be giving the game a lot more praise. Note on the RNG of the game: The RNG system is still absolute garbage and way too steep. I know many people never even got power cycler on power sword, myself included, though I play all classes, so not all of my hours are on just vet like some other people who never got it, not to mention I still don't have slaughter 4 on my psyker where most of my hours are... took me 300 hours to see deflector. So yeah, RNG is still garbage system and too punishing/expensive. It's just not fun to never see a blessing that is needed to make a weapon feel good to use. Old Review: At Launch Dec 12th: Gameplay is fun, but it's a buggy, unfinished product. Crafting system when? Weapons in promotional videos when? Ogryn getting more than two weapon choices when? A storyline when? To many things not even close to being done. Refund everyone their money, and pull it off the store for another year, then try again Fatshark. Want to do a mission on a specific difficulty? To bad, RNG decides what difficulty you play on and what missions you can do. Honestly just frustrating. Expected Vermintide 2 but 40k. Got Vermintide 0.5 but 40k. Edit After Month of Silence(Dec to early Jan) from devs with forced dogs: We got bugged dogs, that are basically undodgeable, and considered by almost everyone to be horrible, buggy, unfair, and glitchy, that disable you even when you push them, or dodge them, will turn 90 degrees while leaping to get you behind cover. Fatshark: LETS MAKE IT SO THEY SPAWN EVEN MORE! Lets add a modifier that spawns on all the maps of the difficulty you wanna play so you're FORCED to "enjoy" more of the least fun part of the game! Being disabled from a bug. Look, I get it. We all miss dodges. It happens. Sometimes we make mistakes. But when it's *every* single dodge... well, I don't think that's me when I can dodge everything else in the game just fine... Game is fun, and I want to play it, but every time I play a match or two, and the shop cycles and I'm stuck staring at the same garbage weapons I just quit and play something else. =/