Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will rejoice its first birthday with a brand new mission and zone

What’s a birthday however a celebration that, regardless of all of your struggles, you survived? It has been nearly a yr because the launch of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, that means it has been now a full yr of apologies, paused expansions, and transformative patches. And but it lives.

The co-op shooter now appears on firmer floor, and to rejoice it is getting a two-part replace referred to as The Traitor Curse. Half one will add a brand new zone and mission, amongst different updates.

The brand new zone is known as The Carnival, during which gamers will “strike on the coronary heart of the Moebian sixth operations and fend off hordes of enemies in Mercantile,” in keeping with the announcement. There will even be an replace to the Veteran Expertise tree, the flexibility to examine loadouts in The Mourningstar, and a brand new cinematic to clarify the motivations of the Moebian sixth within the new zone.

Half one of many replace will arrive this month, whereas half two – its contents as but unannounced – will arrive “earlier than the winter holidays.”

Darktide actually has gone by way of a metamorphosis over the previous yr, amending crafting, development, including ability timber, and quite a bit else. Its most up-to-date critiques on Steam at the moment are 82% constructive, an enormous enhance from the 57% constructive it had final December. That is a cheerful journey for a recreation that had quite a bit to love about it even at launch.