Warhammer 40,000: Darktide adds Skitarii class in new update

Fatshark has launched the Skitarii Class for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, including a brand new Adeptus Mechanicus-themed playable class to the co-op shooter.

The category is obtainable as paid content material on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X/S. Based on the announcement, the usual version is priced at $11.99 / €11.99, whereas the Deluxe Version is priced at $18.99 / €18.99.

The Skitarii Class lets gamers tackle the position of a Skitarii Alpha Primus, an elite Adeptus Mechanicus operative geared up with cybernetic enhancements and faction-specific weapons. The category features a non-linear expertise tree and helps completely different playstyles, together with ranged, melee, and electricity-based builds.

The category may also be supported by as much as three servo cranium companions. Companions can do all the good things, similar to hacking, reviving allies, and utilizing flame-based assaults.

Skitarii gamers have entry to Adeptus Mechanicus weaponry together with arc weapons, phosphor blasters, transonic blades, and galvanic rifles. Character customization choices embrace materials varieties, augmentation patterns, Forge World origin, 4 voice units, and voice modulation.

The launch is accompanied by extra Darktide content material. The Heretical Artifacts stay occasion duties gamers with recovering stolen relics and selecting between two factions that present completely different bonuses. The Adherents of Saint Messelina improve coherency radius, assault pace, and motion pace, whereas the Scourge of the Faithless focuses on elevated injury, burn injury, and burn period.

The replace additionally provides Expeditions content material, together with a brand new scavenge zone and a model of Atoma’s badlands set at daybreak. The developer has urged the replace consists of environmental hazards, steadiness modifications, quality-of-life enhancements, and bug fixes.

Two new enemy varieties, the Scab Vanguard and Dreg Vanguard, have additionally been added. The announcement describes them as shield-bearing human enemies which might be quicker and extra agile than Ogryn protect models.

Fatshark CEO and co-founder Martin Wahlund mentioned group suggestions had been “instrumental” to Darktide’s improvement, including that the studio was wanting ahead to seeing gamers use servo skulls and experiment with new builds.