The primary teaser for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (opens in new tab), launched greater than two years in the past, centered on a four-person recon squad investigating sub-level six of Atoma Prime’s Tertium Hive. The video ended with the workforce trying to be in a spot of hassle—and now we lastly know what occurred to them.
A brand new World Intro Trailer launched as we speak for Darktide begins off in fantastic Warhammer vogue, with ominous music, foreboding narration, and the compulsory reminder that “there may be solely warfare.” An enormous, gothic starship enters a portal that crackles with purple power, rising on the opposite facet over a metropolis so nice, its towers are seen from area. As non secular imagery melds with cosmic horror, we’re taken deep into the dank sublevels of the Hive metropolis, the place 4 members of the Astra Militarum are beating a hasty retreat from… one thing.
That is clearly the identical recon squad that was seen within the first video: They’ve the identical uniforms and headgear, and their pauldrons bear the identical unit brand. Sadly, the phrases of their commanding officer within the first trailer—”I will know extra after they make it again—in the event that they make it again”—had been prophetic. The squad appeared strong {and professional} when first confronted by the corrupt hordes of Chaos, however the state of affairs has clearly gone south in a giant approach, and sadly it seems like not one of the gang are going to make it dwelling from this one.
The trailer would not say something new about Darktide, which seems very very like its predecessor Vermintide however set within the Warhammer 40K universe relatively than Warhammer Fantasy, however that is OK by me. It does a great job of setting the desk, by symbolism and scale, and sheer, grinding grimdark: You are going to get bloody, and keep bloody, till some kind of outsized horror carves your backbone out with its tooth. This in all probability comes as no shock, besides I feel it is enjoyable to get a bleak, overdramatic reminder once in a while. And concluding (or a minimum of persevering with—perhaps there might be extra) the story of the misplaced recon squad is a really good contact, too.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is accessible for pre-purchase on Steam (opens in new tab) and set to launch on November 30. If you have not already seen it, the primary teaser that includes our poor misplaced recon squadron is down under.
