Darktide's next new class is a dual-wielding miscreant who thinks the drugs do work, they just make heretics worse

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is getting different caller class, revealed past nighttime arsenic the Hive Scum. They’re a suitably skull-adorned outlaw who tin dual-wield guns oregon shivs, portion indulging successful a cheeky spot of chemic warfare by homebrewing stimulants and lacing their weapons with harmful chems. Basically the other of the space-narc Arbites people added this summer, then: they got exploding dogs, the Hive Scum gets exploding drugs.

They’re not joining Darktide’s co-op raids until December 2nd, but successful the meantime, developers Fatshark person elaborate beauteous overmuch each their soiled tricks successful a Reddit blog. There’s besides this teaser trailer, showing disconnected the akimbo shootering and a caller crowbar limb successful CGI action.

According to the dev blog, the Hive Scum looks to complement the existing roster of melee fiends and ranged specialists by performing arsenic a slippery up-close gunslinger – hence being capable to treble up connected quick-firing but little close pistols. They’ve besides got a prime of unlockable skills geared astir sustaining high-risk, adjacent quarters play, with the enactment to specialise successful either shooting oregon shanking.

Then there’s the controlled substances element. This covers remixes of existing tools, similar the Chem Grenade oregon Chem Toxin: a stackable damage-over-time effect, akin to the existing burning oregon bleeding modifiers. But it besides extends to an wholly caller Stimm Lab mechanic wherein Hive Scummers can, by investing accomplishment points (not dissimilar the main endowment tree), make their ain injectable Stimms with customised effects. There’s adjacent a Combat Ability successful the main histrion that lets adjacent teammates stock the high, an enactment that I desperately anticipation volition trigger anguished, violently guilt-ridden screams of disorder from the Arbites.

I whitethorn person been somewhat underwhelmed, watching that trailer for the archetypal clip – 40K is ripe with the likes of past cyborgs, Hobbit-sized drunken snipers, and half-goat militiamen, nary of whom would crook down a scrap with Chaos and each of whom mightiness person made a much absorbing summation to the unit than Florida Woman here. I bash similar the ferocious dependable of the Hive Scum playstyle, though, particularly aft months of maining the methodical Emprah Cop.