I spent my first few hours of Darktide slumming it in a jail uniform. The cut-off sleeves did assist showcase my Ogryn’s bulging biceps, however in any other case it is a fairly drab look. The place’s my cool chestpiece? Some funky goggles? A pair of tactical cargo pants I can fill with shotgun shells? Till I hit stage 5, I did not have a single piece of beauty gear to my title, and had no concept when or how I might unlock any.
Now that I’ve figured it out, I am right here to share my knowledge (and the nice phrase about our lord and saviour, the God-Emperor) with each different raggedy Darktide convict searching for a recent shirt.
How do you get Darktide cosmetics?
Darktide’s hub world, the Mourningstar, has an tools store, however it’s strictly for weapons: the store does not promote something your character can truly put on. Physique gear is strictly beauty, and as of the launch beta interval, there’s nowhere on the Mourningstar to go garments purchasing. As a substitute, you may solely earn cosmetics by finishing Penances, that are primarily Darktide’s challenges/achievements.
The primary items of beauty gear you may seemingly unlock will likely be rewards for reaching stage 5 and stage 10—these two earn you a brand new shirt and a pair of pants, and easily require placing time into Darktide. However among the different beauty Penances are extra particular.
When you hit Esc and open up the Penances menu you will discover an entire listing of challenges. Many of the beauty rewards come from class-specific Penances. As an example, with my Ogryn Skullbreaker, I can earn myself a spiffy new pair of pants by interrupting a Plague Ogryn enemy’s cost with my very own particular transfer.
Among the non-class-specific challenges award different beauty gadgets like Frames, that are little borders to your character portrait. However they do not provide up character-specific outfits.
You too can get some cosmetics from the deluxe Darktide Imperial Version, if you wish to pay actual cash for them:
- Loyalist Pack: Purge heresy in fashion with these 4 distinctive class outfits, eight weapon pores and skin patterns, one set of headgear in addition to an Ogryn physique tattoo.
- Mortis Veteran Portrait Body: A beauty portrait body used to pay tribute to the fallen defenders of Tertium Hive.
- Caducades Backpack: A beauty backpack for human characters. Scavenged from the fallen troops of Cadia, this backpack has been repurposed to serve these nonetheless alive and preventing.
One remaining choice: you may earn some Darktide weapon skins by way of Twitch drops, which reward you for gadgets for watching streams. Observe this hyperlink to attach your Darktide account to Twitch to earn drops.
This is a schedule of when you may earn Darktide Twitch drops in its first few weeks:
- Fri, Nov 18, 4:00 AM – Sat, Nov 19, 4:00 AM PST · Look ahead to 45 minutes and declare the reward Lasgun (Camo Pores and skin)
- Sat, Nov 26, 4:00 AM – Solar, Nov 27, 4:00 AM PST · Look ahead to half-hour and declare the reward Sword (Camo Pores and skin)
- Sat, Nov 26, 4:00 AM – Solar, Nov 27, 4:00 AM PST · Look ahead to an extra half-hour and declare the reward Ripper Gun (Camo Pores and skin)
- Fri, Dec 2, 4:00 AM – Sat, Dec 3, 4:00 AM PST · Look ahead to half-hour and declare the reward Autogun (Camo Pores and skin)
- Fri, Dec 2, 4:00 AM – Sat, Dec 3, 4:00 AM PST · Look ahead to an extra half-hour and declare the reward Lasgun (Camo Pores and skin)
- Fri, Dec 2, 4:00 AM – Sat, Dec 3, 4:00 AM PST · Look ahead to an extra half-hour and declare the reward Sword (Camo Pores and skin)
- Fri, Dec 2, 4:00 AM – Sat, Dec 3, 4:00 AM PST · Look ahead to an extra half-hour and declare the reward Ripper Gun (Camo Pores and skin)
Will there be a cosmetics store in Darktide?
Darktide could have cosmetics you should buy. The Imperial Version comes with 2,500 Aquilas, that are a premium foreign money in Darktide. However there’s at the moment no phrase on when the premium cosmetics store will likely be added to the sport—it appears more likely to be someday after launch.
This is what Fatshark mentioned earlier this 12 months about its plans for a premium store:
What’s within the premium retailer?
The premium retailer is targeted on beauty gadgets, that’s, character skins, weapon skins, and different smaller customizable gadgets, in addition to DLC content material.
How does premium foreign money work?
Aquilas are the foreign money used within the Premium Retailer to buy any of the gadgets out there in it. Aquilas are at the moment solely obtainable by way of in-game buy.
How does in-game foreign money (Tertium Twins) work?
Twins are a foreign money earned by doing actions in recreation, reminiscent of finishing missions or promoting salvaged gadgets. This foreign money is used for different ingame actions reminiscent of enhancing tools. This foreign money will not be usable for buying cosmetics from the premium retailer.
How can I get cosmetics?
There 2 methods of getting cosmetics: progressing by the sport or buying them by the premium retailer. Progress cosmetics will likely be given out because the participant progresses by the story and the completely different challenges the sport provides. Premium retailer cosmetics might be acquired so long as they’re out there and might be outfitted by any character of that class, account-wide.
How can I handle my cosmetics?
Cosmetics are components of units, which implies they normally have matching components that make for some actually cool seems to be, nevertheless, gamers are free to swap round every half independently and make their very own seems to be.
Um, so how do I exploit my cosmetics in Darktide, anyway?
Simple! Press Esc to drag up the principle menu, then click on Operative to enter your character menu; you may also press the “I” key as a shortcut to go straight to your stock. From there, click on the Cosmetics tab to see your out there cosmetics slots: Head, higher physique, decrease physique, equipment, body, and insignia.
On the Cosmetics web page there’s additionally a Stances menu on the bottom-right that’ll take you to a different web page, the place you may ultimately see a wide range of character stances for pre-post mission cutscenes.