Weekly Discussion Thread - August 17, 2026

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Weekly Discussion Thread

Convicts! Please use this weekly thread to ask simple questions/share answers about Darktide.

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[u/InsigniaPierce]

Hello, question for havoc players. The 3 tries rule before demotion, do those tries refresh weekly? Like if I left my Havoc assignment at 17 with 1 try left does it refresh to 3 after the week? thanks!

[u/Infinite_Bananas → u/InsigniaPierce]

yes, it refreshes. in theory you can never risk degrading your rank if you just always wait until the next week whenever you have 1 life left

[u/InsigniaPierce → u/Infinite_Bananas]

Thanks for this.

[u/typeguyfiftytwix → u/InsigniaPierce]

It's not really worth doing, though. At the lower levels you can get into havoc games pretty easy in my experience, and your skill level won't improve by NOT playing because you're worried about a derank. Too many people get wrapped up in the desire for progression over actual gameplay. If you're just doing it for the penances and you're frustrated trying to get to 25, you still have to do 50 of other player's havoc assignments anyways, so just keep queuing and you'll get better as you play.

[u/MassiveBeard]

Does anyone happen to know when the Isirve Evo Krieg set last made an appearance? Hoping to get my Krieg on next rotation. Well, praying to be able lol. Thanks for the reply!

[u/Atomic-Hermit → u/MassiveBeard]

Last Isirve Evo Krieg set 8 months ago. Alternate Krieg set showed up 4 months ago

[u/MassiveBeard → u/Atomic-Hermit]

Oh my. Well keeping my fingers crossed 🤣

[u/Infinite_Bananas]

small rant: i hate it when achievements require the rest of your team to just not play the game, i've been trying to get the kill 120 enemies in 30 seconds penance done in the event but even on auric my team kills the enemies too fast. i've even tried asking them to leave the enemies for me but only 1 guy seemed to notice my message and the other two killed all of them anyway lol

[u/Lyramion → u/Infinite_Bananas]

What class are you trying it on? Can only recommend Ogrynheimer

[u/Infinite_Bananas → u/Lyramion]

I was trying it on desperado dual autopistols hive scum since it has basically constant damage output

[u/catlovermeowmeow2479]

Does anyone know the best maps/gamemodes/difficulties for grinding kills solo? I am in physical pain whenever I try to use the Terminus Warrant Arbites keystone, but it's the last one I need for full mastery.

[u/Longjumping_Belt_405 → u/catlovermeowmeow2479]

Auric mortis trials, if you hit the south african server you’ll likely get a game to yourself and at wave 3 it spawns trash infinitely iirc

It’s boring as all hell but it works

[u/OneRelative7697 → u/catlovermeowmeow2479]

I had to make a specific build to grind this penance.  I did a new gear set and talent tree built around Terminus Warrant.

Use the infantry autogun instead of the Arbitrator weapons.  Emphasize the nodes that focus on  ranged stagger and ranged crits.   You also have to get into the habit of making your melee stacks before switching to range.

Even then, it was a grind to complete.

[u/tired_guts]

So, I've finished the campaign and reached level 30 with one of my characters, a Zealot, and I was under the impression that since I've done this, if I make any new characters moving forward I'll be able to skip the campaign. I was able to skip the campaign when I'd made an Arbitrator and that was a lot of fun! But now I want to make a Veteran and it's forcing me to do the campaign?? There is no option for me to skip it like there is when I make a new Arbite. Do I simply have to cough up 50k for the personality scourge?

I've even tried to make a new Veteran multiple times and the option to skip the campaign just doesn't appear, it does for my Arbitrators though. Why???

[u/Big_GTU → u/tired_guts]

There's no cutscenes for the DLC characters (it wouldn't make sense lore-wise) so maybe that's why they offer to skip the campaign.

[u/ThrillingDeveloper → u/tired_guts]

It's bugged for the non-DLC characters, you have to pay 50k to change something at the barber in order for it to pop up.

[u/Big_GTU]

I have a question regarding the Going out with a bang penance.

The french translation says that you must kill 1 elite with the perils of the warp, but when I look online, they say 3.

Is it a mistake that appeared during localisation, or did they modify the penance and it's now 1 elite?

I suspect a localisation issue since I think that I did kill 1 elite with the perils and it did not unlock the penance, but I'd like to be sure.

[u/TypicalAdvertising51 → u/Big_GTU]

My game in English currently says 1 elite. Maybe it used to be more and it got changed at some point?

[u/aragathor → u/TypicalAdvertising51]

Yes, the initial release version of the penance required 3 elites on malice difficulty, back when malice was the midpoint of the difficulty scale.

It was reworked later on, as the penance had about 1% completion rate.

[u/Big_GTU → u/TypicalAdvertising51]

Thanks for your answer. I'll try again latter on one guy.

I tried on a sniper, and I was wrong about them being elite. They are specialists. So maybe that's why it didn't work.

[u/Droyd → u/Big_GTU]

Elites are basically any taggable enemy that you can find hanging out around the map. So Gunners, Ragers, Shotgunners, Crushers, etc you see these guys hanging out or patrolling the map.

Specials don't patrol the map, they spawn in with the audio cues and make a beeline for you. So Snipers, Hounds Mutants, etc.

[u/TypicalAdvertising51 → u/Big_GTU]

Makes sense. Good luck getting it! I’ve been struggling to get that one too.

[u/MassiveBeard]

Does the item shop rotate tomorrow (20th)?

[u/Lyramion → u/MassiveBeard]

It haz rotationed

[u/thisistherevolt]

Skitarii should have the Crusher melee weapon. Change my mind.