New Skitarii Class Out Now!

Darktide’s third Class DLC is out now! Rising above the shackles of the flesh, the Skitarii have been rebuilt with the divine augments of the Adeptus Mechanicus to best serve the Omnissiah, as an impossibly efficient tool of war.

Arm your Skitarius Alpha Primus with deadly Adeptus Mechanicus weapons! Rip your enemies apart with melee weapons such as the Mechanicus Power Sword, the Paired Transonic Blades or the Arc Maul. Decimate the enemies of the Omnissiah at range with weapons such as the Arc Rifle and the Mechanicus Phosphor Blast Pistol, or assassinate them with precision with the Galvanic Rifle.  

This class also features a unique talent tree layout built for extreme versatility, and unique customization options! See under the robes of the Adeptus Mechanicus, choose from four distinct personalities and even customize your voice!

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Hadron has been granted access to an ancient Adeptus Mechanicus facility in the wastes outside Tertium. This Alpha Primus Shrine grants her the ability to upgrade veteran Skitarii warriors into Skitarii Alpha Primus: elite combatants with access to a vast array of specialised weaponry and blessed with superior combat protocols, allowing them enough freedom to operate alongside warband strike teams.

As a Skitarii you have a wide variety of options in how you wish to customize your talent tree. It is the first Talent Tree that starts from the center, and lets you expand your build in any direction. You will have more nodes to choose from than from any previous Class.

Let us quickly go through the more impactful choices you can make in the Talent Tree.

Your Abilities are powered by your Motive Engine. You have 3 Base Charges. Abilities require at least 1 Charge to be activated, and can spend up to 3 charges.

Generate 2% Capacitance each second. At 100% Capacitance you generate 1 Charge and the Capacitance is reset. You also generate 2% Capacitance on Kills, increased to 4% on Elite and Specialist Kill.

Voltaic Expander

Your base Ability. Uses up to 3 Charges.

Unleash an Electric Discharge around you. Enemies within 6m are Electrocuted for 2s, Stunning them and dealing damage

Using the ability at 2 charges extends the Range to 9m. Using the ability at 3 charges extends the range to 12m.

Voltaic Emitter

The improved version of Voltaic Expander. Uses up to 3 Charges.

Unleash an Electric Discharge around you. Enemies within 12m are Electrocuted for 2s, Stunning them and dealing damage.

Using the ability at 2 charges or above causes Ranged Enemies within 30m to have their weapons Malfunction for 12s.

Using the ability at 3 charges or above makes your attacks Electrocute enemies hit for 2s, dealing damage.

Chordclaw Strike

Perform a Powerful Heavy Melee Attack using a Chordclaw. The Attack is a Guaranteed Critical Strike and has +50% Rending. Uses 1 Charge.

Advanced Combat Doctrines

Spend 25% Capacitance and Swap to your Secondary Weapon. Your weapon locks onto enemies close to your targeting reticule, granting you inhuman accuracy. You gain -90% Spread and -60% Recoil for its duration.

While active, you drain 10% Capacitance per second, and an additional 1% per shot. The drain is paused while reloading.

The Ability is disabled if you switch from your Secondary Weapon, if you reach 0% Capacitance and 0 Charges, or if you reactivate it. Only usable if you have at least 1 Charge available.

When you have created your Skitarius, you will be accompanied by a Servo-Skull. If you choose, you can improve it in different ways.

The base Servo-Skull.

Equipped with a Laspistol it will shoot at your enemies, and you can order it by double-tapping your Tag input. If you encounter a Data Interrogation minigame, you can also double-tap your Tag to have your Servo-Skull solve it for you.

You can empower your Servo-Skull by using your Blitz Ability Input. For 8s it gains +100% Fire Rate, +25% Damage, its attacks apply 1 stack of Burn (Max 8), and causes the target to take +15% more damage for 5s.

16s Cooldown.

Artificer Servo-Skull

The Improved Servo-Skull. The previously temporary bonuses of your Servo-Skull are now made permanent.

Medicae Servo-Skull

You have an additional Servo-Skull equipped with Adapted Medicae Syringes. Target a Knocked Down, Hogtied, or Netted Ally to inject them. The injection Revives them, as well as granting them +75% Toughness Damage Reduction and 20% Toughness per second, for 5s.

4 Charges. Charges are shared with the Purgator Servo-Skull.

Purgator Servo-Skull

You have an additional Servo-Skull equipped with a Flamer. Target an Area to deploy it. Use your Primary Action to switch between a Dispersed or Focused Fire Mode.

4 Charges. Charges are shared with the Medicae Servo-Skull.

If you don’t wish to bring your Servo-Skull along, you can choose to swap it out for one of the following Blitz Abilities.

Arc Grenades

Throw an Arc Grenade, creating an electrical explosion that Arcs 4 times, prioritizing Armoured and Specialist Enemies, dealing massive Damage and Impact.

Charges: 3.

Integrated Refractor Emitter

Surround yourself in a shield that absorbs all incoming Ranged Damage. Lasts 8s. Upon activation and again when it ends, cause an electric explosion around you, applying Electrocution to enemies within 5m.

Charges: 3.

Resurgence

You and Allies in Coherency regenerate 25% Coherency Toughness regardless of enemy proximity.

The upgraded variant increases the Coherency Toughness percentage to 50% and increases your Toughness by +25.

Foe-Render Creed

Gain +25 Toughness. You and allies in Coherency gain +15% Cleave and 7.5% Rending.

Ammunition Deposit

Gain +25 Toughness. You and your Allies have +10% Ammo Reserve. This effect is deactivated if you die.

Redline Capacitors

Spending or gaining a Charge grants +5% Toughness Damage Reduction and +5% Capacitance generation for 12s. Stacking 4 times. Stacks decay one at a time. Additionally, you have +1 Max Ability Charges.

Power Overload

Kills by you and allies in coherency grant 1 stack of Power Overload. Elite and Specialist enemy kills grant 2 stacks. Max 30 stacks. Reaching max stacks causes an overload and reset to 0 stacks.

The overload grants you and allies in Coherency +15% Damage and +15% Toughness Damage Reduction, for 8s.

Flensing Protocols

You have up to 6 stacks of Flensing Protocols. Each stack grants +2.5% Damage and +2.5% Toughness Damage Reduction. Taking damage removes 1 stack. Can only occur once every 1s. Elite and Specialist kills restore 2 stacks and restore 15% Toughness.

• To read more about the Skitarii Talent Tree and Abilities, you can read our previous feature highlight.

• You can begin playing around with builds using the Gameslantern Builder.

“The night sky clears, and the bellows cry

May the Machine-God bless us beyond the end”

Overview

Absorbing voltaic energy in its coil with each swing, the Arc Maul is capable of releasing hi-intensity Arc lightning.

Even while not activated, this rod still has respectable Damage and a good amount of Stagger potential through its multiple Relentless and Strikedown attacks, ideal to control both hordes and larger enemies.

Additionally, each swing of the Arc Maul applies a 5s Electrocuted debuff on each enemy hit.

Against Electrocuted targets, the weapon gains a +10% Damage bonus and triggers additional Arc lightning jumps.

Weapon Special

When the weapon is not activated, Special charges are gained slowly over time and much faster upon hitting enemies in melee.

When at least one Special charge is stored, performing the Special action activates the weapon.

The attack chain is not disrupted by the activation, allowing to continue the combo.

While the Arc Maul is activated, successful attacks trigger an Arc lightning discharge on the first enemy hit by each sweep, consuming a Special charge.

Arc lightning deals a large amount of Damage and applies the Electrocuted debuff, and can jump up to 2 enemies if the previous target was already Electrocuted.

Arc lightning Damage and Impact values increase after each jump.

Additionally, a unique Push-attack is available while the Arc Maul is activated.

To read the full breakdown of this weapon, check out the full post on our forums!

“No errors. No miss.”

Overview

The exquisitely crafted and religiously maintained power weapons of the Adeptus Mechanicus don’t suffer from the common failings of other similar instruments used in the Imperium, providing instead a constant disruption field which can be channeled momentarily into devastating Energised strikes.

The moveset of this weapon features multiple stab attacks and a flow rich in quirkyness and personality, inviting rigorous precision and study from its wielder.

Weapon Special

The Mechanicus Power Sword’s energy core can store up to 6 Special charges, which are replenished over time with a short cooldown after any is used.

Each available Special charge provides a stack of +4% Melee Strength to all attacks, both standard and Energised (max +24% at full Special charges).

Pressing the Special input consumes a Special charge and initiates the next attack in the combo chain, granting it Energised properties.

Energised attacks have enhanced offensive properties, with in particular higher Damage and better Armour Damage Modifiers against all enemy armour types. 

If the Special input is released immediately, the weapon will perform a Light Special attack; if the input is held, the weapon will enter the windup for an Heavy Special attack.

If this windup is maintained for a longer period of time, the Mechanicus Power Sword will accumulate up to 4 stacks of +12.5% Melee Strength (max +50%) for the following Heavy Special attack. The animation during the windup, alongside the visual and sound effects, can be used to recognize when the maximum amount of stacks has been reached.

To read the full breakdown of this weapon, check out the full post on our forums!

“My Blades possess a 100% chance of cleaving 

straight through the material they are attuned to.”

Overview

The Transonic technology is a secret heavily guarded by the Cult Mechanicus, for in the hands of a skilled warrior these blades can cut and pierce through enemies like they weren’t there, leaving only a gory, sliced mess.

The Paired Transonic Blades are a dual-wield weapon combining a long Transonic Blade with a nimble Transonic Razor, and they can be adapted to face any kind of opposition by rapidly switching their resonant attunement between two modes: Slayer and Dueller.

Each attunement mode is targeted against a specific set of armour types, gaining enhanced offensive properties towards them (Damage, ADMs, Cleave). However, the performance against the non-attuned armour types will be diminished.

Additionally, entering each mode will switch to a different moveset, with an ample  selection of Vanguard, Assassin and Strikedown attacks.

Finally, through the Special action it is possible to switch attunement during a combo, seamlessly continuing the attack chain in the new mode.

In Slayer mode, the Light and Heavy chains consist of mostly Vanguard attacks with enormous Cleave, while the Push-attack grants access to a short Strikedown chain.

This mode is enhanced against the Unarmoured, Infested and Maniac armour types.

In Dueller mode, the Light and Heavy chains consist of mostly Strikedown attacks with high Damage and Finesse properties, while the Push-attack grants access to a short Vanguard chain.

This mode is enhanced against the Unyielding, Flak and Carapace armour types.

Weapon Special

Activating the weapon Special while not in an attack combo will swiftly toggle the current attunement between the two modes, and then return to the idle position.

If the Special input is pressed while in an attack combo, the weapon will instead toggle the attunement while entering a stance with Block properties.

If an Attack input is chained from this stance, a unique powerful followup attack will be performed.

(The Special followup attacks’ properties depend on the mode that was just entered)

To read the full breakdown of this weapon, check out the full post on our forums!

“No backpack included.”

Overview

Unleash the power of Adeptus Mechanicus Arc weaponry. A heavy electrocuting, slow firing but fully-automatic rifle. High magazine capacity but slow reload speed.

The Arc Rifle shares the Arc mechanic with the Arc Maul and Arc Grenades. Shooting a target will deal damage and mark the target with the Electrocuted debuff. If a target is hit while already Electrocuted, an Arc jump will be triggered to damage an additional target within proximity.

Primary Fire

Slow rate of fire, fully automatic

Secondary Fire

Braced stance with lowered mobility but iIncrease accuracy. Enables shots to Arc to an additional target.

Special

Bash with the Arc coil of the weapon; useful to push away close enemies.

To read the full breakdown of this weapon, check out the full post on our forums!

“*Ping*”

Overview

The Galvanic Rifle is an accurate and high powered semi-automatic rifle, with a small clip. In the right mechanical hands it can deal a great amount of damage.

Very effective when hitting weakspots.

Primary Fire

Shoots from the hip. Accurate at first shot but builds up spread when shooting quickly. Has good spread recovery so pacing your shots is advisable.

Secondary Fire

Aim down sights for pinpoint accuracy at the cost of mobility.

Special

A forward Thrust with the weapon, which can interrupt attacking enemies.

To read the full breakdown of this weapon, check out the full post on our forums!

“One does not simply wipe off phosphor.”

Overview

A mighty fine pistol. Used by the Skitarii to mark high priority targets. Limited ammunition but packs a good punch.

The Phosphor sticks to enemies, slowly and painfully burning through armour and flesh:

Hitting a target causes a minor Phosphor splash.  Targets affected by the direct hit or the Phosphor blast are more susceptible to damage and have reduced hit-mass, allowing attacks to Cleave through them more efficiently.

Primary Fire

Shoots from the hip, with decent accuracy but a fair amount of recoil.

Secondary Fire

Aim down sights for improved accuracy at the cost of mobility

Weapon Special

Bash with the grip, to quickly stagger enemies in melee range.

To read the full breakdown of this weapon, check out the full post on our forums!

To celebrate the release of this new class, the Commodore’s Vestures will see a new rotation of Premium Cosmetics with tons of goodies, including a brand new Regimental Bundle - the Mordian Iron Guard!

Drilled to perfection, uniforms crisp and medals gleaming, the Mordian Iron Guard pride themselves on their immaculate appearance and strict, disciplined drills. This isn't all show, though. These fierce warriors have gathered a reputation for efficient and effective warfare. It just doesn't hurt that they look good while doing it.

There’s also the Ecclesiarchy Faithful bundle coming with the same rotation, and plenty of other cosmetics! Make sure to check them out!

As the Battle for Tertium rages, more and more converts and zealots flock to emergent Imperial cults, throwing themselves at the enemy with curses on their lips.

That’s all for today! 

Praise the Omnissiah!

We’ll see you on the Mourningstar. 

– The Darktide Team