Hey Everyone, 

At the end of last year, we told players we’d be bringing out four main updates to Warhammer 40,000: Darktide in 2025. It’s time to announce our first release – Nightmares & Visions – will be released across all our platforms on March 25, 2025.

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What can players look forward to for Nightmares & Visions?

As part of expanding content in Darktide, we’re introducing a new activity for players prepared by the enigmatic Sefoni. Similar to Havoc, we’ve got a dev blog typed up to share with everyone.

• New game activity - Mortis Trials: mash through waves of enemies in visions induced by the ship’s Psyker. Each time you venture into the Sefoni’s visions, you will be able to build new and exciting playstyles by selecting between abilities and buffs for the duration of the trial. By overcoming the Mortis Trials, players will unlock secret information on some characters present on the Mourningstar. 

For the last few updates, players might’ve noticed we always include an event to go out with a new Darktide update. For Nightmares & Visions, we designed an event to celebrate Mortis Trials.

• Time-Limited Special Event: following the release of Nightmares & Visions, Darktide will be hosting a special event focusing on playing Mortis Trials. 

We mentioned we would be continuing to work on Havoc, and that’s part of the work we’ve included for this update. The process included going through a lot of player feedback. For this first update to Havoc, the difficulty for Havoc has been upped and we reassessed the ranking system. A dev blog to outline the changes is on the way!

• Havoc mode gets a refresh: the end-game experience testing the resolve of the most seasoned operative reaches a new juncture with improvements and new daunting challenges in the form of four new mutators.

Since the update at the end of last year, we’ve heard it from the fans of the Big Guy. We’ve reworked the Ogryn Talent Tree, in addition to tweaking a few of his weapons. A preview dev blog has been put together to share off the planned changes, like we did before the Unlocked & Loaded update. Players can expect this preview dev blog to be shared at the end of this week!

• And more! The Ogryn class is getting his Talent Tree revamped, giving players more build opportunities. We will also be bringing a few balancing changes as well as general improvements made to the game.

To wrap up, Nightmares & Visions is our next major update rolling out across our platforms on March 25, 2025.

We’ve got more information to come and dev blogs lined up! The Ogryn Talent Tree Rework blog is first (this week), and we’ll follow up with more blogs talking about the upcoming changes to Havoc and a proper introduction to Mortis Trials, too. We’re also working on some dev streams! 

We’ll see you on the Mourningstar.

– The Darktide Team

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