Warhammer 40,000: Darktide next patch adds new missions (and possibly crossplay?)

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A hefty new Warhammer 40,000: Darktide content update arrives in the next week, adding two new missions as well as possibly preparing to let players on Steam and the Windows Store (that's you, Game Pass gang) play together. It won't fix the fundamental flaws of the grimdark Left 4 Dead 'em up but these are welcome changes. Darktide is also adding new cosmetics to earn by playing (yeah!) and resuming the release of new cosmetics sold for real money (yeahhh).

Update 10, 'Rejects Unite', is due to launch "towards the end of" Games Workshop's Warhammer Skulls event, which runs from today through Thursday the 1st of June. The headline feature is two new missions: raiding archives and offices in Archivum Sycorax - Throneside, and yoinking crystals from a transit hub in Ascension Riser 31 - Transit.

That second one will initially be locked behind a community challenge, requiring players to collectively complete 1,400,000 missions. That sounds high but I assume developers Fatshark have calculated it's achievable within a reasonable timeframe. To help hit that dizzying goal, playing on higher difficulty levels will count as more completions.

A new enemy is in too, the Chaos Spawn. You might recognise this warped mess of meat and tentacles from Vermintide 2, now tweaked to fit its new home. Fatshark explain, "Changes from VT2 include a new leap attack to close distances faster, new combo animations to reinforce the erratic frenzy theme, tweaked existing attack animations to reduce some of the fast damage timings, and new grab animations to fit our Ogryns."

A new shop has opened on the ship to house the game's earnable hats and trousers and such, with new cosmetics in now too. And "after a break spent to focus on improving