You don’t get a lot of time to get to know the enemies in Warhammer 40K Darktide, because like other Left 4 Dead-inspired co-op games, the object is to mow them down as quickly as you possibly can.
But Darktide co-writer Dan Abnett, who’s also the author of many popular 40K novels, says the ominous figures emerging from the shadows in the Tertium underhive do have a story, and it’s a sad one.
There’s a new post by Abnett up on the Darktide Steam page, and it explains the background behind some of the enemies we’ll be facing when the Warhammer 40K: Darktide release date rolls around in August.
Many of them are humans corrupted by chaos, including a regiment of some of the Imperium’s finest troops, the Moebian Sixth.
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