Damn, you’ve summarized basically everything I’ve felt as an old Vermintide fan that started playing Darktide with the beta. The tide games have always been about combat feel to me and the moment to moment gameplay in Darktide is so crunchy and satisfying that the negative reaction has been a bit mindboggling. Performance issues and missing systems suck for sure, but people have been reacting with a level of fury I haven’t seen since Payday 2 announced their paid skins would have stat buffs.