Darktide Patch 1.13.0 Begins Rolling Out Before the Depths of the Damned Update

The free update will arrive at 14:00 CEST on September 29 with a three-mission story campaign, the Spillway mission, a new boss, six weapon variants, and a major balance pass.

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An industrial passage with hanging chains, corroded surfaces, and orange lights in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Patch 1.13.0 is now rolling out on all platforms, while the Depths of the Damned free update will release later on September 29 at 14:00 CEST. Fatshark published the full Steam patch notes, covering the new campaign content, weapon additions, class changes, performance work, and a long list of fixes. The update follows the earlier Golden Toughness and class-build preview, which detailed the planned Golden Toughness changes, talent-tree revisions, and weapon balance work before the full patch notes became available.

Once the free content arrives, strike teams will enter the three-mission Terrors of the Deep mini-campaign. Its final mission, Spillway, sends players beneath the Torrent to face the new Prophet of Decay boss. The update also adds six weapon variants, including the Krourk Mk IIa Cruncher, Huntsman’s Shotgun Accatran Mk III, Double-Barrelled Shotgun Krourk Mk IV, and Thugshot Lorenz Mk VII.

Combat builds will need a closer look too. Golden Toughness is losing its Spillover Immunity, the original four classes are receiving talent-tree changes, Skitarius is getting targeted tuning, and Thunder Hammers are receiving one of the largest weapon passes in the update. Players may need to make partial loadout adjustments when the revised talent trees break existing connections.

Darktide mission area beneath the Torrent

Warhammer 40,000 Darktide Patch 1.13.0

Depths of the Damned content

The update adds the Terrors of the Deep Story Mini-Campaign, a connected series of three missions. The first two missions take place in Consignment Yard and Enclavum Baross, while the final mission takes players into Spillway.

Spillway is a new mission set in the sewers beneath an ancient dam. Players will aid the Ragged King, clear out the Traitorous Sixth, and confront the Prophet of Decay, a powerful Psyker of Nurgle.

New weapons

Krourk Mk IIa Cruncher, available to Ogryn.
Krourk Mk VII Crusher, available to Zealot and Arbites.
Gromm Mk I Battle Maul and Mk V Slab Shield, available to Ogryn.
Huntsman’s Shotgun Accatran Mk III, available to Veteran, Zealot, Psyker, and Hive Scum.
Double-Barrelled Shotgun Krourk Mk IV, available to Veteran, Zealot, Psyker, Arbites, and Hive Scum.
Thugshot Lorenz Mk VII, available to Ogryn.

Features and tweaks

Performance

AMD FSR MLD update
- Updated to AMD FSR SDK 2.3.0, which includes several ML-based rendering improvements.
- Added a new Reflection Denoiser option for ray-traced reflections on certain GPUs: AMD FSR Ray Regeneration, an alternative to the existing NRD denoiser. It can be selected in the Video settings menu when Ray Traced Reflections are enabled, and is designed to reduce noise in reflections.
Updated Nvidia Streamline to version 2.12.0
- This version gives general stability improvements and enhanced resource and frame tracking.

General Changes

Added End Of Round statistics.
- Pressing the corresponding button during the end of a mission, default Tab / L3, will show a breakdown of various stats from your actions during the last mission, as well the entire team’s.
Expeditions
- Higher difficulties will now spawn more Tech-Remnants. The higher the difficulty, the more Tech-Remnants will spawn.
- Increased experience, mastery, and ordo docket rewards for completing Expeditions, scaled with the number of Tech-Remnants extracted.
- Tweaked Pacing Manager settings for Expeditions.
- The amount of crafting materials spawned now varies between zones. Later zones will have more, with a sharp increase on the last one.
- Expedition Extraction rewards are now increased based on the number of players that successfully extract.
  - 2 players = +10%, 3 players = +15%, 4 players = +20%.
- Players should no longer inherit damage from Bots when hotjoining into an Expeditions mission.
- Sand Dust particles are toned down in Expeditions missions during the Dawn condition.
- When hotjoining into an Expeditions mission, you will now inherit Salvage that the team gathered during the current location.
- Players that reconnect to a live Expeditions mission are given back any Salvage they earned before leaving.
- Expeditions luggable loot, such as Data Reliquaries, now becomes tracked on the Auspex when a player picks it up.
Added more detailed Operator Stats in the Loadout and Talents screen.
- Pressing the corresponding button, default W / LT / L2, while in the Loadout or Talents screen shows detailed current stats for your Operator, taking into account currently equipped gear, talents and passives.
Adjusted framing of portrait Frames to show more of the face and headgear and less of the neck.
Adjusted framing of Ogryn portrait Frames to be slightly less zoomed in.
The Servo Skull companion has been added to the Skitarius class selection screen.
Improved the visuals of the voice modulation visualization in the Skitarii Voxcaster customization step.
Locked campaign missions will now only display the last unlocking step needed, unless the steps can be completed independently.
If you are hit during the throwing animation of an objective item, you now keep throwing the item instead of dropping it.
Updated the Hive Scum Battering Momentum talent description to better reflect the Cleave increase being applied to both melee and ranged attacks.
Skitarii’s Advanced Combat Doctrines now always aims towards the head of a Chaos Spawn.
Added additional tagging validation to prevent Tagging on enemies not near the point of the player’s aim.
Slightly reduced memory use in various menus.
Added various improvements on loadout presets to improve validation of missing items or talents, as well as how they store the loadout information.
Added the ability to rate a mission during the End of Round screen. Thumbs up if you enjoyed the match!

Quality of Life Changes

Controllers: Added Gyro Controls
- PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 controllers can now manipulate the camera by tilting the controller when the setting is turned on, Motion Sensor Function, in the Controller settings menu. You can also fine tune various settings, choose which contexts the controls kick in, and quick flick options.
Social Menu Improvements
- When looking at your friends in the Social menu, players on the same platform that are offline or haven’t selected a character yet will now show their profile picture.
- Steam: You can now open other players’ Steam profiles directly from the Social menu.
Allowed deselecting any talent in the Talent Tree. Any orphaned talent will flash red.
- This should also improve the partial reset feature when talent tree layouts are adjusted by a balance patch.
The Starting Node of the Talent Trees can now be hovered to view your class Iconic Passives.
Added the Beast of Nurgle, Plague Ogryn, Chaos Spawn, Ogryn Pack Master, and Armoured Pox Hound enemies to the Meat Grinder.
Improved input handling to be more reliable when switching between weapons.
Reduced the chance of randomizing the same preset or name twice in a row in the character creation screen.
Claiming a Penance no longer blocks user input until backend communication is done.

Balance changes

Patch 1.13.0 removes Spillover Immunity from Golden Toughness, which means it will now follow the same damage calculation rules as regular Toughness. A single point of Toughness will no longer fully absorb the damage of an otherwise lethal attack.

Spillover immunity – Removed
Voice of Command – Duty and Honour
- Toughness Bonus 50 -> 75
Chorus of Spiritual Fortitude
- See Zealot Changes
Poxbursters
- Explosion Damage now falls off based on distance.
  - 20% of full damage at the edge (6m)
  - 100% of full damage within 3m
Snipers
- Damage Spillover reduced by 50%.
Ogryn Crushers
- Lowered chance to target players that are already overwhelmed
Scab Mauler
- Slightly reduced the rate at which they utilize their overhead attack

Ogryn

Base Toughness increased from 75 -> 125
Towering Presence
- Now Baseline
- Coherency Radius 75% -> 50%
Dominate
- Rending 10% -> 15%
Keep Shooting
- Reload Speed bonus increased from 15% -> 20%.
Soften Them Up
- Enemy Damage Taken 10% -> 15%
Go Again!
- 2% Cooldown -> 1.5%
Maximum Firepower
- Duration 4s -> 2.5s
Bruiser
- Cooldown Regen 100% -> 50%
- Duration 3s -> 4s
Indomitable
- Cooldown 30s -> 25s
- Subnodes now moved to no longer be exclusive, and all branch directly from the Ability
Found Some More – New
- Replenish 1% Ammo every 15s.

Zealot

Base Toughness
- 100 -> 125
Faithful Frenzy
- Now also grants 5% Movement Speed
Blood Redemption
- Now baseline
- Toughness Bonus from Kills 100% -> 75%
Until Death reimagined as a Core Keystone
- During the effect you are Unkillable.
- Duration 6s -> 8s
Got Your Back – New
- Killing an enemy that is targeting an ally, with a melee attack, restores 7.5% Toughness to that ally and an additional 5% to yourself.
Holy Tools – New
- +20% Damage on your next Melee Attack, within 5s after activating your Weapon Special.
Wait in Line – New
- -20% damage taken from ranged attacks.
Purifying Hatred – New
- +15% damage vs Burning or Electrocuted enemies.
Chorus of Spiritual Fortitude
- Adds bonus toughness when the player is at Full Toughness -> Always adds
- Pulses 7 -> 5
- After the first tick, only enemies within 8m are staggered/suppressed
- Invulnerable -> Unkillable

Psyker

Base Critical Chance
- Increased from 7.5% -> 10%.
Mind in Motion
- Now also provides 5% Movement Speed.
Tranquility Through Slaughter – Removed
Focused Warp – New
- +15% Warp damage.
Peril Equilibrium – New
- Non-Warp melee/ranged hits generate Peril up to 75% by 2% per hit.
Psykinetic Grip – New
- +20% damage for Brain Rupture, Smite, and Assail.
Psykinetic’s Aura
- Specialist/Elite Kills from you or allies in coherency -> from you only
- Duration 5s -> 3s.
Perilous Combustion
- Stacks 3 -> 2
Surety of Arms
- Peril threshold 75% -> 80%.

Veteran

Base Toughness 100 -> 120
Base Stamina Regeneration Delay 0.75 -> 0.5
Duck and Dive
- Now also grants 5% Movement Speed.
Guardsman – New Iconic Passive
- +25% Ranged Damage
Practiced Efficiency – New Iconic Passive
- Elite and Specialist kills restore 1% Ammo. 5s cooldown.
Survivalist
- Ammo Restore Base 0.75% -> 0.25%
- Ammo Restore Improved 1% -> 0.5%
Close and Kill
- Movement Speed 5% -> 7.5%
Deadshot
- Stamina drained per second 0.75 -> 0.33
Voice of Command
- Duty and Honour: Toughness 50 -> 75

Arbites

Nuncio-Aquila
- Tap/Fast Deploy will now slowly follow the Arbitrator.
Lone Wolf, no Cyber-Mastiff Keystone
- Damage bonus 10% -> 20%

Hive Scum

Rampage
- Strength 50% -> 35%
Sample Collector
- 1%/2% -> 0.5s/1s
Street Tough
- Now triggers on non-disabling specialist melee attacks.

Skitarius

Advanced Combat Doctrines
- Ability now includes 25% Reload Speed for 5s after use.
Readiness Doctrines – Removed
Chordclaw Strike – Axial Slash Subnode
- Damage: 500 -> Scaling from 500 to 300 over 6 targets
- Impact: 100 -> Scaling from 100 to 50 over 6 targets
Voltaic Emitter
- Voltaic Motivator – Attack Speed now scales with Charges used: 5% + 5% per Charge spent
- Voltaic Overcharge – Toughness on use 25% -> 25% per Charge used
Higher Purpose
- Capacitance 5% -> 2.5%
Noospheric Command
- Capacitance Cost 25% -> 30%
Voltaic Burst
- Cooldown 15s -> 12s
Ammunition Deposit
- Ammo Bonus 10% -> 15%
System Shock
- Stacks 4 -> 3
Galvanized Coating
- Cost on hit 5% -> 7.5%
Target-Neutralization
- Duration 4s -> 5s
Salvation Doctrine
- Revive Speed 20% -> 25%
- Damage Reduction 20% -> 25%
Superior Tracking Litanies
- Spread reduction 30% -> 45%
Force Distributors Actuators
- Stamina threshold 75% -> 50%

Weapon balance changes

Ogryn Slab Shield and Battle Maul
- Increased Light Relentless profile damage on 2nd and 3rd targets
- Updated the Pushfollow attack profile to be aligned to other Light Strikedown attacks
- Added Melee Block properties during Heavy 2 windups
- Slightly lowered the chain time from Push to Pushfollow attack
- Added chain to Special Shield plant from Pushfollow attack
- Changed chain out of Light 4 from Light 1 / Heavy 1 to Light 3 / Heavy 1
- Light 3 and Light 4 will now loop between themselves, gaining +10% attack speed
- Tweaked hitboxes and ranges for some attacks
Relic Blade Sprint Heavy Stab
- Lowered the baseline performance of the Heavy stab attack on Sprint, and added a Melee Power bonus stacking up over time while Sprinting
- Up to 3 Stacks of +8% Melee Strength, max +24%
- Lowered the Unyielding ADM for the attack profile
- Normal from 1.2 to 1.1
- Special Activated from 1.5 to 1.33
Thunder Hammers
- Rebalanced the Thrust Blessing.
- Lowered the Thrust blessing values from +5/10/15/20% (max +15/30/45/60%) to +5/7.5/10/12.5% (max +15/22.5/30/37.5%)
- Added an inherent Melee Strength bonus stacking when charging any Heavy windup
- Up to 3 stacks of +12.5% Melee Strength, max +37.5%
- Shock and Awe Blessing: Increased duration from 2s to 3s
- Light Strikedown Plus: Cleave from single to double
- Crucis mark: Increased speed for Light 1 by around 15%
- Ironhelm mark: Increased speed for Special Activate actions by around 20%
- Ironhelm mark: Added alternative Light after push with Light Strikedown plus profile
- Ironhelm mark: Increased range and hitbox for Pushfollow attack
On Perfect Block Blessings
- Counterattack: Trigger from On Perfect Block to just On Block
- Counterattack: Duration from 5s to 6s
- Energy Transfer: Trigger from On Perfect Block to just On Block
- Lightning Reflexes: Trigger for the Melee Strength bonus from On Perfect Block to just On Block
- The Stun part of the Blessing will still be triggered On Perfect Block
Ogryn Pickaxe
- Added Shield Breaker tag to Heavy Vanguard and Heavy Strikedown
Crowbar
- Added Shield Breaker to both initial and second sticky attacks
Combat Axes
- Added Allowed during Sprint to all attacks and attack starts
Achlys Mk VIII
- Added Shield Breaker tag to Heavy Strikedown and Special Uppercut
- Added a new Light 2 attack
- Added power level 550 to Heavy 3 and Light 4
Dual Shivs, Duelling Swords
- Slightly increased the minimum time for the Block action
Fix for swap/sprint cancel exploits
- Added a minimum enforced time before some attack actions can be repeated.
- Affecting the following weapon families: Force Staves, Shivs, Bone Saw, Relic Blade, Shock Maul, Arbites Shock Maul, Arbites Shock Maul and Shield, Force Sword, Force Greatsword, Duelling Sword, Combat Axe, Tactical Axe, and Eviscerator
The Blazing Spirit Blessing now has a separate stack value for the Blaze Force Greatswords Warp Slash Special attack, scaling from 1 to 3 through Blessing tiers.

Fixes

General fixes

Fixed an issue where the Skitarii Chordclaw Strike ability could be used without consuming Capacitance.
Fixed an issue where the game could freeze if a friend joined the Strike Team, if the account had a very large amount of friends.
Fixed instances where a player could drop into an ongoing vox conversation as they loaded into the Mourningstar.
Fixed an issue in Expeditions where the team’s Salvage amounts could be displayed incorrectly for the local player.
Fixed an issue that caused Corruptor pustules to incorrectly mark themselves as targets when destroyed.
Placing Mines now only plays the drop animation if placement is possible.
Fixed Arbites’ Soulguilt Scan, Veteran’s Marksman and Ogryn’s Strike True talents increasing Stagger strength to non-weakspot hits.
Fixed an issue where the description of some talents would not appear in the Tactical Overlay.
Fixed Zealot’s Master-Crafted Shroudfield appearing twice in the Tactical Overlay.
Fixed an issue where electrocution from the Arc Maul Blessings Lightning Reflexes and Overwhelming Force would not trigger the System Shock talent.
Fixed an issue where the Arc Maul’s innate electrocution effect would trigger the System Shock talent only on the first hit.
Fixed an issue where the Hive Scum Stimm Spur V talent would not correctly give the Slow and Stun immune keywords.
Fixed an issue where the Medicae Crate could not be pinged after deployment.
Fixed instances where players or enemies could fail to display outlines.
Fixed an issue where a Heavy Attack could be reset to a Light Attack after using an Ability such as the Zealot’s Fury of the Faithful.
Fixed an issue where an objective could be triggered twice in the Clandestium Gloriana mission.
Fixed misplaced batteries for the Medicae Stations in the No Man’s Land and Vigil Station Oblivium missions.
Fixed an issue where players could get stuck behind machinery in the Ascension Riser 31 mission.
Fixed navigation issues in several missions that could cause players to get outside the intended gameplay space.
Fixed incorrect plus sign instead of minus sign in the description of the Focused Cooling weapon Blessing.
- Dev Note: this is a display only change, the gameplay is not affected.
Fixed an issue where some weapons failed to trigger the correct visual effects when hitting Infested enemies.
Fixed an issue where player names could fail to appear in cutscene subtitles.
Fixed an issue in Comms-Plex 154/2F where walking too close to a fence would cause ledge hanging.
Fixed an issue where changing eye type in the character creator or Barber-Chirurgeon would reset the selected eye colour to the first option.
Fixed an issue where corners in the character creation and Inventory screens did not use Forge World specific colours when playing as Skitarius.
Fixed an issue where some crosshairs, most noticeable on the Plasma Gun, were too narrow or wide after using the Chordclaw Strike Ability.
Fixed an issue where the Psyker’s Telekine Shield Ability would not block projectiles at its extreme edges.
Added the appropriate braced keywords to weapon families that previously had them missing, causing talents that rely on bracing to not work.
Fixed an issue where Hive Scum’s Hyper Critical talent triggering would prevent Blinder/Blackout Blitz stacks from building up.
Fixed a UI issue where the line drawn from the starting node to Hive Scum’s top-most talent overshot the talent when filled.
Fix a rare server crash which could occur when interacting with something while wielding the Arbites Exterminator Shotgun.
Fixed a visual issue where Penances remained claimable after claiming them in the categories menus.
Fixed a rare crash occurring when entering the keybinds screen.
Fixed an issue where Hive Scum’s Adrenaline Smiter talent would fail to grant a stack if the enemy was killed by a sticky attack.
Fixed an issue where the progress towards replenishing a Blinder/Blackout Blitz for Hive Scum would not be visible in the buff icons UI area in some missions.
Fixed an issue where the Plasma Gun’s Optimised Cooling Blessing description incorrectly mentioned Charge Speed instead of Heat generation.
Fixed the Skitarii’s Slice and Dice talent missing description in the Tactical Overlay.
Fixed the Valkyrie intro dialogue for the Sefoni and Morrow versions of Ascension Riser 31.
Fixed a rare crash that occurred when changing nameplate settings during a mission.
Fixed an issue where Toughness Replenishment effects could be applied to players multiple times from a single Hive Scum Stimm Field.
Fixed an issue where Hive Scum’s Adrenaline Frenzy talent would remove move speed penalties from melee weapon attacks.
Fixed an issue where the companion name was getting randomized instead of getting the actual name when performing a Personality Scourge at the Barber-Chirurgeon.
Scab and Dreg Vanguard: Fixed an issue where staggering these two enemies with player abilities would result in the wrong stagger being played.

Cosmetic fixes

Fixed implant cosmetics to better blend with different skin tones.
Fixed gap between headgear and hair on Witchhunter’s Hat.
Rudimentary Eyepiece With Bandana now correctly shows the eyepiece.
Fixed hair clipping on Hood of Merciless Faith.
Fixed harsh shadow on Templar’s Flak Vest.
Fixed beards clipping through the face scarf on Vostroyan Hat with Scarf.
Changed the voice filter on the Arbitrator Castigator Hood cosmetic.
Fixed hair clipping on the Penitent’s Hood cosmetic.
Fixed harsh shadow on the left shoulder and straps of the Tanker Commander’s Battlegear upper body cosmetic.
Fixed harsh shadow on the left shoulder and straps of the Templar’s Flak Vest cosmetic.
Reduced facial hair clipping on the Obscurus Psychic Hood cosmetic.
Reduced hair clipping on the Witchhunter’s Hat cosmetic.
Added missing sound effects to the Faithbound Flak Vest cosmetic.

Known issues

New Penances related to Spillway mention finishing missions on Damnation on the Auric mission board, when it should instead mention finishing missions on Auric on the Maelstrom mission board.
New Penances related to Spillway mention the Sedition difficulty that no longer exists.

Which part of Patch 1.13.0 will change your next Darktide build most, the Golden Toughness adjustments, the class reworks, or the weapon balance pass? Share your take in the comments, and follow us on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.

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