Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Adds Tech-Priest Skitarii Class
Today, the creators of the cooperative action game Warhammer 40,000: Darktide from the Swedish studio Fatshark delighted the audience with a new DLC drop: a playable Tech-Priest Skitarii. This follower of the Machine God arrives with deep skill customization and an assortment of weapons — electrical rods, blinding phosphor blasters, cutting transonic blades, and heavy galvanic rifles. On the field it carries an adaptive servo-skull (i.e., a hovering drone) that attacks foes and gathers combat data; leveling up unlocks the "Blitz" ability, which summons alternate servo-skulls with differing capabilities.
The Alpha-Primus Skitarii are operatives forged by ritual and hardware—half implant, half zeal. The game's nonlinear talent tree resists one-size-fits-all builds: you can focus the chassis into a cold sniper, turn it into a blade-wielding battering ram, or configure it as a short-range electrical terror (try odd pairings, e.g., long-range optics with close-combat mods). Though steeped in Adeptus Mechanicus doctrines, each unit is its own thing. Assemble your Skitarii by picking materials and augmentation schematics, then select a forge world as provenance. Four voice options are available; tweak modulation to make the character sound right to you.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is available on PC (Steam, Microsoft Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series, and it's on Game Pass. The Valve store lists 130,000+ reviews, about 71% positive — not a unanimous verdict, but a lot of players have weighed in.