Darktide has many enemies in the game, with various enemy types you will encounter at every level. Moreso, the more you make your way through the higher difficulty levels, the more you will encounter some of the tougher and harder enemies in the game. Here is a quick look at the Darktide enemies and enemy types in the game broken down by the game keywords, along with some useful tidbits about them.

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Here is a look at the Dartkide enemy types, their keywords, and other handy information. Image via Fatshark.

Darktide Enemy Types¶

The full list of enemies at the time of writing is as follows.

The enemies you will encounter in the hordes, and the occasional specialist spawn will be the infected enemies. These enemies are the bread and butter of any slumbering hordes cramped into a room like a pack of zombies, or those often featured in hordes. These enemies are typically the least armored and low hp enemies, so aim for the heads for one-shots on most difficulties (presuming you have the weapon power level to one-shot them) Moreso, every infected enemy will apply corruption if they break your toughness and begin to deal damage. The Plague hound is very good at this. Hordes, not so much, but if the toughness breaks, then the infected Pox Walker enemy can wrack up attacks quite quickly when in large numbers.

The vast majority of enemies you will come across are the Scabs and the Dregs, these enemies have a very basic ranged and melee unit, and both share more or less the same specialist enemies. Unyielding enemies begin to appear around difficulty level 2, and become much more common the higher you climb. These enemies are typically marked by their yellow cultist clothes, and the Scabs by their Militarum looking thin plate gear.

Specialist Enemies in Darktide¶

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Specialists are your enemy types with their names and roles to play against you. Image via Fatshark.

Specialist enemies is a key term in Darktide, which simply means units specialising in a role. These are your Left for Dead-like classes, with the Bomber, Trapper, Rager, Mauler, Shotgunner, Sniper, and Flamer all considered the specialists in those forces. Each of these specialists have purpose, which is either to burst down our toughness, and then deal big burst damage to your health, such as the Shotgunner and Sniper. Meanwhile, the likes of the Flamer Bomber, and Gunner will try to control the battlefield, either by creating hazard zones, or suppressing your movement and aim. Then you have the prio targets like Trappers and Maulers, who will easily take a player out by trapping them or slamming their heavy Chainaxe top of you. These are the enemies you need to dodge and focus on to make sure you don’t lose a player easily.

Depending on the difficulty and the potential condition you’re playing, you will start encountering Unyielding enemies. This is another keyword of enemies marked by the Ogryn who have joined the chaos forces. These enemies tend to wear Flak armor at a minimum, but are also the Carapace enemy type, especially the Reaper. These enemies have the highest toughness, HP and armor resistance. Make sure you have your armor pen weapons or weapons with specials that can do big burst like Force Swords, Chainswords, Plasma gun, or Bolters to shred these guys. Otherwise, they’ll take a lot of heavy attacks before they go down.

Monstrosities in Darktide¶

Monstrosities in Darktide are your main random spawns. They can come anytime, have lots of health, and disrupt your gameplay. In easier missions, these enemies will throw you around the place or devour you, but they are relatively easy to handle. However, with solid weakpoint bursts, you will find the bosses are relatively easy to handle.

The other notable boss like enemy is the preset assassination bosses. While these are not monstrosities, they operate similarly to the Monstrosities. They have high toughness, a large health bar, and some powerful CC effects. Like the monstrosities, these bosses are relatively easy to manage by themselves. When the hordes and reinforcements get in, and if a specialist can take you or an ally out to make things slightly harder, things get hard.