What is the Toughness Bug in Warhammer 40k Darktide?

As with most games, the Warhammer 40K: Darktide experience is quite fun but can easily be ruined by the presence of bugs. For example, the Broken Supply Lines bug can get in players' way and stop them from completing a mission entirely. However, the Toughness bug can be much more devastating because it affects the player across all instances of gameplay. The question is, what exactly is the Toughness bug, and how does one fix it?

What is the Toughness bug in Warhammer 40k Darktide?

The Toughness bug is an issue that affects the Toughness bar of characters. The Toughness bar is a bar of blue health that appears next to a character's health bar. Toughness functions like a shield bar does in other games, offering extra health with its own set of resistances and statistics separate from those that govern the health bar. Because of this, having plenty of Toughness makes a character that much harder to bring down and can make a major difference in battle.

The problem with the Toughness bug is that if a character has a Toughness stat greater than 100, the game can potentially bug out and ignore the Toughness bar, taking a character from a strong tank to a frail fighter. While the Veteran Career character typically is the only one with over 100 Toughness, certain Curios in the game can push a character's Toughness over 100, meaning the bug can affect anyone.

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How to fix the Toughness bug in Warhammer 40K Darktide

As for fixing the Toughness bug, there is no single hard fix for the issue, but there are a few methods that should fix the problem when it pops up:

• Restart the game: An old tried-and-true method for fixing gaming issues, players have reported the Toughness bug disappearing after closing and reopening Warhammer 40K: Darktide. This should be the first option you choose, but if it doesn't work, head to option two.
• Restart your gaming device: Though the issue lies within the game itself, sometimes a resetting of the system it is played on can also solve the problem.
• Uninstall/reinstall Warhammer 40K: Darktide: If options one and two don't work, the only option left would be to uninstall the game and reinstall it to get rid of any potentially corrupted files that could be causing the glitch.

If all of these options have been exhausted and the problem persists, the next best option would be to contact Warhammer 40K: Darktide developer Fat Shark's customer support.

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