Darkest Dungeon

watching 5 sec, hearing some generic music, wtf? Stuart Chatwoods music is so great, and they use some Ersatz music… hope the rest is good. But it shows, the makers of this documentary don’t have enough taste ;(

Thanks for the link! I saw that the other day but then quickly forgot about it.

It’s… pretty dry stuff. The NoClip docs are a lot more dynamic than this.

It highlights one thing I think was really important for their success: the team put out the best damn teaser trailer I’ve ever seen. It really nails the visual style, the writing and the mood. It’s pretty easy to get people on board after that.

EDIT: Oh, so this is the guy I spent all those bug report emails to.

Early Access coming at some point in 2021. Looks like it’s on Epic.

I…LOVE IT!

Gods, this ooozes atmosphere in its finest sense. I love what they do with the narration.

Well, hate to be critical, but Darkest Dungeon II is really something of a misnomer. How about Even Darker Dungeon™? Darkerest Dungeon™? Previously not, but now Darkest Dungeon™? Darkest Remaining Dungeon™?

Of course, they could switch it up some: Darkest Catacombs™, or Darkest Tomb™, Darkest Crypts™. They could make it a Darkest Franchise™! Dark Places Matter™!

I know, i know. I’m really sorry about the last one, but once i went to darkest franchise, i felt i had to make the joke.

More seriously though, I love the series and this is great news about extending it, but i hate the epic store. I should love it, but i dont and find it an awkward mess. It’s that well-meaning but weird uncle that keeps giving you things you dont want and never use and you can’t get over that enough to let him know that he should really zip up his fly more often.

Ehhh, maybe it’s the same dungeon?

There’s already a Darkest Dungeon II topic, this is worth a thread necro:

Oddly enough, the first teaser trailer had Mountains of Madness written all over it. This one looks more like post-apocalypse in the city. The style seems to have changed quite a bit.

Fear not, you aren’t! The word you are looking for is pedantic. :)

Aaaah! My mistake! You’d be surprised how far down the search list I had to go to find THIS thread! That one didn’t even show up.

That would explain the new narrator they went with in the trailer.

“I couldn’t help but wonder. Was mortality really clarified in a single strike?”

Probably one of the nicer things i’ve been called, and certainly is one of the better ped-related accusations. So, thank you sir!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1162110258/darkest-dungeon-the-board-game/description

my, we’ve certainly come a long way since 'bank error in your favor!"

Once again I’m in that place of ‘I really want to play a new game but I don’t have the time to invest in learning a new game’ so I then reinstall a game I know. Using the Radiant version I’m nine days in and inadvertently took on the Sonorous Prophet. I say inadvertent because I was planning to do a short Warrens run but had been considering taking on the prophet but neglected to change from that mission to the Warrens mission before embarking.

So I had the wrong load out with apprentice vestal, graverobber, bounty hunter and hellion. Too early in the game to have upgraded any of their skills or gear. But I thought what the heck, let’s try this. And early in the dungeon I located a secret room and then there was no turning back. I’m rusty at the game and was never very good to begin with, but this fight came down to the wire.

Because this crew was not constructed to all hit the back row, they had to whittle away at the prophet and chop through the pews. The vestal was the first to fall, then the bounty hunter then the hellion. The graverobber was at death’s door with no HP, but the Prophet was down to 3 HP and had like 8 HP of stacked blight and bleed damage. So it came down to which one rolled initiative and the graverobber won and lived to tell the tale.

Moments like that keep me hooked until I rage quit. Love to hate this game.

I have a couple of level 4-6 heroes … took me some time to get there. I fear to play on and to lose them. Maybe I should try radiant mode at some point.

Radiant mode is slightly less grind, IMO.

I learned the hard way that a more successful strategy is to focus initially on building out the infrastructure of the hamlet and until that is done my seekers are all just disposable mules that go below to haul back the crests, deeds, portraits, etc necessary to upgrade the facilities. I don’t spend much on the seekers early game, and I dismiss ones that build up too many negative quirks.

Once the hamlet is sufficiently upgraded I then start to invest in the teams necessary to take out higher level bosses and spending money to repair and upgrade seekers. It is at that point that I get frustrated that I’m losing those seekers [usually to my carelessness] and I rage quit, take a break and a few months later I come back to the game.

I got this free on epic, but it of course did not include the DLC. Ancestral Edition is $8 on PSN right now. What’s the consensus on how necessary the DLC is? Crimson Court looks cool (never enough vampires).

None of the DLC is necessary, and for someone new to game I would recommend playing without DLC even if you have it until you have a handle on the game systems.

Yeah, Crimson Court adds some cool stuff but also adds one mechanic in particular that is more than a little bit infuriating. I liked it and thought it was worth it but frankly the base game is a better design on its own, and if I hadn’t played a hundred hours with it already I’d just as well have gone without the DLC.

All right, cool, I’ll skip em then.

Here’s the thing: Crimson Court will just kill you, and it won’t feel bad about it, either. I see it as a way for experts to test their mettle. The new character is good independently, though, as are the districts for the Hamlet.