Darkest Dungeon

>It's another 'your favorite hireling died because you got too cocky' episode

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>not reminding yourself

>OVERCONFIDENCE IS A SLOW AND INSIDIOUS KILLER

>pay money to play game
>grind for a gorillion hours
>pay money to buy dlc
>use my current save to play new dlc
>game is completely broken and my entire roster gets wiped because new infectious disease that can only be cured by a drop doesn't drop
>devs hot fix it two days later
>the hot fix is just needing to start a new save in order to use the new dlc
>literally just wiping your old roster anyway

fake fun desu

Just use the crimson curse mods. I think it lessens the debuffs.

Also, I'm about to fight the Necromancer. What's a good lineup against him?

Anyone else wish you could just pick 4 different classes and assemble them like that. No hiring, no default heroes.

Something like Etrian Odyssey?

>breeze through the courtyard
>get squadwiped by the Crocodilian

Kind of? Just like they give a character select, you pick 4 characters, they still get all the random shit, like diseases, and character traits but I'd like to make gimmick teams.

What if they die though? The current lay out is this way because classes are meant to be replaceable. Though I'm sure someone could probably make a mod like that since this game is pretty easy to mod.

This game is much more fun now that I cheat engine myself Gold.

I had to stop playing this recently. I was really enjoying it up until I got the level five dungeons. Then the difficulty just got to be too much for me. I'd make it through a single room of a dungeon and my party would be nearly dead.

I'm just not good enough to finish this game.

If they die, you'd lose them.

Use the Bounty Hunter, he is the best character

What skills do you use on him? His pull skill is quite nice for Bosses that like to hide behind minions but his DPT is quite eh though

If you are fighting bosses have someone else do the marks for him, I preffer to use the Houndmaster for this

If you are killing grunts he is better used shuffling your enemies, he has 3 skills for that: Uppercut, Pull and Flashbang

Who else is /pain-bois/ here?

can you use your existing save file to play crimson court content?

Yes

Yeah, but expect someone to bite the dust, or worse.

>need to start new game to use hotfix

When did this happen? Doesn't the hotfix change the game files? Can't you enable the DLC at any time?

I'm considering getting this as I enjoy the game's gameplay and atmosphere.

But, is the grind still ridiculous?

>Crocodilian for the first time
>Barely scrape by with nearly everyone at death's door/afflicted
>Go back and loot shit in celebration
>Go to activate the final quest thing
>Fucking wall in the way
>Wasted my last shovel by being a greedy fuck
>Vestal dies trying to get through it
>Her death makes Dismas have a heart attack
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

There is a new baby mode,

No idea if it makes the grind easier

Radiant mode makes the grind a lot easier and it doesnt directly affect the difficulty

4 Crusaders.

no you just need a few different teams of 5
s for the final dungeon. you can cheese the whole game with arbalist/occultist/houndmaster/man at arms

>Oooh I think I'll touch this red orb!

The first time I summoned the Shambler, I didn't know what I was doing. Now, I do it for the challenge. I've lost entire parties to it, but I almost can't walk by the alter without throwing a torch in there. It's like a drug, man.

Just started Crimson Court today after only getting a little bit on pre-DLC a while back and dropping the game. How the fuck do you deal with the vampirism? It hit three of my four people really quickly and the three hive things I was looking for were nowhere to be found. I simply couldn't find the third after exhausting all pathways but one, in which Crocodilicus showed up and assfucked my exhausted party. Was this exceptional bad luck or is Crimson Court meant to be ass-reaming from the get-go?

>female characters in male roles
why bother?

I think you're meant to embrace it and make a vamp party

I just bought this. What am I in for?

I figured that I'd just hold off on the court until I have four competent but not too desirable people to send off to get infected and die quickly.

Nah, the first CC mission is just going to fuck you hard. Its doable as soon as you unlock it but its a brutal fight. Bring a slightly stronger team if you can and get ready to spread that blood around

Atmosphere
Heartbreak
Memes

>nearly everyone at death's door/afflicted
>one of them is the flagman
>crocodilian btfo

Flagellant needs to be nerfed hard. Motherfucker is too much of a badass.

Who here goes in without a healer for maximum damage?!

First enemy spawn all crit leaving your team on or near deaths door by the end of the fight.

>breeze through all 75 rooms of the second courtyard and both crocodiles
>lose half my party to the barons final hit before he dies

Unless you're the type to write down notes about video game locations and enemies you might need this:
darkestdungeon.gamepedia.com/Locations
It's still hard as fuck even with that.

The best Narration in games ever

>start the game with a really OP party comp chance
>just alternate using that party comp and lvl 1 suicide runs
>max lvl party clears everything easy as hell, little trouble in the first quest of the Darkest dungeon
>apparently it made my party into a bunch of bitches thought despite minimal struggle

And that's where I stopped, didn't want to grind a new party up to take on the next floor, let alone the next 3.

>favorite
>growing attached

These are not your friends. They are not you comrades. They aren't your resposnibility.

They are just filler-flesh that exist to line your coffers.

Sure, it's nice when one ascendes slightly above human garbage, but even then one must never forget that these people exist to die for your cause.

The true meassurement of how well you're doing in this game is your money.

>They are just filler-flesh that exist to line your coffers.
Read that as "line your coffins" at first.

How did you get that party decked out in weapons/armor/skills if you took them on expeditions every other week? With a full roster I still had to run apprentice dungeons for weeks before I could use my veteran heroes and I had to do the same thing when I got them to champion level. It's fucking retarded to try to run champion missions with only lvl 3 weapons and armor.

hows this new curse thing work?

Well that too. At least I'm keeping the grave-digger busy.

maybe it was just a random number which fucked you over?

mosquito assholes give you curse
curse acts like a drug, weakens you and eventually kills you
give them blood to satisfy them
blood makes them go berserk, buffs them but occasionally lose control
finish a mission in the new location and everyone will be cured of the curse

Jester mostly, I was using
Jester/occultist/MaA/Abomination

Abomination just shits out so much damage if you can keep him alive it's ridiculous, getting 70 damage hitting crits was becoming common place, and with the jester around I never had to waste a week solely for sanity upkeep.

Also the lvl 1 suicide runs help bring in a decent amount of money, you send them in with literally nothing.

I just bought this game yesterday and managed to get myself to taking on the Swine Prince now. Any good strats for a smooth fight?

If you have somebody who can remove marks you'll suffer a lot less.

bring a fast arbalest to clear stuns if you can
don't fucking touch Wilbur

No I'm asking how you got enough deeds and portraits to level up your hamlet. If you're running the same party repeatedly they're going to outlevel their gear fucking quick. A level 5 hero with lvl 2 gear isn't going to shit out 70 damage crits. He's going to get shit on by champion level enemies.

I'm avoiding using flagellants because they are going to be nerfed to oblivion.

Do not touch the little pig until the big pig is dead.
If you damage the little pig the big one gets a huge damage boost on his next attack.
If you pull the little pig infrotn of the big pig, he uses multi target stuns on you instead of marks, and chances are you damaged him in the process, so big pig still gets the buff.

If you kill the little pig first, big pig gets buffed permanently, doing like 30 damage per hit, and all hits are now multi target.

Occultist's damage debuff works wonders to make the boss a non-threat.

Arbalest/Musketeer with Rallying Flare/Skeet Shot and preferably some +Speed trinket. Occultist is also nice for stacking Weakening Curse.

Kill Wilbur first.

All Courtyard missions have predefined maps.

The croc is a required boss fight. The last hive is beyond the room you fight him in.

>How do you deal with vampirism

It's objectively a good thing, and if you aren't bringing a team of four vampires into every courtyard mission you're doing it wrong.

Until they make it so that you're unlikely to get more than a vial or two in an entire mission there is no downside to having ~Half your roster being vampires.

>A level 5 hero with lvl 2 gear isn't going to shit out 70 damage crits

If it's a leper with the new trinkets, he is.

>It's another 'all four enemies focus a single character and rape him in one round' rerun
It really makes you realize how powerful enemies are.


Honestly I've had this idea for PvP DD, where one player gets to create a dungeon and controls the monsters while the other explores it and fights him.

Occultist with his damage reduction curse. His massive cleaver will end up hitting like shit.

Not at first, but with MaAs in the party to block and abomination to soak up damage since he kinda acts as a "sponge" tank. Ocults damage debuff was also a life saver. Basically the entire comp is set up to be very "safe" (ironically using occultist as a healer, his items can out do his RPG for the most part)

So even on turns where they get a crti or two in a row, you can just tank the damage till you're all better, jester can also jump up to the front of it all to act as a temporary shield.

As for heirloom management, I just threw everything into guild after cart as quickly as possible, and completely ignored everything else but the blacksmith.

>it's a 'four spiders get the initiative in an Apprentice quest' rerun

It rarely happens, but someone almost guaranteedly goes home in a body bag when it does.

>throws skull at healer

>Bought the DLC
>Literally too scared to play

...Lads
I just can't do it.

what does the dlc add anyways? I haven't touched this game in over a year.

i know ill have to play it if i buy it so i havent bought it yet.

why are we like this, its a god damn video game

New class, new dungeon/location, new roaming boss, new mechanics for building the hamlet, and the crimson curse adds some new mechanics for managing your heros
It doesnt feel like a very big DLC pack but its all pretty good

it was his own decision to follow through
the damage and stress for digging bare handed occurs 100% of the time, just like the stress from losing a party member
I hate shitters like you who justify every mistake they make as simply being RNG

I'm on the fence about getting this game. Would a big fan of Souls and older JRPG's find this appealing? I'm not trying to compare it to anything but I can't really pin it's gameplay down.

>Get my first Flagellant fuck yeah get hype
>Unlock all his abilities and first level armor/weapon and camp skills
>Throw my speed trinkets on him and take him to a level 1 crypt
>First enemies are four spiders
>Surprised!
>First one spits my flagellant and marks him
>Next one attacks with mark bonus and half his health is now gone
>Next two bite him AND blight him twice, putting him on death's door
>He is first up because high speed
>DEATHBLOW
>Haven't seen another flagelator for 6 weeks

It's not fair
It's not right

>It's another 'all four enemies focus a single character and rape him in one round' rerun

>that feeling when you bring your baddest guys in what is supposed to be a simple loot run in the ruins
>suddenly bone courtiers keep splashing goblets on one of your guys dudes until he breaks
>eventually everyone goes insane

Granted I still finished the expedition but holy shit everyone of them had to visit the sanitarium for three weeks.

>Souls
Yes
>Old JRPG's
Double yes

It's literally both of these things combined, turn based exploration and combat based heavily around learning by experience. And by experience I mean getting your shit pushed in.

Just like souls, play blind your first time. Don't look up guides or advice for any bosses or curios or you'll ruin the "fun".

Fuck it, let's delve into complete and utter madness.
How does this hamlet name sound?

The game is a dungeon crawler, turn based RPG with Lovecraftian themes (and by this I mean the narration reads like one, complete with very verbose, color commentary) and has great atmosphere. Beware the RNG though.

Also, don't get to attached to your dudes too much.

The closest comparison I can think of is probably some weird combo of Xcom and Etryian Odyssey
If you're a masochist you'll probably enjoy it though

>that new class
Seems like perfect suicide running matterial, nice.

Like you're about to feel really, really retarded.

From what you say it sounds right up my alley, especially with any hints of Lovecraft. Thanks anons, been looking for something I can spend a lot of time on and I think this might be it.

A better (yet still way off) comparison would be with XCOM than Souls desu

Send mooks to do your bidding but mostly die in the process, get money and items for you to progress, it's like if you were Gehrman and you're sending teams of rookie hunters to chalice dungeons

>mfw when my bro Dismas died because that bitch Vestal went crazy and smashed him in the head when I was trying to retreat

>Flagellant with Rabies and Blood Lust: "I'M GROWING STRONGER"

>Flagellant with Martyr's Seal: "IM THE MOTHERFUCKING WHIP OF THE NORTH STAR"

Reminds me of this faggot and how he named his heroes after his friends.

You have one minute to justify not wanting Plague Doctor to sit on your face while she mends your wounds.

I actually enjoyed the Chalice dungeons so that sounds good to me

Are those butts with hats on?

Watch this to see the game's amazing atmosphere

youtube.com/watch?v=LvxcWbPQlXE

I just opened the picture without reading the post and was about to call you faggot for those names.

You should send her alone to the darkest dungeon in retaliation.

This is no place for the weak or the foolhardy alike.

Her ass probably smells like death.

Because she probably reeks of the plague.

I said NOT wanting, user.

The mind cannot hope to withstand such an assault.

>Kill Wilbur first.
This.

Disgusting.

>Lucas the Bat

I bet this is the guy drew Coldsteel

Because I don't like choking on pussy-snot.

>Try out veteran level dungeons out of curiosity
>Face initial difficulty since monsters get almost doubled stats
>Still press on
>Finally about to enter the last room
>Everyone is already on the brink; battered and broken
>"This can't get any worse, can it?"

I returned from that expedition with three body bags

Emboldening, you mean. As in emboldening vapors.