/dadg/ - Darkest Dungeon General

FUUUCK.

At least come out with the Radiant patch for console already, you fucks.

Isn't it usual for hags to come in three's? I dont remember her lore but i'd assume the other two are her sisters

I don't remember if it was Chris or Tyler, but one of them recently said they're trying to get the finalized shit together for that and that's what the majority of the team has been focusing on.

>Have beaten Sygian and challenge modes
>Beat DS3 DLC multiple times already
I have nothing to pass this wait with now, fuck me.

darkestdungeon.com/if-it-bleeds-we-can-kill-it/

New hero class confirmed.

Website is dead for me, are you serious?

>darkestdungeon.com/if-it-bleeds-we-can-kill-it/

Yes. They reveal some small details about it. Pushing for a late May/early June release. New hero class, new area called The Courtyard, ect.

Here, I'll copy/paste it for anyone having trouble viewing the website.

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

-Chuck Palahniuk

We know there’s been questions swirling around the upcoming DLC:The Crimson Court, and today we wanted to give you all a little insight into the carnivorous chaos that will come to the Estate.

Crimson Court is a parallel campaign experienced alongside the main Darkest Dungeon content that will provide you with new challenges at every difficulty level. The narrative grounding sheds some light on the Ancestor’s early days, and will be presented in the same style of cutscenes you’ve seen elsewhere in the game.

As the Crimson Curse spreads unrelentingly over the estate, parties will battle new enemies in familiar regions, as well as setting foot in a completely new sprawling environment: the Courtyard. There, amidst unique curios, traps and obstacles, a complete faction of new blood-crazed foes lie in wait, overseen by three distinct boss encounters. These slavering enemies and epic encounters will introduce new combat mechanics, testing the limits of your favourite strategies.

Yeah it just loaded for me too.

Damn, I was hoping for at least a small tease, like a trinket revealed or an enemy or something.

So in may they say? Im currently 135 weeks in and I've gotten like 20 lvl 6s, all bosses done except prophet, hag witch 64 pounder, siren and drowned crew.

I wonder, could I beat them all and survive 3 darkest dungeon encounters by then?

As the infestation grows, and your roster begins to sicken, the Fanatic will emerge to roam the hallways, confusing friend and foe alike in his zealous quest to exterminate the Curse.

The odds are not completely stacked against you, however! A new playable hero class will be added alongside powerful new trinkets, town events, and a fresh way to expand and upgrade your Hamlet.

At Red Hook, we’re working as hard as possible to deliver an exceptional DLC experience – one that enriches and expands the core game. Our mantra is that the addition of Crimson Court represents the canonical way to experience Darkest Dungeon, and we can’t wait to deliver it to you. We’d hoped to get it out earlier this year, but opted to delay in order to pack additional value into the free ‘Radiant’ update. We’re looking at releasing the Crimson Court in Late May/Early June, and will keep you all up to date as work progresses. Quality is our first priority, hence why we cannot confirm an exact date just yet.

So, as you enjoy a glass of red wine this weekend, listen for the cries of your infected parties ring out from the time-shrouded mists of the Hamlet…

“The Blood! I must have the Blood!”

P.S. We are still trying to get the Radiant update pushed to PlayStation Network as soon as possible. A few things have taken longer than expected but we still expect that to launch shortly and those efforts plus Crimson Court development are moving in parallel.

Sounds, great, I am most excited for the new class and area. More variety is always great.

What kind of class are we missing at this point? I think all bases are covered with all roles at least having two classes able to use them.

Guys, its like a day or so before april first.

It jsut seems strange to me that ALL of a sudden the release date goes from april, to LATE may around this time.

He's probably gonna come out on april first and tell everyone it was a ruse, or the day after. Hopefully.

>April second comes around
>The crimson court available to download on steam

How big would the hole in your pants be after you've projectile shat them with the force of a shotgun?

>it's all an april fool's joke

I really wanted it to be like this, but I don't believe in magic anymore

>April 1st
>Crimson Court now on sale!
>April Fools >:^)

Honestly, even though the majority of fans would get super mad about this, I'd laugh pretty hard.

>Radiant coming soon to PS4
>New class
>New area
>New roster of enemies
>Three new bosses+Fanatic
>New trinkets, town events and Hamlet upgrades
>Gradual changes to existing areas
Literally could not be any harder right now.

Even if plague waifu was bouncing up and down on your thick hard cock right now?

Bitch needs to get out of my way so I can play more Darkest Dungeon.

Don't raise your hopes for this. Honestly, changing from april to may is not such a big deal, this is an indie studio so planning is not going to be their forte.

>Chris says on Metro City Boys podcast that a new, separate area would be too much work on him
>Says that they're building it alongside the existing campaign instead
>There's a new area in the DLC as well as complimenting narrative
I've never been happier to get tricked.

As cool as that would be, I highly doubt it.

Now the question is if they're going to make us fight 3 versions of each boss like in the normal campaign or if they're going to give us a unique boss for each difficulty.

I am going to be cynical and expect the former. I don't mind, since I think the bosses have enough mechanical nuance to keep it interesting,

but I would like it if there were more difference between the version, like harder versions get an extra attack or something like that.

They did say the bosses are introducing new combat mechanics, so even if they do the former I'd also be okay with it. The latter would be more fresh, but I could see it being very frustrating for you to go into a Champion tier boss blind.

I'm just happy we're getting 4 new bosses.

I think we all are.

2 for the area (I'm feeling a court's pet and a matriarch), 1 secret, 1 fanatic?

Where did they mention that they had new combat mechanics?

we might as well make a /DadG/ discord

discord.gg/KvsjNwv ok done

"There, amidst unique curios, traps and obstacles, a complete faction of new blood-crazed foes lie in wait, overseen by three distinct boss encounters. These slavering enemies and epic encounters will introduce new combat mechanics, testing the limits of your favorite strategies."
We at least know the monsters have new mechanics, so I assume the bosses will as well.

Three for the area plus the Fanatic.

Oh, ok, should have read that more closely.

Sneak peak from Chris of the next character set.

i'm making a dadg discord can you give me ideas for emotes

So this curse literally makes your characters crave for blood without being actual vampires or what?

How does discord even work? Never used it.
We have no idea how it functions, we just know that it affects all your heroes and that it procs the Fanatic when you go on missions.

its like team speak but you don't need to be on voice so you can just text chat and post images it costs nothing to make a server and you can make your own emotes for the server

Can you stream on it or anything like that? If you could I can see the appeal, but if not then it'd just be another /dadg/, but with less people using it right?

>occultist playing with his drink
what a dork

no but its just to get everyone together to chat with out it being on Veeky Forums and there is no post limit so you don't have to wait for a new thread to be up

>Maskless PD

Occultist,Plague Doctor, and is that the Leper or Antiquarian?

Antiquarian

I suppose I can see its use, but it doesn't have a front page or anything to advertise its existence.

Chris said he's trying to put alike characters in groups. The Religious ones will be in their own group.

What is the worst named team comp?

We all know he's gonna cover it up.

He exposed Booty Hunter chin !

He also accidentally exposed the outline of his face a few times during the art stream.

Hag climbs out of her cauldron some weeks later. When you kill the champion hag the heroes smash her pot.
The swine king is large enough and horrible enough that I certainly believe it could resurrect itself from the dead.

Leper Colony is pretty bad in some dungeons.

You think she's going to look like a british model?

Well fuck just as I was about to take a break from the game too. Now I wanna play it more.

I-I turn off the game everytime I got Death Blow and see my character somehow got revived... T-that is fair since my enemies crit me three times a row, right?

Wasn't expecting a new character class.

What could it be? The obvious vampire hunter?

No, the game is about living with your consequences. One hero is no reason to give up, steel your heart and forgot about them. That is the only way forward.

Red hook. what a terrible name, hope no one gave their studio that name.

Nah I'm betting money it's someone from the Courtyard. Either a Vampire or someone whose deep dealings with them lead to their being in the hamlet. Having another Vampire Hunter after having the Fanatic as a boss fight just wouldn't feel right.

"The Courtyard" is a terrible name for a whole new dungeon

You think so? I kinda like it. Simple, has a Victorian/Gothic sound to it and is related to the DLC's name. What would you have called it?

I think it depends on how the area is designed visually.

It just sounds too specific and small in scale.

It CAN POTENTIALLY work if the "courtyard" is a sprawling garden in the middle of the CC estate -- another outdoorsy, Weald type area, but with French aristocratic and even Louisianian influence. Maybe it'll be all swampy and gross and shit.

I'd bet swampy enclosed area outside the Crimson Court proper. The whole mosquito theme really leads me to think that, complimented by a lot of gothic architecture, I could see french inspired, around it.

I have high hopes, I just don't want it to be Weald 2.0: Undead spooks edition.

This. But all the areas in the base game are unique, so I'm pretty sure they wouldn't put all this extra work into the DLC just to fuck that up.

I think "The Court" would have sounded better, but that feels like it might call back too much to a Ruins type of level. "The Courtyard" can be put together in a more fresh fashion.

Bump

What group is the above one then? Scholars?

I can get religious but what other groups are there? Mercenaries maybe?

I recall him saying that it was partly based on their class relations and partly on their moral/ethical relations.

I'd be willing to bet that the groupings are going to be:
>Highwayman, Grave Robber & Bounty Hunter (the roguish professionals)
>Occultist, Antiquarian & Plague Doctor (the robed scholarly types)
>Crusader, Vestal & Leper (the religious ones)
>Man-at-Arms, Houndmaster & Arbalest (the militaristic/orderly professional types)
>Abomination, Hellion & Jester (the outliers and freaks)

You can but it requires a really autistic setup, that relies on debuffs

Bump in the night (in my country).

Speaking of class relations I wonder what relationships the characters would have with each other

Abom being hated/ignored by the religious guys is a given, but I think I can see the Leper and the PD being friends since she can relieve his pain, as well as the MMA having a lot to teach the Arbalest about

I've seen a video with a 3xMaA-BH buffing tactics 3 times, all donning dodge cloaks and dodging every attach the hag has. Don't know the game version where it worked, tho

Crusader and Vestal talk about Jesus or the light or whatever when they're not having Missionary Sex Purely for the Sake of Procreation.™ Plague Doctor and Grave Robber are gal-pals that like to talk about poisons and diseases and other girly stuff. PD is also platonic friends with Leper and non-platonic friends with Highwayman. Bounty Hunter and Houndmaster share their bounty hunting stories while MaA and Arby talk about battle tactics and Occultist and Anti fiddle with their tentacle-themed relic collections. Abom emo sulks in the corner. I don't know what AKLYORA and Jingles do (or Musketeer for that matter), their both crazy and weird.

Rate my fanfic.

ok the dadg discord is done discord.gg/KvsjNwv

Wiped on DD2 Stygian, feels bad.
Arb Occ HM Leper
At least I have time before CC
feels worse

whoops, MaA in pos 2, not HM, ofc.

GR and Musketeer are both noble-ish or have noble origins so they'd probably get along in a classy afternoon tea like manner
Lawman and Crusader would get along because they both like the law
Highwayman and Abom would probably be friends somehow, as would Jester and abom
I see hellion and bountyhunter as drinking friends, jester and grave robber as gamble friends

When you got to kill the shrieker what do you actually get from killing its nest, is going with a bunch of maa and houndmasters stacking dodge instead of attacking worth it?

>GR and Musketeer are both noble-ish or have noble origins so they'd probably get along in a classy afternoon tea like manner
Don't know why I didn't think of that.

You get trapezohedrons for killing the nest. I recommended running a dodge team regardless. I ran GR/Occultist/MaA/Hellion with dodge trinkets. MaA bolsters, or guards someone on/near DD. Hellion/GR knock down the nest, as does Occ if he's not healing.

I've also done a shrieker run where I was really underleveled but wanted the trinket (+4 speed tailfeather) so I spammed dodge pretty exclusively with success.

If you kill the shrieker, can another one show up or is it like Vvulf? What if it runs away?

if it runs away you can get another one, you still get the trinket so thats good, i have no idea what happens if you somehow manage to kill it

what if he's cursed to live forever

My Lepers are cursed to miss forever.