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[pisskop]

guilmaster is my addiction

Guildmaster,blacksmith, wagon, church, asylum, nomad, bar, camp.

[pisskop]

heh, wrong thread.

[Mephansteras]

Wrong game thread, pisskop.

[Spehss _]

Darkest Dungeon is on sale as a part of the Autumn Steam Sale. 40% off, $12 instead of $20.

Worth it? I heard mixed opinions about it when first released in early access.

[Mephansteras]

I'd say so. It's far from perfect, but very atmospheric and I enjoy it. Just...be prepared for the RNG to screw you over sometimes. But it's rarely the end of the world and you can almost always claw your way back from even a string of bad runs.

[nenjin]

For $12 you'll get entertainment out of it. Whether you're in for the long haul is up to how you handle difficulty in games like these...

But IMO DD is already as polished and content rich as many fully released indie games. The audio quality, music, narrative and visuals are polished to a mirror sheen.

[Sirus]

Yeah, if you can handle the cruel and unforgiving mistress that is the RNG you'll find a game with fantastic art, music, sound effects, and so forth. They've added some features that make the game more enjoyable; for example I recently discovered, after not playing for some time, that any unused dungeon equipment (food, torches, etc) will automatically be sold back to the Caretaker if your party returns alive. For a fraction of the original buy cost, true, but it's still better than nothing. Also the corpses (which you CAN turn off now) are unique for each type of enemy and no longer generic lumps of bloody meat. So that's cool.

[Spehss _]

Played the game for a couple hours. Fun. A quest can go to hell in a handbasket really fast though. I can see where RNG can screw you over.

Are the devs still working on it? I noticed the titular endgame dungeon "Darkest Dungeon" hasn't been added yet.

[IronyOwl]

Yeah, they're still on it. The Cove was added just a few months ago, and they've been doing fairly frequent balance passes and content tweaks.

[BFEL]

FINALLY got this. Thanks steam holiday sale!
 Beat the Apprentice Necromancer with two Vestals, a Crusader and a Bounty Hunter. Was getting worried when the necro managed to get to 3rd rank and it became clear I wasn't gonna win through attrition, but then I used my Bounty Hunter's smoke bomb or whatever to stun the bastard while drawing him into 2nd rank, then my front line bashed his face in.

[Spehss _]

FINALLY got this. Thanks steam holiday sale!
 Beat the Apprentice Necromancer with two Vestals, a Crusader and a Bounty Hunter. Was getting worried when the necro managed to get to 3rd rank and it became clear I wasn't gonna win through attrition, but then I used my Bounty Hunter's smoke bomb or whatever to stun the bastard while drawing him into 2nd rank, then my front line bashed his face in.

Now take on the Wizened Hag in the Weald.

I had a crazy-ass time with that fight.

[BFEL]

FINALLY got this. Thanks steam holiday sale!
 Beat the Apprentice Necromancer with two Vestals, a Crusader and a Bounty Hunter. Was getting worried when the necro managed to get to 3rd rank and it became clear I wasn't gonna win through attrition, but then I used my Bounty Hunter's smoke bomb or whatever to stun the bastard while drawing him into 2nd rank, then my front line bashed his face in.

Now take on the Wizened Hag in the Weald.

I had a crazy-ass time with that fight.

Yeah...I just got my ass kicked by that one as it so happens
Cheap ass shit too. "Into the Potx100" because obviously no-resist formation fuckers that also deal damage EVERY FUCKING INSTANT is a great boss design.

[EuchreJack]

Darkest Dungeon is on sale as a part of the Autumn Steam Sale. 40% off, $12 instead of $20.

Worth it? I heard mixed opinions about it when first released in early access.

Maybe if it works on your computer.  It doesn't work on mine, so it'll probably be two or three years before I can play this.  But I will play it!
EDIT: They actually fixed it so it might work on my computer.  I'll have to test it out.

[Spehss _]

Yeah...I just got my ass kicked by that one as it so happens
Cheap ass shit too. "Into the Potx100" because obviously no-resist formation fuckers that also deal damage EVERY FUCKING INSTANT is a great boss design.

I just barely beat her my second time, after a total party wipe the first time.

Spoiler: spoilers for fighting hag, do not read if you like learning stuff yourself (click to show/hide)

Took an arbalest and a houndmaster for attacking the back (the hag) from the back of my party, a man-at-arms for buffs and tanking the front, and a vestal with both single heal and party heal for healing.

Man-at-arms at front, houndmaster second, vestal third, and arbalest fourth. Houndmaster and arbalest compliment each other well, hound can mark targets and arbalest can shoot them in the same turn, dealing good damage and possibly one-shotting mooks.

Fighting the hag was extremely risky and close. Arby and hound worked well together when they had opportunities to hit, got the hag down to low health. But everyone else was at death's door due to the pot, and the vestal was keeping everyone running on fumes with a party heal. Then the vestal got snatched in the pot, spit out of position, and then the hag whacked her and she died. Then the arbalest got snatched out of position next turn so she couldn't attack.

A lucky hit from my houndmaster's hound managed to kill the hag before anyone else died. Hellishly close fight that was.

In other news, I just killed the sonorous prophet, first try. Crusaders seem kinda OP. 2 crusaders with holy lance work so well together.

[pisskop]

Spoiler: Hag (click to show/hide)

4 crusaders w/holy lance and backup healing.

Hellion - Houndmaster - vestel - ranged

Any 'heavy team' can do a fair job keeping up with the hag's damage.  She's arguably a very close boss by nature, unlike the Pounders, who you can escape without any of that bosses special attacks firing off.