WIN with RELATIONSHIPS in Darkest Dungeon 2!

This Darkest Dungeon 2 guide covering the latest update patch, The Void Between Us, is a comprehensive guide covering all aspects of the new and improved relationship system, from how to gain affinity, how relationships actually work, and what to focus on to maximize your relationships and your win rate!
Credit to the team working on the Darkest Dungeon 2 Fandom wiki, where I got my detailed information and charts on specific relationships and relationship chance.
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I'm Randy Potato, with over 2000 hours in Darkest Dungeon 1, and am now exclusively doing Infernal Runs on Darkest Dungeon 2(1400 hours and counting). This is the place to be for anyone interested in Darkest Dungeon strategy, guides, and tips and tricks. Please like and subscribe, I post new content every day!
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[@ExtremeMan10]

That feeling when you go on the boss, its Tangle, you have PD with +2 duration on her blight from trinket, 5% crit every turn AND Cause of Death maxed only for her to have Plague grenade and CoD give your Highwayman and Leper weaken and blind tokens on use.

[@pedrorios8010]

In summary, gaining relationships is OP. Thanks for this guide, looking forward to see more of these guide videos

[@TheJwarnock]

Great content. I've watched a few chans and you get right to the point and explain things well. Thanks for sharing.+1 sub

[@valyxillos2308]

1:53 This is untrue, My man at arms was at 19 Affinity with my runaway and they became envious because of braggart and evasive

[@randypotato]

this was patched out last week. If you had that happen it was either an old patch or a bug I haven't seen reported.

[@Fear910]

The inn / Hoarder nerf is what drags down this otherwise perfect patch...they went WAY too overboard.
Also when is Vestal coming?

[@connor5419]

Very helpful video, thank you!

[@Vinceperationsays]

Hi randy. Love your Guides. This may be obvious to some but in your opinion; is it better to max out already positive relations or bring the whole team to neutral and above (aka spread it as much as possible)? Thank you so much my friend!

[@Vinceperationsays]

Same with encounter choice: do i pick the option that affects the friendly characters to lose affinity or the one that affects the neutrals to go lower? Save me 😐

[@randypotato]

The top priority is always to get every hero out of negative and into neutral first. Negative relationships can be devastating, and the fact that they also cause random stress in addition to locking skills means they can snowball. And then moving from neutral to positive, targeting first heroes without any relationship quirks that allow them to stay at neutral and not have a chance at negative relationships. Positive relationships are nice but I never focus on maxing them out at all, and at any encounter I won't hesitate to break up a max affinity relationship to save another pair of heroes from dropping closer to negative.

[@JPFalcononor]

It is annoying however that the Provisioner and Hoarder have so few items now. A recent Inn I went to had no stress or affinity items which was not cool...The game is hard enough for me without these limitations.

[@randypotato]

The provisioner should be back to normal now. The only thing I don't like is the valley hoarder, they almost never have affinity items now.

[@stenaxel1428]

I like ur voice!

[@DrJekyllMH]

Am I the only one who can't stand this new update? Negative relationships locking in skills is the worst idea ever and makes the game unplayable for me

[@jadeablitt4981]

I find most playthroughs when I get a relationship it either:
A) Does nothing with positive relationship (don't use those skills)
B) Minor inconvenience Negative relationship (Fixes skills that I don't use on my bar)
C) Makes it impossible Negative relationship (Skills give random Negative token or adds stress)
I don't like the system because it's near impossible to gain positive affinity and the buff isn't worth it. And the Negative relationships are debilitating.

[@natereynolds2783]

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[@via_negativa6183]

Yeah I hate this too seems like the skills I get relation ships for are never even the ones I'm using either.

[@TheSilvercue]

DD2 a literally RNG based on this stupid mechanic. Get RNG giving you 2 good relationships and it is GG. Give you a couple of bad ones and you may as well quit.

[@randypotato]

Only a couple bad relations won't kill most runs, outside of beacon. It's also pretty easy to force positives nowadays, though you need unlocks which is the only part I dislike