I remember when I was playing this game, I was informed of a strategy others have called the "US military" strat, where you hire 4 random ass new heroes, any kind, doesn't matter, send them into a suicide run into a dungeon to grab as much loot and gold as they can, and go until you fear a party wipe, then pull them out, take the loot for yourself, and release them from service to deal with their physical and mental damage on their own. Edit: I'm also aware this doesn't work on the hardest difficulty before someone points it out, because you're under both a time and death limit.
Yep, I was playing Darkest Dungeon with a few friends of mine (Using parsec and just taking control of any one goon) and we'd constantly run Torchless dungeons using The Suicide Squad :tm:.
Goes completely against how I play Which is: There is only ONE of each class. Once you recruit one from the Cart, you cannot recruit another of the same type ever again. I DO use Modded classes though to fill in so I have enough to manage Makes deaths REALLY hurt
I actually didn't even think of this before you said it, but turns out Reynauld is literally the French version of Reginaldus, which is the Latinized form of "Raginwald", which itself is the German equivalent of the Norse "Ragnvaldr"! Ragnvaldr from Fear and Hunger confirmed as the canonical ancestor of Reynauld. They're both GigaChads, after all.
@@darkkeybladersi got that achivement my rey and dis was on their last leg vs the final boss dismas fell into despair rey got powerful criting the boss they gone into the dungeon together and end the horror together
There are 2 tips that helped me conquer this game: 1. Stress heal is king. 2. Stress damaging enemies must die first. There's a lot more stuff but that should give anyone a big boost.
In most rpgs the most dangerous enemy is the big guy with a big axe, but in darkest dungeon the most dangerous enemy is whoever has the weirdest weapon
@@chiksnboozI'm only 2/3 in and I'm like, I'm surprised he hasn't learned and no one in chat has said that you can use items to negate negative curios, and even increase rewards. Then again, he also brute forced his way to the end of Fear and Hunger without learning a damn thing about how the game worked, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised lmao
I mean, I think he brute forced fear and hunger 2 more than 1 - but yeah sometimes I have hope for the guy but I def knew DD was going to kick his ass! Part of me def wanted to see him suffer especially after having this game kick my ass so many times! I've watched some expert utubers play this with phds in physics and still occasionally suffer with this game!@@bananagher7555
The thing about Darkest Dungeon is that it really heavily relies on metaknowledge. Knowing what effects come out of which interactable will significantly reduce the chance of getting shitty effects. Doubly so if you know using which items will guarantee good results. Additionally, knowing how to hedge bets in battle is also integral just like X-com-like games. Well, what Connor feels is in line with what most players feel when they get into this game blind. If he kept up, I'm sure he'll be good at this game.
ngl for a first timer he was faring EXTREMELY well. Dude first tried a DD mission, beat two swine kings enraged (lmao btw) and all around just seemed to get through quests and combat really well after a while. As a veteran, I am very impressed!
@@irishchick6315 Yeah he would have beaten it if he took the time to heal everyone before going in with a bunch of stress. Although I wonder if he quit. DD can be quite a grindy af game if your A team got wiped.
The fact that he did not put the pieces together is wild tho. Like, the heroes even spell it out for you and even back when they didnt it was quite obvious (after a while) that the dude only does his large party-wide attack after you hit Wilbur. But hey what do I know, apparently alpha gaming chads dont need to spare Wilbur, they just win anyway :D
To be fair its easy to take our meta knowledge for granted. When I first played I had no clue what to do with curios and made bad choices allllll the time
@@BisexualActs1connor's problem is that he doesn't absorb said knowledge when playing, like you eventually will figure out that inviting slot in the curio screens fits for the thingies your heros bring to the mission, connor is like if arin hanson from game grumpd was a solo act.
20:59 if you play it enough the legendary 0 crit heal + bleed will show up and you will upset because it happen during the boss and you needed the heal.
18:03 think about it like this: You and your party are business as usual and the healer is using their basic stuff and so is everyone else. Then suddenly you see the healer use their aoe healing spell instead of the targeted one and the other adventurers start using their special abilities. Your stress goes up
So never played darkest but i guess i learned from watching this is "overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer" and also lepers are all meat werewolves.
i looooooooooooooove watching connor play darkest dungeon and fucking up, and being like "hahahahah thats the secret connor! youre never safe! rookie mistake!"
For anyone who watched the vods I just got to know. Did Conner finish the entire game without knowing that you can use items on curious (like holy water on the confession booth) ? If so then damn he really is a GAMER
6:30-6:45 These 15 seconds perfectly describe the feeling of playing this game. 3 months ago, I was able to train 2 full teams of lvl 6 champions and I STILL never attempted the darkest dungeon, cuz I was too afraid of losing my team(s) and starting all over 😭
Reading what everyone does and figuring out safe placement areas is key alongside your welfare. Stress enemies can be dragged to the front in order to get them smashed by the frontlines, or perhaps make them unable to inflict stress in the first place.
For the uninformed, that second mission was a level 1 mission that he send level 0 heroes on, so they started the mission with 20/100 stress (100 being when the start freaking out, 200 being heart attack). Lots of times he was choosing missions based on loot and not first checking if it was a boss mission.
Im Darkest Dungeon player/veteran and I find some joy watching how people strugle/react to this game. Love when they must remind themself that overconfidance is a slow and insidus killer... And how quickly the tide turns. 31:30 Did you just killed Wilbur? You poor soul... Thats the only thing YOU SHOULD NOT DO. But dont worry... We been there. We all learned that lesson
Recommendation: always have a way to heal stress, the crusader has a stress heal Use the times like bandages and antitoxins on the curious to have positive interactions
After connor played fear n hunger, i was hoping that someday we'll get to see le darkest dungeon as thats my fav game. That day has come now n im really happy.
also for anyone wanting to play the Leper, he has a lot of damage but very low accuracy, so put some accuracy trinkets on him to make him more consistent. Remember, it doesn't matter how high your base damage is if you never hit 😁
Oh let's goooo i love darkest dungeon. Currently playing through dd2 and while the new mechanics r enough to keep me interested i miss running double shieldbreaker, double crusader, and double bounty hunter lmao
My biggest issue was him not learning anything and ignoring stuff plainly told by the game. Like how you can unequipp all your trinkets and simply put the best ones on your group going out each time, or how if you listened to the characters they told you wilbur should be ignored, or even the simple fact that the game tells you exactly an enemies strengths, it was all so lame seeing him fail not due to being bad at the game but being stupid.
I remember picking up this game when it first released and had a bunch of UA-camrs playing through it. I gave up on it very quicky after realising how grindy and unforgiving it was, i couldn't be bothered watching hours of progress be flushed away due to a RNG crit lol. It's way more fun to watch others suffer than to experience the suffering myself.
31:31 if anyone is curious why is that boss absolutely wrecking Connor's team, he killed the little pig (Wilbur) first, that makes the big fuck you monster spam the AoE super damage+stun
I would love to see an animation where a monster uses the last of their strength to curse the hero with the runs. That is a unique and beautiful form of petty that I can get behind.
i clicked this bc i thought the art of thumbnail was kind of like fear and hunger's and i thought, "is this darkest dungeon" and boom. now i replayed it this morning :))
the thing that I hated about darkest dungeon is not that it's you vs the annoying ass enemies. it's that it's you vs the annoying ass enemies, plus the random ass traps, plus the rng that can decide to bend u over any time with bad events and bad character traits, plus you're also fighting against your own party's danger to their very own selves. iirc kleptomaniac was a trait in there that made your party member touch and activate some things that you would really rather not even touch to begin with as a player.... but no they activated it against your will and forced bad events to occur that even have the potential to wipe your party.
nothing you can touch will wipe your party lol, shamblers altar will deactivate if you touch it normally and klepto doesnt interact with curios using items
I remember when I was playing this game, I was informed of a strategy others have called the "US military" strat, where you hire 4 random ass new heroes, any kind, doesn't matter, send them into a suicide run into a dungeon to grab as much loot and gold as they can, and go until you fear a party wipe, then pull them out, take the loot for yourself, and release them from service to deal with their physical and mental damage on their own.
Edit: I'm also aware this doesn't work on the hardest difficulty before someone points it out, because you're under both a time and death limit.
That sounds about right. The name checks out.
the dungeon crawling industrial complex
Yep, I was playing Darkest Dungeon with a few friends of mine (Using parsec and just taking control of any one goon) and we'd constantly run Torchless dungeons using The Suicide Squad :tm:.
Absolutely BASED
Goes completely against how I play
Which is:
There is only ONE of each class.
Once you recruit one from the Cart, you cannot recruit another of the same type ever again.
I DO use Modded classes though to fill in so I have enough to manage
Makes deaths REALLY hurt
I am actually amazed he managed to keep Reynauld (Ragnvaldr) and Dismas alive that long.
I actually didn't even think of this before you said it, but turns out Reynauld is literally the French version of Reginaldus, which is the Latinized form of "Raginwald", which itself is the German equivalent of the Norse "Ragnvaldr"!
Ragnvaldr from Fear and Hunger confirmed as the canonical ancestor of Reynauld.
They're both GigaChads, after all.
@@MuFu23someone send this conner now.
I mean its crusader and Highwayman. Those 2 class are realistically will never die unless you get super unlucky.
There is an achievement to beat the end game with them still in the party!
@@darkkeybladersi got that achivement my rey and dis was on their last leg vs the final boss
dismas fell into despair
rey got powerful
criting the boss
they gone into the dungeon together and end the horror together
"Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer."
Silly of Connor to overlook this. (Humu humu)
saw the thumbnail, saw the title, came straight to the comments to see someone quoting this
This is number 1 rule of every Darkest Dungeon player.
There are 2 tips that helped me conquer this game:
1. Stress heal is king.
2. Stress damaging enemies must die first.
There's a lot more stuff but that should give anyone a big boost.
that's vester bundle looking real good rn
In most rpgs the most dangerous enemy is the big guy with a big axe, but in darkest dungeon the most dangerous enemy is whoever has the weirdest weapon
3. Hitting your enemies is important.
The Jester can cover 2 out of those 3.
he's not overconfident, just too impatient - watching him walk into every trap and never use anti-ambush skills in camp was killing me the whole video
And his apparent lack of torches
Hey, we all learned one way or another
And the amount of times he just touched curios instead of trying to see if one of his items could interact with it
@@chiksnboozI'm only 2/3 in and I'm like, I'm surprised he hasn't learned and no one in chat has said that you can use items to negate negative curios, and even increase rewards. Then again, he also brute forced his way to the end of Fear and Hunger without learning a damn thing about how the game worked, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised lmao
I mean, I think he brute forced fear and hunger 2 more than 1 - but yeah sometimes I have hope for the guy but I def knew DD was going to kick his ass! Part of me def wanted to see him suffer especially after having this game kick my ass so many times! I've watched some expert utubers play this with phds in physics and still occasionally suffer with this game!@@bananagher7555
You know the game is hype when the art for the thumbnail is the same as the fear and hunger vids
wow you zoomers are obsessed with fear and hunger now and compare everything to it
@@alkadeyas dude project your self hate somewhere else please.
@@petermaximoff4598 it's not projecting it's reality, why don't you go be a simp somewhere else?
Yeah its not the the exact same this is more in line with the darkest dungeon art style
this is the darkest dungeon artstyle 😭 (I guess they have a similiarity though?)
Connor did me so dirty in this game, man I was set up to fail from the start
Ah yes I remember that. 😂
he literally put you in one of the worst characters :C (except in pvp that thing is broken there)
Get your revenge by naming him in a game and tossing him into C Class...Chokedawg Class 😂
The thing about Darkest Dungeon is that it really heavily relies on metaknowledge. Knowing what effects come out of which interactable will significantly reduce the chance of getting shitty effects. Doubly so if you know using which items will guarantee good results.
Additionally, knowing how to hedge bets in battle is also integral just like X-com-like games.
Well, what Connor feels is in line with what most players feel when they get into this game blind. If he kept up, I'm sure he'll be good at this game.
The Sin is not in being outmatched, but failing to recognize it.
There is no shame in retreat, but there is only pain in loss.
I mean he was seriously close to beating it which is pretty good for a first run - its just his impatience that got him
If you watched the VoD and saw how many times he clicked on a stack of books AFTER he said "I think the books are bad" you might have second thoughts.
ngl for a first timer he was faring EXTREMELY well. Dude first tried a DD mission, beat two swine kings enraged (lmao btw) and all around just seemed to get through quests and combat really well after a while. As a veteran, I am very impressed!
@@irishchick6315 Yeah he would have beaten it if he took the time to heal everyone before going in with a bunch of stress. Although I wonder if he quit. DD can be quite a grindy af game if your A team got wiped.
Literally ending on a choke. As expected as the one and only ChokeDawgVeryAbusive
He did not remind himself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer, and paid the price
"Remember, there can be no bravery...without MaDnEsS."
You could say he paid in full
@@Benmans404 "Cost of preparedness, measured now in gold, later in blood."
Curious is the trapmaker's art, his efficacy unwitnessed by his own eyes
I love when people with insufferable egos are crushed by their own incompetence and idiocy.
First funger now darkest? Hell yeah
Funger my fav game 😂
Hear and funger. My gavorite fame
@@Lost526 bro thats funny 🤣
Can't wait for the sequel, dear and funger: the fungering
@@cry-o1436 even better, dear and funger: the fingering
Reynauld getting virtuous on his first stress was almost poetic in a way
Reynauld normally: unstressed
Raynauld when he's stressed: simply focuses
What a chad
The fact he killed wilbur all three times and no one warned him about it its insane
Rallying Flare/Skeet Shot: "Am I a joke to you?"
The fact that he did not put the pieces together is wild tho. Like, the heroes even spell it out for you and even back when they didnt it was quite obvious (after a while) that the dude only does his large party-wide attack after you hit Wilbur. But hey what do I know, apparently alpha gaming chads dont need to spare Wilbur, they just win anyway :D
seeing him put jester in first rank raised my blood pressure immensely
So glad he finally played this masterpiece of a game
Connor has a penchant for masochism so oppressive games like DD and F&H are perfect for him
@@meodrac I hope he keeps playing them because they're my kind of games and it's pretty fun to see others play them too
Connor : "how do you keep getting this many illnesses ?"
Also Connor : checks every rotten corpses
"The sin is not being outmatched, but in failing to recognise it."
Connor not learning how to interact with events is so on brand
Clicks on the diseased carcass: Why am I getting sick!?
To be fair its easy to take our meta knowledge for granted. When I first played I had no clue what to do with curios and made bad choices allllll the time
@@BisexualActs1connor's problem is that he doesn't absorb said knowledge when playing, like you eventually will figure out that inviting slot in the curio screens fits for the thingies your heros bring to the mission, connor is like if arin hanson from game grumpd was a solo act.
Ironmouse having her resolve tested and becoming POWERFUL is a canon event
20:59 if you play it enough the legendary 0 crit heal + bleed will show up and you will upset because it happen during the boss and you needed the heal.
I literally learned how to mod the game just to change the minimum Occultist heal from 0 to 1. Holy shit the 0 heal + bleed drives me mad.
@@Jonsonercritical bleeding too
@@RafaelZenitus or when you're out of supplies and forget that moving outside of battle can mean you die of heart attack.
i lost like 3 people in one save to heart attacks from moving through hallways 😂@@Sybato
i thought that got patched out ages ago?
The way how both Connor and the plague doctor did the exact same pose at 14:28
0:50 "How's that fair!" Well connor, its not. The whole game is unfair. pain is mandatory, suffering is optional
50:04 "I definitely need to do a small mission this time"
*PICKS THE LONG QUEST*
18:03 think about it like this:
You and your party are business as usual and the healer is using their basic stuff and so is everyone else. Then suddenly you see the healer use their aoe healing spell instead of the targeted one and the other adventurers start using their special abilities. Your stress goes up
Finally, Darkest Dungeon.
Time to watch Connor get heart attack in real life.
I need more of this, specifically Connor losing his mind like every 5 seconds Bc of his own hubris
Ah yess, Darkest Dungeon, where the stress in game also applied into real life.
as you can see, connor keep failing on stress check
His stress check was at the start and rolled "irrational"
So never played darkest but i guess i learned from watching this is "overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer" and also lepers are all meat werewolves.
i looooooooooooooove watching connor play darkest dungeon and fucking up, and being like "hahahahah thats the secret connor! youre never safe! rookie mistake!"
Watching Connor seemingly going out of his way to run into traps gave me heartburn, but I still had fun with this video.
"Success so clearly in view... Or was it just a trick of the light?"
In time Connor will learn the full extent of my failings.
11:53 Typical reaction to Dismas and Reynauld:
There is a class that specifically heals stress- if you don’t play them as a moving bleed machine. Or maybe that’s just in DD2
Nah it's in DD1 as well, my homie the Jester!
You're talking about either Jester or Flagellant
@@forgottenashes8299jester, the flagellant in 2 is... Poisonous.
This has been the most I've ever laughed in recent connor videos. Honestly so much fun a smile never left my face xD
For anyone who watched the vods I just got to know. Did Conner finish the entire game without knowing that you can use items on curious (like holy water on the confession booth) ?
If so then damn he really is a GAMER
yes
He lost his only Champion crew at the 2nd Darkest Dungeon level and gave up. He didn't learn a goddamn thing
he never finished
6:30-6:45
These 15 seconds perfectly describe the feeling of playing this game. 3 months ago, I was able to train 2 full teams of lvl 6 champions and I STILL never attempted the darkest dungeon, cuz I was too afraid of losing my team(s) and starting all over 😭
This video single handedly revived my love for this game, thanks Connor
A whole hour of content with good editing is huge
Reading what everyone does and figuring out safe placement areas is key alongside your welfare. Stress enemies can be dragged to the front in order to get them smashed by the frontlines, or perhaps make them unable to inflict stress in the first place.
Oh boy, One of the best RPG's ever made. Good luck, and remember, "Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer"
For the uninformed, that second mission was a level 1 mission that he send level 0 heroes on, so they started the mission with 20/100 stress (100 being when the start freaking out, 200 being heart attack). Lots of times he was choosing missions based on loot and not first checking if it was a boss mission.
Bro will pick the worst possible move and then turn around and blame Emma for it 😭
Im Darkest Dungeon player/veteran and I find some joy watching how people strugle/react to this game. Love when they must remind themself that overconfidance is a slow and insidus killer... And how quickly the tide turns.
31:30 Did you just killed Wilbur? You poor soul... Thats the only thing YOU SHOULD NOT DO. But dont worry... We been there. We all learned that lesson
Shame that he didn't learn a thing even doing this fight more than once
The windows startup music at 2:51 gave me chills
Party: "I'm feeling stressed"
Connor: "Shut up" lol
Dude, I was already tired and when this video started that initial scream rocked my brain in my skull
Connor: "I feel like, this is a really solid team"
Team Name: "The Forsaken"
The highs and lows of this game make it so addicting
Playing a dark RPG fantasy game looks awesome
"stop hitting her!" he says to the enemies when they hit his healer that's positioned in the front row
Fear and Hunger, then Darkest Dungeon... at this rate, the next logical step would be... Barotrauma, Lobotomy Corporation or Black Souls, I guess?
Aaaaaaand now I got an burning need to replay darkest dungeon again. Thanks Connor!
Every other person when at high sanity: my life is over
Ragnavaldr: FOCUSED GIGA CHAD POWER
Recommendation: always have a way to heal stress, the crusader has a stress heal
Use the times like bandages and antitoxins on the curious to have positive interactions
never use the crusader as a stress healer lol the jester is just outright better
After connor played fear n hunger, i was hoping that someday we'll get to see le darkest dungeon as thats my fav game. That day has come now n im really happy.
“Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.”
also for anyone wanting to play the Leper, he has a lot of damage but very low accuracy, so put some accuracy trinkets on him to make him more consistent.
Remember, it doesn't matter how high your base damage is if you never hit 😁
amazing editing, amazing playthrough. I watched this all on twitch, lots of content. Condensed and still amazing👍
When Connor got the one room in the darkest dungeon the quote, "It was then that the king felt true fear for the first time", popped into my head
Jesus fucking christ the editing is genuinely on a different level here, my LORD
He was unusually lucky for a first timer.
I usually watch filthy play DD and this was grim reminder that this game is actually monstrously hard and most people get crushed pretty hard.
to be fair, overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
Bro, I can't wait he continue this series
Reynauld and Dismas are easily my favorites. I know the game is all RNG and it's just a mental and perception bias, but they're so goated
There should be a "Overconfident" check on full stress idk why they didn't put the meme in, they didn't know it will be such a meme probably
Oh let's goooo i love darkest dungeon. Currently playing through dd2 and while the new mechanics r enough to keep me interested i miss running double shieldbreaker, double crusader, and double bounty hunter lmao
My biggest issue was him not learning anything and ignoring stuff plainly told by the game. Like how you can unequipp all your trinkets and simply put the best ones on your group going out each time, or how if you listened to the characters they told you wilbur should be ignored, or even the simple fact that the game tells you exactly an enemies strengths, it was all so lame seeing him fail not due to being bad at the game but being stupid.
“Overconfidence is a slow and a insidious killer”
"Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer." is just burned into my mind from watching this
I clicked on this video just to see comments like this😂
I remember picking up this game when it first released and had a bunch of UA-camrs playing through it. I gave up on it very quicky after realising how grindy and unforgiving it was, i couldn't be bothered watching hours of progress be flushed away due to a RNG crit lol. It's way more fun to watch others suffer than to experience the suffering myself.
I went back to play this, discovered that I left my strongest team on a losing battle, they all died
this is what ragnvaldr did after his ending
DARKEST DUNGEON YES! Please more
HE WAS A VICTIM OF OVERCONFIDENCE, A SLOW AND INSIDIOUS KILLER
The sudden silence every time he swears make me feel like my headphones are bugging out...
How has he never played this game before?! It's so good!
Edit: And he learned real quick how punishing this game is hahaha
Need I remind you that: overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
This video captures perfectly ' that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.'
dammit, I wasn't ready for the "I did not hit her" take
This game slaps unreasonably hard
"The way is lit"
Connor: 🚬
31:31 if anyone is curious why is that boss absolutely wrecking Connor's team, he killed the little pig (Wilbur) first, that makes the big fuck you monster spam the AoE super damage+stun
“You will endure this loss, and learn from it. “
I would love to see an animation where a monster uses the last of their strength to curse the hero with the runs. That is a unique and beautiful form of petty that I can get behind.
Connor and Darkest Dungeon
A match made in heaven...or hell
Love to see Conor play xcom 2 iron man mode but I don't know if he'd like it. It's not gritty or crazy hare but it's super fun
Mods/Editors please pester Connor to play World of Horror, it would make for an awesome YT video/s, like Fear & Hunger were!
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.
33:29 lol what the plague doctor said after the safe roll xDDD
Can't wait for Connor's playthrough of Darkest Dungeon 2, whenever that's going to be.
"Planning and stratagy, as vital to survival as sharpend steel."
20:44 fun fact, I got this tutorial tip during one of the darkest dungeon missions
that the most tragic story of the legendary A-Team. they will be remembered
i clicked this bc i thought the art of thumbnail was kind of like fear and hunger's and i thought, "is this darkest dungeon" and boom. now i replayed it this morning :))
the thing that I hated about darkest dungeon is not that it's you vs the annoying ass enemies.
it's that it's you vs the annoying ass enemies, plus the random ass traps, plus the rng that can decide to bend u over any time with bad events and bad character traits, plus you're also fighting against your own party's danger to their very own selves.
iirc kleptomaniac was a trait in there that made your party member touch and activate some things that you would really rather not even touch to begin with as a player.... but no they activated it against your will and forced bad events to occur that even have the potential to wipe your party.
nothing you can touch will wipe your party lol, shamblers altar will deactivate if you touch it normally and klepto doesnt interact with curios using items
losing your max level party is the biggest stress check in the game
cus that when you decide to keep going to avenge them
or rage quit
Darkest dungeon 2 is actually more fun