I'm not sure exactly the part you're referring to, but here's the general process with an example. Say your enemy has 6HP, and you have a 50% chance to hit. If you hit, you will deal 4-7 damage (each outcome evenly weighted, I believe). Your crit chance is 10% - this is the part that complicates things. All of this information is visible in the fight. As each of the damage outcomes 4, 5, 6 and 7 are equally likely once you hit, you have a 50% chance for a successful hit to kill the 6HP enemy. So you can multiply the hit chance (50%) by the kill chance on hit (also 50%). This gives you a 25% chance to kill. Right? Almost! What if you crit? This complicates things a little (a lot). Because crits and non-crits have different chances to kill the enemy, we have to split up "chance to hit" into two numbers: "chance to non-crit" and "chance to crit". In this case our chance to crit is 5% overall, because our base chance is 10% but we miss half the time. So now we have our 50% chance to miss, our 45% chance to hit, and our 5% chance to crit. If we miss, we never kill the enemy. Obviously. If we hit, we have a 45% * 50% chance to kill the enemy - 45% for the "attack roll", and 50% for the "damage roll". So we have a 22.5% chance to kill the enemy without critting. The 5% crit chance guarantees the kill, so we can now just add that to the 22.5% non-crit kill chance, to get a total kill chance of 27.5%. I've used round numbers here for simplicity, but this can get far too complicated for me to do mentally. Honestly, I usually just eyeball it at this point, but there are still occasions where I have to go through the whole process!
Thanks. I live in America where they don't teach math. The closest thing to it is: _"Suzy had 6 guns and 174 bullets for each one. If someone knocks on Suzy's door at 3am, how many bullets will Suzy need to use to prove she's a patriot?"_
Thanks for the guide! Just got this game and have been having a lot of difficulty even on Radiant mode. I didn't even know that you could use items on curios! No wonder I always found skeleton keys to be so useless, I didn't know you had to place them onto the chest curio in order to get the loot actually worth buying the key for.
I got this game cheap (mostly to play on my PS Vita) and I was really struggling to like it. Kept wanting to play it but just couldn't enjoy it. Your guide has done the trick perfectly and I'm completely hooked now! Never thought I'd watch a 48 minute UA-cam video all the way through...
Great guide, since im playing on the hardest difficulty, it helped me alot, i was able to build a team to go through the first boss without trouble, also the item management was rly great too.
See everything else I find 100% manageable and I understand, but the stress levels are beyond wild. I enter the dungeon and two fights in everyone's like halfway up the stress meter for some reason x__x Any tips for stress management would be GREATLY appreciated..
I somewhat disagree with the adventurer dismissal tbh Personally, every time theres a broken low level in my roster and I decide its not worth the truble, I like to go and hire a few random low level adventurers and send them all just like that to battle, no trinkets, no investment in habilities/gear, no nothing aside for a few food & torches. Thing is, I dont care about the mission or its rewards, im sending them to die, to battle till their last breath, gathering as much loot as they can, and whoever is last standing earns the right to return to the village with all the loot & money they managed to get
Coming into Darkest Dungeon from Xcom - particularly modern Xcom (not putting shade on OG xcom, newcom just seems more transferrable), particularly mods like Long War, definitely set me on the right path. Everything is about control, even when it feels like everything is out of control and you're getting "unlucky", you need to take every opportunity to deny the enemy the chance to hurt you, and if they get the chance, you need to stack every card you can against them.
yoo fr though.. i have the game open in the background and i thought.. alright just gonna take a few pointers and i'll be on my way. Next thing i know is that the video is over..
“Sir....I think I received multiple traumas in my last adventure.... can I be admitted to the-“ *Yeah yeah that sucks and all but that costs money and you kinda suck, so uh you’re fired*
@@CARILYNF but I saw what he went through, some dude spilled some juice on him and he freaked out and started insulting and attacking his teammates, then he had a heart attack cus the guy spilled more juice on him.
the Problem with very detailed guides is that they often get really boring really fast ....however yours does not despite being very detailed and thorough grate job mate
I am convinced that the RNG in DD is set up in such a way that it builds your confidence before utterly destroying you. (This is coming from a guy who lost 9 heroes to the Viscount then beat him in 3 turns flat with the same party composition)
I still remember the leper i lost in the pigboss fight. Crit from full hp to 0, then Wilbur instantly finishes him off with a squeel of all things, before i get to make a move with any of my guys.
I got this game just about a week ago and went in with my waist in the water. Even if this video is 2 years old, it still fits phenomenally with the more recent version of this game. There may be a few differences here and there, but for the most part it's very similar. Thanks for the video, it has helped tremendously.
Ya. Dumb mechanic that would not go missed if it was nerfed or flat out scrapped. In my opinion. Maybe I'm just not getting the nuances of the game enough yet and that's why it feels too unfair.
@@2midgetsinanovercoat638 It's part of the design. I started 3 days ago and as far as I'm concerned the goal of this game is to make you clench your cheeks. People going mad is a fundamental part of that. If it didn't have any consequences on gameplay it wouldn't matter and therefore not induce any stress to the player. It's a snowball system. It emphasizes to a) not bringing a hero who is already or close to madness And b) not letting that happen in the first place by c) killing them quick and throughly
I drink beer while playing this game! I bought this game 2 days ago and I like this game a lot! It is fun and is complicated in detail as well as gameplay which makes it richly exciting to play! I
I wish i had seen this video the first time i've played , got mad called it ,,shitty game'' went my way (about 2 years ago). Yesterday i've decided to give it another shot and it was worth it :D
a friend of mine insisted so hard for me to play the game that he actually guided me in the tutorial and the 1st dungeon and i must say i'm glad he did it cuz so far i'm enjoying a lot !
Hey man, I recently just dove into this game because it’s out on switch, bought it just from good word of mouth. For the first two days I was absolutely getting my ass handed to. After this video I feel I get a lot of what the game is doing so I’m surviving much longer, thanks for making 50 minutes of learning mechanics engaging.
OMG love how you put time stamps is the description, I knew a lot of things and I love how I can just skip around to the things I need to understand better. LIKED AND SUBBED
This guide is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. It covers *just* enough to make the game a bit less daunting and let players really enjoy and understand the mechanics, without going over so much that the overwhelming and crushing atmosphere of the game is completely replaced with min/maxing very early on. I've played this game a bit so far (17 hours) but never really got to any real point of progress, despite beating my first boss last time I played it. Lately I've been thinking more on this game though, and have plans for some projects involving it, and this video seriously helped cement my confidence in what I wish to do. So thank you for that, and job well done! I was very fond of the formatting for this guide in general. The order you approached things was good and flowed naturally from one point to another, the visual editing was nice and clean, particularly with showcasing the provisions, and the equations to help viewers keep track during the combat examples was a much appreciated touch. I can tell a lot of work went into this, and I found it inspiring. So, again, nicely done!
I bought this game for my birthday last year, but I only started playing it now, and getting my ass handed to me on a platter. After watching your video, I'm gonna give things another go-around.
Sir, we don't talk about Rule 3a. Rule 3a is something a Darkest Dungeon player discovers about themselves. When I realized I was a horrible person devaluing adventurers based on cost-benefit analyses was when the game really grabbed me.
I felt the same way, having to get the turnover rate of McDonald's to make $$$ was hard. I will say though some characters have really high stat numbers by nature, so can be worth even the worst locked in quirks.
One important thing that you left out is formation management. Proper positioning of your party and disturbing the enemies positioning increases the effectiveness of your party by a lot. Enemies have very weak attack when they're in the wrong position
Awesome guide! I've already played about 10 hours of this game but just couldn't get my head wrapped around all the different concepts, so i wanted a "back to the basics" tutorial. This video clarified so many questions I had. A few days after watching I'm already completing level 3 dungeons and getting better. Thanks for taking the time to make this clear, concise and informative.
Tip nr. 1. Mod the original hero models with lewd skins; Nr. 2. Mod the monster models with lewd models; Nr. 3. Change the background to lewd backgrounds; Nr. 4 Change the Hamlet NPC's skins to lewd skins; Nr. 5 Upgrade the stagecoach to 4 heroes per week and a bigger barracks if you can afford it.
@@BlessedCapybara1444 man, it is too late but you can refund games you played less than 2 hours and bought within two weeks. just telling you in case you still don't know.
This guide REALLY helped me out. After several rough RNG's in the start and horrible party-wipes I found your video and have learned a lot. Thank you for this an Keep Up the Good Work!
Thanks for the comprehensive guide, it's very insightful. I'm having fun learning it, but I can tell "Rule 16" is what's going to prevent me from really getting into this game. There's a real problem, much more so with western RPGs it seems, where "complexity", "granularity", and "nuance" are too easily confused with each other and not applied correctly to a design. I already find certain systems in DD redundant and unnecessarily complex, but having to whip out a pocket calculator every time you want to complete a single action is just bad design. When I choose an action and a target, just give me the overall chance of a certain result occurring. It could either be: 8 base dmg, 90 base acc, skill: +50% damage, -15% acc, 20% stun. Foe: 15 base def, 15 base dodge, 25% base stun resist. Foe Effect: +5% dodge, +10% stun resist. OR Your swinging strike has a 35% chance of dealing 3 damage and a 10% chance of stunning the enemy. Both of those sets of information functionally communicate the same thing. They clearly put a lot of work into this game, I'd really love to hear an explanation of why they chose to do the former rather than the latter.
Very good guide! I have 97 hours in this game and still enjoyed it. I actually was away from the game for a bit and recently came back. I was curious about your opinion on stuns. I seem to remember guides in the past strongly discouraging stuns and claiming they did not work at all in the late game. I am sure many updates have altered the prescribed strategy multiple times and wanted to ask have stuns been buffed and more viable or is this just a player's choice, topic of debate? I am gearing for my first ever champion lvl dungeon and have no stuns in my party! Should I be worried?
Thanks! Glad the guide was useful to you :) On the subject of stuns: I believe it used to be the case that enemy resistances outscaled your application chance to a much greater extent at high levels, so stuns were much less likely to work in Champion dungeons. This would have been a long time ago - before the Antiquarian update - but stuns are definitely worth using these days, all the way up to the Darkest Dungeon itself. If you're going to bring a stunner, it's worth slapping a stun trinket on them - something I should have mentioned in the guide itself. With Blasphemous Vial (additional 40% stun chance), for example, the Plague Doctor is absolutely unstoppable. Even a Stun Amulet or Dazzling Charm goes a long way toward guaranteeing that stun - and reliability is key, so it's definitely worth doing.
Thanks for the quick response! ... just tried out a stun heavy party and loved it. Still haven't pulled the trigger on champion level, though... I am scared lol.
Ah, you'll be fine :) I personally think that the very first dungeons you do, before you have any upgrades or trinkets, are some of the hardest in the game. If you can make it to Week 8 in good shape, you can make it through champ dungeons! ... don't quote me on that, though.
Mission accomplished but it wasn't pretty lol. Left my first champion level dungeon with no losses, but 3 of 4 hit deaths door about 5 times a piece... then the one guy that never hit death's door hit 100 stress and failed the resolve check.... but I'm still calling it a win!
You forgot to mention the vital step where you download 30 mods turning all enemies and allies into anime girls. Trust me it's a vital step for the endgame
@@darckto7247 You gotta love people typing these replies. But I'll indulge you and inform you that firstly, British people are not a race... well, historically I'd argue their behaviour towards other people would indicate that they themselves thought otherwise. My question is why you would jump to such a conclusion on your own and reply with such an inflammatory response? Are you possibly projecting your own biases onto me?
@@samwu1836 You gotta love people typing these replies. But I'll indulge you and inform you that this was most likely bait. You fell for this person's bait hook, line, and sinker.
Watched this after utterly failing my first attempt at this game ending up broke, stressed, alcoholic and hopeless... I now feel confident to start my second try. So... thanks!
I was doing fine. Had a big expedition running for. . . Three boxes later after starting, a guy called the collector arrives to ruin my day. Now I'm seriusly considering restarting.
Man i was looking for a good rpg yesterday. I been getting the rpg fever lately. Honestly always think i dont like turn based combat but i find myself actually loving it. There so much more u can do with turned base its alot deeper system and i realize that now. But i am in love with darkest dungeon right now just hope the grind dont get boring fast but im sure there alot to learn about all the classes,skills etc that will keep me busy
Don't you hate it when you miss 5 attacks in a row, take tons of damage, then when you finally get the last enemy down to 2 hp and bleeding the guy who missed everything finally hits and it's a 50 damage crit?
I very nearly sent the game straight back after I realised how complicated it is. Watching your video really helped and changed my mind! Highly recommended if you're new to Darkest Dungeon!!
I got one warning - the game designers cheated the parties. Melee mobs can attack anyone from the back row...your party will all have heart attacks after entering a battle full health and torch lit, you will lose players left and right to misses from your party, and constant initiative losses every battle (you will never attack first, if you do consider yourself lucky enough to win a scratch ticket), even when you crit heal your party for 2 health - the two remaining mobs will slash that away with four hits to your one... In other words, keep a core party of 4-6 favorites and protect your core four or six, leaving all other players just meat shields...if you are losing a battle badly by unlucky rolls (always), be sure to keep that core party member alive and run away if you want to keep them (although then you will have to do a few moon party runs to make money to cure the stress you accumulated from your unlucky rolls). Always assume every encounter will consist of four to six bad guys, DONT be fooled by the early tutorial dungeon consisting of random encounter number - ALWAYS BE FOUR OR MORE. Protect the core clan, kill everyone else, grind money, grind grind grind
I did not know you could interact with curios with certain items, I always just interact with it without using a single items, glad to know different things happens when you use items on them :) love your guide!
Oh, for sure! Not gonna lie, I was getting pretty fatigued by the time I got to the example fights, so I just picked the first four people that looked like they made sense and ran with it :)
@@YewbPlays well honestly, i thought it was intentional since big part of the game is figuring out what works and what not. Was a nice vid tho :D Hyped for darkest dungeon 2?
I just picked up the Crimson Edition and man is this game unforgiving! This helps a lot, thanks. I'd also like to add that I appreciate the many edits you put in to revise or simply inform me further. You should consider doing these more often if you feel that your personality is worth sharing (imo it is) because you certainly have the knowledge.
I purchased the game a while back but could never really get into it due to feeling really lost in all the mechanics. This guide however has really made me want to learn it properly and I finally feel like I understand the game. One question though, if anyone can help me. I noticed the corpse mechanic in the game, how much of a problem is this? Or is it something I don't really need to be concerned about?
Awesome man, glad you liked the guide! The corpse mechanic is really just there to make sure you care about positioning. It's not usually worth building your party composition around clearing corpses with skills like Disorienting Blast or Purge - you'll want to hit the back lines first the majority of the time anyway, so they shouldn't be a major problem. Corpse-clearing abilities can be useful, but if you feel like you need to use them constantly it's probably indicative of other problems with your party comp. As long as you're aware that you can't just bring two Lepers and nuke down the opposing team in rank order, the corpse mechanic has done its job.
I like cats. Also, my cats decided to go ballistic in the living room while I was recording, and I only noticed my mic had picked it up while I was editing. Cats are nice.
First time I played this game I gave up after 2h, because there was so much info and no tutorial. Then I came back next day with more patience, I learned all the shit from the internet and fell in love with this game
This is truly a game that makes you learn when to cut your losses and not attach such emotional value on your party members. Even with 3 of my party members becoming virtuous in the same veteran run and it going so well, I still lost my resolve 2 crusader who carried throughout the battle. But the game moves on and I had to as well. If I had to name a game where I had such great experiences, it is definitely this game.
Thank you, ive just bought this and had about 2 hours worth of gameplay, although im kinda used to these Rogue-lites and strategy, turn based games...this one has fairly unique mechanics and a rather overwhelming set of mechanics so i appreciate the guide and tips...heading back into the Darkest Dungeon now :)
I watched this as a reminder as I am coming back to Darkest Dungeon after a long break (purchased the Switch version). Great spoiler free guide. Well done on going over mechanics, whilst avoiding specific strategies. A game like this is good to play and experience 'blind'. But obscure stats being explained is always a useful thing. Thanks a lot.
I haven't played Darkest Dungeon in ages. While I enjoyed the game, I never quite understood what I was doing. Probably didn't help since I was also playing with the Crimson Red mode turned on. Glad this popped up in my feed. You may get me to give it another go. I enjoyed your video but I felt you left out one thing. How do you disassociate yourself from the characters. Even when I got a guy to a high level I felt bad when he died. Just like an old school Fire Emblem game.
15:55 This is a bad thing to recommend to new players. Bring torches. Your party will get stressed less, the enemies will have a lesser chance to wipe the floor with you outright, just, backtrack to the treasure rooms, snuff out the torch with shift clicking on it and renew it along the way so as to not get surprised in complete darkness. Now, if you were to have quirks that negated the +stress to manageable levels or benefited from low light (night owl, lurker), torchless would be viable but even then you'd like to have the torch at around 1-25, plus some cool trinkets that benefit from low light.
I've been playing Darkest for a while now. I feel I have a pretty decent handle on it, though I'm still in the early game, but watching this has helped me a lot. Thanks a bunch mate!
Thanks for the guide! I came here from Christopher Odd's recommendation and it was super helpful! I think as my first rogue-like, some of these concepts were counter intuitive to me!
I know I’m late to the party, but if your not on crimson difficulty, is there a time limit to winning? Or could I grind for heirlooms and gold forever?
It is, I'm afraid! I normally hate micromanagement, but to be honest something about this game just makes it work - maybe the fact that nothing's limited by real time. It's not a "keep these six plates spinning" type of micromanagement, more a "oh, crap, I accidentally took a Cove Phobe to the Cove and now she's real pissed about it" style. But yeah, to answer your question - whole bunch of little stuff to keep track of, I'm, afraid. Most of it's not catastrophic to mess up, but if you're not into micromanagement it can get a little frustrating.
Yewb, thanks for the insight! Another question if you don't mind: what's the save feature ( is there one?) If a player were to have a TPW, can you at least go back to your last save? Wish there was a way to test drive this game, I'm really tempted. Seems like a type of game to play during Halloween season! I guess it's only 5 bucks risk , lol
Thanks for the awesome guide. Always struggled with what I should do with negative quirks so it's good to know what are the worst ones. curious, compulsive, off guard, slow draw, kleptomaniac, phengophobia and Calm
i've come to realize that this game is completely ruined by the stress system... it is completely unfun, over powered and utter bullshit... games are supposed to be fun and who ever thought this is a good idea is a moron seriously... most frustrating and game ruining aspect to the game, your so busy trying to deal with stress opness during exploration that game loses all fun aspect and you get over the game rapidly... i get what they were trying to do but god dam they went way overboard... most of the time im getting fucked over by heroes that are in the tavern leaving me with no hope of even constructing a team good enough to even survive the 2nd exploration due to the utter stupidity levels of stress and position effectiveness camping seems like a much needed mechanic in this game and you only get 1 which is fucking idiotic, and thats if the game even gives you missions that have this option.... in all seriousness this game is just a troll fest... the creators spent so much time making this game so frustrating they completely forgot about what makes a game good... really disappointed in what im seeing, was expecting this game to be really good and its just a complete shit show :(
I just got this game a few days ago and was talking to friends while first loading it up and asked what campaign I should pick. They said bloodmoon, (they had never played it either) and I listened to them. FML
29:49 that seems like a terrible system... It essentially creates a weighted randomness but the randomness being there to begin with is such a bitch...
@@silvergreylion More like a vocal minority of players think it's fun. They bitch about games that have tutorials because "tHaT'S nOT hOw mY NiNTEnDY gAEmeS wERe LiKe 20 YeArS aGO"
Because it's actually better when a game doesn't hold your hand. This ain't Skyrim, giving you everything you need to know on a silver platter, this is Darkest Dungeon, and if that bothers you, be thankful it ain't Dwarf Fortress.
Thank you for this, was a really help loving the game. Shame the channel went dark checked twitch and your dark there too. Do let me know if you come back sometime you really did an amazing guide and touched on every aspect of the game.
32:45 basically low HP doesn't really affect their ability to deal damage. It's better to remove sources of damage entirely rather than hurting them partially huh?
Thank you for this, really helped me get off the ground. Been playing this most of the weekend and still missed a ton of stuff that you just brought to light.
Quick question, how did you calculate the 40-45 percent chance to kill? haha
I'm not sure exactly the part you're referring to, but here's the general process with an example.
Say your enemy has 6HP, and you have a 50% chance to hit. If you hit, you will deal 4-7 damage (each outcome evenly weighted, I believe). Your crit chance is 10% - this is the part that complicates things. All of this information is visible in the fight.
As each of the damage outcomes 4, 5, 6 and 7 are equally likely once you hit, you have a 50% chance for a successful hit to kill the 6HP enemy. So you can multiply the hit chance (50%) by the kill chance on hit (also 50%). This gives you a 25% chance to kill. Right? Almost!
What if you crit? This complicates things a little (a lot). Because crits and non-crits have different chances to kill the enemy, we have to split up "chance to hit" into two numbers: "chance to non-crit" and "chance to crit". In this case our chance to crit is 5% overall, because our base chance is 10% but we miss half the time.
So now we have our 50% chance to miss, our 45% chance to hit, and our 5% chance to crit.
If we miss, we never kill the enemy. Obviously.
If we hit, we have a 45% * 50% chance to kill the enemy - 45% for the "attack roll", and 50% for the "damage roll". So we have a 22.5% chance to kill the enemy without critting.
The 5% crit chance guarantees the kill, so we can now just add that to the 22.5% non-crit kill chance, to get a total kill chance of 27.5%.
I've used round numbers here for simplicity, but this can get far too complicated for me to do mentally. Honestly, I usually just eyeball it at this point, but there are still occasions where I have to go through the whole process!
@@YewbPlays this guy did maths, and he good at it too!
Thanks. I live in America where they don't teach math. The closest thing to it is:
_"Suzy had 6 guns and 174 bullets for each one. If someone knocks on Suzy's door at 3am, how many bullets will Suzy need to use to prove she's a patriot?"_
@@TrueRandomization this was a joke, and you clearly didnt get the joke
Thanks for the guide! Just got this game and have been having a lot of difficulty even on Radiant mode. I didn't even know that you could use items on curios! No wonder I always found skeleton keys to be so useless, I didn't know you had to place them onto the chest curio in order to get the loot actually worth buying the key for.
omfg tier zoo likes good games too?
no wonder you use l33t speak!
@@madscientistshusta EXACTLY!
Are you ever gonna do tier list for DD?
And a few weeks later you started to edit in Darkest Dungeon stress icon to your videos.
Another mystery solved.
wait, THE ZOO GUY!!
This is a great guide! I was way undervaluing stun, speed, and scouting.
I also was bankrupting on quirks XD
Geezus, I just watched 50 minutes of intense talking without having played the game once. Really strong guide! Thank you!
Haha, that's good to hear, thanks! Now go play the game :)
After fully understand this game and its mechanics, I finally understand why my boss don’t treat me like a human😂
Not gonna lie. This is the best video I found on UA-cam so far.
Great guide. I just started and put it down after 20 minutes to find something like this.
Great job on the review. Subbed. You clearly know your stuff on this game.
I got this game cheap (mostly to play on my PS Vita) and I was really struggling to like it. Kept wanting to play it but just couldn't enjoy it.
Your guide has done the trick perfectly and I'm completely hooked now!
Never thought I'd watch a 48 minute UA-cam video all the way through...
Great guide, since im playing on the hardest difficulty, it helped me alot, i was able to build a team to go through the first boss without trouble, also the item management was rly great too.
Super helpful video! Thank you for making this.
even up to date this helps, awesome
This game really needs a good in-game tutorial and decent tips.
Great video!
See everything else I find 100% manageable and I understand, but the stress levels are beyond wild. I enter the dungeon and two fights in everyone's like halfway up the stress meter for some reason x__x Any tips for stress management would be GREATLY appreciated..
I somewhat disagree with the adventurer dismissal tbh
Personally, every time theres a broken low level in my roster and I decide its not worth the truble, I like to go and hire a few random low level adventurers and send them all just like that to battle, no trinkets, no investment in habilities/gear, no nothing aside for a few food & torches.
Thing is, I dont care about the mission or its rewards, im sending them to die, to battle till their last breath, gathering as much loot as they can, and whoever is last standing earns the right to return to the village with all the loot & money they managed to get
Coming into Darkest Dungeon from Xcom - particularly modern Xcom (not putting shade on OG xcom, newcom just seems more transferrable), particularly mods like Long War, definitely set me on the right path.
Everything is about control, even when it feels like everything is out of control and you're getting "unlucky", you need to take every opportunity to deny the enemy the chance to hurt you, and if they get the chance, you need to stack every card you can against them.
jsut get a stress reducing party. Game over. Forget about healing and focus on buffs and crits. Jester, houndmaster, hellion and grave robber
psh, 48 mins no way im gonna sit through it all.
_48 mins later_
wait, it's over?!
yoo fr though.. i have the game open in the background and i thought.. alright just gonna take a few pointers and i'll be on my way. Next thing i know is that the video is over..
That was exactly me just now :D
love how people can sit and watch a movie for three hours but 48 minutes of good content on youtube and it’s suddenly a lifetime
@@tyler-xo3rb there are many filmes i can't watch even for 1 hour, cuz how boring they sometimes are
“Sir....I think I received multiple traumas in my last adventure.... can I be admitted to the-“
*Yeah yeah that sucks and all but that costs money and you kinda suck, so uh you’re fired*
Lots of business are willing to help pay for an employee's healthcare bills, but very few would offer that kindness to a newhire.
Why should I pay for you when I can hire a new guy for free?
@@CARILYNF but I saw what he went through, some dude spilled some juice on him and he freaked out and started insulting and attacking his teammates, then he had a heart attack cus the guy spilled more juice on him.
@@Cloud-bs2kn out of context that’s fucking hilarious
the Problem with very detailed guides is that they often get really boring really fast ....however yours does not despite being very detailed and thorough grate job mate
I also thought it was gouda
Amir Kafi unrelated note I had a dude who was a gambler and a known cheat needless to say it was annoying
yup i cant believe i sat for the whole 48 mins and still rmbr what he told at the start! Beautiful guide.
As grate as greated cheese
You know it's a hard game when the new players guide is 50 minutes
48mins? Dear god, it felt like five. Have a sub and a like
I'm really impressed actually because he talks so fast and gets to the point without rambling incessantly for five minutes to pad the video.
"i'll just watch a bit to get a feel for the game, but I'm not going to watch the whole 50 mins"
realizes the video is over
I am convinced that the RNG in DD is set up in such a way that it builds your confidence before utterly destroying you. (This is coming from a guy who lost 9 heroes to the Viscount then beat him in 3 turns flat with the same party composition)
ripp
I still remember the leper i lost in the pigboss fight. Crit from full hp to 0, then Wilbur instantly finishes him off with a squeel of all things, before i get to make a move with any of my guys.
This is why I sometimes hate the RNG in this game. It doesn't feel like true RNG, more like a reaction to what you have just done to punish you.
@@youtubesucks5131 if it was a reaction to what you had done then that wouldnt be RNG would it?
@@TrioFan759 Well, it would still be RNG with min/max preset paramateres
I got this game just about a week ago and went in with my waist in the water.
Even if this video is 2 years old, it still fits phenomenally with the more recent version of this game. There may be a few differences here and there, but for the most part it's very similar. Thanks for the video, it has helped tremendously.
Amazing tutorial, very detailed, just getting into the game and needed something like this, thanks a lot for it, keep up the great work!
Awesome, glad you liked it and good luck to you! :)
@@YewbPlays the most amazing thing too is that it still holds up, amazing job on an introduction video it really made things simpler
Gotta love when my whole party get killed by stressing each others...
Ya. Dumb mechanic that would not go missed if it was nerfed or flat out scrapped. In my opinion. Maybe I'm just not getting the nuances of the game enough yet and that's why it feels too unfair.
@@2midgetsinanovercoat638 It's part of the design. I started 3 days ago and as far as I'm concerned the goal of this game is to make you clench your cheeks.
People going mad is a fundamental part of that. If it didn't have any consequences on gameplay it wouldn't matter and therefore not induce any stress to the player.
It's a snowball system.
It emphasizes to a) not bringing a hero who is already or close to madness
And
b) not letting that happen in the first place by c) killing them quick and throughly
When my heroes die or go mad and I'm escaping dungeons early and I panic I assume the game is working as intended
@@2midgetsinanovercoat638 bruh that mechanic is what makes darkest dungeon darkest dungeon did you hear the intro
Abusive makes me wanna delete the game now.
I gotta recommend drunk mode for this video (0.75x speed) - I'm just a fast talker and a little excitable, sorry!
I drink beer while playing this game! I bought this game 2 days ago and I like this game a lot! It is fun and is complicated in detail as well as gameplay which makes it richly exciting to play! I
The art was made for a child. This looks like a shit mobile game
It's already nearly an hour long at regular speed, dude...
thanks for the vid, I feel ya on the fast talking - I get that a lot when I really enjoy a subject
U r Crazy man goodbye job u got yourself One more sub 😉
I wish i had seen this video the first time i've played , got mad called it ,,shitty game'' went my way (about 2 years ago). Yesterday i've decided to give it another shot and it was worth it :D
Thanks, just started the game and this was very helpfull
who’s here cause of the free game in the epic store ?
Lol I was binging on DD videos for days and then I pull up epic games and see its free 😭 So plug it's such a good game
Epic just released pain and suffering for free
Hiii newbie here✌🏻
a friend of mine insisted so hard for me to play the game that he actually guided me in the tutorial and the 1st dungeon and i must say i'm glad he did it cuz so far i'm enjoying a lot !
haha this was a great gone, i loved the game
Hey man, I recently just dove into this game because it’s out on switch, bought it just from good word of mouth. For the first two days I was absolutely getting my ass handed to. After this video I feel I get a lot of what the game is doing so I’m surviving much longer, thanks for making 50 minutes of learning mechanics engaging.
“The Really Unfriendly Estate” 😂
OMG love how you put time stamps is the description, I knew a lot of things and I love how I can just skip around to the things I need to understand better. LIKED AND SUBBED
This guide is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. It covers *just* enough to make the game a bit less daunting and let players really enjoy and understand the mechanics, without going over so much that the overwhelming and crushing atmosphere of the game is completely replaced with min/maxing very early on. I've played this game a bit so far (17 hours) but never really got to any real point of progress, despite beating my first boss last time I played it. Lately I've been thinking more on this game though, and have plans for some projects involving it, and this video seriously helped cement my confidence in what I wish to do. So thank you for that, and job well done!
I was very fond of the formatting for this guide in general. The order you approached things was good and flowed naturally from one point to another, the visual editing was nice and clean, particularly with showcasing the provisions, and the equations to help viewers keep track during the combat examples was a much appreciated touch. I can tell a lot of work went into this, and I found it inspiring. So, again, nicely done!
That's really nice to hear, thank you! :)
I second that to the highest degree. very good work!
I third that! Excellent write-up!
I bought this game for my birthday last year, but I only started playing it now, and getting my ass handed to me on a platter. After watching your video, I'm gonna give things another go-around.
Marcus Matthews there’s a lot to learn and even with this guide you won’t know what your messing up till u mess up
Yeah. I'm definitely overwhelmed by this game. So much stats. But it's good.
Which map was giving you the most trouble?
Sir, we don't talk about Rule 3a. Rule 3a is something a Darkest Dungeon player discovers about themselves. When I realized I was a horrible person devaluing adventurers based on cost-benefit analyses was when the game really grabbed me.
I felt the same way, having to get the turnover rate of McDonald's to make $$$ was hard. I will say though some characters have really high stat numbers by nature, so can be worth even the worst locked in quirks.
Imagine caring and developing feelings for a handful of digits in your computer memory...
@@ae4164 Isn't the human condition just the strangest thing?
@@ae4164 just like you cared enough to reply.
One important thing that you left out is formation management. Proper positioning of your party and disturbing the enemies positioning increases the effectiveness of your party by a lot. Enemies have very weak attack when they're in the wrong position
Awesome guide! I've already played about 10 hours of this game but just couldn't get my head wrapped around all the different concepts, so i wanted a "back to the basics" tutorial. This video clarified so many questions I had. A few days after watching I'm already completing level 3 dungeons and getting better. Thanks for taking the time to make this clear, concise and informative.
Tip nr. 1. Mod the original hero models with lewd skins; Nr. 2. Mod the monster models with lewd models; Nr. 3. Change the background to lewd backgrounds; Nr. 4 Change the Hamlet NPC's skins to lewd skins; Nr. 5 Upgrade the stagecoach to 4 heroes per week and a bigger barracks if you can afford it.
had us in the first half
I'm hard of hearing, so subtitles would be very, very appreciated.
Click the CC button.
Bought the game from Steam Summer Sale! Great video and cant wait to dive right in.
I bought ancestral edition few days ago woth normal proce. Fuck my life
@@BlessedCapybara1444 Think of it as supporting the devs. If it weren't for these purchases, DD2 won't be even made possible.
@@BlessedCapybara1444 man, it is too late but you can refund games you played less than 2 hours and bought within two weeks. just telling you in case you still don't know.
This guide REALLY helped me out. After several rough RNG's in the start and horrible party-wipes I found your video and have learned a lot. Thank you for this an Keep Up the Good Work!
Thanks for the comprehensive guide, it's very insightful.
I'm having fun learning it, but I can tell "Rule 16" is what's going to prevent me from really getting into this game.
There's a real problem, much more so with western RPGs it seems, where "complexity", "granularity", and "nuance" are too easily confused with each other and not applied correctly to a design. I already find certain systems in DD redundant and unnecessarily complex, but having to whip out a pocket calculator every time you want to complete a single action is just bad design.
When I choose an action and a target, just give me the overall chance of a certain result occurring. It could either be:
8 base dmg, 90 base acc, skill: +50% damage, -15% acc, 20% stun. Foe: 15 base def, 15 base dodge, 25% base stun resist. Foe Effect: +5% dodge, +10% stun resist.
OR
Your swinging strike has a 35% chance of dealing 3 damage and a 10% chance of stunning the enemy.
Both of those sets of information functionally communicate the same thing. They clearly put a lot of work into this game, I'd really love to hear an explanation of why they chose to do the former rather than the latter.
Very good guide! I have 97 hours in this game and still enjoyed it.
I actually was away from the game for a bit and recently came back. I was curious about your opinion on stuns. I seem to remember guides in the past strongly discouraging stuns and claiming they did not work at all in the late game. I am sure many updates have altered the prescribed strategy multiple times and wanted to ask have stuns been buffed and more viable or is this just a player's choice, topic of debate?
I am gearing for my first ever champion lvl dungeon and have no stuns in my party! Should I be worried?
Thanks! Glad the guide was useful to you :)
On the subject of stuns: I believe it used to be the case that enemy resistances outscaled your application chance to a much greater extent at high levels, so stuns were much less likely to work in Champion dungeons. This would have been a long time ago - before the Antiquarian update - but stuns are definitely worth using these days, all the way up to the Darkest Dungeon itself.
If you're going to bring a stunner, it's worth slapping a stun trinket on them - something I should have mentioned in the guide itself. With Blasphemous Vial (additional 40% stun chance), for example, the Plague Doctor is absolutely unstoppable. Even a Stun Amulet or Dazzling Charm goes a long way toward guaranteeing that stun - and reliability is key, so it's definitely worth doing.
Thanks for the quick response!
... just tried out a stun heavy party and loved it. Still haven't pulled the trigger on champion level, though... I am scared lol.
Ah, you'll be fine :) I personally think that the very first dungeons you do, before you have any upgrades or trinkets, are some of the hardest in the game. If you can make it to Week 8 in good shape, you can make it through champ dungeons!
... don't quote me on that, though.
Mission accomplished but it wasn't pretty lol. Left my first champion level dungeon with no losses, but 3 of 4 hit deaths door about 5 times a piece... then the one guy that never hit death's door hit 100 stress and failed the resolve check.... but I'm still calling it a win!
Hey man, a win's a win! Congrats!
You forgot to mention the vital step where you download 30 mods turning all enemies and allies into anime girls. Trust me it's a vital step for the endgame
He sounds like Bear Grylls with that accent...haha, UK.
thats racist man
@@darckto7247 You gotta love people typing these replies. But I'll indulge you and inform you that firstly, British people are not a race... well, historically I'd argue their behaviour towards other people would indicate that they themselves thought otherwise. My question is why you would jump to such a conclusion on your own and reply with such an inflammatory response? Are you possibly projecting your own biases onto me?
@@samwu1836 You gotta love people typing these replies. But I'll indulge you and inform you that this was most likely bait. You fell for this person's bait hook, line, and sinker.
Watched this after utterly failing my first attempt at this game ending up broke, stressed, alcoholic and hopeless... I now feel confident to start my second try. So... thanks!
lucasbeer remind yourself that Overconfidence is a slow insidious killer
Ismael Rangel EXECUTED WITH IMPUNITY
@@nicholaso.1502 Be wary triumphant pride perticipate a dizzying fall.
R u serious or joking ?
I was doing fine. Had a big expedition running for. . . Three boxes later after starting, a guy called the collector arrives to ruin my day.
Now I'm seriusly considering restarting.
Man i was looking for a good rpg yesterday. I been getting the rpg fever lately. Honestly always think i dont like turn based combat but i find myself actually loving it. There so much more u can do with turned base its alot deeper system and i realize that now. But i am in love with darkest dungeon right now just hope the grind dont get boring fast but im sure there alot to learn about all the classes,skills etc that will keep me busy
I've found that DD doesn't let you just sit back and grind, which makes sure the game doesn't get boring. I love this game
If it's not turned based, it's not a real RPG. This game is very addicting, stressful but I'm loving it!
I myself don't like turned base games as well, but this i absolutely love it.
Don't you hate it when you miss 5 attacks in a row, take tons of damage, then when you finally get the last enemy down to 2 hp and bleeding the guy who missed everything finally hits and it's a 50 damage crit?
I very nearly sent the game straight back after I realised how complicated it is. Watching your video really helped and changed my mind! Highly recommended if you're new to Darkest Dungeon!!
I've been playing DD for about a week and learning lessons the hard way: this guide is GREAT. Thank you!
I got one warning - the game designers cheated the parties. Melee mobs can attack anyone from the back row...your party will all have heart attacks after entering a battle full health and torch lit, you will lose players left and right to misses from your party, and constant initiative losses every battle (you will never attack first, if you do consider yourself lucky enough to win a scratch ticket), even when you crit heal your party for 2 health - the two remaining mobs will slash that away with four hits to your one...
In other words, keep a core party of 4-6 favorites and protect your core four or six, leaving all other players just meat shields...if you are losing a battle badly by unlucky rolls (always), be sure to keep that core party member alive and run away if you want to keep them (although then you will have to do a few moon party runs to make money to cure the stress you accumulated from your unlucky rolls).
Always assume every encounter will consist of four to six bad guys, DONT be fooled by the early tutorial dungeon consisting of random encounter number - ALWAYS BE FOUR OR MORE.
Protect the core clan, kill everyone else, grind money, grind grind grind
I did not know you could interact with curios with certain items, I always just interact with it without using a single items, glad to know different things happens when you use items on them :) love your guide!
Just picked this up on Switch!
This guide was amazingly well done and super helpful! Thanks a lot mans!
Are there touch screen controls on the switch?
Couple days into 2023 and picking up Darkest Dungeon, still the best new player guide I could find 5 1/2 years on. Great content Yewb!
Plague doc and highway man without emboldening vapours... BLASPHEMY!!
Oh, for sure! Not gonna lie, I was getting pretty fatigued by the time I got to the example fights, so I just picked the first four people that looked like they made sense and ran with it :)
@@YewbPlays well honestly, i thought it was intentional since big part of the game is figuring out what works and what not.
Was a nice vid tho :D
Hyped for darkest dungeon 2?
the game is free on the epic store WOW!
Just began the game, all I know is the plague doctor is hot.
I just picked up the Crimson Edition and man is this game unforgiving! This helps a lot, thanks.
I'd also like to add that I appreciate the many edits you put in to revise or simply inform me further. You should consider doing these more often if you feel that your personality is worth sharing (imo it is) because you certainly have the knowledge.
Thanks, that's great to hear! I'd love to do more guides like this, but I just don't have the time at the moment - maybe in the future, though :)
How the fuck you just have 1K subs. Guys, subscribe to this guy.
Greetings from 2019, great guide.
pathetic.
I purchased the game a while back but could never really get into it due to feeling really lost in all the mechanics. This guide however has really made me want to learn it properly and I finally feel like I understand the game. One question though, if anyone can help me. I noticed the corpse mechanic in the game, how much of a problem is this? Or is it something I don't really need to be concerned about?
Awesome man, glad you liked the guide! The corpse mechanic is really just there to make sure you care about positioning. It's not usually worth building your party composition around clearing corpses with skills like Disorienting Blast or Purge - you'll want to hit the back lines first the majority of the time anyway, so they shouldn't be a major problem. Corpse-clearing abilities can be useful, but if you feel like you need to use them constantly it's probably indicative of other problems with your party comp.
As long as you're aware that you can't just bring two Lepers and nuke down the opposing team in rank order, the corpse mechanic has done its job.
Started playing a few days ago and found this guide incredibly helpful, thanks for the tips!
The Abomination restriction with religious character has been lifted (Finally) since you did this video.
What's up w/ all the random cats? lol
I like cats.
Also, my cats decided to go ballistic in the living room while I was recording, and I only noticed my mic had picked it up while I was editing.
Cats are nice.
I just kept seeing cat pictures randomly pop up everywhere haha. Awesome stuff :). Watching your crimson court content thru.
Nice one, thanks man! Glad you're enjoying it :)
I actually never noticed the cats ( and I agree cats are cool )
i love this
i think it made the whole guide better))
Thanks man. I got the game on sale a few days ago. Already figured out most of the basics but there are some really useful tips in this video.
First time I played this game I gave up after 2h, because there was so much info and no tutorial. Then I came back next day with more patience, I learned all the shit from the internet and fell in love with this game
This game is certainly one of a kind
This is truly a game that makes you learn when to cut your losses and not attach such emotional value on your party members. Even with 3 of my party members becoming virtuous in the same veteran run and it going so well, I still lost my resolve 2 crusader who carried throughout the battle. But the game moves on and I had to as well.
If I had to name a game where I had such great experiences, it is definitely this game.
Great vid, just picked up the game yesterday, wish me luck :P
Thanks! :) It's a frustrating game sometimes, but well worth it IMHO. Best of luck!
Thank you, ive just bought this and had about 2 hours worth of gameplay, although im kinda used to these Rogue-lites and strategy, turn based games...this one has fairly unique mechanics and a rather overwhelming set of mechanics so i appreciate the guide and tips...heading back into the Darkest Dungeon now :)
I watched this as a reminder as I am coming back to Darkest Dungeon after a long break (purchased the Switch version).
Great spoiler free guide. Well done on going over mechanics, whilst avoiding specific strategies. A game like this is good to play and experience 'blind'. But obscure stats being explained is always a useful thing.
Thanks a lot.
I haven't played Darkest Dungeon in ages. While I enjoyed the game, I never quite understood what I was doing. Probably didn't help since I was also playing with the Crimson Red mode turned on. Glad this popped up in my feed. You may get me to give it another go.
I enjoyed your video but I felt you left out one thing. How do you disassociate yourself from the characters. Even when I got a guy to a high level I felt bad when he died. Just like an old school Fire Emblem game.
Instructions unclear
Stress stuck in life
15:55 This is a bad thing to recommend to new players. Bring torches. Your party will get stressed less, the enemies will have a lesser chance to wipe the floor with you outright, just, backtrack to the treasure rooms, snuff out the torch with shift clicking on it and renew it along the way so as to not get surprised in complete darkness. Now, if you were to have quirks that negated the +stress to manageable levels or benefited from low light (night owl, lurker), torchless would be viable but even then you'd like to have the torch at around 1-25, plus some cool trinkets that benefit from low light.
I've been playing Darkest for a while now. I feel I have a pretty decent handle on it, though I'm still in the early game, but watching this has helped me a lot. Thanks a bunch mate!
Thanks for the guide! I came here from Christopher Odd's recommendation and it was super helpful! I think as my first rogue-like, some of these concepts were counter intuitive to me!
WOAH! I watched the whole guide and I saw 5min, few secounds later that was the end... Nice job!
Just saw Darkest Dungeon 2 on a magazine cover. Never heard of this game, but looks good, and it's $4 on Steam. Might give this a spin.
20:40
*Talks about hounds*
*Cat gets triggered*
I know I’m late to the party, but if your not on crimson difficulty, is there a time limit to winning? Or could I grind for heirlooms and gold forever?
I’m on the fence in checking this game out. Love the aesthetic and atmosphere - just seems like this game could be heavy on the micro management 😬
It is, I'm afraid! I normally hate micromanagement, but to be honest something about this game just makes it work - maybe the fact that nothing's limited by real time. It's not a "keep these six plates spinning" type of micromanagement, more a "oh, crap, I accidentally took a Cove Phobe to the Cove and now she's real pissed about it" style.
But yeah, to answer your question - whole bunch of little stuff to keep track of, I'm, afraid. Most of it's not catastrophic to mess up, but if you're not into micromanagement it can get a little frustrating.
Yewb, thanks for the insight! Another question if you don't mind: what's the save feature ( is there one?) If a player were to have a TPW, can you at least go back to your last save? Wish there was a way to test drive this game, I'm really tempted. Seems like a type of game to play during Halloween season! I guess it's only 5 bucks risk , lol
Thanks for the awesome guide. Always struggled with what I should do with negative quirks so it's good to know what are the worst ones.
curious, compulsive, off guard, slow draw, kleptomaniac, phengophobia and Calm
Oh my god this guide is so good and helpful, thank you very much!
This game was added to game pass on XBOX so I'll finally give it a chance, thank you for the amazing tips.
a dislike for turning down the narrator volume on Wayne June @22:45.
I can't even be mad
i've come to realize that this game is completely ruined by the stress system... it is completely unfun, over powered and utter bullshit... games are supposed to be fun and who ever thought this is a good idea is a moron seriously... most frustrating and game ruining aspect to the game, your so busy trying to deal with stress opness during exploration that game loses all fun aspect and you get over the game rapidly... i get what they were trying to do but god dam they went way overboard... most of the time im getting fucked over by heroes that are in the tavern leaving me with no hope of even constructing a team good enough to even survive the 2nd exploration due to the utter stupidity levels of stress and position effectiveness
camping seems like a much needed mechanic in this game and you only get 1 which is fucking idiotic, and thats if the game even gives you missions that have this option.... in all seriousness this game is just a troll fest... the creators spent so much time making this game so frustrating they completely forgot about what makes a game good... really disappointed in what im seeing, was expecting this game to be really good and its just a complete shit show :(
I just got this game a few days ago and was talking to friends while first loading it up and asked what campaign I should pick. They said bloodmoon, (they had never played it either) and I listened to them. FML
I know I'm late to the party but I'm picking this up on switch today and this is super helpful!
Stop saying dankest dungeon (Excellent guide btw)
29:49 that seems like a terrible system... It essentially creates a weighted randomness but the randomness being there to begin with is such a bitch...
A few hours in to darkest dungeon and my biggest complaint: Why doesn’t the game tell you all this?
Game developers seem to think the discovery of mechanics is part of the 'fun'.
@@silvergreylion More like a vocal minority of players think it's fun. They bitch about games that have tutorials because "tHaT'S nOT hOw mY NiNTEnDY gAEmeS wERe LiKe 20 YeArS aGO"
Because it's actually better when a game doesn't hold your hand. This ain't Skyrim, giving you everything you need to know on a silver platter, this is Darkest Dungeon, and if that bothers you, be thankful it ain't Dwarf Fortress.
Death Incarnate that’s cool in some games but DD leaves out critical info that could make the game a lot more enjoyable
@@silvergreylion I personally enjoyed discovering the mechanics. Also, the game explains a decent amount if you hover your mouse over it.
Thank you for this, was a really help loving the game. Shame the channel went dark checked twitch and your dark there too. Do let me know if you come back sometime you really did an amazing guide and touched on every aspect of the game.
I enjoyed the turtorial but the characters status and line up are a bit confusing because of which character is best for other specific ones
The number of torches is not enough
32:45 basically low HP doesn't really affect their ability to deal damage. It's better to remove sources of damage entirely rather than hurting them partially huh?
*LAUGHS AT DARKEST DIFFICULTY*
Rarely unfair huh..?
thank goodness they did away with the '____ wont party with ____' mechanic
Thank you for this, really helped me get off the ground. Been playing this most of the weekend and still missed a ton of stuff that you just brought to light.
This is an awesome game but man it has a sharp learning curve.