New Players, Hamlet, Expeditions, and You: Darkest Dungeon Guide
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- There will be an intermediate/advanced tips video in the future.
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0:00 Intro
0:32 Hamlet Management
10:47 Expeditions
24:29 Battles and Camping
33:43 Cycle of Play
35:03 Outro - Ігри
Years of playing and I never realized explore 90% was just all room battles but with extra steps
thanks a lot for your comment, you helped me realize it after a week of playing
it's not. You can skip (retreat) all room battles you find on the dead ends while still counting them as explored, which makes those missions the safest of the 2, specially on long dungeons since they can have multiple dead ends and you can heal some of the retreat stress. long exploration mission in the warrens are the easiest since the maps tend to be one big rectangle with many interconnected rooms.
@@rafasilva1265did you seriously recommend retreating from fuckin battles as a valid strategy of completing a dungeon?
Yeah sure lemme just eat a party wide 20~ stress instead of sacking up and dealing with the backline like you're supposed to.
@@quinnlee-miller9792 20 stress aint that hard to deal with.
Counterpoint:
Thing from the GODDAMN stars
A NOTE ABOUT EXPERIENCED RECRUITS
Experienced Recruits is the best upgrade in the hamlet. Take it ASAP. After taking one level of Experienced Recruits, you have the option to take any level 1 character from the wagon and replace a level 0 or 1. Instead of spending gold to buy Smith/Guild upgrades for your units, you get those upgrades for free as you upgrade your roster. The first level is especially nice. Level 1 units begin with access to all of their abilities, and can be adjusted immediately. (and for free!)
Protip: The cost reduction upgrades in the Guild and Blacksmith can wait until most/all of the unit upgrades you're buying are Level 4 or greater. Save your heirlooms for the smithing, mastery, and Experienced Recruits upgrades.
Protip 2: In the hamlet, you can click the arrows to the right of your heirloom counts to exchange heirlooms of one type for another. Funnel extra heirlooms you don't need to a type you do, and you can grab upgrades weeks faster than farming would take.
Fun facts:
No, cost reduction upgrades are supremely useful and go a long way to not bankrupting you. Every upgrade is another reduction of RNG being able to fuck you, and you want those upgrades ASAP, but it'll end up with you not having enough money to provision most of the time. The slivers of gold really do add up over time, especially with heroes you bring in and need to level.
Experienced recruits are the worst upgrade for Blood Moon/Stygian. The chance of a level 1 hero showing up is 18.75, 2 is 12.25 and 3 is 6.25. Add that to the fact that the hero you get could be so awful you wouldn't want to take them, and it's a wash. Sure you COULD get a level 3 Vestal with Hippocratic, or something else fantastic, but the chances are so abysmal that I'd never bother past the first upgrade, if at all.
Finally, heirloom trading should be kept to a bare minimum, because you are losing I want to say either 33% or 66% of your heirloom value in the trade; the exception is Busts, because they're fucking useless. If you can trade portraits or deeds for a skill/armor/weapon upgrade, go for it bc that's huge.
Thank you so much for this write up!
me, having aroud 200 hours of game time : A new players' guide ? teach me senpai
Same lol
12:22
"The short missions should take you between 7 and and 12 minutes"
Me: o.o taking 20 minutes just to prepare my heroes and another 30 for a short mission
Mood
Fr, short missions are so lame for the amount of prep you need to do. I only do them to train Shield breakers for their nightmares, so they get a bit more accuracy, damage, dodge, etc.
Can't wait for some darkest dungeon 2 content.
I always forget to do the torchless loot trick
Thank you very much.
Years before i tried this game but there were a lot of things that i didn't understand, now o tried it again and in found that you must learn from failures but still there are some other things that aren't explained.
Thanks for this awesome guide !
I highly dissagree in short missions being the safest, i have almost only died on bosses and short missions, the sustain and recovery of the camps make medium and long so much easier.
It depends on the team too, sometimes.
Shieldbreakers without grinding out the nightmares? NEVER on medium or long missions.
Even with camping, medium and long missions also often kill.
It's not thst one is better.
It's that nothing is truly safe.
Short maps that arent battle room completion have between 4-8 battles across the map. If you're dying by these maps then your composition/items/upgrades/skills might suck. If you are doing a BOSS mission on a short map, expect pain and be weary of roaming bosses such as the Collector. Short missions you can usually blitz the fights and just end battle by round 3 but stall it to 5-6 to heal up. You really should take advantage of the weaknesses of each zone between bleed or blight and carry provisions that are most common to each.
The opposite is true for Long, you need a very effective and synergistic team composition or you will get bear blasted down either by damage or stress rapidly. Medium is the randy random where you might get battles, traps, or curios enmass between each room and sometimes RNG is brutal. Scouting is especially important for medium and long maps, it helps with ambushes or seeing the roaming bosses. Medium and Long maps, definitely think about no camp ambush skills unless you go into the camp fairly healthy.
How the hell do you almost die from a short run? Even if you ran into the collector you can still easily farm him with no threat at all. The only possible death is with compulsive quirk from your hero.
@@Seproc sometimes the enemies are really just that brutal.
A couple stress-inducing enemies focusing one character causing them to go crazy, and that's snowballing into other characters having their actions disrupted.
That four pelagic grouper fight focusing a single party member.
There's a lot more ways you can lose someone or get a party torn to pieces on a short run.
Granted, it's less common on short runs, but it's still possible.
@@Seproc I once had a medium mission where I got 5 troll rooms IN A ROW down a singular corridor leading to a boss battle.
Sometimes RNG just wants to f you.
Very good content! Like others have said, this kinda got me back into the game! And I'm liking it even more this time, it's enjoyable with some more knowledge!
Just wanna say, love how the channel's growing recently. Started watching in 2019 and it's been great to lurk in streams and watch new series like this one come along on the YT side :D
Thanks for the support. 2 years is quite a while
I cleared this game once and put it down for years. im a new player looking to get back into it. enjoying your vids and discussions. back in the day people shat on the leper but he won me the game from memory.. crit the boss
I got the achievement yesterday when I leper somehow survived 5 deathblow checks in a row, it was insane
Hey thanks for always making great content! Seeing you still keep up the work is really inspiring. Thank you!
Like the new perspective!
I just started yesterday, already running torchless most of the time. Then 1 run, 18 misses in a row. Guy with 1 hp just took out my entire team as I said "I can't possibly roll bad 18 times in a row as he crits 6 times right?"
Not sure I have ever seen this salty...
Accuracy is too important in this game, which is a rightful complaint about it.
Well see, that's the whole point in torches.
If you are putting the game in torchless for extra loot then you can't really complain about 18 misses in a row because that's the entire point of darkness in the game. To improve the enemies hit rate and damage whilst reducing your own.
The first ruins dungeon is always the same
nice guide
Thank you!
Best guide ever, got me into the game properly. Thanks man❤
weird, it says 33% ambush chance but it's 100%
That dodge at the end was so unlucky, lol
Medium missions are the safest, becouse of camping.
I disagree, the safer missions have the least amount of fights and rooms because each room increases stress and therefore ALL risks. So the safest missions are short missions which don't depend on 90 or 100% exploration. You can get through them without taking much stress or damage with a little planning. Longer missions you can't do that, you are reliant upon camp skills and looting, or you might have to flee the dungeon.
Look at it like this : The game is rolling a dice and you die if you roll a 6. 1 roll is safe, 3 rolls is not safe, 6 rolls is certain death. That's like your battles and room events, and in longer missions you generally will camp every 6-8 rooms. But an easy short mission doesn't even have that many!
So in effect - camping means you have to survive 6-8 rooms in order to use it (otherwise you will run out of supply and die before the end anyway). Shorter missions you can just bring 12 food 8 torches and basically use those to heal and survive easy (but make less loot / money).
I haven't been this early in a while so Imma share a dream that I just woke up from a few hours ago.
So it was Darkest Dungeon, but instead of a Turn Based RPG it a Real Time, First Person Point and Click Adventure game, but it still had the same inventory system as DD. The characters looked like if someone took DD graphics and put them in like an AR game, like how old 3d games would lay 2d sprites over 3d environments.
It was my first mission and it took place in the small library down the street from my childhood house. My party was me (who was unseen), MAA, Hound Master, and Vestal. They would roam around the library and interact with curious to find clues (don't ask me what clue is be we needed 12) and complete objectives on their own.
I went around my library finding clues getting loot and trinkets. It was moderately dark so we filled up on loot fast.
However I didnt know the game timer kept going while I decided what loot I got. So I was confused when my MAA started gaining stress when I was deciding g what loot to keep and what to trash, cause I managed to have a drop with 2 orange and 1 red trinket and Dodechedrons or whatever. Then both the HM and the MAA interacted with curious on their own and I multiple loot drop windows to manage and they wouldn't appear in my vision at the same time, I had to like alternate between them.
Suddenly my MAA gets a fuck ton of Stress, has a heart attack, and tucking drops dead. And then I realize I only have like 20 seconds left to finish the quest.
I've only found like 3 clues, so I say "fuck it we aren't finishing" so I sprint around some book cases and over to the computer stations where the MAA sprite lies lifeless and flat on the ground under the computer desk in front if a his chair. (he's basically in his Curios interact postion)
I scoop up the 3 diamonds he found, yell at my Hound Master and Vestal to head to the door. The time runs out then I wake up.
These are great for the insight, not so great for controls (I'm on a PS Vita)
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Good content dude! Keep it up with the good work :)
good video
Can I enter the secret room without scouting it? By spamming "w" through the hallways.
No sadly
The corect term. You sometimes get lucky, you most of the time get horrible unlucky.
Bro I am on a shuffle dd course . Been watching ur videos all month I finally killed a piggy king. Sadly I killed Wilbur first. But bro u earned a subscription an any other way I can support hit me up. Ur a godsend an maybe not the hero we asked for but definitely the hero we all needed
Glad the videos are helping :)
The description box should have some links if any of those interest you
@@ShuffleFM u live in Canada? I can ship u herb or herb candys to help deal with the headaches of rng an editing lol.
California :P
Wow tysm for the tips for torch/loot manipulation. Learned more about the game thx 2 u
In all my estates, I’ve got 0 gold and 0 left-over trinkets that can be sold when I reached Champions the first time. Any idea about resource management?
If you are already doing cost reduction upgrades, then try running antiquarian more. Bring stress healers on missions so you don't have to pay for it after, and bring diseased units with plague doctor or grave robber to have them get cured. Otherwise maybe you are being too aggressive with the sanitarium with locking in quirks or removing them. I'm just throwing out general stuff since I can't see your saves specifically :)
@@ShuffleFM Well, my stress reduction buildings are all at level 3-4, not really maxed. I always wait for the convention event for quirks but what I did aggressively was stress reduction. I always thought that all my adventurers should be at 0 stress even when their stress is at 20-30, I still put them in one of the buildings. Is that the cause? What level of stress do you recommend to have the hero treated?
@@ShuffleFM Oh yeah, and I usually wasted my provisions. I like to buy at least 3 of all the items needed to trigger better rewards from curios. But I usually discarded some of them. Torches too. I usually ended up discarding one of the stacks for treasures.
That sounds like a pretty big drain of money, so maybe we found the issue. I don't use stress heal buildings unless they are 50+. In normal play with high torch a jester or crusader can clean up 30 stress in a couple turns if you slow it down on the last enemy for a few fights. You can also camp early in dungeons for stress healing.
Provision management can also drain some money over a long period, but it isn't as obvious since it's only a couple hundred gold at a time. Supplies are one of the hardest things to do considering the entire mission, and I still waste a lot when I play so it's pretty normal. It's worth tightening up though if possible.
@@ShuffleFM Yeah it is. Thanks for your advice.
Accidentally spawned the void mini-boss thingy through the curio and got the leper, crusader, highwayman, and plague doctor all dead.
Do not put a torch in the red void curio. Dont
Don't worry, it gets everyone the first time :)
Every time i stick someone into the abbey they come out with a quirk that doesnt let them go meditate anymore, this game is just mean
Damn, 115 hours and I can't recall this happening at all. My fellas wander off for a day or two from time to time, but that's about it
@@Adam-zb5kk idk if im doing something wrong, all i know is half my dudes have unquiet mind and if i stick them in the bar they get -10 ACC lol
I find you have to sack the heroes that spent too much time in either Tavern or Abbey... It's almost like they accumulate bad quirks quicker the longer they spent in treatment previously. I find that if they pick up one or two bad ones just getting rid is a better tactic.
But I been playing this game a week lol and I first got it last week! So maybe it's different now than it was...?
Musky with pacifier is cute
Is it wierd to start playing it now? It seems more enjoyable now then when it was released. But probably it's just me getting older.
No time like the present :)
For me, the individual experiences you can get from this game are timeless. You should start if you like the concepts and the ideas the game have.
Only saying this because I'm to pu**y to not run a healer every run (the vestle class) but it makes short missions much more of a breeze , long is intimidating and medium is great with a camp
As a new player i want to thank you for this player guide. I'm just curious however on why you didn't use different titles for those like New Darkest Dungeon Guide part 2, it would make it much easier to find on youtube and would get more research matches potentially.
Do you mean in the thumbnail or in the title itself? This is a good idea, I just want to make sure where I need to be looking.
@@ShuffleFM I was thinking about the title as lots of people will search for the terms Guide/Tips/Tutorial...
@@MrBenderrrr I tag my videos with those. You don't see them from your end, but they are supposed to influence search results. I can see if they actually did their job or not lol
@@ShuffleFM Oh i see, my bad!
@@MrBenderrrr It's okay! I appreciate the help :)
Question:
Are the DLC's making the game harder or more easy? Shield breaker seems like a strong unit and the provisions you get are neat as well.
Btw.: I had no idea that the free provision is depending on the heros you bring with you. Thx
Only crimson court dlc makes the game harder. You can avoid farmstead while getting all the great quirks, and the hero classes just increase player power. Crimson Court introduces tougher enemies and blocks town events until you open it which makes your game harder overall.
in new game attempted CC burn the hives. only a level one mission right? ?? pretty f long and f crocodilian appeared and blocked the path. I retreated was like no way I can take this guy. maybe there was a way around... no there wasn't... gave it another crack yeah. I retreated again. htf is this fair? dude has 100hp hard to hit and regens? my guys have like 20hp... they all lived but with high stress
Croc is pretty challenging, definitely overtuned.
@ShuffleFM I got him next time. still set me back.. keen to stamp his skull into the mud. my one town upgrade I bought armour at the blacksmith.... wondering if weapons would have helped more?... also as was not expecting a boss, it was a sub-optimal team to say the least.
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How do i know if a character is religious?
The game doesn't tell you iirc, it's a trial and error thing. The 4 are crusader, vestal, leper, and flagellant.
@@ShuffleFM thank you, crusader and verstal i guessed, but leper.... learnt something again ;)
Ironic that you got disease on pd who used the cure.
I swear my pd gets diseases after literally every mission.
After 700 hours my best tip for expeditions would be: *STAY HOME*
I came here hoping to find an explanation as to what the 4 UI elements on the hero cards in hamlet view are. The crossed swords, the shieldy thing, the 10 empty or half empty or filled in squares, and the filling vertical meter on the right side. No explanation in the guide, no explanation on hover, nothing. I tried to guess what each of them are from the hover text, but nothing adds up.
Art 10/10, UX 0/10. Terrible.
the swords are the weapon level of the character in question the shield the defence upgrade level
the 10 squares are your stress level each one representing 10 stress for a total of 100 (you can get 200 stress in dungeons but never in the hamlet) and the vertical meter is your exp level gain when you fill it you will gain a resolve level up
You sir have helped me through my new addiction in 2024 which is Darkest Dungeon! I hate that I haven’t played this sooner! 🎉🫡
Glad you like the game :)