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Darkest Dungeon
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05-09-2014 7:44pm#1I've been keeping a close eye on this game and I'm very excited from what I've seen so far. I don't think I've been this excited for a game since Dragon's Crown. Really loving the art style and the mechanics are fresh and interesting. Can't wait for this one.
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Developer | Red Hook Studios
Platforms | Windows, Mac and Linux (Possible consoles in the future)
Genre | Dungeon Crawler
Release date | TBA / Early 2015 (Steam early access coming soon)
http://www.darkestdungeon.com/
Game Mechanics:
The game is a 2D side scrolling, rougelike, dungeon crawler with an emphasis on stress management. You manage a team of four at any given time in the dungeon, but can recruit other members back at the town, much like in XCOM. And since it's also rougelike, when a character dies, they are gone for good. There are a total of 15 classes, each with 8 different skills which can be leveled up at the town.
Each character has a health meter and stress meter. A character's stress can go up if for example, a team member dies, the enemy hits you with a critical, or through enemy skills and traps. Conversely, you can lower your stress by hitting criticals, through items and with camping. Stress is also effected by the torchlight meter at the top of the screen. The lower the light the more stressful it becomes, but also you find more loot and deal more criticals to enemies. The torch can be bumped up with an item or fully restored when you camp.
When you set up camp you have a chance to eat any rations you have and depending on the amount you eat, you get some points to spend on healing, or reducing stress through each characters abilities. For example the healer in the group can bandage wounds better, or the Highwayman might use some dark humor to relieve the stress. If a characters stress meter becomes full, they will either gain a negative trait such as 'Selfish', 'Paranoid', 'Panicked' etc, which will affect what the character does or doesn't do. However there is a chance they they will overcome the stress and go into a positive hero-like state and become stronger.
The positioning of the characters are also important. Certain skills can only be performed in certain positions and can only attack enemies in certain positions. For example the Highwayman's 'Point Blank Shot' can only be used in the front row and will only hit the enemy in the front row.
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The latest build from PAX Prime:
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Won a key of this last night of the streamer ThunderCast. Was followed to him for a long time and had his stream muted in the background while i was playing League of Legends, finished the game and checked his stream to enter and win the giveaway
After about an hour of playing im very impressed. The art style is beautiful and the game mechanics of light and battle positions is really nice. Abit of RNG involved in the battles but that can be offset slightly by planning ahead and making the right choices in battle. The voice over is also fantastic, much like Bastion.
Two problems so far are the way the combat will pause when one of your party members speaks and no turn order bar. But i can also see cause of them not having a turn order bar so you really have to be aware of who is attacking and in which order. Adds more to the stratagem i suppose.
Top game and well worth the price of 20 bones. Wonder if i can buy it again as id like to support the devs. All else fails i grab it on another steam account.0 -
YouSavedMyLife wrote: »Won a key of this last night of the streamer ThunderCast. Was followed to him for a long time and had his stream muted in the background while i was playing League of Legends, finished the game and checked his stream to enter and win the giveaway
After about an hour of playing im very impressed. The art style is beautiful and the game mechanics of light and battle positions is really nice. Abit of RNG involved in the battles but that can be offset slightly by planning ahead and making the right choices in battle. The voice over is also fantastic, much like Bastion.
Two problems so far are the way the combat will pause when one of your party members speaks and no turn order bar. But i can also see cause of them not having a turn order bar so you really have to be aware of who is attacking and in which order. Adds more to the stratagem i suppose.
Top game and well worth the price of 20 bones. Wonder if i can buy it again as id like to support the devs. All else fails i grab it on another steam account.
You can buy it for me if you like! :pac:
I'm guessing the game doesn't release midnight our time? It's probably midnight PST or something? Also, is it normal to have no price listed on Steam before the game is released?0 -
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seems very out of balance at the moment, like some times your guys are stressed to the maximum limit and you cant afford to de stress them, and you cant choose to skip going to a dungeon for a few days or anything so your forced to go and have an awfull run, also seems really hard to make any cash or upgrade the buildings.
And i had this one run that was going great my stress was like 1 or 2 on on each guy then i just walked on a trap and they all went mental on me
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Lone Stone wrote: »seems very out of balance at the moment, like some times your guys are stressed to the maximum limit and you cant afford to de stress them, and you cant choose to skip going to a dungeon for a few days or anything so your forced to go and have an awfull run, also seems really hard to make any cash or upgrade the buildings.
And i had this one run that was going great my stress was like 1 or 2 on on each guy then i just walked on a trap and they all went mental on me
Some characters have certain negative quirks that will make them more stressed depending on which dungeon they are in. And the light level will increase stress levels of the party. Lots of different things factor into it.
As for not having the choice to skip days. The best thing to do is to run 2 main teams and swap in and out heros between those teams depending on stress levels and such. Upgrade your recruit wagon so you will have 3 recruits each week and the space to put them in the roster. Run low lvl dungeons with them and extract them if you have to just to get the gold earned in the dungeon, then fire them after the run and get a new team for another level 1 run.0 -
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The grave Robber is all about versatility.
She can start off in the front 2, FADE back a position for a stun and dodge buff to herself then, when shes back in the 3rd position, LUNGE forward 2 and deal some nice damage (her LUNGE gets +%40 bonus damage) and be ready to stun again with FADE.
That's how I've been using her wit great success!
Her daggers throw + Hellion charge do some nice AOE.0 -
The grave Robber is all about versatility.
She can start off in the front 2, FADE back a position for a stun and dodge buff to herself then, when shes back in the 3rd position, LUNGE forward 2 and deal some nice damage (her LUNGE gets +%40 bonus damage) and be ready to stun again with FADE.
That's how I've been using her wit great success!
Her daggers throw + Hellion charge do some nice AOE.
I may just bring the Grave Robber back into the fold!
I did a similar thing tonight with the Highwayman. Went with his Pointblank Shot and Lunge attack. I would start him in the front with a trinket that gives:
+5 SPD on first round
+6% Crit on first round
-5 SPD for the remaining rounds
He has high base speed anyway so he went first every round with a high damage attack to the enemy front line with nothing so far surviving a crit. Its good stuff. I suppose you could have a dance team with the Grave Robber and Highwayman swapping positions constantly 0 -
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taking ages for it to get on the store TAKE MY MONIES !! 
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