News Liste Darkest Dungeon II

• Right click on Darkest Dungeon II in your Steam library
• Click Properties
• Click Betas
• Choose ‘Coming_in_hot - experimental builds’ from the Beta Participation dropdown menu.

UI/QoL

• Academic View now displays when skills ignore tokens, when the skill requires certain conditions,speed, and stress resistance. Hero skill cooldowns, skill uses, and conditions are now displayed here too. [list]
• Dev Note: We’ve opted to start with dynamic information then plan to update specific enemy info where it makes sense such as bosses and unique enemies. Academic View should provide a rough/generalized outline of what an enemy can do and from where, but should remain accurate without adding confusion.There are many enemies in the game, there will likely be missing or incorrect strings, please let us know if/when you come across any bugs.

• Dev Note: Formatting has been updated to be more readable. Operator symbols have been removed and condition order has been moved around. ex) If Flame < 50: EFFECT will now read as EFFECT when Flame is under 50

• Dev Note: Stealth tokens have always had the positive token tag, now they will present and interact consistently with other positive tokens

• Dev Note: This is something we’re testing out to help provide additional clarity for health threshold requirements. The visual treatment and presentation is subject to change.

• Dev Note: This was primarily added to help alleviate confusion when enemies would die from Reverberating Redoubt

GAMEPLAY

• CRITs no longer increase the duration of DOTs by +2 rounds for both enemies and heroes.[list]
• Dev Note: We want to experiment DOTs power level as well as opening up new avenues to grant these kinds of effects from different sources. By removing the generic +round duration on all crits we can diversify with more ease. Other benefits of CRITs still remain such as the 20% RES piercing.

• Dev Note: We’ve heard feedback that in Confessions quirks are replaced at inns too frequently. This is an experimental change to see how it feels, there’s a chance these values will be reverted if they aren’t well received

• Dev Note: This change is intended to add moments of player reactivity where the game reacts based on choices and influences from the player. We’re planning to update Military barricades and Warlord encounters to do something similar.

• Dev Note: This is a run mutator area that offers a toggle to enable retreating in Confessions, selling at the Hoarder in Confessions, and having the Mountain appear at all inns. There are plans to add additional options when/where appropriate. The name is also WIP. We want to allow retreat to be an option in Confession, but we want to retain the intention of making the most out of bad situations. The successful retreat effects in confessions are as follows; +3 Loathing and -1 Stress for each hero. All values are subject to feedback and adjustment, the starting values are intentionally high to ensure the impact is felt.

• Dev Note: This is a temporary change until his trinkets are properly updated. All reworked heroes will have their trinkets updated

FIXES

• General string fixes
• General animation fixes
• Fixed camp travelogue incorrectly displaying quirk source as from inn
• [spoiler]Fixed an issue where Strange Axis did not invert CRIT tokens[/spoiler]
• Fixed an issue with more skills showing up in the Affected Skills list on some Path seals than intended

HEROES

Occultist

• Dev Note: The Occultist's core kit has been adjusted to strengthen certain identities while maintaining or improving his nature as a mixed support/offensive Hero with extremely flexible positioning. Additionally, the "Big 3" Unchecked Power skills have generally had much of their raw power moved into their base (more costly) versions with the primary goal of mastery value being reduced activation cost and incremental improvements or additional effects, such as the Shuffle on Anamnesis+ or Block Ignore on The Burning Stars+.
• Unchecked Power Burn chance increased from 33% per token to a flat 100%
• Unchecked Power Burn value now scales with token count from 1-3
• Unchecked Power Burn duration has been reduced from 3 turns to 2
• Unchecked Power Burn effect can now be resisted
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• Dev Note: We wanted to make Unchecked Power's penalty something you could engage with while also making its penalty a bit punchier to better accomplish the sense of this power chipping away at his health. There are now options to build around resistance or around effects that respond to the presence of Burn DOTs with greater reliability.

• Dev Note: We wanted to provide an additional, but not entirely reliable, way to generate Unchecked Power. Area of Effect skills provide multiple opportunities to score CRITs, increasing the odds of a lucky Unchecked Power generation.

• Dev Note: Binding Shadows has been reworked to provide a more unique identity, improve reliability of Unchecked Power generation, and introduce some Stealth and Stealth-interaction into the Occultist's kit.

• Dev Note: Daemon's Pull was widely considered too good in its unmastered state, so the Corpse Clear effect is now only present when mastered. Additionally, in order to keep its potential consumption of Unchecked Power a consistent point of consideration across the skill, the Stun has been added to the unmastered version.

• Dev Note: Sacrificial Stab's DMG range has been slightly tightened to increase the chances of killing blows and subsequent Unchecked Power generation. As this kill effect applies to Corpses, we decided to make it much easier for Sacrificial Stab to land kills on those in particular.

• Dev Note: With Wyrd Reconstruction being a signature skill, we decided to differentiate it across all Paths while leaving the core of the skill completely unchanged aside from a reduction in unmastered Bleed as it could often result in significantly more damage than recovery.

• Dev Note: Anamnesis has been rebalanced to improve overall value as an Unchecked Power skill by improving the DMG, Bleed, and adding additional disruption.

• Dev Note: The Burning Stars has been adjusted in accordance with the previously-mentioned design philosophy, while also reining some of its overwhelming power in.

• Dev Note: We decided to experiment with providing unique versions of Malediction for each Path. The previous DOT-oriented Malediction has been moved to the Aspirant while Wanderer now has a version designed to facilitate Combo-heavy parties.

• This Path no longer has a 33% chance to receive Vulnerable on Turn Start
• This Path no longer has innate Debuff RES Piercing on Curse skills
• This Path no longer has a chance to gain Positive tokens when using Curse skills
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• Dev Note: The Ritualist has been updated to incorporate his Debuff-oriented nature into his mechanics in a less passive way while also leaning on his curses for a more Path-appropriate way of generating Unchecked Power to spend on his skills. The Ritualist benefits from some of the updated Wanderer elements as well.

• Dev Note: In addition to Unchecked Power's standard Burn, we wanted the nature of Unchecked Power on Paths to reflect the Path itself so the previous innate Debuff RES Piercing on his curses is now an element of the token. Rather than suffering random Vulnerable tokens, the Ritualist now loses some of their own Debuff RES as the token stack grows.

• Dev Note: As it can be important to land curses before an enemy or other Hero acts, particularly in the case of Weakening Curse, we decided to add a chance of Speed token to the Ritualist's kit. This also helps balance Unchecked Power generation between Wanderer and Ritualist by differentiating their generator skills and methods.

• Dev Note: We wanted to keep an amped version of the former Wanderer Binding Shadows and this was the right Path for it. While Unchecked Power assists the Occultist in landing his own Debuffs, Binding Shadows can help the rest of the party land theirs. Duration is measured in Rounds in order for it to have more value against multi-action bosses.

• Dev Note: As the Ritualist can generate Unchecked Power more effectively via curses, we decided to remove the On Kill element from Sacrificial Stab for now in order to balance generation options between the Paths.

• Dev Note: Wyrd Reconstruction's healing and Bleed values have been normalized across all Occultist Paths and given an additional Unchecked Power effect unique to the Path.

• Dev Note: Malediction has been given a unique identity per Path. This one was inspired by the old Ritualist's proc chance for positive tokens when using curses, but expanded to allow other party members to benefit as well.

• Dev Note: While it may seem strange to have a curse Path produce less Vulnerable, we felt that the guaranteed Unchecked Power regardless of whether you hit or whether the curse works made for a strong point of exchange in generation balance without just making this a "Wanderer++" version of Vulnerability Hex.

• Dev Note: As expressed previously, we wanted to make curses a central point in the Ritualist's Unchecked Power generation without allowing them to become "Wanderer++" like they used to be. While it doesn't strip any positive offense tokens, the skill can now passively generate a lot of Unchecked Power -- particularly where Area of Effect skills are involved -- while still weakening the target. The right timing can generate an entire stack at once!

• This Path no longer has an inherent -20% HP
• This Path no longer has a 33% chance to gain Unchecked Power on Turn Start
• Unchecked Power now grants +1 DMG per token
• Unchecked Power now reduces max HP by -10% per token
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• Dev Note: Warlock's Unchecked Power generation was both a feature and a problem, so it was rolled up elsewhere in the Path where it can be a feature-at-a-price. The Path no longer offers enhanced DMG on ranged skills (previously baked into their DMG values) for free but, instead, has rolled up the increased DMG and HP penalty as components of its unique version of Unchecked Power. The Warlock has acquired some small recovery options to assist with his fluctuating max HP and his beloved positional flexibility and boom potential have been retained.

• Dev Note: It was only a Path skill in that it had baked-in increased DMG compared to Wanderer. Now it just uses the Wanderer version.

• Dev Note: We're trying an experiment with Chaotic Offering. While the mastered version provides nearly twice the chance of Unchecked Power that the old Path did, it now comes at the cost of a skill slot. As long as the skill slot is functionally sacrificed, you can passively generate Unchecked Power.

• Dev Note: It was only a Path skill in that it had baked-in increased DMG compared to Wanderer. Now it just uses the Wanderer version.

• Dev Note: Sacrificial Stab benefits enough from Unchecked Power on this Path that we opted to keep the older, less tight DMG range that Wanderer used to have. In addition, the kill effect for Unchecked Power was removed to help balance out his generation methods.

• Dev Note: The often-reduced HP Warlock gets the safety net version of Wyrd Reconstruction. We considered just having it just skip the Bleed, since a Warlock's HP is often being driven down by the Unchecked Power penalty, but opted for a Regen at the same value as the Bleed instead. This gives more ways to interact with or influence the skill's results.

• Dev Note: We wanted to do something unique for Warlock's Anamnesis so opted to do a form of positive token "DOT" bomb capable of ignoring any defensive tokens and applying very specific DMG. This gives a single target DMG option when certain defenses are in play that you'd prefer not to gamble on. Unlike traditional DOT bombs, this does not expunge the source -- only the ignored tokens traditionally removed by a damaging attack -- and is compatible with tokens such as Strength, CRIT, and Weak.

• Dev Note: Burning Stars was often the star of the Warlock show so we decided to keep (and improve) its maximum boom potential while making it a bit harder to attain. It is now subject to all defensive tokens but it can deliver crushing damage to the undefended.

• Dev Note: Nobody gambles with healing quite like the Occultist does and that inspired this Warlock version of Malediction, where the heal has no threshold but also a risk of backfiring by healing the enemy.

• This Path no longer has an inherent +25% Max HP
• This Path no longer has an inherent -15% Debuff RES
• This Path no longer gains Block+ on Combat Start
• This Path now has a 66% chance to generate Unchecked Power when the Occultist moves
• Unchecked Power on this Path additionally grants +10% max HP per token
• Unchecked Power on this Path additionally has a 25% chance per token to apply 2 Immobilize. This effect is resistable.
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• Dev Note: Aspirant has undergone a number of changes intended to retain his front ranks capability while enhancing his mobility and filling an oft-requested "DOT role". His former HP bonus has been rolled into Unchecked Power and he uses a very different method of Unchecked Power generation compared to other Paths.

• Dev Note: His melee skills have had their DMG re-evaluated given the ease with which he now generates Unchecked Power through them. Binding Shadows has otherwise acquired the Stealth defensive capabilities of the Wanderer version.

• Dev Note: Similar to Binding Shadows, DMG on Sacrificial Stab has been re-evaluated. It now functions as a dance option so you're no longer limited to Binding Shadows for movement. Additionally, it can generate Block/Block+ tokens from killing blows to enhance front rank survivability.

• Dev Note: Neither of his standard curses have penalized Debuff RES Piercing any longer and have been returned to the Wanderer version accordingly.

• Dev Note: As the "DOT role" Occultist Path, it felt appropriate to have the bonus Unchecked Power effect for Aspirant be a cleanse. This also provides a rare non-Plague Doctor option for broad DOT removal.

• Dev Note: Aspirant only increased the DMG of Anamnesis in the past and the base Wanderer version already has that buff now.

• Dev Note: We received a lot of requests for a version of The Burning Stars that inflicted Burn so here it is, with a bit of unique Occultist flavor when mastered!

• Dev Notes: We felt that the fun of Malediction was the roll to inflict DOTs, not the roll to land the debuff, so Malediction and Malediction+ are generally capable of bypassing most, if not all, Debuff RES levels without assistance. We removed the Bleed/Blight/Burn RES debuff applied with mastery but increased the DOT value instead to give it a little more punch.

Plague Doctor

• Dev Note: the core kit of the Plague Doctor has undergone some revisions to improve some older utility skills as well as account for the recent change to CRITs and DOTs. Some additional adjustments have been made to slightly loosen positioning restrictions in some cases and promote more party composition options.
• Max HP has been increased from 28 to 32
• Blinding Gas+ CRIT increased from 10% to 15%
• Dev Note: A little improvement to a non-damaging skill to provide additional mastery value.
• Cause of Death DMG increased from 75% of DOT value to 100%
• Cause of Death+ DMG increased from 100% of DOT value to 150%
• Cause of Death+ no longer applies Combo
• Cause of Death+ now has an Execution value of 1
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• Dev Note: We wanted to make some small thematic updates. In addition, we're aware that much of the value of DOT-bombing is driven by CRITs increasing the total DOT value on the target. As of this patch, CRITs no longer influence the duration of DOTs so we've increased Cause of Death's DMG to help offset some of the perceived loss while also making it less reliant on CRITs overall.

• Dev Note: Adding a little more mastery value for a skill that deals no direct damage and providing some additional utility that feels thematically suitable.

• Dev Note: Updating one of the oldest skills in the game to better match current standards and provide a little more utility.

• Dev Note: With changes to how CRITs and DOTs interact, we felt it important to include ways to enhance DOT damage natively and controllably for some skills.

• Dev Note: Some people really get the math of prevention and this buff is for you. We felt that it needed a small bump at the lower end and the higher end should come up in tandem. Debuff RES also increases the value of the skill in a variety of situations or with certain Heroes.