Darkest Dungeon

[Genderuszk 2.0]

Finally hit 300 on Endless for the achievement. I switched out one Shieldbreaker for Man-at-Arms and got to 232, but it was frustrating as all fuck and required countless reloads because I kept getting fucked by RNG on the bosses early. I used at least 10 on Sunken Crew because I had the wrong skills and couldn't kill the anchor guy healing unless SB got a crit, finally I said fuck it and hit multiple crits on the main part and just rushed it down. After that run I switched back to double Shieldbreaker with better speed difference to make Impale go brrrr and lucked out hitting Collector twice on the boss stages and dipped out after 303 before my party got too fucked with stress. I don't want to hear the Ancestor talk about the Miller being thrice a victim ever again.

Spoiler: Cheese for Endless

There's virtue farming and virtue scumming. Virtue farming is doing "legit" affliction checks, and then stress-healing anyone who afflicts to 0 stress, so that you can try again by letting their stress build up again. Virtue scumming is simply exiting to menu when you get the affliction splash to reroll until you get a virtue instead. Doing this early in the run gives everyone the virtuous buffs and act-outs and makes stress much less... stressful. As a bonus, it completely screws up the Crew since virtuous heroes can't be anchored. Heroes will lose the virtue if you let stress reach 200 though, and obviously you're front-loading your annoyance with RNG.

With Jester|Vestal|Shieldbreakerx2 you would still eventually taper off as you accumulate diseases and mortality debuffs. There's a Youtuber who has taken Plague Doctor|Antiquarian|Crusader|Man-at-Arms to 15k and counting but that's also with optimized quirks.

 

[AnOminous]

There's virtue farming and virtue scumming. Virtue farming is doing "legit" affliction checks, and then stress-healing anyone who afflicts to 0 stress, so that you can try again by letting their stress build up again.

If you're going to do this, remember the Tentacle Idol (+20% to Virtue chance) and Hero's Ring (+25%) and if you have a Highwayman (a good idea) and Crimson Court, his pair of CC trinkets (+45%). Switch off the virtue trinkets to whoever you're fishing on.

You obviously want a Jester for this, who should have Bright Tambourine and Tyrant's Tasting Cup and spam Inspiring Cry until you get an afflicted hero back to normal.

 

[Hamburger Detractor]

That's cool about the virtues. I don't know anything about them yet because I get afflictions 9 times out of 10. I figure they give a buff but never really looked at what they do or how good it is. I also saw from videos that a lot of people used trinkets from CC that I'm not running on my file but I found some replacements. I know I have some of those virtue trinkets so I'll try one more run with them, but for now I'm almost done with the base game. I have the final versions of the Flesh and Drowned Crew then I can start the actual Darkest Dungeon to finish the Caretaker's list. I've also been trying to hunt down the Shambler after I realized he drops the Bright Tambourine, but of course now I never run into the altars to go to the fight. I saw someone use a team with double Highwayman and MAA that killed it with triple riposte and want to try it, maybe I can just run around torchless until it spawns randomly.

 

[AnOminous]

That's cool about the virtues. I don't know anything about them yet because I get afflictions 9 times out of 10. I figure they give a buff but never really looked at what they do or how good it is.

They're very good but considering the low chance of getting them, not really worth exploiting outside of the Farmstead, the only place you can basically get infinite chances at it. All four heroes being virtuous is almost always going to get you past 300.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

I've also been trying to hunt down the Shambler after I realized he drops the Bright Tambourine

Bright Tambourine is a generic Rare that can drop whenever Rares drop. You might be thinking of another trinket. Out of the Shambler-exclusive trinkets, I use the Map, Candle, and Scroll the most often. The Tentacle Idol is mainly for virtue farming and the Bottle is annoying.

Highwayman is great for the Shambler because he's rank flexible for the shuffles, and riposte is great because Shambler always hits all ranks.

 

[Dr Cruel]

This is how you play Darkest Dungeon.

Must be Pride Month in London again.

 

[WULULULULU]

There is now a 64-bit Chinese-patched client based on the Steam beta build with the Farmstead bug fix. Unlike the 32-bit Chinese patch where the modders did the service of increasing the client's memory cap and trinket cap, the 64-bit client doesn't have those problems to begin with, so the only reasons to use this patch are 1) you use mods which rely on the niche functions the patch fixes or 2) you're not on Steam and you want to play Color of Madness/the Farmstead in 64-bit NOW NOW NOW NOW. But it exists, if either reason applies to you.

Kinda late but this has been open since 2022 and has been the unofficial way to play ultra-modded DD runs. IIRC there was supposed to be an update to this reverse-engineered version of DD following the official 64-bit upgrade patch though I don't know if it ever got updated.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

Kinda late but this has been open since 2022 and has been the unofficial way to play ultra-modded DD runs. IIRC there was supposed to be an update to this reverse-engineered version of DD following the official 64-bit upgrade patch though I don't know if it ever got updated.

My post was about the 64-bit update they promised. Deovolente decided to edit the download and description into their 2022 post instead of putting it in the announcement post.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

>mom can we have darkest dungeon board game
>we have darkest dungeon board game at home

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/gabe-barrett/the-cursed-castle-solo-game-of-the-month

If you've touched DD modding at all, you'll recognize the art. Shipping started in January 2025, but the game only came to my attention now because S-Purple was seething at the use of Black Reliquary art, believing that he would know if it was endorsed, only to walk it back within 24 hours.



I'm sorry you didn't make anything the Cursed Castle devs wanted to license?

I'm mildly curious if the devs ever approached Red Hook and Red Hook refused because of the Mythic Games disaster, Red Hook just left them on read, or the devs never thought of Red Hook at all.

I have no idea what the game itself is like.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

Retarded modder news ahead.

TLDR: Nothing ever happens, but have a regular reminder to keep local copies of stuff you like. If not everything, then the Wildlanders backport, Uncrowned class, Home for Lost Monsters, Courtyard Plus, Farmstead Plus, and Vermintide. Nothing has actually happened to those mods yet.

ShallowIris decided that it's Be a Twat Week because he'll never be a woman. First order of business, harangue Stingu / Orimurax (Wildlanders backport) over a span of hours for amateur mistakes in the Wildlanders backport because "[Stingu] is not doing justice to Black Reliquary" and is "wast[ing] away the assets". (Note the Kvarotz backport drama I posted earlier shows that they're not Iris' assets and nobody on Team Reliquary even tells him if someone asks for permission to use the assets.)

Spoiler: Discord

The eventual solution that other people suggested? Put "Unofficial" on the Wildlanders backport. idontwantasolutioniwanttobemad.jpeg

Next order of business, have a meltdown about Uncrowned's Silence debuff.

Spoiler: Context for Silence

The Uncrowned class has a limited-use skill with Silence, a modded debuff that disables the debuffed enemy's stress skills. This is hilariously cathartic, but you can also instantly recognize that vanilla enemies have no natural defenses against it. Enemies which only have skills which do stress, like the puke pigs, are forced to pass their turns. For vanilla enemies you get to laugh at them. However, some modded enemies have funky effects which can cause softlocks when they are Silenced.

First ask TheAwkwardHeady and Wellington to remove Silence. When that fails, threaten to make all mobs in Home for Lost Monsters, Courtyard+, Farmstead+, and Vermintide immune regardless of whether they even need it (the mob which brought the possibility of softlocks into the spotlight was from the Tangle DD2 backport, again not even Iris' own work).

Spoiler: Discord

Hours later, the "decisive answer" as to whether Silence will be removed is not in Iris' favor and he melts down again:

Spoiler: Discord

Sasiji (correctly) pointed out that every argument against Silence other than the softlocks was retarded. He came up with a stun that rolls against debuff resist instead of stun resist, but can't implement it yet without a PC. This would be much less likely to softlock, but also more boring. Given TheAwkwardHeady's refusal it is unlikely that the original Uncrowned will be completely replaced. Still doesn't hurt to keep a copy.

 

[Genderuszk 2.0]

If not everything, then the Wildlanders backport, Uncrowned class, Home for Lost Monsters, Courtyard Plus, Farmstead Plus, and Vermintide. Nothing has actually happened to those mods yet.

Can't edit my post: SeethingIris has pushed the Silence immunity patches. Skymods (may have NSFW on landing) currently has previous versions available.

Also for accuracy, Sasiji would be in charge of Succubus' Silence, not Uncrowned.

If no one else does it, I'm 80% confident I could do patches so that complete rollbacks aren't necessary (and so that they can be uploaded without strikable material, to increase seething), but I need free time and I can't use my Steam account for it.