Darkest Dungeon 2 - Grimdark Doomed Caravan Roguelike RPG

what's up guys and gals and welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games i've got something special for you i've been given access to the experimental darkest dungeon 2 beta which is coming out pretty soon on epic talk about uh when it comes to exclusivity i have a hard time thinking of any platform that's really sniped a major title like that kind of shocking in all honesty but anyways darkest dungeon 2 it is out right now in early access so that you can check it on out just in case you want to or you can wait for the inevitable steam release which is probably rumbling along on the horizon so we're going to dive on in today spent about 25 30 minutes with it see if it's something you wanted to add to your wishlist or otherwise pass on if after watching this you did indeed want to do that all the link for you down below you will find that next to my discord my twitch stream and my twitter just in case you wanted to join the community on any of those fronts let's dive on in and begin a new journey and see if this is a worthy successor to the venerable and popular previous game so ruin has found you at last by protege my friend our calculations were correct the ephemeral equation is unbalanced the earth spins on a strange and terrifying new axis and everywhere unbridled consequence the world is a wasteland of failures past and yet you must ride out into it unafraid take this it is hope the very last of it it is yours now you were bold once be bold once more free yourself from this suffocating stillness fix your gaze on the horizon and face the fearsome truth of the darkest dungeon [Music] why won't those eldritch horrors just ever take a nappy dude we defeated this in the first game why can't they just take a little slumber man complete my confession denial i hereby acknowledge and accept the fullness and severity of my mistakes i guess i'll scribble my name on the line you have cowered in your crumbling denial long enough so are we like operating out of the same kind of landscape as the first game i'm a little bit vexed here oh apparently we get to like ghost ride the whip out here we can kind of like fly this thing okay we've got the stagecoach and the flame all right so the flame i'm gonna guess that this probably functions the exact same way so the stagecoach carries the flame which is the last hope for the world it will gradually diminish as you drive but various actions can refill it the lower it gets the harder things will be for your party okay can the stagecoach take damage or anything else like that or is it merely like we've just got to pay attention to our light levels okay well i'll tell you what the presentational aspects have definitely been stepped up look at that character model right there good lord that's a good looking character model that also has a good sense of weight like if you see the heaving of the pauldrons and the slight movement of the elbow and the arm as he rocks back and forth from the weight of the mace that's pretty it's pretty good looking all right so we've got a party here we've got ourselves a plague doctor yep we can make that go away real fast so we have paracelsus or parakelsis the plague doctor we have the grave robber audrey we have the highwayman dismiss who's my man my dude i'm so happy to see that he's back in this game dismiss always best bro man it's all about dismiss i keep you know you gotta have dismiss if dismiss isn't involved then i'm not interested uh we'll put the man at arms out front we'll put him in the second slot we'll put her in the third slot and them in the fourth slot i'm operating entirely from darkest dungeon one assumptions right now i may not have them like in the proper spot for so everything in this game if you never played the first game which like i feel like everybody played the first game but nonetheless position in the party order matters for what abilities you can use inside the context of the game and i can only assume that that blueprint still works here in darkest dungeon 2 i don't know this is my first impressions and so i guess we'll find out let's send them on out the valley this doesn't seem like a well i got a little bit more color it looks a little bit nicer than it did does it matter if i hit the leaf piles or whatever does that affect anything like does it like lower my torch or something i didn't know if they were going to kind of go in sort of like a a different direction with it where you actually got to steer the caravan or steer the cart and make sure it doesn't hit stuff the academic's cash okay so we've got stimulants over here they give us a buff we've got a pouch of lie that will kill off all of the corpses on the battlefield we've got the whittling tools that will apparently lower stress we've got the boxing gloves it gives a strength buff to two targets okay and then we've got the minor ablative which gives us 10 fire resistance from what i can tell and then we've got a storage trunk right there which gives us inventory slots and then we've also got relics on that side yeah i'll take it all is there any reason not to take it all let's see if we can dig up our inventory here and see how this stuff affects our overall trajectory so it looks like these are going to be like our currency effectively it looks like treasure or whatever we do have stimulants is there anything that i can do with the stimulants or do i like live pull them in combat well it looks like she's got pretty solid burn resist so we'll put the burn resist on her just to make it even more less burny it also looks like we can equip our stagecoach and it looks like we can put trophies inside of here we can also name our stagecoach just in case you like to customize your experience all right sounds good it looks like there's going to be it says blocked by bum leg or head injury lazy pacifist peacemaker all right well let's just like carry on forward and i guess we'll deal with some of that stuff as it becomes relevant i assume that if we're going to be fighting we're going to be doing it around the cart steps of the university a collegial handshake that [Music] seems like we're just on like a straight path here who are you the desperate few let all kind folk unite under the banner of our light we light the way for more than merely us now okay so it looks like we can get plus food and plus torch okay so apparently it's click and hold and we let one of these people decide what our decision is gonna be abandoned or forgotten it is ours now okay so we got plus 50 flame and then we also got slime mold it will restore some of your hp but it looks like it lowers your disease resist okay i thought we were going to help them i didn't think they were going to be giving us stuff but i'll take it i suppose off and down the road we go before this turt this torch burns down leaf piles dude leaf piles are so much fun it's been a really maybe that's why my life is so hollow is that i haven't like rolled in a leaf pile lately like maybe i should make a leaf pile and then roll in it ahead only trial and tribulation okay so we've got the inn in three is the leagues to do better oh there's a blockade okay so we've got pick to the face which was one of my favorites from the first game we've got throne dagger flashing dagger poison dart it actually seems like it's more or less kind of the same all right cool well let's pick to face this guy it's a pretty good animation right there almost blizzard-like in its quality okay let's go for maybe i don't think a pistol shot's gonna be that helpful for right now duelist advance may be helpful it's gonna move him up to that front slot right there and it tends to hit pretty hard and it looks like it also gives him a counter attack which i totally forgot about because it has been forever since i played darkest dungeon uh if we can get his health down a little bit lower he'll die from blight oh never mind he resisted the blight right there it's very very clear at this juncture that the animation quality has been stepped up to just an absurd level it's a very very good looking game there goes that repost right there that allowed us to get a kill let's see we've got rampart we've got defender we've got bolster yeah let's go rampart why not yep just smack that dude in the chest right there he's dazed so his next turn is delayed till the end of the round so we actually delayed his initiative right there so that works out pretty good now let's go with another pick to the face i may actually diversify a little bit i want to see what these animations look like nice little gunshot right there i love the way he unreadies himself after the shot oh what is that little meter right there experience however painful is the greatest teacher of all i like this after fight synopsis too it makes me wonder if like with the party comp it's gonna put them in in the exact same way so that like you always get kind of this fun action shot at the end of your fight i dig it alright so we've got plus one mastery so we can invest those at the end to upgrade character skills it looks like we picked up a few more relics and then we've got another minor ablative just in case we have a strong aversion to being lit on fire which i think that most of us do rest and resupply await you you know pressing on to the end i guess we're almost out of fire anyways so it's probably a good idea just to get ourselves a little bit of r and r the uh control of the carriage is a little squirrely but i don't think it matters because it doesn't look like running into stuff actually like affects anything so i guess it's like largely forgivable since you're not rewarded for kind of like dexterous maneuvering anyways the table is set all right awaits its favorite guest dismiss and audrey have become more friendly beristan and audrey have become more friendly so everybody likes audrey the party has reached the torch and crown okay everybody's at good health looks solid ah so it looks like i can upgrade the stagecoach here we can upgrade our characters here we can pick a new route from this side and so it looks like we can go through the sprawl or the tangle and our reward is a storage shrunk i feel like that's probably a really good come up all right let's throw the oh the storage actually affects what the carriage looks like right there nice okay that's a good little detail i enjoy over here it looks like is this mastery independent for each person let's put it into duelist advance since i plan on using that pretty heavily oh it's okay so it's everybody shared gotcha that's still a good purchase right there because with the setup of barristan and dismiss we can alternate them on the front line by lunging forward the shield bash with barristan and then the duelist advance with dismiss that's a very very strong combo in the original game i don't know if it's quite as strong as double rogues in the front or rogue crusader in the front but it's still a strong combo that i rely upon whenever i can alright well our masteries are done by mastering that i didn't actually pay attention to how well that upgraded it i probably should have looked at the card can i reset it oh i can good so it's four to six ten damage okay so it's three to five five percent crit chance now it's four to six ten percent crit chance all right i wonder how many times you can upgrade these probably just the ones right i would guess that like i don't know the overall structure of the game and it does appear as though there have been structural changes before the end but it seems as though we kind of go as far as we can and then i assume if we die we get pulled back in we've got an icker bomb right there we've got holy water we've got a clotting poultice should i pick up this stuff i don't know i honestly couldn't say can you sell the trinket you can't sell the trinket for more relics okay uh yeah get the bandages i guess that sounds good and that is indeed a currency that we spend in order to buy supplementary items with the bag of meth right here it looks like we spawn a dodge token every turn until the next in so that seems pretty cool i forgot to check and see if we could use stuff from our inventory when i was in that combat or if this stuff has to be like readied in some way all right well let's pick a route i want the extra storage so i'm going for the blood moon over here trenches and tents the front lines of a war that was never fought i i do like that they've kept the same angsty somber and grim dark atmosphere of the first game where everybody is kind of a tortured hero i would highly recommend if you've never seen them before there is a series of comics the red hook developers did that give you a vague illusion to the backstory of each character and why they are on this quest for atonement to fix the world and they're actually quite good most of them are completely and totally unspoken and just the story is given through like eight or nine frames uh but for example dismiss is here because he was a highwayman and he accidentally killed someone he didn't mean to kill during a robbery and so like just a little spoiler right there that's why he's on this quest to atone and he's willing to throw his life away in order to make the world a better place is because like everybody in this game has committed like an unforgivable sin like in their backstory like they've done something like really really bad or they're seeking out to write something wrong basically your normal grim dark angsty stories in the background where nobody has a happy ending beginning or middle all right let's journey onwards on the road again i just can't wait to get on the road again resignation i'm driving a carriage through some eldritch with my friends i just can't wait to get on the road again oh it looks like we got a split up here uh let's go up the middleway because it has a treasure chest and that makes me think that i deserve treasure i'm hungry and tired do i have to like feed these guys is that like a thing that i have to do it looks like the stress has gone up taking a look well we've got 77 leagues until we arrive at the end so that's kind of not encouraging i don't know how long a league is that's one of those old measurements from like the colonial era that i have no reckoning how large that is just one of those old things from back in the day where's my treasure at dude i was promised treasure in this overall experience yeah academics cash let's get it let's get it academic cash he left us some slimy goop being the wonderful human being that he is thank you for this fortuitous finding of slimy goop that's been smeared all over a plate you are such a generous patron and benefactor i'll take it all throw it all in the backpack that's an assistance encounter okay let's see if we can assist somebody over here we are i assume the good guys and so we can give it our best attempt i suppose i can close down some menus and whatnot too so that you guys can see a little bit better oh there was a battle i didn't even know that a battle was coming light sensitive what does that mean weak next attack deals less damage ah weak bro okay so it's probably a good idea then to fall back on just poisoning people and getting a whole bunch of blight stacked up let's go ahead and i am going to go defender on probably dismiss just to kind of like reduce the damage he might take and then we'll probably give duelist advance over here although i guess if we're focusing fire i should go after the crack shot yeah we'll go after the crack shot that sounds good he's got a little bit of damage taken right there i would like to put blinding gas into the back it's got a 100 hit chance which is really really nice but i have questions so if i remember correctly blinding gas in the first game was a stun i don't know if it's a stun in this game i guess we can try blind they have a high chance to miss the next attack well he didn't done miss now did he maine maine i'm getting shot with guns okay he missed his shot i'll take that him missing his shot is fine by me uh since you're still dealing reduced damage continue putting more blight on the back line uh it looks like we've got four damage going out and so i can check his hp in just a minute to see how that's gonna go what is that right there he's got combo triggers additional effects when targeted okay well let's duelist advance our way on out of a situation that we didn't duelist advance our way into he now has repos so anybody that hits him is gonna get smacked back which i'm okay with that was a pretty hefty shot right there that we just suffered to the back line i'm not pleased about it but that's the way she goes and we'll go ahead and push him back real fast i think it's a really good idea an ounce of prevention that does give us a little bit of that if hp is under 50 percent he'll 20 it'll remove bleeds as well i don't know if it's a better idea just to go for damage right now how much is that doing four damage yeah let's purge it real fast that's actually a considerable amount of damage and so i'll take it off real fast gunshot oh my good sweet lord baby jesus that was painful all right that was not a fun hit to take i do like that animation for countering people though it looked really really good like it looked very fluid and sort of all in one motion with the dodge and then the strike back you have to say it red hook games has done fantastic work sort of modernizing the appearance of the game uh it is a diversion the characters are all much less cheapy than they were in the last game and much more realistic but i think the development of the art style remains consistent while at the same time being more sophisticated and so i uh i dig it is he gonna die from poison on his next turn okay he's gonna die from poison on his next turn so we don't really care what happens to him well death blow that guy right there he's now dead oh i like the lighting effect right there when someone gains inspiration or gains friendship as well looks good let's go ahead and we will do another duelist advance to right there i'm fishing for crits but it doesn't seem to want to give me one all right is he below 50 yet he's not below 50 yet so there's not really much that we can do here it is interesting that it locks down the actual ability if there's no one you can cast it on so it says it's condition blocked so because we have nobody that's poisoned on fire or blighted or below a certain amount of hp it looks like we just flat out can't use it or target it that was not the case in the first game you could do anything to anybody even if it was like woefully ineffective let's go ahead and we'll put a noxious blast on this guy breathe in the farts of despair my friend breathe in the farts of despair and succumb ow well i mean we got hit but we also gave a hit and so you know a little bit more damage out right there is he at 50 yet he's almost at fifty percent give him the old smackeroonies man introduce them to senor bonk that's what i'm calling his mace right now it's name is senor bonk until further notice throw a dagger at him yeah right to the chest man everybody's getting shot today everybody in the crowd getting buck shot everybody in the crowd getting buckshot um if i wanted to so let's consider for a moment oh that's passing a turn oh i thought i was canceling out my selection i did want to take a look i wanted to see how to maybe use items that are inside of our backpack that's one thing that i am interested in is i don't know how to use items from my backpack like it says that we have combat items but deploying them does not there's no kind of bag icon or anything else lying around to make it apparent how exactly we might do that oh the heel only works if they have some status effect on them too okay well let's see if we can clear out a corpse or something here i was going to use the lie in order to banish all the corpses and drag him up to the front but i don't know where you use the items from uh looks like i do have to prep it prior to going into combat so it looks like there was an item slot that i missed out on okay that's fine this is my first impressions of the game so there's going to be little changes in the ui and the way that things function that are going to kind of throw me off along the way they have definitely changed the way that like everything kind of functions a minor sharpness charm that seems pretty good probably throw that onto dismiss right there to make him a little bit tougher all right so let's open up the character sheets oh that's why i missed it it's in a different nested menu right there okay let's go ahead and give you the sharpness trinky that sounds good and we've got a combat item if target is bleeding or if target is blighted or on fire it cures it we've got the lye we've got a whiskey flask we've got a clotting poultice i'm gonna go ahead and put bandages on him real fast and then in the case of perikelsis we'll probably go we could go with the smoke bombs i guess that sounds good with audrey we'll go ahead and put in the pouches of lye and it looks like you can't bring like stacks it looks like you kind of just bring one along and then in the case of barristan i don't know when i would ever use him for using an ability but we can put a pouch a lie on him too i guess since there's going to be those odd off turns where the front line is dead and he needs to get to the back line but he can't effectively hit the back line but yeah using him to burn the body seems like it would be a good play right there i'd also like to see can we actively add these in between areas we cannot so you have to have the farrier or whatever his name is okay sounds good back on the road let's get it trucking i don't know what our next do we have let me see the map real fast so what do we have coming up next it looks like we've got a stagecoach or is that our stagecoach it's kind of hard to tell and plot exactly how far along the trail we are you must be strong enough to shoulder more than your share of the burden all right so these people need hope more than anything we lose torch but we gain food and we gain items we've got gain torch so we lose six of something right there i don't know if it's our relics i think it's got the relic icon on it so we give them relics and then we'll get 30 torch we'll get food we'll get items yeah go with that one right there the wainwright awaits eager to fly his trade okay so we got food barrels that'll allow us to stack up food a little bit more we've got slime mold over there pipe weed there you go smoke a little you know inject a couple marijuanas in order to make the pain go away on your grimdark adventure you got to do what you got to do man so we can go to a combat or we can go to a hero shrine which will give a character a storyline yeah let's do that i want to find out more about the characters that was actually something that was sort of explored emergently in the previous game but i'm actually sort of interested in the fact that they have actually added scripted narrative to make the characters more fleshed out it's going to be another fight huh the unyielding enemies there's only three of them though dude that's not that many i think we'll be okay go ahead and give me a rampart right there knock him back in the turn order and then we'll go with a duelist advance has not been critting for me with a 15 crit i was really hoping that it would start critting for me and unfortunately the crit was not crot all right that's actually an opportunity to heal him so that's a blessing in disguise right there uh let's go ahead and we'll go pick to the face on this guy just keep the damage focused oh for finishing blow huh he's irritable right now i'd be irritable too if i had just gotten axed in the face but that 10 health should help out a little bit i don't know if it'll fix your overall irritability but it does seem as though it'll help out a little bit we fight together oh we got two we got two relationship right there that's pretty good uh noxious blast my dude right here just to get his health flowing down a little bit and then we will refocus our efforts on him with a wicked slice oof i'm on on a certain level i'm kind of glad that they keep critting him though and like they keep getting him just perfectly below 50 health and giving him a bleed so that i can actually use the ability on him so i'm okay with it knock him back ever so slightly he's gonna die on his next turn so we can redouble our efforts to the people in the back oh okay oh they can also be upset at the fact that other people are like accomplishing things while they're not they can like develop petty jealousies and whatnot okay well i wanted to heal him but unfortunately doesn't look like we got the opportunity to do so more slime mold couple more relics milk soaked linen so it'll cure blindness okay and then let's see this storyline fragment that we're gonna get here onwards and upwards all right my ambition outflagged my fellow officers it doesn't tell us exactly what's going to happen so let's start with barristan man at arms chapter one a premature promotion the politics of a military career or perhaps as treacherous as war itself though one tested in combat his acumen for advancement was unmatched through a dubious campaign of influence and intimidation he had at last claimed a coveted command and was eager to bask in the glory of the victories that were sure to come okay i think i would have liked to have seen like a little cut scene right there but it does look like we got something from that so he gained mastery and he gained the ability bellow which is from the previous game it's a debuff that lowers the speed of all the enemies that he manages to hit right there thus moving them backwards in the initiative order for against fast enemies that can actually be a useful ability i don't tend to use it all together that much except for very very specific fights in the previous game we got a long time until we make it back to the end we're like cruising right now but i can't really promise anything so there's a hoarder there's an academic study and there's a resistance encounter and it looks like we have to win at least three resistances in order to win the game okay good to know okay so let's get them from behind i think that the changeover to iconography for like implying what certain things do like this one is obvious we're evading the combat but this one right here i don't know exactly what it means like maybe plus one to speed i don't know it's hard to tell i'm gonna evade the fight though since we have an easy out yeah i mean if we don't have to take the fight we don't have to take the fight and honestly we've only traveled like 20 leagues right now and so like since we've only passed 20 leagues like we've still got two-thirds of the adventure to continue before we're back in and in and so i'd rather not take extra fights if i can help it obviously we've got to save ourselves for some of the main fights that it expects us to be taking during the course of this run that's a big boy right there that's a real big boy oh he has a lot of the hps i'm gonna target the ones in the back while i can we're gonna have him ramp art and move her back then he's gonna duelist advance and that'll fix our lines for the most part uh we can go noxious blast on the big guy just to get him stacked up so that he's taking some form of damage as this goes along he's also dazed so that's gonna work out okay oh no dude he's got a 50 chance i think of gaining more stress and you're now blind okay oh he put in a defensive move gotcha okay since you're blinded it's still hit i'll take it i mean we've got eight bleed on there now keep stacking i'm sorry eight blight on there he always resisted at that time that's a bummer okay well get our lines fixed first and foremost and our lines are mostly fixed right now another stack of horror oh boy and we got some serious funsies happening here go ahead and rampart him again he resisted it that time around but we did move them around a bit so he's gonna die on his next turn he used a little tiny knife on us instead of the big giant axe what tactically could have led him to that decision yeah i guess throw out a little bit here like wherever we can anyways let's do a pistol shot to the back oh he's got death's door just like we have death store interesting so you don't die in darkest dungeon when your hp goes down to zero you go to death's door which means that every hit that follows has a chance of killing you permanently and so there's no actual guarantee here [Music] that he's gonna die when we hit him even the but of threats okay so they don't like it when you steal their death's door from them he's having a meltdown hope is a fool's errand so he lost his relationship with everyone oh no obviously that's not ideal there's a big miss on the crescenation right there too but there's a death blow so i'll take that that gave him a little bit of hope um can you can only absinthe yourself okay we'll throw out a dagger then and then you please fix my man at has arms tended to yeah his stress level is not doing a lot of great things for me right now what did that do vulnerable oh he takes more damage from the next hit i don't think she's gonna have another turn i don't think she's gonna make it that far so i'm of the opinion that we're probably not gonna have to worry about that there you go fix some of that grievance that you have with one another like let's make friends out here minor sacrificial host it gives you blight resistance okay so i assume since it's a sacrificial host it kind of transfers the disease in part oh yeah my name is splattercat i sift through the pile to find what's worth while in the world of ending games every single day so you don't have to the progression of this game after i did this run this is a little bit of post commentary but after i did this run i did abandon the run just to see what the progression looked like and based on how far into the game you make it you get xp points that effectively go towards your account and so instead of upgrading a city or whatever the further into the game you make it you get levels and there's about 50 of them that unlock new characters they unlock new items that can drop during the course of a run it unlocks new good boons and it unlocks new bad things that can happen when your characters have mental breaks and so anyways that's how the progression functions is that it's just an accountant-wide level and so you always start from like level one at the beginning of the game and then you go as far as you possibly can in the current build and based on the distance that you make it you unlock more stuff for your account so this is darkest dungeon 2. i hope you guys enjoyed this little feature i'll see y'all tomorrow with something hot and fresh off the indie skillet but for right now i got nothing else for you so i guess i'll see you then thank you for joining me for this video and i'll see you all next time bye everybody

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Length: 35min 58sec (2158 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 27 2021