Darkest Dungeon - New Players' Guide - Tips for Absolute Beginners! [No Spoilers] 

I'm not sure exactly the part you're referring to, but here's the general process with an example. Say your enemy has 6HP, and you have a 50% chance to hit. If you hit, you will deal 4-7 damage (each outcome evenly weighted, I believe). Your crit chance is 10% - this is the part that complicates things. All of this information is visible in the fight. As each of the damage outcomes 4, 5, 6 and 7 are equally likely once you hit, you have a 50% chance for a successful hit to kill the 6HP enemy. So you can multiply the hit chance (50%) by the kill chance on hit (also 50%). This gives you a 25% chance to kill. Right? Almost! What if you crit? This complicates things a little (a lot). Because crits and non-crits have different chances to kill the enemy, we have to split up "chance to hit" into two numbers: "chance to non-crit" and "chance to crit". In this case our chance to crit is 5% overall, because our base chance is 10% but we miss half the time. So now we have our 50% chance to miss, our 45% chance to hit, and our 5% chance to crit. If we miss, we never kill the enemy. Obviously. If we hit, we have a 45% * 50% chance to kill the enemy - 45% for the "attack roll", and 50% for the "damage roll". So we have a 22.5% chance to kill the enemy without critting. The 5% crit chance guarantees the kill, so we can now just add that to the 22.5% non-crit kill chance, to get a total kill chance of 27.5%. I've used round numbers here for simplicity, but this can get far too complicated for me to do mentally. Honestly, I usually just eyeball it at this point, but there are still occasions where I have to go through the whole process!

@@YewbPlays this guy did maths, and he good at it too!

Thanks. I live in America where they don't teach math. The closest thing to it is: _"Suzy had 6 guns and 174 bullets for each one. If someone knocks on Suzy's door at 3am, how many bullets will Suzy need to use to prove she's a patriot?"_

@@TrueRandomization this was a joke, and you clearly didnt get the joke

yoo fr though.. i have the game open in the background and i thought.. alright just gonna take a few pointers and i'll be on my way. Next thing i know is that the video is over..

That was exactly me just now :D

love how people can sit and watch a movie for three hours but 48 minutes of good content on youtube and it’s suddenly a lifetime

@@tyler-xo3rb there are many filmes i can't watch even for 1 hour, cuz how boring they sometimes are

omfg tier zoo likes good games too? no wonder you use l33t speak!

@@madscientistshusta EXACTLY!

Are you ever gonna do tier list for DD?

And a few weeks later you started to edit in Darkest Dungeon stress icon to your videos. Another mystery solved.

wait, THE ZOO GUY!!

I also thought it was gouda

Amir Kafi unrelated note I had a dude who was a gambler and a known cheat needless to say it was annoying

yup i cant believe i sat for the whole 48 mins and still rmbr what he told at the start! Beautiful guide.

As grate as greated cheese

Lots of business are willing to help pay for an employee's healthcare bills, but very few would offer that kindness to a newhire.

Why should I pay for you when I can hire a new guy for free?

@@CARILYNF but I saw what he went through, some dude spilled some juice on him and he freaked out and started insulting and attacking his teammates, then he had a heart attack cus the guy spilled more juice on him.

@@Cloud-bs2kn out of context that’s fucking hilarious

ripp

I still remember the leper i lost in the pigboss fight. Crit from full hp to 0, then Wilbur instantly finishes him off with a squeel of all things, before i get to make a move with any of my guys.

This is why I sometimes hate the RNG in this game. It doesn't feel like true RNG, more like a reaction to what you have just done to punish you.

@@youtubesucks5131 if it was a reaction to what you had done then that wouldnt be RNG would it?

@@TrioFan759 Well, it would still be RNG with min/max preset paramateres

I'm really impressed actually because he talks so fast and gets to the point without rambling incessantly for five minutes to pad the video.

"i'll just watch a bit to get a feel for the game, but I'm not going to watch the whole 50 mins" realizes the video is over

Ya. Dumb mechanic that would not go missed if it was nerfed or flat out scrapped. In my opinion. Maybe I'm just not getting the nuances of the game enough yet and that's why it feels too unfair.

@@2midgetsinanovercoat638 It's part of the design. I started 3 days ago and as far as I'm concerned the goal of this game is to make you clench your cheeks. People going mad is a fundamental part of that. If it didn't have any consequences on gameplay it wouldn't matter and therefore not induce any stress to the player. It's a snowball system. It emphasizes to a) not bringing a hero who is already or close to madness And b) not letting that happen in the first place by c) killing them quick and throughly

When my heroes die or go mad and I'm escaping dungeons early and I panic I assume the game is working as intended

@@2midgetsinanovercoat638 bruh that mechanic is what makes darkest dungeon darkest dungeon did you hear the intro

Abusive makes me wanna delete the game now.

I drink beer while playing this game! I bought this game 2 days ago and I like this game a lot! It is fun and is complicated in detail as well as gameplay which makes it richly exciting to play! I

The art was made for a child. This looks like a shit mobile game

It's already nearly an hour long at regular speed, dude...

thanks for the vid, I feel ya on the fast talking - I get that a lot when I really enjoy a subject

U r Crazy man goodbye job u got yourself One more sub 😉

Marcus Matthews there’s a lot to learn and even with this guide you won’t know what your messing up till u mess up

Yeah. I'm definitely overwhelmed by this game. So much stats. But it's good.

Which map was giving you the most trouble?

I felt the same way, having to get the turnover rate of McDonald's to make $$$ was hard. I will say though some characters have really high stat numbers by nature, so can be worth even the worst locked in quirks.

Imagine caring and developing feelings for a handful of digits in your computer memory...

@@ae4164 Isn't the human condition just the strangest thing?

@@ae4164 just like you cared enough to reply.

Awesome, glad you liked it and good luck to you! :)

@@YewbPlays the most amazing thing too is that it still holds up, amazing job on an introduction video it really made things simpler

That's really nice to hear, thank you! :)

I second that to the highest degree. very good work!

I third that! Excellent write-up!

lucasbeer remind yourself that Overconfidence is a slow insidious killer

Ismael Rangel EXECUTED WITH IMPUNITY

@@nicholaso.1502 Be wary triumphant pride perticipate a dizzying fall.

R u serious or joking ?

I was doing fine. Had a big expedition running for. . . Three boxes later after starting, a guy called the collector arrives to ruin my day. Now I'm seriusly considering restarting.

I bought ancestral edition few days ago woth normal proce. Fuck my life

@@BlessedCapybara1444 Think of it as supporting the devs. If it weren't for these purchases, DD2 won't be even made possible.

@@BlessedCapybara1444 man, it is too late but you can refund games you played less than 2 hours and bought within two weeks. just telling you in case you still don't know.

Thank you! Comments like this make it worthwhile, honestly :)

Yewb I hope so, can’t Fathom how you don’t even have 1k yet!

Eh, I don't put out a lot of content these days, so those subs are going to the full-timers, which honestly is as it should be!

Are there touch screen controls on the switch?

Thanks, that's great to hear! I'd love to do more guides like this, but I just don't have the time at the moment - maybe in the future, though :)

This game is certainly one of a kind

Thanks! :) It's a frustrating game sometimes, but well worth it IMHO. Best of luck!

I've found that DD doesn't let you just sit back and grind, which makes sure the game doesn't get boring. I love this game

If it's not turned based, it's not a real RPG. This game is very addicting, stressful but I'm loving it!

I myself don't like turned base games as well, but this i absolutely love it.

Lol I was binging on DD videos for days and then I pull up epic games and see its free 😭 So plug it's such a good game

Epic just released pain and suffering for free

Hiii newbie here✌🏻

a friend of mine insisted so hard for me to play the game that he actually guided me in the tutorial and the 1st dungeon and i must say i'm glad he did it cuz so far i'm enjoying a lot !

haha this was a great gone, i loved the game

That's great to hear, thanks :) Good luck!

Haha, that's good to hear, thanks! Now go play the game :)

pathetic.

Thanks! Glad the guide was useful to you :) On the subject of stuns: I believe it used to be the case that enemy resistances outscaled your application chance to a much greater extent at high levels, so stuns were much less likely to work in Champion dungeons. This would have been a long time ago - before the Antiquarian update - but stuns are definitely worth using these days, all the way up to the Darkest Dungeon itself. If you're going to bring a stunner, it's worth slapping a stun trinket on them - something I should have mentioned in the guide itself. With Blasphemous Vial (additional 40% stun chance), for example, the Plague Doctor is absolutely unstoppable. Even a Stun Amulet or Dazzling Charm goes a long way toward guaranteeing that stun - and reliability is key, so it's definitely worth doing.

Thanks for the quick response! ... just tried out a stun heavy party and loved it. Still haven't pulled the trigger on champion level, though... I am scared lol.

Ah, you'll be fine :) I personally think that the very first dungeons you do, before you have any upgrades or trinkets, are some of the hardest in the game. If you can make it to Week 8 in good shape, you can make it through champ dungeons! ... don't quote me on that, though.

Mission accomplished but it wasn't pretty lol. Left my first champion level dungeon with no losses, but 3 of 4 hit deaths door about 5 times a piece... then the one guy that never hit death's door hit 100 stress and failed the resolve check.... but I'm still calling it a win!

Hey man, a win's a win! Congrats!

Awesome man, glad you liked the guide! The corpse mechanic is really just there to make sure you care about positioning. It's not usually worth building your party composition around clearing corpses with skills like Disorienting Blast or Purge - you'll want to hit the back lines first the majority of the time anyway, so they shouldn't be a major problem. Corpse-clearing abilities can be useful, but if you feel like you need to use them constantly it's probably indicative of other problems with your party comp. As long as you're aware that you can't just bring two Lepers and nuke down the opposing team in rank order, the corpse mechanic has done its job.

thats racist man

@@darckto7247 You gotta love people typing these replies. But I'll indulge you and inform you that firstly, British people are not a race... well, historically I'd argue their behaviour towards other people would indicate that they themselves thought otherwise. My question is why you would jump to such a conclusion on your own and reply with such an inflammatory response? Are you possibly projecting your own biases onto me?

@@samwu1836 You gotta love people typing these replies. But I'll indulge you and inform you that this was most likely bait. You fell for this person's bait hook, line, and sinker.

It is, I'm afraid! I normally hate micromanagement, but to be honest something about this game just makes it work - maybe the fact that nothing's limited by real time. It's not a "keep these six plates spinning" type of micromanagement, more a "oh, crap, I accidentally took a Cove Phobe to the Cove and now she's real pissed about it" style. But yeah, to answer your question - whole bunch of little stuff to keep track of, I'm, afraid. Most of it's not catastrophic to mess up, but if you're not into micromanagement it can get a little frustrating.

Yewb, thanks for the insight! Another question if you don't mind: what's the save feature ( is there one?) If a player were to have a TPW, can you at least go back to your last save? Wish there was a way to test drive this game, I'm really tempted. Seems like a type of game to play during Halloween season! I guess it's only 5 bucks risk , lol

I can't even be mad

Click the CC button.

I like cats. Also, my cats decided to go ballistic in the living room while I was recording, and I only noticed my mic had picked it up while I was editing. Cats are nice.

I just kept seeing cat pictures randomly pop up everywhere haha. Awesome stuff :). Watching your crimson court content thru.

Nice one, thanks man! Glad you're enjoying it :)

I actually never noticed the cats ( and I agree cats are cool )

i love this i think it made the whole guide better))

Game developers seem to think the discovery of mechanics is part of the 'fun'.

@@silvergreylion More like a vocal minority of players think it's fun. They bitch about games that have tutorials because "tHaT'S nOT hOw mY NiNTEnDY gAEmeS wERe LiKe 20 YeArS aGO"

Because it's actually better when a game doesn't hold your hand. This ain't Skyrim, giving you everything you need to know on a silver platter, this is Darkest Dungeon, and if that bothers you, be thankful it ain't Dwarf Fortress.

Death Incarnate that’s cool in some games but DD leaves out critical info that could make the game a lot more enjoyable

@@silvergreylion I personally enjoyed discovering the mechanics. Also, the game explains a decent amount if you hover your mouse over it.