@@neiska25 Wayne June has done the majority of Lovecraft's most popular works, you can find them in seperate 6 volumes of "The Dark Worlds of H.P Lovecraft". It compiles a lot of his most popular novels and short stories. Easy to find on audiobookbay if you're a cheap-ass like me.
@@neiska25 Look up Wayne June, right here. He has some of the readings on RUclips, and some nice parody vids. His version of Poe's 'The Raven' is highly enjoyable, too, right up there with the Simpsons version.
God damn. First hit from a bandit - double crit. First battle in the Ruins - Surprised party with Vestal going in front. First hit in Plague Doctor at Death's Door - "You are dead, not big surprise". I mean, Jesus, DD is a harsh game but this is bullying at this point...
Tbf she just didn't understand most of the mechanics and made a couple mistakes like with how the shovels work or the hamlet at first, that she has to click on characters to do actions like feed them out of combat or she can get surprised easier in the dark, all in all she did her best though (not ment as an argument or to diss her I'm just saying there was a reason for that beginning bad luck)
A lot of what happened was up to luck, and in that respect the difficulty is partially irrelevant. Death on Radiant isn’t nearly as common as on higher difficulties, but the right series of dice rolls will still kill. Once she learns the importance of group healing and stress healing, it will be much better for her and that stuff will be far less likely. Not impossible, but less likely.
Most of the time Death's door is basically "this one's gonna die unless a focking miracle happens". In my almost 200 hrs i believe one fella survived 5 checks, few survived 3 checks and all the rest survived 1 or 0 (mostly zero)
@@theheavenlybuddha1859 to be fair: the obstacle prompt is fucking weird. All other object prompts have you put in the object and then press a separate button, but, here, you have to click the shovel. I remember when I started playing the game I kept getting stress damage "despite using shovels" and I didn't know why.
I felt physical pain each time she had a shovel... two shovels... And she went and forced them to clear obstacles by hand! It was literally what lost her the party. RIP the usual suspects(
bru same, it was visual anxiety, the first was like, "ok it can be saved" the second one "ok its bad but maybe with luck its still doable... then enter whit out healing the dead doors one was just waching a bride collaps, but fucking up is escencial to progress in DD, cant remember how many times i had to re-do a sesion to actually be able to get pass the beggining... and then lose your best champions in the late game for bullshit ;.)
Watching that gave me an affliction... But, suffering is the best teacher after all... 49:28 - 49:37 "What?! Your heroes die permanently?! What the fu- Retreat failed! **NOOOOO!** " I felt that one in my soul... Currently on a Stygian playthrough: week 30, one team at resolve level 5, two teams at resolve level 4, and two teams about to reach resolve level 3. Guild Hall is fully upgraded, Blacksmith needs the final weapon and armor upgrades, but I think I can get them now if I just trade in some stone busts. I really hope I can pull it off... I'm worried about Brigand Vulf after week 40... If I have to, I'll upgrade my roster and throw a level 1 at him just to protect my buildings. If I don't have four teams at resolve 6 with all their weapons/armor/skills/trinkets ready, by week 80... I will probably stop playing for a while and have a good cry lol...
yoooooooo Peakest Dungeon! I swear the amount of hours I have on this game is wild especially with DLC + mods (also on a random note, shout out the awsome devs for actually supporting modders which is something you don't usually see with some games. They even had mod showcase weeks which was so cool!)
1:35:23 LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!!! I'm glad that Alicia has experienced everything in just two hours of gameplay: the death of first heroes, the Stress Fiesta, the confusion in "how the hell is this game works and what do I do", the "Surprised" shuffles and the Virtuous proc. Also I must admit that it's peculiar when a person that doesn't bound much to a classic rule for RPG (always take a healer in your party) plays DD, doesn't stick to easier way and manage the mission quite well, a specially when it's a blind first attempt. Great job)
It might be the first turn based strategy game Alicia ever played. I was dying with her constantly hitting the TANK WITH SHIELD instead of aiming to the fragile mage-like enemies that were dealing 20 stress damage to her party every turn. hahaha
The enemies in the back usually stress your team/heal/buff enemies, so you want to have them taken care of quickly. It's highly recommended to have team with abilities to heal, and negate stress, and preferably someone to be team's tank. You can unlock and upgrade hero abilities in Guild building. Also, I'm pretty sure everyone loves Leper class, I'm sure you'll learn why if you recruit him.
^ It does count as losing your sanity since to enjoy the abuse from the game you need to be a masochist, and to achieve that you need to reach 100 stress irl :p
Just a helpful tip, hun. They did go over this in the intro, but not quite explicitly. The skills need certain positions to be used. The golden ones are party placement when it’s viable to use it. The red are the enemy positions it can hit. If they are linked, it can hit all of the linked ones, Enjoying the series so much!
No worries. Just wanted to be sure to tell you cause they don’t explain the dots above the skills explicitly which is seperate even from preferred position. It does inform it though. They kinda tell you in a roundabout way.
Watching you try to use shovels in combat but completely ignore them for hallway blockages and instead clearing them by hand for massive stress is hurting my soul.
It's honestly amazing how many people make the shovel mistake. I mean you have 3 icons: A Hand, a Shovel, and a red X. There's even tooltips when you hover over them. Yet nearly every new player ends up using their hands instead of the shovel. Quick tip: DOT's can stack, so there are benefits to using say plague grenade on a target twice.
To this day my phone has the Narrator as my ring tone and others. My alarm to wake me up is probably my favorite. "There can be no hope in this hell... no hope at all" 🤣
You'll have a hard time at the start but you're not playing on Stygian, so don't let failure discourage you. There's no time limit or failure state, even if you lose some heroes along the way you will have more. It's okay to fuck up while you're learning, in fact if you're not going to touch the wiki, failure is exactly how you learn in this game. Make sure to take the opportunity to try out new party combinations and skills, experiment until you're comfortable, then lean on what you've found works to get through the hard parts, until you can start experimenting a bit more.
Here's some things to keep in mind if you come back. No spoilers just stuff u didn't notice or had questions about. You can read chapters you're interested in and leave the others unread this is just so you know the tools given to you by the game. 1. Torchlight: You can view your torches brightness at the top by hovering over it. This will show you the negative and positive effects of the current level of brightness. You can also use a torch by clicking while you're hovering over it each torch you use increases the torches brightness by 25 and the max is 100. You can also snuff out your torch by holding down shift when you click though I don't recommend it until you know what you're doing because the negative effects are tough to manage. 2. Curios: The interactable things on missions if "curios" doesn't ring a bell. You read the tutorial on them but keep in mind that as it said you can use items on curios for a better outcome. when you interact with a curio you have the option to just interact with it which is the yellow hand symbol or leave it be the red x or use an item which is the slot in the middle of the two where you can drag the item to. Each curio has a specific item or sometimes two that will produce a result for example you can either unlock a locked cupboard with a skeleton key or smash it open with a shovel. Some curios have none that work aswell and it's up to you to test what items work where. If you use an item that doesn't work with the curio it will be lost and an x will be marked under the item that it doesn't do anything with the specific curio. If it works a marker will appear under the item in the future indicating the type of result the item has with the curio. It's all trial and error and sometimes it's even better to interact with the curio and not use an item but most of the time you can get much more loot and positive effects by using correct items. 3. Characters: You probably noticed your characters gaining xp when you won an adventure. Each character has a level from 0 to 6 which increases as they participate in adventures with harder and longer missions giving more xp. This level determines the characters stats and lets them use higher tiers of equipment at the blacksmith and higher levels of skills at the guild. The guild also lets you unlock more skills past the 4 they start with which can even be swapped around during quests outside of combat if u so choose. Characters also have their own quirks. Some quirkier then others up to 5 positive and 5 negative. You saw this on your bounty hunter where he's not allowed in the brothel which is a red negative one. These quirks can be removed (both positive and negative) or locked down which means they can't be replaced at the treatment ward. Camping skills which you noticed at one point are used during camping in longer missions where you are given firewood that you can use in cleared rooms which I'll let you learn about more when you get to it. Heroes start with 4 random camping skills and can unlock more at the survivalist who you will unlock when u start doing quests that involve camping. 4. Using items in combat: Just something to note about using all the items you can bring on your quests. These are hinted towards on their descriptions but good to know what they do so you know when to use them. Bandages and antivenom stop bleeding and blight respectively. Medical herbs remove all debuffs. Laudanum removes horror a stress DOT applied by certain enemies. And holy water increases your bleed, blight, debuff and disease resistance by 33% for 3 turns. Remember to check what your heroes are suffering from to know when to use items on them by hovering over the orange debuff symbol above their healthbar and red bleed symbol and green blight there aswell. 5. Positioning: I'm not sure if you figured it out since you didn't say it out loud but the yellow dots on hero skills indicate where they have to be in your party and red dots what positions they can hit in the enemy party. Skills sometimes have the red dots connected by a line meaning it hits all the shown positions like grape shot on the gun boy which hits all three front positions. 6. Party setup: Bring a healer. Preferably also one with stress healing like the crusader or a jester preferably who is the best at it. Otherwise test around and have fun with coming up with your own combos of characters. Anything can work if you try hard enough. If you made it this far congrats! Here's a cookie for being such an avid learner :)
This game is notorious for its difficulty, but damn Alicia, I have not seen anyone fail this hard at the start of it, this was brutal. This game requires a lot of patience and careful reading to learn, and I guess she just rushed through too quickly. I guess this is one way for the lessons to stick XD She does learn a lot by the end, making legit good calls. Watching her improve in real time was really fun to watch. That said, oh my lord the bad luck just keept piling on for the entire first half...the game had no chill against Alicia dang.
Could you please watch the intro cutscene, as it's kind of the explanation for the story. And I'm a sucker for that olde purple prose. _Our family's remaining fortune, spent on swarthy men ... ... and shovels._
I remember that my first run ended horrible and i didnt feel like getting that anxious for the game again. Then i saw someone streaming the game with chat and learning the basic stuff i didnt know for 10 hours of play. The game was then waaay less stressful and way more fun, even got 3 of my starters to the end-end. It went from "i dont feel good playing this" to "this is one of my favorite games", but only because a streamer chat was way better at teaching the mechanics than the actual game.
just in case, you should know that the more you stun an enemy the more resistant they get to that hence the bandit "buffing" himself in the beginning. it also only lasts one turn of that enemy thus skipping it like in uno. you can leave one enemy alive to make use of combat only healing abilities but the longer you go the more reinforcements show up. Both of these were added to stop players from abusing these strategies. Going backwards in a hallway will always stress your characters faster than regular movement so unless you miss clicked on the map dont go backwards.
1:12 Coward! In all seriousness though, whilst I am always of the opinion that games should be played at their normal/intended difficulty, do whatever helps you enjoy this masterpiece of a game. And, as always, remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.
Hoo boy, rough start, lot of mistakes... But, you will learn... In time... Pieces of advice: DoT´s: They stack with themselves, blighting someone who´s blighted increases the damage, same with bleed. AOE´s: Most AOE skills aren´t worth it since they have lower acc and damage, so you´ll end up spreading the damage and giving the enemies extra turns to hurt you (DoT AOE´s are an exception) Aggression is key: Especially early on raw damage tends to outweigh the benefits of buffs/debuffs, this changes a bit later on, but for now you want to kill things as fast as possible instead of bothering with de-/buffs, a dead enemy can´t do shit, a debuffed one can. Priorities: In general the backline tends to be both squishier and more dangerous, taking them out early can take a LOT of pressure off the fight. And last but not least, Shovels: Shovels are needed to clear obstacles in hallways. When you thought you were "looting" those piles of rubble what you actually did was tell your guys: "Aight folks, clear that shit by hand. Huh? Shovels? You don´t need these, just go." which resulted in them taking a LOT of unneeded damage and stress.
I don’t think a lot of people do this, but i frequently enter dungeons without buying any supplies. That way, if i need to escape, i don’t lose any money
Oh yeah Alicia you might be interested to hear this. Darkest Dungeon has workshop mods on steam, and someone made the Delicious in Dungeon team as characters. So you could have Laios, Marcille, Chilchuck, and Senshi as a crew. It's great lol
Man - i have such mixed feelings about this game. I introduced it to my Dad & he used to play it a shit ton, something we both talked about a lot. Brings back lots of memories of vibing togeather & discussing strategies.
I really love this game, I'm very excited to see how you handle it, been enjoying you quite a lot! Keep up the good work! (Also there are 2 characters that do the same thing, you can actually just delete the character you find less appealing so you won't get double stuff.)
I wish the game didn't have Dismas always start with Grapeshot. Everyone starts using it exclaiming "it's SO GOOD" only to keep using it despite it never being good, perishing and then complaining "game's unfair" Also "stop attacking him!" Why - he's MARKED. What does one think MARKED means? Is it perhaps the "attack THAT ONE marker"?
Considering she kept marking enemies that none of the party could even reach instead of just attacking, I don't think she had any idea what the mechanic does at that point.
That was great. Thank you, Alicia. I hope you enjoy this marvelous game and you'll get to the Bosses. Can't wait to see your reaction to Ancestor's "little shenanigans")
there's something speshele about the chaos spiral that is the first darkest dungeon save file. it always starts out as a death sprial that you just recover from, how the chaos spiral develops from there i won't spoil... but who knows, you and chat may have escaped that fate.
Darkest Dungeon is definitely a lot of info to take in at the start gameplay wise I think this guy is the best narrator for any game Curioius is the trap-makers art...
Holy shit. I think this is the first time I have ever seen someone being forced to use a party of less than 4 people. I think I would just have restarted the campaign at this point. Respect
One of my all time favorite games that I hate to play 😂 I absolutely love the atmosphere and how the game actually makes you feel the hopelessness and fear. I will probably never finish it because the pressure of sending my 4 best and most loved heroes(that are still alive) to the final dungeon is too much for me. Game feels like a slog in the best way possible
Did chat not tell her that she wasnt actually using her shovels neither her key? Of course her characters were so stressfull "Alright lads, we have 4 shovels! know what that means? We'll spend the next hour digging by hand!"
( Spoiler!) i just love how the very first chest on the game is a trap, that is just to show people what happens when you try to get greedy after being able to just f-ing leave.
I remember I lost 3 heroes once, barely escaped the dungeon, lost a ton of gold and the narrator went like: "Maybe things is not that bad as it looks... MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Man, I got pissed off 😂
id love to see you play more darkness dungeon.....but do read a newbie guide first. The game can be pretty tough , and not knowing even the basics means you're gonna have a bad time
Played this on the free trial from Nintendo. Drove me insane. I might get it sometime cause I can tell there's definitely a good game under there, but I couldn't figure out the hows or whys of fucking anything. Need a lot of time and patience I don't currently have.
Just a small observation if she ever feel like playing the game again: Positioning is more important than damage, healing or anything else. Any character that can mess up the enemy's position is an OP characters. It took me 20 hours to figure out that the Occultist is best boi because of his push and pull skills. But then again i am an idiot.
nice, another darkest dungeon delver. you should try using items on interactables, they can bring different results, try different combinations to see what you get
Unless you fight with Undead type monsters, bleed and poison combo are disgustinlgy effective, you can apply it 2 or 3 times if you're lucky. The battle wins itself :P
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.
and it precipitates a dizzying fall!
Slowly. Gently. This is how a life is taken.
The way is lit. The path is clear. We require only the strength to follow it.
A singular strike!
Success, so clearly in view. Or, is it merely a trick of the light?
Fun fact, the narrator of Darkest Dungeon did audio books for H.P. Lovecraft books.
That's where the developers got the idea to hire him.
Thats absolutely awesome might have to track those down
Also you can have him as an announcer in dota 2.
No one tells me these things! Can you share which ones?
@@neiska25 Wayne June has done the majority of Lovecraft's most popular works, you can find them in seperate 6 volumes of "The Dark Worlds of H.P Lovecraft". It compiles a lot of his most popular novels and short stories. Easy to find on audiobookbay if you're a cheap-ass like me.
@@neiska25 Look up Wayne June, right here. He has some of the readings on RUclips, and some nice parody vids. His version of Poe's 'The Raven' is highly enjoyable, too, right up there with the Simpsons version.
Here's a fun fact, Red Hook actually made a small comic for each character. It gives some background to their origin.
God damn.
First hit from a bandit - double crit.
First battle in the Ruins - Surprised party with Vestal going in front.
First hit in Plague Doctor at Death's Door - "You are dead, not big surprise".
I mean, Jesus, DD is a harsh game but this is bullying at this point...
Tbf she just didn't understand most of the mechanics and made a couple mistakes like with how the shovels work or the hamlet at first, that she has to click on characters to do actions like feed them out of combat or she can get surprised easier in the dark, all in all she did her best though (not ment as an argument or to diss her I'm just saying there was a reason for that beginning bad luck)
no that is normal on every difficulty BUT Radiant. Unlucky for Alicia but what can you do welcome to the game Darkest Dungeon.
A lot of what happened was up to luck, and in that respect the difficulty is partially irrelevant. Death on Radiant isn’t nearly as common as on higher difficulties, but the right series of dice rolls will still kill. Once she learns the importance of group healing and stress healing, it will be much better for her and that stuff will be far less likely. Not impossible, but less likely.
Most of the time Death's door is basically "this one's gonna die unless a focking miracle happens". In my almost 200 hrs i believe one fella survived 5 checks, few survived 3 checks and all the rest survived 1 or 0 (mostly zero)
@@theheavenlybuddha1859 to be fair: the obstacle prompt is fucking weird. All other object prompts have you put in the object and then press a separate button, but, here, you have to click the shovel. I remember when I started playing the game I kept getting stress damage "despite using shovels" and I didn't know why.
Best Narrator VA.... so many memorable quotes.
The narrator is what made me buy this game long ago lol it's so good
@@Laughingreaper54321 that was one factor true, it doesnt help that im a closet masochist, who gets a rush from the gamba, crazy right??
His name is Wayne June. He has a few Lovecraft readings here on RUclips. Definitely give them a listen.
I felt physical pain each time she had a shovel... two shovels... And she went and forced them to clear obstacles by hand! It was literally what lost her the party. RIP the usual suspects(
She must "git gud" or this game break her.
bru same, it was visual anxiety, the first was like, "ok it can be saved" the second one "ok its bad but maybe with luck its still doable... then enter whit out healing the dead doors one was just waching a bride collaps, but fucking up is escencial to progress in DD, cant remember how many times i had to re-do a sesion to actually be able to get pass the beggining... and then lose your best champions in the late game for bullshit ;.)
Seriously, why did chat let her do that so many times!?!
Watching that gave me an affliction... But, suffering is the best teacher after all...
49:28 - 49:37
"What?! Your heroes die permanently?! What the fu- Retreat failed! **NOOOOO!** "
I felt that one in my soul...
Currently on a Stygian playthrough: week 30, one team at resolve level 5, two teams at resolve level 4, and two teams about to reach resolve level 3. Guild Hall is fully upgraded, Blacksmith needs the final weapon and armor upgrades, but I think I can get them now if I just trade in some stone busts. I really hope I can pull it off... I'm worried about Brigand Vulf after week 40... If I have to, I'll upgrade my roster and throw a level 1 at him just to protect my buildings. If I don't have four teams at resolve 6 with all their weapons/armor/skills/trinkets ready, by week 80... I will probably stop playing for a while and have a good cry lol...
The best narrator I've heard in a decade.
In our darkest depths he is there, to soothe or to torture.
RIP Reynauld and Dismas, the most unlikely friendship ended far too soon
Maybe they should've stopped craving injuries...
yoooooooo Peakest Dungeon!
I swear the amount of hours I have on this game is wild especially with DLC + mods (also on a random note, shout out the awsome devs for actually supporting modders which is something you don't usually see with some games. They even had mod showcase weeks which was so cool!)
1:35:23 LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!!!
I'm glad that Alicia has experienced everything in just two hours of gameplay: the death of first heroes, the Stress Fiesta, the confusion in "how the hell is this game works and what do I do", the "Surprised" shuffles and the Virtuous proc. Also I must admit that it's peculiar when a person that doesn't bound much to a classic rule for RPG (always take a healer in your party) plays DD, doesn't stick to easier way and manage the mission quite well, a specially when it's a blind first attempt. Great job)
That first occultist took it upon herself to fix the party placement
That "NNOOOO" at 49:35 so perfect for the realisation of the horror that is Lovecraft
This game is dope as hell, i love how the music and background noises get more intense the darker it becomes.
The strings really sell it
It might be the first turn based strategy game Alicia ever played. I was dying with her constantly hitting the TANK WITH SHIELD instead of aiming to the fragile mage-like enemies that were dealing 20 stress damage to her party every turn. hahaha
My favorite was marking the enemies in the back with zero ranged characters to actually make any of use it.
@@gamerbear84 I suffered so much stress damage watching that...
The enemies in the back usually stress your team/heal/buff enemies, so you want to have them taken care of quickly.
It's highly recommended to have team with abilities to heal, and negate stress, and preferably someone to be team's tank.
You can unlock and upgrade hero abilities in Guild building.
Also, I'm pretty sure everyone loves Leper class, I'm sure you'll learn why if you recruit him.
I wonder whose going to lose their sanity faster, Alecia or her characters
chat
Us, I suppose)
Does it count as "losing your sanity" if you start enjoying the abuse the game heaps onto you?
^ It does count as losing your sanity since to enjoy the abuse from the game you need to be a masochist, and to achieve that you need to reach 100 stress irl :p
@@Cael154 I would consider it more like a quirk myself.
Just a helpful tip, hun. They did go over this in the intro, but not quite explicitly. The skills need certain positions to be used. The golden ones are party placement when it’s viable to use it. The red are the enemy positions it can hit. If they are linked, it can hit all of the linked ones,
Enjoying the series so much!
Yeah when I got later into the game I got better with that
I've just discovered this game due to the sequel's announcement,should I play the first game and afterwards the sequel whenever it comes out?.
Yes. You should. Mechanically, the games stand alone. But lore-wise, the events tie into one another.
No worries. Just wanted to be sure to tell you cause they don’t explain the dots above the skills explicitly which is seperate even from preferred position. It does inform it though. They kinda tell you in a roundabout way.
@@ciaspyrou6399 THERE'S A LOT OF LORE?.FAM I'M A FNAF FAN,YOU JUST CAUGHT MY ATTENTION
Watching you try to use shovels in combat but completely ignore them for hallway blockages and instead clearing them by hand for massive stress is hurting my soul.
Yeah it was kinda funny though the first couple of times
It makes zero sense that *a shovel* would even do comparable damage to real weapons the heroes are holding.
Like..... what kind of logic is this?
@@jpjfrey5673 Wars.
I think she thought using them could clear corpses?
@@scienceandponies that would’ve been a good mechanic actually
It's honestly amazing how many people make the shovel mistake. I mean you have 3 icons: A Hand, a Shovel, and a red X. There's even tooltips when you hover over them. Yet nearly every new player ends up using their hands instead of the shovel.
Quick tip: DOT's can stack, so there are benefits to using say plague grenade on a target twice.
To this day my phone has the Narrator as my ring tone and others. My alarm to wake me up is probably my favorite. "There can be no hope in this hell... no hope at all" 🤣
Oh this game is GOOD! That Narrator can make you feel like the walls are closing in if he was only reading off the recipe for bran muffins.
Suggestion:
You can rename your heros, so you could name them after your mods, or viewers.
When they die, the chatters get banned just like with the twitchchat skyrim mod.
@@cutman15 If she does a full playthrough, the ones that survive the final bossfight should get perma vip/free lifetime subscription
You'll have a hard time at the start but you're not playing on Stygian, so don't let failure discourage you. There's no time limit or failure state, even if you lose some heroes along the way you will have more. It's okay to fuck up while you're learning, in fact if you're not going to touch the wiki, failure is exactly how you learn in this game.
Make sure to take the opportunity to try out new party combinations and skills, experiment until you're comfortable, then lean on what you've found works to get through the hard parts, until you can start experimenting a bit more.
Here's some things to keep in mind if you come back. No spoilers just stuff u didn't notice or had questions about. You can read chapters you're interested in and leave the others unread this is just so you know the tools given to you by the game.
1. Torchlight: You can view your torches brightness at the top by hovering over it. This will show you the negative and positive effects of the current level of brightness. You can also use a torch by clicking while you're hovering over it each torch you use increases the torches brightness by 25 and the max is 100. You can also snuff out your torch by holding down shift when you click though I don't recommend it until you know what you're doing because the negative effects are tough to manage.
2. Curios: The interactable things on missions if "curios" doesn't ring a bell. You read the tutorial on them but keep in mind that as it said you can use items on curios for a better outcome. when you interact with a curio you have the option to just interact with it which is the yellow hand symbol or leave it be the red x or use an item which is the slot in the middle of the two where you can drag the item to. Each curio has a specific item or sometimes two that will produce a result for example you can either unlock a locked cupboard with a skeleton key or smash it open with a shovel. Some curios have none that work aswell and it's up to you to test what items work where. If you use an item that doesn't work with the curio it will be lost and an x will be marked under the item that it doesn't do anything with the specific curio. If it works a marker will appear under the item in the future indicating the type of result the item has with the curio. It's all trial and error and sometimes it's even better to interact with the curio and not use an item but most of the time you can get much more loot and positive effects by using correct items.
3. Characters: You probably noticed your characters gaining xp when you won an adventure. Each character has a level from 0 to 6 which increases as they participate in adventures with harder and longer missions giving more xp. This level determines the characters stats and lets them use higher tiers of equipment at the blacksmith and higher levels of skills at the guild. The guild also lets you unlock more skills past the 4 they start with which can even be swapped around during quests outside of combat if u so choose. Characters also have their own quirks. Some quirkier then others up to 5 positive and 5 negative. You saw this on your bounty hunter where he's not allowed in the brothel which is a red negative one. These quirks can be removed (both positive and negative) or locked down which means they can't be replaced at the treatment ward. Camping skills which you noticed at one point are used during camping in longer missions where you are given firewood that you can use in cleared rooms which I'll let you learn about more when you get to it. Heroes start with 4 random camping skills and can unlock more at the survivalist who you will unlock when u start doing quests that involve camping.
4. Using items in combat: Just something to note about using all the items you can bring on your quests. These are hinted towards on their descriptions but good to know what they do so you know when to use them. Bandages and antivenom stop bleeding and blight respectively. Medical herbs remove all debuffs. Laudanum removes horror a stress DOT applied by certain enemies. And holy water increases your bleed, blight, debuff and disease resistance by 33% for 3 turns. Remember to check what your heroes are suffering from to know when to use items on them by hovering over the orange debuff symbol above their healthbar and red bleed symbol and green blight there aswell.
5. Positioning: I'm not sure if you figured it out since you didn't say it out loud but the yellow dots on hero skills indicate where they have to be in your party and red dots what positions they can hit in the enemy party. Skills sometimes have the red dots connected by a line meaning it hits all the shown positions like grape shot on the gun boy which hits all three front positions.
6. Party setup: Bring a healer. Preferably also one with stress healing like the crusader or a jester preferably who is the best at it. Otherwise test around and have fun with coming up with your own combos of characters. Anything can work if you try hard enough.
If you made it this far congrats! Here's a cookie for being such an avid learner :)
This game is notorious for its difficulty, but damn Alicia, I have not seen anyone fail this hard at the start of it, this was brutal. This game requires a lot of patience and careful reading to learn, and I guess she just rushed through too quickly. I guess this is one way for the lessons to stick XD She does learn a lot by the end, making legit good calls. Watching her improve in real time was really fun to watch.
That said, oh my lord the bad luck just keept piling on for the entire first half...the game had no chill against Alicia dang.
And she’s playing on the easiest mode too 😂
The beginning bad luck and mistakes really hurt her beginning
50:12 The Cherry on top.
Everyone except Vestal are dead. She has a lot of stress...
🎉 Yay, quest complete) 🎉
An average run of a dungeon in this game I see
Darkest Dungeon is an absolutely goated Classic.
She got that fish racism, said it with the whole chest 😂 that whole thing was hilarious, would love to see more
Bro, we not beating the "black people don't read" allegations, i swear lmao
Bruh the game got a build in Wikipedia for what stuff does it hurt, so much useful stuff in there
She should give fear and hunger a try.
Absolutely, along with the sequel game.
@@peggedyourdad9560 sequel is kinda meh... so better stick to the first game;)
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I am horrified by this opinion. Termina is goated.
@@requiemlul3140While Termina is the objectively better game, the first one will always be my favorite.
Remind yourself that Aliciaxdeath’s overconfidence will be a sudden and insidious killer
Could you please watch the intro cutscene, as it's kind of the explanation for the story.
And I'm a sucker for that olde purple prose.
_Our family's remaining fortune, spent on swarthy men ... ... and shovels._
Watching people experience Darkest Dungeon for the first time is always fun time. Glad you’re enjoying it!
Even if she doesn't continue, it was nice to see Alicia try out DD. The sound design is some of the best around.
I remember that my first run ended horrible and i didnt feel like getting that anxious for the game again.
Then i saw someone streaming the game with chat and learning the basic stuff i didnt know for 10 hours of play. The game was then waaay less stressful and way more fun, even got 3 of my starters to the end-end.
It went from "i dont feel good playing this" to "this is one of my favorite games", but only because a streamer chat was way better at teaching the mechanics than the actual game.
just in case, you should know that the more you stun an enemy the more resistant they get to that hence the bandit "buffing" himself in the beginning. it also only lasts one turn of that enemy thus skipping it like in uno. you can leave one enemy alive to make use of combat only healing abilities but the longer you go the more reinforcements show up.
Both of these were added to stop players from abusing these strategies.
Going backwards in a hallway will always stress your characters faster than regular movement so unless you miss clicked on the map dont go backwards.
1:12 Coward! In all seriousness though, whilst I am always of the opinion that games should be played at their normal/intended difficulty, do whatever helps you enjoy this masterpiece of a game. And, as always, remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.
This would be a great series. So many peaks and valleys, highs and lows, triumphs and losses. Seeing you beat the game would be awesome.
For the longest time I, too, did not understand how to use items on objects.
I hope you'll play more of this game, watching you learn it is immensely fun.
Good 'ol Darkest Dungeon. Good memories with this one, the sequel is good too and made me appreciate the characters even more.
Leper is best gigachad
Holy moly, DD play thru, i didnt realize i needed that, but i need,
welcome to the madness
Hoo boy, rough start, lot of mistakes...
But, you will learn... In time...
Pieces of advice:
DoT´s: They stack with themselves, blighting someone who´s blighted increases the damage, same with bleed.
AOE´s: Most AOE skills aren´t worth it since they have lower acc and damage, so you´ll end up spreading the damage and giving the enemies extra turns to hurt you (DoT AOE´s are an exception)
Aggression is key: Especially early on raw damage tends to outweigh the benefits of buffs/debuffs, this changes a bit later on, but for now you want to kill things as fast as possible instead of bothering with de-/buffs, a dead enemy can´t do shit, a debuffed one can.
Priorities: In general the backline tends to be both squishier and more dangerous, taking them out early can take a LOT of pressure off the fight.
And last but not least, Shovels: Shovels are needed to clear obstacles in hallways. When you thought you were "looting" those piles of rubble what you actually did was tell your guys: "Aight folks, clear that shit by hand. Huh? Shovels? You don´t need these, just go." which resulted in them taking a LOT of unneeded damage and stress.
I don’t think a lot of people do this, but i frequently enter dungeons without buying any supplies. That way, if i need to escape, i don’t lose any money
Wasn't expecting this... I love this game, but it definitely has a learning curve.
yaaas! going through this game right now, its the survival horror dungeon crawler the worlds been missing
Ah fuck yeah! I’ve been playing this for a few months now. Honestly I’ve questioned whether or not it’s worth it, but I still come back to it
DUDE ALICIA, you playing Darkest Dungeon is something I didn't knew I NEEDED! Loved it!
Great video! Welcome to the fun 🤩. I’m looking forward to more DD content 😄
I would love to see Alicia stick through to the end on this one. My favorite game that none of my other friends ever beat.
Oh yeah Alicia you might be interested to hear this. Darkest Dungeon has workshop mods on steam, and someone made the Delicious in Dungeon team as characters. So you could have Laios, Marcille, Chilchuck, and Senshi as a crew. It's great lol
as meshi always says dont walk around the dungeon with an empty stomach.....meanwhile alicia wasting all the food
Oh My God, I LOVE this game, looking forward to the video
50:15 *Everyone in your party dies except for one*
Game: Quest Complete
Man - i have such mixed feelings about this game. I introduced it to my Dad & he used to play it a shit ton, something we both talked about a lot. Brings back lots of memories of vibing togeather & discussing strategies.
32:00 the sadistic leader upgrade the borthel the team hapy to have a good time then she say:
Welp too bad!
Imagine have shovels but forcing yourself dig with bare hands😂
The timing of this video on RUclips is oddly convenient since I recently started playing darkest dungeon 2 after a long break
I really love this game, I'm very excited to see how you handle it, been enjoying you quite a lot! Keep up the good work!
(Also there are 2 characters that do the same thing, you can actually just delete the character you find less appealing so you won't get double stuff.)
I wish the game didn't have Dismas always start with Grapeshot. Everyone starts using it exclaiming "it's SO GOOD" only to keep using it despite it never being good, perishing and then complaining "game's unfair"
Also "stop attacking him!" Why - he's MARKED. What does one think MARKED means? Is it perhaps the "attack THAT ONE marker"?
Considering she kept marking enemies that none of the party could even reach instead of just attacking, I don't think she had any idea what the mechanic does at that point.
A very challenging game but also really satisfying once you grasp victory.
The narrator is like 40% of what makes this game so good 😂
glad u are playing one of my favorite games. Mortality, clarified in an instant. MAN I LOVE THIS GAME!!
That was great. Thank you, Alicia. I hope you enjoy this marvelous game and you'll get to the Bosses. Can't wait to see your reaction to Ancestor's "little shenanigans")
there's something speshele about the chaos spiral that is the first darkest dungeon save file. it always starts out as a death sprial that you just recover from, how the chaos spiral develops from there i won't spoil... but who knows, you and chat may have escaped that fate.
I love that you're playing this game. This is one of my relaxation games. I don't know why.
I feel for you I play this game in short burst. Lost my entire party in a single fight many times. When things go wrong they can snowball in despair.
Darkest Dungeon is definitely a lot of info to take in at the start gameplay wise
I think this guy is the best narrator for any game
Curioius is the trap-makers art...
Holy shit. I think this is the first time I have ever seen someone being forced to use a party of less than 4 people. I think I would just have restarted the campaign at this point. Respect
A game I have (*checks steam library*) 1925 hours in (albeit with mods after the 300th hour). Hope you enjoy
When shovels are more precious than lives...
One of my all time favorite games that I hate to play 😂
I absolutely love the atmosphere and how the game actually makes you feel the hopelessness and fear.
I will probably never finish it because the pressure of sending my 4 best and most loved heroes(that are still alive) to the final dungeon is too much for me.
Game feels like a slog in the best way possible
OMG YESS!!! You are playing one of if not my favourite game of all time haha
So excited about this!
Did chat not tell her that she wasnt actually using her shovels neither her key?
Of course her characters were so stressfull
"Alright lads, we have 4 shovels! know what that means? We'll spend the next hour digging by hand!"
This game has a great soundtrack, it goes so hard.
( Spoiler!) i just love how the very first chest on the game is a trap, that is just to show people what happens when you try to get greedy after being able to just f-ing leave.
Was there for the stream, and I just gotta say. Ooooh, this is going to be fuuuun!
I remember I lost 3 heroes once, barely escaped the dungeon, lost a ton of gold and the narrator went like:
"Maybe things is not that bad as it looks... MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Man, I got pissed off 😂
a reminder, that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer...
but also, how quickly the tide turns!
Aaaaaw yeah! People have probably already said don't get attached to your characters because they are going to die at some point.
OMG THIS GAME IS SO FIRE CHILDHOODS MEMORIES UNLOCKED
id love to see you play more darkness dungeon.....but do read a newbie guide first. The game can be pretty tough , and not knowing even the basics means you're gonna have a bad time
Some of this shit hurt my soul
Played this on the free trial from Nintendo. Drove me insane. I might get it sometime cause I can tell there's definitely a good game under there, but I couldn't figure out the hows or whys of fucking anything. Need a lot of time and patience I don't currently have.
The way is lit. The path is clear. We require only the strength to follow it...
I'd love to see her reaction to darkest dungeon 2 and its super impressive artstyle and animations!
'Ooooh, Gaping!' - Aliciaxdeath 2025
i have no idea who u are, BUT i first saw ur reaction vids and now ur playing darkest dungeon? Hell yeah baby
Just a small observation if she ever feel like playing the game again:
Positioning is more important than damage, healing or anything else. Any character that can mess up the enemy's position is an OP characters.
It took me 20 hours to figure out that the Occultist is best boi because of his push and pull skills. But then again i am an idiot.
nice, another darkest dungeon delver. you should try using items on interactables, they can bring different results, try different combinations to see what you get
yay, time for *stress management*
Yooooo! Hype to see how she handles this, or doesnt!
Unless you fight with Undead type monsters, bleed and poison combo are disgustinlgy effective, you can apply it 2 or 3 times if you're lucky. The battle wins itself :P
Great choice of game. I'm sure this is gonna be an entertaining watch
Waiting to see if she gets overconfident 🤭
I made it to red difficulty in this game, but that's as far as I got.
I love the atmosphere of it though.
oooooh, you're in for a treat.
And for a lot to learn.
And for a lot of info.
Have fun!
This is one of my all time favorite games.ets goooo
I remember back in the beta you could fail the tutorial. Think they patched that?
Question for viewer,does she every played God of war 2018 on stream or maybe offstream.
I feel like she would like every bit of the game aspect
Darkest Dungeon let's go !!! This game is THE SHIT
but be sure to remember that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
The video started with a duck getting shot...
In the DARKEST DUNGEON!
Welcome to Darkest Dungeon... Enjoy the stress.