–Red Hook Tyler (on behalf of the Darkest Dungeon team)įirst, a bonus! As many of you know, we created a Musketeer class (a mirror skin of Arbalest), and this class was a Kickstarter exclusive for two years. We are pleased to roll these changes out and hope that each of you find the majority of them to be exciting and welcome! Where possible, we tried to correct dominant strategies by providing alternatives that are similarly exciting. Yes, there are some nerfs, but I think you’ll find that those changes are much less frequent than buffs. The working philosophy for this giant balance update was that we wanted to shore up *weak* classes/skills/trinkets more than we wanted to nerf strong ones. We know that, on occasion, something you love might be altered in a way you don’t like It’s the nature of the beast that not all changes will be loved by all players. They were the source of many ideas, and also provided endless enthusiasm for stress testing (har har) the changes themselves.Ĭlair was also instrumental in compiling the final changelist, by referencing things against the live game. Special thanks to Marvin Seo and Clair de Lune for their assistance with this update, in particular with class and trinket adjustments. In making these changes, we consulted extensively with members of the Darkest Dungeon player community, and ultimately went through over three complete rounds of changes, complete with playtesting and fierce debates. Related to that, we also wanted to assess combat as a whole and see if there were any general balance adjustments we could make to improve the game. Over the last couple months, we’ve taken a comprehensive look through all classes in the game since it had been some time since we previously did so. 1.3.1 Changes to the executable and rulesīuild #_ (The Color of Madness) Designer's Notes: ĭarkest Dungeon started out as an Early Access game with frequent updates, but has since gone on to have a number of free updates throughout its life as a “Finished Game.” We are pleased to announce that we are deploying a large balance update to the core game on Tuesday June 19th, to coincide with release of the new Color of Madness DLC.
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