Darkest Dungeon® II News

We are proud to announce that Darkest Dungeon II is an IGF 2024 finalist in the Excellence in Visual Art category. It is an honour to be nominated alongside so many incredible titles.

You can see the full list of nominees here: https://igf.com/finalists-and-winners

This nomination also means we’re up for the IGF Audience Award.

Fans are able to pick their favourite IGF nominee. All IGF finalists are eligible. If you want to support Darkest Dungeon II, you can vote for us here: https://informa-tech.formstack.com/forms/26th_annual_independent_games_festival_audience_award

Voting closes January 31st!

We've just pushed our experimental branch changes live to retail! The following changes are now available on the game's default branch:

HEROES Runaway

• Ransack target ranks changed from 1 2 3 to 2 3 4
  
• Ransack+ target ranks changed from 1 2 3 to 2 3 4
  
• Run and Hide now grants 3 regen
  
• Run and Hide is now considered a healing skill
  
• Run and Hide+ now clears all Bleed/Blight/Burn on use
  
• Hearthlight now ignores Dodge
  
• Hearthlight now removes a single Dodge token from all targets, similar to other Ignore type skills
  
• Hearthlight+ now ignores Dodge
  
• Hearthlight+ now removes a single Dodge token from all targets, similar to other Ignore type skills
  
• Hearthlight+ now has a 25% chance of applying Combo to each target
  

Duelist

• Fixed an issue where Feint could very rarely fail to invert Sahar's current Stance
  

FIXES

• Adjusted game logic so the Leper can no longer get leprosy
  
• Adjusted UI for boss title selection overflowing onto paper art in different languages
  
• Adjusted button legend position on character sheet down so it doesn't clash with resistance stats in other languages
  
• Fixed an issue with skills not unlocking correctly due to game crash or other factors
  

Thank you for your nominations!

Darkest Dungeon II is officially one of five finalists in the Outstanding Visual Style category.

We would be honoured to have your vote for Outstanding Visual Style in this year's Steam Awards.

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This build is being deployed to our public beta branch and NOT to our default/retail branch. We encourage players who want to help test these changes and provide feedback to switch to the "coming_in_hot" beta branch here on Steam. Your save will carry over when you switch to that branch. However, once you switch we recommend you stay there until we push the update to the retail branch for everyone. We always recommend making a backup of your save file!

HEROES Runaway

• Ransack target ranks changed from 1 2 3 to 2 3 4
  
• Ransack+ target ranks changed from 1 2 3 to 2 3 4
  
• Run and Hide now grants 3 regen
  
• Run and Hide is now considered a healing skill
  
• Run and Hide+ now clears all Bleed/Blight/Burn on use
  
• Hearthlight now ignores Dodge
  
• Hearthlight now removes a single Dodge token from all targets, similar to other Ignore type skills
  
• Hearthlight+ now ignores Dodge
  
• Hearthlight+ now removes a single Dodge token from all targets, similar to other Ignore type skills
  
• Hearthlight+ now has a 25% chance of applying Combo to each target
  

Duelist

• Fixed an issue where Feint could very rarely fail to invert Sahar's current Stance
  

FIXES

• Adjusted game logic so the Leper can no longer get leprosy
  
• Adjusted UI for boss title selection overflowing onto paper art in different languages
  
• Adjusted button legend position on character sheet down so it doesn't clash with resistance stats in other languages
  
• Fixed an issue with skills not unlocking correctly due to game crash or other factors
  
  • Note: This work actually triggered a large refactor to many of our skill unlock systems for Hero Stories, and how we track them, as such this is a large systemic change that we will be hoping to let soak during the holiday break while we are out of office. If you have been affected by skills not unlocking correctly, please switch to this branch and see if this build resolves the issue. We will merge this work to retail in the new year.

FIXES

• Updated background for Warlord node
  
• Fixed color tint and rim direction on plague eater maid so those settings match other characters
  
• Fix for missing Chirurgeon dodge pose
  
• Fixed z-fighting in highwayman combat backstory fight 4
  
• Updated localization for all languages to fix missing strings and improvements made during the past week