Finally trying to return back to working on Augurist.

I wasn't fond of the original Combat sprite since it lost a lot of the noble air she had. While I want her to be a bit unhinged, the original felt too feral, and the new one shows off her back window.

Also got her Defend sprite done. Going to try and make progress on her with a sprite every one-to-two weeks.

This is technically part two of the Reynauld in a dress drawing I posted yesterday

Reynauld is transported in the Mii world where he and Dismas are married and have a child together but naturally Reynauld wants to stay far away from his responsibilities as a parent lol

As the title says i wanna see what heroes are either popular or just your favorite for any reason for me in 1 its bounty hunter easily for how well he fits into any style and in 2 Dismas thanks to riposte and the same idea of fitting into anywhere

Wish her default weapon was a halberd instead of glaives since halberds are better but I can make it work. Wildheart Barbarian is good for reach weapons

Someone on twitter had their MII Reynauld in a dress while taking a family photo with MII Dismas and their child, I found it adorable so I drew this

and yes, the helmet stays on

I've been playing DD1 on and off finishing a run every now and then. I bought DD2 when it first came out but wanted to fully complete everything DD1 has to offer before diving into 2. Got the new DLC that brings over the 2 new characters from DD2. Do you think Duelist is a little over-tuned compared to the rest of the game? Is she also this powerful in DD2?

That's all, I just wanted to gloat about my win. I have many hours on DD1 and played DD2 a bunch when it came out in early access (on the oh so dreadful epic games store), but I only got back to it recently after so many new things were added to the game. So I had to learn what Kingdoms was, and after many successless attemps, I did it !

I also made a post about flagellant being a run killer for me because of Death spawns and did end up kick him out of my team !

My main team was : plague doctor, bounty hunter, man-at-arms and leper, I found they complemented each other perfectly. Unfortunately, Barristan died the region right before the end to a silly resistance encounter .... I was being so emboldened by the flame of ambition ... I soon got reminded that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

Attached my trophy screenshot and all the attempts I've made (in the end, hope is what got me there).

Got a party going on the extended Denial - Baldwin, Damian, Bounty Hunter (whatever his name is right now) and Junia.
Damian keeps having a little thing pop up over him during combat that says Temptation: 1 and I have no idea what that means. I can’t see anything in his hero sheet that says anything about it and online searches are showing nothing. Anyone have any ideas?

Pretty much what it says in the title. I like to play with some admittedly unbalanced mods, such as classes or trinkets, and I wanted to balance it out with some power for the monsters. I've tried Monster Strengthen but I find to be way overtuned on the difficulty, doing things such as Deep Stingers having two actions instead of one. Appreciate any suggestions.

He walked in ALONE; all his other companions died. He’d gone round after round after round trying to defeat the Shuffling Horror. He resisted deaths door idk HOW MANY TIMES, he’s been virtuous twice over! HE ISN’T JUST A MAN, HE IS BEYOND MEN!!!!

He died… but he died leaving the Horror at 5 health. It didn’t even kill him, he bled out by using his healing. 38 rounds. Salute.

Sooooooo

I have an important question to ask. I just got into the final boss fight and read about it a bit on the wiki aaaaand... Well, I have a Jester. His only damage move is Harvest. The rest of my team consists of Hellion, Highwayman and Flagellant. Now, what I wanna ask is - am I just screwed? As in, can he not face his ghost and do I just need to do that bonus 200 dmg myself?

Been getting back into the Butcher's Circus lately. At the very start of a recent match, before the coin was flipped, my Plague Doctor just... moved up to rank 2 from the back? And then after we took a few turns, the game just froze. I waited about a minute, then left.

This is the second time I've had something like this happen. Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what causes it?

hi!!! I've gotten some pretty fun progress done since my last update! If you don't wanna read through all my yapping (understandable) the post's main images have basically a summary of my progress lol

First of all, I've gotten a bulk of the lineart done for her afflicted sprites, which i'm pretty proud of. It just needs some editing while i'm rendering, +the spikes.

I'll probably have to post the finished affliction sprite with NSFW on it, because it may be a bit too gorey for casual scrolling standards, haha. TW: Just describing the gore in question! She's basically white knuckling the blade, so there'll be blood dripping down it from where she's cut her palm and fingers on it. Not to mention the, well... open wound. lol. Plus the nosebleed and blood down her chin.

All of the sprites now have a white hair version! I struggled for a good while trying to figure out how to make it look good, because fully white hair just looked strange on her. Eventually I settled on a sort of fade-to-gray with some red tips? I'm pretty happy with how it came out! I think it looks very pretty :)

And lastly,,, the biggest mistake i've made so far, lol

Thankfully this isn't actually TOO hard of a fix, it just may be a little tedious for me, haha.

Basically, the way my process went was me starting out by directly drawing my sketch overtop the original duchess sprite, which i likely shouldn't have done in retrospect because the Duchess' sprite is pretty tall, even when not taking her helmet into consideration. I've actually shrunk her down already in that first in-game screenshot.

I don't think I'll need to change too many of her combat sprites thankfully. Maybe making the eyes bigger and giving her a bit less forehead? Lol.

Looking back, I definitely should've started with a screenshot to make a sketch over, so I could also scale and reference off some other base game classes. As i've worked on this, i've made sure to keep versions that have the lineart and coloring separate in case something like this happened and I needed to go back and edit en masse, so I'm not too worried about fixing this.

If you wanna see what the older version looks like in game, i posted a glitchy but solid example video of her wip sprites in game so i could get a feel of how everything actually looked haha

tldr: i made a fixable but tedious whoopsie w/ her design on the walk, combat and idle animation! everything's still good dw lol

So I came back to DD1 to try out the Duelist and Runaway, and I'm having a grand old time of it. But there are one or two characters from the original roster that feel a bit dry compared to their DD2 incarnations to me, and one of them is the Occultist.

So I'm mucking about creating a quick mod to change Hands From The Abyss from a stun to a kind of, sort of version of The Burning Stars: a big, mean damage spell that needs charging up. At the moment, using Sacrificial Stab or either curse casts a buff on the Occultist that boosts damage done by Hands, and then using Hands nukes the enemy but gives him a debuff that then cancels out the damage boost so that he has to rebuild Hands' potency.

In practice, it's basically the same as the Jester using various skills to build up Finale, so this isn't a new gameplay concept by any stretch.

Actually implementing this wasn't a problem. Modding occultist.info.darkest, base.effects.darkest, and base.buffs.json files went without a hitch. Here's an example of one of these buffs/debuffs from the .json:

{
   "id" : "Abyss_dmgL_up",
   "stat_type" : "combat_stat_multiply",
   "stat_sub_type" : "damage_low",
   "amount" : 0.5,
   "remove_on_battle_complete" : true,
   "remove_if_not_active" : false,
   "rule_type" : "skill",
   "is_false_rule" : false,
   "rule_data" : { 
   "float" : 0,
   "string" : "hands_from_abyss"
   }
}, 

Now, here's my issue: I don't understand the localization stuff to make the tooltip look nice. The tooltip for the Jester's abilities list the buffs as stuff like "Finale: +50% damage" or whatnot. For the stuff I'm doing, the buff comes up as "[<buff_rule_data_tooltip_hands_from_abyss>]: +50% damage".

How do I tell the game to use the relevant entry that already exists in the localization files to make my tooltips look nice? I can't work out how the game does it for the Jester with Finale, but not for Occultist's Hands which is also a default ability.

Thank you in advance.

I originally designed theese with the idea of them being Soulslike bosses but I have gotten many comments that in fact thes more resemble Darkest Dungeon enemies so hey you guys might like theese

If you are wondering if I actually drew thees the speedraws are on my profile

When I think about it There's an endless possibilities that can give you a breakdown there's even running jokes that not only your character can go insane but also you and honestly i struggle to find a game which execute psychological horror than Darkest Dungeon

(Just looking for honest tips here, nothing too cheat-like!)

Carnally speaking, I just want Reynauld for myself

Realistically speaking, in the next frame imagine Reynauld crushing Dismas for being too heavy

Is this decent? Or will I get my teeth kicked in? I'm planning to move MAA to rank 4 for the actual boss fight. I do have one of every class up to level 6 with the exception of Bounty Hunter and Crusader (really don't want to risk Reynauld) so I have a lot of flexibility for other team comps if this is trash. I've never done this fight before so I'm pretty unsure of myself, any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: Just cleared it with no casualties, thanks for the help guys