The team continues to correct the last bugs and to make the final touches to this update while waiting to discuss the rest; more frequent updates, and therefore a little less dense, will be part of the game for the months to come. According to the teams, three points for improvement have been identified, namely the progression system, the development of relationships and more generally the progression within a game. According to the first feedback, the current system of experience points and unlocking improvements remains too spartan, and still lacks meaningful choices. Hence the desire to offer a new system guaranteeing a more developed link between expeditions.
Red Hook also plans to add more tension and elements of surprise to how relationships develop within your character detachment; they say it’s all about adding more meaningful choices, making the pros and cons of relationships more integrated into the system, and alleviating interruptions that can detract from the combat experience. Finally, the carriage rides still lack surprises and hazards to the taste of the community, an aspect that should again see some adjustments.
“In order to properly support the above initiatives and shape the richest experience possible, we are reprioritizing our content teams“, can we read in the post, which confirms that the creation of a new region / faction is no longer the priority.”The number of people and hours of work dedicated to Darkest Dungeon II remains the same, but we are focused on producing content that has the greatest impact on the quality of the game.“As a result, the Environments team will further tweak the current play areas with more scabrous details and route changes. Similarly, the bestiary will refocus on the irruption of new mini-boss likely to appear anywhere, without necessarily being attached to a particular region.
But Red Hook assures, anything not explicitly mentioned in the post can be considered work in progress – heroes, end bosses, story content, playable skins, paths, pets, balance/tuning , etc. Enough to extend your crossings in hell by a few hours.