The sky is falling above Darkest Dungeon’s ill-fated village, Hamlet. As we all know from Asterix, it is a very unhealthy factor and you have to be quite scared. A comet has come crashing down and landed within the outskirts, bringing with it a wierd gentle and, after all, insanity. It can solely imply one factor: it’s time for some new DLC. Some new DLC with a not very reassuring identify, particularly. The Color of Madness is due out subsequent spring.
Like its predecessor, The Crimson Court, The Color of Madness opens up a brand new space, the place the aforementioned comet has struck. It landed on Miller’s farm, and no person has heard a phrase from its residents in a fortnight. Obviously that is one thing it’s best to march in direction of, and never keep away from fully out of worry of loss of life or madness.
The ‘husks’ of Miller and his workers wander the realm, spreading the sunshine of the comet. They’re a brand new enemy sort, and whereas Red Hook is holding schtum about what makes them totally different from the remainder of the monsters inhabiting Darkest Dungeon’s crypts and caverns, I think that the corrupting gentle will include a mechanical twist like Crimson Court’s vampiric curse.
The crimson curse is a illness that’s onerous to treatment and which drives its victims mad with a thirst for blood, forcing gamers to handle them by feeding them blood and trying to cease the plague from spreading to different adventurers. It took a bit of time for Red Hook to discover a good steadiness, because it began out being almost inconceivable to handle because of the dearth of blood loot drops and the quite extreme debuffs.
A brand new quest sort can be going to be launched when The Color of Madness launches subsequent yr. It sounds an terrible lot like a horde or survival mode, with adventurers wading via limitless waves of enemies on their approach to the comet. “Survive as long as you can stomach, and compare your highest kill count with friends and rivals alike,” say Red Hook.
I’m undecided what to make of this. Darkest Dungeon is all about realizing when to run away, conserving sanity and defending your adventurers, in the event you can. And each enemy encounter is a shock that could possibly be your final. A horde mode sounds just like the antithesis of that. Since that is Darkest Dungeon, nevertheless, I’m hoping for a twist that can make this extra than simply slaughtering foe after foe.
Hopefully we’ll discover out extra within the new yr, which is when Red Hook may even spill the beans on pricing.
