Left 4 Dead 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)

The Steam summer sale is in full blaze. For a while it even blazed so hot that the servers went on fire and all the price stickers peeled off the games. Either that or the store just got swamped with cheapskates looking for the best bargains. Cheapskates like you! Well, don t worry. We ve rounded up some recommendations – both general tips and some specific staff choices.

Here are the things you should consider owning in your endless consumeristic lust for a happiness which always seems beyond reach. You’re welcome.

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Darkest Dungeon® - redhookjohn
Darkest Dungeon

  • Mac and PC performance improvements: Please let us know if you were having problems and this solves it for you!
  • Virtuous resistance buffs increased: may heroic heroes continue to carry the day!
  • Madman: Accusation now causes horror instead of simple stress
  • Updated Occultist and Crusader combat idle
  • Fix to controller crash in embark screen when unequipping all your trinkets.
  • Fix to quirk replacement.

The Crimson Court
  • Fanatic:
    • Righteous Condemnation base damage reduced
    • Holy Stake base damage reduced, marked target dmg reduced
    • Brand Tainted crit chance removed
    • Beat Down base damage reduced, crit chance increased
    • Fury of the Righteous base damage reduced, stress AOE reduced
    • Fanatic Pyre: corrected insane damage error at Champion level (OUR BAD)
  • Blueprints are now retroactively awarded for Veteran and Champion boss kills when converting older save files and unlocking the Districts.
  • Districts only accessible on the main Hamlet screen. (No longer can be opened on Embark/Provisions)
  • Fixed bug where people get kicked out of raids when turning on DLC.
  • Activity contagion has proper backdrop in activity log
  • Fixed strings
Darkest Dungeon® - redhookjohn
Darkest Dungeon

  • Mac and PC performance improvements: Please let us know if you were having problems and this solves it for you!
  • Virtuous resistance buffs increased: may heroic heroes continue to carry the day!
  • Madman: Accusation now causes horror instead of simple stress
  • Updated Occultist and Crusader combat idle
  • Fix to controller crash in embark screen when unequipping all your trinkets.
  • Fix to quirk replacement.

The Crimson Court
  • Fanatic:
    • Righteous Condemnation base damage reduced
    • Holy Stake base damage reduced, marked target dmg reduced
    • Brand Tainted crit chance removed
    • Beat Down base damage reduced, crit chance increased
    • Fury of the Righteous base damage reduced, stress AOE reduced
    • Fanatic Pyre: corrected insane damage error at Champion level (OUR BAD)
  • Blueprints are now retroactively awarded for Veteran and Champion boss kills when converting older save files and unlocking the Districts.
  • Districts only accessible on the main Hamlet screen. (No longer can be opened on Embark/Provisions)
  • Fixed bug where people get kicked out of raids when turning on DLC.
  • Activity contagion has proper backdrop in activity log
  • Fixed strings
Darkest Dungeon® - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)

It’s warm! Luckily the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, have come together to talk cold games, like chilly survivalist city-builder Frostpunk. That’s because Adam is back from E3 and can tell us (Brendan and Pip) all about it. He’s also played Destiny 2 and Middle Earth: Shadow of War, the lucky sod. Spill the beans, Adam! No wait, don’t. We need those.

This week’s back-to-normal-length episode also sees us talking about Darkest Dungeon‘s latest expansion, The Crimson Court, esoteric desert survival RPG Kenshi, and some news about GTA V and the sad fate of its modders. Also: the return of our patch notes quiz, Patch Adam, this time featuring Dwarf Fortress. … [visit site to read more]

Darkest Dungeon® - redhookjohn
Significantly increased blood drop rates (in some cases doubling)
Darkest Dungeon® - redhookjohn
Significantly increased blood drop rates (in some cases doubling)
Darkest Dungeon® - RedHookTyler
The Crimson Court DLC:

Added missing translations. (About 10% of the Crimson Court text was still in English only.)

With very few exceptions, all text in the DLC should now be translated to the current 9 languages. (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Br-Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Czech.)

Note: We are reviewing other languages to translate to.
Darkest Dungeon® - RedHookTyler
The Crimson Court DLC:

Added missing translations. (About 10% of the Crimson Court text was still in English only.)

With very few exceptions, all text in the DLC should now be translated to the current 9 languages. (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Br-Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Czech.)

Note: We are reviewing other languages to translate to.
Darkest Dungeon® - redhookjohn
Darkest Dungeon
  • Correct Shamblers and Collectors to be proper difficulty for Veteran and Champion quests
  • For now, heroes will not retreat from battle when afflicted (we may improve this functionality later)

The Crimson Court
  • More Castellans (who drop Invites) will appear for Baron Quest at High Infestation.
  • Core region blood drops slightly increased (note: yesterday we increased overall blood drops from Bloodsucker mashes)
  • Croc: decreased HP some and removed Cure Self on Submerge for Apprentice and Veteran level
  • Infestation schedules shortened, especially the first one
Darkest Dungeon® - redhookjohn
Darkest Dungeon
  • Correct Shamblers and Collectors to be proper difficulty for Veteran and Champion quests
  • For now, heroes will not retreat from battle when afflicted (we may improve this functionality later)

The Crimson Court
  • More Castellans (who drop Invites) will appear for Baron Quest at High Infestation.
  • Core region blood drops slightly increased (note: yesterday we increased overall blood drops from Bloodsucker mashes)
  • Croc: decreased HP some and removed Cure Self on Submerge for Apprentice and Veteran level
  • Infestation schedules shortened, especially the first one
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