How to cheat candles?

[Rin D. Pryde]

Got the game on EGS, and personally, I vehemently DESPISE any meta grind in roguelites, let alone such an extensive one. Because I value my time and will never waste 50+ hours for a game to become "full game". This is why I always cheat all this BS with Cheat Engine/trainers.

However, I stumbled upon some issues in DS2 as CE can't change that particular stat for some reason (it goes back immediately). Trainers also don't have this option. I saw a guide about editing saves, but those lines appear to have vanished as well.

Please don't tell me the devs went out of their way to cheat-protect this particular stat as this would make me furious.

[his1roguenation]

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[Stormdes]

You can. Edit your profile_ json file with notepad++. Search for candle in there. C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\RedHook\Darkest Dungeon II\SaveFiles\76561198019102345\profiles\profile_1.json

[Rin D. Pryde]

Originally posted by his1roguenation:

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Thanks, will try.

Originally posted by icedutah:

You can. Edit your profile_ json file with notepad++. Search for candle in there. C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\RedHook\Darkest Dungeon II\SaveFiles\76561198019102345\profiles\profile_1.json

Thanks. Yeah, I tried, but there's no "candle" line that I find with the search. Maybe that's because I'm currently at 0 candles, not sure.

[Embertine]

I was able to use cheat engine to change my candles from 32 to 999 and unlocked everything. Was a bit trying at first since I hadn't used cheat engine for about 7 years I think. but you can make it work, but only at specific screens in the game. in the screen where you unlock the other heroes by spending candles on them in one of those screens. For gold you can only do it while in the merchant screen at the inn. but afterwards the gold will be separated into stacks and fill up your inventory.

[Pixel Peeper]

Easy enough to cheat, but they don't give you the content bit by bit just to spite you. They do it for multiple reasons.

First, it lets you learn. If you had a million trinkets and combat items, some of which are very strange or very specialized, just show up at any time, you wouldn't necessarily know how to use them. They give you a few new ones at a time and you recognize them in future runs alongside the new ones.

Second, speaking of the new ones, they are given to you for free the first time you unlock them, so it's part of the game. You unlock a few trinkets and combat items and stage coach items and inn items, and then decide what group would best use those items for your next run.

Third, it's something to earn. If you have everything right away, it's less interesting and less rewarding.

Fourth, it's part of the difficulty balancing. As you progress through harder content, you unlock better stuff, or specialty stuff that you now know how to properly use, which alongside your improving skill at the game will compensate for the harder content.

So... go ahead and spend your 3,000 candles in one go, but be aware of the downsides. You'll have a ridiculous amount of things on your first run and none on subsequent ones, you won't be familiar with any of them, there'll be nothing left to earn as a reward, and you may find your first run ridiculously easy.

[Abel]

I myself started a first campaign where I unlocked (cheated in) everything, altar and hero skills. I was tired of playing (and failing) with the same four characters and was completely confused with the upgrades, the enemies, pretty much everything.

It's very difficult I think, for a developer who's familiar with his game, to have a good idea of how it feels for newbies. My first 10 hours of play were not that pleasant but I persisted and it got better as I progressed. I think RH needs to redesign the experience and learning curve, the tutorials and the meta progression (a very confusing part, unexplained) so that newcomers don't feel (too) lost.

And now, I'm on a new campaign where I go through the progression.

So as others may have said, to add candles, find 'profile_1.json' in your save folder and find this part:

  "m_ProfileValues": {
    "m_Id": null,
    "m_Values": [
      [
        "candles",
        109.0
      ]
    ]
  },

Just change the number (float). If you can't find this block of code, just add it and it should do the trick.

[Rin D. Pryde]

So in the end, I used Cheat Engine in the "float/exact value" mode and it finally worked. Did this right on the Altar screen, everything else is the same — scan, spend one, next scan, spend one, next scan, etc. Thanks for advices!

[COWZA]

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

Easy enough to cheat, but they don't give you the content bit by bit just to spite you. They do it for multiple reasons.

First, it lets you learn. If you had a million trinkets and combat items, some of which are very strange or very specialized, just show up at any time, you wouldn't necessarily know how to use them. They give you a few new ones at a time and you recognize them in future runs alongside the new ones.

Second, speaking of the new ones, they are given to you for free the first time you unlock them, so it's part of the game. You unlock a few trinkets and combat items and stage coach items and inn items, and then decide what group would best use those items for your next run.

Third, it's something to earn. If you have everything right away, it's less interesting and less rewarding.

Fourth, it's part of the difficulty balancing. As you progress through harder content, you unlock better stuff, or specialty stuff that you now know how to properly use, which alongside your improving skill at the game will compensate for the harder content.

So... go ahead and spend your 3,000 candles in one go, but be aware of the downsides. You'll have a ridiculous amount of things on your first run and none on subsequent ones, you won't be familiar with any of them, there'll be nothing left to earn as a reward, and you may find your first run ridiculously easy.

Imagine how these people deal with real life.... xD

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by SONKEV:

Imagine how these people deal with real life.... xD

Well hopefully they don't cheat!

But that's the thing... this is real life. We're all real people playing a real video game. We get limited opportunities to enjoy ourselves, our gaming time is precious. That's why it makes no sense to ruin your own gaming experience like this.

The game is carefully designed to give you unlocks in measured doses so that you start each new run with a little something more and see new stuff every time. How absurd to have everything on your first run, and then get nothing on future ones. And from there there are no new trinkets or combat items or stagecoach items or inn items.

Ah well. It's a shame but OP will have to suffer the consequences of their actions. Thankfully all it'll do is yield an inferior gaming experience. Better than investing your life savings in MLMs.

[Rin D. Pryde]

Originally posted by SONKEV:

Imagine how these people deal with real life.... xD

Imagine not wanting/planning to spend dozens or hundreds of hours on one game because you actually have real life... xD

[Capitano Ananas]

Originally posted by Rin D. Pryde:

Originally posted by SONKEV:

Imagine how these people deal with real life.... xD

Imagine not wanting/planning to spend dozens or hundreds of hours on one game because you actually have real life... xD

Hey man, it's up to you playing a game or not, ur rl is a priority? good, left the gaming world but if u spent time on a steam "forum" commenting other ppl idk how much u have to do irl...

Anyway, cheating is cheating, i don't care if is a sp or mp most ppl simply cannot stand a game and try other ways.

u can unluck everything but if u don't know ho to play ur cheating will be useless and if u don't play the game the way it is surely u will fail even with cheats...

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by Rin D. Pryde:

Imagine not wanting/planning to spend dozens or hundreds of hours on one game because you actually have real life... xD

If you don't have dozens of hours to spend on this game, I would recommend not getting it. For a normal person it'll probably take at least 48 hours of play time just to finish the content, even with zero additional runs for fun.

And it'll probably take longer for you since you won't be getting trinkets, combat items, stagecoach items and inn items at the beginning of each run.

[Rin D. Pryde]

Originally posted by Capitano Casper:

Anyway, cheating is cheating, i don't care if is a sp or mp most ppl simply cannot stand a game and try other ways.

u can unluck everything but if u don't know ho to play ur cheating will be useless and if u don't play the game the way it is surely u will fail even with cheats...

Maybe that's why I'm not using immortality or, I don't know, one-shot-kill, huh? Nothing against failing, everything against mindless grind and time-wasting. I don't even know why you guys decided to come here and comment. This was a pretty friendly and civil discussion and no one is interested in your opinions anyway.

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

If you don't have dozens of hours to spend on this game, I would recommend not getting it.

Can I decide that for myself please? Thanks.

[Longsword]

Yeah it does take about 40 hours or less to get to the point you dont need candles and wish they would go away. If you only have like 1-2 hours a week, im certain they have cheat commands somewhere on google...

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by Rin D. Pryde:

Can I decide that for myself please?

Unless you have some sort of condition that makes you obligated to follow recommendations... yes.