How many heroes have YOU lost?

[Tenebrous Hero]

I'm still a little wet behind the ears with this game, and I'm not afraid to admit it. Practice and a few disastrous failures of expeditions have tempered my understanding of the game greatly, but I still can't help feel a tad... inadequate. It took forty two deaths before I finally got to the point where I could mitigate things effectively. I understand that it's my first playthrough and a few deaths are to be expected, but I can't help but feel that my graveyard's more crowded than it ought to be.

How about you guys? How well did your first runs go?

[pi73r]

42? Wow, going for the record I see :D
I think my 1st playthrough it was 4 or 5 (due to being greedy as ♥♥♥♥ in the long dungs).

[Anva]

In 92 hours a total of 6 heroes or so.

[Flynn]

41 hours in, I have lost about 20, but most of them were early on where i threw them away left and right stacking up funds, since i did not spend any funds on upgrading heroes until my hamlet was decently upgraded.

The only hero i lost that was of value was a level 4 Arbalest, but I have a level 6 Arbalest now so all is good.

[Oscar tG]

In EA about 6.

Post launch save no deaths and 1/4 Darkest Dungeon Quests done.

[aardvarkpepper]

Originally posted by GriffinSanders:

How many heroes have YOU lost?

I have lost no heroes, ever.

there were a few pathetic puling wretches that couldn't pull their weight maybe a few of them died but who cares about them

more seriously though it's a game who cares what other people did, just enjoy yourself, if that means gleefully stacking corpses then by all means.

developers should maybe consider a building brick minigame in which you can build houses and things using corpses from the graveyard

[Tenebrous Hero]

All these replies have left me greatly humbled... I'll resolve to minimize casualties in the next run.

[Kanrik]

In 200 hours I've lost 30, but that's probably because I only do dark runs.

[Arghaab]

7 heroes total during my first playtrough, and none during the NG+ one.

1 missing in action somewhere in the Darkest Dungeon.

2 fighting the Siren for the first time. She made Reynauld kill Dismas. I had to left him behind so they can be together for eternity.

4 against the Swine Prince. I was happy for the crit on that little guy hiding behind the boss before I saw what happened.

[rpc]

just 2 but havent do the dd yet

[aardvarkpepper]

Originally posted by GriffinSanders:

All these replies have left me greatly humbled... I'll resolve to minimize casualties in the next run.

ok i make funny at first

but now is time for real talk

serious talk

if you try to do things conservatively then you never stretch your limits

playing things safe is not what man do.

must adventure, must explore

must suffer and die

take bad with good, never risk bad, then never git gud

to be man is mysterious thing

learn, grow, make mistakes, those things go together. some make more mistakes than others but so what everyone's different

so remember is not just liberal "everyone different and special it's ok ur ok im ok everyones ok lets all hold hands and dance around a tree" no is serious talk is real talk, you make mistakes, get rekt, part of git gud, not to worry about few corpses what? you not dead why so worried

now go git gud.

[SpectralProphet]

Originally posted by aardvarkpepper:

Originally posted by GriffinSanders:

All these replies have left me greatly humbled... I'll resolve to minimize casualties in the next run.

ok i make funny at first

but now is time for real talk

serious talk

if you try to do things conservatively then you never stretch your limits

playing things safe is not what man do.

must adventure, must explore

must suffer and die

take bad with good, never risk bad, then never git gud

to be man is mysterious thing

learn, grow, make mistakes, those things go together. some make more mistakes than others but so what everyone's different

so remember is not just liberal "everyone different and special it's ok ur ok im ok everyones ok lets all hold hands and dance around a tree" no is serious talk is real talk, you make mistakes, get rekt, part of git gud, not to worry about few corpses what? you not dead why so worried

now go git gud.

I disagree.

[yolanda]

Early early access: 1. Pre-release patch: 8 (broken mechanics since fixed on release). Final release: 12 (broken mechanics fixed, heroes all died to new changes)

I'm fine with the game getting harder and more complex, I like that. The game got more balanced overall, and much harder since early early access (a good thing). But a few of the re-worked enemies are a bit OP compared to the rest.

[aardvarkpepper]

Originally posted by SpectralProphet:

I disagree.

mr no death run

some people have 99% genius and 1% effort, some have 99% effort and 1% genius.

some people just read guide, some people write guide.

but if you never fail then probably you're just not trying hard enough.

(edit) -

that isn't just saying throw people in meat grinder either.

[SpectralProphet]

Originally posted by aardvarkpepper:

Originally posted by SpectralProphet:

I disagree.

mr no death run

some people have 99% genius and 1% effort, some have 99% effort and 1% genius.

some people just read guide, some people write guide.

but if you never fail then probably you're just not trying hard enough.

Right now my Bounty Hunter got Syphilis from a snail in Cove.

I can't handle this. It's too hard... to understand.

[Xlomblie_Wheizard]

^ lol, you guys. it's just syphilis, relax.

As for me, i lost about 15 in my 1st playthrough in EA, 3 in my second playthrough (not counting the fifty-odd level 0's i sacrificed to suicidal dark runs AFTER beating the DD), & zero in my NG+ run so far (i'm on week 20, killed all apprentice bosses, have 24 level 3+ w/ almost 0 stress across the board, never had a resolve check, never abandoned a quest... so pretty much SpectralProphet levels of professionalism )