Reviewing BaerTaffy's Worst Run Ever - Darkest Dungeon

This is just a norm in Darkest Dungeons

I though thats bear in top left corner xD i'm new dont blame

Pistol shot is a naive useless ability.

It is logical. Hellion gets marked. So "Rend the marked". Nothing to do with misfortune.

I can confirm that deathblow resist is not a myth because I was fighting thing from the stars and my vestal survived 7 consecutive deathblows while also having bleed and being hopeless and being marked and being basically permastunned. Suffice it to say I won but by a very small margin.

This makes me think of that time when I was in a medium veteran dungeon and I ran out of torches so went into pich black and next hallway fight was a shambler and I got party wiped.

it goes wrong when Vestal does that healing instead of Stunning(controlling)

Using iron swan instead of killing cultist. Almost always prioritize kills over worthless damage. Offense=Defense especially in higher ranked dungeons. By killing an enemy that means they cant kill or crit you the next round. When there 4 whole ass enemies its not that unlucky to get 2 of them to stack into one hero. If an enemy isnt dead round one i can tell you your future. It might not happen that fight but you will get double or triple stacked into one hero with crits or high rolls and thatll be it.

Reminds me of how I lost my vestal (and subsequently my MAA) on the last boss on level 2 of The Darkest Dungeon. They one cycled my vestal, Double back to back crits and instant deathblow on blight tick.

The cost of running is far less than the cost of losing a team. This is classic sunk cost fallacy, combined with a focus on one single strategy that would not work for the enemies, led by the cruelty of the randomness in darkest dungeon.

There's almost nothing that could have been done about the first death.

That was something I started focusing more once I got past the starting half or so of my darkest dungeon run.

Having teens that could still be reasonably effective with only three members, and having attacks for all positions in a battle in case of movement skills.

If he skipped one turn of buffing with jester and just moved him up to 2 and vestal back to 3 he would've been alright against the slimes.

I lost a hero to a spider gank on the first turn of the first room of my first torchless run. I did rage quit and I deleted my save...I feel the pain man...

Level 3 and 4 armor and weapons into a champion dungeon.....oh no.

I love Baer's videos

Literally every run I make. I'm the "Will Wheaton" of this game

I feel like Dodge just doesn't exist in this game, literally.

One of my characters (hellion I think, ironically given baer's run) with 23 Dodge would not only continuously get hit, but would continuously miss the enemy with something like 14 or 18 Dodge

Yo, Shuff, you gotta see how happy he was when he encountered the Collector and killed him before he could even "Collect Call". Not that it's surprising, it's just fun to watch how happy and overconfident his statements got on thereafter. 😄

I think honestly it comes down to team comp. He just had no-one that could roll up front with the highwayman. Only having 2 people that can work the first 2 slots is always risky and isn't going to go well if you lose someone.

The losing someone first off, eh it happens.

I honestly forgot reinforcements existed until I saw them pop in, and holy shit if I was drinking tea it would have shot out my nose

The early access was brutally hard

OMG! i was just remembering early access and lemme go thru the memory lane: it was quite the other thing! automatic death at 200 stress? stacking buffs like tracking shot like no one's business? less penalties on certain items and skills? Geez! It was worth the laugh and the trip from this game's humble beginnings into the thing we love (and tear our hair at, at times!)

He fu up by not stunning

Why pause?

This is a classic example of how continuing to make small mistakes can snowball into an unwinnable situation. Of course this was when the game was still in Early Access and virtually no one knew what perfect play was.

Did adrenaline not exist? That was mistake number one. Not having adrenaline even a level one would work.

I am about to do a champion Weald run and the only reference I have for how it is going to go is this video…

True darkest dungeon experience.

This run is the reason have the 1 hp o shit button on hell

I remember my worst run. It was the champion Pig God. I had already lost the vestal when I reached the boss due to an unfortunate Collector fight earlier with bad luck against Highwayman crits and bleed. I managed to kill the monster before getting stunlocked and screamed to death by Wilbur, the true Pig God.

It's kinda strange to the see the Estate without the gate to the Courtyard or the shattered mill.

to be honest, I have had worse rng, and looking back I don't believe I made a single mistake (it was DD2 so it was kind of expected but I got crit so many times that it was just unfair)
though that was "slightly" bs but it is darkest dungeon the game is more fun when you don't always win

now I want to play early access and challenge myself... wait that would be a great video :D

What level were these heroes? The highwayman was level 5. How about the others? I noticed they had armor level 3 and 4. Just based on that they were pretty weak to be in a champion dungeon.

The guy 100% should have retreated as soon as he lost Helion

I had a run like this where I went into the warrens just to level up my resolve level 5 characters, I forget who I brought except for a Crusader. On the very first fight like bear here, turn after turn, just kept getting crit after crit after crit and unfortunately died. After that I just retreated, goodbye Ancestor scroll. I just stopped playing after that, that was my first quest of the day too, sometimes this game just doesn't want you to play it, lol.

This was bad play with bad luck

This game's RNG makes XCOM's look fair and balanced. lol

Still looking for where is the fun in this game.

It's the "Ectoplasmic profusion? What does that do?" that always makes me laugh

I recently was getting ready to fight the Baron and wanted to bring a flagellant, he got critted into bleed into insta death. Started training another one and the exact thing happened to him 🥲. By week 35 these two deaths are the only ones that happened to me and I got zero flagellants in my team

>tfw no mace GF

Early Darkest Dungeon was a fuckin mess oml.

He should have switched the jester and vestal it would’ve made the vestal useable

for some reason i remember this being a tpk from when i saw it forever ago

Not using ballad and stun...... Might as well not have Jestal

Been a long time since I watched this. If I remember right, Baer really did not play poorly or do anything really dumb. Just some really really bad rng all at once.

This is why you battle ballad 😢

All my time playing this game idk if I’ve ever survived a shot on deaths door like does the stat actually do anything??

Should have muted the audio, or paused, to not talk over him. That's annoying.