Steadfast Steward's Update - Part 2: Participation Details

Steadfast Steward’s Update Part Two - Participation Details

Our final hero reworks are nearly here! Since the release of the third Kingdoms module, Curse of the Court, our team has been focused on completing the remaining work from this summer’s Steadfast Steward’s update. We’re happy to announce that a new update is coming to our public beta branches next week.

This public beta period will be focused on just a few changes, and should conclude by the end of the month. Read on for more details on what to expect, and how you can participate.

What will this update contain:

The second part of our Steadfast Steward update will not be as expansive as the one we had in the summer, and will focus on following areas: 

• Finishing the 2 remaining hero reworks - Hellion and Leper

• Adding more options to The Dam.

• Minor fixes and improvements 

We do not plan to tackle any other areas of the game during this public beta period.

What is the expected timeline:

This update will be pushed to our coming in hot/experimental branches early next week. Due to the smaller scope, we expect to be on these public beta branches for only a couple weeks, while we ingest community feedback and iterate. The first build we deploy will contain all the scheduled work for this update. Our goal is to push our final update to retail before the end of October. 

How to participate:

If you want to participate, you’ll simply need to play the game on our public beta branches on Steam, Epic or GOG once builds become available, and then send us your feedback. As with the Steadfast Steward update in the summer, we’ll be collecting community feedback on Discord, email, and via official surveys.

We will have a specific section dedicated to the Steadfast Steward’s update with different channels for hero reworks, and our Dam changes. Note: This section will be added to our Discord once our first build is live next week.

You can also email your thoughts to feedback@redhookgames.com if you’d prefer to send feedback that way.

How to access the coming_in_hot public beta branch on Steam:

• Right click on Darkest Dungeon II in your Steam library

• Click Properties

• Click Betas

• Choose ‘Coming_in_hot - experimental builds’ from the Beta Participation dropdown menu.

How to access the Experimental public beta branch on Epic:

• To participate on the Epic Games Store, simply install the Experimental version of the game and play here!

How to access the Experimental public beta branch on GOG:

• Go to the Darkest Dungeon II game page and click the Settings button found to the right of Install

• Choose the 'Configure...' option

• In the Configure menu, click 'Installation'

• Under the Beta Channels dropdown menu, select 'Experimental'

As always, we recommend making a backup of your save file before switch branches!

Save files are found here: C://Users/Username/AppData/LocalLow/RedHook/Darkest Dungeon II/

Please note, participation is NOT necessary. If you don’t want to help test this update, you can continue playing on the regular retail branches as normal, and enjoy the completed update when it is released in late October.