First major Darkest Dungeon II update draws from original beasties and more

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While Darkest Dungeon II is about the journey away from the nihilistic themes of its predecessor, that doesn’t mean it needs to leave everything from that original brutally unforgiving role-playing game in the shadowed past.

The Beasts & Burdens update, the first major milestone in the game’s early access development due to hit today, brings with it, among a number of major upgrades, a bit of the original game to this aspirational sequel in the form of creature dens.

The creature den is a new node that can appear in any region (outside of Mountain and Valley), where players will face a random group of beasts in two waves with no rest between. Winning the encounter awards special loot items which, once delivered to the Inn, will result in major benefits to the party. 

But what makes this new node in the game so unusual, is that it’s packed with creations from the original title, something game director Chris Bourassa calls a playful nod to the community.

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