Scouting chance is effected by torch level, trinkets, and quirks. Certain curios can also give scouts (sometimes these even scout the entire dungeon!) radiant and dim light increase your scouting chance, but lower light levels do not decrease or increase it. In Darkest Dungeon, you'll come across many different classes with many pros and cons - and you'll find that some party members work better together than others. The setups below are just a few of. There is a secret room on the way to the final boss with a letter from Red Hook Studios, the developers of Darkest Dungeon. Secret rooms count towards the progress in the Explore quest. Scouting via curio interactions will not reveal secret rooms.
Scouting has a chance of occurring whenever a new room is entered or certain curios are activated, making nearby unexplored areas less risky to traverse. A high scouting chance can also cause parts of the map to be already scouted at the start of an expedition.
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Darkest Dungeon features a steady stream of heroes ready and willing to go mad and die on fruitless quests to reclaim your ancestral lands from eldritch horror. Not counting the custom heroes available through various user mods, at launch there are 14 Darkest Dungeon classes available for putting together a wide range of party combinations.
When scouting is triggered, nearby rooms and corridors on the dungeon map will be revealed, showing their contents. Depending on the successfulness of the scouting, one or two (in case of critical scouting success) nearby corridors may be scouted. Scouting will always depart from the current position towards unexplored directions. Scouting is also the only way of revealing secret rooms, which can be revealed only during critical scouting success.
By scouting ahead, it is possible to reveal incoming dangers in advance, giving the player a chance to reroute to avoid unnecessary risks or save on torches by skipping empty rooms and corridors. Scouted traps are an easy source of stress heal for heroes with good disarm chance and scouted battles will prevent the party from being surprised.
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- A hero has no scouting chance value, the base scouting chance is always 25% upon entering a room for every party.
- There are ways to increase this chance to make scouting events occur more frequently through the use of trinkets (Ancestor's Map and Evidence of Corruption being the trinkets with the highest increase at +25%).
- Light is also an important factor in determining whether a scouting event will occur, with brighter light giving substantial increases to the scouting chance, at radiant light (>75% Torch) the scouting chance is increased by 15% compared to 'Black as Pitch' at 0% for example.
- To save on torches or if the player wants to maintain a lower light level, it is advisable to raise the light level just before entering a room.
- Some camping skills can increase scouting chance significantly.
- Quirks of characters in a party can also increase the scouting chance in certain Locations.
- The effective scouting chance is calculated by just adding all scouting modifiers listed above to the base scouting chance of 25%.
- If your combined scouting chance is no more than 100%, then the chance of scouting two hallways ahead (critical scout) is always 50% if a scout procs.
- If your combined scouting chance is more than 100% (practically capped at 200%), then you will always scout and the chance of a critical scout is half of your scouting chance.
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The main part of this game is exploring dungeons as you can understand from its title. There are a lot of different corridors and rooms with treasures and monsters. You can crawl through 5 unique locations including one added in the DLC. You also will explore the final dungeon where the last boss hides. Enemies occupy almost every room and crossroad, but you can find some safe places. Secret rooms belong to them.
You may know about some easter eggs and mysterious places in other games. Forget about them now. Darkest Dungeon is all about gloom and horror so you will not find here cute pics or things which break the fourth wall. Even secret rooms here are just hidden parts of the dungeon where you can acquire useful loot and nothing more. It’s worth to find them, but don’t hope there will be overpowered swords and so on.
Well, let’s discover how to access these unusual places and what treasures await there.
How to find secret rooms?
You can find a secret room during medium and long expeditions. Short dungeons don’t contain hidden places. To enter such room you should scout it first. It’s the only way to reveal secret rooms in corridors of the certain dungeon. Note that you can find hidden objects even in passed halls as well as in unexplored parts of the dungeon.
You can scout an environment randomly while accessing a new room. With a high chance of scouting, this effect will be triggered at the start of a particular mission. The skill of scouting can be increased by the high level of light, camping abilities, quirks, and trinkets. There is a chance of critical scouting which reveals twice as more locations. Such effect occurs with a chance of 50% if your overall scouting is lower than 100%. In other cases, critical scouting occurs always.
Once you scouted a secret room it will appear as a golden star icon in the map. All secret rooms are located in corridors so you should search there. You just should move along that corridor where a secret room is located. Proceed to the desired location and stop your team. Now simply click on the background or tap W button/Up arrow to open a door.
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After exploring of secret rooms you can leave them as regular. Simply click on a new target on the map and your party will move there.
What’s inside secret rooms?
There are no foes inside secret rooms so you can take a short rest there. All rooms of this type contain a unique curio named Ancient Artifact. It’s a treasure which you can unlock with or without cleansing.
If you simply unlock this chest you will receive 3 portions of gold or gems and that’s all. So we suggest unlocking this curio with cleansing means you should use Skeleton Key. In this case, you will be rewarded with one trinket similar to artifacts that drops from the Collector. It could be one of three heads which boost PROT, DMG and healing skills as well as inflict stress while being equipped. You also can receive 3 copies of Puzzling Trapezohedron which cost of 3500 gold per copy.
While in the Courtyard you can also reveal secret rooms. This location keeps more treasures and secrets. In hidden rooms here, you can find not only chests with cool loot but also prisoners. These adventurers are similar to your heroes and they can join your team. All prisoners are experienced combatants and they have upgraded equipment and abilities.
Don’t forget that secret rooms and curios there comply with regular rules. It means that you will find more loot while traveling with low light and even more loot at 0 level of light.
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What else should you know about secret rooms?
- You don’t need Skeleton Key to unlock secret rooms. You also don’t need it to interact with curio, but using this item will gain more valuable loot.
- Secret rooms have 0% chance to appear during a short mission, 50% chance – during a medium mission and 100% chance during a long mission.
- Secret rooms always appear during boss missions regardless of their length.
- Scouting after activating a curio will not reveal secret rooms.
Good luck in finding secret rooms!