TF2 Engineer (v2.0) The Mecha Update!

This is a detailed post for the second major update to the Darkest Dungeon: TF2 Engineer mod!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2847614903
The Mecha Update brings several new things to the Engineer! After 3 years since launch, hopefully, it will be worth the wait.

Merasmus has returned! And instead of bringing the Engineer back, he casts another portal dropping in both weapons and foes alike before returning from whence he came.

As this update brings a lot of new mechanics, I would strongly advise making a backup save of existing saves before updating it.

This will contains spoilers to the new missions, town events, enemies and trinkets!

The save files/profiles may be stored under your user ID, for example
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\an_id\\262060\remote"
With an_id being a number representing something.

This is one of the developer response to backup save files.

Originally posted by redhookjohn:

Just back up your save profiles and then when you want to load up a save to the cloud you can follow these steps.

On PC:

1. Make sure the profiles you want to save are in your Documents/Darkest folder
2. Launch Darkest Dungeon
3. Type transfersaves on the Campaign screen BEFORE the profile selection window

The game will launch the transfer process, wiping the cloud save games and transferring whatever profiles are in the Documents/Darkest folder to the cloud.

On MacOS:

To transfer your old save(s) to the cloud:

1. Make sure the profiles you want to save are in your Application Support->Darkest folder
2. Launch Darkest Dungeon
3. Type transfersaves on the Campaign screen BEFORE the profile selection window

The game will launch the transfer process, wiping the cloud save games and transferring whatever profiles are in the Application Support->Darkest folder to the cloud.

Comments are heard and I'm happy to announce the engineer have undergone through a new skin!

That's not all, the GRN and YLW team have joined in the fray! With this new update comes the cosmetic Beep Man and Beep Boy! And since Darkest Dungeon is always in Halloween mode, these beep men will always be visible and are here to stay!
The Buildin A Sentry & Use More Gun animations have been updated to now show the building process!

This contains mild spoilers for the new missions and town events.

5 new missions are available with the class Engineer.

Location: Ruins
Dungeon Level: 0
A town event will trigger this mission at minimum week 6.
Completing it will trigger the next mission and spawn random Mecha Engineers around the maps.
Location: Ruins
Dungeon Level: 0
Completing it will unlock the next mission.
Location: Ruins
Dungeon Level: 3
Completing it will unlock the next mission.
Location: Ruins
Dungeon Level: 4
Completing it will unlock the chance to spawn the next mission.
Location: Ruins
Dungeon Level: 0
This mission is only triggered from a random town event.
This mission is repeatable, a method to farm blueprints and campaign buffs.

New town events are added! Below is the complete list of the town events.

Minimum week: 3
You get 1 Free Engineer that you may add to your roster

Minimum week: 6
Idle Engineers gain 1 Resolve Level

Minimum week: 6
Party Gains +10% PROT on Next Quest
Party Gains +100% Trap Disarm Chance on Next Quest

Minimum week: 6
Unlocks the Quest "Destroy 2 Mecha Teleporters"

Triggers after completing the Quest "Destroy 2 Mecha Teleporters"
Unlocks the Quest "Destroy the Giant Mecha Engineer"
Roaming Mecha Engineers will now spawn in Ruins, Warrens, Weald, Cove, Courtyard and Farmstead

Triggers after completing the Quest "Destroy the Mega Mecha Engineer"
-100% Party Surprise Chance on Next Quest

May unlock after completing the Quest "Destroy the Mega Mecha Engineer"
Unlocks the repeatable Quest "Destroy the Mega Mecha Engineer" for that week

This contains the spoilers of each new enemies' abilities.

This update brings 20 new trinkets, some closer to vanilla trinkets, other changes how the Engineer can be played, and some being worse than useless!

Below is the complete list of trinkets and how they can be obtained.

Obtainable like most vanilla trinkets.
Quest reward for killing the giant mecha engineers
Quest reward for "Kill the Mega Mecha Engineer"

With the power of gaining more intelligence to now the level of the potted plant in Valve office, and shadowing many other modders facing similar issues, the following bugs have been fixed.

• Engineer missing a voice line when facing a certain boss
  
• Buff for sentries are removed when exiting the game
  
• Shotgun Shot fx slightly delayed
  
• Death animation and fx missing
  
• Adot missing

This is a Darkest Dungeon bug where the modes does not get properly reset when teleported, this happens with the Abomination too.

Below is the list of QOLs added!

• Descriptions for Dispenser, Build A Sentry & Use More Gun are added!
  
• Hey Look Buddy camp audio cut off is less abrupt
  
• Audios are softer and similar level to vanilla audio
  
• Party Names!
  
• Updated some Combat and Camping Skills Icons
  
• Auto translated localizations to make some language somewhat readable

Localization for the following languages have been auto-translated to remove the blue texts and to make the texts somewhat readable.

The following are currently google translated:

• Brazilian
  
• Czech
  
• French
  
• German
  
• Italian
  
• Japanese
  
• Korean (A/B)
  
• Polish
  
• Russian
  
• Simplified Chinese
  
• Spanish

For anyone who wants to help with the localization, you can check it out in the main page's pinned discussion for more details!

As to keep the general playstyle and update to work, some parts are put into a separate mods.

Miss the times where the Engineer sticks out like a sore thumb? No? Well, too bad! Here it is anyway!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3537263109 This mod attempts to make Engineer not overly powered while still retaining its playstyle! Some trinkets have been revamped to match with the balanced combat skills.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3537262541 This mod changes the Sentry Gun to Mimi and the Dispenser to Dell Spencer! After a month of being unlisted as an Easter egg, the mod is now public to all!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3537263204

Hiya! Toby IO here, this mod update is long overdue. It started with only bug fixes but more ideas happened and this is the final outcome. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback and bug reports, especially the bug reproduction, it really helped me out to find some of the bugs.

Fun fact! This update enemies were done before the announcement of TF2 searching for new MVM maps, hype for TF2 update.

I do have ideas for other TF2 classes and other characters too, though I have to find the time to do them and make them work within Darkest Dungeon restraint.

Since you are still reading this, thanks for reading! And yes, there is a Mimi skin, kudos to the one who was inb4 it was made, two years prior, it is an unlisted mod and it's link is somewhere in the Engineer mod workshop! Here's a tip, it's link is somewhere in one of the headers. ;)

Modding is a hobby I do for free in my spare time. If you like what I do and wish to support me, feel free to check out my Ko-fi page and donate me a coffee! ko-fi.com/tobyio