Complex Compulsions

Could a Kleptomaniac steal your heart?

Complex Compulsions revises the game’s eighteen forced interaction quirks, in an effort to discover whether players might actually allow their heroes to go poking at Curios if they’re getting something back in return. The goal is to help make each character more unique while testing just how much players are willing to tolerate from their star stress sponges.

I’ve done my best to create balanced and logical conditions, based on the original 18 compulsive quirks in the game. If it causes a forced interaction, it’s been updated in this mod. For instance…

Sitiomania now not only causes your Hungry Hungry Hippocrat to probe every carbon-based object within reach, she’ll also eat more. However, she receives greater healing from eating food, and has a boosted immune response as a result of all that touchy-feely time with mould spores.

Ablutomania will still make your Arbalest wade into fountains and wishing wells in an effort to wash away the war, but now they’ll also put their over-developed domestic skills to use by keeping themselves fresh, clean and unmarked at all times!

Or how about Reynauld? Man, that guy… what in the holy land could possibly be worth letting him steal your bling, over and over and over again? Surely nothing, right? Right? Well, that one might take a while to work out. He sure does love loot though.

Complex Compulsions introduces new dynamics to combat, too. Heroes with Necromania will grow more and more excitable as the corpses pile up. Fascinations with injury may elucidate foreign anatomies, but can also lead to needlessly prolonged suffering. And over-indulged obsessions… well… even the battlefield is no safe space from some compulsions…

If you’ve been feeling dangerously in-control, like your heroes could use a little more depth and complexity, or just that the Sanitarium has gotten quite enough gold now thank you very much, then you might enjoy Complex Compulsions.

Note: quirks are still obtainable by all classes, classes mentioned above were merely narrative licence. Also, the chances for forced interactions remain exactly the same, I haven’t changed those.

The mod should work fine in all languages, but it’s only fully localised for english. Non-english languages will not see the updated quirk descriptions for quirks which do not state their buffs explicitly (about half of them). This may make it difficult to determine exactly what the effects are. Will gladly accept any help in this area with my profound gratitude.

I’ve tested this in vanilla and CoM and everything seems to work fine. Crimson Court should be good too. Let me know if there are any issues and I’ll jump on them right away.

Complex Compulsions should be compatible with most mods. It only alters the compulsive quirks, and adds its own buffs where necessary. If you want to use it alongside other mods that alter quirks, your best bet is to place Complex Compulsions above the other mod, that way you know only the compulsive quirks will be changed, and all the other quirks will be altered by any other mods you have activated.

***Important***
1. If you want to disable this mod on an existing save, be sure to check your roster for any heroes who possess the "Never Alone" quirk. You will need to treat this quirk before being able to safely disable the mod.
2. If you find that the updated quirk descriptions aren’t showing up, it’s likely because there is another mod which is altering the quirk above Complex Compulsions in the mod list. This can be fixed by raising Complex Compulsions higher in the mod list. The mod doesn’t change many files so it should be pretty safe to give a high priority to. The only conflicts are going to be with mods which specifically alter the forced interaction quirks.
3. You may notice that the full quirk descriptions don’t display in the Sanitarium – tooltips there seem to only want to display either the buffs or the description, but not both. This looks like behaviour of the game itself, which I can’t do much about.

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‘Complex Compulsions’ is not an official Red Hook Studios product or product modification, and Red Hook Studios Inc. is not responsible in any way for changes or damages that may result from using the mod. Furthermore, “Darkest Dungeon” and the Darkest Dungeon logo are trademarks of Red Hook Studios Inc. All content in the game is Copyright Red Hook Studios Inc. All rights reserved.