It's time to return to The Mountain with Darkest Dungeon II’s latest update: the Shroud of the Deep, a massive addition of content that brings with it a soaked and bloated new region, an overhaul to food, stronger enemies, and faster travel, and–most significantly–the arrival of the Act II final boss.

In the parlance of Darkest Dungeon II, the game’s compelling narrative is broken down into five Confessions, each bringing with it an overarching theme and a final boss. The first Confession, or act, was Denial. The second, hitting with this new milestone update, is Resentment.

After players have destroyed the Shackles of Denial by playing through and defeating that first act boss, they’re given the option to now select the Resentment Confession on a new run.

Once selected, the game will begin with a new narrative exposition and, upon beating this second boss, a conclusion that moves the story forward. The run will also be packed with extra lines of narrative, based on the Confession selected at the start of the run.

We don’t know quite yet what this new boss is–that’s for you to find out–but we do know that he “seethes in The Mountain, awaiting your challenge.”

If a new second act boss weren’t enough, the Shroud of the Deep update brings much more with it as well.

At the top of that list is the new Shroud region, a “mist-strangled collection of rotting piers and sinking houses.” The region is home to the dilapidated remains of a coastal village and its collective of “debased Fisherfolk. Hoping to somehow survive the rising tides, these poor souls indulged in the most unspeakable kind of profane worship…and were rewarded for it.”

As with other regions like Sprawl, Foetor, and Tangle, the Shroud will feature its own faction, a lair boss–in this case, it hopes to drag heroes to the great deep and watery grave, region-specific trinkets, and lair boss trophies, and a fun new effect: rolling fog that can disrupt combat with a blinding haze.

The Milestone 2 update’s next big addition is the inclusion of a new type of enemy tweak: Ordained Enemies. The closer a hero gets to The Mountain, the greater the chance that monsters will spawn as Ordained. These buffed enemies will have extra power, flavored by the Confession the player picked at the beginning of the run.

This particular tweak is designed to correct an issue the game had when it first launched in Early Access, where the first region of the game was the most difficult, but the following regions became increasingly easier as the heroes gained power. The idea with this tweak is that as the heroes trundle their way toward The Mountain, and they rise in power, the difficulty of those they face also increases.

This balance change means that those early monsters will now feel easier, but by the time the player is very near The Mountain, the monsters will be stronger than ever.

The last of the major changes is an overhaul of how food works in the game. It will no longer heal up heroes, instead when the band reaches the inn they will automatically be healed back up to full HP. Eating food, now, will give the heroes a bonus to their max HP and sometimes other buffs. With this change comes a new limit of one meal per each inn, so select your feast carefully.

A few other smaller changes are also arriving with Shroud of the Deep, including a Stagecoach that will now surge to a slightly higher top speed between nodes, a number of quality of life and usability improvements, and some new Quirks and Diseases, such as:

• Heavy Handed quirk: chance of knocking enemy back on hit
• Disarmer quirk: chance of giving a WEAK token to the enemy that hit the hero
• Tarantism disease: the hero has a chance every combat turn to uncontrollably shift positions

This is the second of what will likely be many Milestone updates. If you missed out on what the Beasts & Burdens Milestone 1 update brought with it, you can check that out here. And if you haven't grabbed the game yet, Darkest Dungeon II and its original soundtrack are both currently on sale with a 10 percent discount. The sale runs through June 16, 2022 at 11 AM. ET.