Affinity is mainly affected when the team is traveling, during the early stages of your playthrough, you will have no control on how each team member will react.

In Darkest Dungeon 2, players will now be traveling on the road via the Stagecoach where they will be choosing which path to take until reaching the last point of the expedition (which usually is the Inn, where the team rests and prepare for the next expedition). The Affinity System is a sensitive feature that players will need to keep an eye on if they want the flow of the game to be less punishing or against their favour. Relationship Statuses in Darkest Dungeon 2 VIRTUOUS RELATIONSHIPS make heroes fight and work together better, whereas AFFLICTED RELATIONSHIPS can cause no end of problems to a party. Relationships dramatically affect hero stats and actions that the heroes may perform. When the AFFINITY bar between two heroes becomes fully positive or fully negative, this will immediately trigger a new RELATIONSHIP between them. You'll see an AFFINITY BAR for each other hero in the party, which shows how this hero feels about them. To view AFFINITIES, open any hero's HERO SHEET and look at the relationships tab. As the rigors of the road mount, heroes will gain or lose affinity.

When the journey begins, all heroes have a neutral AFFINITY with one another.

If the affinity bar fills, the two heroes will enter a RELATIONSHIP. RELATIONSHIPS between heroes will make or break your expedition. Each hero pair has an AFFINITY value which describes how positive or negative they feel towards one another.

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