Author Topic: Grim Dawn thread of GRIM DAWN (Read 12892 times)

Human Snorenado · « **on:** May 17, 2013, 01:30:05 AM »

This game looks like it deserves its own fucking thread, because fuck you

*masturbates furiously*

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1 on:** May 17, 2013, 01:36:20 AM »

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=33133.0
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=38249.0

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2013, 01:40:57 AM »

OLD THREADS ARE OLD

NEW THREAD IS NEW

YOU CAN'T FIGHT THIS LOGIC, DOG

Damian79 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 17, 2013, 02:06:20 AM »

I played through the alpha(more like a demo). It plays exactly like titan quest. The are a couple of differences though. If you are out of combat you will heal. And potions are scarce and expensive. So what you do is if you are getting hammered normally you just run away and heal unless you know you wont survive and have to use a potion.

It has some spiking at the moment for me i dunno if it is a steam client issue or not. The summons seem ridiculous. The hellhound anyway.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #4 on:** May 17, 2013, 02:50:01 AM »

I'm liking the new aggressively assertive cog, this sort of mindset wins wars and elections!

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2013, 11:18:02 AM »

this pleases my loothole

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2013, 11:52:38 AM »

Cant wait, hope its daycent

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #7 on:** November 05, 2013, 05:30:52 PM »

I bought it.
I'm playing it.
It's SO GOOD.

Rufus · « **Reply #8 on:** November 05, 2013, 07:22:06 PM »

Incidentally that's when it will be finished, too.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #9 on:** November 05, 2013, 08:00:39 PM »

OMG WTF I DON'T EVEN

BUYING

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #10 on:** November 05, 2013, 08:21:52 PM »

Quote from: Esch on November 05, 2013, 06:08:23 PM

wait this is out

wat

will purchase in 24 months for no more than ten dollars

Early access beta right now, so you can the first act [about 8-12 hours of content].

etiolate · « **Reply #11 on:** November 05, 2013, 09:24:23 PM »

So have they gone for a sorta Colonial/Occult vibe with this?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2013, 09:41:00 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #13 on:** November 05, 2013, 09:49:41 PM »

SUCH LEWT
WOW
SO HACK
MUCH SLASH
2TITANQUEST4U

cool breeze · « **Reply #14 on:** November 05, 2013, 09:55:32 PM »

I'm in a weird position where I'd jump into early access, but I already "bought" the game through kickstarter and not at a level to access the beta $:-\$

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2013, 10:09:45 PM »

Quote from: fryinghigh on November 05, 2013, 09:55:32 PM

I'm in a weird position where I'd jump into early access, but I already "bought" the game through kickstarter and not at a level to access the beta $:-\$

Well, I hope you learned your lesson about ever kickstarting anything.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #16 on:** November 05, 2013, 11:53:58 PM »

Game is the hot tits, and it's still early beta

Combat is better than PoE
Skillz for Demolitionist are better than DH skillz in D3 (nothing is gonna beat PoE's skill forest, tho)
Lewt is fuck hot

Grafx are such dark
Screen tears regularly tho, even on medium settings

9 boners out of 10

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #17 on:** November 06, 2013, 12:07:08 AM »

Music is nice, fits the setting really well

Yeah, I'm an idiot and didn't enable v-sync

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #18 on:** November 06, 2013, 12:14:15 AM »

I love the combat so much, it's got a nice weight to it and the blood splatter + ragdoll physics is just too good. Way better than PoE and at least on par with D3.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #19 on:** November 06, 2013, 12:27:05 AM »

The sad part is that I went into the video options, turned everything to medium (my pc is like 3 years old, and was only medium tier when I built it then, so it's way overdue to be upgraded) and changed the resolution but OH HOLY SHIT FORGOT TO ENABLE V-SYNC HUR HUR

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #20 on:** November 06, 2013, 01:25:44 AM »

How are the skills and customization? I was going to ask about combat, but it sounds like it's good.

mini rant: PoE's combat is pretty damn awesome once you get a good weapon

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #21 on:** November 06, 2013, 01:32:40 AM »

Did you ever play Titan Quest? It's basically that. You get three skill points per level up to spend; you can put them into your general track, which as you do opens up access to new skillz, and dump points into individual skillz to incrementally increase them.

Eventually, you'll be able to multi-class and access two different skill trees.

There are currently 4 classes available:

Soldier- duh
Demolitionist- pew pew
Occultist- magic n shit
Ninja like dude- dude that does ninja like shit (rogue)

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #22 on:** November 06, 2013, 01:34:42 AM »

Also- the combat is legit better than PoE. I've played plenty of PoE, D3, whatever. This game is better than PoE and slightly not as good as D3, which is still the gold standard despite the whiners n haters.

Game still has limited respec, which is barbaric and stupid. You can pay a mystic or whatever to respec, but as you do it gets more expensive. LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #23 on:** November 06, 2013, 02:06:30 AM »

Not a big Titan Quest fan tbh. I judge ARPGs on how much time they suck out of me, which is why I still respect D3 even though I shit on it a lot; at the end of the day I put 100 hours into it. I've spent even more time in Path of Exile, which is undeniably better than just about any ARPG in some ways (customization, skills, trading).

Titan Quest tho...I played for a couple weeks and moved on. Then I came back later and tried the expansion and had the same reaction. Not bad, but it just didn't have the "hook" I need to sink into what is a very repetitive genre. D3 has killer combat/controls, PoE has infinite customization, D2 is D2, etc.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #24 on:** November 06, 2013, 12:48:01 PM »

With PoE, it felt like your character progressed really slowly. A small stat boost here, an upgraded attack there, but Grim Dawn gives you cool attacks right away and you get new attacks and special abilities fairly often. It does things I really like in a way that PoE didn't.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #25 on:** November 06, 2013, 01:52:46 PM »

Quote from: Esch on November 06, 2013, 12:49:49 PM

Sounds great. I personally dont care for grindan that much so that's ideal for me. May cop.

And since your character is dual-class, you get all kinds of crazy min-max combinations.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #26 on:** November 06, 2013, 02:12:10 PM »

Personally I like slowly building a badass character. Your weapons/gear can ensure you're pretty good, but building up skills to an "oh shit!" moment is more appealing. I love getting to that point, be it lv10 or whenever, when I not only reap benefits but can imagine how much potential the character has. It's a good hook to keep grinding/leveling basically.

Obviously I enjoy instant gratification too, I just prefer the idea of starting out weak as fuck and building up to being a complete beast.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #27 on:** November 06, 2013, 02:35:23 PM »

I think I'll spec into an Occultist next in Grim Dawn.

ALL THE RANGED ATTACKS

Bebpo · « **Reply #28 on:** November 06, 2013, 03:25:02 PM »

I'm so torn. I want this bad. Been craving a Diablo loot game again and I love the TQ/GD art style. But I really don't want to play an unfinished game. I don't want to play a bit of it and then in 12 months play another bit of it and then 24 months later see all the bits I played have been re-balanced and I should've waited and played them after the game was complete.

BUT LOOT

/or I could just start playing PoE

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #29 on:** November 06, 2013, 03:27:52 PM »

Even Diablo III is getting stuff rebalanced two years later. Just play it now, get the sickest lewt you can, then play it some more later and get sicker lewt.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #30 on:** November 06, 2013, 03:31:11 PM »

Bebs- play PoE now for a more polished experience, wait on GD until more content/polishing is added. Win-win.

2013-14 have been the years of an embarrassment of riches for arpg fans. I don't think people realize we're living in the last of the golden age.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #31 on:** November 06, 2013, 03:32:39 PM »

I want to play this game. I'll wait til it's done though.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #32 on:** November 06, 2013, 03:52:12 PM »

How is the difficulty? Do you get fucked if you don't have resists/health/etc like Diablo III/PoE?

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #33 on:** November 06, 2013, 03:56:31 PM »

Still too early to tell. I only had a problem when I tried to kill a boss two levels higher than me... fucker killed me twice.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #34 on:** November 08, 2013, 09:55:35 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on November 06, 2013, 03:52:12 PM

How is the difficulty? Do you get fucked if you don't have resists/health/etc like Diablo III/PoE?

It started out really easy, felt like I was just breasing through hoardes of monsters. But right now? BRUTAL. It feels like every hoarde is filled with enemies at least one level above my own, lots of enemies with ranged attacks that also negative effect my stats, lots of enemies that boost the stats of other enemies. I'm getting absolutely clobbered here.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #35 on:** November 08, 2013, 10:01:23 PM »

Dog- what level are you, what quest are you on, and what classes are you playing?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #36 on:** November 08, 2013, 10:04:09 PM »

Maybe you just suck, Dog. I forgot which one of you dudes was always dying in D3. It was either Rumbler or Bepbo

Viz

Creepy Old Guy

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #37 on:** November 08, 2013, 11:07:55 PM »

Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on November 08, 2013, 10:01:23 PM

Dog- what level are you, what quest are you on, and what classes are you playing?

Started getting hard around...hmm...maybe level 14-15? Difficulty ramped up once I reached the estate. My class is Nightblade+Demolitionist.

Aaaand I finished the final quest of the beta in its current form. The clock says right at 7.5 hours, though there is still one little side quest that I can tackle if I grind out another seven or eight levels. Gonna rest now, three and half hour sitting has drained me of energy...

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #38 on:** November 09, 2013, 06:33:21 AM »

That's about where I'm at, and yeah it's getting harder. I need some fire resist, and I'm also having issues where if a couple of lv 16-17 melee dudes hit me at once I can die since I'm squishy. I wish I had increased move speed, would make kiting easier... zombie soldiers are no joke and can move as fast/faster than me.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #39 on:** November 09, 2013, 10:02:03 AM »

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #40 on:** November 09, 2013, 10:09:18 AM »

I've got 2 blues to drop so far... one was a shitty crossbow that I didn't even bother to fuck with, the other is a belt I won't be able to wear for like 5 more levels

Also, using the components to add shit to your gear is the tits.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #41 on:** November 09, 2013, 10:15:38 AM »

Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on November 09, 2013, 10:09:18 AM

Also, using the components to add shit to your gear is the tits.

I like that you can add components even if you haven't completed the set yet, so they aren't just totally useless like they were in Titan Quest.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #42 on:** November 11, 2013, 12:04:47 AM »

Played through the first quest (to get access to the town). Picked Occultist, hit Lv5. Pets + DOTs ... just don't call it a Warlock?

Game is good. A bit rough, but it's still alpha. Combat poops on PoE (I could never get into that game, ever). Agree that respec costs are barbaric especially your first time playing a character (I put a point in an eye, thinking it was an eyeball Beholder-style familiar ... it's just a magic missile.)

A bit worried if they're just putting the first act out there, with a 6 man team, and no real income stream to speak of post Kickstarter... well, hope they get across the finish line. Especially since this alpha is almost a year late (original target was late 2012/early 2013).

cool breeze · « **Reply #43 on:** December 30, 2013, 01:57:06 PM »

heads up to kickstarter backers: they sent out steam early access keys to everyone who "bought" the game, regardless of if you backed at a beta/alpha level

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #44 on:** December 30, 2013, 04:49:04 PM »

So how is it looking that the final game will ship in 2014?

Judging by impressions its still 2 years off.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #45 on:** February 03, 2014, 10:37:32 AM »

Act 2 is set to roll out by the end of this month.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #46 on:** February 03, 2014, 11:38:13 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on February 03, 2014, 10:37:32 AM

Act 2 is set to roll out by the end of this month.

I got through Act 1 a week ago or so. Really digging this.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #47 on:** February 26, 2014, 09:48:56 AM »

ACT II

Get at it, brehs.

Bebpo · « **Reply #48 on:** February 26, 2014, 06:58:26 PM »

How many acts are they planning?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #49 on:** February 26, 2014, 07:18:32 PM »

Apparently, the way Grim Dawn is set up, they're not traditional acts in the same way that Diablo uses them. They're just calling it "Act II" to signify that this is the second chunk of major content for the game. In other words, there's not really any solid information on that front, but there will be at least one more such update since this isn't the end.

Bebpo · « **Reply #50 on:** February 26, 2014, 07:50:43 PM »

Ok, cause I'm jumping in day 1 when this thing is a finished product.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #51 on:** February 26, 2014, 07:54:56 PM »

They got Act II out pretty quickly, about 3.5 months after it initially was released on Early Access, so maybe they can get the whole thing finished by the end of this year.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #52 on:** February 26, 2014, 09:50:40 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on February 26, 2014, 07:50:43 PM

Ok, cause I'm jumping in day 1 when this thing is a finished product.

There you go again, hanging onto outdated notions of what gaming is. Oh bebsy... help me to help you. HELP ME TO HELP YOU.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #53 on:** February 26, 2014, 11:57:47 PM »

HHGGGGNNNNNNNNNNNNN sputsputsput

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #54 on:** June 20, 2014, 09:41:09 AM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #55 on:** June 20, 2014, 09:44:18 AM »

I need somebody else to get Grim Dawn, because I've been getting absolutely murdered lately.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #56 on:** June 20, 2014, 09:48:51 AM »

I've got it. Is multiplayer live on it yet?

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #57 on:** June 20, 2014, 09:50:32 AM »

Another game that needs to get finished.

Also Diablo update coming soon

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #58 on:** June 20, 2014, 09:55:57 AM »

Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on June 20, 2014, 09:48:51 AM

I've got it. Is multiplayer live on it yet?

Ah, actually it isn't, although it's supposed to be coming pretty soon. Oh well.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #59 on:** June 20, 2014, 10:40:12 AM »

I don't know what gave me a bigger boner: the armor localization in that video, or the fact that Triumph (who is well aware of my tank obsession) posted it

Guys. I've always wanted something like this. While I love finding great defensive/armor items, there's always a bit of a disappointment level when you rush into battle the next time, expecting to take significantly less damage, and realize the difference isn't too big (fucking RNG). Being able to specifically customize your defense would no doubt allow you to see mitigation increases more easily.

GUYS. Imagine a high level dungeon that includes mobs that attack specific parts of your body. So like, snake or eels that mainly target your feet/legs, or little monkey things that attack your torso, or flying demons that go straight for your head. That could be the ultimate gear check. FUCK.

Path of Exile does this with resistances (fire, lightning, chaos, etc) as does D3, and I always loved when I could stand in aoe dmg and barely lose health due to my resists being so high. But having that concept applied to every armor slot would make me bust multiple nuts.

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