KickStarter Grim Dawn

[Aeschylus]

Grim Dawn is better than vanilla TQ in pretty much every way, except maybe environment art.

 

[Morgoth]

B22 has been released:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/219990/discussions/0/617319460930334725/

Build 22 is now live, and with it many great quality of life improvements to Grim Dawn.

Several highly-requested features have come online including Instanced Loot for Multiplayer, an expanded shared stash, auto-combining of partial components, and more!

Read on for the full changelog.

With this update complete, we are now full-steam ahead on releasing the first part of Act 3, which is expected to go live by the end of January. The first chapter of Act 3 will introduce you to new locations, characters and challenging content.

v0.3.0.4 (b22)

[Major New Features]

• You can now toggle Instanced Loot when setting up a Multiplayer session. Instanced Loot causes items that drop in Multiplayer to be assigned/visible to specific players, just like in a Singleplayer session. Items dropped from player inventories are visible to all players. You can disable this setting to play with the standard Free-For-All loot.
• The Shared Stash has been expanded with additional tabs available for purchase with iron bits. These tabs, once unlocked, are available to all of your characters.
• Weapon DPS comparisons have been added. You can now compare Weapon DPS directly through the item's tooltip. Hold Ctrl to compare DPS without attached Components.

[Art]

• Removed the light source from various shield spells, such as Sphere of Protection. When cast together, the light sources from several shields would add up to create blindingly bright effects.
• Updated art on Duelist's Sabre.

[Animation]

• Fixed a bug where the ranged guards in Devil's Crossing would lose their weapons after throwing blackwater cocktails
• New and faster animation for Zolhan's Technique, which visually matches the description of the skill. Players will be able to better discern the skill proccing when using all melee weapon types.

[Tech]

• Item tooltips that are too long will no longer clip the top off on smaller resolutions
• Move To quickbar skill now ignores the UI if the key is being held down
• Relic headings in the Crafting UI are now sorted by their power level instead of alphabetically
• New inventory button, "Auto-Complete Components". When used, will combine all Partial Components in that inventory section.
• Private and Transfer stashes now have "Auto Sort" and "Auto-Complete" buttons
• Fixed a bug where loading new characters saved to the Steam cloud would fail with a black screen
• Steam cloud saves can now be downloaded back into local storage via the network options page (warning: this will overwrite locally stored characters with the same names as character stored in the cloud if used!)
• Health and Energy Regeneration on the Character Sheet now include Health and Energy Per Second costs from skills
• Fixed a bug that could cause Manifestation for Iskander's Elemental Exchange not to work properly

[Game]

• The personal character stash is now available unlocked for all characters. You no longer need to unlock additional portions through iron bits.
• PVP - Player damage and the duration of crowd control effects (ex. Stun) are now reduced by 50% against other players. This should make player vs. player combat a little more engaging and reduce the occurrence of stun-locks and insta-kills. Please note that Grim Dawn is not a PvP game first, so PvP will never be balanced the way competitive games are.
• The attacks on Devil's Crossing are now more dynamic. They grow in strength as you get closer to the Warden, then cease entirely when the leader of the Aetherials in the Burrwitch area falls. Likewise, outlaws will now attack from the Arkovian Foohills once the bridge is restored.
• Reduced the damage and stun duration on Shambler rock throw attacks
• Slith Necklaces now drop per player in Multiplayer
• Direni no longer drops a Blood of Ch'thon if killed in Devil's Crossing. The blood is now given out as part of the quest reward for killing him. This assures that all players on the quest receive the blood in a multiplayer session. The blood will not be rewarded if the character completing the quest is lower than level 5.

[Itemization]

• Increased all shield damage by approximately 20%
• The blueprint for the relic Corruption now requires Viscous Venom instead of Mutated Scales
• The Homebrewed Potion skill on the Alchemist's Belt now has a 100% chance to trigger at 20% health, instead of a 15% chance to trigger on low health
• Soul's Touch now gives a bonus to Callidor's Tempest instead of Panetti's Replicating Missile
• Updated stats on Zealot's Gauntlets
• Blunt weapons previously called Scepters have been renamed to Warmaces to avoid confusion with the caster weapons. This is mostly relevant to community translations (tagWeaponBluntA010).
• Reduced the damage and increased the energy cost on the relic skill Conflagration
• Fixed an issue that would rarely cause Enchanted crafting blueprints to generate items with no affixes
• Minor adjustments to physique requirements on armor have been done for long-term scaling, particularly on Epics. This may impact your ability to wear some of your equipment.
• Reduced the spirit requirements on caster armor

[Class & Skills]

• A new skill has been added for all characters: Pet Attack, which commands all currently active (controllable) pets to attack the target. This should make combat for pet builds a bit more dynamic and give you more control over your pets. You can still control your pets individually as before.

Soldier

• Improved the damage scaling on Markovian's Advantage and Zolhan's Technique

Occultist

• Improved Raven pet shooting AI

Arcanist

• Slightly improved rank scaling on Panetti's Replicating Missile and reduced the scaling of the energy cost, particularly at higher ranks
• Slightly improved the rank scaling on the Replicating Missile mod Supercharged's electrical and % Elemental dmg and reduced the scaling of the energy cost. The stun chance now also scales with rank.
• Slightly improved rank scaling on the Frozen Core and Shattered Star mods for Trozan's Sky Shard
• Increased the cooldown on Sphere of Protection by 10s at rank 12, reduced duration to 15s and reduced the damage absorption by 5%
• Increased the pet bonuses from the Manifestation transmuter as they did not properly account for the penalty from to the aura (there was no advantage in going from rank 2 to 3)

This is truly shaping up to be a great game.

 

[Sensuki]

Better performance pls

 

[Abu Antar]

Any chance this will be released in the next six months? I'd like to actually boot it up but I'm going to wait for their release build.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Any chance this will be released in the next six months? I'd like to actually boot it up but I'm going to wait for their release build.

Don't hold your breath.

 

[Abu Antar]

Any chance this will be released in the next six months? I'd like to actually boot it up but I'm going to wait for their release build.

Don't hold your breath.

Really? Damn, that's crazy.

 

[Mastermind]

If you enjoyed Titan Quest at all you will probably like Grim Dawn. I think it's actually a much better game than TQ or TQ:IT.

Titan Quest's classes were way better. And seeing how they're what made Titan Quest a good game...

 

[Great Deceiver]

If you enjoyed Titan Quest at all you will probably like Grim Dawn. I think it's actually a much better game than TQ or TQ:IT.

Titan Quest's classes were way better. And seeing how they're what made Titan Quest a good game...

I think Grim Dawn's classes right now are pretty interesting already, and the game already has a lot more atmosphere / variety than TQ ever did. I love it.

 

[Nael]

If you enjoyed Titan Quest at all you will probably like Grim Dawn. I think it's actually a much better game than TQ or TQ:IT.

Titan Quest's classes were way better. And seeing how they're what made Titan Quest a good game...

In what way are GD's classes inferior? TQ classes were fucking cookie-cutter. The class system was great and that has transferred over to GD but the classes themselves... GD >>> TQ

 

[DeepOcean]

If you enjoyed Titan Quest at all you will probably like Grim Dawn. I think it's actually a much better game than TQ or TQ:IT.

Titan Quest's classes were way better. And seeing how they're what made Titan Quest a good game...

In terms of quantity of class builds, yes, but I feel that the classes of GD are more different from each other gameplay wise. I played with quite a few classes on Titan Quest and many times the only major difference between some builds was the type of damage done, if it was piercing, normal, vitality or elemental. Anyway, GD is already much better than TQ because TQ after Greece and the first half of Egypt, is quite disappointing and feels like they ran out of the gas with the copy pasting syndrome reaching really annoying levels.

 

[Mastermind]

If you enjoyed Titan Quest at all you will probably like Grim Dawn. I think it's actually a much better game than TQ or TQ:IT.

Titan Quest's classes were way better. And seeing how they're what made Titan Quest a good game...

In what way are GD's classes inferior? TQ classes were fucking cookie-cutter. The class system was great and that has transferred over to GD but the classes themselves... GD >>> TQ

Their skills are spergy and boring. It's like they took the TQ rogue mastery and said "how can we make a game with 5 of these?" Having somewhat original themes isn't enough.

 

[Renevent]

Not sure what you mean...are you saying each of GD's classes are basically the Rogue class from TQ?

 

[Morgoth]

Don't mind Mastermind. He's always wrong like that.

 

[Metro]

Ten year development cycle... zzzz....

 

[Hobo Elf]

The devs really need to start getting their shit together. They're still designing and adding new features. FFS do it after the release.

 

[Renevent]

In sense it is already released (early access) and that's what they are doing. With that said, the development is going pretty damn slow. From what I understand they had some issues a year or two ago, and development kinda stalled, but things have picked up since then. I actually donated way before the kickstarter on the first day they asked opened it up for pre-ordering or whatever. What's it been? 5 years or something lol?

 

[Metro]

Been at least five years since they were selling it via their website.

 

[Morgoth]

The devs really need to start getting their shit together. They're still designing and adding new features. FFS do it after the release.

They're 6 people financing most of it out of their own pockets. Have some respect you Hobo.

 

[Hobo Elf]

The devs really need to start getting their shit together. They're still designing and adding new features. FFS do it after the release.

They're 6 people financing most of it out of their own pockets. Have some respect you Hobo.

6 people sounds like an army to me. The game was promised to be ready 2 years ago. While that was an unrealistic goal, they could've achieved it this year had they stopped adding in new shit. It's better to do it after the release of the game to make the games relevance last longer. Just look at how fast TL2 died and people stopped caring due to devs not supporting it.

 

[Metro]

TL2 did die pretty fast. I think they had one mini content update that added some extra dimensions and tile sets but nothing major. Then, nothing. Apparently they're working on an undisclosed project. But this? Yeah, time to poop or get off the pot. Diablo-clones are becoming old hat at this point.

 

[Morgoth]

TL2 died fast because it was a shitty Disneyland version of Diablo. Grim Dawn is actually good.

 

[Metro]

As opposed to the shitty Disneyland versions of... every other genre you D1P?

 

[Aeschylus]

Any chance this will be released in the next six months? I'd like to actually boot it up but I'm going to wait for their release build.

They've stated that they're planning to release Act 3 sometime around February, which will be pretty close to the final release.

 

[Morgoth]

As opposed to the shitty Disneyland versions of... every other genre you D1P?

Why don't you tell us a bit more about your favorite game, Kingdom of Amalur?

 

[Aothan]

any thoughtful comparisons with Path of Exile's mechanics ? Particularly how actions 'feel', interaction with encounters etc