Grim Dawn

Kiith

Not another Kickstarter/Action RPG game you say :pac:

Yes, it is. But it actually looks really good, and is quite far along in development. Being made by some of the Titan's Quest team, who made an excellent game, and it looks great. Loads of features too (factions, some destructible scenery etc...) which are talked about on the video in the Kickstarter page.

Will follow it for a little while, but it looks much more fast paced then other games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYI2DMPWpWg

http://www.grimdawn.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crateentertainment/grim-dawn

degrassinoel

this looks pretty decent, but i fear it's going to get overlooked in favour of D3 and TL2.
Might still have a gander, as they plan to have it released through steam.

We plan to release Grim Dawn on Steam and through other digital distribution sites for about $20. In addition to this, you can also buy the game now from our website and download it directly from us when it releases. By purchasing directly from us now, your money will help fund our development and make Grim Dawn a better game. We may also release a box-copy to be sold in stores at some point but we have not yet worked out all the details.

Sounds around the same price as TL2

Dcully

Hate to drag up such an old thread but this game is amazing.
The final pre-release build was released today with final release around the corner [this Thursday 25th I believe] not sure if the price will change on release day but if anyone is remotely interested you can grab it now for €24.99.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/219990/

I bought early access a while back and haven't played anything else since.
Even xcom 2 hasn't been touched yet.

My opinion ofcourse but having played D3,path of exile,torchlight1 and 2 extensively this is easily the best of the bunch.
Superb combat and an insanely deep skill tree not to mention the devotion system which in itself is as deep as the much famed poe skill tree but its done so much better in Grim Dawn.
Ive put in over 200 hours now and have yet to get bored of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZXyxZK28QY

Can a mod please move this to the PC Gaming board.

Links234

This is one I've been waiting for until it came out of early access, will probably snap it up at some point.

Kiith

I started the thread about 4 years ago, so you'd think i'd have bought it by now :P

Will give it a go once payday comes along though.

Dcully

Shame on you

Can you move this to PC gaming board when you get a chance please Kiith.

Dcully

Your primal strike shaman/warden could morph into a caster stormcaller if you so wished,thats what I done with one of my characters, shes now on ultimate @ lvl79 and its brutal tough.
I don't know how anyone can get hardcore characters to max lvl 85 but plenty do especially to good streamers.
The devotion tree and how it works is very well done, really adds another massive payer of customisation,it really is a theory crafters wet dream.

I have about 8 characters on the go and thoroughly enjoying each of them.

Dcully

You need to work on your resists for elite,veteran is a cake walk, elite and then ultimate are a big step up in difficulty
The top line in your resists page is your main concern up until elite thereafter the bottom line is of huge importance,ultimate you will need 50%-80% resists while also keeping your dps respectable although I killed final boss on elite with only 50% chaos resist and 40% vitality resist.
Your faction reputation really helps with augments that have resists.

Quick tip for new players, always play on veteran when your starting out, not much difference between normal and veteran difficulty wise but there is in xp.

Mr E

I'll grab this after pay day. Looks like my kind of game.

tony1980

Been keeping an eye on this and watching some lets play videos and think I am going to take the plunge. Is it going to go up in price tomorrow so would I be better off picking it up tonight?

Dcully

tony1980 wrote: »

Been keeping an eye on this and watching some lets play videos and think I am going to take the plunge. Is it going to go up in price tomorrow so would I be better off picking it up tonight?

I'm not sure but past early access games ive bought did go up a bit on release.


From PC Gamer

"Grim Dawn is, for now, still available as an Early Access release on Steam for the undiscounted price of $25/ 20. Find out more at grimdawn.com."

tony1980

Dcully wrote: »

I'm not sure but past early access games ive bought did go up a bit on release.


From PC Gamer

"Grim Dawn is, for now, still available as an Early Access release on Steam for the undiscounted price of $25/ 20. Find out more at grimdawn.com."

Cheers, think I will just pick it up so as I have seen enough to justify the purchase. Looking forward to getting stuck in now :-)

nix

Been a few years since a post here, sorry. Anybody played much of this to recommend it?

I'm looking for a new ARPG, trying POE at the moment but not warming up to it. I dont like that your abilities are equipped via socket gems and the skill tree is just a pool of passive stat increases

Been thinking about trying grim dawn, i can get the base game for cheap and then likely pick up the Ashes of malmouth expansion on the cheap in an upcoming steam sale..

Worth a go? or shall i stick with POE? :pac:

Dave_The_Sheep

I much preferred Grim Dawn.

There's plenty of space for class choice, with 2 mastery choices per character and a fairly solid matrix oas a result, see here. Grim Dawn website has it too, but seems to be down right now. There's lots of class variance too, they genuinely feel different. Each mastery has it's own skill tree, with some being abilities you get to use, some changing / adding to those abilites and how they work, and some are stat buffs. It also has a Devotion skill 'constellation' tree, which can give (again) stat buffs and aiblities, depending on how you spec it.

It also runs a lot smoother than PoE (though I only have maybe 10 hours in PoE) as it's newer, and looks better (to me). It's also, unsuprisingly, grim as ****, which I like.

The Haven

I've grinded POE and Grim Dawn alot more than D3.

I prefer POE and GD for arpg's.
These two are slightly different, that's what makes it good to play them both.

HC 100% ftw

Dcully

GD is awesome, 1000`s of hours worth gameplay waiting for you if you so desire.

Another great one is Shadow's : Awakening.

Dcully

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvijtKIFnug

Dave_The_Sheep

Haven't seen that channel before. Watched a few videos, quite like him and his analysis, tbh. That's another sub.

Dcully

RopeDrink wrote: »

Will happily echo 99% of that video - a teeny bit too much praise (it has its flaws) but a solid assessment. Even despite the new PoE expansion I find myself zoning out pretty quickly. Might be time to do another Grim Dawn playthrough and prep a new character for the upcoming expansion - already bought the previous two and haven't even touched them.

Likewise, i booted up POE betrayal over the weekend intending to sink some time into the new content but after an hour i had enough and started a new character in Grim Dawn instead

Insurgency Sandstorm beta then took all my time but im definitely gonna return to GD with my new Deathknight character

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74487

Dcully

Why refuse to play pvp in sandstorm? Thats where the meat of the game is.
co-op V bots is just for learning the basics really.
I find the community very good tbh honest and rarely see salty players if thats your concern.
PVP is casual friendly to be fair , its the competitive that is not

Im going OT here, but GD is awesome too

Dave_The_Sheep

New expansion out now. Forgotten Gods.

Details here.

Devs will get more of a cut if you buy direct from them rather than steam, and you get a steam key either way. 15.99 euro in any case.

I've only scratched the surface, but so far so good as far as I can tell.

BattlingCheese

Yup, a brilliant expansion with some much needed QoL updates.

Nearly got my first character to 100, I am at 96 after 330hrs! The game is so addictive and I find myself playing it so much more then Division 2.

TheRepentent

It really is a great game and does enough of it's own thing to stand apart from D3.

Dcully

Bought the new expansion last week but all my cloud saves are gone

I plan on getting back into it asap, need to plough through it to unlock saviors merit to help with alts fast leveling.
The thought of playing through allover again to access late game content and expansions is killing me as ive done it so many times.

h0neybadger

Coming from D3 with 10k hours, I picked up Grim Dawn few weeks back.
Really enjoyed it, but then got PoE, and I can't look at GD anymore...

TheRepentent

I actually cycle between the 3 games. You can lose hours in any of them:D

Dcully

For me Grim Dawn has the best build diversity and scope for theorycrafting builds.
I really enjoy all three to be fair, playing some Wolcen beta lately too and its coming along very nicely, comabt is excellent in it and visuals are the best of the bunch.

10 hours of GD you barely even scratched the surface of the surface to be fair.

TheRepentent

That Wolcen looks good.

BattlingCheese

Dcully wrote: »

Bought the new expansion last week but all my cloud saves are gone

I plan on getting back into it asap, need to plough through it to unlock saviors merit to help with alts fast leveling.
The thought of playing through allover again to access late game content and expansions is killing me as ive done it so many times.

With the new expansion you can get a merit that allows you to jump straight to Ultimate.

You do need an existing character in Elite/Ultimate first. Once that character has beaten Krieg in Act 1, they can go to the FG area and buy a "merit". The merit can be transferred to another character via the shared stash. Using the merit will unlock Elite/Ultimate for that character.

You get all the attribute points and quest points from the difficulties you skipped. They also turned on all the devotion shrines, so you can get all your devotion points in just Ultimate, no need to go back to earlier difficulties for them.

Now starting with a lvl 1 character in Ultimate is a tad bit of a challenge

h0neybadger

Dcully wrote: »

For me Grim Dawn has the best build diversity and scope for theorycrafting builds.
I really enjoy all three to be fair, playing some Wolcen beta lately too and its coming along very nicely, comabt is excellent in it and visuals are the best of the bunch.

10 hours of GD you barely even scratched the surface of the surface to be fair.

10k hours in d3
4 weeks in GD. (about 170 hours total)