Back into the Grim Dawn we go!
Has anyone played this co-op? How is it? I saw that only one player can see the text/interaction screens at a time… Is that pretty annoying?
Haven’t played it in coop, but it is an ARPG, meaning text/interactions are neither common nor needed (although i always enjoyed the codex entries one can collect)
Couch Diablo!
And the game is…?
Grim dawn
Ah, thanks. I thought it was some place in a game. My mistake!
tbf i thought it said “grim dark” which is commonly used for Warhammer
Here I thought it was POE lol
POE2 of Dawn
Plays like an old school ARPG. Love it. I think they added WASD movement after the devs very publicly stated WASD movement will never be added into the game.
Fine I’ll make another 5 builds if it’ll make you happy!
LoL it wont stop a those 5 builds, i can tell you as much haha
Berserker+occultist felt kind of squishy to start off but once you get some regen and bleed going I’m having a lot of fun.
Occultist has always been my favorite secondary class - there’s something for everyone in there ;-)
I did pox build as my first playthrough and it was so satisfying to watch stuff just melt. I’m having a ton of fun with all the movement skills + evade as a werewolf. Stack bleed jump around and throw out a pox on large packs.
I spent countless hours on D2 and Grim Dawn had been the only game since to have that same feel for me.
I’ve been playing this game again since the newest DLC released and I’ve been having a blast. Definitely my favorite in the genre.
Oh thank you for reminding me. Glad to hear it’s doing well
Aww…the classic. The real argp. Now with its last big update+dlc.
Same here! They really turned up the difficulty, so new users beware (or delight I guess if you are into that).
It took a friend and I a few dozen hours to hit a difficulty spike. Before that, it was easy enough that we had to turn the difficulty up a notch.
I realized that quickly. I only play hardcore in ARPGs, and the character show in in the screenshot is already populating my graveyard, something that hasn’t happened to me that quick in a long time (most of my chars die somewhere in the transition from veteran to ultimate)
I hope Titan Quest II can recover. I never cared for the aesthetic of Grim Dawn, but Titan Quest I loved.
Recover? It sold well, and it’s not v1.0 yet.
Looking at the reviews, it seems to be in a pretty rocky place. It may be because it is in EA, but it sounds like they are struggling with the fundamentals, and with the original release timeframe being… right about now, it doesn’t bode well.
This is where I’m at. I love grim dawn, but Titan Quest was my jam as a kid. Wish 2 was looking like my hopes for it
I’m absolutely loving TQ2, it’s just more of the game you love with modern polish.
What do you mean by recover? Has something gone wrong with development?
It’s a fun game! I played it for around 10 hours on steam deck. It’s a bit difficult to get the controls right but it’s a blast when it works
Never played it but screenshot makes me think of Diablo II. I miss that game. I think it was the first game that made me feel like my trackball was the superior choice (to a mouse).
Game requires spyware (Windows) to play on a computer, but somewhat ironically, I have an Xbox, so I could play it there. (Also have a PS3 and a Switch.) Gameplay trailer on their website makes it look more like an action game than an RPG though. Either way it looks like a bit of fun.
I play Diablo II Resurrected on a regular basis. I’m on Fedora.
Installation procedure was pretty simple.
Running Lutris, use the installation instructions for the BattleNet launcher.
Once you get that set up, log in like normal and install D2R through the launcher. Once installed, you can create a shortcut to launch D2R by duplicating battlenet and changing the exe to the newly installed D2R and add launch options to log in straight to your account without the launcher.
FWIW, I’ve only ever played grim dawn on Linux via proton.
Nowadays there’s Diablo 2 Resurrected which runs fine under Linux using Proton.
Also, there is a long running community mod (since 2016) for Grim Dawn called Reign of Terror which tries to replicate the D2 feeling in Grim Dawn - just be aware that although it already has been updated to work with the new expansion, there might currently be some unexpected issues around.
Which game requires Windows to run? I run diablo 2 ( resurrected) on Linux.
I’ve run it through battle.net ( over steam ) and you can buy I directly through steam as well. You’d need to link your steam account to your battlenet, but it works fine.
Unless you mean grim dawn. I haven’t tried that one on Linux, but protondb claims it’s platinum.
Maybe you’d like this https://www.projectdiablo2.com/ works fine on Linux thru lutris n proton
I was looking for d2 experience but alas this game presented zero challenge for higher difficulty modes. Only 2 opponents are giving trouble - those gods (optional boss fights), and mostly cause they heal themselves faster than I damage.
Kind of sad given how d2 challenges you from nightmare right away.
Played thru this a million years ago and saw it on the front page of steam the other day. Def guna check it out again
I’ve got thousands of hours in this one! It’s my all time favorite ARPG. The only thing that even gets close to this is Last Epoch, but that’s a completely different feeling to play.
Going to be using the new class? What are you going to pair with it?
New class? What’s that?
Gonna create another character to level up nothing but necromancer&arcanist with spending all points to calidor’s tempest skill.
Berserker, super fun!
Probably going either Berserker/Nightblade for those piercing/bleeding/cold synergies or Berserker/Necromancer for the 2h/cold/piercing style. I’m not completely sure for now haha
Not gonna go for a chaos build for a first char tho - i am such a masochist that i deleted every single thing in my stash when FoA came out lol
I did Berserker/Nightblade cold bleed and got to level 40, beat big bad Log, was a total blast.
Now any other class I play I miss having Leap as a skill - it’s such a good movement skill.
Yeah, Berseker/Nightblade gives a huge amount of mobility, even if not leaping into the fray; just combining Pneumatic Burst and Rallying Cry makes you zip across the screen :-)
I am doing a revisit, and not sure what happened but after an update the save vanished on the Steamdeck. Uninstall and reinstall did not fix it. Then the game stopped working altogether. Then after a third software update everything is back and running.
Yeah, recent update completely borked game on both linux and windows. Devs released a patch soon after that added “comparability mode for linux peasants”, but I saw suggestion for windows users to also use it, cause it solves same issue.
Cloud saving was always wonky in Grim Dawn, including inducing performance problems; i would advice you to disable it if you don’t need it,
I have never had an issue with cloud saves and I have been playing since the beta/kickstarter. Losing my saves would be devastating at this point with all of my characters.
Good for you - for me cloud saving introduced stutters, which were caused by the way they handled updating the cloud saves; always felt like it feels if your HDD i/o is too slow to cope with something and the whole thing starts grinding down, while being installed on a NVME drive. Disabling the cloud saves made those issues disappear.
Good to know. The screen on the deck is so dang small it gives me eye strain sometimes and I like switching to a large monitor, but not if causes issues.
You might use something like Syncthing to synchronize the prefix data, making cloud saves unneccessary without much effort.
