Grim Dawn

Grim Dawn is a game of sharp contrasts. It wraps top‑tier ARPG depth in an outdated engine. If you love theorycrafting and the thrill of loot drops, and can overlook its aged visuals and weak narrative, it may well become your personal masterpiece. But if you prioritize graphics, story immersion, and a gentle learning curve, it will likely frustrate you.

Absolutely ruined the game with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 1.3 update and DLC. Nowadays you can't even trust developers who used to make good games, because they might suddenly get a brilliant idea - to completely destroy the game balance and everything else. ♥♥♥♥ those developers.

I've played many ARPGs and this is the only one that I've dropped so quickly. After seeing so much di*k-riding everywhere I went, I really expected something special. Instead I found a very mid game that feels and looks antiquated and with some deal breaking issues that nobody seems to care about because this one doesn't have lootboxes or whatever. · UI design and looks feel antiquated overall. -Item text descriptions lack clarity. -The game has no overlay map. -The big map has no points of interest marked even after discovery. Like, whats the point then... -You need different resources to open paths but can't see how many you have unless you go back to base and talk to the character that manages your resource and inventory tabs. · It's truly incredible how horrible the skill targeting is: -If you target anything that's mildly above you, like a simple hill, the skill will hit the terrain next to you and not the enemies. Doesn't matter if you target enemies directly or the terrain. -Skills will fire in place by default instead of moving you to where they will hit the enemies. Fighting in narrow places or long narrow stairs is a nightmare. -Skills might or might not go over small rocks, fences, etc. -If you dash just after using a skill sometimes it fires in a seemingly random direction. · The pathing is also horrible. Trying to open a chest next to some stairs in open terrain, the character goes to the top of the stairs instead of moving to the chest thats next to you at the same level. Similar things happen all the time. · Classes are boring and lack variety of skills and archetypes. I ended with one (1) useable skill and many passives because picking many actives at once feels bad and useless. Yes you can mix 2 class skill trees. I garantee you, it does not matter. · Skills are often slow proyectiles with high cast time that makes you still while casting. Almost no movement abilities. Slow walking speed. The entire game would feel better if you made everyting slightly faster. · There are ten (10) different resistances that you have to worry about. Trying to patch holes in your build is a losing battle no matter what. I was dying the second multiple elites appeared at the same time even with +HP and %HP in every armor piece (In the hardest difficulty that the game lets you pick from the start, which is basically normal+). · "+X LVLs to skill" equipment is so common that it makes all other, potentially better, equipment you find bad to use because that will always be better. We are talking "80% of tier 3 items have them" levels of common. · Same enemy design problems as every other game in the genre and then some: -Some elites might appear with undodgeable instant kill attacks. Think Lina's Laguna Blade or Zeus' Lightning Bolt in Dota 2. -Every other enemy you encounter will apply DoT effects that drain almost all your health if you have no potion to counter it. It's way too common and deals too much damage. Grinds the pace to a halt while waiting for the potion CD. -Damaging pools left after death are also too common. -Some ranged mobs fire so hard and fast, and are so common that they might as well be death squads. · Boss battles are simply boring. Everything is the same: circle AoE damage + constant terrain bombardment to your current location + DoT, and sometimes stuns that mean you die if you get hit. In short: it's mediocre and boring. Everything it does some other game does just as well or better. Not really worth the time IMO. At least it's cheap.

[h2][b] Grim Dawn - это Сцилла, и я бошки все отсечь ей намерен. [/b][/h2] Игра для подростков, студентов-гуманитариев или безработных. В общем для тех - у кого много свободного времени, мало желания вникать в сюжет и кому требуется тонна экшена. Так что, если вы моетесь хотя бы 1 раз ведь (каждый день), чистите зубы, выходите на улицу, трогали девочек за ручку и тд - эта игра не для вас [i][b] Плюсы: [/b][/i] 1) Многофункциональная игра. Много специализаций, доп прокачка в виде "созвездий", что дает возможность создавать гибридные и комфортные билды, не упираясь в гайды или "мету". 2) Дизайн локаций. Локации интересно исследовать, они плавно перетекают друг в друга, почти не заметны "швы" между большими кусками карты 3) Хороший саундтрек. Звезд с неба не хватает, но слушать приятно. Хотелось бы уровень Ван Хельсинга, но тут тоже норм [i][b] Минусы: [/b][/i] 1) Сюжет. Его нет. Вот есть завязка, есть пару записок на всю локу - вот весь сюжет. Я игру зачем купил? Мобов убивать? Для этого есть тонна бесплатных игр. Второстепенные задания тоже мусор. Пример: - Нашел полумертвого чела, он говорит:"Меня в крысу пырнули заточкой под ребро. Иди и отомсти за меня, а я уже умираю." ( НО ОН НЕ УМИРАЕТ, ОН ПРОСТО ДАЛЬШЕ ЛЕЖИТ, КАК АКТИВНЫЙ НПС) - Ну ок. Пойду выслеживать крысюка - Выследил, началась беседа. "Я оборонялся, я не виноват" А ТЕПЕРЬ СДЕЛАЙ ВЫБОР: ПОВЕРИТЬ или УБИТЬ. А КАК Я СДЕЛАЮ ВЫБОР? Где возможность найти улики, косвенные подсказки и тд. Как я должен проникнуться этим квестом? 2) Гринд и респаун врагов. Да да, я знаю, что респаун врагов и выбивание УЛЬТРА МЕГА ЭПИЧНО РЕДКОГО сета - это база таких игр. Вот только в том же Ван Хельсинге это можно было спокойно отключить, тк с прямыми руками можно пройти игру на макс сложности и без гринда. А тут - фарми. Хочешь пройти миссию с кровавым культом? Иди фарми с них ключ. Как? Перезаходи в игру 3) Вылеты. Игре 10 лет. Ну почините это говно. Почему я в современные игры играю спокойно. А в эту говнину нет. За 15 часов я получил 3 вылета, при этом 1 в самом начале. Напоминаю, что при каждом "перезаходе" в игру мобы респавнятся, вас отбрасывает на стартовую локу в хаб, а точка телепорта (если она стояла) просто исчезает. И мне приходилось прочищать локи заново. Ало, yebище на разрабе, а ты не хочешь подсказать мне, как человеку, который ходит на работу играть в это? 4) Достижения. Cyка, ну у меня просто аж глаз дёргается от злости. Тут 234 достижения (на момент 11.07.25. Как я понял из нового ДЛС добавили уже) и около 80 - это из основной игры. Остальное - достижения из ДЛС. А теперь самый смак: Игра по скидке стоит 88 рублей. А бандл со всеми длс - Crate Entertainment Complete Collection (без Farthest Frontier) стоит 834 рубля (цены с летней распродажи). Итого 746 рублей на длс. Это в 8.5 раз дороже самой игры. Ради того, чтобы получить возможность пройти "всю" игру со всеми достижениями. И это я не посчитал новое длс, которое будет стоить дороже всего текущего бандла [i][b] Итоги: [/b][/i] Мне игра не зашла. Даже во время отпуска я не захотел зайти сюда и "дозачистить" 3й акт + пройти 4й. Мб когда-нибудь, когда будут все длс. У меня в друзьях есть фанаты Дьябло, есть даже два типа, которые поставили новое DLC для Grim Dawn в желаемое, а саму игру в любимое, но мне их не понять. Я хотел новый Ван Хельсинг, с живым миром, интересным сюжетом, крутыми героями и тд. А тут - смесь готики и дьябло, только взяли худшее ото всюду. Жду меценатов, которые подарят мне бандл с длс к этому симулятору гринда. Ну а пока [code]7 / 10. С - tier [/code]

Frustrating game of sudden deaths and googling how to get to locations.

狼人出来没多久，你就连放俩个补丁削弱，感情把玩家当猴子耍？也没见你削弱你召唤爹，天天捧着你黄昏爹的臭脚闻，俩个生儿子没屁眼的csdx，天天供着你那破召唤继续玩，死吗东西，继续削弱，最后把这个职业削弱到看不到。DLC没人买，一群sb东西，我可滚你妈的吧，趁早倒闭。。。。

我是小团体，能不能削一下召唤

坐好了，原来是贴吧捂嘴欢迎平等交流暗改CE装备交易认证的嗯舔白皮拿到内测资格但是连召唤不吃增伤药都测不出来的专注召唤大佬啊，招了几个翻译官就把社区当租界在小众游戏社区想当土皇帝，在外网论坛上说自己和动物朋友们享受凯恩之旅，中文社区的一点小小情况可以解释给洋大人的某黄昏深畜呢

Well for a long time grim dawn was pretty much the last Diablo2 like. A traditional hack and slay and while complicated in it's mechanics, it delivered a fun sandbox for a monstrous amounts of builds to play. Unfortunately the game shifted quite a bit to the main stream. It is now in my oppinion just the Darksouls Looting game and for me it sucks. The learning of a boss mechanics is now more important than the character build. This appears to satisfy the majority of players but it aint for me. There are pros obviously: - You get camera rotation, which is amazing. - You get the best inventory system of all Darksouls Looting games, including a ressource stash you can fill from any time and anywhere. Your inventory is large enough to let you decide when you want to take care of it, instead of wasting your time every few moments to teleport back to town. However especially the last expansion makes one thing crystal clear to me. They waste their time building a world no one really needs. Over complicated quest designs which ends up pretending to be in a deep rpg, like the bird, which you need to search some clues, which wont make any sense even after you randomly stumble over the next hint. Every region must be Maggot lair, with small paths you cant just walk through, but need to navigate every time. These areas should be a minority. At least two quests are basically unsolveable, unless you are really lucky or watch a guide for it, as the goal is so well hidden in the world and not on your map at all. It dosnt help, that these quests will be shown on your questlog each time you log in. Making it needlessly difficult to read your quests and often they wont even fit all on the screen. They introduce a snowstorm mechanic, which will probably cause your eyes to suffer. It is so dense that it is even harder to see what is actually happening. They got an option to turn off weather, but it seems to important to them to include it. I mean they are aware that weather is an annoyance and put in that option. Why would they make an exception? No idea probably, because you get some neglectable ice damage permanently in those areas. Permanent slow damage is probably the worst difficulty mechanic except for a time limit. And oh yes, apparently there is a greater riftlike feature which introduce exactly that. People are complaining on the forum that the game is too difficult. I died like 50 times in veteran, which I dont consider a problem. But you know beeing oneshot just isnt fun, even if it only happens three times for some bosses. Last but definitely not least: When developers start to flick off players who were complaining about the changing nature of the game, you know something is off. https://steamcommunity.com/app/219990/discussions/0/583929583674360102/ Zantai [developer] 27 Jul @ 12:05am  „Sorry, I don't have the tiny violin emoji.“ I personally cant trust crate entertainment no longer for future purchases, as I cant really neglect the chance they change their next Darksouls looting game into a super mario clone, just because it is popular that a future date when I want to return to the original experience.