Grim Dawn, Van Helsing playing both enjoying both
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Grim Dawn, Van Helsing playing both enjoying both
If there is interest I will write about playing both of these at the same time- alternating- not actually playing simultaneously.
I have about 180 hours on both and find each to be more fun than Diablo 3 but that may just be because they are fresher and I played D3 a lot.
Grim Dawn is fun because the of the dual class system and seeing what works well and what doesn't work well. Right now my highest alt is a LVL 38 Demoliionist/Nighblade that has way more points in demo than nightblade. Playing on veteran difficulty and right now this guy is my toughest most survivable build who also packs a wallop. Yesterday took at a Level 40 Boss without much trouble (was level 36 at the time).
Squishy builds suffer after a bit in GD because as you progress in veteran mode there are a lot of high damage bad guys swarming you.
What I like is the number of class combos and the devotion system that lets you build unique characters that have interesting attacks/abilities. Also it doesn't appear there is a character limit (yes i have alt-itis)
Van Helsing- fun classes for the most part and unique in a steam-punk way. Interesting story and lots of additional elements to keep things interesting. Every once and a while you get a tower defense mission which are getting more and more challenging. You also get characters you can send out on missions of different types and difficulty and then you gryphon that can go it's own set of missions that can lead to some pretty good rewards. Add in crafting of two types traditional gear and also essences which can be combined and then added to gear
What i like- the companion Lady Katrina, is fun and she advances with you and has skill/ability trees so you can make her unique. The skills and aura system so far is fun and again you can build very unique characters. The two true steampunk type characters are a lot of fund and the Bounty Hunter dual pistol has grown on me as well.
What i don't like- you can only have 6 alts- SIX! The tank and the magic only builds are not very fun- if you try the Elementalist prepare to die often.
Can't say which I like better at the moment.
Well thats all for now- I write more as I progress based on interest in the thread.
I have about 180 hours on both and find each to be more fun than Diablo 3 but that may just be because they are fresher and I played D3 a lot.
Grim Dawn is fun because the of the dual class system and seeing what works well and what doesn't work well. Right now my highest alt is a LVL 38 Demoliionist/Nighblade that has way more points in demo than nightblade. Playing on veteran difficulty and right now this guy is my toughest most survivable build who also packs a wallop. Yesterday took at a Level 40 Boss without much trouble (was level 36 at the time).
Squishy builds suffer after a bit in GD because as you progress in veteran mode there are a lot of high damage bad guys swarming you.
What I like is the number of class combos and the devotion system that lets you build unique characters that have interesting attacks/abilities. Also it doesn't appear there is a character limit (yes i have alt-itis)
Van Helsing- fun classes for the most part and unique in a steam-punk way. Interesting story and lots of additional elements to keep things interesting. Every once and a while you get a tower defense mission which are getting more and more challenging. You also get characters you can send out on missions of different types and difficulty and then you gryphon that can go it's own set of missions that can lead to some pretty good rewards. Add in crafting of two types traditional gear and also essences which can be combined and then added to gear
What i like- the companion Lady Katrina, is fun and she advances with you and has skill/ability trees so you can make her unique. The skills and aura system so far is fun and again you can build very unique characters. The two true steampunk type characters are a lot of fund and the Bounty Hunter dual pistol has grown on me as well.
What i don't like- you can only have 6 alts- SIX! The tank and the magic only builds are not very fun- if you try the Elementalist prepare to die often.
Can't say which I like better at the moment.
Well thats all for now- I write more as I progress based on interest in the thread.
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I liked the Van Helsing games I own. Grim is still on my wish list so cant say how it is.
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To get the tower defense mini games, you have to have a specific expansion for VH, correct?
I'm not sure I want to keep going in my initial game with it if that's the case (I don't think I have all the expansions). I love me some TD.
I'm not sure I want to keep going in my initial game with it if that's the case (I don't think I have all the expansions). I love me some TD.
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I have Van Helsing Final Cut which fuses all 3 together. I had a lvl 52 pholg at one point but after not playing for a while they put out an update that wiped perks clean and you couldn't get them back.
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Have found an interesting "gunslinger" build. Inquisitor/soldier. No pets but Inquisitor allows dual wielding pistols plus lots of high damage drop and forget abilities. Soldier provides the ability to take some damage and not die quickly.
This guys name is "Roland of Gilead". Am at 27 but he is so much fun to play will probably forge ahead with him for a bit
314 hours played and have only finished the original game once so far- too many builds to try out!
I have 184 hours on Van Helsing.
Like both games better than D3.
This guys name is "Roland of Gilead". Am at 27 but he is so much fun to play will probably forge ahead with him for a bit
314 hours played and have only finished the original game once so far- too many builds to try out!
I have 184 hours on Van Helsing.
Like both games better than D3.
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I've been playing quite a bit of Grim Dawn myself. I'm currently running a level 77 full army Necro/Occultist. Mostly al I do is run and hide while my skeletons plink things down. It's not super exciting, but it's really effective.
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I enjoyed doing that in Diablo II. With the reflect damage aura maxed out and corpse explosion, it made for a very passive, but very fun play style. And safe. But when things went in the toilet, things REALLY went down fast.
I'm not even sure I finished grim Dawn with any builds, although I'm pretty sure I had like 10-15 alts going at once, just to experience all the classes.
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you can build quite a pet army in GD.
I liked the army you could build with the witch doctor in D3. I enjoyed them more than the skeleton army
I liked the army you could build with the witch doctor in D3. I enjoyed them more than the skeleton army
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My issue at the moment is that I'm playing on max difficulty and get -50% to all of my resistances, and most of them are decent, but pierce and bleed are sitting at -40%. And, since most pierce attacks result in a bleed . . . one stray shot of that type from pretty much anything ends me.GreenGoo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2017 7:39 pmI enjoyed doing that in Diablo II. With the reflect damage aura maxed out and corpse explosion, it made for a very passive, but very fun play style. And safe. But when things went in the toilet, things REALLY went down fast.
I'm not even sure I finished grim Dawn with any builds, although I'm pretty sure I had like 10-15 alts going at once, just to experience all the classes.
I will also say that the addition of the crucible mode completely changed things around, at least for higher level characters. Unlocking the shrines in higher difficulties was a tremendous pain in the ass due to all of the crafting that had to be done, and now that you can just grind things out in the Crucible, finishing your devotion tree on a higher level character is significantly less painful.
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The changelog is as long as your arm .. (depending on genetics)
... Grim Dawn just pushed Patch V1.0.4.0 out the door tonight (279 MB)
The changelog is as long as your arm .. (depending on genetics)
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I wish the devs would give us a way to manually save the game right before we log out. I never feel safe leaving the game. How hard could it be and what exactly could it break by giving customers peace of mind? Even if it was just in town. Let me have that known save.
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... ... Happy 2nd Birthday for Grim Dawn
Did you know that the 12 guys that comprise this developer don't even have an office .. they all work from home
Happy 2nd Birthday Grim Dawn!
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Back when work first started on Grim Dawn, we had no idea just how big it would become, or how far it would go. We once told ourselves that 200k copies sold would have spelled success, but with over a million copies sold of the base game alone, we could not be more amazed or pleased by the reception the game has received from all of you. Thank you!
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Not that I'm complaining, but I didn't see evidence of a new archetype, correct?
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Another game I can look forward to playing in 18 months when it's 75% off on a Steam sale.
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Pardon my sleep deprived brain .. if you mean character classes ... CRATE likes to tease out info on their own schedule rather than a single info-dump. The two classses in the previous xpac were revealed individually. With each new class the work involved in balancing the combination with previous classes becomes more complex. ... I am expecting 2 classes, but it hasen't been announced.
Personally I would prefer 2 classes, new equipment to support those classes (and combos), and quality-of-life improvements (as they hinted at) ... and less of an extension to the game length ... when you factor-in the game is intended to be played-thru 3 times
On the forums there has been mention that they are tied to the game engine in its current iteration due to the original release supporting previous direct-x versions for older machines, and to leave that behind could possibly cheat some owners out of their purchase ... so any changes have to wait for GD2
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Yeah, I use the term archetypes interchangeably with class because of the dual-class system that I love so much. Sorry if I misspoke.KDH wrote: ↑Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:48 pmPardon my sleep deprived brain .. if you mean character classes ... CRATE likes to tease out info on their own schedule rather than a single info-dump. The two classses in the previous xpac were revealed individually. With each new class the work involved in balancing the combination with previous classes becomes more complex. ... I am expecting 2 classes, but it hasen't been announced.
Personally I would prefer 2 classes, new equipment to support those classes (and combos), and quality-of-life improvements (as they hinted at) ... and less of an extension to the game length ... when you factor-in the game is intended to be played-thru 3 times
On the forums there has been mention that they are tied to the game engine in its current iteration due to the original release supporting previous direct-x versions for older machines, and to leave that behind could possibly cheat some owners out of their purchase ... so any changes have to wait for GD2
I completely agree with you in terms of not lengthening the game, because I have yet to finish Ashes. I am not sure what the hangup has been, either. Titan Quest was one of my most-played games, and this game is basically a re-skin of that one in victorian-era times with guns. I must have started TQ twenty or thirty times with new combos, and finished and replayed the game through all difficulties with more than a dozen characters up to and past level 60+, but I have only finished GD twice, and have yet to finish the expansion. I haven't even played one character through the second difficulty all the way through yet, and I was in the game when it was still in Beta.
The only thing I can think of, and I know this is going to sound ridiculous in an action-click-fest game like this, is that Titan Quest had a definable story; you were chasing down a known enemy through various periods of recognizable history with familiar enemy stereotypes. GD's story is much more complicated; being possessed by one enemy while another enemy is fighting the enemy that tried to possess you, you wander from encampment to encampment, fighting on two fronts that are also fighting each other, but you never seen much evidence of their war, you just read about it in tomes and journals scattered around. I might be over-simplifying it, but that's what I got out of it.
I think it would have made more sense to me to fight against the Cthonians in one game, then in GD2 their ancient enemy, the Ethereals, show up to finish them off and you get stuck in the way and have to fight them, too. But what do I know, I just play the games that other people create, not make them myself.
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A lot of questions are floating around these days. Questions about just how shattering a new game mode might be, or just how empoweringly powerful new powers will be. With Forgotten Gods featuring a huge new chapter of Grim Dawn’s growing world, there is going to be something for everybody to look forward to. What that all entails, you will have to find out in our upcoming development updates!
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My apologies for hijacking this thread as the official thread for this game .. but .. the original post doesn't show up in the search results for, like, a long time
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A lot of questions are floating around these days. Questions about just how shattering a new game mode might be, or just how empoweringly powerful new powers will be. With Forgotten Gods featuring a huge new chapter of Grim Dawn’s growing world, there is going to be something for everybody to look forward to. What that all entails, you will have to find out in our upcoming development updates!
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My apologies for hijacking this thread as the official thread for this game .. but .. the original post doesn't show up in the search results for, like, a long time
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Looking forward to expansion though I still haven't made it through the first expansion- difficulty ramped way up and it makes for some slow going.
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... First up ... Their annual April Fools post ... Oh, please be an April Fools post, please
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... Next up ... Transmutation Service to aid in completing sets coming in the next xpac
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... First up ... Their annual April Fools post ... Oh, please be an April Fools post, please
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... Next up ... Transmutation Service to aid in completing sets coming in the next xpac
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I'm suffering from Alt-Itis in this like I did in Titan Quest. I've gotten the expansion and am having a ball with the Necromancer, but have made something like 5 characters of varying Necro-ness. Pet classes are my big thing, so I love that I've got a small army working for me.
I passed through 70 waves of Crucible with my level 32 pure Necro, specialized in pets & pet buffs only - without breaking the 10x score multiplier once, I think. The score was close to 200,000. I stopped at 70 because the last couple of waves were actually getting hard and I wanted to see what was in the gold chest. I was having to re-summon pets constantly. My job there was to re-summon, buff, and not get hit. I don't even have an attack button for my weapon, just my pets.
Story-wise, I've only just gotten past the Warden, and only with one character. I spend a lot more time in the Crucible, looting and fighting.
Before the expansion and the Necro class, my highest score was something like 59,000 with an Occult/Shaman pet class.
I hope that's real and not April Fool's - 'cause that's awesome. I knew there was a reason I was holding onto the three identical boots from each set I've gotten when I had no other parts!KDH wrote: ↑Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:29 am ... Next up ... Transmutation Service to aid in completing sets coming in the next xpacSpoiler:
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... Grim Misadventure #136 - Enter the Korvan Plateau .. ((April 16th))
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... Grim Misadventure #136 - Enter the Korvan Plateau .. ((April 16th))
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Here we are with another Grim Misadventure, the #1 locally sourced source of Grim Dawn development update news. Last time, we announced one of the awesome new quality of life features we’re working on for Forgotten Gods. But much still remains to be revealed for the upcoming 2nd expansion to Grim Dawn.
In more immediate news, you’ll be happy to know that v1.0.6.0 testing has begun and we expect to roll out the latest free content update in the coming weeks!
Today though, we’re going on a tour…keep your arms and appendages inside the car because we are entering the unknown…of the Korvan Plateau.
Far from the reaches of the Erulan empire, long before the first Erulan banner was even raised, a culture thrived in the oases of the Korvan Plateau. A culture deeply rooted in tradition and faith, where an Oath made upon the temple steps was worth more than the gold that lined its statues and walls.
Here was a land of purity by fire, of virtue through zealous faith to a god of unfathomable power. But then tragedy struck, the land was split asunder with violent eruptions and the people scattered to the winds to escape the enraged wrath of their patron. Or perhaps it was the land itself reacting to the agony of its celestial benefactor. None living today could tell you for certain, no human anyway.
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The civilization crumbled into ruin, its riches plundered by thieves and opportunists, but something has awakened deep beneath the sands. A fire once again burns within the temple and new eyes are drawn to this once sacred place.
What will they discover? What terrible secrets await?
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... ... Grim Misadventure #137: ... A Patch Near You
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Unleash the Kraken! ... A New Boss
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Shaking up the Crucible
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Legendary Collection Grows ... 3 new sets:
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Qualities of Life
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All this and more (MOAR!) is coming posthaste as we wrap up testing in early May and get Patch v1.0.6.0 out to you!
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... ... Grim Misadventure #137: ... A Patch Near You
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.Welcome back to Grim Misadventures!
While Forgotten Gods cooks on full burn, we have some more immediate news to share with you today. As we mentioned last time, patch v1.0.6.0 entered testing and is well under way.
Today, we’d like to give you a preview of what’s all to come in Grim Dawn’s latest major content update!
As always, every free content update is filled with tuning adjustments and general improvements in addition to new content and features, so let’s sample what's in store as we near the release of this patch:
Unleash the Kraken! ... A New Boss
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Shaking up the Crucible
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Legendary Collection Grows ... 3 new sets:
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Qualities of Life
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All this and more (MOAR!) is coming posthaste as we wrap up testing in early May and get Patch v1.0.6.0 out to you!
Like knowing what is coming up next for Grim Dawn? Check back on 05/14/2018 for the next Grim Misadventure.
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... Grim Misadventure #138: .. Moving Right Along
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The introduction of Rune Augments for Medals that are Movement based:
The Runes themselves will also feature several versions. The most common of these will be available for purchase from the three new friendly factions we are introducing in Forgotten Gods. As soon as you pledge your Oath to one of the Witch God cults, you will gain access to two of the six listed above!
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Check back on 05/28/2018 for the next Grim Misadventure.
also .. there was an 18mb bug-fix patch today
... A week late on the previous update .. (I've drifted away)
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... Grim Misadventure #138: .. Moving Right Along
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The introduction of Rune Augments for Medals that are Movement based:
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The Link provides more info ...
Check back on 05/28/2018 for the next Grim Misadventure.
also .. there was an 18mb bug-fix patch today
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... ... hey, how many of you know that Crate is working on a city builder?
I don't hang out on their forums, but I have seen a couple mentions of a city builder that Arthur Bruno (medierra) is working on
So I did a little digging:
from a Dec-25 2017 post
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He mentions the Settler series and how he was disappointed with the recent changes .. and that he may have to write his own .. so he can chop wood and hew stone
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Settlers 7 WTFFF!?!1 - Looking for a good strategy game .. (May, 2014)
... ... hey, how many of you know that Crate is working on a city builder?
I don't hang out on their forums, but I have seen a couple mentions of a city builder that Arthur Bruno (medierra) is working on
So I did a little digging:
from a Dec-25 2017 post
Merry Christmas and to all a Grim Night!
Happy holidays! Whatever holidays you may be celebrating.
I'm looking forward to sharing exciting news in the new year, both for Grim Dawn and our new project. For anyone who doesn't follow our social media, here's a repost of the holiday "card" we put together, showing a peek of the new game we've been working on:
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And from another thread
He mentions the Settler series and how he was disappointed with the recent changes .. and that he may have to write his own .. so he can chop wood and hew stone
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Settlers 7 WTFFF!?!1 - Looking for a good strategy game .. (May, 2014)
Can anyone suggest a game that is more along the lines of what I'm looking for? I basically want a strategy game where you start out with next to nothing in some wilderness setting (preferably with randomly generated maps), build up a settlement from nothing, and then maybe get into a fight with your neighbors. I'm looking for something more focused on economy and building than battles though, otherwise I'd just go play SC2 or whatever.
Hmm, played a bit more... seems like a decently made game but it has just lost a certain magic for me.
Dawn of Discovery isn't available on Steam and, while it looks closer to what I want, it sounds like it isn't exactly what I'm looking for either. It seems the only solution is to make my own strategy / town-builder game. I'll have to get right on it as soon as Grim Dawn is finished!
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Re: Grim Dawn, Van Helsing playing both enjoying both
Finally finished VH with the gunslinger type character. I had to learn to let go of my epics and not be reluctant to replace with gear with better defense/resistances and then go combine epics to see what would pop out.
Not sure if i want to take another character to the end or not- if so it would be the mechanical suit with the shield.
Grim Dawn just flat out kicks my ass in the new expansion......not sure why but it is hard for me so hard that it is a turn off.
Not sure if i want to take another character to the end or not- if so it would be the mechanical suit with the shield.
Grim Dawn just flat out kicks my ass in the new expansion......not sure why but it is hard for me so hard that it is a turn off.
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Re: Grim Dawn, Van Helsing playing both enjoying both
Couple times I've wanted to go back and finish the Complete Van Helsing (i'm in the 3rd game), but the save game won't work. Was playing online. Tried starting over and not being on their game servers (not offline from Steam though), save game still doesn't seem to work (and I was not particularly excited at the idea of starting over as I'd played 1 & 2 through w/ a gunslinger when they came out and started over on this full version w/ a the robot pet building class).
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Re: Grim Dawn, Van Helsing playing both enjoying both
Lady Katrina does make it entertaining. I have a few classes up in the 30s and after playing to end with the gunslinger I finally understand, somewhat, how to concentrate on skills and not diversify.......it is so cheap to retrain that I realized spreading out skill points is a waste.
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Re: Grim Dawn, Van Helsing playing both enjoying both
Katrina definitely makes the story much more enjoyable!Jaddison wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:53 pm Lady Katrina does make it entertaining. I have a few classes up in the 30s and after playing to end with the gunslinger I finally understand, somewhat, how to concentrate on skills and not diversify.......it is so cheap to retrain that I realized spreading out skill points is a waste.