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It's easily one of the best ARPGs available on PC.
They're celebrating ten years with a post on Steam mentioning how they thought back in 2019 with the second expansion, that sales would naturally decline and the game would just be done. However, that didn't happen. They were surprised in 2023 when they saw growing player counts so they came back to give it one more big boost.
"After 10 years, Grim Dawn will have a modern scaleable UI, something once thought impossible in an engine created when a 4:3 aspect ratio was still common-place and 1080p was a luxury. An overhauled stash will greatly expand how you organize your awesome loot. And, dare I say, more surprises are still in store for our Fangs of Asterkarn pre-patch."
Sounds like the expansion really is huge too. They said it's "76% the size of the base game, 170% as big as Ashes of Malmouth and 223% as large as Forgotten Gods" containing "over 60 bosses and minibosses" with "over 370 new unique items and 116 Monster Infrequents, with more custom models and less retextures than ever before" and more.
The initial changelog for Grim Dawn 1.3 is already quite long, and that won't be all of it. You can even get testing right now if you want to try it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Grim Dawn is for me the best H&S from the last years. So it will be even better.
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Hah, people kept telling me for years that the scalable UI "just isn't possible" every time I brought it up, and now here we are.
I'm not going to say I told you so, but....
Larger stash is also a necessity to a ridiculous degree. They've added literally thousands of items to the game since release.
I'm not going to say I told you so, but....
Larger stash is also a necessity to a ridiculous degree. They've added literally thousands of items to the game since release.
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I think I've played through GD ... 4 times? 5 times maybe? I think it's got to be one of my most-played games of all time at nearly 500 hrs. ITS SO GOOD.
About the only complaint I have on it, is that getting the best gear to really make your builds shine requires being on the highest difficulty for the drops. BUT to get to the highest difficulty you have to do the most boring thing ever of all time: slog through the game mindlessly once all the way to the end (because you don't give a shit about items or upgrades) and then after spending countless hours you will unlock the highest difficulties and you can actually start playing. Due to this I've never actually played the highest difficulty, because: aint nobody got time for that shit.
It's still mechanically, build wise, and FUN wise: one of the best arpgs ever made!
About the only complaint I have on it, is that getting the best gear to really make your builds shine requires being on the highest difficulty for the drops. BUT to get to the highest difficulty you have to do the most boring thing ever of all time: slog through the game mindlessly once all the way to the end (because you don't give a shit about items or upgrades) and then after spending countless hours you will unlock the highest difficulties and you can actually start playing. Due to this I've never actually played the highest difficulty, because: aint nobody got time for that shit.
It's still mechanically, build wise, and FUN wise: one of the best arpgs ever made!
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Quoting: JarmerI think I've played through GD ... 4 times? 5 times maybe? I think it's got to be one of my most-played games of all time at nearly 500 hrs. ITS SO GOOD.Yeah, I know what you mean. The higher difficulties is also what puts more importance on your build to be good and a lot of them become increasingly reliant on you actually having some proper gear in order to function properly. But if you then need to grind for every single piece of equipment and runes and trinkets and whatnot it just becomes plainly impractical to play that build, especially when you can just google some other build that isn't as gear reliant and works much more easily.
About the only complaint I have on it, is that getting the best gear to really make your builds shine requires being on the highest difficulty for the drops. BUT to get to the highest difficulty you have to do the most boring thing ever of all time: slog through the game mindlessly once all the way to the end (because you don't give a shit about items or upgrades) and then after spending countless hours you will unlock the highest difficulties and you can actually start playing. Due to this I've never actually played the highest difficulty, because: aint nobody got time for that shit.
It's still mechanically, build wise, and FUN wise: one of the best arpgs ever made!
It's nothing especially wrong with Grim Dawn, though. Difficulty modes cannibalizing a game's own variety is a very common occurrence.
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benstor214 3 days ago
Quoting: JarmerI think I've played through GD ... 4 times? 5 times maybe? I think it's got to be one of my most-played games of all time at nearly 500 hrs. ITS SO GOOD.I agree.
Quoting: Jarmer[…] to get to the highest difficulty you have to do the most boring thing ever of all time: slog through the game mindlessly once all the way to the end […].That’s true if you play SSF (solo self-funded) characters. Otherwise, you can do it once only and then put 'merits' - which unlock the highest difficulty - in the stash for other characters to use. 🙂
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It's been already 10 years? omg... well, for once it's a well deserved success. Anyone who played Grim Dawn in the last years know how giant it is, how easy it's to be immersed, and how it's the perfect evolution from single player Diablo 3 -specially if you like play on Linux. I should reinstall it again to check the new updates while escaping from the current harsh world...
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not touched this one for about 9? years myself , seemed pretty good at the time but i didn't have a comfortable setup to pc game with at the time as a tv/desktop bedside player , i've thought about going back to it a few times over the years so maybe this'll be a reason to finally get it off my backlog
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I love this game. I bought the base for £5 on steam over a xmas and I couldn't step away. I bought the expansions and everything they've released to support them. The community made leagues have been fantastic too.
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Quoting: benstor214oh didn't know that! I always play every single arpg ssf because I dislike multiplayer, but ..... now that you've enlightened me to these "merits" I may or may not have to look up if there's a way to hack or mod these into new chars without ever getting them to begin with!Quoting: JarmerI think I've played through GD ... 4 times? 5 times maybe? I think it's got to be one of my most-played games of all time at nearly 500 hrs. ITS SO GOOD.I agree.
Quoting: Jarmer[…] to get to the highest difficulty you have to do the most boring thing ever of all time: slog through the game mindlessly once all the way to the end […].That’s true if you play SSF (solo self-funded) characters. Otherwise, you can do it once only and then put 'merits' - which unlock the highest difficulty - in the stash for other characters to use. 🙂
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Quoting: Jarmeroh didn't know that! I always play every single arpg ssf because I dislike multiplayer, but ..... now that you've enlightened me to these "merits" I may or may not have to look up if there's a way to hack or mod these into new chars without ever getting them to begin with!You don't even need multiplayer - SSF means "never trades items from your other single player characters" and that's presumably not you - you just need a character that's already reached that difficulty. Go buy a Merit with your Elite or Ultimate character, stick it in the shared stash, et voila. You do need the Forgotten Gods expansion for them.
That said (and I have over 1,000 hours in) I've never really found the GD story to be that much of a slog to work through in all honesty. You can complete the base game in a few hours when you know where you're going and have some decent equipment shared.
Of course there's also nothing wrong with just not playing Ultimate if you don't want to. The game has plenty of content without it.
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benstor214 17 minutes ago
Quoting: Jarmer[…] I may or may not have to look up if there's a way to hack or mod these into new chars without ever getting them to begin with!Why the hassle? Didn’t you say you played through the game 4 or 5 times already?
If you have the Forgotten Gods expansion it is a matter of buying the merit from the NPC in the Conclave of the Three and throwing it into your stash. No internet required.
SSF means you delete your savefile (or move it to a different directory) every time before you create a new character, it has nothing to do with multiplayer.
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