Grim Dawn

Slaanesh69 · Nov 28, 2023

I decided on a dual pistol Purifier. I've been doing ranged builds on my ARPGs of late, and this one has few buttons to press, which I enjoy.

Also seems like I only made it to level 66 on my last build before losing interest in the game....see how far I make it this time.

The one great thing this game has going for it is interactive online maps - the one advantage of fixed game environments.

Khane · Nov 29, 2023

Static maps have many, many advantages over procedurally generated tilesets. I am very anti random tileset generation in ARPGs personally. Don't think they add anything but annoyance to the experience.

Hateyou · Nov 29, 2023

You really want to fuck yourself up just rotate to a new orientation. For long time players who are used to normal view.

Nija · Nov 29, 2023

I wonder if there's a mod that slowly, continuously rotates the camera. I tried looking but haven't found much.

DickTrickle · Nov 29, 2023

Hateyou said:
You really want to fuck yourself up just rotate to a new orientation. For long time players who are used to normal view.

Play fully zoomed in too!

Khane · Nov 29, 2023

By the way, for anyone who is used to using things like Grim Internals (which no longer works with latest patch and is not in active development) to do simple things like just change the game speed (Since Grim Dawn does play on the slower side). You can do this yourself really easily on PC

hit the "`~" button (on a standard QWERTY keyboard) and it will bring up the grim dawn console. The console command for game speed is just Game.Speed followed by whatever game speed you want.

Example: Game.Speed 1.5

You don't need special programs to do things like this, mostly those programs would just turn the console commands into buttons you can press in a UI. Here is a list of the console commands you can use.

Console Commands Reference

Using the information from the Grim Dawn executable file (extracted by rorschachrev), I manually parsed the commands that can be used in the console. As it was a manual work it might/should contain errors. To activate the console go to a custom game (it dosen’t work in the main campaing) and...

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Other useful commands are things like game.PlayStats true which will show a bunch of character stats like time played, deaths, kills, DPS, etc

If you can figure out how to map the console command on a steam deck it should work there too. Don't know if there is a way to do this on console versions of the game.

LiquidDeath · Nov 29, 2023

Khane said:
Static maps have many, many advantages over procedurally generated tilesets. I am very anti random tileset generation in ARPGs personally. Don't think they add anything but annoyance to the experience.

It would be nice to have the vast majority of the game, especially the leveling experience, be static maps with the opportunity to go into procedurally generated maps to help endgame grinds not get incredibly stale.

Nirgon · Nov 29, 2023

Kill Log then farm Steps of Torment or that rift at the end of Necropolis is how I always do it.

Farm skele key zones/MI's to prep for celestials from there.

Khane · Nov 29, 2023

LiquidDeath said:
It would be nice to have the vast majority of the game, especially the leveling experience, be static maps with the opportunity to go into procedurally generated maps to help endgame grinds not get incredibly stale.

I think that'd be a fine way to do it as long as there was a limited amount of tilesets in the pool and none of them sucked 1000x worse than the most favorable ones (like is always the case with these games).

DickTrickle · Nov 29, 2023

There's Item Assistant

It looks like there's an update from October from a playtest so might not be a dead project. I used it and found it to be quite good for dealing with the item bloat.

Hateyou · Nov 29, 2023

LiquidDeath said:
It would be nice to have the vast majority of the game, especially the leveling experience, be static maps with the opportunity to go into procedurally generated maps to help endgame grinds not get incredibly stale.

Isn’t that what the shattered realm rift things do? I know they’re small in size though so maybe doesn’t fully satisfy what you’re asking for.

Brikker · Nov 29, 2023

Khane said:
By the way, for anyone who is used to using things like Grim Internals (which no longer works with latest patch and is not in active development) to do simple things like just change the game speed (Since Grim Dawn does play on the slower side). You can do this yourself really easily on PC

hit the "`~" button (on a standard QWERTY keyboard) and it will bring up the grim dawn console. The console command for game speed is just Game.Speed followed by whatever game speed you want.

Example: Game.Speed 1.5

You don't need special programs to do things like this, mostly those programs would just turn the console commands into buttons you can press in a UI. Here is a list of the console commands you can use.

Console Commands Reference

Using the information from the Grim Dawn executable file (extracted by rorschachrev), I manually parsed the commands that can be used in the console. As it was a manual work it might/should contain errors. To activate the console go to a custom game (it dosen’t work in the main campaing) and...

forums.crateentertainment.com

Other useful commands are things like game.PlayStats true which will show a bunch of character stats like time played, deaths, kills, DPS, etc

If you can figure out how to map the console command on a steam deck it should work there too. Don't know if there is a way to do this on console versions of the game.

However, this only works in Custom games and not the Main Campaign.

Khane · Nov 29, 2023

Brikker said:
However, this only works in Custom games and not the Main Campaign.

No, it works in the main campaign as well.

Brikker · Nov 29, 2023

Khane said:
No, it works in the main campaign as well.

How? I googled around and it looked like custom game only. Tilde doesn't do shit for me.

Hateyou · Nov 29, 2023

It even says right in that linked post that it doesn’t. I’ve never used it, just sayin.

Khane · Nov 30, 2023

Hrmm, I must be using something that activates the console in main campaign for me because it does work.

EDIT: Yep, it's this that is enabling it in main campaign for me

[Tool] GD Hacker GUI for 1.2.0.3 x64 / game speed, teleport [discontinued]

Discontinued - use [Tool] DPYes - Player/pet DPS meter & Misc util instead Russian keyboard not supported atm (speed change works though). Light skin can be chosen in the config file. GDHackerGUI_1.2.0.3_GOG.zip (895.3 KB) GDHackerGUI_1.2.0.3_Steam.zip (895.4 KB)...

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The program itself also will change the game speed for you.

Hatorade · Nov 30, 2023

Gonna try arcanist based around the tempest AoE. Will see how it goes.

Vorph · Nov 30, 2023

Slaanesh69 said:
I decided on a dual pistol Purifier. I've been doing ranged builds on my ARPGs of late, and this one has few buttons to press, which I enjoy.

Dual pistol purifier is by far the most fun build I've played in GD. Can't decide whether to stick with it in 1.2 since it was only a few months ago that I made the character, or try to find another build I really like (read: the less buttons to press the better).

Edit: Seems like gearing while leveling might suck a bit though. Unless I am remembering wrong, most of the good stuff you wanted were MIs from random mobs rather than bosses, and in 1.2 they made MIs from bosses essentially a 100% drop (unless the boss drops multiple things for the same slot) while MIs from random trash mobs are much more rare now.

Khane · Dec 1, 2023

Vorph said:
Dual pistol purifier is by far the most fun build I've played in GD. Can't decide whether to stick with it in 1.2 since it was only a few months ago that I made the character, or try to find another build I really like (read: the less buttons to press the better).

Edit: Seems like gearing while leveling might suck a bit though. Unless I am remembering wrong, most of the good stuff you wanted were MIs from random mobs rather than bosses, and in 1.2 they made MIs from bosses essentially a 100% drop (unless the boss drops multiple things for the same slot) while MIs from random trash mobs are much more rare now.

I wanted a couple of "random mob" MIs for my 1.2 fresh start and they weren't bad to farm at all honestly. Because of the change to how modifiers roll (weighted towards getting affixes that complement the base stats of the MI) it made it quite a bit easier to get a decent to even very good MI. So they might drop slightly less often but they are rolled far better almost every time compared to previous patches.

Captain Suave · Dec 1, 2023

I really, really want to like GD but the game just feels like such a fucking slog. Am I just playing it wrong?

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