Thanks. Those maps are fantastic. I wish they had that type of display within the game too. But now that I know about that website, at least it will be easy to switch to that. If there’s one thing that Grim Dawn and Titan’s Quest are better at than any other PC Game, it’s handling Alt-Tab behavior.
The first time I went through the doors opened by the dungeon key, the enemies were about 8-10 levels above me, so I eventually lost. Same with my Sorcerer, outleveled by about 8-10 levels, so I eventually lost. Well, I finally found the Steps of Torment again tonight after making another key. Unfortunately, they weren’t level 37-40 like last time. They were level 47-50. So once again 8-10 levels above me. I guess whenever you use the key, it’s designed to be well above what you can handle. That makes me sad. :(
Oh well. I guess there’s plenty of game left without going into the dungeons.
They are supposed to be tough. The game scales to your level, but unlike many areas, they have no level cap (or a very high one), iirc, so they will remain above you. That level difference can certainly be handled though, but you either have to be able to take some punches or be good at avoiding damage.
It’s kind of mean that once you choose a side between the Wizards and the Warriors, you have to actively go out and kill the other side. Why can’t we all get along and fight the monsters together maaaaaan? Give peace a chance. Oh well. Die Wizards!
LeeAbe
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They have a level cap for each of the difficulty settings. I went back to normal/veteran Torment at level 60 something and everything was in the low 50s IIRC. Obviously it was easy at that point.
Elite I am not sure, think it was around my level of low seventies when I did it (which might not be the cap, but I think they were around my level).
Speaking of the factions, The Black Legion/Outcasts were the only ones I never maxed out. Seemed like it would take a lot of time to get both of them maxed, but it is doable.
Both of them? So I didn’t have to pick one or the other when they both had question marks over their heads and I was told to choose one side?
LeeAbe
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Yeah you still have to pick sides if you want the quests, which will give you a faction boost/hit, but you can make up for it by killing monsters. I didn’t do it, but there is a achievement for maxing out every faction. I was actively trying to get it but burned out playing Ultimate with my crappy build.
The rift gates are much further apart here than the rebirth fountains in Titan Quest, which basically means I often don’t have enough time to make it to the next rift gate when I’m playing each night, and have to replay the same area the following day! This is less of a problem now than I fear it will be later on, when running past respawned areas you’ve already done might get a bit harder.
This also happened to me. I adapted by doing two things:
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Alt-Tab out. Your desktop and all the other apps still work fine. They do a great job with their Alt-Tab behavior. And when you switch back, the game is still paused for you.
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I stopped watching TV shows and spent less time with my wife. This gave me more time to get to the next rift gate. :P
Part of that is knowing where they are. Once you know that, you can beeline if you need to, making most of them not too bad.
I went back to my Sorceress tonight and did this. Respec’d all the points away from the aura that enhances fire damage and put it in Devestation instead. I got it up to 12 out of a possible 16. Very impressive.
What I really need is a way to survive though. With all these meteors coming out of the sky, it’s even harder to tell when someone sneaks in and touches me, which almost kills me every time. The screen just gets so busy I have a tough time telling that I’m in trouble until I’m actually in trouble and almost dead.
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Can’t do that here, electrical storms each night would destroy the PC, so it gets turned off at night (when I normally play).
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Absolutely not worth the hellfire that would invoke! ;)
As for knowing where they are, that’s only going to work if I look at a map online which I’d rather not do. Finding the rift gates is part of the fun! I just need to go to bed later (and drink more coffee).
LeeAbe
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Even at the harder levels, running through old levels isn’t too difficult. Outside of a rare boss/hero character in the middle of a map or finding a nemesis, you can pretty much run through and they will only follow so far.
I am replaying TQ now, and they really should have put break points in GD as frequently as they did in TQ. It’s nice knowing you only have to go so far for a good save point.
I may have to revise my opinion that I prefer Titan Quest to Grim Dawn. Now that I’ve found a build that I really like, I’m enjoying the moment-to-moment gameplay more than I was in Titan Quest. I still prefer the mythological setting of Titan Quest, but Grim Dawn is just too damn good. There are more rewards for exploring, it feels like, and there’s more depth to the build options. Plus the music is better.
It’s killing me that I can’t play this game for long periods anymore without my PC shutting down and rebooting. I tried playing Civ V, I tried playing DOOM, I tried playing Path of Exile. But I can’t get my head into those games, I just keep thinking about Grim Dawn constantly. No other game makes my PC shut down, but it’s the only one I want to play right now, damn it.
Have you tried turning all the graphics settings down to Low, see whether anything there might be triggering it? It’s a bit odd unless the GPU is overheating. Obviously it wasn’t doing it earlier, but maybe something is on the way out.
Gendal
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Out of the blue Grim Dawn started crashing on me a couple of weeks ago. Mystified I kept trying different things until I noticed people always blamed overclocking your video card. I completely forgot I had OC’d mine to a minor degree but nothing else crashed. I reset it back to factory and boom, no more crashes. I had played 100+ hours with it overclocked with no crash so it was odd when it just started doing so.
I only bring this up because I read a couple of reports of people having to underclock their GPU to run Grim Dawn without crashing randomly. Worth trying I guess, though that could still put the issue at the feet of the PSU or the GPU.
Hot damn @Gendal, that worked. I underclocked my video card. Instead of the default for my video card I limited it to -5% power limit, and instead of 1000 Mhz max core clock, I made it 900 Mhz max, and instead of 1300 Mhz Memory Clock, I made it 1200 Mhz. And then I played for about an hour with no problems. There were a few instances of the game skipping frames during intense combat sequences, but I’m fine with that. At least it didn’t shut down my computer again yet.
So the root of the problem is probably the PSU, I’m guessing. But as long as this method keeps working, I’m happy to keep using it.
Checked your fans/filters and such to make sure it isn’t a cooling issue?
Gendal
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Awesome. Something about Grim Dawn stresses video cards.
