Do you mean that these dungeons are meant for lvl 100 or close to? I dont know whether I as a level 40ish person should be looking around for keys somewhere.
This game still rocks.
The primary thing this thread has done is get me to go back to trying Grim Dawn on the Xbox. The controller interface in the inventory is so good. They should have just copied that!
Just post-campaign. You find the keys primarily in the Monolith. I havenāt been running them myself yet as Iām still trying out 76 different alts, so Iām not sure how the scaling works.
The dungeons have four tiers; the first one should be winnable at the level keys start dropping. You actually have to beat the lower tiers to unlock the higher ones anyway so itās probably better to do one earlier if you get a key so you donāt have to āwasteā it later on low level loot.
D3, GD, D4, and Inquisitor Martyr all do inventory fine on gamepad, weird they botched it so badly on this.
Iām hopeful theyāll work out gamepad inventory before 1.0.
Not sure about the others, but did D3 and GD have good gamepad support on version 0.9 (or even 1.0)? Not from what I can recall. The times have changed, but personally I think itās one of those things that devs have an excuse for leaving around the proper launch. Or maybe I have misread how many people want to play this when not near a keyboard for easy switching for the inventory tetris.
Does this mean the actual combat is fun on itās own, not just busywork to level up your character? (Honest question, not being snarky)
I think itās fun but it doesnāt make ARPG combat more engaging in a significant way. There is no twitch rolls or anything like Hades / Dark Souls type of stuff, it is all about general positioning to avoid AOEs and then going through the relevant skill order to maximise DPs for that particular situation.
On my recent playthroughs, dungeon keys to Lightless Arbor has begun dropping around level 40 - Seeing as I am playing a Hardcore character, Iām rather wary trying out something that would kill me surely. Do you have idea how those dungeons and Hardcore characters interact? Same rules, or different?
Indeed they have, and D3 is what changed them. It still doesnāt do gamepad on PC, but it was the console launch of D3 that made many people realize that click to move sucked and āstick-to-moveā was the way of the future for ARPGs. I donāt think Grim Dawn did have gamepad support at launch, which makes their implementation of it all the more impressive, since so many indie devs end up half-assing controller support somewhere down the line.
To be fair, the games you listed have all launched on consoles (or in case of D4, simultaneous launch here shortly) which predicates full controller support. This is still early access where the controller support has been incrementally improved along the way, so I would expect more work in that area. That said, they do consider controller support for the game to be Partial rather than Supported (in terms of Steam listing).
Doesnāt mean that itāll be as good as GD at launch, but then Iām pretty sure GD didnāt get good gamepad support until their console launch? Thatās my recollection anyway, but maybe Iām misremembering.
IIRC GD got gamepad support far into its life cycle.
but also way before the console release, same with martyr
edit: also I just donāt know why you would half ass implement it either when there are plenty of examples to draw from on how to do it better. Games often do this like they are afraid of copying any ideas, yet they blatantly copy others. If UI or control stuff works, steal the concept.
I donāt know for sure but I doubt they relax Hardcore rules for the dungeons. The bosses in them are hard, so if youāre playing like that maybe you do want to wait until youāre overlevelled.
Anyone else playing on multiple machines having a cloud sync issue? I played a bit on my laptop yesterday, and now my desktop canāt sync the files from the cloud.
A patch dropped yesterday (0.9f) which mentions a fix for issues causing ālarge online save data rollbacksā - maybe that was your issue?
I dunno, both copies are patched as far as I know.
I donāt think Iāve seen this. But thinking on it, since my character is an Online character, it likely doesnāt have to sync much beyond changes to the game settings and that sort of thing rather than character save files that are frequently changing.
Iām at work so donāt have a link on hand, but via the Steam website you can view and muck around with the cloud save files. I remember doing so once when I had a game get stuck in a situation like you describe. You can also likely blow out the local cloud files on your desktop which should pull down fresh from the cloud. Alas, I donāt have my gaming PC on hand to recall how/where that is done either, so Iām really not being of much help!
I finally got it fixed. Started both clients (laptop, then desktop) and all was well.