Tonight was a very different experience. I did update to the newest NVidia drivers tonight, and the game has been patched twice since I last played. The servers were down for maintenance, so I started an offline character (caster).
Playing at 3440x1440, everything set at high, high anti-aliasing, Vsync off, on an RTX2060. Frame rate was 55-80 the whole time except the intro where you shape change briefly. There it dropped to 45. Everywhere else it was 70+ dropping to 55-60 with a lot of enemies on the screen. Also my controls felt much tighter tonight, it didn’t feel as slow. Granted I still haven’t played a ton, just got through the town and was exploring outside a bit.
Loving it so far. I don’t really get all the stats, etc (but I haven’t really tried to read everything yet either). Doesn’t look like there is any type of help system anyway. It looks interesting through, and fights are a lot of fun.
Only gripes are I would like to zoom out a bit more and I would really like to be able to rotate the map. Playing something like Grim Dawn in ultrawide, you can always rotate the map so you can see further in the direction you are going, and I really missed that here. It felt really constricted at times because of this. Minor gripes that I can live with, because everything else is pretty great.
So something weird happened. My gfx config was corrupted somehow (‘Graphics Quality’ was blank and the other settings were a mixture of stuff) and suddenly the game was running at 90 where previously it was dropping to 20. As soon as I changed the settings again it went back to 20, and no manner of changes will improve matters much. :P
So now I have to figure how to get back to that state. I can’t seem to locate where the gfx config is located
That graphics config thing is wierd. There is a config.cfg file in the Wolcen home directory with a bunch of stuff in it, not sure exactly what you need though.
I have run into one annoying but - my minimap completely blanked out. Was in a map and it went away (and I don’t recall why). Zoned back to town, no map. Was about to quit and restart but right before I zoned again and it was back. Other than that (and, uh, the lack of online play last night), pretty smooth experience.
Also: when they say OFFLINE character they really mean local - a toon I created last night on my laptop upstairs is nowhere to be found this morning on my desktop. That’s unfortunate.
Have not seen any info related to guilds. In fact, the only thing online mode offers I think is the ability to group with others. Oh, plus access to your toon from different machines I guess…
No shared stash that I have seen either. Disappointing IMHO.
One YouTuber was saying you didn’t really need to make multiple characters, which would imply less of a need for a shared stash. Get some gear you like, just respec your skills to suit it.
Strictly speaking that’s true but for example, right now I am leveling one magic user, one melee guy, and one ranged guy, and it would be a supreme pain in the butt to keep respecting them back and forth when I want to try different styles of attacks. Not to mention that there’s no good way to save your loadout so it would be a nightmare if I decided to switch from one to the other.
You’re right, it would be nice, but I think they are trying to be more fluid. Your character is always changing, evolving, so don’t stick to one build. We’ll see, I am still really early. I have tried melee and caster, but think I prefer the latter so far. Will see where it goes.
Yeah, cross-character stashes really need to be a thing and I’d be surprised if it isn’t introduced in one of the first updates. I want a character I play solo and a character I play with my friend, for example, so there’s definitely a desire to have more than one character and it feels archaic not being able to swap items between them easily. I have to go all 1996 and hand them off to a friend with one character so he can give them to another, which is silly.
Wait - the stash ISN’T a shared stash? Thats really silly! What am I going to do with all the amazing swords and shields I’ve been gathering then? My mage sure as heck cant enjoy them.
thats…really something! Thanks for mentioning this. Kinda silly that I get insanely great melee drops all the time on my mage. Uniques and legendaries, and none that my poor magic user can use.
Dang, cloud servers appear to be down for maintenance. Hopefully it will help with the connections at least when they are done.
Had a good time yesterday on my dual wielding melee guy. I still have no idea how to plan out a character yet, though. My wife and I didn’t have any problems playing together once we got in online mode and created a game.
One thing that is driving me bonkers is trying to trade with her. The only way I can find so far is to right click on her portrait and select trade, but doing that causes me to fire my right click attack and go running like crazy in that direction. Dropping items on the ground for each other also doesn’t appear to work.
I am not defending the lack of shared stash, it should be there, but I love the idea of not having a bunch of characters and having to unlock everything with each one. Beat the game, unlock the after game stuff and then instead of starting over just respec with what equipment I have.
For me in these games, I almost never go back to old characters anyway. Then even when I start a new character for that high level gear my other character found, by the time I can use that gear 30 hours later, that character has gone in a different direction anyway.
So for me, the shared stash isn’t a big deal for this game. Assuming that YouTuber was right on how that’s the way this game works.
Huh, didn’t realize the stash wasn’t shared. Personally I wish the respecs learned closer to PoE than Diablo, but whatever. For me, that may hinder the long term enjoyment, but we will see. And as Charlatan said, loadouts should be a thing in that scenario, unlocked through endgame, presumably.
