It is no secret that some members of our fine corner of the internet go above and beyond, writing guides, recording videos, answering questions, and creating free content for you to enjoy.
Going forward, all of our games will feature a Community Highlights page where the best community resources will be given the attention they deserve. It is the least we could do for the pillars of our gaming community. Check them out!
I wish to be included in the Community Highlights!
If you feel you deserve a place in the highlights, you can reach out to us by following these guidelines. This is important. If you mess up, your email will likely get filtered out and never get our eyes on it. Reading comprehension is the first test. Follow the instructions!
If you are a content creator, you need a Youtube or Twitch account in good standing. While we prioritize quality content and do not require you to have a huge community of your own, we do ask that accounts with less than 500 subscribers do not apply. Building a community around your channel is hard work, but if you are serious about it, you need to make that initial commitment.
If you are a build creator, you need to provide links to at least 3 of your build guides. A good build guide includes clear instructions on how to assemble the character and an explanation of your gear and skill selection. A GrimTools link is required. If it is an endgame build, you should include your Celestial Boss, Crucible, and/or Shattered Realm performance.
If you are a modder or utility programmer, a link to your mod/utility with a brief description of what stage of development it is in and why you think it’s an important addition to the community. Your mod must be finished or in the late stages of active development. Note: we will not share links to trainers or hacks.
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If you have followed these guidelines, you can reach out to us at [email protected] with the subject line: Community Highlights Submission. Good luck!
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This is one of those things that just confirms over and over what an amazing company Crate is. Reaching out to those equally amazing creators and inviting them into your house is just a friggin’ stellar move.
This is, in my opinion, a very good try and step, to move forward. And I see you understand, what I have meant long time ago, when I see your relationship together with RektbyProtoss. I wish you luck with this step and hope for you that your Crate (Grim Dawn) community will rise alot with very friendly and good people all around the world
Very good and probably briskly step I see you do concentrate on big creator communities… its good Sometimes the small pearls can shine as well
What we need is a real manual. There’s too many information around there but too many someone’s personal view. I get lost among the guides, tips and tricks. That’s, thus, a great decision to highlight the usefull content made by players. If there’s no a real manual yet maybe I make myself in 3 languages and post here. Highlight if you think is good enough to. There’s someone else like me out there trying to get the best out of the game withot getting lost among the plenty of information.
Anyway, thanks for being the way you are. But please do not make new lightning content. I’ve dropped Titans Quest and I didn’t buy Forgotten Gods because of that. I like to play in the shadows.
Be the broker or the breaker / be the giver or the undertaker.
By manual I mean a manual. Lol. The game guide is more a map. When we’ve got I map we know where places are and their name – Apps telling us the way to reach to some of the places tell us that the map does not give us enough information – and we can see how many people have created content about “how to” which is the reason below the manual existence. The tutorial is not enough informative either.
Telling us something like “don’t forget to spend points on the mastery bar…” is quite useless if someone’s never played any kind of role-play game it would take just one or more level to check that he’s getting only the first “power” of a character,
You must have seen and even know better than me, but take a look at Divinity Original Sin Manual and how the official Grim Dawn game guide hide its features more than hide the hidden path – lol --.
I end up buying both Forgotten Gods and Crucible but I’m still asking myself, despite of reading tips and tricks, the reason behind its development.
As I write I take another look at the game guide and it’s not as “void” as I recall but there’s a lot of loopholes within.
Anyway, a manual is/should be a more detailed and the main place for everyone. Something like the source from where we get the base on building our personal ideas, opinions and information. Since it’s not real world it has its limitations and even features/issues the developers couldn’t get it as I’ve seen about exploit in some game.
I hope I could make myself clear with this text wall. Sorry about that.
I cant. Im on my, maybe, 10th character almost 240+ hours, despite steam displaying otherwise because I`ve always got sync error. LOL. And I didnt even meet Warder(n).
I mean I`ve passed too many years without playing anything and once I noticed playing would help my health issues I picked some games to take it seriously so I guess maybe theres nothing wrong about it I might be overwhelmed with games features since ages I dont play any kind of RPG seriously.
But one thing is for certain when and why use this or that item? One of the very first comment I read about someones build wad “first remove all those blank items from there” lol.
I still dont get some things because this is for sure: we need a centralized info. I get lost among the whole bunch of build and none of them fit I want to. It doesnt matter if its going to be harder or not I just wanna play my role on the role-play game. lol.
We need general info the list of builds is so much personal and despite there are players better than others no one is the creator so I thank the builds and other info you all provide but lets play for fun. I`ve posted one or two builds of mine to check what you guys think of Im going to do again is my definitive edition too many hours and stuck in the first chapter. lol
It take some time to check the info I wish they have provided us but I make questions in small amount from time to time which might be the info I couldnt get anywhere else Ive searched before.
i feel like/reads to me what’s the difference between a game manual and a game guide.
Unsure if because i’m “old”, but a game manual to me is stuff with like basic info “came included with the game when you bought it”.
Then a game guide was the 800page book with detailed tips and tricks and in depth game info/mechanics sold separate (often not even made directly by the actual devs themselves).
In this case the dev’s manual fits that, and what you’re after is a game guide; which you then have to use the stuff posted by community members/“compiled and published by 3rd party”
Gnomish is right. The fun in games like Grim Dawn is the control that they give you over how you build your characters. The devs’ only obligation should be to make sure you understand the mechanics, and really, they’re pretty simple. If by “guide” you’re asking for them to do the community’s work for it and give you the “best builds” or something wayside like that, then that’s neither necessary nor reasonable.
That’s exactly what I’ve said about build “guides” and posts: it’s not general info but my taste, your taste. What I’ve asked for is a general and centralized information about the game like even Emperor the Middle Kingdom has. Why I got the info I’m going to lose X attack per second when I holding a gun and I got the opposite info as soon as I drop the gun I was holding? I couldn’t get it and there’s no explanation about it. what am I missing? It’s just an example.
Far from asking for ready-to-go build even because it would be boring and useless since no one can tell style we like.
I don’t mind if my way is going to give myself a hard time since I can play the role I like. But I really like to know better from detailed information. That’s it.
again, that would be the type of stuff that’s in a game guide, not a manual, so you can’t really demand devs do that because it’s never been the norm
also, even that completely ignored, that specific example is pretty basic “already visible to you ingame”, you’re perhaps just missing it or it’s not presented in the exact format you want
your stuff ingame is already telling that your gun has a lower attak per second base scaling than a different weapon or “empty hand”
that means when you have 10% attack speed bonus (which is static/fixed amount) that will the scale differently because the base speed is different between the two items used.
again, you might not think the format is presented proper to you “but it’s there”.
And what you really want is a game guide: compiled by the community (not talking build guide), and a game manual is what the devs have provided just as usual, providing just basic game info to get you started.
When I tried to e-mail PR@crateentertainment to submit my youtube channel for consideration, I received an automated reply saying:
“Your message wasn’t delivered because the recipient’s mailbox is undergoing maintenance and can’t accept messages now. Please try resending the message later.”
I will of course try again later, but just wanted to make sure it was something you (Crate) know about.
I figured it out. When you copy+paste an e-mail address to make sure that you don’t spell it wrong, it turns out that you have to copy the entire thing. That .com at the end is important.
I also wanted to say thank you for this initiative as well, what you guys are doing is a great way to give back to the community.
