Dev Stream

Grim Dawn Development Updates
1022

One shotting players with the HOMING nullification projectile needs to be looked at, asap.

Here’s the thing: if you keep the AOM Nemeses above the power of vanilla Nemeses, what motivation you have to farm them if the old Nemeses are easier and have the same exact rewards? None, you don’t want to farm them because why would you when the older Nemeses are easier and have the same exact rewards. And even then, tanky melee builds can kill Grava easily because all his dangerous shit is done when you are far away from him.

And can you imagine these guys in Crucible? Reducing your total health, homing projectile that nullifies you, aether meteor that is thrown by a guy that tries to guess where you are going, another one that splits into smaller forms.

1023

Yes, the game’s Nemesis monsters should be at a consistent difficulty. This game doesn’t need a Super-Nemesis tier. Right now, what we’ve got compared to the old Nemesis fights:

Kubacabra: Hilariously overpowered
Grava’thul: Hilariously overpowered
Reaper of the Lost: Overpowered
Archmage Aleksander: Literally nothing but a stupid meteor gimmick. Otherwise, hilariously underpowered

1024

We’re going to skip stream today since things are pretty chill right now and everybody’s busy still digging into the expansion.

I’m wondering though if people would enjoy a more technical stream in the future.

See some spreadsheets, ask technical questions, see a little bit of the (probably boring to watch) work that’s going into stuff coming in the future. An hour in the life of a designer, if you will.

Thoughts?

1025

I’d be fine with at least one technical stream, would be interesting to see :smiley:

1026

it would be interesting and enlightening indeed :slight_smile: so why not !

1027

I’ve already spent nights watching a guy code his game on Visual Studio so I’m fine with that.

1028

Death Knight set design stream confirmed. :open_mouth:

1029

Yes plz :aws:

1030

I really want to try serious GD modding one day, so the stream of such caliber would be interesting to see.

1031

What you get up to when not streaming - yeah. What you’re working on for the future - yeah. Not sure I’d understand the technical side, but since I know nothing about designing games it would still be interesting to see how it’s done. :slight_smile:

1032

yes please, I am up for a designer stream

1033

I have no experience in game design, but I can appreciate a good spreadsheet (accountant). I would love to see how game design is executed as I know very little about it. +1 for the technical stream

1034

Maybe tell us to what lengths you sometimes need to go to implement features and why some popular requests are out of scope.

1035

Would be interesting for me as well, as I’m a software engineer(backend stuff), but was always interested in how being a game dev is.

1036

I do like a designer stream… hmm please show us how you will design the next expac :smiley:

1037

I’m backing this idea, designer or even coding streams would be cool.

1038

yes, would possibly be very interesting

1039

So, questions are - in order of importance. :wink:

  1. Will there be a dev stream today?

  2. What form will it take? Grava dying some more in the expansion, another arena high speed laughathon with all the bosses together or Zantai’s suggestion of a day in the life of a dev?

1040

Yeah, i would like to know too so i can be the bot that i am and let people know if need be. :wink:

1041

Not today. The stuff I’m working on right now isn’t for thine eyes yet, and I’ll need to prep something to have ready for a stream.