Grim Dawn 1.0.0.7 Hotfix 2

[gregory_portman]

The following two lines have been added to tags_items.txt in this fix, but what are these for? I would like to hear it due to translation.

It’s for removing ilusions in Loyalist edition

[Matougi]

It’s for removing ilusions in Loyalist edition

I see, thank you.

[gregory_portman]

I see, thank you.

No, i thank you for picking this up! How are you doing it? Are you able to take out the original English txt file from the game database?

[Ptirodaktill]

Added energy cost reduction to Ulzuin’s Chosen
Reduced energy cost of Grenado

Awesome :lucky: My pyromancer can finaly use some big bad grenade :happy:

[PrinceXavieR]

let me pay you for this patch crate! best devs ever!

[Matougi]

No, i thank you for picking this up! How are you doing it? Are you able to take out the original English txt file from the game database?

The files related to translation are Conversations.arc, Quests.arc and Text_EN.arc in the resources folder. So, what is necessary is to extract those arc files and just to compare using WinMerge. And you can easily extract the arc file by using ArchiveToolGUI.

[Darkstalix]

THANKS A LOT!
HAve a good time everyone at crate and all the community ty for this

[Vastator]

Wow, didn’t expect that! Awesome job with the lighting changes, the game looks even more beautiful than before! There are still some problems with situations where there are many explosions and skill effects and it seems that all their lights stacks giving a white cloud effect. But that’s a thing for the future.
Meanwhile, happy Christmas/holidays!

[lodgeij]

It has to be said a small dedicated team over a large multinational any day of the week.

The only other Software House that comes close to putting the Customer first has to be CD Projekt RED.

Thanks all at Crate, enjoy your well deserved time off, and to the rest here on the Forums Happy Holidays.

Regards

[the8anarchist]

jesus guys a christmas eve hotfix? man no rest for the weary. seriously go take a break now, you guys probably need it,

[Glimpse]

Crate, i am not easily impressed (part of my job anyway) buut your damn dedication and passion requires salute, admiration and a bow.

Bought 2x Loyalti DLC but i think i will buy a whole new Loyaltist edition as a very humbled “Thank you”

In the end i dont care how f…ed up patches you put out, i know in time you will fix it all - i just want you to keep doing what you are doing, keep your chins up, keep fighting against all odds - there are people, a lot of them who pray for you guys and what you do.

Merry Christmas

[Belzak]

The best part is that noone of the whiners even dropped by to say a “thank you”, despite Crate trying their best to make the game better, while these angry kiddies where threating to quit the game or even stick with the previous version…

This community can be so ingrate at times, that I fear that Crate might end up being like Blizzard currently is: Totally uncommunicative and out of touch with their playerbase… I hope I’m very wrong about this.

[ShadowDweller]

Merry Christmas, medierra and everyone @ Crate. You guys DELIVER. Don’t ever stop being as awesome as you are, PLEASE. =)
Best wishes!

Sincerely,
~ ShadowDweller

[powbam]

By the way, what’s the story behind that sudden change of lighting and camera?
Did the engine get an update or something?

I just had to make a similar reply on Steam so I’m going to do ya a quick copy paste here…

Actually, they determined that something actually was broken and they admit to getting a little heavy-handed in the aftermath of tweaking it. No biggie.

Dear Crate, the game is painful to look at since you changed the brightness.

Sounds like other people’s monitors are maybe brighter / lower contrast than mine as it doesn’t look bad to me… however, I agree it came out a bit brighter than was probably intended.

Looking at the before and after screenshots, they both look kind of bad to me in different ways… so I’m thinking maybe we need to adjust things more toward the middle.

[u][b]What happened is we fixed an error in the specular shader for terrain, which then required a bunch of adjustment. Some terrain textures were also replaced with higher resolution versions, which may tend to look less… bumpy? when the camera is pulled out… but also less low-rez and crappy.

Then on top that, I made some significant adjustments to the post-effects for two reasons - 1) I cringe everytime I see the game being streamed and it’s so dark in places you can barely tell what’s going on. It looks flat, sort of drab and a lot of people have said the same. 2) I was running through Homestead recently and it was so yellow and drab, I just got sick of looking at it and basically flipped out on the post effects / lighting.[/b][/u]

I then also asked for the sun angle to be changed around because it was coming from in front of the camera, which resulted in the player and scenery objects always being in shadow from the default view. It also makes enemies blend into the background more… I feel like things pop a bit better from the scenery when the light is behind the camera. This change made everything brighter. The sun angle was also raised a bit, which may have caused for less normal-map relief at noon in-game.

If you look at the before and after shots above, the before looks really flat and overly dark to me but yeah, there is greater terrain detail closer to the camera. The after shot is washed out and overly bright, I agree but it has more depth and looks more dynamic.

Changes have been made to reign things back in a bit. I’m sure there will never be universal agreement on what looks best but I think with some iteration we can arrive at something that will be better than the “before and after” above, for most people. Changes will take effect when the hotfix rolls out in 1-3 days.

medierra was feeling chatty that day and he posts a whole lot on the subject in that thread… so, for those interested: fun with medierra begins here.

Knock yourselves out.

On that note… The lighting is looking damn spooky at night now

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[jeffny01]

Thanks medierra. Happy Holidays to you, your family, everyone at Crate, and all here in the forums.

Enjoy Folks!

[eLPuSHeR]

Happy holidays for everyone.

I am lost for words now. I 100% agree with everything said so far.

You guys are awesome.

Wish all game companies would be like Crate.

[unkind]

ooo fuck blade arc buff, thank you!!

[NinjaDog]

I just wanted to drop by and thank Crate for it’s continued excellent support of it’s wonderful game.

This was the first early access game I bought on Steam, and never once did it disappoint, and it led me to try a number of other early access games as well.

I’ve been in since Homestead was the furthest reachable location, I’ve also got The Crucible, and will purchase the expansion as soon as it is available.

I love this APRG, superb work! Thank you, everyone who works at Crate, and Merry Christmas.

[ABCbarbecue]

Merry X’mas to all hard-working Crate staff!

[system]

and if your like me you can make it through the difficulties this time of year. i hope the lightning graphics are restored for my warder.