What is this ?
Everyone that played a retaliation build knows how frustrating and stupid it is to have retaliation only work on meele hits.
Most ranged monsters dont do any damage to you anyway, you only miss out on EXP if you cant kill them specially before hitting higher levels.
This modification changes the way retaliation works to be more like reflect. Retaliation now works with all hits except bombs or ground effects/certain hero spells.
If you are concerned about balance, dont. There is no diffrence except you get rid of those annoying archers and sometimes healers.
The clearspeed of retaliation builds is already bad enough in addition.
Since you dont actually get access to damage calculation with the offical mod tools to modify/change them. There is no other way as to modify these function directly with memory editing or function hooks. Thats the reason why this mod needs to be installed this way.
Installation (Steam)
Go into your Grim Dawn folder (ex:“steamapps\common\Grim Dawn”)
Create a backup of your “Game.dll” incase you want to uninstall at any given point.
Extract it into your Grim Dawn folder and overrite the “Game.dll” (Dont forget to rename the downloaded dll from “Game-MRGA-Version.dll” to “Game.dll”)
This is for GOG version : 1.0.0.8 - 17.02.2017 [COLOR=“green”]UP TO DATE [/COLOR]Use the Installer if OUTDATED.
Installation (GOG)
Go into your Grim Dawn folder (ex:“Grim Dawn”)
Create a backup of your “Game.dll” incase you want to uninstall at any given point.
Extract it into your Grim Dawn folder and overrite the “Game.dll” (Dont forget to rename the downloaded dll from “Game-MRGA-GOG-Version.dll” to “Game.dll”)
This is for GOG version : 1.0.0.6 H1 - 20.10.2016 [COLOR=“red”]OUTDATED
I actually dont own the GOG version so if there is a new update i am relying on people uploading the new Game.dll for me.
[Thanks towards @HPbotOrNothing for supplying it this time.][/COLOR] Use the Installer if OUTDATED. THIS MOD IS DISCONTINUED AND WILL NOT COME BACK
Select the features you are intrested in. (Select “Retaliation Fix” and nothing else to only install MRGA.)
Press Install This type of installation has the advantage of being able to work even directly after a new game update.
If there is a new patch and the manual replacements of the Game.dll do not work anymore, try this.
Compatible with 1.0.0.8 THIS MOD IS DISCONTINUED AND WILL NOT COME BACK
Compatibility
Due to the nature of this modification it is compatible with EVERY mod created for Grim Dawn.
Also compatible with The Cruicible!
Fully usable in multiplayer. People you play with do not need the mod.
You can just continue playing vanilla with people online even with this mod installed. THIS MOD IS DISCONTINUED AND WILL NOT COME BACK
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Indeed it sucks to do it this way, i might have a few idears on how to improve the loading of dlls and mods in the future. We will see if am going to invest some more time and work into those.
RemoteDLL32.exe is the injector used for injecting the DLL. Please elaborate the exact process how you use the tool in case you want me to fix it
Its also not programmed by myself, i might do a custome one in the future. Here is the original link.
Replacement of Game.dll in your game directory to make changes permanent without any third party application.
(Make a backup of your old Game.dll first.)
I’ve been playing with it for a bit, and it definitely feels a lot better.
I haven’t been playing my retaliation character as much as I would like because it was really limited in the things it could reasonably farm, making it fairly boring. And just running past everything that doesn’t immediately melees you isn’t much fun either.
However I can also definitely see why the devs decided to split retaliation and reflect, they just seemed to have forgotten to balance reflect, as it feels like values could be doubled on everything that gives it and it would still be very under powered.
All in all, I like it and will keep running it for now, but it could do with some balancing.
Game.dll seems to have been changed with the hotfix, replacing the DLL again still seems to work.
Can I expect to run into some trouble at some point, or should it just work?
I havent checked what files got modified by the hotfix that youre talking about. Ill update it again tomorrow just in case. If your game starts fine and it doesnt crash in the meantime of playing there should be any possible side effects except the hotfix might not be applied. As i said ill update tomorrow to cover that. Havent seen the hotfix sorry about that.
Do you know about the damage reflection? It works great with ranged enemies and mages. I have about 50,000 retalation damage and 350% reflection, it is enough to easily clean up any locations.
Nooooooooooo! why our saviour Harambe forsaken us!. now lord gaben temptation unbearable. alright sir thank you for quick response very nice of you. maybe someday retaliation will great again in gog version.
