I also support your idea, apart from avoiding repetitive situations, you could also manipulate quest items to spawn in different locations, so as to have another reason to explore the map(like to wealthy collector before Chang’an but on a larger scale).
keep the up good work!!
great stuff! really like it. didn’t expect comes to this stage already. hopes it will make it in the release. of course if it will make it, then it will affect largely on gameplay, questing and looting and replayability.
keep the up good work??
From the screen shots the world looks detailed and interesting so I didnt think it could be improved futher by pushing more mesh/texture/shaders/effects than what has already been added. This randomization was a good choice. I look forward to playing/replaying my favorite builds.
I like the idea of “creating a bunch of different possible routes and then randomly closing some of them off with dynamically generated obstacles”! U never know what going to happen in the next corner~ 
This is has to be one of the most interesting and exciting updates for me in a long time. I am really glad to see how much detail is being put into Grim Dawn. I’ve been sold on the game for many, many months now, but this is the kind of the stuff that is going to make it easier to sell it to my friends. Thanks medierra and Crate!
I love the idea of randomization, and making the game a bit different every time. I used to love Diablo 2, since there was always so much area and it was never the same. But I notice there that it’s more of a timesink now (as compared to when I was young and timesinks were fine). Generating big, bland lands that take you hours just to get to the next quest are lame. I appreciate the straightforward nature of TQ, and it works better in friendly multiplayer since people know where to go forwards. We can all keep as a partying group, banding together and not fighting over which way to desperately search for the next quest. TQ was greatly sized, but the static nature made Greece and Egypt get somewhat boring (admittedly after probably 80 play-throughs of those lands). This system sounds about perfect.
The very idea that your going to hold to a basic layout of routes but generate the scenery around these routes and modify the paths create a replayability that will only breath life into the game for years to come.
This was my one and only thing holding back the game, if anything was at all. Creating even a slightly different zone/map during a play though helps more than you can imagine.
I support this idea with all the fibers of my gamer soul.
i have to say!!! dont rusk out the game and just make it great allaround.
super news to see what you all are up to.
i gladly wait one more year!!!
been here allready one year and you just keep make me smile and make me thinking what a game GD will become!!!
+10 to Crate
Great ideas and I hope that the randomization makes repeated new character play throughs a lot more interesting and fun. This game just keeps getting better all the time.
I have a question about the partial randomization, medierra says,
They currently randomize each time you enter the game.
Is this for everytime you enter the game or every new game? It will be cool if some things randomize each time you enter the game such as NPCs and camp objects and the natural scenery changes only for every new game. Sorry if ive misunderstood this.
Zab.
I can’t image that all randomised data for plants, rocks and camps will be saved, so that you can re-visit the same randomised scenery, if you return with your character to a place. That would blow up your save game data … at least I think so.
Besides, regarding camps - if you leave the game and continue later, that’s how enemies respawn. That’s when we want them to appear at a different location.
I understand about camps and enemies spawning in different spots thats how i would like it to, but say i save my game standing beside a tree and a rock that i use as a land mark it would be kind of silly if come back to my game and that tree and rock has moved to a different spot. But however its implemented im sure the game is going to be awsome. 
It would make sense that like TQ when you restart a save you are at a spawn point and all randomized aspects of your game are different and the fog of war is reinstated. This is only my guess though.
Yes that would make sense, forgot about spawn points :o, its been awhile since ive played TQIT ever since the map i was working on for over a year Lands of Grimgoria got wiped out 
I just couldnt bring myself to start over or play for that matter and since i found out about Grim Dawn i thought id wait and hopefully get my hands on the editor for Grim Dawn and start fresh.
Please make it as randomize as possible.
The only thing I hate for TQ is the constant map, it really reduced the re-playable of TQ a LOT.
Hmm, I never had a problem with TQ having constant maps, didn’t stop me from replaying the game to death (I still do). Compared to Diablo 2, TQ maps had much more detail and care put into them. Besides, after hundreds/thousands of hours, you recognize the patterns and map pieces in Diablo 2, decreasing the “exploration” aspect.
But a well done map randomization, even only partial, would definitely help the replayability aspect of the game and would be a great plus, I’m not denying that. I just think that it isn’t that important for replayability as for example loot/monster randomization/variation and multiple ways to build your character.
Randomly “generate natural scenery, enemy spawn locations, human camps, and loot chests” + “quest-givers” -> if all these come true I’ll be like \o/\o/ \o/\o/ \o/.
If you make also random dungeons then it’ll be complete.
The one thing that killed my joy in any hack n’ slash is static maps. Any D2 clone I could only get as far as the beginning of the second difficulty and it began to feel real stale. As beautiful as the TQ scenery was, I just couldn’t do it. I’m excited to see some randomization in the maps. Please do more than just the scenery. The paths idea sounds like an excellent one to me.
Thank you so much, this is a great blend. Do you know if the objective locations have been randomized also?
Say you have to go to a cave to kill X … can that cave be in random locations and when you get in the cave is X in a random location?
He mentions NPC’s and camps, but I didn’t know if this applied to those with quest attached.
Wow, you guys really are taking this to a whole new level!
I think ideas like this as well as pathing blockers are truly the kind of innovations that show that you love to do what you are doing, finding new ways to do it for the fun of the game.
keep this up and ya’ll may see an amazing release of a new genre/style/income like never before!