Wildmimic

Ah shit, here we go again...

Back into the Grim Dawn we go!

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

Probably going either Berserker/Nightblade for those piercing/bleeding/cold synergies or Berserker/Necromancer for the 2h/cold/piercing style. I'm not completely sure for now haha

Not gonna go for a chaos build for a first char tho - i am such a masochist that i deleted every single thing in my stash when FoA came out lol

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

Cloud saving was always wonky in Grim Dawn, including inducing performance problems; i would advice you to disable it if you don't need it,

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

Nowadays there's Diablo 2 Resurrected which runs fine under Linux using Proton.

Also, there is a long running community mod (since 2016) for Grim Dawn called Reign of Terror which tries to replicate the D2 feeling in Grim Dawn - just be aware that although it already has been updated to work with the new expansion, there might currently be some unexpected issues around.

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

You might use something like Syncthing to synchronize the prefix data, making cloud saves unneccessary without much effort.

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

I realized that quickly. I only play hardcore in ARPGs, and the character show in in the screenshot is already populating my graveyard, something that hasn't happened to me that quick in a long time (most of my chars die somewhere in the transition from veteran to ultimate)

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

Good for you - for me cloud saving introduced stutters, which were caused by the way they handled updating the cloud saves; always felt like it feels if your HDD i/o is too slow to cope with something and the whole thing starts grinding down, while being installed on a NVME drive. Disabling the cloud saves made those issues disappear.

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

Yeah, Berseker/Nightblade gives a huge amount of mobility, even if not leaping into the fray; just combining Pneumatic Burst and Rallying Cry makes you zip across the screen :-)

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

I've got thousands of hours in this one! It's my all time favorite ARPG. The only thing that even gets close to this is Last Epoch, but that's a completely different feeling to play.

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

Occultist has always been my favorite secondary class - there's something for everyone in there ;-)

Wildmimic OP , 3 days ago

LoL it wont stop a those 5 builds, i can tell you as much haha

Wildmimic OP , 2 days ago

Haven't played it in coop, but it is an ARPG, meaning text/interactions are neither common nor needed (although i always enjoyed the codex entries one can collect)

Wildmimic OP , 1 day ago

Its mainly noticeable as a unstable framerate independent from any real system load. The Latency of your internet connection is the actually deciding factor while the game is waiting for the cloud save to update.

The issues you describe sounds very much like the consequences of packet loss somewhere between the host and the clients. Anyone using mobile internet or WiFi instead of all cables? Thats the main culprit for these problems - their net code never was super stable and badly coped with spotty connections.

Wildmimic OP , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, let him plug in a cable and see if it changes anything 😁

Wildmimic OP , 1 day ago

It's the name for the currently occurring Apocalypse in game.

Wildmimic OP , 1 day ago

I currently use wifi6 because i am too lazy to deal with the cable right now, but i also don't play online. Would definitely go back to the good old cable when changing that

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Wildmimic , 14 days ago

This looks awesome, although i might be occupied converting my existing storage into something that can work with this. installing 20k repacks to pack them into archives again might take a while ... fuck.

My watercooler for my CPU comes in about 2 weeks - after moving my PC into it's nice new case i'm gonna start migrating lol

Wildmimic , 14 days ago

I'm not sure either. I saw someone including their Gog installers on github, which would mean i don't have to do all of this. Let's see, i'm gonna get myself the docker container in the next days and will add a comment regarding progress.

Wildmimic , 14 days ago

For sure. This could be the first project that can take the place of Playnite and even surpass it for me, so i am pretty hyped about it.

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Wildmimic , 18 days ago

6554€, starting with HL2.

Wildmimic , 18 days ago

My Linux Steam client uses 391MB RAM - the last reboot has been 2 weeks ago.

Wildmimic , 17 days ago

At least Counterstrike was also available - i know because i installed steam after buying HL2 for a LAN party i was going to, and we also played CS at that point. 2004 sounds about right - must have been about 23 at that point.

Wildmimic , 17 days ago

Steamemu can be nice, but to be honest, i really like a lot of the Steam clients features. I like opening the Wiki for games in the steam overlay and seeing all game updates in a nice overview with patch notes, and i like the steam forums (toxicity aside - if the devs use them, they are a good information channel for planned stuff and submitting bug reports)

Wildmimic , 17 days ago

I also don't care much about achievements, and i simply sync my Faugus / Heroic game Prefixes with Syncthing, so Cloudsaves are a non issue if they weren't provided by Steam. Steam Workshop works well, but i have to agree that i would prefer if the downloading of mods wasn't coupled with the need to have a license for the game on steam; some games like Rimworld, KSP and Factorio have their own clients (which is ok)

But i have to admit i don't really know if the need to have a steam game license to download mods is something steam is enforcing or an option under control of the publisher. Since the decision if Steams DRM is used is up to the publisher, it would be quite strange to force this restriction on them.