Grim Misadventure

[@hawkkiy]

Really sounds amazing. Cannot wait. Honestly the new expansion and your GD community seasons are the only two video game related releases that are always getting me hyped up for. Looking forward to it. Thanks for the video.

[@DarkCrusade3]

Literally the best GD reaction video I have seen yet. Informative, to the point, and relevant w/out any rambling like every. other. video. so far. While English is obviously not your 1st language, you are far more articulate and coherent than your peers. By a wide margin. Thank you

[@HW-ow9zp]

appreciate the coverage RBP! some really cool features here for long term replayability. nice of them to acknowledge some of the efforts you've kept up on the league. i'll return to my regular duty of suggesting GD to any of my friends that are looking for a new game haha

[@micheljolicoeur6094]

Cannot wait the expansion and for more information.

[@phantomfrogstudios]

The Ascension Altar looks interesting.

[@chrisknapp6091]

Looks freaking amazing. It will be worth the wait and more.

[@moes9079]

It's good to know that Crate is taking their time working on this masterpiece of an expansion

[@wind1309]

must be a cool feeling to get your mod mechanics basically imported into the main game

[@chaoton]

I can't help but think that they will surely put a step to unlock the secret quest into the altar mechanic using some special combination.

[@hypno9628]

With this update, I feel like there is an even bigger need for infinite stash because more items and one more class and like lots more build diversity and shit... I know infinite stash wont come to Grim dawn (apart from the add-on we have), but I hope they will consider it for Grim Dawn 2 because you honestly want to save so many items in Grim Dawn that it becomes hard to play without it. I use mules and it is a fucking hassle, and i'm just not comfortable with installing like add-ons and disconnecting steam cloud and such, and the one time I tried getting it I didnt install it right. It might just be a "me"-problem but I honestly think it would be the biggest quality of life update if they gave us an easier way to store items in grim dawn. At least making mules easier to make, bigger stash tabs or something, I dunno. With that said I think the update is really amazing and they are amazing developers, and i'm very much looking forward to it all and some grimtooling with the new class of course :)

[@rektbyprotoss]

You'll indeed want to keep a LOT of items in FoA. Stash space would need to be like 10x at least.

[@arkajitchakrabarti4092]

Hello Rekt, completely off-topic but I was wondering if you have considered doing some 'build review' videos for youtube? Players submit builds for review in the forums or reddit or youtube so you can point out how to optimize the builds in a youtube vid. Would be very educative for new players as well. Keep being the best GD streamer as always and thanks for all the great content.

[@falricthesleeping9717]

Poggies, lots of poggies, and grats everyone working on the league, they basically copied (not devaluing their work, they did implement the thing and polished it up) your design choices on the leagues, really happy for you all and hyped for the ascension even if it means it's gonna end my characters left and right

[@Juicedota2]

I would like to see a more in-depth crafting system that revolves around RNG, similar to POE. But, not as extreme to get viable end game gear.

[@rektbyprotoss]

The "affix reroll system" might be more than just rerolling, we'll see.

[@ezpz2680]

Very poggies my doggies

[@ShaikuraJarfaru]

This sounds amazing.

[@zhadumshasheer]

Could you consider to add to your "GD basics" a video on key binding and other small items (maybe updates from your first videos)?

[@yokitosama]

I'm excited about this no matter what. I think they can compete with Mi+ items. but I'm not sure. I'm confused.

[@sobanya_228]

Atlas passive tree in GD?

[@TheMinh92]

I hope for the Acid AAR. ^^

[@lukaskidanje]

so any new class

[@rektbyprotoss]

New class, the Berserker, is already confirmed.

[@lukaskidanje]

@@rektbyprotoss thank you rektby any soulution for my grim dawn still dont work on steam. Thank you

[@averysayles3269]

hey man ive been loving the grim dawn content since im new to the game but one thing ive noticed is, that your thumbnails are a bit confusing or dont really catch the eye to get you to want to click the videos. a change might generate more traffic to your content!

[@rektbyprotoss]

Could you give me examples of thumbnails that you think are better at catching your eye? I'm not really an artist myself (as you probably can tell) :D

[@averysayles3269]

@@rektbyprotoss well I am no algorithm expert by any means nor really have I uploaded a yt video but when I look at your thumbnails I get alot of inspiration from zizaran in the Poe community and there is nothing wrong with that but I think the difference is that in your thumbnails and his are that yours have a lot of small words and hard to read things for mobile. And mobile is a lot of the community that watches yt so I would recommend having the thumbnail be something to catch the eye of the viewer no small words just big eye catching words any words you use should be bold and in an eye catching color like yellow or red, like a phrase or something like “BEST BUILDS!” Not exactly like that lol but some click bait stud you know to catch the eye. and the game you’re showcasing grim dawn, last epoch what ever. make the title pop like the grim dawn art title art with an explosion behind it or something like that it might sound stupid but it’s all in effort to catch the persons attention and add in like special art pertaining to the game like a geared character or like even just cool fan art you find that’s free use involving the game or aesthetic of the game. The name of the game of the thumbnail I feel is to catch the users attention be quick and too the point and your title will do the rest of the talking ;) you want to catch the eye of the person who scrolls thru the platform. And and variety to the face capture you use the pig face is cool but mix it up look confused a little ya know a little intrigued just different facial expressions it’s all about drawing attention! I would say look towards zizaran if you haven’t already another creator I would say to gain inspiration from would be tripolarbear or even someone like seer and his best Arpg ever series could be one to take inspiration from

[@averysayles3269]

@@rektbyprotoss idk your capabilities with creating a thumbnail hell I’ve never even made one myself so it’s probably much harder than I perceive but I’ve watched a bunch of you videos on grim dawn and your commentary and recording of gameplay is really good! The only things I think differentiating you from the others is maybe just grim dawn being not as popular as other games and the thumbnails being a little too much. It’s like you see a bunch of little words and you’re like “ yeah I’m not reading all of that” is the best way I could describe it where as if you just put a buzz phrase or something like the “BEST BUILDS” or “PATCH NOTES 3.21” what ever just to get them to look at your thumbnail and direct them to reading your title which should then sell them on clicking on your video!

[@rektbyprotoss]

@@averysayles3269 You are probably right. Thx for the feedback, I'll try to keep them more simplistic in the future!

[@magnussthered]

im ascending right now if you know what I mean

[@0guzlaru784]

I waiting for FoA Long Time man 😢

[@rektbyprotoss]

We all are... it will be worth the wait

[@Bloodybubble86]

Hi, are you more excited for Path of exile 2 or Titan quest 2?

[@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy]

poe2 is a console design. gonna suck for PC users

[@Toxic-KRAKEN]

Hi Rektos, is everything okay?

[@rektbyprotoss]

I'm taking some time off until September, I'm in Sweden atm.

[@Priimerra]

shame that they wont include seasons with maybe auction house or something, with new expansion. That would definitely put Grim Dawn back.on the map with current aRPGs

[@ukaszgorny8695]

Grim Dawn is premium single player experience and not a game-as-a-service. I'm grateful that they did not even try to turn it to one. If you'd like to have AH, you can play Grim Dawn League :).

[@Toxic-KRAKEN]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@ericlindblom5866]

Come back!

[@rektbyprotoss]

I'll be back live today actually :)

[@LiezAllLiez]

Ascendant mode making Ultimate equal to SR 60 difficulty? Thats "jogging pace" for me (given my awkward leveling scheme - do the leveling in normal > skip elite [massive time waster] and jump to ultimate > put on pre-farmed gear > continue the campaign to unlock missing skill and attribute points > jump to SR). I kind of hoped this mode would be some type of new SR... tsk, oh well. That ascension altar thingy looks interesting. We will see how this pans out. Might be interesting, or it might turn out a time waster. Who knows?

[@rektbyprotoss]

I assume you'll be able to run SR on top of ascendant mode, which could be really spicy.

[@LiezAllLiez]

@@rektbyprotoss Jesus... my 75-80 SR fun runs with the ascendant mode on.... **shivers in fear**

[@TheWayManREAL]

As a long time player, I wish the DLC came out, and these were planned updates in succession. Not everything all at once, wait another year. Honestly, a lot of the stuff they are reworking are basically PoE league things (not a str8 up copy but very similar). So why not add them like leagues? I don't want leagues per say as I don't have time IRL, but big updates every so often and deliver the DLC.

[@rektbyprotoss]

I very much understand where you're coming from. PoE does however have a different monetisation model. They make money of stash tabs and mtx that they sell every league while the base game is free. GD is making the majority of their money selling their base game + expansions, which means that those have to be fully worth it at the time of release. Also Crate generally is not as good at PR and/or can't afford to make PR to the extent that GGG does. So while I understand your desire and as a player I fully agree, I would have to disagree from a game dev's and modder's perspective. As a modder having less frequent releases that introduce game braking changes means having to do less frequent adjustments (and thus less time wasting) to make sure mods are still working on the current version of the game. So as a modder I prefer that over a new features that breaks your mod every 3 months.

[@TheWayManREAL]

@@rektbyprotoss I actually haven't played poe in a while and forgot that is the main way they make money... I agree with you on that, not sure what to do... I love GD but it just doesn't "update" enough for me personally.. Also crate is not a huge company, I don't know budget, projected sales etc. Good points haha, also thanks for the reply.

[@jprec5174]

🥹

[@sneakyjc8055]

He got accent, sometimes I don't understand or he is eating what he said.

[@bowlock9901]

Ascedent mode should have 80% reduced drop rate too, maybe even more... Make it brutal...

[@rektbyprotoss]

While I think crate should generally reduce drop rates by like 50%, there won't be enough appeal for a broad audience if they don't offer proper risk/reward balance for ascendant mode and thus it has to offer the best loot per minute out of all difficulties.

[@ShaikuraJarfaru]

They want everyone to enjoy the game. You want brutal play something else.