Potion Craft 2.0: Grandmaster Guide & Playthrough - 1

[@Teckman8]

Huzaah! He lives once more!

[@KillrobPlays]

I think I was alive the whole time xD But yes, back for some Potion Craft and soon more Automation too.

[@shadowhenge7118]

Little disappointed he didn't get to call Post-apocalypse Stamets "Shroomy" today. I miss that.

[@TheSimstress]

So crazy, I just started playing again with the new update and was watching your series from a year ago wishing you had covered the recent changes and BAM! a new video. Yay, so excited to watch.

[@KillrobPlays]

Sounds like excellent timing then! :) Enjoy!

[@sedatalizevit51]

Honey, wake up!! Killrob remembers the channel password 🤣

[@KillrobPlays]

Haha, my password manager remembered it! Welcome back!

[@ZenthaneX]

Great to see you back and with one of my favorite game series vids! I look forward to this

[@KillrobPlays]

Great to have you back! Hope you enjoy this series :)

[@TeddiesLimes]

I just got the game because it went on sale, and I was having trouble starting. Your first playthrough helped me a lot, and I appreciate how in-depth it was. I'm happy you're playing through this update!

[@KillrobPlays]

Glad you found it helpful and have come back to this one for checking out the new features :) Enjoy!

[@psielecki]

He's alive!!! 😀

[@KillrobPlays]

Ohh damn, you're right! xD

[@seymenkoyuncu7435]

Wow it has been a long time. Glad to see your vids again!

[@KillrobPlays]

Glad to have you back! Enjoy :)

[@carlitos5336]

yess! so happy this series is back ❤

[@KillrobPlays]

Welcome back! :)

[@blackhat4968]

Enjoyed you playthroughs of Potion Craft before.. Looking forward to more.... 3 a day would be nice. 🤣 😉

[@KillrobPlays]

3 per day would be nice haha, too bad I have a job and a family! xD Cheers

[@worgen_feral]

New playthrough! YAY Thank you) So enjoyable and calm game. I never finished it myself and stopped before last stone...) so little time to play.

[@KillrobPlays]

It was quite grindy previously, I think Classic difficulty now is much better paced... unlike Grandmaster, which seems to be bonkers in terms of merchants xD

[@lapinewood]

YESSS!! So excited for this new playthrough :D

[@KillrobPlays]

Hope you enjoy! :)

[@_th3pr0_63]

Finally he's back!

[@KillrobPlays]

Returned I have indeed! :D

[@NostraFnDamus]

This is a very odd looking Diablo clone vehicular maintenance cycling/golf game. I'll allow it

[@KillrobPlays]

xD Cheers mate! Good to see you here!

[@KillrobPlays]

Ohh, also, it is called Exile-like, Diablo-Clone is so 2023 xD

[@donovanmahan2901]

you jest, but playing 'golf' with your ingredients in a way is actually part of the game.

[@StArFuRyZz]

I remember watching the original playthrough and looked forward to each new episode.

[@KillrobPlays]

Then I hope I'm able to invoke the same inner calling for "moar" with this series again :D

[@christopherdoolan925]

I love that you have returned to this game. Wish it was available on Mac.

[@KillrobPlays]

Thanks! :) Are you able to play it regardless?

[@percinatto]

Im so glad to know the game received an update. I was scared the devs were going to abandon it

[@KillrobPlays]

It sure looked like it for a little while, or at least maybe that their plans shifted to making one big paid expansion for the game. Nice to see neither was the case :)

[@martinmalone6324]

Where have you been? walking to the moon and back? Whats the weather like up there? oh and welcome back

[@KillrobPlays]

Second kid arrived a year ago, so I had plenty of no-free-time and still have lots of that xD but seeing this game update I thought I come back to the channel - gotta want to do that eventually so why not now? :)

[@martinmalone6324]

@@KillrobPlays welcome back, family always first, glad you only do this as a professional hobby for us watchers, you were missed.

[@KillrobPlays]

Thank you! Indeed, sacrifices have to be made :) the channel was the one bigger thing on the chopping block to make time for all other duties and a shitton of work on the new Automation update. It is fun to get back to making videos. Cheers!

[@J4J0]

Oh, I didn't know this game was getting a major update! Thanks for the news and entertainment.

[@KillrobPlays]

You're welcome, enjoy! :)

[@Grozzgar]

last year i watch you play this and after around fifteen episodes i bought the game on the steam autumn sale :D

[@KillrobPlays]

Killrob, the propaganda minister of Potion Craft :P I hope you've enjoyed the game and this update so far! :)

[@Grozzgar]

@@KillrobPlays Aye i'll have to start a new run, i did check out the new map a little bit on my old save and being able to save legendary recipes OH chefs kiss :D

[@KillrobPlays]

That will be SOOOO GOOD! :D

[@EpicLegend1337]

Good to see this playthrough and channel coming back! Like you I've decided to pick this game up again in the mean time instead of PoE2, well I am still playing PoE2 but a lot more casually than I would have preferred thanks to server desyncing issues causing constant stutters and crashes; the solution? Get better internet, which hopefully is not too far away. I made the mistake of starting on "Suffering" difficulty, and let me tell you; it really lives up to its name but not in a good way. There may or may not be some exploits related to the talent tree that can help alleviate some of the problems but if you're trying to do a playthrough on this difficulty legit then just be prepared for that day counter to go into the quadruple digits+ by the end because you need to grind a LOT for just a little bit of progress. I will be sticking with it for the time being to see if I can find some way to optimize it so that it's a bit more playable. The biggest flaw is the combination of having potions sell for basically nothing alongside everything costing in the hundreds and thousands. You want to repair Alchemy Machine? 17k. You want to buy a seed for your garden? 1.8k for just some Windbloom seed. Cheapest ingredients that you already grow in your garden usually cost 300 each normally. It's honestly ridiculous, would have much preferred a more risk vs reward type of difficulty, not some; grind for 10 in game years type of difficulty.

[@KillrobPlays]

Ahh sucks that your internet connection can't handle PoE :( hope that gets resolved soon, seem to be such a good game at its core :) I've only played an hour so far, haven't had time for more making these videos. xD Suffering difficulty was tempting, but seems to just be wasting time and not providing interesting gameplay? I'm on episode 5 now here in my Grandmaster run and ohh boy, it is bad enough and partially nonsensical here, too! I do agree that design-wise, this is a poor choice for how to make the game more difficult. I tried Classic difficulty in my test play and it did seem to flow very well and was really easy for anyone experienced already. Thing is though, Grandmaster isn't actually much harder, just takes more time / requires a different focus (harder = more self reliance on the garden, I guess). Cheers!

[@EpicLegend1337]

@@KillrobPlays Higher difficulties I find are just garden grind fests. Selling potions to customers is not enough, you must abuse the garden with Wild Growth and batch brewing as much as possible to also empty out merchant gold every day. Buying ingredients from merchants is synonymous with dropping a boulder on your foot, it's a shame this side of the game is made completely obsolete. Garden upgrades and seeds should be your main priority, Alchemy Machine be damned. The more different seeds you unlock the more efficient your recipes become which translates to more gold as merchants become your main source of income. Experience is not an issue and those books on the map end up serving almost zero purpose, since batch brewing constantly like this gives you loads of exp. I wouldn't say it's entirely worse than classic so far, it's just different, whether it's bad or not depends on how much patience you have for grinding, there's some rewarding feeling unlocking a new Garden upgrade or buying a new seed. Suffering is way too far, Grandmaster is a bit more ideal for this style of play however even that's not perfect. The difficulty design definitely needs a rework, if only the devs communicated more and did a beta before rolling out this patch, that way it would have been a bit better tuned. Sorry for the long yap xD looking forward to see how you tackle the grind in future episodes!

[@KillrobPlays]

Indeed it does play very different and in these first 5 episodes I have recorded I've pretty much reached the same conclusions as you in terms of gardening and gold :) did quite a bit of theory crafting in those that will be familiar to you haha. I plan on exploring the gold conversion of book spawning, too. That might be a little bit of an extra boost that I need to continue at a decent pace. Gotta be able to afford the seeds somehow! :D Cheers

[@cmdr_thrudd]

Nice! Was wondering if you'd be doing a new playthrough :)

[@KillrobPlays]

And there it is! The bastards could have warned us content creators a little in advance :P but alas... Enjoy!

[@Wiktor_Klugowski]

And there is no upgrade with the GOG version of the game :( Good to see you again brewing potions.

[@KillrobPlays]

Ahh, maybe they just release it a few days after on GOG?

[@bjornseine2342]

This update is SO GOOD!

[@KillrobPlays]

It is great so far! :) Enjoy

[@robertnorgren993]

Nice. But starting at Grandmaster, jeez, that payment penalty (less gold).😧

[@KillrobPlays]

It is brutal! And hilarious... because it forces you to basically grow everything yourself. Bulk wild growth growing, here we come!

[@da_dogbar]

​Yeah, it's really painful In my grandmaster run i made most of my money just bulk selling potions to merchants since the bulk brewing perk is absurdly broken

[@Dkidlee]

huzza this series is back

[@KillrobPlays]

Indeed it is! :)

[@shadowhenge7118]

I am so glad they updated this much.

[@KillrobPlays]

It is great, yes! :D

[@undercoverboomer9692]

i was just watching your boy Der Bayer and wondering when we'd see another expert automation playthough

[@KillrobPlays]

I do want to make an Automation playthrough for Al Rilma with all the new mechanics and engine tech, that'll be fun! :) First the campaign needs to get into a state where it supports such a thing though xD

[@LairdPhilip]

Missed it.🎉

[@KillrobPlays]

Yeah, I'm definitely not burned out on the game anymore - although Grandmaster Difficulty might do that eventually xD

[@BleachWizz]

8:45 - it depends, I'll soon try the game out just too full with uni stuff.\ anyway I don't care about spoilers so I'm watching anyway xD anyway again, past the point your garden is full it might be better to collect the plants and let a new one be born than to lose on ingredients up until the point you've maxed it. maybe if you're sure that at most 5 plants can be born each day then you leave your garden almost full up until that point, nonetheless: if it gets full before the an upgrade you could've gathered earlier and had an easier time. on the oher hand if you don't buy and don't need any of them then it also makes no difference. so for me the best strat leave until you need it but collect before leaving the garden full and buying from the shop.

[@KillrobPlays]

Good garden management sure is looking like it will be the most important part of this playthrough in Grandmaster or higher difficulty :D

[@bubbleguffey7348]

The garden is so OP

[@KillrobPlays]

Seems like the only real way to survive in Grandmaster xD

[@TheModmc]

i hope they added some spicy herbalists

[@KillrobPlays]

Romancing options xD

[@bangrojai]

Now i know the face of someone who told me to count every rune i got in diablo 2!!!!!!

[@KillrobPlays]

Ahh yes, the Countess run videos and analysis, those were fun! :)

[@DissonantSynth]

Love your accent

[@KillrobPlays]

:D Cheers for that!

[@chokemychocobo]

PC only our update on switch aswell?

[@KillrobPlays]

I don't know their plans for updating on the other platforms, but naturally PC is first as that is the easiest to patch up if anything is broken. :)

[@joannacaughell9243]

When do you think the update is going is going to be released in NS?

[@KillrobPlays]

No idea! I have no inside info as you've seen with me not knowing this would release :)

[@joannacaughell9243]

@KillrobPlays apparently the game company is kinda iffy with import updates for the game. I heard about the update the day before I saw the vid and wanted to play it on my Switch. Imagine my disappointment when that wasn't the case lol. Now I'm looking for ANY news updates for this! Plz let me know if you find out!

[@fine93]

cant disable the OCD

[@KillrobPlays]

Haha xD will be a tall ask for sure!

[@baxtinator2153]

Is 2.0 on switch to ?

[@KillrobPlays]

That I don't know, but considering it is not on GOG, I doubt it has been pushed up to consoles yet? Maybe they want to let PC users do the testing for you first :D

[@baxtinator2153]

@ its great im playing it my full collection for ingredients and crystals is about to become fruition

[@Bansky85]

Wirst langsam alt, Kollege ;)

[@KillrobPlays]

Langsam!? Fühlt sich recht schnell an haha :D bin ja schon 42!