Halls of Torment Is My Favorite New Bullet Heaven!

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Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magic trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish the horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
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[@kaldeathar3462]

The blue "lockpicks" are the magnets that you keep hoping for in boxes.

[@rawesome3773]

The late 90s early 2000s aesthetic is amazing. Really warms my 33 year old heart 😂

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

I'm pretty sure Range increases the "length" of the cone attacks, while Area increases the width or arc of the attacks. PS: Also lightning CAN crit, you can see it do like over 1000 damage here and there. I think it just has a low crit chance. You can see each ability stats now in the menu now! ♥

[@KiwiSenseiYT]

Was going to comment this as well. The wider cone from range up is a side effect of it reaching further along the angles.

[@vvr5000]

I was dealing like 2000+ with lightning skill :D, almost 3000 to the last boss xD

[@dyger430]

I'd absolutely watch a playthrough of Grim Dawn!

[@robm6726]

Same, no need to start at the start everything new video he puts out on it too. At least 2 or 3 different grim dawn videos wander has done.

[@frequencyoftruth2303]

I'd rather watch him play last epoch.

[@BaneWilliams]

The problem with one of these games having level design is the amount of work that requires. First there is the level design work, which is an interesting challenge to begin with (and most programmers SUCK at design that isn't 'systems based'), but secondly there is enemy pathfinding which now needs to exist that previously didn't.

[@justinkarel4004]

The way I understand it is, base defense is added before any other modifications/multipliers. Defense is added afterwards.

[@hollywu7768]

Nice guys behind the game. A very strong bullet heaven release for the EA state.

[@jlwalker92]

The real money auction house was the worst part of D3. It greatly improved when they got rid of it.

[@Woupsme]

Tried a couple of runs, this is quite satisfying so far. Pretty much the first Bullet Heaven I've touched since my Vampire Survivors addiction last year.

[@purplefanta7142]

This game plays differently to other Bullet Heavens, you cant go in expecting to play Vampire Survivors. You have to respect your hp pool. You cannot fully ignore move speed and or defense. Some weapons scale better with different stats. Some heroes need different builds. There's a lot to discover, there's lots of knowledge to build on how to win, even different maps can provide different challenges that require focusing different stats and abilities. I'm really loving this game. Almost beat ember grounds on my first cleric attempt earlier today. Got down to 4 minutes left. I love how the cleric does so much damage spread among targets. Pay attention to quests. You unlock very transformative unlocks there. As well as new weapons/characters/meta progression

[@RitzyBusiness]

This game seems to have more in common with a twin stick shooter or even Smash TV if you eliminated the arenas.

[@robm6726]

For 5 dollars and 64 cents this one is pretty good

[@eMgotcha77]

Holy crap D3 vanilla, with infernal difficulty was BRUTAL!

[@Cassandra112]

ha. that diablo aesthetic. its kindof impressive to hit that art and movement.

[@Yaeza31]

I think this game looks super cool and I'll definitely think about picking it up when I have the time and money! I think that relying solely on a small chance of a magnet drop is why you constantly felt under-powered in the later stages of your two runs. You've raised your meta progression pickup range really far, so grabbing two early levels of pickup range in your runs will mean you likely leave basically no experience behind, meaning you can keep up with enemy scaling much better. You can see how you gained something like 10 to 15 levels in your second run from that magnet pickup!

[@elnogal9298]

Once you have level IV or V of the Pickup Range Meta you don't really need no extra magnets

[@Yaeza31]

@@elnogal9298 Having been playing it myself, hard disagree, but you can build how you want and I can build how I want

[@tylerabdill2429]

it'd make sense to me if range was how far out it went cone size was how wide it gets at the end and area being how wide it starts at

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

I think area is the same as cone size, as in it both makes areas bigger, and specifically cones, wider. That's why the upgrade is area/cone size all together. Just that upgrades specific to an abilty or attack cone shaped, will just say cone size instead of area

[@balder7047]

I'm really hoping to see more of this game on your channel it is great to watch

[@pestbrook]

Yeah I played the prologue and had to stop for the full ea release. It's sooooo good. The prologue can save transfer btw.

[@moodygoose6699]

The game has some new concepts with the weapons and some stats I like it overall

[@windwalkerrangerdm]

I think "base" stats like base defense get multiplied by any additional percentage buffs, but bland stats like "defense" get added only afterwards. Meaning, if you have +%200 defense bonus, 2 base defense will be better than 5 defense.

[@matthuck378]

I love the idea of a hybrid between a diablo-like and a VS-like (I don't like those terms either, but they're easy to understand)...But I wish it had the option to control like a diablo-like, ie: basically just with the mouse. No WASD.

[@ObscuriaDragunAed]

It's available today, the day of the vid was launched, for anyone who wants to know.

[@ashtonhand3672]

D3 had a terrible launch that took a long time for it to pick itself up.

[@raphaelsol1353]

Great game :D thanks for sharing

[@deathnight270]

wooohoo!!! cant wait for more!

[@LordLOC]

I know you probably recorded this weeks ago by now, but the early access version is out now and has most of the classes intended to be in the game, another map etc. Also the original 2 maps have had some changes so they aren't quite the same I'd say. Still awesomely fun as ever though, the game is also one of my favorites in this sub-genre now.

[@Lazarus178]

Even when Diablo 3 figured itself out mechanically, there was no getting away from the bad writing.

[@firedirewolf]

so many evolutions on weapons and abilities, so much progression!! POWER UNYIELDING!! (cause it isn't quite unlimited yet lol)

[@dragonwing4ever]

ignoring the regen skills in that last run kinda screwed you there, even if its small you still would have had a decent chunk of health rather then slowly losing it all

[@ericswanson411]

So, you know for when you put out another video for this game. The symbols that look like a lock pick or scroll they are your magnets that are on the map. On the quests there are milestones and quests for each class as well not just for the maps.

[@IsamuKunX]

Mooooar!

[@jerrycro6572]

If you could get only one what would you get? Rouge Genesia or Halls of torment?

[@RitzyBusiness]

I posted this in a reply but this subgenre of games has a lot in common with old school games like Smash TV. That's the vibe I get when I see it. Just instead of arenas it's an open map.

[@vvr5000]

There is only 3 halls or more ? I got 6 characters, killed all bosses multiple times.

[@WindHaze10]

Grim Dawn is definite S tier ARPG but it is slow and many fun interaction between items/skills are found to luck of finding the needed item. In PoE at least you can trade with other players.

[@junk3996]

i've tried to play through grim dawn several times but i just can't do it. its waaaaaay too slow paced for me and for any ARPG imo. maybe its endgame is fun, but i'll never know

[@memebot6490]

​@@junk3996It's really fun to experiment with hybrid builds, that's what kept me around

[@Tenekai]

You're sleeping on pick up range

[@wanderbots]

If magnets exist, pickup range is so-so.

[@battlebrand6479]

Wanderbots I love you but don't lean into piercing, especially those times when it only applies to your main weapon, with a character whose main weapon pierces infinitely from the start. It's just like leaning into crit with the cleric: See what the attack is doing bro!

[@ticiantoth2210]

this game use 99% of my GPU all the time is that normal ?

[@frankpork7665]

I like your voice. 🤙

[@cirmothe9]

Oh look it's diablo 2.

[@sunfire65ph]

I just bought it. Great Diablo aesthetic, i just can't get over the incredibly boring min/max upgrades and the progression grind. Been there, done that.

[@ospididious]

Diablo 3 is better left forgotten and abandoned. It's a dungeon hunter clone with Diablo skins. THIS game looks pretty good, though.

[@glich8726]

Better then that diablo mobile game, not that that's saying anything at all

[@FatalWalk3rFilms]

Not sure why you are comparing this to Diablo in any sort of way, its basically just Vampire Survivors with items. Also diablo 3 was a great game, not as good as 2...not even close, but it was amazing, great story, fun gameplay, immersive music...all of which made up for it faults. The only issue I really had with it back in the day was the Auction Board.