Thread 717085209

Thoughts on EA so far?
>What are you playan?
Went for Warfare & Earth full tank as first playthrough

Bump, I can’t be the only EA player

i will wait and see whether or not the devs are committed to finishing the game before bothering to play it.

apparently theres only 3-4hrs or content. won't bother with that paid demo when theres still so much room for them to overhaul everything anyway

>>717087258
you get about 10-15 hours in a single run

>>717085209 (OP)
I've played for 10-12 levels, used lightning strike. It's fine. Gonna wait for release, no point playing right now.

>>717087258
i literally just did my first playthrough of last epoch in 8 hours.

tq2 has 10-15 hours so far and im not done with it.

>>717085209 (OP)
Does tanking actually work in this unlike other games like POE2?

With only 1 act and 4 classes it’s too bare bones for me to try, I’d rather wait. Gameplay looked alright from what I’ve seen

this act 1 map is pretty substantial

>>717089456
With boss fights you’ll still have to get away from telegraphed stuff but you can facetank most what the game throws at you if you build into it.

>can reach 100% crit rate on some skills with rogue mastery literally 1-2 hours into the game
>200% and 300% crit multis at start
I wonder where the game is heading

>>717090410
Nerfs I'd imagine

It's quite pretty looking right off the bat. I miss this old school ARPG feeling.

>>717089681
Yeah the area is way more than I thought it would be
>>717091853
the sense of adventure this one gives is really lacking in other ARPG’s on the market Grim Dawn looks too old now to get back to I’m going to feel content starved once i’m done with the EA

>>717085209 (OP)
my childhood game got fucked by being early access, this is stupid really, the original game took me weeks to get to hades, fuck that demo honestly

>>717094507
it would've been better with two acts out of the gate and being beta, they screwed themselves teasing it so early this EA got delayed from may or something

post screenshots

>>717094743
got turned into a goat

>>717095254
arkantos?

>rogue starter skill allows you to spam biggest 2h mace you can find
>you can convert all phys dmg to piercing
>you get to spam it twice if you add flow to dash and dash first
this feels illegal

just finished with a lightning build. pretty fun, the tornado kills my fps though. what are the best spectacle builds? i want to crash the game/my pc with particle effects

>>717096714
post webm

>>717085209 (OP)
>another random crash

>>717085209 (OP)
i'll play it closer to release, this isn't even an alpha yet

please respond how do i get squall spell? is there a squall like spell? I saw a monster use something that looked like it but cold.

how well does it run?

>>717085209 (OP)
defender + hunter

>>717098042
not very well

>>717098042
people with rtx 4080super are happy they get 55fps at medium settings

>>717097893
haven't had one in 20 hours :)

>>717098094
but there’s no hunter

Rogue is so fucking stupid with all the crit multipliers and crit chance increases
what the hell

oh look another arpg that's exactly like every other arpg ever created

i sure cant wait to play it

>>717098308
Wow, so it looks like a PS4 game and requires a 4080 super to get 55 fps at medium settings.

I HATE UE5. I doubt my rx 6600 can even run this then. They should have used Unity instead

I love titan quest but I don't buy EA thanks

>>717085209 (OP)
why doesn't the statue have at least 1 tit out? woke dei bullshit i see

>>717099839
with fsr you probably can run it. just pirate.

>>717100067
statue nudity is 19th century neo classist art brother

>>717099696
>level 14
>casual 1.1k crits, everything dies in 1 hit even with area +1
it's stupid

>>717099687
I'm playing TQ1

Just simply not worth playing right now. They never should have EA'd it like this. 4 classes with pretty limited connectivity beyond their multiple snoring build/spend mechanics and general buffs. Also each class only having like an average of 5 abilities total with clear builds defining 1 half the tree is insanely weak. They say it's going to go up in price at launch but that's hard to believe. I see no scenario where this is worth more than $30.

>>717100987
post build

>>717100987
post webm

>>717102062
>>717101889
it's trick shot with all crit modifiers
crit aura with crit modifiers
vanish with crit modifiers
then you just want flat damage on rings/weapon
have fun killing bosses and everything else before they spawn under a vanish

Tell me what class to play

I'm using ice shards with max homing and pierce.
They loop around and hit the same target multiple times its pretty neat.

>playing early access
>ever
lol

>>717104131
The uninstall wizard.

Should I be upgrading core skills?

Wait it's only 1 act? Damn that sucks, been a blast playing it but i guess i'm already done. Any date on the next update?

>was drawn to PoE because it seemed like you could turn any class into any build you want without majorly gimping yourself
>nevermind, heres your ascensions hours later, locking you into a specific playstyle
>look at TQ2 instead
>its EA and only 5 hours long

>>717085209 (OP)
Bad performance, bad ui, bad controller support. limited build options, slow combat, bad dialogue, bad animations

This game could have released in 2008 and it would have been a banger. Now? Literal garbage

>>717085209 (OP)
they really will need to try harder balancing because every zoomer uses AI now and it's way too easy to find the best in slot abilities especially with how little they offer

>>717107606
but enough about poe 2

I'm a brainlet, why use flow instead of overwhelm?

>>717107756
Im not a fan of poe2. This game is pretty similar in pacing, and overall gameplay. Boring, mechanically stifled. Worse animations, worse build options, worse world building

It's a bad game from a washed up dev team. Riding on rose-tinted goggles doesn't make a good game

>>717107749
>cares about best in slot
>not style
fag

>>717108001
shards are both style and bis ;)
>muh thin ass lighting strike
>muh faggy smegma road

>>717108086
As long as you're stylish.

Does increased ailment chance on your core attack only increase the ailment attached to it or is it universal?

They got a good bit deeper into greek mythology in this one.

>ea
>probably will be for the next 5 years
and from my wishlist to my ignore list, fucking sad

>>717107749
>>717108086
The skills all serve different purposes. I mean sure this matters if you are a min-maxer who is going to respec skills as one activates but i leveled with lightning strikes but then when i got lightning bolt it became my builder for rage and flow and lightning strike my orbital nuke.

but yeah ultimately this game doesn't seem like, right now, a game I'd play extensively. just beat for the story and fun greek myth aesthetic, then quit.

also it does seem to be optimized like shit. playing spin2win warrior for some reason hard crashes my computers power. no other game does this and I am on high lel.

>>717085209 (OP)
just finished the EA content, took like 10-11 hours with one restart early on, it is fun, curious about how many classes there will be, items are kinda tame, UE5 stutter included, music slaps, VAs are good

why does it look so ugly? i don't mean graphically
TQ1 was peak soul in ambience and maps
this is another dark misty themed Grim Yawn bullshit

>>717108816
they plan to finish it up by end 2026

>>717109150
im guessing they're not trying to make a long running market defining game. just a small team led project.

>>717108816
animations and skill effects are from 2006. They need to heavily revamp what's there currently. It's basically the same game with updated graphics which just isn't going to cut it in 2025

>>717109150
>dark misty themed Grim Yawn
The fuck? It's vibrant just like TQ1. Are you shitposting?

>>717109296
What if that is exactly what I wanted.

I need my nature + storm.

I need my necromancy + defense.

I need my storm + hunting.

Just going to do a basic bitch Earth + Warefare run for now.

>embracer group early access slop
>body types

>>717107749
source on the table?

>>717109682
Yeah, you pretty much need to refund and pirate this garbage.

>>717109454
then just play tq1? It's better by far and and a complete game? Are you so enticed by updated graphics that you turn your brain off and purchase things on a complete whim even if they have no substance?

>>717109797
grok, just paste skill images from clipboard and tell him to make a table comparing all

>>717109996
Nah, I'll play both.

>>717110076
how do you know things like boulder dont multihit?

I like the drip

My game hard crashed an my character was deleted.

You can melee staff build unironically.

>>717085209 (OP)
If I was in charge, I'd make those titties a little bigger, just sayin.

>>717111609
based and gandalfpilled

>>717107062
it's longer than 5 houts take about 15 hours

Anyone found legendary gear yet?

>it has ue5 micro traversal stutter

its over

>>717112797
So it wasn't just me getting stutters when using blinks.

>>717112718
2 twohanded axes and 1 sword from a quest

should i pirate this? or wait till its out?"

>>717085209 (OP)
>UE5slop
>Looterslop
I'm good thanks.

>>717112718
This looks boring.

Surely they won't actually make us wait 3 months for act 2

>>717112939
>>717113295
I think I swaped the item colorization, so this one is Epic (Blue in TQ1).
That's why I'm asking if the next tier (legendaries) come with special effects, compared to the stat sticks they were in the original.

>>717113705
Does it have MIs? It's not worthy of calling itself Titan Quest if it doesn't.

This dodging/evasion shit is fucking stupid and makes this game instantly more trash than PoE 1 and 2. What is up with this "souls-like" dodging everyone is piling onto.

how do you manage to make an ARPG and not have seasonal wipes and leagues every 6 months?
don't the zoomers completely lose interest after 2 weeks?

>payed demo

jfc dude

performance is ass
gameplay feels stale as fuck
not enough classes
most skills feel shitty

>>717085209 (OP)
It's really good so far. The only complaint I have is that I constantly feel a bit underpowered.
Playing Earth & Rogue for a Burn DoT build.

>>717114337
>performance is ass

>>717114442
yes? if a 4080 cant get 80+fps on average its shit

>>717114493
I get 80fps with my 3070 brownoid

>ea mobile game slop "poe killer"

when will they ever learn

>>717114528
sure you do faggot

hehe

>early access
Missed me with that gay shit.

>>717114439
Earth and rogue combo also enables double physical damage aura combination.

>>717085209 (OP)
i'm playing pure melee and he fucking sucks

I've never made it very far in the first game.
I should like that game, but I can't stand it.

>Not playing spin to win
I'm spinning on these fools and they can't stop me

>>717114826
I've tried to play the first game at least a dozen of times over the years but I I've made it to the start of the 2nd act once. It's just so boring and repetitive, it sounds like my kind of game but I always burn out too quickly.

nigga HH

I'll wait until the devs add more content, and see what kind of progress they make and what kind of endgame they add, since right now you just pay to revive bosses from what I know, I already got burned with poe2's slow development pace.

>>717085209 (OP)
>Thoughts on EA so far?
Grim Dawn is better

>>717101729
devilish!
>>717104982
and PAYing for it at that. might as well pay to beta test at this point.

>>717085209 (OP)
Rogue because the crit modifiers are stupidly OP and supercrits are a thing. Game was pretty fun, just some mindless ARPG that I will probably play through once or twice and then quit.
Does run like ass though.

>>717103921
It's insane. I did some minor optimizing after finishing act 1 and I was critting for 4.8k during Vanish. Could pump it up higher but then mana becomes an issue. I can already only fire 4 shots before I'm OOM.
And this is with Storm as my second mastery which added fucking nothing to the build other than like 10% energy.

>>717097036
Here you go. Looks like shit because I've never made one before.

>>717113865
It does have MI's

>>717116124
What specs and what level of details are you running for that fps?

Wait so it's not like the rest of the diabloslop where you just spam skills and clutter the map with loot? Is this like PoE2 Soulslike isometric ARPG design?

>>717114337
keep playing poe in the loo jeet

>>717116272
so far yes because this is literally act 1 and nobody showers u with loot in acts 1

>>717087258
If you bumrush the main quest, yeah. If you actually explore, you'll get a minimum of 10hours. And exploring is actually rewarded with hidden events and side quests that give rewards like bonus Attribute and Skill points.

>>717116224
DLSS on Quality, everything else on High(Highest is Epic)
3080 + 9700X3D

FPS goes down to 40s on Epic without DLSS

>>717116462
In D2 it was
Remember countess and Griswold and Andy runs? Don't forget the pit too

>>717116272
It's another ARPG, they are all the same. TQ only had a few differences beyond theme.

Titans' Quest 1 was slow paced up until about when you reach Act 2 in Egypt. I can already spam skills to kill quickly in Act 1 if you modify your skills for high DPS. Titans Quest 1 just put more emphisis on you using your default skills as well as your tabbed skills. That focus is the same in TQ2, because they allow you to modify your default attack, which is a smart idea. But it all boils down to BiS, Movement Speed, Map Clear - it's an ARPG.

which one is the timmy class?
you know, the one that is really bad but has all the flashy/power fantasy skills?
I'm guessing warfare?

>>717116616
in normal mode they drop nothing/trash. and in version 1.0 there was like no good items anyways

>>717117226
Earth probably. It has all of the cool fire/lava skills and when I played it they all did fuck all damage.

>>717116471
why would you explore if you can complete the game without needing to? all those quests you do, items you loot, and minions you kill may as well not even be there.

>>717117032
Diablo 2 as a necromancer on max difficulty in 8 player mode (solo) was kino, grinding down everything slowly with your immovable horde. Spamming teleport and aoeing everything down is the worst iteration of ARPGs. Sadly, no ARPGs have gone towards the D2 nec route, I guess not even D2 did except for with the nec. Sad.

>>717117314
You don't need to kill the demons to complete Doom, so why do it?

is there anything to do with apollo after you set him on the pedestal?

>>717085209 (OP)
Seems less like a sequel to Titan Quest and more like a game branded Titan Quest 2 that pulls more from other ARPGs than it does from its source material.

>>717117865
No idea why you'd say that TQ2 is true to TQ as in more about adventur and less about waveclear

>>717117950
since when was adventure even a focus in TQ when it devolved into the same endless gear chasing as every disablo clone?

>>717118039
Who the fuck was grinding gear in TQ?
You just play through the story, maybe do it a second time and you stop.

>everybody uses Mana
God, thank you. I'm so tired of every class having different resources. Sometimes it's nice to just got back to the basics (D2).

>>717118112
yeah just like most mindless npc casuals play 2 weeks of a poe league and quit for the next 6 months
but that's not the retarded playerbase that matters

Why is Diablo 2 the only game to do the stupid "join a room" thing?
All these ARPGs are boring without friends and Diablo 2 was the only ARPG where I can just join a party without even having to ask or talk to anybody.

>>717118159
well that's because you have to spec into 2 classes and it would be a fucking mess if you picked warfare and rogue and one used energy the other rage

>>717118537
But it isn't the only "ARPG" to do that, cat'tard.

>>717118537
You could do it in Titan Quest, just pick any game without a password. I think Grim Dawn works the same, but I don't remember.

>>717118742
Diablo 3, 4, PoE, PoE2, and this dont, so all the ones that matter dont.

>>717099839
Un*ty is worse than UE5 though. It seems that people forgot how it needed all power of flagship GPUs to render some 2d pixel indie and still had performance issues. A game with visuals like these on un*ty will make your pc combust in under 30 seconds. Shit I'm glad that malware disguised as a game engine decided to commit suicide.

>>717118742
Whyd you put ARPG in quotes as if that's not a real thing

>>717117950
>Play Titan Quest.
Linear but with plenty of open space and side areas. Fight a boss, it's a simple fight without DDR mechanics. You have summons on multiple masteries and a Nature Mastery with multiple minions for people that want to minion master. Bright vibrant colorful world. Simple way to increase stats and increase mastery tiers that lets you access new skills in your mastery.A great variety of enemies who actually use the items gear and weapons they drop. Fun adventurous story that stays out of the way of the player playing the game and having fun. Unique Mastery Skills that overwrite your basic attack adding flavor to your masteries and mastery combos. Has its own unique look. Takes advantage of its ancient greek myth inspired setting. You're an adventurer that starts with nothing. Male or female.

>Play Titan Quest 2
A linear hallway straight to boss. Fight a boss: inflated health DDR mechanics. You don't have summons on masteries that used to have summons in TQ1. Drab colorless gloomy. Convoluted divinity system with the illusion of choice you get six points, here's two masteries that require 6 points to upgrade to the next tier if you put three in both you fuck yourself no tier upgrade until your next divinity points which makes the 6 divinity points pointless because obviously you put six in just one of them. when in the OG Titan Quest you just chose between picking a skill upgrading a skill or advance tier all with the same pool of points you got from progressing levels. Samey copy paste repeat enemies that don't use the items they drop. Annoying story where your master is an old woman that's also a great warrior stronger than all men ever that constantly forces you to pay attention to it and rips you away from gameplay. Everyone uses the same boring basic attack. Looks like Diablo 4 but with none of the optimization. Turns its the greek setting into generic grim dark fantasy land. You're special snowflake already equipped with gear.

>>717085209 (OP)
scarcely an alpha yet sold for full price. People shat all over poe2, idk where the outcry is for this. Guess everyone has nostalgia goggles on.

>>717117498
not quite d2 numbers of units but inquisition: martyr works like that with the tech-adept's robots and hierophant class' soldiers

>>717118537
You can join randoms in poe1 and 2, one of the few advantages of being always online. Of course since you're not a coordinated party you end up getting in each other's way by overriding each other's curses and shit like that.

>>717118927
people aren't complaining because that full price is only $20

>>717118563
Common sense is at an all time low so I wouldn't have been surprised if they tried to mix different resources or some shit. Imagine Demon Hunter in D3:
>Warfare + Storm
>Warfare abilities require Rage
>Storm abilities require Mana

>>717119061
This 'overriding curses' thing sounds like something theyd fix for 2, they didnt do that?

>>717119156
they didnt

>>717089206
LE is about endgame, TQII has none.

>>717113705
Some epics have special effects

>>717119156
I honestly don't know, I only played ssf, but I'm pretty sure curse limits work the same.

>>717085209 (OP)
Titan Quest and Grim Dawn are the worst ARPG's I've ever laid hands on. You couldn't play me to even demo anything this company puts out ever again.

>>717117760
because theyn are in the way, which isn't the case in TQ2

>>717085209 (OP)
>playthrough
PLAYTHROUGH???
PLAYTHROUGH!?
PLAYTHROUGH OF WHAT!??? THE FIRST FUCKING ACT??? PLAYTHROUGH!!!!

>>717119334
Good for you they did not make it, other guys made tq2

>>717119434
Yeah. They said EA would only have the first act.

>>717119427
Pacifist runs in Doom exist. Anyway, you're obviously just shitposting, so no more (you)s.

>>717085209 (OP)
the statue appears to have a massive futa cock.

>>717119268
Disgusting loot rarity coloring. Makes it look like a mobile game.

It's basically Path of Exile 2 in Greece with less messy hitboxes. It's one hundred percent an isometric Soulslike if you want to call it that.
Don't expect to just spam and tank, dodge is king and you have to walk out of attacks/javelins

>>717120361
it's the modern one you can enable legacy coloring

>>717120361
It has an option for the classic TQ1 colors.

>>717120379
Is it satisfying? As in, are you still whacking each monster 10 times to kill it? Are bosses boring damage sponges? I'm not talking insta-killing whole packs or screens like Path of Excrement.

Can we go back to bullying retards paying to beta test games that potentially will never come out?

>>717120534
Nice

Which classes can you play? This game is based on greek mythology, right? Any mythology type classes

>>717120590
>Is it satisfying?
Yes
>As in, are you still whacking each monster 10 times to kill it?
No, just elites, that are usually with some mobs
>Are bosses boring damage sponges?
No, they go down way faster than PoE2 hitsponges
They are as tanky as you would expect in a Souls game

>>717120997
4 masteries, that are very expensive and have each many builds you can do by customizing attributes and skills through modifiers

>>717120997
thief goy
warrior goy
lighting/ice goy
fire goy

>>717120997
>Any mythology type classes
Nope
Rogue, Warfare, Storm, Earth
They are very generalized for this early release

>>717120997
Titan Quest has a multi-class system. For instance, Warfare mastery is basically Barbarian and Earth mastery is fire+earth mage, and you can mix and match any two Masteries. Pic related is TQ1 and TQ2 currently has Warfare, Rogue, Storm, and Earth.

>>717121871
lighting/ice is a different class from fire?

Anyone tried a poison rogue? Specifically would be interested in how viable the grenade is when specced into poison.

>>717121871
I'm a lazy iso' ARPG gamer. Do any of them have turrets/summons of any kind?

>>717085209 (OP)
6/10 orbs, doesnt look very promising

>>717085209 (OP)

>EA
>"playthrough"

pathetic

>>717088915
>>717089091
>>717116471
>10 hours
>$20 for 10 hours
Rip off

>>717122541
Saw a guy saying it took him 4 hours, with afk time. Game's undercooked, if they prove they can quickly and consistently add good content I might change my mind but for now I'm not touching it.

/v/ is so fucking retarded.

>>717086767
if it's really the same crew as titan quest and they won't stop digging up that corpse and diddling it every few years so probably

lol D4 looks better and you can run it on a toaster

>>717085209 (OP)
>$23 launch price
>State that they're going to gradually increase the price over EA and launch will be significantly higher
>Looking/sounding decent now
I'm thinking about buying it and just leaving it unplayed until 1.0, since I'll probably want to play it then

>no left mouse attack
>mary sue protag
>strong woman mentor
>potions on cooldown insead of buying(I hate this the most)
>would be easier to play with a controller than a keyboard
>no tanking
>need to use janky dodging soulshit
>drops to much good gear
>enimes don't drop their trash gear like they did it TQ1
It feels painful to play. I loved titan quest 1, played from a month of release to today constantly like a autist but this game feels nothing like titian quest but more like a diablo 3 + POE2 clone mixed with that awful soulslike dodge shit. I miss spamming "r" and the health potion sound as you tanked bosses in titian quest 1. Titan quest 1 was a good game to play at a office or a day off for hours at a time. I only played two hours so far but the starting map needs to change to be something else, it feels like a beta test zone instead of story map.

I like the new weapon and armor types and the vertically of maps.

>>717107824
How do you even get overwhelm? It says the basic attack skill generates it when "an overwhelm skill is equipped", but I don't see any in the rogue/storm tree (or maybe I'm blind).

Neat, you can get them from the gambler npc too

what is energy drain dmg?
just a dmg type or does it drain energy as in giving you energy when hitting?

>>717107062
>locking you into a specific playstyle
Depends on the ascendancy, though honestly your starting location on the tree has a big impact too. It is very hard for Marauder to be a poison based build. It is very hard for Ranger to be a pure elemental caster.
I do get what you mean, but a lot of the ascendancies are just generically good. At times Juggernaut was used for melee and caster characters. Champion was used for bow and melee characters. They actually took the chance to make Saboteur LESS trap/mine focused and now is generically a decent trigger or projectile class. Ultimately you are right where it is hard to play a particular ascendancy and do anything with it, but it still has far more flexibility than any other ARPG.

>>717118871
Not even remotely true, Unity doesnt have performance issues like Unreal does

>>717123713
>potions on cooldown insead of buying(I hate this the most)
Only energy is on cooldown, health is based on you attacking.

>>717112718
I really do not like this kind of itemization.

>>717114640
>FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESSOR!

>>717112718
>Hitting an enemy with you Primary Attack progresses Dodge cooldown by 10% of the remaining duration.
Not only is it ESL, but the effect sounds incredibly boring and bloaty (like most isometric ARPG these days).

>>717123713
>There's already retards getting filtered by Souls-lenient gameplay
Kek

>>717124994
For now Im just hoping that Poo2 adds more generically good ascensions for more classes. I dont have enough hours into 1 to feel committed to it anyway, although the wait for 2 to get into a more complete state might kill me.

anyone else hate the story? in TQ1 you spent the game chasing down telkines heroically, in TQ2 you run away form a lesser god like a little bitch whole game

>>717123713
>i like verticality
gah, fucking kys. these unnecessary cahnges made just to make changes are cancer. just like all this gay homo JUMP and CLIMB faggotry that for some reason the last diablo also had. why the fuck is that in there? it serves NO PURPOSE except to waste your time and break the flow of movement. god I fucking hade modern devs.

>>717125896
I already fought a god in act 1, surely Nemesis is just a plot device for someone more threatening (like the Telkines were for Typhoon)

>want to make grenade build
>it deals shit damage
t-thanks

>>717125465
It is legit gonna take 1.5 years at this rate.

>>717126590
Have you tried it with this?

>>717126776
i did the range doesn't even vwork with it

>>717127629
Guess they want you to play it with poison. Haven't really messed with it, I'm throwing daggers with infinite pierce myself.

>>717127629
Grenade is classified as a Projectile so it'
s probably a bug.

>>717127848
its so bad there is not one single video of anyone using it

>>717126094
She will revive Kronos.

The soul TQ had is missing from this that is for sure.

>>717128638
You mean nostalgia.

>>717128709
no you dabbled with more mythological stuff even at the start. in this it's generic animal mobs and fish people.

>>717128838
Then why not say that instead of meaningless meme speak?

>>717116124
Just swapped to this build on my warfare/rogue and I'm critting for 8-11k now

That 250% more crit chance modifier is broken

>>717129037
i just did

>>717129284
After being pressed.

it feels like the spell rage in the storm tree and the warfare do not stack.

>>717129336
it's called discussion that is what boards are for frend

>>717085209 (OP)
I'd rather play tq1 or gd

>>717129438
Meaningless meme speak is not discussion. saying something has/has no soul means literally nothing. You could've just said TQ2 (currently) lacks some of the mythological enemies TQ1 started with, like satyrs or maenads, and I'd agree.

>>717129658
anybody who played the first had a general idea what he meant. you know damn well if he specified with any detail longer than 3 sentences he would be getting tldr replies

>>717129847
>The soul TQ had is missing from this that is for sure.
No, you're just shitposting. Now kindly shut up or try to engage in an actual discussion.

How does the soundtrack compare to the original TQ?

>>717130097
i have nothing memorable from the first desu but the 2nd just has bunch of wailing woman baldur's gate-esque shit

*meow*

Is that Minthara's voice actor for your mentor?

>>717130556
YEP THATS A GOATCATCOW ALRIGHT

>>717130097
Seems fine.
https://files.catbox.moe/c49gxw.mp4
>>717130210
Stop lying for once.

I'm surprised that I'm enjoying it because looking at the early teasers they released I genuinely thought the game was going to be complete shit. It feels surprisingly nice to play, and they have some interesting ideas for skill interplay, but there are definitely balance issues I'm concerned with right off the bat.
I'm floored with the quality of the first act, though, I think that's what really blew me away. There are a lot of details in the world and walking up to a cliff overlooking an area, and then going down into that area and fighting, feels really cool. It's a bit reminiscent of TQ1 in that respect, but they're actually pulling it off better (so far) in TQ2.
I'm worried that the rest of early access won't be able to keep up with the quality of the first act, and I'm worried we won't ever see the game be completely fleshed out in the way it deserves to be, but I hope I'm just dooming about that and my fears are unfounded. I'm much, much more impressed than I thought I'd be, but I thought the game was going to be complete dogshit.
>>717128638
I disagree, I think they actually did a pretty phenomenal job of capturing the soul of the first game, which took me by complete surprise. I'd say the one big thing lacking in that regard is some of the voice work, the original had such hammy, over the top/cheesy voice acting that is sorely missed here. Otherwise, I'm pleased that this feels like an actual sequel in a lot of respects.

>lowest settings and fsr to performance
>50-70 fps with stuttering
>highest settings no fsr
>45-60fps with stuttering
i don't understand

>>717130097
I uted the music because of the AAAAaaA AAA AAaaaa singing

>>717121917
Defense chads when will our day come?!

>>717131416
they ever introduce an active Block mechanic into one of these damn games it'll be our time to shine

>>717131094
post graphics card, don't lie.

>>717131540
>active Block mechanic
gross

>>717131582
6900xt

>>717131589
>gross
no. having defensive buttons to hit is fun and requires more skin than passive bullshit.

>>717131670
You already have dash and barrier.

>>717131540
This is already a feature in PoE 2

fun begins now

>>717131854
shit im in the wrong thread then ill go find a PoE2 one i had no idea thanks anon
>>717129982
turn your trip back on Caitfag

>>717131670
u can lvl up your barrier and dodge btw

>>717132056
So TQ2 is "Teleport around and mash your aoe" slop too?

>>717132172
the skill has a 12 second cooldown blind bitch

>>717132230
For now Im sure.

>>717131094
>i don't understand
whats there to understand, its UE5 isometric ARPG made by retards who imported high resolution models with feet nails

>>717132172
n-no, it would never do such things

>>717121917
I hope they turn Spirit into a proper necromancer. Spirit was such a disappointment in TQ1.

$20 for 10 hours of content is more expensive than most AAA games

so does this game devolve into aoe screen clear skillspam with indistinct sounds?

>>717131094
EU5 stutters because the engine is dogshit. Its a problem in all games regardless of graphics settings.

>>717132720
We only have like 15% of the total game, nobody can say. We can only go off of what we can actually play right now and the answer to that is no.

>>717132468
So guy was being disingenuous about the 12 second cooldown? I can't believe it.

>>717132861
Use your eyes, m8. The first picture was a skill called Blink, in the Storm mastery. The second picture is Dodge, which is the now-standard dash ability the player gets by default.

>>717132830
i hope you realize they release that early in such a sorry state because they ran out of money and thats the only way the studio could continue, That game will take few YEARS to get finished and theres a chance it will never gets there.

Why should I play this early access game when I can play a finished ARPG? Or just more Diablo II: Resurrected?

>>717133123
Do you have a single shred of evidence for that claim? Also, did you even play the game? It's absolutely not in 'a sorry state.' Obviously is needs works, it's fucking EA after all.
>>717133182
Nobody said you should. Go play another ARPG if you want to, TQ2 isn't even finished.

>>717132126
PoE2 also has bucklers that can parry, though it is kinda shit right now and they said it was gonna get reworked.

>>717134138
I was trying to build a fencer/buckler character in PoE1 this is fantastic news

>>717134304
Right now swords are not in PoE2, that is coming with Duelist who is not in yet. The weapon currently that uses parrying the most are spears but swords should utilize them too.

Don't pretend you couldn't stack -recharge% in TQ and dash all over the map if you wanted.
Also found a few more epics.

>>717085209 (OP)
>>717086089
Is a GTX 1060 enough to run this?

i'm playing grim dawn but the constellation stuff is confusing

i just wanna slash stuff and blow up stuff like Inuyasha

>>717135197
im not an expert but i just find one that looks cool and decide on what path I want to take to get there.

>>717134698
Fuck no, its UE5slop

>>717131854
Too bad it doesn't do anything and you melt in a tank build so there's no reason to never not go glass cannon

Will any ARPG do tank right?

>>717136474
You can be a tank in PoE2

You just get 30k ES and are invincible. Armor is useless. In PoE1 you also just get 30k ES and are invincible. They need to nerf ES and buff life.

Game is really fun but the framerates are garbage. I only get 60-90 fps with FSR 1.5x and fake frames on with an RX 6800. I hope some optimizations come soon?

No crashes so far but got stuck in geometry a few times with movement skills or getting pushed by enemies

>>717088915
>>717116471
>>717089206
Lying shills

>>717133182
To see what the game is about for future consideration like any Early Access but if your 5 hours is too valuable then don't lol it's not very good desu.

>>717085209 (OP)
1 act

that's my thoughts

Doomers are insane jesus christ

>doomers
>game has genuine lack of content/progression

>>717085209 (OP)
boring, bland, bad animations, no skill variety, slow anemic gamepkay. Zero content. This amount of content should have been a free demo

How is storm/rogue? Do they work well togehter? Can I do a lightning flicker/blink strike with it? Honestly I cant decide between doing that and storm/earth

>>717141450
You can make any mastery combo work well.

>>717141450
storm earth feels like a waste. nothing works together.

I couldnt play TQ1 for more than an hour, very boring.

>>717141580
it was pretty shit unless you made aoe build and got the mod that multiplies enemies

>>717085209 (OP)
>looks worse than diablo 4
>32gbs of ram
>3070 ti
>or 4070
>diablo 4 recommends a gtx 970
what the fuck are developers doing exactly?

>>717141512
>>717141527
who do i know which to trust?

>>717141450
Rogue is over tuned you don't even need secondary

>>717141924
As the other guy said, all masteries are designed to work with every other mastery. Naturally some combos work better than others. Storm and Earth both have passives that benefit the other, like bonus health, armor, or spell damage.

>>717095254
Thats hot

>>717116272
>>717116272
its not spam skills with screen explode, but i wouldnt exactly characterize the combat as soulslike. It's very basic point and click combat with almost no difficulty. Game pretty much plays itself

fucking broke ass game keeps resetting minimum level upgrades if you upgrade it after lvling up

combat is pretty weightless and most encounters are inconsequential, slow, and non-threatening. You can basically just hold a single attack button and stand still while quaffing through the whole game. There's no danger, and really no action. It's an incredibly one dimensional combat experience

>>717097893
Why does she turn around twice?

>>717143786
I feel like you didn't even play the game. Enemies hit like trucks after the tutorial.

>>717129982
playing 200 hrs of a game that released almost 20 yrs ago is not an endorsement of the gameplay lmao

>>717143786
yes the game is baby mode if you dont use ritual shrine and increase enemy lvl by +5 above urs

>>717143854
nah not really. Just get some armour and vigor and the only things that are dangerous are "floor is lava" telegraphs. The telegraphs are so dumbed down so little children could dodge them. Never played an arpg with more basic combat

>>717085209 (OP)
lacks skills
lacks socket components
crafting
skills

>>717143995
Shit that's every ARPG known to man. Except for PoE, which makes armor pointless.

>>717144836
I notice you didn't refute how trivial this games combat is

>>717141674
Yeah cool down based arpgs are just not fun. One of the more popular mods for tq1 was one that got rid of all the cool downs and increased mob spawn and game speed. Same thing needed in grim dawn too. Seems like these devs are allergic to learning

>>717144927
Nah, no need. I actually agree.

>>717087258
it has like 5-6 hours if you do everything unless you rush and skip all dialogue, then it's 4-5 hours

>>717141924
The one that says some combos don't work. The attribute system reinforces specific combos and so do the passive abilities. You'll be half as strong going with a suboptimal combination because the passive give things like +fire and +phys on one ability, meaning if you go for a fire and ice combo you are going to forgo half of your scaling. It's a bad system overall compared to the first game.

>>717145123
That just makes the game into PoE1 map clearing. Just go play PoE1?

>>717145259
It's literally the same system as TQ1.

>>717145314
It's literally not

>>717145391
You're literally retarded and shitposting at this point. This is the same system, but you can modify the skills.

>>717145391
It is. Explain how it's different.

>>717136474
the molten barrier build is fine

>>717136474
>Will any ARPG do tank right?
Titan Quest and Grim Dawn allow you to make builds than can easily facetank almost everything the game throws at you.

Spent all day with the game installed deliberating if I should play it (10 hours ago) instead of just trying it out

>>717147217
Try it in cruel

>>717148382
Don't it's a waste of time ARPG that will be forgotten a year from now. But i love it.

>>717148507
I played it in red maps.

>>717119108
That anon is wrong about calling it full price, but he's right in pointing the double standard. PoE2 is only slightly more expensive, but also has (and had) way more content than TQ2 at release.

TQ2 also feels like shit in moment to moment gameplay. Even something as basic as picking items off the floor feels wrong, like the character has to be on top of everything, so you're constantly moving around in small increments. Animations, art style, character models, etc. all look considerably worse and cheaper than PoE2 a fucking huge margin.

>>717148731
I agree with the character positions sucking. You can tell they slapped the old model ontop of UE, because you have to pick up pixel perfect. Actually, I think the reasons peoples don't like this is because it plays damn near like TQ1 lol, it's just TQ1 with a new coat of paint which makes sense because the guys that developed TQ1s new-ish DLCs (For nearly a decade now) also made this game. I can imagine that they made it as close, and used as many old assets and animations as possible.

So how is it?

Is Shield good? I remember in TQ1 you'd basically just go some form of mage and be good and Warrior type builds were hilariously slow. Same here?

>>717150907
In TQ1, Warfare + Dream and autoattacking everything is like the stock standard playstyle.

>looking through skills
>all movement skills have huge cooldowns
Man... This is a huge bummer. I loved my retard Leap Slam build days from D2 and how much love Path of Exile 1 has for movement skills.

I just want to jump across screens and cause earthquakes.

zoomer coded game

>>717151267
Leap Slam is one thing but the game just turns into spam teleport and your aoe button and clear everything in half a second with no cooldowns.

>>717150907
From what I can tell shields are not really great, it's better to either go 2h slow, heavy attacks or dual-wield a slow 1h club with a quick dagger on the offhand for the speed boost.

>>717118927
>>717119108
the price is only for EA, it will be more expensive once it releases

>>717085209 (OP)
How does it compare to Grim Dawn, considering that it's about as expensive?

>>717152353
If you're only buying one, get Grim Dawn. Not because TQ2 is bad, it's quite good, but GD is a complete game with over a decade's worth of content. TQ2 is in EA.

>>717152543
I already have Grim Dawn and all of its expansions. But I have nearly 4k hours in it and my to go alternative has been sold out to Krafton.

>>717152672
Then if you like TQ and GD then TQ2 will be up your alley. Again, it's in EA and there's at most about 10hours of content to comb through at the moment.

>>717141885
UE5 gonna UE5

>>717153676
Is it wrong that I wanted to fuck her

>>717152020
Shields won't be great until they add Defense. Shields in TQ1 where awesome.

>>717154192
>>717153676
Even with all of the hating ass shitposters. The bosses, and the boss voice acters are really good. The griffon's VA impressed me a lot.

Am I the only one who thinks this game needs gear transmogs...

>>717125048
man I honestly hope youre kidding

>>717155265
Devs said transmog is coming in a future update.

>>717122978
>if it's really the same crew as titan quest
But its not

>>717095254
I saw a little crevace that you needed to be small to get into and I thought you had to get turned into a goat but I kept turning back into a human every time I left the clearing.

>>717155412
Fuckin' neato. I'm loving this game so far and I'm gonna be chomping at the bit for updates.

>>717116203
I haven't found any yet and I'm using two epics for 99999 damage backstabs. What kind are there?

>>717155478
You don't enter that crevice, that quest is solved by clearing the top of the structure.

>UE 5
Lol
lmao

>>717155436
This is true, it's the same guys that have been making the DLC.

>>717114271
I wanted to make sure I wasn't just nooooticing and went back and played TQIT.
Holy shit its night and day. There are more women than dudes in TQ2 and in TQIT the only women in the first thirty minutes are a few villagers.

>>717142593
I dont think I've played an ARPG where crit builds aren't "overtuned". Stacking one unmitigatable stat to get a 2-3x more damage multiplayer will do that.

>>717155612
They are all grizzled warrior hags aswell.

Pirated it last night
>4 classes
>extremely basic passives
>even more basic active skills
>the most vanilla active skill perks
>basic bitch gear
>barely any power ramp up
I'm glad I went for the extended demo cause this is ass.

>>717155609
No, it's not. Ragnarok and Atlantis were made by another German team and Embers is from Yugoslavia.

>>717085209 (OP)
Reminds me of BG3 during it's EA, not gameplay wise but nothing else to do after a few hours and pretty fucking mid so far.

>>717123983
Where are the epic daggers????

>>717155840
see
>>717119268

>>717155876
>Dagger
>No crit chance
Its over. Uninstalled. Refunded. Pirated so they lose more money and called my local representative.

>>717155919
Do you really need more crit chance when you can easily get 100% from passives alone? Also that's for thunder spec, I bet warfare (or hunting in the future) ones will come with it.
Or just offhand one with crit.

>>717156003
If I see damage numbers that aren't red I will explode.

Melee feels like ass, everything will make you explode in a few hits.
Meanwhile you get busted shit like infinite icicles on storm or billion damage quickshots from rogue, all cheap and easy to spam from the comfort of 2 screens away.

Anyone wanna coop?

>>717155715
Oh shit. Guess nordic was just publishing, the skills did seem a little random lol.

>>717156154
I'm playing a melee Tempest and it's fine. Invest in some movement skills to dodge the well-telegraphed big attacks. There are also plenty of ways to heal and soak damage with barrier.

>>717085209 (OP)
I don't know how these left clicking simulators are still popular 25 years after diablo 2.
How are you not bored of watching a rainbow of effects explode hordes of braindead AI enemies on the screen while you click around?

>>717116124
sick

>>717118887
TQ was alright with the boss fights but IT had lots of stupid fights where you had to dance around the mechanics

>>717156630
you don't need to click; you can use WASD or a pad, too.

>steamroll mobs
>find a shrine that let me increase enemy levels
>dump all my cash on it
>things are better
>come across a hippocampus boss
>mfw melts my ass with a waterjet
i may have made a mistake

>>717156630
No one is tired of that shit, look at action rogulike as a genre.

>>717157535
git gud, everyone is melting bosses because they are playing one easy.

>>717145123
>>717141674
>>717141580
do all zoomers have adhd?

>>717085209 (OP)
no thoughts, waiting until stable multiplayer/for my friend to decide there's enough content

Why are retards calling an ARPG "soulslike?" You think FromSoftware invented dodging? What is this take? It's baffling. And no, PoE 2 isn't a Soulslike. That was just some bait to get normalfags to pay attention to a genre that they normally wouldn't even touch.

>>717158054
You're talking to retarded children who watched a streamer play and go "lol3hours"

I've been going through the settings to try and figure out which ones are cooking my GPU and for the life of me, I can't tell the difference between "Effects" on Low vs on High, besides the fact that low makes my GPU run 15 degrees cooler.

>>717158506
Effects are like glowy shit and things that explode, particles, etc. Spells and environmentals, that kinda thing.

>>717158637
weird, i feel like i haven't noticed any difference between the two settings

>>717158506
capping the fps and turning the shadows to low/off is always a big difference

>soulslike
kek. no, this is your typical arpg

>>717158803
no teleport spam they said. i dont care what skill it is it is functionally the same thing.

>>717158506
Just hit the quality auto-set button and see where your GPU falls short

It's shit right?

>>717085209 (OP)
I never understood EA. Why would people pay money for a demo?

>>717157535
the waterjet is fucking annoying. you just have to bait it to one side, and once he casts it, teleport/run/dash to the other side so it cant hit you - it has limited range. no other way to dodge it because its like an aimbot lazor

>>717085209 (OP)
Is there Rag-doll physics and do mobs carry mythic weapons shown visually like the OG?

The first thing I read about this game is how the bosses are Souls-like, and I lost all interest because rollslop immediately came to mind when those words came out.

>>717159686
boss has telegraphed attacks that you need to dodge = soulslike
this is the retarded point we're at

>Die vs boss
>Come back and its still there
>Kill it
>Mission doesnt progress because it wasn't the real boss it was just the mob left behind but it cant spawn the boss because its already been killed
God damn it.

>be 20 years ago
>having to avoid the Hydra's poison bite of death is "soulslike"

I'd say zoomers need a lobotomy but it seems like they're missing a frontal cortex altogether

>>717159836
indeed. its a marketing term and should be ignored until we have reports from actual players.

>>717085209 (OP)

Does it actually have some meaningful sort of level design unlike TQ 1 & grimdawn?

>>717145256
That's insanely long for a game with just one act so far. Diablo 2: LoD can be beaten in the same amount of time.

>>717156003
>Do you really need more crit chance when you can easily get 100% from passives alone?
Tooltip went from 16% to 22%, and thats with the -50% crit damage trade off.
if you don't have base crit chance on your weapon, it basically does nothing

>>717160171
i saw people call a game which predate souls trash by a decade soulslike

>>717161050
Its "soulslike" in the thing people said was good about dark souls really early on (""strategic"" combat) was done way better by Blade of Darkness without having input lag out the wazoo and awful sluggish animations. It did it by making positioning actually important.

>>717085209 (OP)
>EA shit

I'll pass, lmk when it's a finished game

>>717161050
miyazaki invented games CHUD, you lost btw

>>717161050
wait... does that make Punch-Out! a soulslike?

>>717161050
>Tank control with a stick up your ass
This trash can't be soulslike

>>717161050
Reminds me of Severance.

>>717161249
>miyazaki invented games
only if you are clueless 12 year old console tard, hes been making the same recycled game with stolen ideas for almost two decades and people finally start to get tired and notice how little creativity this guy has.

>>717161459
haha

>>717143790
Readable continuity, it's very common in films

Done. 15 hours. Worth it.

Going back to Cuntess farming in D2R

>>717161845
Why not Terrorized Andarial?

Is crit bow build the most busted shit in the game currently?
198% crit without vanish, 206& crit with vanish = perma super crit damage (340%+ crit dam)
Doing 3400-3600 damage per trick shot, bosses almost die under a single vanish

>>717158803
How do I emulate that? I hate not having movement skills.

>>717161050
>Attack once
>Double backstep away
This shit is so gay
If this is the best effort at Action RPG the West could come up with no wonder Souls games saved gaming

>>717162412
you act like its really all that different when in reality
>hurr attack once
>double backstep

souls:
>hurr attack once
>roll back durrr

>>717162472
>you act like its really all that different
Yes it is, are you retarded?
>>hurr attack once
>>roll back durrr
If you play like shit that's on you

>>717163038
>enemy swings gigantic club which covers entire screen
>oops i rolled and magically didnt get hit even when the club visibly hit character model

Roll invincibility frames is stupidest mechanic ever and every retard defending it should be shot

>>717163195
mindbroken retard

>>717163467
im not the one sperging out because somebody pointed out fromdrone fanatics and retardation

>>717162472
>you act like its really all that different when in reality
>>hurr attack once
>>double backstep
>souls:
>>hurr attack once
>>roll back durrr

>>717163195
Yes, it is much more realistic for you to be able to cancel out of any action to dodge away instantly.
go back to your dead genre that no one ever liked except combo autists just memorizing sequences who don't want to actually engage with enemies because its too difficult for them.

>>717161319
no, but watching boxers spam roll would be hilarious. they mma now.

>>717163648
Damn the hitboxes are so good

>>717107749
Thank god AI was there to help you do simple division. Without AI who knows how long it would have taken to unravel the mystery of how much damage is dealt per point of energy.

>>717163648
>r2
>walk around
>r2
>walk around
>r2
>r1
>r1

would anons recommend Torchlight 2? i need an ARPG to keep me busy for a week

>>717164513
Nope, it's somehow even more boring than Grimyawn.

>>717164513
only if you want to play some kind of ranged character, the constant knockback in the early to mid game makes melee an absolute chore

>>717164513
No. Play van helsing

>>717085209 (OP)
Can I goon to it. Is someone or something sexy in it

Is Earth like it is in the first game, ie. most of their skills do physical and fire damage so they can scale off either str or int?

>>717165071
Yeah. All of its abilities deal with physical, fire, or both.

>>717155710
Every time you see a thread on /v/ gushing about an ea game you can be sure it's astroturfed. Every. Time.

Where'd you pirate from?

>>717158181
It's a marketing line, that all. It's just a slow, antiquated game with and animations and a dodge button so they call it "soulslike". It's nothing of the sort

>>717164513
Not really. The itemization was pretty poor, I remember HATING how gear would be loaded down with utterly trivial modifiers. Also many skills didn't actually function like the tooltip said they did--maybe that got patched, maybe not. I remember the Mage class had a lot of tooltips that weren't working like you'd THINK they worked by reading the descriptions.

except Unicorn was so much better than SEED
og timeline is shit anyway so nothing matters
also Witch from Mercury and Quuuuuux suck ass
only good one in the series was IBO

Gundam Quest

>>717134698
my 2070 is struggling at true 1080p and the slopscaling options look like ass

>>717165298
skidrowreloaded, its where I find out what games have come out, and the comment section cracks me up

>>717125465
Poo2 already fell for the trap of having Deadeye be the best projectile attack ascendancy

>>717122541
20 for 10 is not bad in the scheme of things
thats a fucking meal at Mcshits now
but it should've been more i am waiting for atleast a couple months/year before i buy

>>717112718
>>717119268
why is it that no diablolike can get itemization right like d2 did?

>>717166041
Good to know they have a rip. Cs has been shit lately

>>717166332
but d2 failed hard at it
>6 billion items
>everyone uses the same 10 items over and over again
what a failure

Does this have WASD movement? seems like it
after playing that indie arpg, slormancer, I kind of realized WASD is actually a million times better for this type of game.

>>717164105
>You press buttons
Wow you truly got him

>>717166448
It does.

Post the female character creation otherwise I dont care

>>717118871
An Unity game running bad is pretty much always the fault of the developer. An Unreal game running bad is to be expected.

>>717166623
but she's so easy to work with

>>717166380
but that's not even true

there will always be the concept of BIS but diablo 2 has so many options and you likely won't even see your BIS unless you spend massive amounts of time grinding away on hell

>>717166474
nice, thanks for the confirmation anon

>>717123713
>>no left mouse attack
there is

>>717166460
>buttons
>plural
lmao

>>717166623
First choice looks nice.

>>717158181
soulsshitters have brain damage

>>717155710
Sounds exactly like how I remember TQ1

>>717167285
Then you should revisit TQ1

>>717092479
GD has another expack on the way.

>>717167474
not really, aside from the 4 classes thing he's right about everything else

>>717167285
active skill customization in TQ2 is kinda cool imo

>>717166380
>everyone uses the same 10 items over and over again
Guides and autists min-maxxing their torch by crashing the server will always do that, in practise you will never manage to farm those items unless you specifically trade for them and that would require a lot of Istn which is still a waste of time when you can still do very well without because no, you don't need an enigma on your paladin to roll over the ubers.

>>717121801
Is that big crab even in the game? I don't remember fighting him

So what is the current meme tech?

>>717123713
> playing arpgs with a mouse

>>717158803
Blink is fucking useless and completely subpar to the standard low CD dodge

WASD movement, slower paced to allow for dodge and positioning, differences between weapons of different types, no potion spam combat. The game is very much inspired by the Soulslike PoE2 approach
Anyone who says it isn't didn't play it or played the first hour and barely got through shitter fodder

the original titan quest isn't exactly what I'd call fast paced either

what are the masteries available now and why do these retarded devs don't put it on the fucking store page? Like I'm supposed to just buy an arpg without even knowing what class I can play

>>717168549
It's early access so they're not all present, but right now you have:

>Warfare
>Rogue
>Storm
>Earth

And obviously you combine two like in the original

>>717168632
Thanks. That sounds extremely uninteresting, I guess I'll wait for a while.

>>717168856
it's even more uninteresting.
every icon on the right is a flavor of % increased damage
the icons on the left are the active skills, the one I got specced is the obligatory aura, which is just % increased damage

>>717085209 (OP)
Solid foundation, satisfying graphics/environments/combat/animations/sounds, etc. but I 100%'d the game in 8 hours, and the build diversity is also very lacking. Now I'm waiting for updates, which will apparently be once every 3 months.

I hope every update will have at least 1 act, 1 mastery and a few other things to keep people playing, because if the updates aren't substantial, then this game is going onto my "just wait for 1.0" list.

>about 6h
i liked parts of it and want more

>>717170024
I'm honestly hoping for some performance optimization too because getting under 60 fps without fake frames tucked in just feels bad. Frame generation tech was a mistake.

The thing i hated the most in this souless 2 cash grab is that the enemies don't ragdoll when you smash them like the original, also, they didn't drop the exactly epic item they were carrying it. Seriously, it was so fucking big of a dopamine hit when you see that enemy with a cool ass weapon, you killed it and it dropped, 10/10

>>717166623
kek, they didn't dare to make male/female, but they were afraid of backlash, so they also pussied out of making it type 1/2.

>>717085209 (OP)
FUCK UE5 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>717098042
>UE5
Expecting good performance

it runs okay

>>717172556
Are we playing the same game? Everything ragdolls unless you shatter a frozen enemy. Maybe try using an actual smashing attack if you want to see them go flying. Heavy Attack from the Warfare mastery works well.

Unless you somehow fucked your settings so that ragdoll effects don't display. Then I can't help you.

How much of this game is a loot treadmill? I avoid diablo 2/path of exile because I don't feel like repeating the same area/boss a thousand times to get the most optimized pair of boots.

Is the actual gameplay good or no?

>>717174052
>How much of this game is a loot treadmill? I avoid diablo 2/path of exile because I don't feel like repeating the same area/boss a thousand times to get the most optimized pair of boots.
Zero for now. There is only Act 1 and it can be done with random gear you find on the way.

>>717174172
Was the first tootan kwoost a loot treadmill a-la diablo 2 or no? I never played it.

>>717174052
It depends on what you want to get out of a game like this. I play D2R a lot for the loot farming because getting the drop feels rewarding, like a slot machine. If that's not your thing, then TQ2 at least has much better level design and environments than D2R, at the cost of the loss of level randomization. If your PC can handle it, the game looks rather good. The challenge of the combat is a Rorschach test. If you feel that being punished for failing to dodge extremely well-telegraphed attacks makes it a "soulslike", then Cookie Clicker is probably more your speed.

Just killed Pan
my build feels weak, that fight was way too long
but otherwise seems solid for a first boss

>>717174052
>loot treadmill
item progression and character build autism is entire point of playing h&s genre, If you're expecting something different, you're in the wrong place.

>>717085209 (OP)
very generic plus a UE5slop

>>717174052
There’s really no need to grind loot at the moment the game throws enough at you to be able to follow

Is Rogue and Storm a good combo?

>>717174052
>I don't feel like repeating the same area/boss a thousand times to get the most optimized pair of boots
This is not usually something you have to be concerned about until very late into the game. TQ2 doesn't even have enough content that would require you to minmax your build.

>>717174052
>How much of this game is a loot treadmill?
Titan Quest 1 is much more of a "play through the story and have fun with a couple of builds" kind of game rather than trying to grind some endgame for 1000 hours. I suspect that TQ2 will also mostly follow that, but they have said that there will be some kind of endgame as well. So who knows. Right now there's only ~8 hours of content, so it's impossible to say.

>Is the actual gameplay good or no?
Yes, the gameplay itself is good. The main complaint is 1) severe lack of content, 2) lack of build diversity which will get fixed along the way with more masteries, 3) optimization. All 3 are fairly easy to fix.

>>717174274
It was. I almost got sick of gorgon farming for a decent pair of gloves (stonebinder's cuffs)

>>717168078
console peasants don't belong here

>>717174274
I think i only farmed some monsters for like half a hour when doing all the story in all difficultly modes. My build was a bit weak later, so others probably dont even need that.
It was not a good game, even more compared to 'modern games'

Runs at ~90 FPS on Epic on my gaymen PC, pretty poor optimization.

>>717174365
>>717174579
>>717174709
>>717174719
thanks

>>717174768
I was pretty fucking shocked when the game made my GPU blast away at 400W, because the game doesn't look THAT good. Then I enabled DLSS and 2x frame generation, and it went to 150-180W instead and my total input only went up by 3ms.

Seems like they only tested it with 4000/5000 series cards with DLSS and frame gen on.

>>717174052
D2 is most fun when you just play it to reach and kill Hell Baal on a new character. That's the game for me. Whatever pointless grinding there is to do after that is just that, pointless.

I think TQ2 has potential to be that type of game that you can occasionally go back to, roll a new character and play it through. Of course right now the content isn't there.

Sacred 1 might interest you. It's a bit of a pain to get running on modern systems but it's a large hand crafted world with quite a bit of freedom on how to proceed through it.

>>717122978
anon the devs who made titan quest made a new studio and made grim dawn
nutitan quest is a completely different studio

Anyone have a masteries combo tier list yet?

>>717174996
D2 is very dated at this point but u still couldnt finish hell content without grinding runes and gear, you absolutely would not be able to do Ubers without high level and great gear. Grim Dawn which is much more modern and has some late game content has multiple secret bosses and crucible you absolutely need to get top tier items if you want to have a chance

Im getting major restartitis lol. Same with TQ1 and GrimDawn. Class combos fuck with my autism but it's always the most fun.

>>717174662
Someone already asked. Rogue by itself is OP for DPS. Storm is great for CC. Turn your fucking brain on and make it work. If you're a real nignog, you can always respec and try something else.

TQ2 really needs an arena mode where you can start from lvl 1, work on a rudimentary build - then choose to run it in campaign if you want. The Crucible was the most fun thing about GrimDawn imo.

>>717174365
>If you feel that being punished for failing to dodge extremely well-telegraphed attacks makes it a "soulslike", then Cookie Clicker is probably more your speed.
"Soulslike" has nothing to do with difficulty, you massive retard.
A game can be easy as fuck and still have Soulslike mechanics, and that's the case with TQ2

>>717175502
NTA, but is there an ARPG on the market that is ever hard or challenging?

>>717175336
>but u still couldnt finish hell content without grinding runes and gear
Some builds have a harder time but I just finished a druid run yesterday and I didn't grind for anything. I didn't even do baal runs on normal or nightmare. This was in D2R. If you play PD2 it's even easier.

>Ubers
Who cares? You grind a bunch for the keys to get a random torch and then what? You grind a bunch more. For what? To grind more again? The game ends when you kill Hell Baal.

>>717175287
just play the game

>>717085209 (OP)
if I can't turn off the controls plastered on everything then it's shit

>>717175287
the most broken thing at the moment is crit so rogue is probably the highest tier

>>717085209 (OP)
So is the itemization good like D2 or is it bad like most modern slop arpgs?

>>717175852
The item drop density is much lower than other ARPGs, which is the same as TQ1. You also get way more grey's and whites. Really depends on what you think "good" itemization is.

>>717175929
>Really depends on what you think "good" itemization is.
The main thing for me is i want gear to stay good even if you level up. Like how in D2 with skin of the vipermagi still being an amazing chest armor even at high levels when it only requiers level 29.

There are a bunch of items like that in D2.

>earth mastery no longer has a tanky summon
my disappointment is immeasurable

>>717175793
Infinite Storm icicle is maybe not as hard hitting, but still broken, you can fill the screen with homing, piercing projectiles from a very safe range, for almost no mana cost. Throw in the blizzard for extra cc + dmg and watch stuff melt.

>>717176113
Probably will be added when they add Nature, Rogue doesn't have their sentries, Storm their wisp pet.

>>717176170
webm?

>>717176080
TQ1 and 2 have BiS gear that drops at low level. Other than that...most gear is trash like in any ARPG lol.

>>717176227
I have none, but if you can stomach modern youtubers (or just mute in advance), here's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9EUwk5VAQE
Or look up "tq2 icicle build", they all play the same

>>717176343
thanks, that looks pretty cool
mages in tq1 were underwhelming, both with effects and damage

Why do I get the feeling that something big is supposed to crawl out of the gaping hole in the middle of Howling Stone Ruins but I only ended up fighting smaller ghost wolves from the side dens?

Which boss are you guys farming for epic gear? Aristomenes drops jack squat. Hippo seems to drop the most but she's annoying to fight.

>>717175596
Most of the "challenge" exists in the form of community-related things. Such as PvP in D2, speedruns, leaderboards, and so on. The only ARPG that maybe has somewhat challenging bosses is a few endgame PoE bosses that actually has mechanics, but even then you can also mostly outgear them if you really grind.

Is there a drop table of monster infrequents somewhere? I'd like to know where to farm.

>the absolute state of the ARPG genre is so dire that people are resorting to min/maxing builds and grinding gear in a 6 hour demo
Fucking hell.

>>717177223
I was just about to say something like this. Most ARPG fans are meta-whores anyway, then complain the game is too easy.

yikes

Is Aristinoe voiced by Minthara's VA from BG3?

>>717177223
>>717177365
this is the damage that PoE did

>>717177592
Not Diablo 2 and 3? lol

>>717178037
D2 had the popular builds that were actually good but people always played all sorts of weird shit

D3 maybe shares some of the blame but PoE is definitely where that sort of meta faggotry and guide slurping set in for this genre

I get it now. GrimDawn is the true Titan's Quest 2.

I think there just needs to be more abilities and in the long run add some capstones that really exemplify the fusion of the two masteries