Wolcen Hype Release!

^ PoE didn't and doesnt have offline. Waiting 3 hours in a queue to play PoE wasnt exactly ideal at launch.

We won't even go into desync and connection issues, collision problems, and hit detection. PoE HAD PROBLEMS, for years. Wolcen had server issues for days because MASSIVE amounts of people beyond their expectations wanted to play.

Edit: Wolcen mechanics and bugs presumably will be addressed and tweaked. Obviously it's not perfect, but the ridiculous rose tinted PoE memories from 2013 are annoying

Grim dawn can be played offline. You saw such a failed launch with it? No you did not.

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Nosferat wrote:

Grim dawn can be played offline. You saw such a failed launch with it? No you did not.

Wolcen offline is/was fine.

I played 40+ hours with no issues. Sure there are balance & mechanics that need tweaked, but seriously this narrative of "failed launch" is absurd. It didn't fail.

I love the game even with all the bugs. It will get better, just give them some time to polish it.

I lost probably around 10 hours because of a bug where if you have non-english characters (like é) in the path to your saved game it will just not save.

Then they fixed it in the last patch but now I could not see my characters anymore, had to move my Saved games folder to its original place.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

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Nosferat wrote:

Grim dawn can be played offline. You saw such a failed launch with it? No you did not.

Wolcen offline is/was fine.

I played 40+ hours with no issues. Sure there are balance & mechanics that need tweaked, but seriously this narrative of "failed launch" is absurd. It didn't fail.

We will have to disagree on that, on what the meaning of "failed launch" is, as in what those words mean. Did it have some minor issues that can be glanced over? Or does it still have major game breaking bugs,even in the offline mode?

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Nosferat wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

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Nosferat wrote:

Grim dawn can be played offline. You saw such a failed launch with it? No you did not.

Wolcen offline is/was fine.

I played 40+ hours with no issues. Sure there are balance & mechanics that need tweaked, but seriously this narrative of "failed launch" is absurd. It didn't fail.

We will have to disagree on that, on what the meaning of "failed launch" is, as in what those words mean. Did it have some minor issues that can be glanced over? Or does it still have major game breaking bugs,even in the offline mode?

Perhaps you don't fully understand bugs and technical issues with balance and skill interactions.

What game-breaking bugs are in offline?

Using passives/gems/equipment to get 100% block and block efficiency isn't a bug, its balance issue. Having a skill modifier in bleeding edge that gives dmg per aliment, but there is not limit on ailments, isnt a bug, it's a balance issue. Even the Bane of Tyranny node, which provided 2000% of you had 50^ block on your shield wasnt a bug. It did exactly what it said. It needed to be adjusted/corrected but it wasnt a bug, it worked fine.

If you are going to go to chinese symbols causing character corruption as a objective reason for a "failed launch", fine. I think that's dumb but whatever. Most of what you read is hyperbolic parroting of negative narratives.

One thing I noticed that Wolcen is doing a fantastic job in is there cosmetics. The customization and making your character look the way you want it to look is a pretty big deal for a lot of people. They've already said awhile back they will be bringing in additional dyes, cosmetics etc. So if what I'm already seeing gets even better that's a huge potential $$$ revenue for them to keep the game going. I saw some pretty cool ones already on reddit, one dude had a spider man one, and there was a terminator one too.


I'm getting close to finishing act 3, I haven't had time to really play. My biggest gripe is the clunky movement still, it's better but it still sucks. I think they are working towards being able to bind move only on the left mouse button and that should help. I think one of the biggest/coolest thing so far I saw in the game was the overview of the battle you saw from the cliff in act 3.
Someone made a few second video of what I'm talking about. Anyways, really enjoy Aether Blades, makes me feel like I'm Templar assassin from Dota 2.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wolcen/comments/f6qy1w/look_at_them_go/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

By far the best take I've seen on Wolcen so far. Short, sweet, vivid and relatable - https://youtu.be/_1OpbL04jII xD

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Perhaps you don't fully understand bugs and technical issues with balance and skill interactions.

What game-breaking bugs are in offline?

Using passives/gems/equipment to get 100% block and block efficiency isn't a bug, its balance issue. Having a skill modifier in bleeding edge that gives dmg per aliment, but there is not limit on ailments, isnt a bug, it's a balance issue. Even the Bane of Tyranny node, which provided 2000% of you had 50^ block on your shield wasnt a bug. It did exactly what it said. It needed to be adjusted/corrected but it wasnt a bug, it worked fine.

If you are going to go to chinese symbols causing character corruption as a objective reason for a "failed launch", fine. I think that's dumb but whatever. Most of what you read is hyperbolic parroting of negative narratives.

Perhaps we should have a debate on some words,and the meaning of what those words mean. Simply because I see you writing those words,and I do know for a FACT that the words you write do not have the meaning of what you think they have.

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Nosferat wrote:

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Perhaps you don't fully understand bugs and technical issues with balance and skill interactions.

What game-breaking bugs are in offline?

Using passives/gems/equipment to get 100% block and block efficiency isn't a bug, its balance issue. Having a skill modifier in bleeding edge that gives dmg per aliment, but there is not limit on ailments, isnt a bug, it's a balance issue. Even the Bane of Tyranny node, which provided 2000% of you had 50^ block on your shield wasnt a bug. It did exactly what it said. It needed to be adjusted/corrected but it wasnt a bug, it worked fine.

If you are going to go to chinese symbols causing character corruption as a objective reason for a "failed launch", fine. I think that's dumb but whatever. Most of what you read is hyperbolic parroting of negative narratives.

Perhaps we should have a debate on some words,and the meaning of what those words mean. Simply because I see you writing those words,and I do know for a FACT that the words you write do not have the meaning of what you think they have.

Debate? Lol.

If you don't know the difference between bug and balance idk what to say.

I suppose it doesnt matter anyways. I'm not going to try and convince you that a game that sold insanely well, had more concurrent players on Steam than PoE ever did, and dominated Twitch, didnt fail.

For the record I'm a big PoE fan. I've been playing for the better part of 8 years. Ive given them thousands of dollars in support. I've never played a game this long (maybe D2?). PoE is the better game.

But I'm not a clueless fanboi spewing toxicity, or ridiculous narratives of other games in the genre. Its childish and petty. (Not to mention in this case, totally untrue)

Edit: lol are minion builds bugged, or do they need balance in PoE?