Grimoire Thread

[Baff]

Just out of curiosity and an observation, he repeatedly says he worked on it "alone" and he was a "one-man team" quite often, yet the credits list other people including around 10 testers.

Yes, other people have been involved, he has made no secret of that. For the first 10 years, Cleve did 95% of the work involved on Grimoire. For the last 10 years, he has done 99.9% of the work.

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

I can't imagine the hurt he must be feeling when people call the work of art he has devoted 20 years of his life an early access.

Early access is where it should have gone, though, and it's nothing to be ashamed for. The game is really good and definitely worth the price tag for me from what I've seen so far (12 hours in and about 5% of areas according to in-game stats), but a single man with a handful of testers cannot realistically expect to catch all bugs or anticipate all possible issues with different hardware/OS combinations. AoD spent around two years in EA I think after all, as did Underrail.

Going full release put a lot more pressure on Cleve, and it shows -- the game doesn't really seem to have had too many serious bugs on release, and I don't think the balancing is quite as off/hard to fix as some make it sound, either, it's just that hasty patches that break as many things as they fix and only ever get more erratic would make anything look like a mess.

 

[DawnrazorDCLXVI]

Latest update made my save invalid.

Cleve is scanning saves and deleting those with bad party compositions. If you think about it he is saving you from a world of hurt down the line, which is pretty

Spoiler

It sucks but the game does have its share of teething problems. Hang in there!

Yeah, I had to create a separate folder under my apps just to get the game to run after the latest update.

Btw, still confused about the stats thing. I've rolled a naga with 30 points before, but still no option for assassin class? What am I doing wrong?

 

[groke]

Finally got my backer key. The tears won't stop flowing. Truly, I have seen the golden, cupidinian face of god.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Steam review score's falling rapidly, down to 66% already.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

They're still coming

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

 

[bataille]

Spoiler

She's real

 

[Mech]

This might seem super obvious, but has anyone tried launching Grimoire.exe with admin rights to see if it fixes the overwriting saves issue?

Sounds like a pretty basic UAC issue.

 

[Rick]

This might seem super obvious, but has anyone tried launching Grimoire.exe with admin rights to see if it fixes the overwriting saves issue?

Sounds like a pretty basic UAC issue.

I did, and it didn't work.

You think it's saving (no error handling, so no feedback) but it doesn't do the save.

 

[Musaab]

His hatred of faggots has made me feel more secure in my purchase.

 

[Mech]

This might seem super obvious, but has anyone tried launching Grimoire.exe with admin rights to see if it fixes the overwriting saves issue?

Sounds like a pretty basic UAC issue.

I did, and it didn't work.

You think it's saving (no error handling, so no feedback) but it doesn't do the save.

Interesting. My next guess is the function which saves games was modified to use the new directory, but Cleve forgot to update the part of the code that handles overwriting files.

If someone feels like testing.... copy an existing save game file into the OLD directory, then play the game and load that save file, move a bit, and then save over top of it. Next check that save file in the OLD directory and see if it was updated.

 

[hogcranker]

I know I said I would wait for the manual, but the pull is strong...maybe I should just play Wiz 6 or 7 and consider that education enough?

That's my plan. Never finished either. Time to change that.

 

[bataille]

This is indeed unusual.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

VERY interesting stream.
The guy beat 99% of the game and it took him roughtly 559 hours:

 

[Themadcow]

Start, go through the same sections, critical fail, patch, start again, experience is similar but yet different, fail, patch, start again...

Cleve has invented the first Blobber game inspired by The Stanley Parable.

 

[Filthy Sauce]

Dumb question - is it possible to delete saves in game?

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Dumb question - is it possible to delete saves in game?

With the problems with the current patch you have to delete the saves manually in the folder

 

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Dumb question - is it possible to delete saves in game?

Can't see a way in game. I've been deleting them by hand in the latest version. As a hopeless & unsightly save scummer, this is what I imagine the "walk of shame" is like for people capable of interpersonal relations.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Not sure speculating about viruses in Grimoire is the best move right now, but I'm probably mostly Sapiens so can't see past the short term

GOLDEN ERA GAMES [developer] Just now
Something Has Messed Up Grimoire So Badly I Can't Even Understand How It Is Possible
It has lost the ability with simple ANSI C file commands to overwrite a file or delete an existing one. I have never seen anything like it in thirty years of programming, never, on an application anywhere. "NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE" is not a windows message. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

The sample savegames were uploaded by people pirating the software. That was a pirated version they uploaded. There were pirates asking for support on this forum. I don't know if they have introduced a very ugly virus into the program. I trusted them when I had a look at their samples but discovered later these are all pirated copies they were ASKING FOR SUPPORT for on this forum.

These are simple file commands to create, write and erase files. I took out ALL file commands to get permissions for user app files and rolled BACK to what was there before. There is nothing to these commands, no special windows tokens for users, no file specs on files. I deleted my target directory and started in a new one. The problem is still there. Grimoire can't even simple create files, erase them and write news ones. I have never seen something so messed up.

This is why we can't have nice things on this planet.

I am running my AV software with new definitions and trying some new things with file permissions, I have to work carefully and see if I can isolate the problem. These aren't fancy Windows file writes we are talking about. These are vanilla C commands working for 20 years, never had a problem of any kind.

I am really sorry about this and working constantly on the problem. It's a shame because the game was just now reaching a nice stable version before this nightmare. Now it has basically been sabotaged in Steam ratings and is giving newcomers a terrible impression of the game.

Warning anybody who posts to this forum for support for a pirated product you got off Dropbox or Megashare that you will be banned permanently, reported to Steam and it is likely they will remove your account for pirating products you got off Steam.

 

[DarKPenguiN]

GOLDEN ERA GAMES [developer] Just now
Something Has Messed Up Grimoire So Badly I Can't Even Understand How It Is Possible
It has lost the ability with simple ANSI C file commands to overwrite a file or delete an existing one. I have never seen anything like it in thirty years of programming, never, on an application anywhere. "NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE" is not a windows message. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

The sample savegames were uploaded by people pirating the software. That was a pirated version they uploaded. There were pirates asking for support on this forum. I don't know if they have introduced a very ugly virus into the program. I trusted them when I had a look at their samples but discovered later these are all pirated copies they were ASKING FOR SUPPORT for on this forum.

These are simple file commands to create, write and erase files. I took out ALL file commands to get permissions for user app files and rolled BACK to what was there before. There is nothing to these commands, no special windows tokens for users, no file specs on files. I deleted my target directory and started in a new one. The problem is still there. Grimoire can't even simple create files, erase them and write news ones. I have never seen something so messed up.

This is why we can't have nice things on this planet.

I am running my AV software with new definitions and trying some new things with file permissions, I have to work carefully and see if I can isolate the problem. These aren't fancy Windows file writes we are talking about. These are vanilla C commands working for 20 years, never had a problem of any kind.

I am really sorry about this and working constantly on the problem. It's a shame because the game was just now reaching a nice stable version before this nightmare. Now it has basically been sabotaged in Steam ratings and is giving newcomers a terrible impression of the game.

Wait- What does this even mean.

Can someone translate please?

edit: Anyone?

 

[Themadcow]

GOLDEN ERA GAMES [developer] Just now
Something Has Messed Up Grimoire So Badly I Can't Even Understand How It Is Possible
It has lost the ability with simple ANSI C file commands to overwrite a file or delete an existing one. I have never seen anything like it in thirty years of programming, never, on an application anywhere. "NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE" is not a windows message. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

The sample savegames were uploaded by people pirating the software. That was a pirated version they uploaded. There were pirates asking for support on this forum. I don't know if they have introduced a very ugly virus into the program. I trusted them when I had a look at their samples but discovered later these are all pirated copies they were ASKING FOR SUPPORT for on this forum.

These are simple file commands to create, write and erase files. I took out ALL file commands to get permissions for user app files and rolled BACK to what was there before. There is nothing to these commands, no special windows tokens for users, no file specs on files. I deleted my target directory and started in a new one. The problem is still there. Grimoire can't even simple create files, erase them and write news ones. I have never seen something so messed up.

This is why we can't have nice things on this planet.

I am running my AV software with new definitions and trying some new things with file permissions, I have to work carefully and see if I can isolate the problem. These aren't fancy Windows file writes we are talking about. These are vanilla C commands working for 20 years, never had a problem of any kind.

I am really sorry about this and working constantly on the problem. It's a shame because the game was just now reaching a nice stable version before this nightmare. Now it has basically been sabotaged in Steam ratings and is giving newcomers a terrible impression of the game.

Wait- What does this even mean.

Can someone translate please?

Soros has paid Isreali Russian hackers to halt the incline.

 

[Mech]

GOLDEN ERA GAMES [developer] Just now
Something Has Messed Up Grimoire So Badly I Can't Even Understand How It Is Possible
It has lost the ability with simple ANSI C file commands to overwrite a file or delete an existing one. I have never seen anything like it in thirty years of programming, never, on an application anywhere. "NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE" is not a windows message. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

The sample savegames were uploaded by people pirating the software. That was a pirated version they uploaded. There were pirates asking for support on this forum. I don't know if they have introduced a very ugly virus into the program. I trusted them when I had a look at their samples but discovered later these are all pirated copies they were ASKING FOR SUPPORT for on this forum.

These are simple file commands to create, write and erase files. I took out ALL file commands to get permissions for user app files and rolled BACK to what was there before. There is nothing to these commands, no special windows tokens for users, no file specs on files. I deleted my target directory and started in a new one. The problem is still there. Grimoire can't even simple create files, erase them and write news ones. I have never seen something so messed up.

This is why we can't have nice things on this planet.

I am running my AV software with new definitions and trying some new things with file permissions, I have to work carefully and see if I can isolate the problem. These aren't fancy Windows file writes we are talking about. These are vanilla C commands working for 20 years, never had a problem of any kind.

I am really sorry about this and working constantly on the problem. It's a shame because the game was just now reaching a nice stable version before this nightmare. Now it has basically been sabotaged in Steam ratings and is giving newcomers a terrible impression of the game.

Wait- What does this even mean.

Can someone translate please?

Simple: Grimoire is doomed.

 

[DarKPenguiN]

GOLDEN ERA GAMES [developer] Just now
Something Has Messed Up Grimoire So Badly I Can't Even Understand How It Is Possible
It has lost the ability with simple ANSI C file commands to overwrite a file or delete an existing one. I have never seen anything like it in thirty years of programming, never, on an application anywhere. "NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE" is not a windows message. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

The sample savegames were uploaded by people pirating the software. That was a pirated version they uploaded. There were pirates asking for support on this forum. I don't know if they have introduced a very ugly virus into the program. I trusted them when I had a look at their samples but discovered later these are all pirated copies they were ASKING FOR SUPPORT for on this forum.

These are simple file commands to create, write and erase files. I took out ALL file commands to get permissions for user app files and rolled BACK to what was there before. There is nothing to these commands, no special windows tokens for users, no file specs on files. I deleted my target directory and started in a new one. The problem is still there. Grimoire can't even simple create files, erase them and write news ones. I have never seen something so messed up.

This is why we can't have nice things on this planet.

I am running my AV software with new definitions and trying some new things with file permissions, I have to work carefully and see if I can isolate the problem. These aren't fancy Windows file writes we are talking about. These are vanilla C commands working for 20 years, never had a problem of any kind.

I am really sorry about this and working constantly on the problem. It's a shame because the game was just now reaching a nice stable version before this nightmare. Now it has basically been sabotaged in Steam ratings and is giving newcomers a terrible impression of the game.

Wait- What does this even mean.

Can someone translate please?

Soros has paid Isreali Russian hackers to halt the incline.

exactly what thought.

Thank you for the clarification.

Damn Soros.

 

[DarKPenguiN]

GOLDEN ERA GAMES [developer] Just now
Something Has Messed Up Grimoire So Badly I Can't Even Understand How It Is Possible
It has lost the ability with simple ANSI C file commands to overwrite a file or delete an existing one. I have never seen anything like it in thirty years of programming, never, on an application anywhere. "NO, DON'T OVERWRITE THIS FILE" is not a windows message. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

The sample savegames were uploaded by people pirating the software. That was a pirated version they uploaded. There were pirates asking for support on this forum. I don't know if they have introduced a very ugly virus into the program. I trusted them when I had a look at their samples but discovered later these are all pirated copies they were ASKING FOR SUPPORT for on this forum.

These are simple file commands to create, write and erase files. I took out ALL file commands to get permissions for user app files and rolled BACK to what was there before. There is nothing to these commands, no special windows tokens for users, no file specs on files. I deleted my target directory and started in a new one. The problem is still there. Grimoire can't even simple create files, erase them and write news ones. I have never seen something so messed up.

This is why we can't have nice things on this planet.

I am running my AV software with new definitions and trying some new things with file permissions, I have to work carefully and see if I can isolate the problem. These aren't fancy Windows file writes we are talking about. These are vanilla C commands working for 20 years, never had a problem of any kind.

I am really sorry about this and working constantly on the problem. It's a shame because the game was just now reaching a nice stable version before this nightmare. Now it has basically been sabotaged in Steam ratings and is giving newcomers a terrible impression of the game.

Wait- What does this even mean.

Can someone translate please?

Simple: Grimoire is doomed.

No but seriously.

Pirates somehow (?) got their code into the game and made it all screwed up by putting in save files for support...

Ahhh nvm- I'm at a loss and dont understand all this tech stuff.

Just want my grim-wah =(

edit- Its does sound pretty bad though.