Grimoire Thread

[Deleted Member 16721]

Save scumming for HP at level up is such incredible decline to begin with. Roll with the mf'n punches that the game is designed to throw at you.

 

[Darth Roxor]

i wish you could separate item stacks in the fucking inventory

or is this another super-hidden arcane feature like dropping things?

 

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Write A Review For Grimoire!
27 Jan @ 5:18am - GOLDEN ERA GAMES
If you have played Grimoire and enjoyed it, please write a review for it!

If 10% of the players who have enjoyed Grimoire would write a review of it, the game would be rated overwhelmingly positive in only 24 hours.

Early on, Grimoire was subject to an organized campaign that was coordinated on Reddit, Quarter to Three, Broken Forum and many private forums with political slants (no gamers, just social justice warriors) to abuse the refund policy on Steam by purchasing the game, letting it run for a few minutes and then writing a bad review before asking for a refund. Many of these "reviews" made it obvious that the "owner" had never played the game and almost looked like it was copied and pasted in from a forum somewhere, basically rehashing things that never happened and bugs that never were and issues that only existed in the minds of people at Reddit. This was all politically motivated by the same sort of people who screamed at the sky in public in huge crowds because Donald Trump won the election. For example, over a hundred people agreed on a forum that it was racist and cultural appropriation that one of the pirates in the game was named "Black Pierre." I wish I could make stuff up like this, it would make for a fantastic narrative but I am afraid even my talents fall short in the face of this kind of delusional thinking. I'm glad now I never put in that "Blackboard Puzzle" I was thinking about that was solved using "Oreo" cookies.

Incredibly, many of the people who "refunded" the game simply made a pirate copy and have been playing the game for over a year, whilst asking for support on the forum and playing very intensively for hundreds of hours. With the release of V2, I started to ban these people if they didn't have the purchase icon beside their names on the forum. You have to draw the line somewhere.

I estimate based on downloads from pirate sites that Grimoire has been downloaded and played by over a 100,000 people for well over a hundred hours on average. I don't really care about piracy because I wasn't making a game like Grimoire for pirates. I was making it for fans of the genre.

Any game that goes on Steam has to put up with some of the great diversity in the Steam user pool, which is considerable. I don't believe Grimoire currently has a fair rating on Steam at all and I think it's been deliberately skewed by politically motivated attacks the same as Donald Trump has been in the newspapers the past 3 years. If you want to help correct this situation and you enjoyed playing the game, please take 5 minutes to post a review.

The average game on Steam is never played at all or else only a couple hours before it is abandoned forever. Grimoire is one of the only games on Steam that people can play for 300 hours and then complain because they think this or that race does not recharge mana fast enough - or because their party got killed by a monster. Think about how crazy that is, then think about that plus a person who has actually pirated the game complaining in this fashion. You can see why supporting users on Steam can be very "challenging" and now you know why people call them "precious snowflakes." There's entitlement ... then there is entitlement. If you want to help Grimoire and you enjoy the game, please take a few minutes to write a review.

 

[Spiky]

Looks like our beloved thal retard can be polite when he needs something

 

[DoomIhlVaria]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/650670/announcements/detail/1689315044323673034

Write A Review For Grimoire!
27 Jan @ 5:18am - GOLDEN ERA GAMES
If you have played Grimoire and enjoyed it, please write a review for it!

If 10% of the players who have enjoyed Grimoire would write a review of it, the game would be rated overwhelmingly positive in only 24 hours.

Early on, Grimoire was subject to an organized campaign that was coordinated on Reddit, Quarter to Three, Broken Forum and many private forums with political slants (no gamers, just social justice warriors) to abuse the refund policy on Steam by purchasing the game, letting it run for a few minutes and then writing a bad review before asking for a refund. Many of these "reviews" made it obvious that the "owner" had never played the game and almost looked like it was copied and pasted in from a forum somewhere, basically rehashing things that never happened and bugs that never were and issues that only existed in the minds of people at Reddit. This was all politically motivated by the same sort of people who screamed at the sky in public in huge crowds because Donald Trump won the election. For example, over a hundred people agreed on a forum that it was racist and cultural appropriation that one of the pirates in the game was named "Black Pierre." I wish I could make stuff up like this, it would make for a fantastic narrative but I am afraid even my talents fall short in the face of this kind of delusional thinking. I'm glad now I never put in that "Blackboard Puzzle" I was thinking about that was solved using "Oreo" cookies.

Incredibly, many of the people who "refunded" the game simply made a pirate copy and have been playing the game for over a year, whilst asking for support on the forum and playing very intensively for hundreds of hours. With the release of V2, I started to ban these people if they didn't have the purchase icon beside their names on the forum. You have to draw the line somewhere.

I estimate based on downloads from pirate sites that Grimoire has been downloaded and played by over a 100,000 people for well over a hundred hours on average. I don't really care about piracy because I wasn't making a game like Grimoire for pirates. I was making it for fans of the genre.

Any game that goes on Steam has to put up with some of the great diversity in the Steam user pool, which is considerable. I don't believe Grimoire currently has a fair rating on Steam at all and I think it's been deliberately skewed by politically motivated attacks the same as Donald Trump has been in the newspapers the past 3 years. If you want to help correct this situation and you enjoyed playing the game, please take 5 minutes to post a review.

The average game on Steam is never played at all or else only a couple hours before it is abandoned forever. Grimoire is one of the only games on Steam that people can play for 300 hours and then complain because they think this or that race does not recharge mana fast enough - or because their party got killed by a monster. Think about how crazy that is, then think about that plus a person who has actually pirated the game complaining in this fashion. You can see why supporting users on Steam can be very "challenging" and now you know why people call them "precious snowflakes." There's entitlement ... then there is entitlement. If you want to help Grimoire and you enjoy the game, please take a few minutes to write a review.

Done.

 

[Viata]

I don't really care about piracy

I started to ban these people if they didn't have the purchase icon beside their names on the forum

 

[Dorateen]

Anyone else catch this?

GOLDEN ERA GAMES [developer] 1 hour ago

I always wanted a mini-game that was Rogue-like actually embedded inside Grimoire that you would play. I may still put this in at some future point. It's hard to let it go. In the meanwhile there are still plenty of tweaks and adjustments coming in the next update, have to get those sorted out.

 

[Darth Roxor]

With the read magic spell, I wouldn't say raising Scribe is that important.

Maybe not for normal spellbooks, but for Arcanum and Eldritch stuff you need quite high Scribe skills. And the Read Magic spellbook needs to be found first too.

I don't think Arcanum and Eldritch spellbooks are even based on Scribe, especially since failing to scribe them increases the Arcanum skill.

 

[Lady_Error]

I don't think Arcanum and Eldritch spellbooks are even based on Scribe, especially since failing to scribe them increases the Arcanum skill.

I guess only Cleve knows for sure. My impression was that Read Magic did help significantly with scribing those as well. Or maybe scribing them relies (also?) on the Arcanum skill - which by the way is only for Arcanum spells and not Eldritch spells apparently.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I just pumped Arcanum to 100 by scribing an Eldritch spell, so...

 

[Sonic Titan]

I will be writing a review when I get the chance. Immersed as fuck right now, and I’m quite new to classic blobber RPGs.

So much to catch up on now that my palette is whet.

Now to cure this damned disease on my berserker.

 

[Rpguy]

GOLDEN ERA GAMES [developer] 1 hour ago

Sir Fuzzbotham - so that you know, I am not "far right" in my politics. "Far right" is a label somebody else applied to me. What I am is not comprehensible to ordinary people despite their pretensions otherwise. I am sure you have known mongoloid children. They might consider you "far right" because you do not believe they should be king of the world because they were born mongoloid. They might label you "far right" because you don't believe all mongoloids should be given free money and sex until the day they die as enforced by Federal and State law. "You're a monster and a mongo-hater!" they might scream. "You're even more evil than Hitler!" You'd probably want to explain to them that you don't have a grudge against mongoloids - nor do you think they should be given special favors and rule as emperors automatically when they are diagnosed as mongoloids.

The gap in IQ between the average mongoloid and the average person would be roughly 20 points of IQ. The average IQ in the West is now 97, which is 6 points higher than Koko the Sign Language gorilla scored under clinical supervision by trained psychologists. Koko was a brilliant gorilla but let's face it, not that brilliant. A couple more answers right and she could have easily scored in the same average. Remember, that's the AVERAGE. So 50% of the population actually falls below 97 and amazingly close to Koko.

I have three clinical IQ scores which have been done on me at age 9, age 22 and age 27. Real clinical conditions, in a soundproofed room with a mirror observer watching to make sure there is no bias by my tester. (Much more common than most people believe)

My score have ranged from 156 to 183 with no curve applied. That means the difference between me and the average person is at least 50 points and that is very conservative. Just like you experienced with the mongoloid campaigning for free sex and money, I often have people screaming at me that I am "far right," and "am worse than Hitler and the leader of the Ku Klux Klan and Jeffrey Dahmer." If you were like me, you'd get used to it.

Again, nobody deserves to be a first class citizen because of the circumstances of their birth. You might consider if people barely above a baboon taught sign language are really my natural moral superiors or if that is just a resource-shifting strategy you would expect of a person around that IQ. Basically, a monkey that can walk on its hind legs and speak a little English.

As Hans Asperger once said to the German Eugenics Committee, "If people ever knew how these children really see us, they would drive them into the wilderness without food or burn them at the stake as witches. The persecution they bear up under now is the smallest fraction of what they would suffer if it was ever to become obvious how very different they are from the rest of us. The difference is from the sole of the foot to the crown of their head. They begin and end as aristocrats compared to the common man. You have asked me to find you the best German stock and you may be shocked but I am afraid it is these children and they do not regard us well at all. Our vanities are too obvious to the least of them from a very young age."

 

[Haba]

Gentelmentel,

Spoiler

Meh, at least it can be used to get to Dominion Exemplar fast.

CLEVE! Where is mah magic astral dragon!

 

[PrettyDeadman]

What's up with mongoloid race hate? Aren't mongloloid race individuals (asians) statistically have higher IQ anyway?

 

[Lady_Error]

Gentelmentel,

Spoiler

Meh, at least it can be used to get to Dominion Exemplar fast.

CLEVE! Where is mah magic astral dragon!

Is that the same place where the Djinn takes you?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

With the read magic spell, I wouldn't say raising Scribe is that important.

Maybe not for normal spellbooks, but for Arcanum and Eldritch stuff you need quite high Scribe skills. And the Read Magic spellbook needs to be found first too.

I don't think Arcanum and Eldritch spellbooks are even based on Scribe, especially since failing to scribe them increases the Arcanum skill.

Arcanum books draw on the Arcanum skill. It's a different kind of spell and just trying to scribe it can send you mad.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Gentelmentel,

Spoiler

Meh, at least it can be used to get to Dominion Exemplar fast.

CLEVE! Where is mah magic astral dragon!

Is that the same place where the Djinn takes you?

Astral travel works .... er ... except for the bug I introduced in version 1.29 by trying to improvament the curve of success rate and apparently disabled it altogether.

I fixed it this morning because I couldn't see how it would not be working.

This is why you need unit testing.

Will be in the next update.

P.S. The two alternate ways to get here still work.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

What's up with mongoloid race hate? Aren't mongloloid race individuals (asians) statistically have higher IQ anyway?

Mongoloid is officially forbidden in the new speech codes and proves you are a Nazi who kills puppies, so of course I use it in a sentence whenever I can. A man who cannot speak his mind is a slave.

 

[Lady_Error]

Astral travel works .... er ... except for the bug I introduced in version 1.29 by trying to improvament the curve of success rate and apparently disabled it altogether.

I fixed it this morning because I couldn't see how it would not be working.

What about about Recharge and Time Stop? Recharge is broken for sure since it doesn't ask you which item to recharge. Time Stop does bring up the icon on screen, but seems to have no effect and goes away on next turn even when cast on Level VII.

The Laser Guns depleting all the ammo in one shot is another one that still needs fixing.

 

[Lady_Error]

Speaking of which, has anyone learned the Firearms skill in V2 towards the end? It looks like it was possible in V1, but now there is no console to do that...

Spoiler

...in the Alien Barracks.

 

[Haba]

Speaking of which, has anyone learned the Firearms skill in V2 towards the end? It looks like it was possible in V1, but now there is no console to do that...

Spoiler

...in the Alien Barracks.

Uh, yes there is.

 

[Lady_Error]

Speaking of which, has anyone learned the Firearms skill in V2 towards the end? It looks like it was possible in V1, but now there is no console to do that...

Spoiler

...in the Alien Barracks.

Uh, yes there is.

Spoiler

There is a console opposite one of the ACME machines for the guns - it only talks about returning the Havoc Seed though. Opposite the other ACME machine there is a place on the wall just like the one where the console is - it is clickable but no console appears there. I've got the visor equipped.

 

[Haba]

That is very odd. I recently did the map on V2 and it worked as intended for me.

Hmm... Have you done

Spoiler

something with the clock

Already?

I'll check it again once I'm done 100%:ing remaining maps.

 

[Lady_Error]

That is very odd. I recently did the map on V2 and it worked as intended for me.

Hmm... Have you done

Spoiler

something with the clock

Already?

I'll check it again once I'm done 100%:ing remaining maps.

Spoiler

You mean the Metronome Mysterium? Not sure why it would have an effect on the console - and the other console still works. I think I activated the alarm mode and fought the bots around the clock first before going back to the barracks to check for the firearms console. But I haven't done anything to the clock yet.

 

[Dorateen]

64% of the 350 user reviews for this game are positive.