Grimoire Thread

[Butter]

It took me around 30 minutes to turn my whole team into Olympic swimmers, another question what the purpose of spirit statistic and how to restore it?

If your Spirit runs out, characters may be too discouraged to act during combat. You can restore it by resting at a safe haven, or by using the Bless spell (doesn't work on some characters, e.g. Necromancers).

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

It took me around 30 minutes to turn my whole team into Olympic swimmers, another question what the purpose of spirit statistic and how to restore it?

The Spirit bar is normally 100%. If your character fails to save vs. fear at monsters who have a capacity to terrify you in the first round of the encounter, your spirit bar will begin dropping in response to further terror. Until you restore the Spirit bar with a spell or by resting at a safe haven, your character will be permanently terrified as his Spirit Bar drops every encounter save vs. fear until all he can do in combat is curl into a fetal position.

This is one of the coolest things I added to V2.0 to get rid of the FOO bar. It's related to your character's fortitude, their will and their general exposure to terrifying creatures.

Every successive time you meet the monster who originally terrified your party, you will begin to get accustomed to that encounter and it stands less and less a chance of frightening you into trembling withdrawal.

The math was well tested on this feature and I think it works pretty well both for first encounter and subsequent encounters. I also believe it is challenging until you learn how to cope with a terrified character but there are enough options there to deal with it easily throughout the game. However, just leaving them terrified will increasingly contribute to them being useless in any battle. I thought the game mechanics behind this came close to simulate RPG PTSD shellshock.

Later in the game as the characters progress in levels it will become less and less a concern, it is of most danger to level one newbs who have never seen a spectral wraith or similar terror before. I like this feature so much I am going to try to put it into every blobber from now on no matter what the genre.

If you discover a safe haven on the map it will be marked as such and that is a location you can return to and restore the character's reserve by sleeping at that cell.

 

[unseeingeye]

The Spirit bar is normally 100%. If your character fails to save vs. fear at monsters who have a capacity to terrify you in the first round of the encounter, your spirit bar will begin dropping in response to further terror. Until you restore the Spirit bar with a spell or by resting at a safe haven, your character will be permanently terrified as his Spirit Bar drops every encounter save vs. fear until all he can do in combat is curl into a fetal position.

Ok, this is how I thought it functioned and I was confused by the previous post because I wasn't sure if by discouraged they meant afraid. I agree, it is extremely cool and I wish more dungeon crawler games had such a feature.

 

[baba is you]

Grimoire wasn't a bad game, but I'd like to see the sequels pay more attention to the UI and manual.
Grimoire's UI had very poor visibility, and the manual and in-game information were sometimes incorrect.

Wizardry 7, which was a direct influence on Grimoire, had good UI visibility and a well-written manual.
Cleve, I don't know when the sequel will come out, but I hope it will pay attention to the things I mentioned.

 

[WhiteShark]

I checked the steam update news but the last post there was from 2020. I confirmed on SteamDB that the game is still receiving updates. Where can I read the patch notes and what is the roadmap for the future? I'd like to play Grimoire but I'd rather hold off if the game is still being improved.

 

[index.php]

I checked the steam update news but the last post there was from 2020. I confirmed on SteamDB that the game is still receiving updates. Where can I read the patch notes and what is the roadmap for the future? I'd like to play Grimoire but I'd rather hold off if the game is still being improved.

Whatever SteamDB may say, the last update was in 2020 and there is not much chance that there will be another one.

 

[Melan]

How can you improve on what is already perfect? Download, play, embrace the Incline.

 

[Dadd]

How can you improve on what is already perfect? Download, play, embrace the Incline.

Fix the shields that you are supposed to be able to attack with but when you equip them, you skip all extra attacks.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

How can you improve on what is already perfect? Download, play, embrace the Incline.

Fix the shields that you are supposed to be able to attack with but when you equip them, you skip all extra attacks.

You can't attack with a shield. You can "SHIELD" yourself or another party character. Shields cannot be wielded to do damage. Where did you get this impression from?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Shields cannot be wielded to do damage. Where did you get this impression from?

Probably Captain America, I dunno.

 

[Dorateen]

The SHIELD combat action came in handy for surviving the Gorgon-Ra fight. That was a great battle.

 

[WhiteShark]

I checked the steam update news but the last post there was from 2020. I confirmed on SteamDB that the game is still receiving updates. Where can I read the patch notes and what is the roadmap for the future? I'd like to play Grimoire but I'd rather hold off if the game is still being improved.

Whatever SteamDB may say, the last update was in 2020 and there is not much chance that there will be another one.

Ah, I see now that I was looking at the wrong information. I found the correct page on steamdb for actual game updates and indeed there haven't been any for the last three years. On closer inspection the information I was looking at before was related to the steam page and the changes were things like tags and overall user rating. Thanks.

 

[Arthandas]

Ah, I see now that I was looking at the wrong information. I found the correct page on steamdb for actual game updates and indeed there haven't been any for the last three years.

Don't worry, 4.0 is just around the corner, probably like, tomorrow or something

 

[WhiteShark]

What's the recommended hardcore, old skool setting for wandering monsters? It defaults to Rare. I'm worried that if I turn it up, instead of getting a hardcore experience, I'll instead get an overabundance of XP and tedium.

 

[Dorateen]

Frequent. It's not so much about XP (And the amount of experience needed to advance grows exponentially large.) but you also train a multitude of skills through combat, so more is better.

 

[Diggfinger]

Why does this thread only have 356 pages!?

Spoiler

We all know it deserves 3056...

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Why does this thread only have 356 pages!?

Only six micro-issues remaining!

 

[Modron]

Why does this thread only have 356 pages!?

Because the 1418 page long prerelease thread has been preserved for posterity https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...legend-the-con-the-thread-resurrection.75724/, read every single page of it.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

So, just tested the game out after going from Windows 7 to 10 and the mouse is completely fucked. Laggy movement. Exact same mouse I was using on 7. Tried the compatibility modes, no dice. Any real solution?

 

[Lady Error]

So, just tested the game out after going from Windows 7 to 10 and the mouse is completely fucked. Laggy movement. Exact same mouse I was using on 7. Tried the compatibility modes, no dice. Any real solution?

Don't have any mouse issues in Grimoire in Windows 10. It must be something else in your system interfering.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

So, just tested the game out after going from Windows 7 to 10 and the mouse is completely fucked. Laggy movement. Exact same mouse I was using on 7. Tried the compatibility modes, no dice. Any real solution?

Don't have any mouse issues in Grimoire in Windows 10. It must be something else in your system interfering.

Okay, I figured out what was up. My Razer Diamondback has the ability to easily adjust the polling rate through the Synapse app. By default it was set to 500hz. Lowering it to 125hz solved the issue. Still, it's odd it didn't rear its head on Windows 7, unless the other higher frequencies only became available in 10 or something.

 

[Dorateen]

Happy Grimoire Release Day!

 

[Diggfinger]

Happy Grimoire Release Day!

Live from Sydney:

 

[Preben]

OK, is it worth it?

 

[The Limper]

Of course its worth it! I’d pay that price for a working copy of Telengard….