Titan Quest.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-07-11 05:51pm

Stofsk wrote:
weemadando wrote:And my problem of Securom randomly telling me to insert the correct disc is hopefully over too!
Is this at startup? Or in game?

If it is in startup I get that sometimes too.

At startup when I click on the icon, or even more amusingly, when I put the DVD in and select play from the menu.

Decue · Post by **Decue** » 2006-07-12 03:00am

Vympel wrote:Might give it another go now that the crack's out. Where can I find it?

There is crack for 1.08 at Link Removed

NO CRACKING SITES!

/Faram

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-07-12 06:34am

My most recent additions:

Oedipus Armor
58 Armor

81% Reduction in Life Leech Duration
+18 Intelligence
+15% Health Regeneration
+22 Defensive Ability
+50% Less Damage From Demons

Required Strength: 163

Epeius' Greaves
23 Armor

9% Pierce Resistance
97% Skill Disruption Protection
+13 Dexterity
+10% Movement
+1 to All Skills in Rogue Mastery

Required Strength: 103

And, really amazingly:

Bracers of Atlas
58 Armor

+23 Strength
+19 Dexterity
+52 Health
Grants Skill: ?

Required Strength: 163

Pure freakin' awesome. Still got Heartpierce and Patrocolus' shortblade, as grabbed myself a Phyrgian Greathelm with some huge strength buff as well as the normal assortment of buffs on jewellry. Not bad for a level 15 eh?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-12 06:36am

You farmer! I'm l19, and I've only got some kickass beads, theban bracers and some ultra shield. BAH! I'm even using a non-combat dood, so it's all USELESS to me!

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-07-12 06:52am

Heh, I went through about 8 levels of not finding a single goddamn warrior item (every single item was fucking "pupils x of energy"). I hit the catacombs and it went ballistic, hell I even sold of some epic items like "Thornwall" and part of a hunter set because they weren't any good to me.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-12 08:03am

Should we do item trading, for those who can connect to the servers and MP?

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-07-12 08:08am

Bah, Patroclus's sword is bullshit. I picked it up in my teens, and my yellow gladius (*Grumbles about lack of xiphos*) with full Prometheus blew it out of the water in DPS.

Aeolus · Post by **Aeolus** » 2006-07-12 01:10pm

I just got this game. My highest level is a level 14 in crete. My brother has an assasin in egypt. It's alot of fun. What is everyones favorite class combo?

Aeolus · Post by **Aeolus** » 2006-07-12 01:20pm

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:
Stofsk wrote:Before when you said that the appearance isn't customisable, does that mean all your characters look the same? What about multiplayer? Everyone looks identical except tunic colours?

Where's stark? This sounds like the sort of thing he might bitch about.
It's a little disappointing for someone like me who loves intricate character creators, like City of Heroes's or Soul Calibur III's, but it's really not too bad once you get into it. Maybe it's just because I'm playing Hoplite Bob (well, Lysandros) at the moment, but I've hardly noticed the generic-ness of my dude through that sexy Corinthian-style helm.

So with all items stripped off, yeah they would look mostly identical. But past level 5 or so it's a bit of a non-issue.

Vympel wrote:I started playing the game, i got a weird video glitch problem where the inventory would sort of white out (the grid would dissapear etc) and the text would go all blocky and unreadable.
Interestingly enough, I got that last night after having played for many hours on end (in addition to general slow ups). I don't think I was overheating, so it may have been the game just being silly.

That glitch has happened to me twice. Once in Dephi the other time in Athens. Both really big graphic intesive citys. I find that zooming in with the mouse whell fixes it.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-12 02:03pm

Aeolus wrote:I just got this game. My highest level is a level 14 in crete. My brother has an assasin in egypt. It's alot of fun. What is everyones favorite class combo?

I've only gone down the Ranger route. I'm intrigued by the Rogue, Spirit, and Storm and Defender combos.

I'd like to try out the Paladin (Storm/Defender), Rogue, Warlock (Rogue/Spirit) and Elementalist (Storm/Earth) classes.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-07-12 02:24pm

Aeolus wrote:I just got this game. My highest level is a level 14 in crete. My brother has an assasin in egypt. It's alot of fun. What is everyones favorite class combo?

Warrior/Defender.

Hoplites FTW.

I would like to try a battlemage sort soon, and perhaps a pure caster.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2006-07-12 02:29pm

Aeolus wrote:I just got this game. My highest level is a level 14 in crete. My brother has an assasin in egypt. It's alot of fun. What is everyones favorite class combo?

Conjurer(Spirit/Earth), I described the class earlier, but now I have a rare Flaming Bone Staff of Flames(kek)(38 base fire damage, +12 fire damage +11-20 fire damage) with a full Essense of Shen-Nong's Dark Medicine(45 poison damage over 5 seconds, -12 target resistances for 5 seconds, +3-8 damage), and a Venom Heart Epic necklace(+21 poison resistance, 72-102 poison damage over 6 seconds, +25 poison damage and +50% improved poison duration), When Earth Enchantment(doubles my damage) is on, I have an average damage of 339, Damage per second of 307, Terion Attack fires 3 of those, with +5 percent damage, Ternion Attack also spreads each of those shots over 2.5 meters. The Egyptian Telkine, as well as the Egypt final boss provide no challege, and most regular monster(including heros) drop in a single shot(generally in multiples). I also now have Stone Form, which instantly makes me invincible for several seconds with enhanced regeneration(about 1/3rd my life right now) and retaliates a little(insignificant, I'll probably suck the points out of it) damage.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-07-12 05:39pm

I'm going to take a few more levels of dual-wield warrior then branch into Assassin.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-12 07:18pm

Anarchist Bunny wrote:Conjurer(Spirit/Earth), I described the class earlier, but now I have a rare Flaming Bone Staff of Flames(kek)(38 base fire damage, +12 fire damage +11-20 fire damage) with a full Essense of Shen-Nong's Dark Medicine(45 poison damage over 5 seconds, -12 target resistances for 5 seconds, +3-8 damage), and a Venom Heart Epic necklace(+21 poison resistance, 72-102 poison damage over 6 seconds, +25 poison damage and +50% improved poison duration), When Earth Enchantment(doubles my damage) is on, I have an average damage of 339, Damage per second of 307, Terion Attack fires 3 of those, with +5 percent damage, Ternion Attack also spreads each of those shots over 2.5 meters. The Egyptian Telkine, as well as the Egypt final boss provide no challege, and most regular monster(including heros) drop in a single shot(generally in multiples). I also now have Stone Form, which instantly makes me invincible for several seconds with enhanced regeneration(about 1/3rd my life right now) and retaliates a little(insignificant, I'll probably suck the points out of it) damage.

Yes AB, the game is horribly broken.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2006-07-12 08:19pm

Stark wrote:
Anarchist Bunny wrote:Conjurer(Spirit/Earth), I described the class earlier, but now I have a rare Flaming Bone Staff of Flames(kek)(38 base fire damage, +12 fire damage +11-20 fire damage) with a full Essense of Shen-Nong's Dark Medicine(45 poison damage over 5 seconds, -12 target resistances for 5 seconds, +3-8 damage), and a Venom Heart Epic necklace(+21 poison resistance, 72-102 poison damage over 6 seconds, +25 poison damage and +50% improved poison duration), When Earth Enchantment(doubles my damage) is on, I have an average damage of 339, Damage per second of 307, Terion Attack fires 3 of those, with +5 percent damage, Ternion Attack also spreads each of those shots over 2.5 meters. The Egyptian Telkine, as well as the Egypt final boss provide no challege, and most regular monster(including heros) drop in a single shot(generally in multiples). I also now have Stone Form, which instantly makes me invincible for several seconds with enhanced regeneration(about 1/3rd my life right now) and retaliates a little(insignificant, I'll probably suck the points out of it) damage.
Yes AB, the game is horribly broken.

I wouldn't say its broken, I'd just say its terribly unpolished. I think had they spent more time tweaking it, and trying to put out very well done game, Titan's quest may have been superior Diablo II. Its like they had a great idea for a game, they got it completed, mostly working, and instead of spending some more time playing with the stats(drop rates, toying with the skills to make them all mostly worthwhile[half of each mastery is not something I'd really ever consider using] yet no real obvious exploits(and unobvious ones fixed by patching) they just pushed it out.

I'm not saying Diablo II was completely free of these problems, but they seemed to have spent some more time on this than whoever that made Titan's Quest.

This is a fun, well made, Diablo style game, but I don't see myself ever playing it an eighth of what I played Diablo II.

It looks like we'll still have to wait til Hellgate: London for the next great Diablo game. *crosses fingers*

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2006-07-12 08:32pm

Stark wrote:Yes AB, the game is horribly broken.

From what I've heard, it's more along the lines of normal being a cakewalk, epic being difficult, then legendary being hard enough that many characters can't finish.

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-07-12 08:45pm

I'd be shocked and mortified if someone PMd me the link to the new crack. My usual non-inquiries have thankfully turned up nothing at the usual websites I do not frequent.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-12 10:13pm

Graeme Dice wrote:From what I've heard, it's more along the lines of normal being a cakewalk, epic being difficult, then legendary being hard enough that many characters can't finish.

This is true of *some* builds, others are hard from the start. Taking rogue and spamming traps, or nature and spamming pets, or spirit and spamming ternion is simply too easy. The game shouldn't be about running in circles around standard terrible AI while your pets or arrow traps kill everything.

Like AB says, the skill trees aren't very well thought out. Since the only reason I'm playing is to mess with builds, this means more than half the possible combinations will never be used because they're just bad. I tried taking defender first: no pets, no spells, and an attack power with a cooldown. Massively, massively harder than just taking warrior first *then* adding defender. Rogue (as always) is always useful, since you don't actually have to put points in any particular stat, and everyone loves poison, debuffs and cheesy traps.

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2006-07-12 10:46pm

Stark wrote:I tried taking defender first: no pets, no spells, and an attack power with a cooldown. Massively, massively harder than just taking warrior first *then* adding defender.

The only difficult monster you need to kill in the first 8 levels is the first centaur boss. You can do that without putting a single skill point into any skill, so there's really no difference in the order you pick your masteries.

Aeolus · Post by **Aeolus** » 2006-07-12 11:24pm

Stofsk wrote:
Aeolus wrote:I just got this game. My highest level is a level 14 in crete. My brother has an assasin in egypt. It's alot of fun. What is everyones favorite class combo?
I've only gone down the Ranger route. I'm intrigued by the Rogue, Spirit, and Storm and Defender combos.

I'd like to try out the Paladin (Storm/Defender), Rogue, Warlock (Rogue/Spirit) and Elementalist (Storm/Earth) classes.

my now lvl 15 is a Earth/Defender. So far he plays very well.

Aeolus · Post by **Aeolus** » 2006-07-12 11:25pm

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:
Aeolus wrote:I just got this game. My highest level is a level 14 in crete. My brother has an assasin in egypt. It's alot of fun. What is everyones favorite class combo?
Warrior/Defender. Hoplites FTW.

I would like to try a battlemage sort soon, and perhaps a pure caster.

wouldn't a hopilite be a spear(hunter)/Defender?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-12 11:30pm

Graeme Dice wrote:The only difficult monster you need to kill in the first 8 levels is the first centaur boss. You can do that without putting a single skill point into any skill, so there's really no difference in the order you pick your masteries.

It makes a significant difference in the number of potions required: as nature or rogue, I used no more than half a dozen, as a defender probably more than thirty. I didn't even know you could *buy* potions until I tried to buy more as a defender.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-13 01:53am

Anarchist Bunny wrote:I wouldn't say its broken, I'd just say its terribly unpolished. I think had they spent more time tweaking it, and trying to put out very well done game, Titan's quest may have been superior Diablo II.

I think it is superior in some ways, it's equal in everything else. I can think of only a couple of things where TQ is lacking compared to D2, but I can think of more things where D2 is severely lacking when compared to TQ.

Its like they had a great idea for a game, they got it completed, mostly working, and instead of spending some more time playing with the stats(drop rates, toying with the skills to make them all mostly worthwhile[half of each mastery is not something I'd really ever consider using] yet no real obvious exploits(and unobvious ones fixed by patching) they just pushed it out.

None of that condemns the game. They can release patches, or expansion packs, and so on.

I'm not saying Diablo II was completely free of these problems, but they seemed to have spent some more time on this than whoever that made Titan's Quest.

Titan Quest has just come out, D2 has been around for at least 6 years. The comparison isn't justified. Give it some time.

This is a fun, well made, Diablo style game, but I don't see myself ever playing it an eighth of what I played Diablo II.

*shrug* Fair enough.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-07-13 03:02am

I can't install the demo for some reason. It says I don't have enough space on my HD even tough I have more then enough

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-07-13 09:32am

Aeolus wrote:wouldn't a hopilite be a spear(hunter)/Defender?

Nothing says I can't use a spear if I don't have Hunter.