Titan Quest.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2006-07-08 06:21pm

Stark wrote:Apparently some of the serious stability problems are being address in a patch. I haven't seen it anywhere, so I guess it'll be out soon.

Press the handy update button on the main menu.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-08 06:29pm

I hate autoupdaters with a passion, but I admit I didn't even try.

Is the MP still unstable after that patch?

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2006-07-08 06:51pm

Stark wrote:I hate autoupdaters with a passion, but I admit I didn't even try. Is the MP still unstable after that patch?

Don't know, I haven't tried it yet, though I doubt it'll work well for me. I doubt it will be as dial-up friendly as Diablo 2.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2006-07-08 09:49pm

Holy shit, Conjurer is fucking powerful. Right now I am in the Valley of the Kings, lvl 24, I have the Ternion Attack line, and the first two slots of the Earth Enchantment line maxed. Right now with my rare staff I have a 212 attack power, and that damage is spread out over 2.5 meter radius. Most every unit dies in a hit, and with that area of effect I can kill enemies 2 or 3 at a time. And Ternion Attack has no casting delay, so I spam it like a regular attack(its accually my LMB skill)

I also have Ramses Greeves if anyone is collecting that set.

Darth Quorthon · Post by **Darth Quorthon** » 2006-07-08 10:00pm

I just downloaded the patch, and though I haven't given the game a thorough check, I read the patch fixes log and it's heavily slanted towards multiplayer.

Anarchist Bunny wrote:I also have Ramses Greeves if anyone is collecting that set.

I'm still using the bracers I found for that set, though I'm hoping to find the bracers for the Imperial Raiment set since I already have two pieces of that.

I haven't played the game much lately, but I'm looking to spend some time making some custom maps.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-08 10:42pm

Stark wrote:Apparently some of the serious stability problems are being address in a patch.

I suspect the problem Zac, Gaius and I had last night was due to the server rather than the game itself. Saturday night (for me) or Saturday morning (for them) probably meant more people than usual playing and the server got lag issues.

I've actually become quite fond of the game's masteries (no fire mage or clerics, warrior is actually useful, etc) and I'd be up for some MP once the game settles down. Is everyone using SP 'self sufficient' characters, so do we have some MMO style support and nuker characters?

Do you use MSN, or AIM?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-08 10:52pm

MSN mainly, although my SDN profile is woefully out of date. Time to update!

I'm kind of surprised the masteries aren't balanced: things like 'defence' are quite difficult to use first (since no good attacks, no heal, etc) whereas something like 'nature' or 'storm' is very easy to use first. I like unbalanced systems, it's more interesting - I'm still interested to know if people play one-note chars (storm/fire, or warrior/defence) or flexible (storm/nature) or support (hunter/nature) characters.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-09 01:08am

I take it you can't hire minions like you could in Diablo 2? Some skill masteries have pets, but that's not the same as having a mercenary.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2006-07-09 02:36am

Is there a SD.net game yet? I think we should have a few passworded games for various level ranges.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-07-09 11:27am

Dark Hellion wrote:Is there a SD.net game yet? I think we should have a few passworded games for various level ranges.

Well, we (Zac, Stofsk, me) got to like level 5 and on our way to Leonidas... not exactly very far.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2006-07-09 11:42am

i have to go out in a couple of hours but who's up for a quick game?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-09 06:15pm

If anyone is having constant crashes (like me!), EB told me I'm not the only one and I should come in and swap my DVD. I'll see if it works once I've got a new one.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-10 01:38am

Does everybody else find it funny that while it takes lots of strength to wear Iron greaves and armour, it takes intelligence to wear linen and silk? And the whole recreation of the marathon.

This game rocks. Easily exceeds Diablo. I actually stop and listen to the storytellers for no reason. They're not there to advance the plot, give side quests or advance the main quest, they just tell stories of Heracles, Daedalus and his son Icarus, the Trojan War and the Gods of Olympus.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-07-10 06:14am

I just got Oedipus' Armour. That shit kicks arse. Just entering the Athenian Catacombs now.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2006-07-10 07:57am

Stark wrote:If anyone is having constant crashes (like me!), EB told me I'm not the only one and I should come in and swap my DVD. I'll see if it works once I've got a new one.

Turn audio acceleration down/off in dxdiag.

Fucking buggy POS hates realtek AC'97 audio. Which something lke 99% of laptops and motherboards builtin sound uses.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-10 09:08am

Fuck did that labrynth thing go on forever. And the goddamn end boss was a fucking cunt. My plucky ranger is now in Egypt and the plot thickens.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2006-07-10 12:57pm

Level 23 StormCaller. I've assigned ice bolt to right-click, so it'll keep casting as long as I have mana & hold the right mouse button down.

Maxed ice bolt & the 2 passives. For ~75 mana with zero cooldown, it casts 5 bolts, 30-40 cold base damage, 40-50 cold damage over time with 60% chance to penetrate enemies can go hit something else. Some chilling too.

And my hero has +50% elemental damage from wisp, +24% from aura, and about 30% from equipment all up. So for 75 mana, I'm doing 700-900 cold damage to stuff in front of me. I can empty the mana bar of ~1300 in 10-15 seconds.

This is crazy easy. Sight enemies, empty mana, drink mana potion or 2 depending on how long you need to fire for. move onto the next group of wheat requiring reaping

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-07-10 05:30pm

I think I'm now a level 15 Warrior. Gone purely Dual-wield tree with Onslaught (mmm - attack bonuses) and Dodge (just in case). Thus far I've been killed 3 times. Once when I got gang-fucked by a massive train of Centaurs back when they were hard to kill, and twice by the Unique Limos boss which the Spartans had barricaded in the ruined temple near Athens. That bitch would just hit me twice and I'd be down due to his life-drain attacks.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-10 08:26pm

Seems like many builds are really easy: I've gone ranger, and at l15 I'm basically invincible, running around healing myself and pulling agro so the wolves can eat everything. Due to the lack of nuke spells (dammit) I never run out of mana, but it takes a while to kill things.

That unique Limos was so disappointing - I expected some phat lute and nothing. Bah. 'Running in circles while my wolves eat him' worked fine for me - he even kept running back to his start spot like a Megaman boss.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-10 08:27pm

Xon wrote:Turn audio acceleration down/off in dxdiag.

Fucking buggy POS hates realtek AC'97 audio. Which something lke 99% of laptops and motherboards builtin sound uses.

I'll give that a go, thanks. I haven't been able to get a new disk yet.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-10 11:03pm

Remember, 'normal difficulty' in these games really means 'piss easy'.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-07-11 07:26am

There's finally a proper crack for Titan Quest, so all the problems of it not recognising disks and crashing all over the place are over. Hooray!

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-07-11 07:51am

And my problem of Securom randomly telling me to insert the correct disc is hopefully over too!

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-07-11 08:04am

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.

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-07-11 08:13am

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