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Wolcen Full Release: First Impressions (Gameplay Review)
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- čas přidán 11. 02. 2020
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Wolcen Lords of Mayhem - full release date: Feb 13 2020. This first impressions video is a review of gameplay up to endgame. Is it worth it?
Stay tuned for two more videos: 1. Everything you need to know about Wolcen (overview + classes + skill tree + expeditions+ apocalyptic form + builds + beginner's guide + tips and tricks), and 2. an easy endgame build (pistol ranger)
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17:28 dude just woke up from a nap and was like oh shit i need to finish that video
hhhh this one made my day.
@@kakapoleon that is absolutely hilarious the tone in his voice is immediately apparent lol!
the hair fluff on the side is a nice touch, i even think he may have left his retainer in? lol
Jjaja
Waohh....good for you man, you're going places for sure...
The town building is really interesting to me and it is very impressive how they tied the building time with in-game activities :)
Bravo, Wolcen devs!
Monster hunter world does this as well with farming materials in town, I really like how it worked in that game. Hope it works well in Wolcen.
I'm a fan and a subscriber. I bought this game based on your positive feedback. This game is actually a mess and so many skills and basic functions are broken. Rhykker I really think you need to explain to the community how such massive flaws can possibly lead to such a positive outlook. I'll chalk it up to your experience vs. that of others who are experiencing the bugs more than yourself, but this does look bad. This game is a tire fire at the moment and the developers should be called out appropriately. In my opinion anyway.
Hey man, thanks for the comment. After more time with the game, and being able to play online, yeah this doesn't feel like a fully released product, but rather a beta. I'm still enjoying the game, but it can be frustrating at times with the issues. Online especially. On my pre-release build, I could only play offline, and the experience was much smoother. I think the core game is good; I really hope they fix all the bugs etc. soon, because I'd like to see this game succeed.
@@Rhykker Appreciate the reply and honest feedback. Thanks and I agree. I hope they work on this a lot because I do feel it melds the simplicity of Diablo with some light PoE type complexity. Really hoping they don't leave things broken for too long. As a general trend I really dislike seeing these types of products released as final. But here's hoping for the best in the future.
16:20 "Reset Attributes for 25000" and "Reset Passives for 500"
*wipes away tear*
Thank you, Wolcen Studio. Thank you.
I know right! PoE finds ways to piss off players.
IMO that’s too much respec. I love POE system.
@@Freeformrulz Do you know what's the idea of respec-ing a char in PoE? You don't need to respec the ENTIRE passive tree if you decide you want to switch to a different build on the same char. Stop finding excuses just so you can throw shit at a game.
Only bad thing about PoE is the insane prices on cosmetics, this coming from someone who bought a few of them. But it's a free game so it's got that going for it.
Edit: I did not watch the full video but I hope auto attacking enemies is easier now.
@@MrCappuccino993 stfu dude I have put 700 hours into PoE. The game is still stuck in d2 days with no modern innovation. Not letting you respec its not hardcore its just plain dumb. The game needs idk like a 1000 qol changes. I would rather drag my balls through glass than play that 10 fkin act campaign for the 9th times. Don't even start me with the stupid xp penalty on death and the - 75% elemental resistance. None of these mechanics are fun it's just plain garbage. I really don't understand how people defend this garbage.
Diablo 40k: Hellgates of London
You say that like I wouldn't welcome a good combination of those
@@orionar2461 too diablo 3'ish for me
@@sopppa my problem with d3 was no character building. Wolcen has more customization,
That sounds amazing
Damn, I miss Helgate: London
I bought this game a year ago and maxed out beta characters after each reset. Been hyped up all week.
How long is the campaign?
@@mycoinsyourpurse2244 The beta was just chapter one, but I got 10 hours played from getting three characters to level 20(lvl28-35 rift level). Full release is 3 chapters and lvl 90, so probably a lot of hours.
How are the "mage" arch-type skills? was looking around youtube but didn't find very good vids for wolcen that showcased the mage-type skills, most just showed of turret and melee stuff which looked quite nice.
@Eddie Byrne yes
@Eddie Byrne Yes. It's a smaller/indie team, but they might make a console port if it does well.
Wolcen people: Hey Rhykker, we want you to make some sponsored videos
Rhykker: Awsome, any special rules?
Wolcen People: You are not allowed, under any circumstance, to utter the word..Diablo
The End
*Applause*
Or Path of exile
Well, there is no need to talk about diablo anymore, it's been dead since they removed ah and every player disappeared.
@@seb4sti4n666 Almost as if you could see him struggling not to compare certain aspects to poe during the video lol.
I guarantee there was some "fuck, gotta cut that out" moments lol
just say "other action rpgs"
I was waiting for Rhykker's review of Wolcen. Sadly, this is a sponsored video and I don't fully trust what he can say now.
How are you guys liking it?
The game feels like it took what it liked from D3 and PoE and smashed it together into one game. Does it ( So far ) do anything far better than the originals? IMO no. Does it have a fresh feel to it so you can play it for a couple of weeks? Yes. I guess we'll see in a months time how this goes when people realise its just like playing D3 all over again.
Im having fun playing through it now, but if i get to the endgame and you are just doing "rifts" like D3, I probably wont stay around for long.
I Think before people get tired of the little endgame the game has, they need to do atleast something original and fun for the playerbase to keep playing, but you never know (=
Alee I don’t care for it much.
Alee honestly bro been playing arpg since diablo1 and 2 and it looks super super bad. I mean my thoughts exactly Rker sell ou?
@@altadar7870 I dont know man having my characters getting reseted is retarded. What a bug
Bought it after 1.0.4 patch. Just finished campaing. Game is great imo. Didn't experience any major issues. Just some good, old school (in a positive way) H&S with great graphics and interesting concepts (like that castle upgrading in the end). Just hope it won't die and devs gonna add some content ... at a slightly faster pace than
Blizz in D3 did ;)
Goblins - diablo, skill tree -poe, apocalipotic form - darksiders, city upgrade - homm, looks like this game takes from the best :)
when you copy, do it right and it seems they DID IT FCKING RIGHT!
I kiiiiinda disagree with the Poe skill tree. Like they used the general concept but it's not that "in depth" nor expansive
@@OffMeta-Gaming at some point the tree was bigger. seems like the decreased the complexity of it a bit
@@OffMeta-Gaming It isn't "in depth" in POE either. It is a false complexity.
first time a saw that type of skill tree was Final Fantasy X. Poe was LONG after that. It hasn't been done better yet from FFX in my opinion.
A sponsored review is so completely worthless...
definetly. completly one-sided and nothing really worth in terms of review.
While I do greatly appreciate his transparency in at least saying it was a sponsored review, and content creators need money too...yeah it's not really the kind of content I come here looking for. The conflict of interest it creates is just too significant, and reading other reviews it's become a bit glaring in some of its omissions of quirks and shortcomings (in spite of the measured, gentle criticisms he does include).
I'd lean more towards reading the steam reviews on the game, currently it's at around 50/50 good and bad review. So just take this review with a little cynicism, also wait for a couple more months for rebalances and fixes if you're interested in playing it.
@@Jivewired Did he say in the vid that this is sponsored?
100% agree, this is bullshit. There should be a "NO REAL REVIEW, READ FROM SCRIPT" banner from the very first second of the video.
This game has some really impressive production values for an "Indie" game. The graphics are really fantastic (especially the environments / atmospheric effects) and the music and sound effects are on point.
BUYERS NOTE: This game is quite GPU-intensive. Running @ 3440x1440 (21:9) "Ultra Settings" the game runs around 60-80FPS and pushes 99% GPU Usage on my 1080Ti.
To add onto what Erik said, for those with low-end builds: I'm running a 660ti / i7 3770 / 16GB ram on low settings and the game is running smoothly for me.
2560x1440 on max settings i stand on around 90/110 fps (EVGA 1080ti SC2, 16gb ram, ryzen 1600X) its not bad for the graphycs we get and cry engine.
i have a 2080ti and 990ks and i get around 60-75 fps at 4k ultra
This could be to due to memory leaks and other engine based flaws, I would reserve any judgement for the final build.
It's not optimized yet I'm sure. Totally normal for a game to push 100% GPU preoptimization. There is no way their mipmaps could throttle an 11gb card.... Post processing effects will always have a larger impact on GPU performance, after resolution. And a lot of those are split among your GPU and CPU unevenly.
8:36 ui_endgamedialog_townchatter2_3 ... My conversation skills with strangers
If the Co-op works great, I'll try it.
Do you know if there are plans to have this on console? If so, is there couch co-op mode like Diablo 3?
"No spoilers, but the ending really...WOW". Yeah, I understand now what that means. It was probably the shittest ending I've ever seen in any game ever.
I bought this game. Played a little of the beta. Thought "I'll wait and see how this goes." Then forgot about it... Thanks for the reminder! Seems cool!
I mean, I hear a thing but on the screen I see someone actually farming like in Diablo 3...
Treasure Beetles.... "I like finding those BUGgers...."
Slow Clap
Joke approved.
Punny!
I was waiting to see this comment. Glad I'm not the only one who appreciates Rhykker's dad jokes lol
Could not click on this fast enough when I got the notification. I bought the beta a couple of weeks ago and quickly played through act 1 and loved it. As someone who has played D3 since launch and just could not get into PoE this has been on my radar for quite some time.
Same. PoE in it's current form is just too clunky for me. I didnt like feeling like I have to follow some build guide bc their passive tree is so needlessly complex. I feel like Wolcens is less so, in that it's not as punishing if you "choose the wrong passive node" bc u can just rotate it and select ones that might work better. Seems more adaptable for making fun builds that are strong without having to look up a guide. Time will tell with the end game I suppose.
I feel like as it stands now Wolcen is between D3 and PoE as far as skills and skill tree are concerned.
@@RascalCatify Same with me, i don't know what it is about PoE I just can't get through the campaign. I've made it to act 5 in about 5 years, i'll play for a few days and just get burned out, can't put my finger on what is different as i usually go ham on deep arpg's.
i can understand where youre all coming from, if poe aint for you then it is what it is, personally i struggle with grim dawn and i cant rly put my finger on why exactly.
i would say tho, check back in with poe when they release poe2 late next year, give it another shot when they release the entirely new campaign and skill systems. because once you get over that initial hill its got an awful lot for an arpg player to get lost in. the passive tree and gem system can seem offputting at first, but what id say with the passive tree is just grab life nodes and damage nodes. if youre using swords for example then grab increased damage with swords, attack speed and life nodes. literally that simple. everything else thats on there you can work out what all that does later down the line, if you simply grab basic life nodes and damage nodes, keep moving to the nearest set of those and grab them youll be fine.
dont let all the deeper complexities drown you, just doing the most basic stuff in the most basic fashion is enough to carry you all the way into deep endgame by which time youll be beginning to understand the other bits the same way you just inherently now understand the crit, % ele damage, colldown reduction, % skill damage etc in d3.
@@necaacen Yea, i loved Grim Dawn, it really just comes down to preference, and that's fine. :) I do feel the need to keep trying PoE as i feel if i can get to the endgame i'd like it, but from what i hear, top tier builds are expensive(real world money wise).
Playing Wolcen is like...
dating Chanel "West Coast"
She is pretty and nice to look at, but eventually you realize she lacks content, and has lots of bugs.
Wow I played through the beta in it's entirety and there's so much more here than I thought! So glad I picked the game up - can't wait to play tomorrow!
I'm very excited to play it tomorrow there's a ton of very clever ideas in this game. I love in particular the 9 damage types being split in 3 categories and each of the 9 have a status effect associated to it. I don't know each game mechanic makes sense to me and it's everything I've been wanting in an ARPG.
Which one seems most useful or effective in game? 🤔
@@t9xlive106 there's not really a better one they all serve a slightly different purpose really. I like freezing effects for example but they don't do much beyond crowd control
I totally agree the city management is exciting, as it's just so different from what's currently out there. I hope it's done well and it sounds like it is!
Please continue to make content on Wolcen! I am pretty excited about this game and what would make me even more excited would be one of my favorite CZcams content creators making videos for it!
18:45 After a 1000 hours? Holy shit, if this game gives me even a tenth of that in fun, playable content it'll be more than enough for me.
It was a long time since any other ARPG besides POE got me hyped... cant wait to play it tomorrow.
Same, I've been kinda bored of PoE lately too, I've played Metamorph for like 2 weeks only. It feels great to have another ARPG that looks like it might be the one I'll play on and off with PoE.
Have you seen Last Epoch? Should release soon as well
@@Woupsme don`t know why, but haven`t even bother tryin it..don`t look like I will like it, but ten again i didn`t like GD either
@@theburgundynetwork3432 The league didnt bore me but the atlas grind feels very pointless and more time consuming now. Hope Wolcen succeeds.
If you haven't tried it, Grim Dawn is a fantastic ARPG as well.
IMO wolcen looks great. the skills looks flashy and have that oomph. I just hope it have a distinct and exciting campaign. Nice vid bro👍
That'll be the big decider for me. We haven't had a solid and entertaining campaign in a long time
The first act alone in beta is surprisingly impressive, has some generic elements to it but what doesn't these days. As a whole without spoiling anything it's done pretty well without making you're character/main character feel like some over-the-top demigod who just magically has a disney solution to everything.
Welp, looks like I'll be a complete shut-in for the next week or two. 😂
Just stumbled onto this vid.
13th is today -hmm.
Loot-midget beetles --I'm kewl with it!
Insane health regen skirmisher build with a little over-shield & speed and lots of dodge. Had some fun in the beta builds, but the many updates and inclusions within the release build is making me slightly foam at the mouth. Interesting coverage and as usual excellent delivery regarding Wolcen @ release. Kudos.
so everyone i talk to: "ending was awful"
rhykker: "ending left an impression on me"?
was it because awful or is it because this is sponsored? and does sponsoring change opinions?
It would, depending on who the person being sponsored is and how desperate he is for sponsors.
Sponsored. You're not allowed to be negative about the game you're being paid to say nice things about. Not if you want to get paid anyways.
Rhykker: Talking about the game mechanics and features.
Comments: tHiS JuSt LoOkS lIkE d3.
Yes a lot of dumb comments and nonsense here. The game looks great. I can't wait to come back from work tomorrow:)
Doesn't matter how much polished it is if it looks like garbage, the art design was far better in the alpha now just looks horribly aestheticly wise
It does tho
@@AleksandarIvanov69 polish alone won't save a game from its horrible and souless art design, should have stuck with the alpha aesthetic, doesn't make it a horrible game but its a enormous detriment
Rather help out a small company making a great game like this could be - than the mess that is blizzard now.
Improving the town reminds me of darkest dungeon sort of. Looks like a cool game... I was SUPER unsure before this video but looks like I'll be getting it now. Good stuff Rhykker, thanks.
The artwork is really good in this game. The menus too. Like the one where you can choose your "ultimate". Holy shit it's nice compared to PoE.
I was really impressed by stormfall guard saying ui_endgamedialog_townchatter2_3 at 8:39. Such wise words. Such depth.... WOW.
No one shot mechanics ✔️
No log out macro ✔️
Making your character look great does not cost you an arm ✔️
NANI?
F Q shots fired at PoE
legit criticisms tho, especially with this current leagues absolute bs overtuned bosses
@@DefineHatespeech honestly dont give much shit on PoEs overly expensive mtx but the highway robbery of the stashtabs. It basically locks your gameplay until you cough up money to be able to play normally again.
@@kurogane2x I don't agree with that. I mean, POE gives you plenty of enough time to see if the game is for you or not without buying stash tabs, even though you can't play it to it's full capacity......, if it's for you and you enjoy it, then shouldn't you support the developers of the game and fork up some cash to play it? I mean, an average good game is what, $30.00 to $50.00? You can buy enough stash tabs with that to basically do everything in the game.....and then if you REALLY still enjoy it after playing a year, then just buy a stash tab every now and then to support the developers for making more content...Everyone wants everything for free these days :(
@@down-the-rabbit-hole Great points there. There is nothing at all expensive about buying a few stash tabs to make the game manageable in end game. Before that, you are given four tabs and this is more than enough to get anywhere up to 100 hours of game play in. I played all of Betrayal League (roughly 3 months) without buying anything as a casual, and finally decided to fork out when I realized how much I enjoyed the game. How people think these companies are supposed to run a business on a completely free model is baffling to me.
At the end of the day it's just different types of monetization which affect the pricing structures of games. I would say that PoE is the best simply because the developers are constantly releasing new free content, which couldn't even be possible if people weren't willingly buying micro transactions, especially at the start of a new league. I've now played every league for the last year and haven't needed to spend an extra dime, all the while I get spoiled with extra content which has now led to thousands of hours of enjoyment.
Honestly, this is also the reason why Diablo 3 or any other ARPGs that you buy as a one-off purchase tend to have shitty end games -- there is little incentive for them to keep you playing after you've bought the original product, so they move on to other projects which can be monetized in the future. This is just simple business. PoE will always have better end game than these other games simply because of the way they monetize it -- keeping people playing is the exact goal the developers want -- it keeps them buying micro transactions. And the best thing is, for those who don't wish to buy additional micro transactions past their original stash tab purchases, they don't have to.
But yeah, Wolcen looks cool. My guess is that the end game will be trash (based on the above reasons), but it looks pretty so I might give it a whirl.
I can’t wait to get out from work tomorrow, get ready Doritos “ going to destroy you all night
Like a boss
haha
Hell yea man
Doritos!!!
Will it drop with controller support like devs said?
12:41 The one reason I wasn't that interested in this game was because it didn't seem like it had a summoner class option. This is what I wanted to hear! You sonuvabitch I'm in!
Has literally no one heard of Path of Exile?
Tamara Winnett Summoner is boring as fuck on Poe tho
Having good fun with summoner in poe! :D 16 zombies atm, 4 spectres and a golem and wrecking everything. 👌
Robin I recently got 16 zombies on mine as well lol I think I’m at like 1800 strength now or something dumb like that xD
Do we know what time the game releases? Can't find any info about it
From what I've seen, 6pm CET
So play this while waiting for the Diablo 4 release?
Or at least until torchlight 3
Look like you will be playing Wolcen for about 10 years then.
Love this video. One comment about the stat thing. Apparently there's a diminishing return for the primary stat, so once that's figured out, you can Min Max your secondary and so on stat. So go on the recommended until a certain point. Definitely looks interesting
Finally! this is my most anticipated game for the last couple years and I'm so happy you'll be covering it. I hope the lore gets deep enough for you to do some sweet lore vids.
legendaries from diablo and uniques from PoE, great!
I bet wolcen team said to themselves, why not both?
Astounding culmination to a vicissitous development process. Wolcen looks and plays like a prime ARPG. Congratulations to the studio and to the players who get to enjoy this jewel!
Rhykker sounds about the same at 0.25 speed as normal. That must be a super power.
Mate, first time to your channel and I'm wondering how I've not seen you before; I'm really impressed with your presentation. Subscribed.
Thanks Daniel!
Waiting, waiting . . . waiting for tomorrow.
"ui_endgamedialog_townchatter2_3"
- Stormfall Guard, 2020
Truly inspirational
I just love how from 17:28 to 18:52 you seems to just woke up hahaha. Like "hoo my . . . I forgot to speak about this feature .. . "
Anyway, very nice video as usual, super interesting and well made. I love your content so thx you.
Still waiting on that launch and it's 10am here in UK on Feb 13th. Been hard to find any actual news but one person in one forum post mentioned it will be launching 6pm CET. So glad I booked a day off work for a game to fucking launch in the afternoon.
"Minor bugs here and there" LOL
This game looks awesome but have some major/game breaking bugs still in it!
Yeah the bugs on release have been kinda bad :\
The game is DoA. So refunded they haven't really gained anything ownership wise since before launch lmao.
This guy is clearly little more than a paid liar and a shill. Looking forward to the next Torchlight and Diablo, albeit cautiously.
@@ErraticFaith I like the game; it has promise. But the launch has been really bad. More and more issues emerged, especially with online play, which I didn't have access to before launch. I hope they can fix things soon.
@@ErraticFaith I mean, 150k active players during peak. Also, zero bugs since they brought the servers back up for me and my group. The "refund" crowd was all talk. Meanwhile I'm enjoying clearing GR160s with my Wizard. Bye hater.
@@ErraticFaith its has over 100k players and bugs are far end few between, havent had a single gamebreaker yet, just minor stuff like visuals and sometimes getting stuck.
Oh and ppl has to pay their damn bills somehow, so Rhykker thanks you for your view.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME
Issues I've currently run into:
Characters in offline mode are randomly deleted, especially in Act 2. This is not fixed by the fix in their discord that claims it's a path problem with specific characters, as many people (myself included) on English Windows builds have experienced it. When this happens your character's .json file is filed with binary data (normally it's plaintext), which makes me suspect there's a serialization bug here.
You can trivially exploit endgame expeditions. Every time you go down a set of stairs, you get +100% magic find. If you just go up and down the same stairs, you can get as much magic find as you want, to the point where opening a chest spews out loots for minutes. If you expect online to have any form of trade economy, or ladder, don't.
Expeditions do not properly set item levels. If you enter a level 40 zone, then a 60, your items will be locked at 40. You need to reset your game to fix this.
Your progression through the game in online can be randomly reset at ANY time, including when playing the endgame (even after the "hotfix")
he game does not allow you to perform actions while performing another one. This is not necessarily a bad design decision, but because there's zero input buffer when you're animation locked, it makes the game feel massively clunky.
Many passive tree nodes are completely broken. I accidentally literally one-shot the A1 final boss because a node was giving me +1000% damage. There's a few that do this. There's also a few keystones that do nothing. They say they do something, but they don't actually have any effect.
There's ~.5 seconds of input lag on all actions, even offline. You can especially see this when trying to rapidly sell items to a vendor.
Many skill "runes" simply do not function.
Acts 2 and 3 essentially have no real content outside of the main story quests. Act 3 is full of placeholder text in the main story too. It's clear Act 1 was finished while these others were not.
Aspects of the Apocalypse do not scale with pretty much anything and are useless past Act 2.
If you play with someone online, only the host progresses. For example, if you run through Act 1 with a friend, and your friend is the host, once you leave the game you will be back at the prologue.
Flying monsters often simply cannot be targeted
If you mash potion while attacking, you triple your attack speed for each potion attempt, allowing you to delete the game with no skills equipped.
Honestly, this feels like an alpha. I won't speculate as to what happened internally with this team, but I'd strongly question this release and the motivations behind it. I'm also very concerned with the fact that a few "influencers" were singing the praises of this game and outright lying about it. It definitely smells like they were paid without disclosing that they were advertising/sponsored, which is illegal in the US. Very difficult to prove, but this should serve as a continued reminder not to trust video "playthroughs" prior to releases.
The underlying game is good, and if this was released as an alpha, or maybe even early beta, I'd be impressed. The core of this game is to D3 what PoE was to D2. However, releasing this and calling it 1.0 is deception bordering on a scam. Fortunately it seems Valve has opened up the ability to refund regardless of hours played, so people can get their money back now.
~Taken from "Hollywood" (Steam Community Hub)
Hey mate! Thanks for the in-depth commentary. I agree that it's best to hold off on buying this game until the issues are fixed. I had a few questions:
I heard that offline mode characters were not actually deleted, but simply saved in a different file path (the default install location vs. a custom one). Is this not the case?
You said you can exploit expeditions by going up and down the stairs - how, exactly? I'm trying to test this, but I'm not able to go back up the stairs. Did they fix this?
I'm trying to replicate the potion attack speed exploit - it's not working for me. Did they fix this? Can you give me more instruction on how to replicate this?
Overall I do agree that it feels like an alpha. There are many bugs - many unacceptable bugs. I'm enjoying the game, and have thankfully not encountered any game-breaking bugs, but I hear others are having a terrible experience. That's the thing with bugs - you either experience them, or you don't. While many people are experiencing bugs, many people are not, and are thus reporting a pleasant experience. I received a pre-release build to create this footage, and I didn't experience any major bugs - but I also didn't have much time with the game, and wasn't able to test all the skills. I also wasn't *looking* for bugs - I expected the game to be working properly, so I may not have noticed that a skill node wasn't actually doing anything. Now that I've been playing online and have spent more hours on the game, I'm running into bugs. It seems the pre-release build, which was offline-only, was also more stable.
@@Rhykker Same here. I've bought it in the day of 1.0.4 patch release (and to be honest, after watching your impressions :)) so I probably didn't experienced many of the earlier problems. My only issues: unclickable bats/rats that I had to kill with AoE spells, once I was pushed by the monster out of the map (stuck on some rocks, couldn't return, had to restart) and.... that's it :)
I'm not sure about passives tho. Not sure if they all work properly.
Like damage increase as 0.5 block chance - it is not shown in character stats.
Also crit chance, e.g. 15% crit chance from the tree doesn't increase your crit chance stat by 15%, but for 1-2% (like there is some base stat that is increased). On the orher hand different % chance stats are increased just like the skill tree nod says, e.g. +10% dodge on tree actually increases dodge chance in character stats by 10%; same with block chance. Feel a bit confused.
In the end, the game is still awesome and I really enjoy it :) Good H&S while waiting for D4 :)
as a Coder i can't stop laughing about this obvious cash grab... there's literally 0 soul put into the game... look how cheesy everything feels...
i mean if ur making a game and your coders are so bad, that your build deletes characters on act2... it's like wtf...
how can something like this even happen :DDD makes no sense , this kind of bug is almost impossible to write ... even if ur on fucking shrooms and trying to code.... :DDDDD
@@Microphunktv-jb3kj apply to be a programmer and fix their issues then, and stop complaining
4 questions :
1. Does it have Hardcore mode ?
2. For the endgame building gameplay : For people that like multiple characters , is progress in the post game "building aspect" character bound or account bound ? I ask because I thought I read that subsequent characters can skip the campaign.
3. The gameplay shown is at a good speed for a t-port / speed character , imo. Is it balanced well for that , or it awful like POE where you do maps in 1 minute with no strategy ?
4. Do you have any information on support / update / continuing content intentions ?
I have been following this for quite a while , and it looks right up my alley.
Bought this game 3 years ago in alpha. For a while there I highly doubted this game would ever see the light of day. I have never been so happy to have been so wrong. So pumped for this game and so happy that the devs stuck with it till the bitter end and didn't abandon it during some of the rough years where interest was at an all time low. Hope this game really takes off. The devs deserve it.
Meanwhile Star Citizen backers are still insisting they paid for a legit game.
Rhykker: This shield is really meant to be a resistance shield. (13:58)
Me really hype about the game: Damn this game is innovative!!!
0:23 Diablo 3 - demon hunter.
Rhykker thank you for this video but also thank you for all your Wolcen coverage over the years. Been following it for a long time, great content!
“Treasure beetles. I love finding those lil buggers” lol
wow... what a sellout, to anyone reading this I will save you time and money. do not buy the game, maybe it will be ready for release when the first or second expansion comes around, it looks like it will definitely not be in 2020.
Gamer: what classes can you play?
Wolcen: Yes
Thanks for the heads up. Just bought the game and installed. Can't wait to get home from work tonight and jump in.
I've got a lot of hours in the alpha and beta (multiple max characters) very excited to play the full version tomorrow!
game: you kill monsters
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Blizzard fanboy logic. Every ARPG looks like Diablo, every MMO looks like WoW and every FPS looks like Overwatch.
@@Xero_Kaiser it does look a lot like d3 though. I dont mean that as an insult
you forgot the PoE Fanbois: Uh ThIs iS SO CausAl - PoE Is GOD.
Xero Kaiser Blizzard still has fanboys? Where? In China?
@@wiLdchiLd2k well they arent lying :p
How can we take this review seriously when you are getting paid by a sponsor to do it?
They did briefly touch on the end game structure building in town within the past few days.
Also, I believe they said this isn't the crafting system that they want, but they wanted to have something in the game for when it launched
About a month ago I found your video on the Beta of Wolcen..that lead me to buy the game, didn't regret its amazing. Thanks
So, having played the beta a little bit... I felt it was insanely easy to build a character that would be effective in the game. I was downed a grand total of 4 times over the course of all 3 character types. If the full release is "easier"... the enemies may be a bit undertuned for enjoyment. :(
toyomatt84 I’m assuming you didn’t really push deep into the rift system then. Even with a decently competent build- there are a lot of one hit mechanics/tough enemies. I agree - most enemies are laughable faceroll, but downed 4 times on 3 chars seems like you didn’t try to challenge yourself
I think that's better than PoE that has flavor of the month and META builds that just rotate every league, and other builds just being way too expensive for new players to use.
Well .. They said the game will offer 2 difficulties at launch and a 3rd and HC mode later after they finish all the tuning needed .. and they said the first clear will be on the easiest mode by default so maybe he was judging from the first clear and didn't switch to the higher difficulty .
Can't do a honest gameplay review if you are sponsored
Remco de Louw any recommendations?
Amazing video, going to have to watch this 2-3 times as im sure ive missed details.
Thanks Rhykker
the devs must be paying you nicely
finally, i was waiting for this so long i forgot I was hyped about it!
cant wait to play it :D
6:57 "It's a nice little thing."
Is there going to be a Rhykker guild for this game? My husband and I are going to be playing Wolcen for our 3 day Valentine's weekend! Watching your news videos every Saturday together has become just as important as watching our favorite weekly TV shows together. We've purchased this game a while back so it's good to get an idea of what activities/collections we need to keep our eye out for! Thank you!!
Excellent review. Been playing beta for a while and super pumped to play full version soon!
If D4 fails at least I know I have something to play. Also keeping an eye on PoE2
It will fails YOU KNEW THAT
@@SpaceMarineForTheEmpirorOfMan it actually wont, im not even a diablo guy
G Kon I don’t know that. It’s been only a trailer and a few bits of info on it. WAY too early to make any kind of judgment. Plus what they have said sounds good so far. I’m being optimistic in these gaming dark times. I like ARPGs and I want more than one to succeed. Gives me a way to bounce around if I feel burned out of one. Plus D4 won’t be for a long time so I have plenty of time to enjoy Wolcen regardless
for the first few seconds i thought this was d3
I am 2 seconds into the video, and I am "WTF THIS IS D3 100%"
Except theres no sets that pigeonhole you into certain skills because they increase the damage by 20000%.
@@kenm6609 Well I totally agree and have no idea what big brain decided that is good thing to begin with. Other than that D3 is quiet good game.
Looks great! It's nice to see a game move the bar forward.
Been following this game for a long time but never played it. I just bought my copy last night, really stoked to get into a new ARPG. I feel like this game has some serious potential to be great.
4:06
"Time to kill has been reduced to a more sensible level"
He literally kills every single mob throughout the entire video, with one shot.
You mean Trash mobs? K...
Literally read this comment and scrolled back up to him having to hit things multiple times. Your full of shit haha.
@@yoshiguy123 i was exaggerating, yes, but he kills 90% of the things, almost with one shot, leaving most with very low hp to nothing. My point is that he was talking about difficulty, and having to THINK about every situation and encounter, but really, he's just BLAZING through the game, nonstop, so I'd wager HE is full of shit. It's a fucking slaughter machine set on easy, and quite a boring one at that.
Game looks awesome. I've played it during EA and I can't wait for this weekend to play it fully. Wolcen studio is clearly punching way above it's weight. You could show me this gameplay, tell me it's D4 or PoE2 and I'd belive it. Production values are really high.
Not to mention that with side concent, quite a robust endgame and really good gameplay - It's looks like it might take at least a small portion of that cake that now belongs almost fully to GGG/Blizzard/Crate
At 8:38 ui_endgamedialog_townchattet2_3 what is that all about?
Hey Rhykker, do u think Wolcen is worth buying as of the moment, there seems to still be so much bug that every1 is contemplating about and im wondering if i should buy it or wait alittle more until they got most of the bugs fixed first. Please give your honest opinion
Gonna spend next week playing this, giving a good fair shot before jumping to any conclusions.
but for first impression and stuff i have seen i believe Wolcen is going to be fine addition to arpg genre.
Bacons Strip you would call every hack n slay a copy of D3
@Bacons Strip Doesnt matter, since D3 is pretty shit anyway. I don't mind if someone makes a better D3. 😃
Love me some arpgs. I've played almost every title thats come out since d2 and Ill say POE is a great game from the rabbit hole/labyrinth core mechanics BUT the fact that you are one shotting everything or being one shot and no in-between became kind of boring for me. I'm interested in diving into another world filled with riches and mayhem. Not many games achieve the fantasy esthetic quite like arpgs that I adore the most.
You probably have but have you tried grim dawn? Seems like a game that you would also like :)
@@psytek101 I have! Great game. I think out of everything the story and world was the highlight for me
D3 is sick
@@Theonevidz D3 was good except for the fact that skills were mega limted.. that was the main killer for me in the long run.. i liked wow BC when i had 30 skills on my lock + skill levels, it just allows for so much more adaptability
Thanks for the review(s)! I've been lurking your wolcen videos for a while now. Oh, and hurry up and get the beard back :)
I have no experience, bought the game yesterday. I'll need your guides :) Thanks for the fantastic video!
THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED. DONT WATCH
He could have put this in the fking title...
I just hope the end game has some longevity to it. That's a reason why I was questioning whether I should try Grim Dawn (though it looks interesting). PoE and D3 had full endgames built up (D3 has running rifts PoE has mapping and league endgame). Though I have heard the mods in Grim Dawn are awesome which may make me pick up the game.
Edit: Something interesting I just thought of but what if the expeditions endgame in wolcen had something more to doing it like PoE's mapping system... but more like the old system except of course with its own twist and not just copying PoE's system.
Grimdawn has a few end game stuff
Vanilla gd : has bounties, in which you will go on various missions around the game map to kill monster for the in game factions.
Crucible expansion : allows you to play in an arena with increasing difficulty
Forgotten gods expansion : adds the shattered realms in which its an unending random dungeon where the deeper you go, the harder it gets.
Great video dude. This game looks like a lot of fun. May consider a major stream focus change here
And now for a review from Baby Rhykker... come back next month where adult Rhykker will have new thoughts on this game!
it looks exactly as D3
Mixed with D2 and Poe skill system.
4:30 dude, EVERY boss fight should take multiple times for the average person to get through. Every one in almost every game, otherwise why even call it a boss. whats the point.
Boss mechanics are an under rated thing these days. The secret world focused on boss fights with only like 3 mob pulls between bosses in dungeons that introduce some mechanics of the coming boss. That game was incredible in this regard.
@@rblyle382 god secret world. Talk about disappointing games oh my god. That game probably had more potential than any other game created. I loved how it mixed real world events within a cohesive game story. Or at least it was for a while anyways.
but yeah mmos often make bosses require tenacity, a boss that doesn't also doesn't give the same reward for overcoming a problem by developing new skills while solving it.
You sound like your probably younger, but older games on the first generation consoles consistently had bosses that were designed in this way. It was the go to baseline for it, reverse of what it is now.
I first heard of the game from your channel here and now playing this since alpha. Looking forward to play this tomorrow again.
Is there going to be another big install tomorrow if you have the game preinstalled?
This is a sponsored video. Look at steam reviews.
I love your vids Rhykker but I should have stopped when you said sponsored video. This video is obviously biased. The game is not even close to finished. I suspect the devs released this early because they lacked funding. What a mess this is turning out to be.
If you have yet to buy the game, please wait until they fix the numerous issues. It has potential but this is a very unfinished product.
Or maybe... you're just another whiney Gamer who lives only to complain. I played it all weekend, and while there are a few minor issues, it's still amazingly fun.
@@VideoHostSite A few minor issues? 2 of the 3 bosses bug out most of the time resulting in not being able to kill them. You can brick your entire progress by joining a game of someone who's further than you. The servers were down for 3+ days after release. I can go on and on. Like i said it has great potential and it is fun, but it is Unfinished. But tell me more how i am a whiney gamer.
My one problem with the final boss of act one is that there's no checkpoint system for the different phases. I don't mind the difficulty, but it is kind of annoying when you get to the second phase and die due to some small mistake and have to restart the entire fight over.
Awesome. Looking forward to an alternative to my Pathing.
Rhykker, how would you rate the Skill tree itself with the bar being POE as it seems the ARPG community mostly agrees? Is it close in depth or are we dealing with something much, much simpler and more inviting to say, players with less experience or time on their hands?
And this is the moment YOU SEE HOW BLIZZARD IS LAME THIS TIME
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But PoE is a thing. And a lot of this is just d3 copy paste.
D4 looks good, and we still don’t have much information about it so not really
What are you even taking about?
@@Sastank08 D3 copy paste? Buddy! Have you played full release yet? No? Then STFU! As PoE veteran (2000h+) is nice to have some new and fresh and especially new a-rpg main campaign that do not suck, new enveriments to wade through and builds to wonder about. I'm happy to play something fresh untill end of this year when we get what we all have been waiting for PoE. But hey! You can skip this because it's D3 copy paste (as PoE has not copied nothing from Diablo) LMAO and keep on playing all the same shit over and over and make your 20th speed run build in PoE. It's your choice, but calling this D3 copy and playing PoE is a quite hypocritical. Bye!
Not sure I like a "gameplay review" being sponsored by the game in question. That's shady AF, dude.
I believe he did that with some other games already in the past and he always was pretty honest and pointed out flaws as well as he mentioned strengths. So I personally dont see a problem there ;)
not really, coming from rhykker. We all know that sponsored or not, he gives the honest points.
it is, especially considering how other game reviewers that arent sponsored report BIG problems with the game, especially stability problems, regular ctds and bugs bugs bugs....
of course nothing to see HERE
@@Maethendias Other game reviewers that aren't sponsored, aren't playing the release version of the game. People that are sponsored, are getting early access to it. So those "Not sponsored" people, aren't even playing the same thing in comparison. And if they ARE playing the same thing, then they ARE sponsored. Kind of how it works.
That's fair, and it's the reason I told them I would do a "first impressions" video. It's not a full review - just my initial thoughts and experiences. I'll have more to comment on after I've really played the endgame a lot. The build I had also had some bugs in it, but they said they would fix those on launch
They didn't even try to not rip D3's artwork off. :/
I totally are going for Thorns builds. Hopefully It actually requires some strength rather than just dumping everything into vit