Grim Dawn - Fangs of Asterkarn

This DLC ruined the game

It's pretty hard to believe that this is made by the same devs that made Ashes of Malmouth. Empty, poorly written and worst of all, just boring :/

balance seems ♥♥♥♥♥ with this release. Friend and I are getting randomly oneshot by untelegraphed nonsense when we play.

I have over 2000 hours in this game and I think I would just turn this DLC off and pretend it never happened if I wanted to play Grim Dawn again.

Doesn't add much too the base game exept nerfs to player defence and Increases to Boss HP. A specific complaint of mine is the Miniboss/Hero [spoiler]Loxmere Nightmage[/spoiler] from the base game, which has been randomly moved to Port Valuburry from its orginal location in the Plains of Strife. Rather than removing one of the most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, ass-tier, no-skill, jank ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ enemies from an otherwise fun game (this mini-boss, now boss-rank has the ability to [spoiler]disable all your buffs for 5sec + do an unaceptable amount of damage without any kind of noticable animation or visual cue that you are about to be ass-♥♥♥♥♥♥ to death [/spoiler]) the developers have seen fit to promote the bastard and insert him as a random spawn in the Port Valbury Dungeon. Loxmere to me stands out in regard to how annoying so many boss-rank enemies have become. Review written playing on Veterna difficulkty, without even getting to act 9 / the actual Fangs of Asterkarn content. Fangs of Asterkarn DLC Not recomended. I habe no idea what the current version of the base game without the DLC is like.

Here's the thing. If you played the game at release (ten years ago) and have a mostly built character, then this expansion has nothing for you. Lots of things that sort of help if your still looking for a piece of gear, but no new items will replace your old, and you'll hit the Awakened lottery machine a few times on your current gear only to be underwhelmed, stride unimpeded to the DLC's boss, kill it in 4.5 seconds even on the new difficulty, and uninstall the game again.

This DLC takes everything great about grim dawn and flips it on it's head. It adds too much fluff without enough substance. Most of the areas are huge for the sake of being huge.. They're devoid of exploration, wonder and monster packs. A sprint function, a mount, or any other way to speed through these areas is desperately needed to make this expansion enjoyable, especially with the npcs and objectives you need to backtrack to being so far away from the riftgates. On a positive note, I personally like the shift towards more meaningful combat and actually having to tackle fights in different ways. The new class and items are nice too,

Turns out game fundamentally changed in 2023 with the v1.2 shift to movement / dodge / acrobatic playstyle. Which [b]didn't happen[/b] during a DLC drop, as the previous DLC was 2019. This means nothing in the store page for the new [i]Fangs of Asterkarn[/i] DLC warns you that the game you are revisiting has completely changed! It's even worse. if one considers that the old Grim Dawn is no longer available on Steam. The dev reached into my game library and replaced a [i]single player game[/i] with an entirely different one. For whom? The hardcore squeaky wheels? They forgot just how much of their returning player base are "filthy casuals" for each DLC release. [i]Update: Good to know. I may switch to the v1.1.x artefact - which is incompatible with DLC now being sold - to enjoy the game I paid for; once I've recovered from the toxicity of the forums which are clearly not being managed.[/i]