I'm someone that love ARPG's in all forms, games like but not limited to: Diablo, Torchlight, Path of Exile, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, Grim Dawn - just to name a few and Wolcen is NOT as fun as the others for many, many reasons in which I will go over soon but before that let's thank today's sponsor: "I DON'T GIVE A FK™" ...huh... that's a little on the nose... Anyways!

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The story of this game is as follows you choose between a male or a female and that takes the precedence in the campaign as the 'Ascended' one. You have trained underneath 'Heimlock the Grand Inquisitor' the leader of the "Republic’s Army of the Purifiers" and are known as the "Children of Heimlock." A religious group known as "Brotherhood of Dawn" has attacked and infiltrated a place known as 'Crimson Keep' so of course you are one of the people that needs to punish them (y'know like spank them daddy). You and two others; which I will call "Wood A" and "Wood B" because they have equally if not let less of a character than actual planks of wood and I'm feeling resentful so I don't really give a crap. Is all of this important... well, both yes and no. The short answer would be yes but the long answer would be a no. The whole point of this opening is to put you on your path where you will discover that you are an 'Ascended' and there are two other cults lurking in the shadows. You progress through the lands fighting said evil HOWEVER here is where I stop being nice. The story takes a deep nose dive into the pits of Hell where it drown not only in lava and flames but goes through the Devil's rectum and then fed to a demon that pisses it out again... you get the point. Why you may ask? Because they mention another cult but other than a few words a cutscene THEY ARE NOWHERE IN GAME TO BE FOUND and if that's not enough they make a big deal of a few characters by building them up however they have no significance in the story whatsoever so why in the holy Hell are they getting so much screen time? Are they trying to become the next Top Model or something!? Needless to say but the story just didn't cut it, also it doesn't help that they change the voice lines but not the freaking game dialogue to match what they are saying also the game is full of grammatical errors which is driving me insane just hire professional writers it's not that difficult!

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The combat is unrewarding in many aspects and they could have done more with what they had. The skills that you use lack the fun free-for-everything approach of 'Path of Exile' and/or the strategic infidelity of 'Diablo II' leaving it somewhere in-between in a void where no man should wander *shudders* and that both gimps and holds the game back severely. For example here let me take the magical spell/skill that I like to use called: 'Annihilation' which is a purple lazer that deals Aether damage which is apart of the Occult damage group which... wait, we haven't talked about that yet so let me go over that really quick so that you can get your brain melt sooner rather than later.

There are 3 main stats for damage and resistances in the game:

• Material
  
• Elemental
  
• Occult

Material is for Physical, Toxic & Rend.
Elemental is for Fire, Frost & Lightning.
Occult is for Aether, Sacred & Shadow.

Are you with me so far? I can't blame you for falling asleep this isn't exactly riveting or Earth shattering stuff, well maybe it will shatter your mind... in a bad way... anyways, I used the skill 'Annihilation' because I found it fun to use and in this game you don't have any spells when you start you actually find them from killing enemies which is kind of cool ... I didn't say that, you saw nothing *Hand Wave* but the problem lies in the skill itself because you can level up your skills and when you do you get skillpoints which you can use to improve the skill further HOWEVER someone made the decision to make the utility features of this skill completely f-ing useless... WHY?! WHO MADE THIS DECISION AND WHY DO THEY STILL HAVE A JOB?!

Give me a moment... 1 mississippi, 2 mississippi... OK I'm fine now.

So let me explain my anger here because I haven't done that and if I did then it was poor. Annihilation has several things that COULD make it fantastic and amazing to use but why have fun, it's only a game, you know something that was made with entertainment in mind but heh what do I know right... *Sigh* So there is an "upgrade" that makes it so that you can shoot 2 lazers instead of just 1 lazer and that gimps your damage which is only fair because it gives you the advantage of attacking at two angles but it shouldn't gimp your damage too much because otherwise it becomes useless as an "upgrade" and that is the problem with the whole kit, there is another upgrade that makes it so the lazer can travel through enemies and hit enemies behind the first enemy hit but that has the problem of "nerfing" your damage by 20 f-ing %... that's insane! You might think: "20%? That's not bad, I don't understand why you are freaking out so much?" OK, fair enough then let me explain: this game divides damage into two groups "Additive damage" and "Multiplication damage;" the first only adds to your already existing damage so if the lazer deals 3000 damage on its own then you add that to your total damage count and if it is the second then it will multiply your total damage by .2% with the 3000 that the lazer does which is a huge damage boost so you take your total damage which is let's say 5000 in this case then you add the lazer damage to that which makes it 8000 then you multipy that damage with .2 which will give you another 1600 damage ontop of what you already got bringing the total to a whooping 9600 damage and that's without counting anything coming for your gear. Having upgrades that ups the damage isn't a solution to the problem. They could have had it so that the upgrades adds benefits without taking away too much especially when we are talking about just utility things that is suppose to make it so that you can have several different builds and play around with and have fun but no you are locked and if you don't like it then too f-ing bad, go cry to your bodypillow about it.

Also I'm not gonna sit here and go through every single thing stat wise, I rather keep my sanity thank you very much.

I would like to see them remove these ridiculous damage increasing/reducing numbers that they call upgrades and instead use their brains to figure out that hey maybe we can put some fun things in there instead, like being able to plant a lazer bomb that fires lazer to enemies that comes near it or have a lazer shoot in one angle continously and you can place up to 3 of them and if they are gonna have so that something gives you increased damage then it must work with an idea like for example: if they have an upgrade that makes the lazer short, let's say it halves it in length then it could be more powerful because now instead of a long range attack you have made a viable melee build where you can build a Sorcerer that can stack Material resistance and kill stuff from close range.

"META" is not made/created it's discovered so allow people to have some fun.

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Remember Act 4? Yeah that again... OK I'll explain. In Act 1-3 you have actual places to go it feels like an adventure where you go to different environments and meet and talk to different people even if it is slightly underwhelming it is still better than nothing. However in Act 4 you are in Stormfall City and that's all there is until you manage to kill the last boss. You do unlock a few extra things after killing the last boss that you can buy for an absurd amount of gold which is only there to pander out the game more, fun for a brain-dead person. FK THIS!

Played when the servers were shot down already. so online players might be drawn away.

Minus a few crashes, and the grind at the end. The controls, the gameplay and the story were fun.

GG