Wolcen: Now That It's Been "Fixed"... | A Casual Review: Wolcen Lords of Mayhem

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  • @treborlindstamer1304
    @treborlindstamer1304 Рік тому +16

    Man the first week was wild. Never have I ever played a game where you can have 100% defensive and offensive stats.

  • @dkelly
    @dkelly Рік тому +10

    I was washing dishes as I was listening to this, and the "pounding" comment got me to laugh such that I dropped one of my favorite mugs in the sink. Almost broke it... Damn you sir. =]. It was just out of no where and hilarious. Great review man, love your content!

  • @doctortrainerofficial
    @doctortrainerofficial Рік тому +9

    MASSIVE sale deal for Wolcen on Steam right now: 75% off. Buying it as we speak!

    • @doctortrainerofficial
      @doctortrainerofficial Рік тому +5

      Update: Such a fantastic game. Absolutely loving it...

    • @BVargas78
      @BVargas78 11 місяців тому +1

      I got it really cheap as a bundle, alongside that Achilles game that came out recently.

  • @ahbraveconscript997
    @ahbraveconscript997 Рік тому +13

    this game was in my steams wishlist for ages and it still is.

    • @Vonalray
      @Vonalray 9 місяців тому +4

      Don't bother, game is complete abandonware.

    • @vnshngpnt
      @vnshngpnt 6 місяців тому +2

      @@Vonalraygame is finished, not abandoned lmao… modern players

    • @Vonalray
      @Vonalray 6 місяців тому

      @@vnshngpnt um, no. It isn't. If you try to buy the game today you'll see a notice that they have stopped development and are shutting off the servers.
      They even apologized that the remaining bugs, some of which are game breaking, can't be fixed.

    • @Benz49421
      @Benz49421 4 місяці тому +2

      This game now sale 2 buck in steam summer

  • @okamichamploo
    @okamichamploo Рік тому +11

    I was in the same boat as you, but I ended up unlocking a node in the poe style skill tree thing that made my character ditch Willpower in exchange for producing Rage over time. It essentially makes it like any other ARPG. I also beefed it up with other nodes giving me massive amounts of Rage and by end game I pretty much never ran out unless it was an ongoing barrage of enemy waves.

    • @JonMidori
      @JonMidori Рік тому +3

      I was just going to mention that node. Basically reverses the willpower/rage default where willpower is the default degen back to rage instead of the normal vice verse. I think there are passives that build rage on kill after that so you can basically perma melee or burn rage potions for long fights/high attack speed. I was making a pistol projectile chaining build and needed rage instead of willpower.

  • @marzatplay
    @marzatplay Рік тому +16

    I spent $10 during the last Steam Sale and played 110 hours. Reached deep into endgame but ended up quitting. Got my money's worth, thats for sure.

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому

      For $10? hell yeah. How was the End Game? good progression?

    • @marzatplay
      @marzatplay Рік тому

      @AllTradesJackReviews Pretty good, but started to get very very grindy and difficult the deeper you got. I almost reached final endgame level. I think I stopped at 193 and final was 216. Can't recall now, it's been a few months.

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому +1

      216 levels... damn I guess that's how people fill up the gate of fates board...

    • @marzatplay
      @marzatplay Рік тому

      @AllTradesJackReviews actually it's after 216, you then use accumulated skulls to unlock the rest of the GOF and even other stats...you become invincible...but to get there, you gotta know what you're doing and have luck with drops.

    • @MrsBlaileen1
      @MrsBlaileen1 8 місяців тому +2

      $3.99 in the Steam Spring Sale…sounds like a must buy at that price, if you found value for $10

  • @marcusd.sanders5065
    @marcusd.sanders5065 Рік тому +23

    Dude . . . your review is spot on . . . which gives me good reason to recommend you to others and trust your videos. Thank you for your perspective.

  • @Vonalray
    @Vonalray 9 місяців тому +1

    Keep in mind that this review was released 1 month after the games final update.
    All of the bugs are still there, the servers crashed only 2 weeks ago as they are no longer maintained.
    The console version has most of its features inaccessible because they used the PC's mouse UI but never added mouse support.

  • @SchwingyGaming
    @SchwingyGaming Рік тому +4

    10:36 that's it. I'm dead.

  • @monsterrun
    @monsterrun Рік тому +2

    Good review.
    Did you knew that there are red and purple rarity gear that unlock some spells to be used by who wears that gear?
    My favorite is the sheild that allow you to use any sacred damage type spells regardless that it is bound for guns, dagger or catalysts.
    Just unlock stats change on a spell to make it deal sacred dmage and there you go you can now use it.
    Also catalysts have their drawbacks..they are slow to build up willpower and have reduced damage output from spells. While staves regen will power much faster and add a 30% up 50% with the best staves.

    • @MrsBlaileen1
      @MrsBlaileen1 8 місяців тому

      Sounds like you enjoyed the game more than the reviewer. Recommended? I’m on Steam Deck.

    • @monsterrun
      @monsterrun 8 місяців тому

      It is ok game, my only gripe with it is that once you finish the main story, the difficulty go up by quite a notch.
      It can become quite impossible on some builds, and barely menageable on very powerful builds.
      Still it's a very challenging game.

  • @Zola_RSN
    @Zola_RSN 2 місяці тому

    I enjoyed Wolcen, it is very easy though, especially if you go full mage, with a staff.
    Feeding Swarm + Annihilation + Solarfall, and you are unstoppable.

  • @Zidoco
    @Zidoco 4 місяці тому

    I enjoyed playing this game with my dad in '21. Just came back cause we saw the game was shutting down its MP. I had to restart my client twice now. The first time was because my dad entered a cut scene while I was looking at the Gates. My mouse refused to register in game. Restarting fixed this. The second time was fighting a boss in the necropolis. We "beat" the boss then it kamakazied and caused us to restart the fight. The notable difference was, the first "bugged" fight didn't have any boss abilities.

  • @matthuck378
    @matthuck378 Рік тому +4

    There are a few things I really like about Wolcen. It's visuals, the skill trees and wheel, and just how it feels to play a wizard with a gun. Pistol + catalyst is such fun, IMO. It's like the D4 Rogue and Sorc, but faster, more agile, and just MORE. Also can summon a minion to tank.
    But I had it bug out on me in Act 3...Making it unplayable for about a month until another patch dropped and seems to have fixed it.
    Now, I'm playing D4. I might (should) go back and play more Wolcen, and I probably will...But not now.

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому

      It definitely seems like the bugs kept a lot of people from playing the game or finishing it. I was at least able to finish the base game before I ran into any issues, but I have heard plenty of other experiences from people playing since it launched.

    • @JustxLiving909
      @JustxLiving909 Рік тому

      D4 season 1 around the corner woot woot

  • @twiztidchameleon9154
    @twiztidchameleon9154 Рік тому +1

    and a curiosity as to why this dog will follow this random stranger into the bowls of hell, but mine will run at the sound of a broom sweeping the floor. 😂🤣😂

  • @lewisphillips7223
    @lewisphillips7223 Рік тому +7

    How did you miss the node in the Gates of Fate which enables you to generate Rage instead of Willpower? There's a node immediately after it which boosts ability damage by 100% when above 750 Rage too, which is incredibly easy to maintain. So there is already a solution to the Rage/Willpower issue you had.

    • @KILOBify
      @KILOBify 8 місяців тому +2

      Never forget: reviewers suck at the games they review

  • @LostCoastGhost_
    @LostCoastGhost_ Рік тому +20

    My 83 year old mother wants to know why you aren't texting her anymore. I thought you were gonna be my step-dad 😢

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому +6

      LOL 😂 The poundings got to be too much… since we are on the topic. I miss yo momma jokes. Kind of

  • @chrisvaldes-re7sh
    @chrisvaldes-re7sh 9 місяців тому +1

    Been playing non stop last month. Love this game ( yes still crashy but still sooo good better then D4 for sure

  • @bub5842
    @bub5842 Рік тому

    so crazy I was just thinking about wolcen last night, then this video pops up.

  • @MrDrowranger87
    @MrDrowranger87 8 місяців тому +1

    for 7$ on Steam it is worth it

  • @CallMeTeci
    @CallMeTeci Рік тому +5

    Interesting just two months ago, when i did my review of the game the technical issues were crazy and even partially the same as three years ago. Effects and Loot-models went visually missing in Act 3, sound bugged out and the endboss (after they introduced the last act) had a gamebreaking bug that caused a crash everytime when he used a specific ability. (Luckily you could get around that by editing a file, what wouldnt be possible if i had played Online)
    And tbh in general when i look at your gameplay the lag between attack and hit detection looks sometimes really bad. So i think it really might have been better to go for the offline mode. ;D

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому +1

      You know, I heard that same experience from my buddy who tried it last year. My experience was definitely different, but those bugs may still be in there. Maybe I just got lucky and only got a few of them lol! But yeah, offline mode would have definitely been better... the lag at first was absolutely terrible until I figured out that it was connecting to an EU server while I'm in West Coast USA.

    • @CallMeTeci
      @CallMeTeci Рік тому

      @@AllTradesJackReviews Good for you then. :D
      The worst thing for me was simply that i knew the effects-bug already from release and its so downturning to see that they still exist several years after that. But besides that i think i had more fun. Probably also because i defaulted to a minion-build. ;D

  • @torrvic1156
    @torrvic1156 Рік тому +1

    Nice review sir! Thank you for doing justice to this game. I like this game and it is really good one and I think that nowadays it doesn’t deserve it’s mixed feedback on Steam.

  • @REE-Animation
    @REE-Animation Рік тому +1

    WHAT!! You can have a big beetle as a companion?… How? Please tell me… Instant buy ❤️

  • @Astro_Vagabond
    @Astro_Vagabond Рік тому +4

    I love this game so much and I’m excited to watch this. Finally someone’s talking about this.

    • @graceypatrick
      @graceypatrick Рік тому +1

      What you play it on

    • @Astro_Vagabond
      @Astro_Vagabond Рік тому

      @@graceypatrick PlayStation. I’m takin a break from it for a while to play Remnant 2

    • @twiztidchameleon9154
      @twiztidchameleon9154 Рік тому +1

      @@Astro_Vagabond Hows remnant 2? Does it have that D4 kinda feeling? Good Loot? What are your favorite things about this game in comparison to D4.

    • @Astro_Vagabond
      @Astro_Vagabond Рік тому +1

      @@twiztidchameleon9154 oh it’s fantastic. Favorite things about it compared to d4?
      No battlepasses.
      No live service.
      Can play offline.
      No predatory cash shops trying to get my attention.
      There’s actual build diversity. Everything works and comes down to your own play style and performance. Not what the meta is. Even the “metas” in remnant are still dependent on your skills as a player.
      It’s a game that feels like it’s from the best era of gaming. You could say, it has the remnants of what made some of the best games so good. It’s stupidly fun. Gameplay is rewarding. Multiplayer multiplies the chaos. Everything about remnant, is better than D4 could ever be. The same can even be said of the first game.

    • @Jim77781
      @Jim77781 Рік тому

      D2 is superior to D4 in almost every way, Blizzard and many other companies are just straight trash these days.

  • @harvbegal6868
    @harvbegal6868 9 місяців тому

    I bought this game when it came out. Multi stage bosses are annoying to me, but i can usually tolerate 2 stages at most. The boss i was fighting had at least 3 stages and i had its health down to nearly 0 and then it DC'd on me making me have to restart it. I deleted the game right there and never went back.
    Has it improved?

    • @kokojack
      @kokojack 9 місяців тому

      I deleted the game because my build (health globes explosion) would make the servers go crazy laggy, inducing rollbacks, rubber banding, desync and all kind of glitches (especially in mp, for both my friends and I).
      I came back to try the latest patch, they reset talent tree and levels for all players, moved equipped gear into a special stash, it was disapointing but not the end of the world.
      I went to check that stash, it was empty, went to my personal stash, was also empty. I had 200h of gameplay.
      Never touched it again, one of the worst Hack'n'Slash experience I had in my life and I played like dozen of them

  • @vnshngpnt
    @vnshngpnt 6 місяців тому

    Cool review
    Game is great, one of the best modern ARPGs to play. Obviously it’s not live service game, but it has great campaign and enough character customisation for few playthroughs. Had much more fun in my 100h in Wolcen than in D4 or Last Epoch. There are just enough fun details in character building and customisation to keep playing, and trying again with different character

  • @grabas619
    @grabas619 11 місяців тому

    I played this years ago... Have 35 hours on it and I can't remember shit.. I really had to search for this type of video just remind me something... I just know it was enjoyable

  • @viskiville
    @viskiville 7 місяців тому

    "Pounding i gave your mo-BEEP"

  • @adi6293
    @adi6293 9 місяців тому

    I really liked the game so much that I did go into the end game

  • @Cerebix
    @Cerebix Рік тому +1

    I gave this game a shot a couple of years ago and it killed my gaming laptop.
    Years later I was happy to see it works well on a steam deck, though I think I had to use a Jsaux fan to keep the thing from heating up to a breaking point.
    I had a good time. I probably had a handful of crashes, and I had to manipulate a JSON file to get to the end game after I beat the final boss because something didn't trigger correctly at the time.
    The end game is not satisfying but it did hook me for a couple of weeks. Literally the same loop on the same handful of maps to eventually kill the same mega boss over and over again.
    With all that said I found out the hard way that uninstalling a game on a Steam deck that doesn't use Steam's cloud saves means that save is gone forever if it's an offline character, and I haven't felt compelled to pick up the game again.

  • @alilweeb7684
    @alilweeb7684 Рік тому +1

    came for poe, stayed for the amazing reviews

  • @LukCPL
    @LukCPL Рік тому +5

    You can have rage as base resource, there are uniques that give access to very interesting builds that can fix many issues you had. Quite good review otherwise, but you kinda skipped over the awesome music and visuals, and didn't talk much about loot and endgame. Game is fun and, and ina world of D4 which is $70 + macrotransactions on top of nerfs I really like going back to it :)

  • @bushwajunior2663
    @bushwajunior2663 Рік тому +2

    Diablo 2, legendary game. Kill monsters in a swamp, go in a cave, kill monsters in a cave, go to a graveyard kill monsters in a graveyard, warp to a desert, kill monsters in a desert, find a key open a sewer kill monsters in a sewer, all of this to kill more monsters inevitably killing THE monster. Would you DARE call Diablo 2 mediocre? It was Diablo 2's expansive combat system which Wolcen has in spades that made Diablo 2 great, and let's face ALL you do in Diablo is smash shit move on and smash more shit, touch shrines and smash more shit.

    • @alus992
      @alus992 11 місяців тому +1

      This. Which arpg games have other gameplay elements that are a pillar of the gameplay loop?
      I mean PoE have/had these labirynths but all other games in this lane are all about smashing tons of mobs in every area that is available

  • @chriscangelosi9438
    @chriscangelosi9438 Рік тому

    excellent review! Subscribed! 🥳

  • @PFunk609
    @PFunk609 Рік тому +2

    any good on console?

  • @MimiMimi-yj4kl
    @MimiMimi-yj4kl 5 місяців тому

    The problem with the combat is that you can't skip the enemies in every zone or area to avoid them. You're forced to fight them unlike in undecember and poe. You can outrun them. That's why it's becoming boring in the long run for wolcen

  • @kubav3
    @kubav3 Рік тому

    are there seasons in wolcen? (that you have to make a new character from time to time)

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому +1

      There are no seasons! they recently added more content to the end game, but did not have you restart any of your progress

  • @mattias969
    @mattias969 6 місяців тому

    I might consider buying it if they make a ps5 version i didnt but a ps5 to play ps4 games.

  • @kongkim
    @kongkim Рік тому

    Good video, and you have a very pleasant voice to listen to :)
    Its a bit funny and one of your points about the game is it very repetitive.
    Isten it like that in all ARPG? I mean many people still call D2 One of the best games ever, and that is after 100000000 Baal runs :P

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому

      Thank you! And as far as repetition, yes and no. Of course, every ARPG has a very similar gameplay loop, but they each have some way to vary the gameplay. Loot drops, map mods, bosses, etc. I think those things are very important in keeping interest in the gameplay so that you feel rewarded and keep enjoying the repetitive gameplay loop!

  • @yarmy2936
    @yarmy2936 Рік тому

    Great content bud!!!

  • @coldasice1553
    @coldasice1553 3 місяці тому

    Dad, why do you expose me like that 😢

  • @Brogdishjocke
    @Brogdishjocke Рік тому

    in the alpha in the game thats was good and we resive somphing els

  • @saintsaber8491
    @saintsaber8491 Рік тому

    Can't play keeps crashing.

  • @toddwilliams8128
    @toddwilliams8128 Рік тому

    Fun game, but I found the constant cutscenes to be a nuisance after a while. Well-acted, yes, but still a nuisance. I loved the Awakened form, but it froze the game if I was using it to kill a map boss. Maybe this is a bug that has been since fixed...
    I recommend that all ARPG fans try it out. It hits all the marks I expect, but I don't think it hits them better than other games.

  • @HermesAthena72
    @HermesAthena72 5 місяців тому

    Guys hi! Do you know the character level cap in this game! I started recently, after a early quitting. Thanks

  • @MrKlarthums
    @MrKlarthums Рік тому

    This is a good review for casual ARPG players, but not worth much to an ARPG grinder as it seems you quit at level 43. Is that even the end of the campaign? I haven't played it myself.

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому +1

      It definitely is a casual/new player perspective! I believe I was around 50 or so after finishing the main story to the point where I got a screen saying “the story will continue later” or something like that. Then it popped me out into a mission based campaign system. That’s when it looked like the grinder starts. You can get all the way up to level 216 I hear though it gets extremely grindy (even for an arpg).

    • @MrKlarthums
      @MrKlarthums Рік тому

      @@AllTradesJackReviews Thanks for the clarification.

  • @solldude
    @solldude Рік тому

    I loged into wolcen a few weeks ago. my old characters legs where moving on their own while my seperated torso was floating slightly to the right of my legs. this was the case for all 3 of my characters. I proceeded with unistalling the game.

    • @AllTradesJackReviews
      @AllTradesJackReviews  Рік тому

      Lol oh man.. I wonder if they just never fixed old characters? I know my character went bald for a while after using a certain helmet. Reset itself after a while but that was the only noticeable visual glitch for me.

  • @tempiasjdoiasd
    @tempiasjdoiasd 11 місяців тому

    sorry but did you just say killing enemies can get boring in a hack n slash?

  • @7DiceGaming
    @7DiceGaming 10 місяців тому

    game still stiil buggy on console verison XBox series X
    but its still a good game i liked playing and still do on Console.

  • @jonathanf106
    @jonathanf106 11 місяців тому

    Diablo style games lacks puzzle solving levels. Its literally just hack n slash and loot finding.

  • @BloBlas123
    @BloBlas123 Рік тому

    THE WORST thing about Wolcen is that combat feels laggy. When u hit a mob it seems like the dmg and reaction from the mobs come like 0,5 seconds later (and i even played in offline mode)

  • @thelasttellurian
    @thelasttellurian Рік тому

    I enjoyed more from this review than the actual game.

    • @zoolande-roblox-gaming9877
      @zoolande-roblox-gaming9877 Рік тому

      its an ARPG they all see to have the same kind of endgame. you do the "endgame" activity then you do over and over again to get better gear and do the activity (endgame) faster. that pretty much all games like this. Diablo, POE, Grim Dawn, etc

  • @AhmadFauzi-pd2tb
    @AhmadFauzi-pd2tb 6 місяців тому

    5:08 this place looks like the last boss map from Torchlight 2 , doing copy paste like that is so uninspiring👎

  • @nothing55rk
    @nothing55rk Рік тому

    I've been a wolcen supporter since it was called umbra.. yes it's still got some bugs, and it still needs some polish, but honestly there's not another ARPG around that can compare with wolcens combat. Last Epoch is a close second. POE, D4 the skil bar is full of buffs/ shields, and you're spamming one maaaaybe two skills. In wolcen I get to use 5 skills in almost every encounter, ather jump into or out of a area, then Dodge roll to a new location and blast away. Wolcen doesn't get credit for it's skills and combat at all.

  • @vyscenkoh1830
    @vyscenkoh1830 Рік тому +2

    POE and Diablo V only makes me appreciate Wolcen more. This review is lacking.

  • @beatleseternally1170
    @beatleseternally1170 Рік тому

    Nice review! I really like Wolcen and at this stage, it's MUCH better than Diablo IV.

    • @twiztidchameleon9154
      @twiztidchameleon9154 Рік тому +1

      Better then D4?!! I want to hear why because i was consideringbuying this game it looked really good to me.

    • @_specialneeds
      @_specialneeds Рік тому

      Yeah, mainly because it's not almost $100. No game is worth that.

    • @toogood5186
      @toogood5186 8 місяців тому

      noob your homeless people have beter things to spend their money on i use extra 50 to go get vagina 150 soo ned that

  • @johnkerkalis6310
    @johnkerkalis6310 Рік тому

    Too late...

  • @katarinagamersgal
    @katarinagamersgal 4 місяці тому

    This game looks insane,works kinda funny,movement is anoyingly slow,abilities are disturbingly delayed,regardles of having cast time or not,coming from all the famous ARPGS that are fast paced etc...this game felt unplayable to be honest. After few hours I just felt like Id rather go take a book and learn advanced math than play the video game. Im for sure gonna givi it a try one day,but that day is so far away Im not sure Im gonna live to see it.

  • @ElusiveClit
    @ElusiveClit Рік тому

    Mom told me to subscribe. Not sure why but hey...

  • @Rorschach1488_
    @Rorschach1488_ Рік тому

    My mom told me to say hi to you. Why??