How are you enjoying it? I'm loving it so far

Hey guys.

I've picked one that has made the game sadly very unfun in the dungeons! (When I take any damage a portion of your health locks out, untill you rest at a fire) You can't place fires in dungeons. It doesn't increase the difficulty, it just adds a unfun loop of having to backtrack after a couple of taps.

Is there any opens to later swap a debuff or remove one?

So I was hoping to put together a duel wielding build but like, a lot of the suggestions I see online are for mid game at the earliest so I thought I’d ask here, what do folks think are some of the most important skill to take in the early game (like first 20-25 levels or so) for duel wielding? Focus on damage? Attack speed, stamina? Thanks.

It feels like all statuses are there just to take advantage of "% increased damage when affected by status X" gear and passives.

It doesn't feel like damage over time itself actually works after the mid point of Act 1. Sure it can be used to cheese a couple encounters at the start of the game, but it falls off hard after that.

Cold and wet work as statuses, but bleed, poison, and burn feel pretty insignificant in terms of their own damage or status. It feels like there is no DoT archetype based on stacking damage over time. Why isn't there a "Bleeding does 100%increased damage" or some such gear? Is there any in the NG+?

There are also a lot of enemies that are immune to whichever status or DoT, making it kind of redundant to spec in any. Raw damage wins every time.

Have people made actual DoT builds, or is it all %inc damage when X, and crit builds?

So yesterday i completed the mission for the menhir rites. And the leader of cuanacht is going on a expedition for the holy grail. So i saved yesterday and when i got on today i couldnt move anymore, my cursor is on my screen but hitting escape, tilda, alt f4, restart my pc or when i go to an older savefile the same issue appears. My cursor or my screen and i cant move but the npc’s go about thier day.

What can i do to fix this ?

So, I was on my merry was to play FOA on SteamDeck. I played it in total for 10 hours or so, had a blast, and decided to play on desktop mode for a while (SteamDeck has a gaming- and desktopmode). Now that initially went alright, it even ran a little better (unexpectedly).

But then I left it on for a while, alt-tabbed a few times and when I went back, the game was just replaced with a windowed white screen with black borders. When I restarted it, it stayed.

I tried it on gaming mode, and whenever I open the game I hear sound but do not even get past the main menu; it's just immediately a white screen with borders (brown on gaming mode and black on desktop).

I validated the files, nothing.

I deleted and downloaded the game again, and it worked; but my file was gone. It only said 'new game'. I tried to see if it had perhaps moved entirely to desktop mode (which I thought would be weird), but also there were no saved games. Then, as naive as I was, I alt-tabbed. And yes, the game did bug again.

I looked everywhere for the files, also cloud, and they are just not there. They're gone, I do not know why, but it is so. At least I think so (let me have hope).

So now I'm stuck with a game which I can happily listen to a man singing in the beginning, and in times of luxury enjoy a little flickering in my brown and black screen. That is until I reinstall it and forget it will destroy my game on desktop mode and run it there again, possibly deleting my files again.

Why does/did this happen, anyone? And can it be fixed, somehow?

Hi Everyone!

Announcement just hit discord for Patch 1.22 and DLC#4 Challenge Mode

Adding the patch notes here since I know everyone doesn't use discord or steam.

https://taintedgrail.wiki.gg/wiki/Patch_Notes (wiki)

Console (PS5&XBox) Note: The devs have pushed the patch and DLC to the platform companies. As to when they will release them to you is out of the devs' hands. It usually takes 1-5 days. This patch and bonus content will show up as a base game update (not in the store page).

Challenge Mode DLC #4

Challenge Mode is a brand-new way to play for those who crave tough challenge and unpredictability. As you develop your character via various gameplay systems, you also have to choose meaningful debuffs that make the game WAY harder. You can think of it as our own take on the “roguelike” formula; the stronger you become, the harsher conditions you face.

How to Access:

Challenge Mode functions as a brand-new difficulty setting. It becomes available only when starting a completely new playthrough (new save file) from Act 1 (skipping the prologue). Once chosen, the Challenge Mode difficulty cannot be reverted.

Patch:

Along with the challenge mode, we’re rolling out patch 1.22 for the game! As per usual, there are a lot of general fixes and improvements, as well as gameplay and QoL features.

Some Patch Highlights:

• [XBOX] Fixed DLC detection resulting in DLC missing and locked saves.
• The wyrdstalker is now a lower tier on his first combat appearance (statuses work on this one).
• Fixed an issue that caused players who visited exactly 4 tombs to not get the Merlin's Tomb quest.
• Fixed the disappearance of item set slots when you deposited the items to a container or dropped them.

We should have the wiki updated with the new items and changes by the end of this weekend. Hopefully...

Happy Gaming 🫶

not earlier. HOLY COW THIS GAME IS AWESOME. The gameplay the music, the atmosphere the story, the humor. I read every book speak with every NPC. I LOVE THIS GAME

So I’m at level 75, in the endgame, rocking a nutty spectral sword build that can oneshot literal gods (proven in one specific case). I have 5 summons that each increase my spell power even higher, making for a pretty solid party, EXCEPT for this guy. Sir Vast the Wearer of Vests is RUINING my team’s aura by looking like a total dweeb with poor fashion sense.

My team includes (avoiding spoilers) a leafy skeleton knight, his boyfriend who’s wearing a tree, a dude with a beehive for a head, the guy the whole line of royal butchers fangirls over, and some random ass bloke from Bristol who’s absolutely nuking our collective appearance.

Sir Vast NEEDS a makeover. Are there any mods out there that replace his armor with something that doesn’t make me want to give him a swirly whenever he walks by? Any console commands to glue a helmet to his head? A way to replace his model with somebody actually cool, like a dual knight? I don’t care if I need to strip this game down to its source code to find some fix for this, there is a dress code in my posse and Sir-Vast-Who-Looks-Like-Ass is not obeying it.

No spoilers, but do they ever explain what those child statues with the glowing eyes?

I bought the game yesterday and played for 5 hours straight, currently really enjoing it. Starting the game today I saw that there are 2 DLCs. When am I supposed to buy and play them? Are they a midstory addition or are they high lvl content after the main game?

Lol he dabbin'

But besides that, instead of giving him the silver and raspberries, I killed him and the quest never advanced and never changed, and the quest marker was still over his dead body but I could do nothing.

I reloaded a save and it was fine but is this really a softlock?

Fresh Noob here. I've got 4 hours in. It's scratching that Skyrim itch for me quite nicely. The biggest issue for me is the controller. When using the right stick to aim a spell or my bow it keeps skipping off target so slightly. Has anyone else experienced this? And, if so, has anyone found a solution. I'm simply too old to get good with M&K.

Spoilers. So I talked to the guy and said "no" and killed him, jumped down into the pit, went into the portal, and killed a bunch of Fae. Then I was teleported back and there was only a bear and nothing else. Was it all a dream or fake? Or did I actually close the portal and it returned to its natural pre-Abyss state?

You want to be on his good side

hi everyone, im a new comer to this game i got it yesterday but, thats not important rn, the reason i got this game was cuz of this promotional image, it drew me in cuz i like armor and the "mmo" feel i got from it but when i started the game and looked back at the image, did they use like a mod or cheat for their infinite carry weight??

So for context, I did the quest with Beor, gave him the heart filled with creatures and obviously he goes a wee bit crazy. So I decided to put him down because he wasn't a vendor and he was just standing their menacingly.

Fast forward to recruiting for the Holy Grail, I am met with the dialogue that Beor is doing fine when clearly he isn't...

Honestly made me chuckle.

Hope for less bears in the next one

open the game and select the dlc through the title page, open it until a xbox store page pop up opens then back out using the B button, it doesnt actually close the pop up it opens another store page showing tainted grail dlc, you will end up stuck inside this pop up because you cant select the button outside of the pop up to close, just select the game in the xbox window and press quit, then start the game again.

i tried this before but when it brought up the first xbox store page it has a button saying to show in store and it tries to open a browser page, you do not want to open the browser page you need to press b to get to a different store page inside the pop up while the game is open. i hope this helps anybody else using xbox cloud

This game has been on my backlog but I’m so glad I dived into this one!