To set a few things this act is still in devellopment and I'm give my feelings about it. So I've been playing with an assassin in veterant mode if it can help people to know the situation in which i played.



The story is interesting : been sent to clear the way to a town, discover it has been destroyed by necromancers and having to hunt them down is pretty cool but it could links the different quest better , for exemple Krieg having a mysterious employer, what are the necromancer looking for( it is not clearly stated



I like the fact that the quest only gives the region where you can complete it because you really need to explore the region for once. In the normal game you are guided to all the objectives and I feelt it lacked the experience of having to search for the things you need.



The region are well design and it almost every time gave me the feelings of a different atmosphere, hill top and it's shrouded bridges, the crossroad that change from the city hub of the normal game, millshire and its zombie but the only negative point is the dark forest which could be a bit darker and with more trees because it felt like the crossroad: a plain but instead of bandits we have wolfs



All the monster belongs where they are but some monster pack are to simple: between 5~10 exact same monster in a pack and it repeat all accross the region (the direwolf in dark forest and the beast in hill top) puting a bit less monsters a give them an alpha ( a monster who is a bit different, with an ability maybe?). Some monster should be nerfed the hellish skeleton in priority his special ability need a bigger coodown (from 0.2 second aproximately to 1 or 2 second) because they have a big pool of hp and they put fire everywhere arround them which deals a lot of damage which stacks ( I seen a -55000 HP per second on the fire debuff while testing why I was getting one shot for staying in place to fight). But all the other monsters are fine especially the spider in the dark forest who goes down of the trees, I find this idea pretty cool.



The bosses are good: good move set, good design idea, good use in the main quest line. I've encouter 2 times Krieg, the first time he kept oneshotting me when I was in close range but manage to kill him while constantly running away, the secon encouter after his nerf was more of a boss fight: hight damage but you can tank him a bit, use his spell and close range charactere can kill him. The boss in the deeeper cavern needs a bigger area of fight or one wherre we can move freely because this boss tend to fill the area with fire ( remind me of a skeleton). The first necromancer was not dangerous at all I don't know if he has a special spell (I'm pretty sure I found a bug that make ennemy stop every things they do and it was the first time I saw it on a boss but i'll post something in the dedicated discution). Now the second necromancer of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t, he has three phase I think or there is three necromancer lord(?), the first encouter is in a hall to small for a fight but the second and third encouter have good sized arenna, for his ability/spell when he shoots his lots of projectile a better preparation annimation of the skill would be appreciate because the hit boxes of the projectile spawns before the actual projectil animation wich at cole range result in insta death for no reason because there is no indication of this attack before the animation of the projectil is seen ( I think he put his arm in front of him but it is to small to be seen when you have other things to dodge) maybe put a little "charge" annimation before the spell so close range would have a reaction time. All his other spell are good but I think the lightning explosion and the cage/root should appear a bit faster because they are too easy to dodge even without movement spell.


Note: A quest for the phase beast portal could be fun with a mad scientist who want to make portal to every where without waypoint wich result in him studying phase beast. ^^


The act 5 is really fun to play if you forget the problem I mention because you can easly overcome them by paying a bit attention to your surrrounding, and I can't wait for Corley to add new things in his mod for us to play.