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Sad news from NL, but I expected it somehow. It never found a bigger audience. It is really daunting for a modder after putting so much work in. As for you, in theory you are at the wrong place. The Sacred 1 (modding) community has mainly moved on to discord. Here are the channels. Darkmatters is rather a place for Sacred 2 modders, since Sacred 2 is far more mod-friendly than its predecessor. Let me tell you that I am absolutely convinced, that all modders of Sacred 1 are still there. Maybe, their power bonus has lowered a bit due to various reasons, but they are still here. And they are very sensitive toward new mods. In a good way. Maybe, they won't get back into buisness anytime soon, but they will watch. So let's keep Sacred rolling and we will see where it goes. Heard also back in the day, that there is something big in the making and that even the devs of Sacred still have an eye on their baby. They sometimes can be found on the discord servers, linked above. Just join.

It would require a code modification ,which can be done by kinda qualified people only. But, Reborn Mod an Sacred NL have both their own VK pages. Asking there might be your best chance. Years ago, I talked to the maker of Sacred NL and he told me that NL could be able soon the host Sacred Reborn. The player then would enjoy the benefits of both mods. A pretty wild dream. But it was before day one. I also remember that Sacred Reborn had its own discord channel, but I do not know if it still exists. You might check around a bit.

@ picture2 :Yawn: I see the color filters stay in place. There is no way around it. Do you also got trouble with scaling on the large world map? I mean they do not scale correctly and are getting greasy. Btw, watched you videos back then on yt. Nice stuff.

I am not trying to talk you out of it. But, I say how it is in my opinion, trying to take a neutral stance. general - Your project is already big and it might get even bigger as soon as hidden aspects become visible. - Crew members might have neither the same devotion as you, nor an adequate amount of free time and start dropping out after some months, leaving a gap. - How will you handle infights and different opinons? What if people do not like each other any longer? - Can you deliver constant updates, videos and articles to agregate players without getting buried under work? I mean, you got a life too. - The market is getting flooded on a daily basis with new, glittering, shiny games. Most likely, your mod won't even get noticed. - By releasing your own take on Sacred 2, you immediately compete with other, established Sacred 2 mods, which are getting played since years - How player-friendly will your mod be? Do I have to start from scratch and throw my 2800-hour-character out of the window? Don't got the time, you know. personal - What, or who do you work for? Do you want to create a gameworld just for yourself and share it finally, so that others can play it too, or do you work toward a goal, like creating an active community? This is important, because disappointment/broken deams can heavily influence your motivation. Please check the amount of clicks on youtube, or switch, before you jump into it. - Is it worth it? I mean you will waste many hours. Many. dark matters specific - Other modders here will help you at any given time without acting cool and tough. But I do not think they will abandon their own mods for your vision. - If they contribute to your mod, it mostly will be smaller snippets, the main burden is still up to you. Mount Everest style. outlook: I understand your fire heart. Really. So if you want to give everything, then go here: https://www.youtube.com/@lifeleecharpg6714 There is also a discord link in the video description. I think, it is the right place to start. Thorium is a day one Sacred player and finally got his team together to make his own version of Sacred come true. I trust him. Posted here for a long time, he knows what he is doing. Many good and promising men joined him. There are no video-updates since 3 years now, but I do not think it is dead, it sleeps. Give it a try.

@Nerasw Join an existing mod project of your choice and lend a helping hand. There are many ways you can help. Texture-jobs, coding, modeling, writing, sounds, music...All you want. You can work for years and years to come with no end. But you need to coordinate with others so that there are exactly zero collisions. Otherwise, you know, the infighting starts. That's the approach I would recommend, since it has the highest chance of success. Speaking of re-creating Sacred... forget it. How many top-notch experts do you have on your side? You'll need 30 at least. There is this guy: "Ancledot". Watched him on youtube. Talented man. Really. He planned a Sacred 1 remake. Failed. It is not his fault and I am not blaming him. Wouldn't do for a second. But he stormed the open field to avenge whatever and found himself alone all of a sudden with his pants down. You need a crew and there is no way around it. Next guy from Germany. Talked to him in the DE forum one, two times. He's using the Skyrim game to build his own Sacred 1 world. As far as I know it is rather a personal project which might never see daylight. I think he takes a walk in his gameworld now and then and dreams of things that could be. And that is where it ends. @Lindor Vishanka moved to the DE forum as fas as I can say. Posted there just a few days ago. I think she's here frequently, but rather as a silent reader. As for us: We worked well together without noise, or trouble. The door always swings to both sides and it was a pleasure to help a bit. A few words about the Reborn mod. I think it goes on, it got an minor update last year, but the progress might be very slow right now. For various reasons. For me, Reborn is the hub of the wheel, I am on it to arrange my work around it and make Sacred Reborn a more wholesome experience. But free time is the problem. And missing skills. (Maybe I should not have called Leonardo a street punk and an amateur.) However. Imo Reborn gets preferred over Sacred NL by the players, because NL is rather a techie version (with some insane feats) and Reborn delivers a playable result. A combination of both mods would be fantastic. Time will tell. Are NL and Reborn in ruins.. No, don't think so. The entire franchise has a very loyal fanbase. They are just taking a power-nap.

I think you will like Balduins channel. Check him out: https://www.youtube.com/@Hueterderaltenwelt/featured

Wishing all of you a merry Christmas! Wherever you are. Keep your family stable, make sure that poop from the outside never makes it in. Help neighbours a bit, be a good person, don't do stupid things for money. That's it. Cheers!

Overlookers Clan can do it, I assume, and Willam from Sacred NL. There might be some others, 3-4 ppl perhaps, but they do not show up here often. Rather, in very, very rare occasions so to say. However. A camera mod would require a new version of Sacred Reborn, or Sacred NL. Your best chance of getting attention are the discord servers. You find them linked at reddit: /r/sacred

Reminds me of my old job. The morale of the employees was that low, that no one did more than absolutely necessary. Those who did, were considered dense. Floor and toilets were clean since a cleaning lady came over three times a week, everything else was filthy and sordid. Refused to put my lunchbag into the fridge, after I saw ppl spraying sweet whipping cream right into their mouth and putting it back into the fridge. Disgusting. Really. The higher ups and the long term employees went on the womens restroom for taking a dump and one day when we had to clear out the sleeping rooms of the upper floor, ppl were close to start puking after opening the huge cupboards filled with unwashed, smelly sheets and linnen. I assume the term "Bremsspur" is known to you so... Last but not least and not to forget: Constant backstabbing, mobbing and cowardice. If a huge death-meteor from outer space would hit the place by accident and reduce it to ashes... no loss. Believe me.

I'd really like to know where NL (and Reborn) are in a few years. Both mods made already first steps into the right direction: Adding more depth to Sacred by slowly removing all the silly things Ascaron has left ingame. It is not an easy task and rather a job for a whole century to come, and I am hoping for a coop between both mods, despite the troubled times we are in.

You do not need VK. Go to the DE Sacred discord, ask there. Ppl will help you und establish the contact with WilliamNL. There are modders for Sacred, experienced ppl and good. They work together now and then and are still getting things done. But, since boards and forums became a bit obsolete over the years, they moved on to discord.

Hello. The only people who can give an adequate insight, are Overlookers Klan, Ruddick and WilliamNL. And perhaps a fourth/fifth person. The point is, you need to be pretty deep inside the guts of Sacred. And since everything is encrypted, a "casual" gamer won't have an answer handy, I assume. Anyway. It would be just the cherry at the top of the cake. It does not really matter.

Greetz! I got a "Hard Hit" build, level 336, regen-time is 0,5 secs. The build is "leaning" toward 0.6 seconds and I am just five runes away from it. If I add some speedy gear with 192% regen special move, I am still at 0,5 seconds regeneration time, but got the intention, that the combat art "Hard Hit" regenerates a tiny bit faster. Sooo... Any insights? (Playing RebornMod)

There might be a solution. You could join the DE discord community linked at reddit, steam & gog, and ask there. Heard back in the day, that if you are looking for help, it is the right place to ask. Do not worry ppl there speak EN too, so no prob.

I understand. Posting code-tekk only on youtube might be too lengthy and boring for non-specialists. But a little showcase-clip might already do the trick. No one would start complaining, if you say it is still under construction and also a pretty rocky path. It is all about spreading the info. Looking forward to see your project one day alive and well. Speaking of forums, yes, times change. And we change with them. Still, the gothic section in the linked board glows like hell for two decades now. It is toxic as f!ck, but the endless stream of incoming mods is keeping gamers and modders together. They communicate, motivation on both sides is there. It works out and sets an example.

Here: http://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/forums/255-Sacred As I said. It does not make sense to go there at all. Most gamers/posters/new logins leave after a few posts since no one cares anymore about new arrivals from the moderator side, and everyone else has dusted off already. So it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. After Flix has stopped working, the interest in Sacred 2 from the moderator/gamer side, has nearly dropped to zero. S1 was already dead for years. There also seems to be some kind of hidden agenda, or an unwritten law in the forum, that only a certain Sacred2 mod is allowed to be played, while everything else (Vishanka/Dimitrius and so on) is getting strictly ignored, despite the DE moderators exactly know that there are other mods for Sacred 2 out there. How do they know? Well. Because they are here frequently. It's a strange place and not worth mentioning anymore.

I strongly recommend to get a youtube account and present your work there. There are 2 German youtubers with an adequate amount of followers and both recently reviewed the franchise. For the Sacred franchise, the amount of clicks is not so bad after all. Just check for Sacred2, but stay away from the nigerian Nollywood movies. (They are terrible and impossible to sit through!) The youtube-guys could boost your idea. You will wonder while reading the comments below their vids. Most gamers do not even know that there are mods for Sacred 1 & 2. So, the stage is set for you & Lindor as well perhaps, as soon as he shows up again. Make something of it! My only wish is to see a proper multiplayer-run for S1 or Sacred 2. PS: The DE forum is 100% dead, only the moderators are clapping each others shoulders on a daily basis, so posting there is kinda pointless. Just sayin'

Medusa weapon (staff-lore + one handed) is not so bad in vanilla, its stats are getting re-rolled as soon as you start a new game. Also it is quickly to come by. By farming a little you can get a nice, useful item. Never found one with sockets, though. In Reborn the item is cheap trash, compared to other unique staffs. Forest-Boss weapon (axe-lore + one handed) is a wonderful axe with up to 4 sockets and that's cool. It deals either massive physical, or poison damage and grants an absolutely insane bonus do magical spell damage. With a little farming, additional spell regeneration is granted, which makes it even more deadly. Remember that Sera & Demoness are double-wield characters. They can pack two forest-boss weapons simultanously! The good news are that the stats of the weapon are getting re-rolled every time you enter the forest-boss lair. Just save before you step on the altar and you are good to go.

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Go to the Tristram village instead, save and farm big time. You will find everything there. There is however a possibility to farm even the deepest bottom of the drop list: Vampire Thorwyn set. By using it you will get even rare golden items like the dwarf guns, or gladiator 2h axes. The more magic find you got, the better. The rest is just a matter of time.

You are going in too hard. Regard Sacred in a very relaxed way and as a hobby in the best case. Not more. Takes the pressure away, really. Here's one of my favorite videos. The round guy singing is Max Cavalera, the former lead of Sepultura, a trash metal band from Brazil. He's not in a good shape, got old and a bit clumsy perhaps, but he still feels it like at day one. Just let go and don't look back in anger. Enjoy what is.

Pin it! More and more ppl are leaving win behind and move on to linux. I'll do it too one day, but for now there is no other way to run certain tools and stuff. Congrats to the found solution!

No prob. Just send me a pm with the original spider sound files.

Let me guess... ...after the event has taken place, your nights will be short for the 24 months. How was I?