XP loss makes me want to stop playing.

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Xobeh a écrit :

penalty isnt the problem. random deaths are.

you can play super safe and suddenly a desync or badly rolled mob group can just gib you.

This is the real problem. I try to level every few days and eventually give up thanks to some random death I can't avoid. Yesterday I was trying to build my maps up again and get 2% experience TNL by doing a dried lake map. So I'm carefully clearing with my low FPS reducing spectres (tentacle miscreations) and suddenly my health starts dropping, no projectile mobs nearby, my minions not attacking. So I immediately run back through my cleared area while spamming all of my pots, and of course my 3500 hp is zero and I'm dead. Once I'm dead three blue snakes appear around me.

Between this and the stupid cinder golems desync I've all but given up on getting to 80. I've lost the same 50% experience ten times over now in the past few weeks thanks all to desync.

A few people in this thread should probably be playing this game instead.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/matoking/progress-the-game

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WetTheSystem a écrit :

A few people in this thread should probably be playing this game instead.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/matoking/progress-the-game

Wow, you get XP for standing there doing nothing. So awesome! 10/10

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chronosoul a écrit :

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Sprongley a écrit :

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chronosoul a écrit :

GGG should just give in to the SOFTcore people. Any sense of loss for death won't teach them to not die, remember, its SOFTcore.

You can't compare HC to SC , if we die, we die, desync or not, only real men / women can accept such consequences, not children!

Pretty sure manliness isn't scaled on how you chose to play a computer game. I'm sorry if you think so. If you need to declare your manliness on a forum, you must not really have anything else going for you... I suggest you start working out and finding a nice girl; you'll feel less compelled to display your manliness in the form of a computer game.

You are child, i am man. I have wife, you still in school!

One day you be a man too! Grow hair on chest.

Lose your virginity too, become less boy, more man, like me!

Your poor wife. Stuck with a man with short-man syndrome and/or a small penis. I'm sorry I just don't feel the need to demonstrate my epeen on the internet as I am quite confident in myself. It's never too late to work on some confidence my friend.

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richie01 a écrit :

The XP loss is so damn over the top.

I was having fun playing today, all of a sudden for the first time ever in the game I hit a mob that has reflect don't notice, die 3 times and wow there goes half an xp bar at level 61 that took about 1 hour to get gone in 15 seconds, CLOSE GAME, sigh.


I just can't play this game after loosing one hours xp in 15 seconds as much as I do love this game.

Wait till you are level 80 and you'd have lost several nights' play for one careless moment....

The XP loss is one of the greatest features in the game. People actively fight to stay alive tooth and nail, even in softcore.

That's how the game is supposed to be.

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ventiman a écrit :

bye

dont let the door hit you on the way out

<------- D3 is there

blaming the game for op`s awful gameplay = priceless

This kind of reply makes you look like an asshat. If everyone who was hit by an unfriendly mechanic (which this game is FULL of) and got demoralised about it took your advice, this game would immediately die and you wouldn't have Path of Exile any more or a forum to be an asshat on. You actually want that? It is asshats like yourself that have resulted in this game's reputation outside these forums being trash. Stop it and be constructive.

The Exp penalty on death IS too harsh for a large portion of the playerbase (and potential playerbase) and needs looked at. Alienating unskilled players or those who simply want to chill out when, you know, they play a GAME for ENTERTAINMENT is a stupid and reckless thing to do.

For the record, My Cold Crit witch can 3-shot herself against elemental reflection, and I spam 2 Ice Spears per second at 20% quality (ie very fast projectiles). It is extremely easy to kill yourself versus reflect if your DPS is very very high and you crit. And with its range Ice Spear can clobber enemies way way off screen you haven;t even seen yet. HC players probably do not know because they out-level everything before they fight it, and creep up on monsters like gay ninjas.

/rant

Edit: Asshat

Since you need help crossing the street, I'll link the D3 site for you:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/

A week or so ago, I was only 10-20% away from level 78, then died 5 times in a row out of frustration. I didn't want to complain then, and I still don't want to complain now.

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GhostlightX a écrit :

The Exp penalty on death IS too harsh for a large portion of the playerbase (and potential playerbase) and needs looked at. Alienating unskilled players or those who simply want to chill out when, you know, they play a GAME for ENTERTAINMENT is a stupid and reckless thing to do.

I agree in that xp penalty has the potential of alienating the "unskilled" player base, but it doesn't matter that much, because GGG intended this game for the core players and themselves.

The following link is an interview of Chris by gamespot.com, which reveals some philosophies behind GGG (including the intentions behind Normal, Cruel, and Merciless @24:30):
http://www.gamespot.com/shows/now-playing/?event=now_playing_path_of_exile20130117

Sorry but this is part of the Game deal with it. You can't really reach Level 100? That's part of the Game. You don't have any Talent Trees in Diablo 3? That's part of the game, you like it or not, you play it or not... that's it.

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TheHeffNerr_ a écrit :

What is it with kids these days that want everything handed to them and not put any effort into games... sigh this is why we have LoL and COD.

I really get tired of seeing responses like this.

Its a video game. Yes, many people want their video games to be easy. Its a form of entertainment. The statement of "no one wants to put effort into games" is the same as saying "no one wants to turn a huge crank to make their movie play".

Its a video game. It shouldn't take a doctorate in mathematics or 60 hours a week to progress in. If your life is so care free and free of challenges that you need a video game to be your yard stick of personal validation and achievement then I would REALLY like to hear about your life.