Major Endgame Changes in Patch 0.3.1 for Path of Exile 2

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Hiwon#1217 a écrit :

I strongly prefer the PoE2 map design where maps are larger and actually take a bit of time to go around clearing. It feels different from PoE1 and is more suited to my personal tastes. "Bad" maps for me in PoE2 are the close in small quick ones because I like to just sit in a map clearing rather than constantly jumping between areas and new maps.

And so I am really not a fan of how, with each patch and subsequent sub patches, the game is being nudged ever closer to PoE1 style "throw small linear map into device and blast through it in 1-2 minutes". I have nothing against blasters, but they also already have a game, PoE1 is for that playstyle and if we're going to keep shifting towards the "I need to go fast, dragstrip racer go brrrrrrr" approach, then there's increasingly not much reason for these two games to actually be two games.

I play and enjoy PoE1, I like they are two different playstyle experience games but it feels like complaints about PoE2 not just being reskinned PoE1, and dev capitulation to those complaints, are just dragging the two closer and closer together with each patch.

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GsQ_ChefNick#8937 a écrit :

Honestly an L. The loss of the towers mechanic makes the game feel less its own thing and more like a worse version of POE 1 maps. Now it seems like it will be harder to mix content and farm multiple things together as effectively. It would have been much smarter to have us either earn a currency by clearing maps (or just use gold) to build towers wherever we want. There could even be stipulations of how close they could be placed together to limit the amount of juicing that any 1 map could receive. I honestly dread this update, and dread going back to the tediousness of having to continuously put items into my map device every single time i run a map. The towers system is a far better system that's only real issue could be 100% fixed by giving the player agency over where towers are placed.

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Nikuksis#6962 a écrit :

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BlitzArt77#6653 a écrit :

Path of Exile 2 is originally designed as an exceptionally well-crafted and grand-scale game. By abandoning so many brilliant designs, this unique masterpiece has ultimately become just a high-definition version of Path of Exile 1, which will be a tremendous regret in gaming history. How about this: the game could offer two difficulty modes - one hard mode that fully incorporates all the visionary ideas of the genius designers without catering to anyone, and the other mode that adapts to mainstream market demands.

It's called ruthless in poe1.
Hopefully it will be a thing in PoE2 where it has way more sense since the game was designed for that initially with all these unique bossfights, combo skills, parry mechanics etc.etc.

And when the main league in PoE1 is regular and ruthless is a side mode hopefully PoE2 will have ruthless-like, meaningful, engaging, whatever you called as a main and some "zooming fest" as alternative league for those who want skipping campaign, rushing maps for 30 seconds each, killing map and endgame bosses in 2 seconds.

At least someday they will introduce some private league mods to configure it yourself to play with friends.