TBH Game is actually in a very decent state and direction

Honestly, I think the game is already a lot more polished than what we had 0.1. I don't really understand all the complains and frustration we have here in this forum.

Game was really rough in 0.1, every one was complaining and me too. But they actually fixed a lot of stuff, smoothed out gameplays, adding QOLs, campagin and mapping has much better tempo since then. Patch by patch. And you can see GGG are heading onto the right direction and are very aware of the problems of the game.

Let's revise a couple things they fixed/made so far (that the community complained heavily):

Currency Exchange system, async trade, sprint, crafting, removing support gem limit, runes being replacable, charm slots, checkpoints, rare monsters showing on the map, atlas zoom, gold...etc.

and coming up the tower rework, alchemy orb rework, chill ground nerf......

All these changes and fixes make so much sense and make gameplay much more enjoyable and they listened to the community.

But recently the complains here imo are just sound like made from nothing. Like now people are saying the game is too fast, like wtf? That they prefer the game in 0.1? When everything was clunky af? And no, I don't miss POE 1 and I don't see myself going back to POE 1 ever.

Sometimes people have really poor memory of the past...

Meanwhile in our universe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcyU2kt1N7M

https://youtu.be/xVEnbS6i3S4?si=UEyLTVeaU1qwU0sa

I'm having a lot of fun despite the problems, and i have an old ahh CPU so my game gets under 10 fps sometimes on juiced maps, thank rngezus my build making skills are top notch (also thank path of building) so i can just move around pressing mouse and won't die lol.

Next Month i think i will upgrade my pc, just because of poe2 lol

ps: i had 6k hours in poe1, already 200+ in poe2 under 2 weeks of gaming.

The game is too easy at the moment, visual clarity is abhorrent, performance on console is atrocious, and GGG has nothing to say.

I think this sums up the state of game which is pretty bad and worrying.

I disagree. Yes, they did remove some inconveniences. But that is irrelevant because the actual GAME got worse.

The enemies got weaker and the player got stronger. There's almost zero risk of death from start to finish of the campaign. It's boring, even without the zoomy screen explosion builds. And those are on a whole other level of stupid.

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rifraf-_-#9478 a écrit :

The game is too easy at the moment, visual clarity is abhorrent, performance on console is atrocious, and GGG has nothing to say.

I think this sums up the state of game which is pretty bad and worrying.

Yeah, when i get my i13600kf or i14xxx CPU with ddr5 i hope my fps stays above 30 even under stress, otherwise damm it ggg, fix performance

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etc418#2590 a écrit :

I disagree. Yes, they did remove some inconveniences. But that is irrelevant because the actual GAME got worse.

The enemies got weaker and the player got stronger. There's almost zero risk of death from start to finish of the campaign. It's boring, even without the zoomy screen explosion builds. And those are on a whole other level of stupid.

Hmm, the campaign is just the start of the game though, maps should be the deadly part. Ofc i wouldn't complain for a bit more challenge, but my build was very strong and i also started trading pretty soon because i was tired of my gear not rolling any + life modifiers lol

tons of QoL updates
more fun
league mechanic is insane
0.3 far the best season.

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IonSugeRau1#1069 a écrit :

Meanwhile in our universe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcyU2kt1N7M

https://youtu.be/xVEnbS6i3S4?si=UEyLTVeaU1qwU0sa

there are ALWAYS gonna be busted builds in an ARPG game like this. You can't stop people from minmaxing and digging OP builds out of the game mechanics. It's like it is part of the fun to kinda outsmart the devs. Next season they nerf it and new OP builds will come out. This is basically the ecosystem. I don't get the problem with it tbh..

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etc418#2590 a écrit :

I disagree. Yes, they did remove some inconveniences. But that is irrelevant because the actual GAME got worse.

The enemies got weaker and the player got stronger. There's almost zero risk of death from start to finish of the campaign. It's boring, even without the zoomy screen explosion builds. And those are on a whole other level of stupid.

It is true that the game has been easier but I think a lot of people actually have no idea they improved their knowledge on this game. You will always play better in 0.3 than 0.1. You know the boss mechanics better, you make better decision of choosing gears, you are more used to the tempo of the game, you know how to optimize your damage...etc. I think people are not aware of themselves getting better at the game. I've seen countless newbies getting stuck in act 1 for days in China server (which just launched in 0.3). A lot of them are new to POE or the ARPG genre. I do think this is a fair diffculty in average.

End game could still be improved tho

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rifraf-_-#9478 a écrit :

The game is too easy at the moment, visual clarity is abhorrent, performance on console is atrocious, and GGG has nothing to say.

I think this sums up the state of game which is pretty bad and worrying.

I even had another post ranting on the fact that they are still using FSR 2...and yes, the visual clarity is so awful especially when you have to play with fog every map to juice...

But I do think these are fixable over time and it's not like a vision-ish problem of the game.

And no I don't think the game is too easy. I think it's just us getting better at POE 2 in the third season.