Mapping in 0.3.1 is boring

First of all this is the first post I have EVER written. My disappointment with this new patch has drove me to post this is it me or have ggg took the excitement out of mapping??? Looking for tower overlaps and juicing maps was part of the fun was it not? I seem to be going from map to map with hardly anything to do in them and rarely any decent loot iv tried high rarity high rares and tried juicing the quantity none are really returning the investment I'm now going back over my atlas maps to find the best of a bad bunch of old juiced maps and adding the additional tablets in there and getting by far my best returns for investment. Towers now seem pointless and looking at my atlas where I have mapped to new areas looks bleek with maybe 1 or mostly no extra breach expedition etc content on the maps.

Welcome to the forum, bud! I completely agree with your assessment. I am much less interested in playing since the patch. Hence, being here.

The changes undermine the entire purpose of the atlas gameplay and view. It's just maps from poe1. Remove the gimmick of the scrolling, "infinite" atlas then. Itemize unique maps and it's done.

It's an unfortunate slate of changes for those who enjoyed (and wanted) something different from poe1 endgame.

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"Quest27#4670 a écrit :

It's an unfortunate slate of changes for those who enjoyed (and wanted) something different from poe1 endgame.

I don't want a poe1 endgame either, but the old towers were horrible. I don't know where people like the OP are popping out of, but I have never met anyone who didn't dislike the old tower system of having to run travel nodes for 5 hours just to get a 3 towers overlap, then do the nodes the towers covered and have to setup it all again

I'm not a big fan of the new tablet system, but it's so much better than the old towers that it's not even close. Anything is better than how it was, anyway

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iHiems#0168 a écrit :

I don't want a poe1 endgame either, but the old towers were horrible. I don't know where people like the OP are popping out of, but I have never met anyone who didn't dislike the old tower system of having to run travel nodes for 5 hours just to get a 3 towers overlap, then do the nodes the towers covered and have to setup it all again

I'm not a big fan of the new tablet system, but it's so much better than the old towers that it's not even close. Anything is better than how it was, anyway

We've been enjoying the game instead of whining and parroting the same complaints that the top streamers made.

You never had to "run travel nodes for 5 hours".

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Valsacar#0268 a écrit :

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iHiems#0168 a écrit :

I don't want a poe1 endgame either, but the old towers were horrible. I don't know where people like the OP are popping out of, but I have never met anyone who didn't dislike the old tower system of having to run travel nodes for 5 hours just to get a 3 towers overlap, then do the nodes the towers covered and have to setup it all again

I'm not a big fan of the new tablet system, but it's so much better than the old towers that it's not even close. Anything is better than how it was, anyway

We've been enjoying the game instead of whining and parroting the same complaints that the top streamers made.

You never had to "run travel nodes for 5 hours".

Parroting what? lol

Towers have been a complain from the community in general since 0.1, they tried fixing towers by changing things since then but none worked. The only reason it hasn't been discussed more in 0.3 is because GGG acknowledged that they were bad and would get reworked in 0.4, they just didn't have time to do. Now they gave us a placeholder before 0.4 full endgame content and true rework because of how bad towers were. You're completely out of touch if you think only streamers disliked towers

Jonathan said "A major concern for players are the mechanics around towers, players don't like having to find towers to juice their maps"

Umm I didn't care, I liked it better.

Then a bit later he says they didn't feel that following mini map icons was enjoyable... So just follow one mini map icon to the boss instead.

I don't know, I watched that 4min video again and he's just wrong.
I feel like the game got worse, I don't want to play anymore.

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Zoidberg50#9782 a écrit :

Jonathan said "A major concern for players are the mechanics around towers, players don't like having to find towers to juice their maps"

Umm I didn't care, I liked it better.

Then a bit later he says they didn't feel that following mini map icons was enjoyable... So just follow one mini map icon to the boss instead.

I don't know, I watched that 4min video again and he's just wrong.
I feel like the game got worse, I don't want to play anymore.

+1

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Zoidberg50#9782 a écrit :

Jonathan said "A major concern for players are the mechanics around towers, players don't like having to find towers to juice their maps"

Umm I didn't care, I liked it better.

Then a bit later he says they didn't feel that following mini map icons was enjoyable... So just follow one mini map icon to the boss instead.

I don't know, I watched that 4min video again and he's just wrong.
I feel like the game got worse, I don't want to play anymore.

As someone who didn't care about tower setup and who always fully clear a map I consider 0.3.1 as huge improvement. I already see how much my drops improved and I'm running with no MF gear. Big win.

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iHiems#0168 a écrit :

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Valsacar#0268 a écrit :

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iHiems#0168 a écrit :

I don't want a poe1 endgame either, but the old towers were horrible. I don't know where people like the OP are popping out of, but I have never met anyone who didn't dislike the old tower system of having to run travel nodes for 5 hours just to get a 3 towers overlap, then do the nodes the towers covered and have to setup it all again

I'm not a big fan of the new tablet system, but it's so much better than the old towers that it's not even close. Anything is better than how it was, anyway

We've been enjoying the game instead of whining and parroting the same complaints that the top streamers made.

You never had to "run travel nodes for 5 hours".

Parroting what? lol

Towers have been a complain from the community in general since 0.1, they tried fixing towers by changing things since then but none worked. The only reason it hasn't been discussed more in 0.3 is because GGG acknowledged that they were bad and would get reworked in 0.4, they just didn't have time to do. Now they gave us a placeholder before 0.4 full endgame content and true rework because of how bad towers were. You're completely out of touch if you think only streamers disliked towers

Yes, parroting. It means repeating the exact same things you've heard others say, which is exactly what nearly every complaint thread about towers was.

"You HAVE to spend hours looking for 3 tower overlaps."

Well... no, you don't HAVE to do that. There are plenty of other strategies than fubgun style juicing that are/were profitable.

It also doesn't take hours to find the overlaps if you want them, I found plenty without searching (and some 4 tower ones).

"Travel maps suck, they don't drop anything."

Funny, mine dropped plenty, unless I was specifically running low tier white/blue ones because I wanted to skip past a specific map. Most of the time I ran them nearly as juiced as the ones that had good tower mods on them, they dropped plenty of shit. Maybe not raw divines every map, but I don't need to drop raw divines every map.

"POE1 has the best endgame, why change that."

Why play another game if the best game for you already exists? You don't grow your audience by just doing one thing repeatedly.

Yes, parrots, or if you'd prefer we could go with lemmings.