Thread 719938674

The equivalent of wading through waist deep quicksand hoping you don't walk into the wrong spot.
Got to act 3 and nothing has improved from the 1st week slog release, not a damn thing. ignoring the campaign in favour of the endgame was a huge mistake. I will never play through this shit each league.

rare cases where the first game is the superior one

>>719938674 (OP)
>Got to act 3 and nothing has improved from the 1st week slog release, not a damn thing. ignoring the campaign in favour of the endgame was a huge mistake. I will never play through this shit each league.
this
cbf, idc how good act 4-interlude is, having to do act1-3 (and onwards for next leagues)

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repeating of act 1-3 has mad me tired, was looking forward to act 4 but dropped it when I reached act 2

But the campaign is the best part
Just play it and the interludes and then drop the game again until 0.4

>>719939803
>But the campaign is the best part
Well if it is the endgame must be really fucking shit

poe2 endgame is just poe1 endgame with the atlas mapworks and if you're not a metabuild that deletes whole maps in a zap then why the fuck are you even bothering to do it

>>719938674 (OP)
poe 2 should've been like lost ark the league system with slow progression doesn't work

>>719939803
>Just play it and the interludes and then drop the game again until 0.4

Why would someone who hates the campaign want to play only the campaign again until the next patch to then play only the campaign again

Poop Of Excrement II.

>>719938884
>>719939252
The campaign takes too long for people who are gameplay focused and prefer the endgame. The only people enjoying this game are campaign warriors who will pump and dump the game for good once they finish the full campaign on release.

Game features endless amount of nonsense fantastical abilities.
Yet the game must have "realistic" slow movement and dodge rolling.
It's a special kind of weird madness.

>still only slow ass maces with an hour-long windup and no axes or swords
Wake me up when it's less shit.

>>719942856
goodbye, aniki

>we want to slow everything down, make combat more methodical and meaningful!
>enemies still tardrush at you like a kenyan village to an all you can eat buffet

Whatever happened to 1?

>>719943325
nothing
they want rotating leagues every 3 months between poe1 and poe2 for a while

PoE2 suffers from same campain being boring after 1st run. It's never going to be fast unless you practice it a hundred times to learn to speed run.
MEANWHILE, Blizzard figured this out in D3 and D4 and even went out of their way to add in more account wide stuff in D4 so you don't have to redo the story slog over and over and over.
You'd think, with the tons of complaints GGG has had over this exact issue they'd learn to do something else. But it's still the same slog through story into mapping. And poe2 mapping is far worse than poe1.
You'd think they'd learn by now.

>>719938858
I was gonna use this last league, its kind of slept on. Mines detonate another time is effectively 100% more damage and it has spell levels and blastchain. Its pretty good

>>719944039
you have no idea, if you are going double sceptre use tremor rod 6linked first, it will get you far
also its not quite 100% more damage because you can overthrow, but its a lot none the less

>>719943664
I don't understand this obsession with speedrunning shit.

>>719938674 (OP)
act1 is great, 2 and 3 are shit, 4 is great

>>719941316
>gameplay focused
>ARPG
Nani? Who even fills that category? Autisms with a copypasta build from a metadata spreadsheet?

>>719943664
Not every company has to care about retards like you go back to diablo if you love it so much LMAO

The Campaign is the game, if you don't like it then bingo retard, you don't like the game period.
The game doesn't magically change at endgame.
>Enter Area
>Kill Stuff
>Leave
>Repeat
Thats the game.

>>719943664
And how did the campaign skip work out for D4 and D3? Oh yeah right, they're dead and irrelevant.
Despite people crying about the campaign in PoE 1 and 2, they return every league and run the campaign they hate instead of playing all the other ARPG's that let you skip it.
Weird innit bruv, maybe the campaign has some kinda inherent value and can be used as a benchmark to compare your characters performance and you lose that if you go into some artificial mob scaling system.

>>719948791
the game is running as fast as possible blasting screens in maps with as little buttons as possible, the campaign is the opposite, its running shitty fetch quests in shitty zones slowly for loot that cant even be good

>campaign warriors are having a melty after being called out again
Flexing over bringing only one through the campaign per league and now next league you'll be gone.

>>719941469
>must have "realistic" slow movement and dodge rolling.
dork souls and its effects have been a catastrophe for the arpg cookie clicker slot machines

>>719949014
>and you lose that if you go into some artificial mob scaling system.
the whiners dont want mob scaling, they want to start mapping from lvl 1

>>719948791
Except it does. You can't even use most of the available skills till late act4 at best, nevermid actually trying to build something because fucking everything is hard gated by levels and faGGGots still think making jewellers orbs rare is somehow a good idea.

>>719949612
>for the arpg cookie clicker slot machines
this is really what it is, they should focus on that

>>719949612
>the whiners dont want mob scaling, they want to start mapping from lvl 1
Just add every league content to standard. Retards who want to race from scratch can do that, everyone else can just load standard with their existing characters and have fun in new content their way.

>>719949612
>they want to start mapping from lvl 1
honestly I agree
doing the act slog for every single alt is retarded, just let me skip that shit if i've already done it this season

story progress should be accountwide

>>719951314
Considering how they are pushing towards the thirty-hour campaign, they have to add it in the future.

Don't remind me of this game (and genre).

I bought into the hype and really liked the act1, only to find out that it turns into the slot machine 1 button brain rot skinner box gameplay quickly after like every other "arpg" does. These games are so fucking terrible and predatory.

>>719951363
they wont though they hate their players

Frankly my biggest issue is the luck regarding skill gem drops since it's bit too easy to get locked on a build where you can respec with gold but you're stuck now with undesired skills until you rng your way into those drops. While not really a endgame issue this really matters to campaign enjoyment and I have found myself doing resets after act 2 since it feels to make more sense to do a full reroll than struggle with skills you're unhappy with until you have the new candy you want.

>>719951727
you can easily buy skill gems from Ange in act 4

>>719951727
i went from skill lv 6 to 9 because of no drops

>>719949014
>And how did the campaign skip work out for D4 and D3?
It makes them better than poe2.

>>719952869
when will they fix it

>>719953102
When player count hits 2K

>>719952869
I fucking hate that there is literally not a single new core mechanic in this piece of excrement to the point they reused poe1 leagues for ascendancy unlocks.

>>719938674 (OP)
>Loot is incredibly stingy.
>Defeat boss
>4 blues
>None of them relative to my character.
>Game has trading.
>Can only do it via some assbackwards system until you get a hideout
>Which is in act 4.

Can you imagine being a developer who only made one ARPG for their entire existence, and they're STILL not good at it.

>>719948791
>The Campaign is the game, if you don't like it then bingo retard, you don't like the game period.

Yeah, the campaign is shit.

>>719938674 (OP)
>Got to act 3 and
Literally filtered, retard.

Jesus H Christ the level design is godawful. Each level is like the size of the Act 3 Jungle in Diablo 2, you know the thing that literally everyone complained about? Also most of them are just a series of narrow corridors. It's really fucking tiresome and the campaign is a slog. Even Blizzard North knew this in 2001. BREAK UP THE MONOTONOUS GAMEPLAY WITH INTERESTING STUFF

>>719953524
>enemy drops legendary
>I dinn't pick it up because I ran away from enemies
>ship goes down, legendary with it

>enemy drops legendary ring
>suddenly slowdown
>I die
>legendary goes away

>spent 200k on random staff items
>none that are for my build

Act 4 hates me. And I still have a staff with Lightning Bolt LEVEL 10. Good thing I have some skill that adds +2 to all lightning skills.

I just finished Act 1 for POE2 and it is pretty fun. The item drops are pretty questionable, otherwise the combat is fun and I like how my huntress can dive in and out and being able to parry and getting rewarded (frenzy charges) is a nice feeling. My only criticism with this game with my limited playtime is the visibility of enemies. What D3 did well was being able to contrast the enemies well while allowing them to be visually appropriate in the environment it is in.

>>719954179
Otherwise I am looking forward to TQ2, Grim Dawn 2, the new Grim Dawn expansion as well. I am saddened by how Torchlight 3 turned out. Is D4 any fun if I am a casual babby who doesn't play through the league stuff much?

>>719953870
>go to level 2 of the dungeon
>halfway through I realise I missed something in level 1 of the dungeon
>go back
>the map has reset and enemies have respawned and everything is unexplored again

...why?

>>719954458
>the map has reset and enemies have respawned and everything is unexplored again
Big oof if true

>>719954697
He's just playing too slow. Originally maps reset after 15 minutes of being empty. People were complaining constantly about main zones resetting after exploring a side area, so now the campaign zones store progress for 25 minutes. If it takes him longer than 25 minutes to clear a map he's playing the wrong game.

>>719953870
they added Sprint (jankily implemented though it be) because of how ctrl+v a number of maps were and everyone was shitting on them for how ctrl+v scale the maps were.
the craziest thing is this was after they nerfed them for being SO fucking big.

>>719953007
yeah I'm sure their dozen of players agree with you kek

>>719938674 (OP)
poop2 is bad yes

About level 75 warrior randomly decided to fuck around with the skill tree i now do about 3k less damage and have no money to change back. The game hates experimentation i never looked at a build guide and just wanted to test other shit out even d4 gives you plenty of things to free repec.

>>719954851
>If it takes him longer than 25 minutes to clear a map he's playing the wrong game.

Are you fucking retarded? Explain to me how an area I already explored should completely reset and randomly generate again 25 minutes later.

This also happens every time the game crashes btw, which is every 10 minutes or so.

>>719954851
10 mins

maps resetting behind you is how arpgs have always rolled. poe enforces a time limit since it's connected to their server though whereas other arpgs just keep the cleared state as long as you didn't die or haven't turned the game off

>>719955719
>maps resetting behind you is how arpgs have always rolled
"no"

>>719953184
Its mind boggling because Izaro's lab fits their "vision" so well and what do they decide to use as the trial? Fucking sanctum which seems purpose built to be a challenge in poe1 zoom meta. Its insane.

idk what you retards are crying about but im having a great time as unarmed monk