watching Streamers do the Hardcore one-month, made me realize something

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Phrazz wrote:

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Odoakar wrote:

The game is designed around the ability to alt+f4.

Strangest design choice in the history of video games.

Please, show me a link with an official statement from a dev, supporting your statement. Not a "alt-f4 is OK". Not a "alt-f4 is allowed". Show me a statement where they say that the hard core mode is DESIGNED AROUND the ability to alt-f4.

"Let's design a hard core, loose it all mode. But remember: alt-f4'ing has to be allowed"

I refuse to believe this.

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Maybe my explanation in the Raptr Q&A isn't optimal (I answered over 100 questions rapidly), but I stand by our reasoning that causes us to allow people to drop instantly.

We want our fights to have large swings of damage and to cause a rush of adrenaline in the player. If the game didn't allow you to drop instantly then we'd have to dumb down the fights so much. We've tried it.

In addition, it means that we're able to make hard boss fights that players can attrition if they choose to. If we had to design the act bosses so that players needed to kill them in one go without dying then they would be pushovers.

We have said this multiple times on the forum and in interviews before (as well as implementing the game to be that way) - our stance shouldn't be a surprise!

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It's not that we're actively attempting to make fights where we want people to alt-f4, it's that when faced with the choice of:

• Disable it and put a timer on exit
• Allow it, which means we have to be able to justify it

We vastly prefer the second option because it leads to fights that are honestly a whole lot more fun (for us, at least).

Maybe the best solution would be to avoid this type of question, but I am trying to answer honestly!

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mucker wrote:

Succeeding in hardcore in this game includes developing a sense of when to back off, portal out, reset the area, etc.
You have to know your character's potential and be able to read how situations will progress.
This is more important than ever with bloodlines in the game.
If you can't handle a situation it isn't cowardly to back off, it is smart.
Why bother playing a complex game if you're not going to handle different situations differently?

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Grughal wrote:

If they added a timer to logging out, they would have to remove the possibility for these scenarios and it would make the game a lot more boring and stale.

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mucker wrote:

Succeeding in hardcore in this game includes developing a sense of when to back off, portal out, reset the area, etc.
You have to know your character's potential and be able to read how situations will progress.
This is more important than ever with bloodlines in the game.
If you can't handle a situation it isn't cowardly to back off, it is smart.
Why bother playing a complex game if you're not going to handle different situations differently?

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choopk1993 wrote:

Lol ziggy D is a dude with zero skill and copy pasta ppls build and presents them as his own. Dude is so bad that he died on his first day. No respect for lousy streamer whose only there just to cash in. Imho mathil is way much better than ziggy.

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johnKeys wrote:

first and foremost, it made me respect ZiggyD.
the guy died in the first day. twice. but he died actually fighting stuff.
his entire rip-log video is full of "I should have logged out", so let me be the first to say - no, Ziggy, you shouldn't.
and yes, you sure as fuck did the right thing to come back from the portal and try to kill the thing.

let this be an example to all you PoE players out there, streaming or not: when you log-out at the slightest sign of danger. when you abuse portal/area grace periods and TP out after taking one hit for less than 50% of your health. when you are skipping bosses.... you aren't playing the game. you maybe are "competing" and whatnot, but you aren't playing.

I'll get a lot of flame for this, so bring it on. I can take it.
ask yourselves, are you ready to play Path Of Exile? yes, you may RIP in HC. yes, you may lose some EXP in SC and maybe a position on the ladder because the guy below you didn't have the fucking balls to take on this boss - but whoever dubbed "not logging out" a "mistake", whoever says "skip this", whoever abuses and exploits the fuck out of the game just to stay alive - is a bloody idiot. even if his cowardly tactics and a bunch of good friends willing to die for the cause, get him top of the ladder - he'd still be an idiot.