Will there be a new atlas every league now?

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Kirajava wrote:

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Kellog wrote:

So, maybe something before the next league...

I decided to check this thread, somehow not surprised and also disappointed nothing has been resolved.

Right now my prediction is a 'still looking into it' answer for the next couple leagues while they do nothing and expect people to forget about it.

It's not a dig at Bex, as she can only tell us what the devs tell her, but I can honestly say the language used doesn't fill me with confidence.

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While we don't have a solution to announce yet we are committed to improving this situation in time for 3.7.0.

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Kellog wrote:

It's not a dig at Bex, as she can only tell us what the devs tell her, but I can honestly say the language used doesn't fill me with confidence.

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While we don't have a solution to announce yet we are committed to improving this situation in time for 3.7.0.

Yep, can only tell us what she's told.

I didn't think of it as a dig at her, read your comment and gave my guess on maybe something before next league. Not confident either over here.

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Kirajava wrote:

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Kellog wrote:

It's not a dig at Bex, as she can only tell us what the devs tell her, but I can honestly say the language used doesn't fill me with confidence.

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While we don't have a solution to announce yet we are committed to improving this situation in time for 3.7.0.

Yep, can only tell us what she's told.

I didn't think of it as a dig at her, read your comment and gave my guess on maybe something before next league. Not confident either over here.

Apologies, what I wrote is not what I meant to say and wasn't a go at you. I should have said:

I don't mean this as dig at Bex, as she...

One day I'll learn the English language!

I'm fully on board with the "They did this on purpose, and don't care" mentality regarding this. I have no faith that there will be a meaningful "improvement" at 3.7 (and seriously, "improvement" is a pretty loaded, and open to interpretation term), and being completely honest? If Synthesis goes core, I'd be done. Playing this league has left me with a bad taste in my mouth for the game in its current state.

There are so many mechanics that need fixed in Synthesis / Leagues in general:

In the last two leagues that I leveled in, (Delve, and now Synthesis), they have made the leveling acts so arbitrary and unneeded, because you spend most of your time in league buzzing through them for the league content.

They have, since they first introduced leagues, continued to put out leagues that are buggy, broken, and just unbalanced at launch. When I came back to the game mid incursion, I just played standard the rest of the league, just to get a handle on playing the game again.

But I tried Delve, got to 50, and had the same "New League Problems" that I had back in the day when they first launched leagues.

In Synthesis, those "New League Problems" regarding balance, and mechanics that just make the league not fun to try and get through while they hot fix.

Betrayal's insertion into Core is/was a massive failure, for a large portion of the player base. I've not experienced the problem that others have mentioned, but I had similar problems in Ambush League, that everyone kept telling me was a "Rig Problem", even though I was running top notch Graphics Card. Turns out, that wasn't a "Rig Problem", it was a "The game's code did not play nice with my brand of Graphics Card"

Staring at this league and its less than exciting crafting that takes entirely too much investment for far too little payoff for the style of builds that I play, only to then be still left with the same crazy Slot Machine to craft an item, coupled with the "LOL don't even bother with this Tileset if it rolls 4 bridges", I can't see how this goes core, and works.

At this point, 3.7 is going to have to do something AMAZING to get me to stay. After this morning, I'm probably done with Synthesis. I've been keeping track of my Map Drops since 3.6.3, and I got more "tier I'm running, or higher" maps from a single Atzoatl run with a map room than I did from 10 Maps at the same Level / Tier difficulty. The Map Drop Nerf is still a thing. Ready to hit 86, still stuck in T5 Maps (because woohoo! I have 5 T6!) Getting Desynced, and then "You have been disconnected for trying to do too many things at once" because Izaro Desynced on me, and I'm frantically smashing flasks, totems, etc... to try and stay alive, I'm just tired of it.

At least if I go back to standard, I can use all of my chars there to run out the rest of my betrayal maps, and reclaim some stash space, instead of filling up more "Remove Only" tabs to deal with later.

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shoju wrote:

They have, since they first introduced leagues, continued to put out leagues that are buggy, broken, and just unbalanced at launch.

Very true... but as for 'unbalanced' - I suspect that is purely intentional, to slow down the no-life PoE as a job basement dwelling grinders and coordinated professional teams whose sole goal is establishing and dominating the early game market.
So, the game is horribly unbalanced against everyone else - especially the solo player. GGG has no intention of ever implementing a system to curtail the super grinders, so the rest of us are just fucked for it.

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shoju wrote:

Betrayal's insertion into Core is/was a massive failure, for a large portion of the player base.

I couldn't agree more. Gating crafting behind these extremely buggy and often difficult (infiltration pops = you die if you don't react within 0.05 seconds) encounters ruins the game for everyone except the above mentioned grinders & teams who can react to one of their member getting one-shotted by lag and complete the encounter.
I've brought three chars up to the mid 70s so far and have yet to complete a single safe house - a lot of it being because they're so uncommon, and I get the worst possible members who can offer nothing whatsoever, so they all get shoved into interrogation unless a rivalry can be established.
Like you, I don't have the lag-spike spawn, but the huge *kaboom* of green makes finding the target nigh on impossible, and there's no evading them... they teleport right on top of you and instantly stun/freeze/grasping vine you.

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shoju wrote:

At this point, 3.7 is going to have to do something AMAZING to get me to stay. After this morning, I'm probably done with Synthesis. I've been keeping track of my Map Drops since 3.6.3, and I got more "tier I'm running, or higher" maps from a single Atzoatl run with a map room than I did from 10 Maps at the same Level / Tier difficulty. The Map Drop Nerf is still a thing. Ready to hit 86, still stuck in T5 Maps (because woohoo! I have 5 T6!)

I agree... they need to really, really impress me. I'll probably keep playing, but I'm a lot more reserved in my wallet use.
Fistly is the damn map drops, especially for solo (SSF and market league solo) players!!! Being forced to the market (see point #1, above) is beyond annoying. It often brings me to 'Exit PoE' and find another game to waste time with. Advancing beyond tier 5 becomes a matter of go to trade, run a map, go back to trade for another map, run map, go back to trade...
FUCK
THAT

GGG has hosed up a lot of league for a while, but this time they hosed up both the leagues and standard for a very looooonnnnnnggggg while.

Seem them have just given up since tenecent bought them out, they don't give a shit.

Will the unique maps at least be left untouched every time from now on? Really not motivated to buy and run all of them every time again...

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E_Zann wrote:

Will the unique maps at least be left untouched every time from now on? Really not motivated to buy and run all of them every time again...

They left them last time around but who knows what they'll do next time.

Edit: [y]

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Kellog wrote:

Spoiler

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E_Zann wrote:

Will the unique maps at least be left untouched every time from now on? Really not motivated to buy and run all of them every time again...

The left them last time around but who knows what they'll do next time.

As long as I get the option to CHOOSE if I get to keep the same Atlas progression locked at least for completed unique maps, and a further solution regarding the map tab fiasco for Standard, I'll might still be playing.

If not, there are better games to spend TIME and $ on... Heck, I might even start sinking $$$ again in Dota 2 MTX if the sad state of PoE at the moment continues to linger on...

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sofocle10000 wrote:

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Kellog wrote:

Spoiler

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E_Zann wrote:

Will the unique maps at least be left untouched every time from now on? Really not motivated to buy and run all of them every time again...

The left them last time around but who knows what they'll do next time.

As long as I get the option to CHOOSE if I get to keep the same Atlas progression locked at least for completed unique maps, and a further solution regarding the map tab fiasco for Standard, I'll might still be playing.

If not, there are better games to spend TIME and $ on... Heck, I might even start sinking $$$ again in Dota 2 MTX if the sad state of PoE at the moment continues to linger on...

Sorry, disallowed, not enough RNG.