The hype train becomes Titanic, 3.9 is a huge failure.

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Pizzarugi wrote:

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LowBudget780 wrote:

Lol, ok. All you do in the game nowadays is move skll, main attack, secondary, 12345 flask and run around like a chicken with it's head cut off while everything explodes on the screen until you get unlucky and something one shots you.

And a massive passive tree
And having to decide how to allocate those passives for attribute distribution
And modifying your skills by attaching supports to it to alter how it functions
And crafting
And mapping
And working your way through the Atlas while mapping
And engaging in various random events that were originally mechanics from their own league, ranging from very simple like Breach to complex like Synthesis and Betrayal

Can Diablo 3 do the same? Do you think Diablo 4 will be less shallow than its predecessor while still dazzling players who have poor taste in games by using pretty art and story? That ship has sailed after Diablo 2, and has only gone downhill from there.

Imagine thinking what you described is all there is to this game. Are these problems the game has? Absolutely, I'm in full agreement that flask piano, special effect clusterfucks, and poorly telegraphed 1shots are a huge issue the game has. However, you're grossly oversimplifying the game compared to others in the same genre by saying that while ignoring everything else that makes PoE stand out.

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Expanded the last paragraph to not come off as overly hostile.

trying to add extra things to make it look special why?
syndicate goes with crafting so there's like 3 things less in your list.
mapping is endgame.
skills with pob there's absolute nothing to "decide" so another less.

It's weird that there's people trying to overreact how the game is nowdays it's not nuclear science.. he's mostly right, it's a shooter, dodge, dodge, attack with whatever main skill you have, dodge, attack (piano flask happening while you attack/dodge) and repeat until target dies.

i dont get why you call this shit of the atlas an improvement
instead of "collecting memories" you are now pissing of exiles while doing what? chasing maps after maps, the figure brabbling to you with one-liners changed. EPIC.
Path of exile was never a game where anyone got invested into the story, i think it would be a lot funnier if they actually consider this and dont pretend we are on a epic journey!
we just slash n dash trough the trash and when the boss appears we just kill him loot him and go back without wasting any last moments on any fight or any enemy.
why cant i snare shot drox into the face when he appears and cries about me walking in his "dOmAin"
metamorph is still a shitty thing, livers and eyes still rare and i dont think they will ever sum up to the shit i already gathered in my stash

you would think someone like tane would be able to transmutate a brain into a liver just for gameplays favor, but no YOU COULDNT EVEN TRADE THIS SHIT.

furthermore the fInAl bOsS who replaced elder and shaper is so badly designed EA wants to hire the guy making him!

what frustrates me the most is that builds are more available than others just because GGG messed up the scaling so bad.
playing mines this league the first time, rip stuff up to T10 in seconds, metamorphs and bosses alike and red maps are kinda a few seconds longer to die. the single target damage is awesome, aoe damage of course the same (purifying flame)...yeh why should i play anything else? just for shits giggles alright.

I dunno what's wrong with the new map system. Level 87 here and still doing maps T5 or T6, that I'm forced to buy at 3c or 4c each (thing that never happened to me before). Bored to crush everything in maps and waiting for high/new content. Bored also to die all the time because of lags (sorry not lags : screen freezing or D/C to login screen). The citadel system is very complicated also. Some ppl will say : go check the forums, read posts and watch streamers for 4529 hours and you may understand. That's not my conception of fun. I'm progressing through the atlas by buying missing map after missing map. Pay to win did I hear ? Yes, as usual. So far, I have mixed feelings about the 3.9 overall. The metamorphs are fun but... Hey it's just another rare monster to kill... I'm not calling that new content... This league has an impression of déjà-vu...

Been chaining tier 15-16 whole day. Never read up on the system, never traded for maps, its not complicated to understand, stop being potatoes. You can dislike the system but you cant call it hard or complicated.

D3 is a pile of steaming shit I gave the game away for free after a few months.

Grim dawn reminds me too much of D3.

Torchlight is too cartoonish and childish. Looks like its designed for 8 year olds.

Wolcen still needs a few years of development to even be worth looking at

Lost Ark isnt my thing

D4 looks like it might be fun for a few play-throughs - but will lack significant depth that will hook me in for years.

POE > all games in the genre except D2.

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apexmateria1 wrote:

D3 is a pile of steaming shit I gave the game away for free after a few months.

Grim dawn reminds me too much of D3.

Torchlight is too cartoonish and childish. Looks like its designed for 8 year olds.

Wolcen still needs a few years of development to even be worth looking at

Lost Ark isnt my thing

D4 looks like it might be fun for a few play-throughs - but will lack significant depth that will hook me in for years.

POE > all games in the genre except D2.

I think POE > D2 for the most of the terms.

POE fixed most of the design mistakes of D2.
- added an engaging end-game content
- better currency/trade system
- passive tree and better skill system instead of pretty straightforward skill tree

this game is exactly how its drop rate is. without itemfilter.

I think the new map system is fine, there are few major issues with the release though:

1. Stability: reports all around for Win7 and AMD cards, ps4 as usual, some parts of the game are consitently crashing on any setup (e.g. unlocking legion monolith boss)
2. League mechanic organ drop rate. Personally I've done about same amount of blighted maps in metamorph as I did lab encounters due to lack of eye parts
3. Sirius boss fight: without disclosing much, it's the most frustrating encounter in terms of being able to utilize available portals on softcore to finish the boss and ability to respawn it.

I'm actually very happy not to have to play this game anymore. Thank God i'm not a streamer and POE is not paying my bills. It is fun to watch them, when they have to play it and see them suffer.

Well from a casual player perspective, from someone who is not investing too much real life and money in, this new league is basically a reset of the last league...

1. And the biggest pain in the ASS the new Atlas system which is beyond my understanding, I just got no freaking words to explain the decision to make it the way it was made...
Normal league - atlas reset, so now I am forced to invest my time just to get back what I already had, nothing more.. So basically that is straight NERF......... Why the heck did you need to do it like this? Why... The only reason I can came up - Make it "LOOK LIKE" its some sort of update, while its just a old stuff made more complicated...


Tell me how the hell Am I suppose to complete these stupid atlas quest with a Char lvl 90 when my lvl is too high to have proper map drops in low tier maps? Shit boyz some lvl 2 tier maps already cost ~1+c on trade where before the update people just scraped them in shops...