what makes PoE 2 be PoE 2?

STOP REPLYING TO THIS FUCKING THREAD I ALREADY GOT MY ANSWER IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT REPLIES YOU'RE NOT ADDING ANYTHING NEW

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CAPSLOCK_ON wrote:

from what i've seen it's just PoE with different story but still same thing as current PoE with same engine and everything

Mostly marketing. I personally think calling it POE 2 was a mistake, even from a marketing perspective. They should have called it a major expansion.

Name aside, I'm happy with how they're doing it.

Different story, with different characters, with different upgrade paths, with different enemies.

Lets go back to the earliest days of PoE. To some of us, when we joined, running "campaign" was the end game. Either running Fellshrine Runs (in the earliest days) or spamming "Piety runs" (a little later when we got A3) was thing we were doing. This was the game.
Now they give us entirely new campaign with entirely new crew of characters. Looking back, its like they made PoE again. Thats what makes it "POE 2"

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Rafein wrote:

Different story, with different characters, with different upgrade paths, with different enemies.

literally can be explained with a time skip, not tossing on a 2 when it's just the same game but different area. We're gonna have the same skill tree iirc, the characters are just upgraded models, we lose the stupid socket orbs or something (correct if wrong), yadda yadda yadda.

If it's in a complete Engine re-write then it'll be PoE 2...

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Aynix wrote:

Now they give us entirely new campaign with entirely new crew of characters. Looking back, its like they made PoE again. Thats what makes it "POE 2"

May as well call Pkmn Yellow Pkmn 2 since it's Red(Green)/Blue with a new character that has Pikachu following him and a differing pokedex.

It's the same damn rotting wood with a gloss coat....

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LeetbakaDX wrote:

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Rafein wrote:

the characters are just upgraded models

No. Those are completly new characters with completly new ascendencies.

@Up
Yes, its the same. Its not new game, its just addition to the game. They decided to call it PoE 2 instead "PoE 4.0" (it was called that before), its their decision.

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CAPSLOCK_ON wrote:

from what i've seen it's just PoE with different story but still same thing as current PoE with same engine and everything

- New character models and animations
- A graphical update to "everything", from the skills and characters, to the grass and environment.
- New skills, new ascendancy classes
- Total rework of the skill/socket system
- New lighting effects
- A complete, "separate" campaign
- SHAPESHIFTING!

Anyhow, I'm not the biggest fan of calling it "PoE 2", but it seems major enough to defend the name, I guess. From where I'm standing, it's a bigger "leap" forward than some other "sequels" we see in the video game industry.

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CAPSLOCK_ON wrote:

what makes PoE 2 be PoE 2?

the 2.

They could call it what ever they want. They could call it "wider road of exile" and we'd all have a good laugh.