what makes PoE 2 be PoE 2?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

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

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Arrowneous wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

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

With the whole 6L switching from gear to gems GGG should be calling PoE 4.0 "Path of Stranger Things" as this change will be so radical that it'll feel like we're playing in the "upside down" world.

But a completely separate main campaign was the only way Chris and company could have their cake and eat it too. What this translates to is that there is a split in the player base, some love the power and speed creep of PoE 1 (run-n-gun shooter style) and others hate it (we want a strategy arpg, not this shooter crap). GGG can't please both camps with only one PoE so the completely new campaign of 7 slower playing acts was devised to try and roll back somewhat to the olden days PoE pace of play. I presume GGG has averaged it out time-wise and determined 7 slower acts of PoE 2 ≈ 10 speed running acts of PoE 1.

My concern (since I'm not an arpg shooter twitch reaction player) is that since the endgame is the same (nothing new for PoE 2) for both campaigns that mapping will still be the same twitch reaction shooter style of play with the same ranged shooting of off-screen enemies and having to be super careful moving up and down so as to not get one-hit shot dead by an off-screen mob gotten too close to before seeing them. The limited iso view of PoE is one of its worst aspects and higher endgame mapping is an endless series of incoming attacks from off-screen creatures such that twitch fast reaction is needed to move or use a defensive flask. That won't change with PoE 4.0 so my biggest problem with PoE won't be fixed with PoE 2. I already can cruise through the acts deathless, it's the endgame where the pace of play is way too fast for my personal taste.

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Kavlor wrote:

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gandhar0 wrote:

POE2:
New campaign with 7 acts. Slower in general with multi phase bosses.
Reworked socket / link system. Skill gems now have links.
New ascendancies.

UI and graphical upgrades to character models and environment (act 1-10) will be incrementelly improved before POPE 4.0 (POE2) goes live.

3.9 Lioneyes watch was a first step into this direction and i expected them reworking the older player hubs like Forest/Sarn encampment in the next two mini expansions.

Plus they will very likely have more stuff they have yet to tell us.

Truth is if they hadn't incrementally improved the game it would look like a proper sequel. I think that there is a new storyline and some quite significant additions and changes is enough to call it POE 2 when you look at other games even in the same genre Borderlands and Van Helsing come to mind.

They explain at the show why they couldn't do a brand new game. Splitting the community and the catch up on content a sequel would need to make.

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Aynix wrote:

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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imcominghehee wrote:

The name poe2 is not nice, change to 'Path of @GGG Hi, I'd like to buy your 1 exalted for my 175 chaos in Standard.
The character is offline.

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Aynix wrote:

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imcominghehee wrote:

The name poe2 is not nice, change to 'Path of @GGG Hi, I'd like to buy your 1 exalted for my 175 chaos in Standard.
The character is offline.

Playing standard in 2020, yikes.

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CAPSLOCK_ON wrote:

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Aynix wrote:

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imcominghehee wrote:

The name poe2 is not nice, change to 'Path of @GGG Hi, I'd like to buy your 1 exalted for my 175 chaos in Standard.
The character is offline.

Playing standard in 2020, yikes.

fucking idiot people play whatever league they enjoy the most

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Aynix wrote:

Welp, I guess some people emjoy playing in the graveyard.