Is it just me or is the game just not fun...
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Been playing since 2012 and have to say this league truly sucks balls.
It's like they actively tried to satisfy the rough 0.1 percent of hardcore players, and fucked that up too. The feeling that I must rush to get to the boss while ignoring drops that I would pick normally outweighs the rush of weaving through mobs and dodging one shots. Overall this is my #1 shit league and I played talisman, bestiary and synthesis. The league in its current form will not be worth for me to play and I've been getting 37+ challenges since perandus. Considering I work from home this adds insult to injury I mean I would've played the SHIT out of this league but alas, it is just too bad. The inertia in me is screaming to go do challenges but I really can't be arsed anymore. Hope they don't include it in core, it would be like a drop of shit in a glass of whiskey. I'd make a thread for this with a lot more complaints but Delirium killed even the desire to do that. Second-class poe gamer Last edited by pr13st#1040 on Mar 22, 2020, 12:35:32 PM
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I'm just starting but I am feeling it already. This league's mechanics will push you to zoom-zoom-zoom or no prize for you. No time to think, create a build that kills everything on sight and run faster. No time to pickup items just zoom-zoom-zoom and come back for it after the fog clears.
Hokay. Another league, another Path of Zoom-Zoom league. GGG make it like a debuff, with the option of right clicking to remove it. Simple. No zoom-zoom. I know this is Path of Exile, clear speed is the meta. L2P, fix ur filter, I should go and play some mobile shit if I want to think and not zoom-zoom. I get it, just a suggestion, but maybe I finally will. *sigh. Brave Nine perhaps or Seven Deadly Sins? I admire Chris and GGG, but man.. I could already feel like I'm skipping this leagues' mechanics and maybe just explore the other goodies, maybe. Filthy Casual Scrub. "Belief is the strongest metal of them all." - Izaro Last edited by element274#1105 on Mar 22, 2020, 12:59:29 PM
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Im having a blast in standard. Not having to grind out Altas bonuses, crafting recipes, etc make this game way more enjoyable.
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True. I had enough, rushed 24 challenges today and won't touch this league for quite a while.
What i really liked: - spellslinger, bladefall + bladeblast. So good. - cluster jewels. Things i have problem with: - buffer underflow exception, lost so many maps to this: guardians, conquerors, rippy vaal temple i wanted to try, and so on. Last time it was that bad during synthesys, and i jumped that ship even faster. - kosis aoe being thrice as big as whole arena. Very cool, thanks. - on death effects - disgustinly cheap and annoying mechanic, poorly telegrahed because of visual clutter and responsible for 95% of my deaths. - sirus and degen ground in maze / teleport into meteor / meteor dealing damage sooner than visual and sound cue shows etc etc etc, fight somehow managed to become even worse, now you have to wait MINUTES in each phase to get some dps window. I don't really mind zooming that much, so i did exactly that, but it still feels really bad. Definitely won't miss delirium. Worried about how will it go core: there is no way cluster jewels will disappear, so i guess we'll have to deal with delirium even after league ends. Last edited by Avidze#3671 on Mar 22, 2020, 2:45:58 PM
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" Completly confirming that. I also did 39 challanges last time, it was fun, exciting and was doable after my real work. But this league,... Since a few years I play 2 dual builds in each league, it is not boring for me to play this same builds, as they are very different to eachother, one is melee, one is bower. The 1 build is my main build, that kills fast and 99% of all content, the other build is only there to kill the last 1%. (Elder, new: Sirus) My main could do also the last 1%, but with the possibility to die and so lose progress/exp. So I always lvl 2 chars. I always hit arround 94 - 97, leveling above is way too expensive. So after 3 days this league I was with my main on lvl 94. So I started the 1% build, managed to hit 84 or 85, and frustrated deleted it. Investing 10 Ex in this 1% build for nuts. It is a melee build to tank Sirus and Elder all shit, you can do this content durken, sleepy, it tanks all away. But it is slow, and leveling it in this league makes simply zero fun. I was short away to quit Poe for a while, until I found your post. So happy to see, that I`m not alone. Thank you! So what makes this league feels like work / no fun at all:
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- 1 Atlas rebuilding. Since the new Atlas it is work. You can not run simply maps, you have to search for regions, if you have the right stones socket, if the map is the right tier and so on.. After you managed to awaken Atlas last league, it makes no fun to do all this "work" again. I want to pick a map, run it, kill boss and loot and get next higher maps. Now it is micromanagement, work, no more arcade fun. - 2 Watchstones at themself. I know some people struggel with the stones. Poe always help you. If you lose a map, or don`t get the right drop of map, you simply need to use what you have else. Zana, Horizont Orbs, Delve, after a short time you will get the desired map/ or at least the right region. But again also here like Nr.1, it is micromanagement, work, no more arcade fun, you have to check, search, proof if you have the right map. - 3 the sound/music. I recently bought the music player in the Poe store, I love the music (mainly the main screen music :) But it is the first time since I play Poe, that I had to turn off music during playing. It made me sick, sad, the delirium music fit to the league name, but doesn`t fit to play fun at all. - 4 the graphic/diversity Well, all maps looks equal grey and blurred, all trash mobs looks same fatties or tiny exploding balls. Missing the Poe content. And few maps like many many people already said before, are unplayable, as you even don`t see the walls, you trap yourself unpredictable in corners and get oneshooted. Not because you are slow, or stupid playing, you just don`t see anything like earlier. And that is simply no fun. But also a few good words about this league:
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- the reward is okay. Not during the maps, omg, ofc not! But after the maps, once ou have collected 300 spartaner, splinters, what ever, the map rewards is good. Like a timeless run. So I decided to go on with my main char, and simply skip atlas and some things that are work, unfun for me. Probably it will feels bad to skip content, to unachivementing like usual, but it is to late for GGG to change it now. Hope Poe 2 will be better, just last the old good days... SSF HC SSF
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Surviving, that's all what is annoying in this game and balancing between dps and survival is more annoying than ever.
As a summoner, even if your mobs can taunt, you will die a LOT eventually, because taunt doesn't help pretty much at all... A lot of stuff should be known to survive in this game. If for me it's pretty normal already, but for new players it must be overwhelming... But to survive, you need good gear, which in most cases is expensive. To get good gear, you need to grind and HOPE for a good drop :D So survive -> grind -> buy good gear -> grind more :D All my friends don't want to play POE because it's only about grinding. They are telling that there is small and weak storyline and it's not so interesting. That they don't feel that involvement at the start of the game. Last edited by Somebi#2817 on Mar 22, 2020, 3:55:49 PM
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Yeah this league is garbage. I've never quit after one week before. Decided to stop playing now, it's just bad. Metamorph was fine.
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To me is not actually the league, but more the trend POE is involved in for the last year...or even more. Tougher multiphased bosses, tougher ultrabuffed mobs,degens, unfair debuffs, now they even add on death effects. They modify end game Bosses to oneshot you with no way to skip it unless you have 80M. Then they add phases so that you can't oneshoot them but they can.
If you want to get good gear you need either to spend thousands of hours farming,dying,farming,...and pray for those exalts to drop. The budget needed for a build that clears endgame is getting ridiculous. The fun is going down the drain. The game is at an inflection point. It either follows the same trend and scales difficulty or it stops and reinvents itself to be fun again. In 3.9 thousands of players played Necro. All of them had fun and replayed the game everyday. They could even farm and upgrade consistently. They died from time to time, so they could level up slowly after a lot of playing. Basically they were having fun. Well, the nerf was so deadly, that at this point, nobody knows what to choose if you dont want to dedicate your whole life to this game. Of course, non Necros were angry, how is that possible, they are having fun and enjoying the game while I have to farm endlessly, please GGG, balance the game. Well, here you are, balanced league. We all die the same. Even streamers, who get paid for playing are frustrated and annoyed,... Watch out GGG, you are so ambitious and take this game so seriously that you are killing the fun in the process. |
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This league feels like it's been designed to kill players who don't go fast, if you dawdle you get killed by explosive mobs who rush at you (who can be missed amongst the chaos going on) exacerbated by the timer. GGG loves to kill players it seems, as if they punishing us for playing the game.
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