This is the sloppiest league so far.

Path of Backtracking.

It's really, really frustrating on long maps like Port to have to backtrack the entire map after you kill the boss.

It's like 2 min to finish the map and 5 min backtracking to loot everything I missed. At least Metamorph it took only 5 min to clear and loot all map and do the encounter.

I'm honestly a little bit frustrated.

For the last leagues effects have increased, but not necessarily in fidelity, but more in random clutter.

The game doesn't look better than in Blight, but performance has gone worse.
I understand that effects can be taxing on a system, but from a game that still doesn't have the graphical quality of D3 (a by now 8 year old game) I don't expect much worse performance.

This league is probably the worst it has hit many people.
Be it streamers who can't stream while playing, be it regular folk who constantly have freezes every time a specific mob appears.

I have tried to play with my limited time and most of if not all my deaths have been input freezes, where I open a box and am dead, delirium monsters appear (I tried to avoid the mechanic like the pest) or anything else decides to freeze up the game. This is utterly frustrating.

POE has been a game I played since open Beta. This is the first time, that I actually feel I should maybe give up on the game. I have skipped leagues in the past due to time and sometimes the mechanics didn't really get me going.

But this time I'm actually excited to play some of the new skills and revive some older builds. However due to technical problems I have 0 chance of fixing myself I can't enjoy the game I love.

Nothing to add to this thread really, just venting my frustration.
I know GGG is not purposely trying to sour my game experience and I'm sure they are as frustrated as we are things aren't working as expected.

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frostzor27 wrote:

Path of Backtracking.

It's really, really frustrating on long maps like Port to have to backtrack the entire map after you kill the boss.

It's like 2 min to finish the map and 5 min backtracking to loot everything I missed. At least Metamorph it took only 5 min to clear and loot all map and do the encounter.

Thats pretty much why Im out.

Dont mind the other stuff thats going on, but this is just stupid.
I feel forced into deciding whether I want to miss out on loot or xp/hr.
Being a player who is striving for efficiency, this is a horrible choice to make and I decided to go for option 3. Quit the league and play something else.

Cya in 3 months

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Ygidua wrote:

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GrumpyMcElbows wrote:

I don't know if it's as bad as Betrayal, Invasion, or Synthesis, but . . . It's definitely up there.

Betrayel was one of the best leagues so far. Close to Blight (best) and the one with the badges for mapping (second).

This league here is just as good / bad, as Synthesis, legion. It lacks rewards and is too complicated for non aoe clear builds.

At Blight you were rewarded with 8 or even 16 chests after an encounter, each had multiple items and now we receive 1 or 2 chests, after clearing a whole map.
Almost as bad as legion, where you had to be lucky with a chest per encounter else you got nothing.

1. The topic is sloppy league launches. GGG was fixing Betrayal halfway into Synthesis, and it's still messing with the base game more than a year later.

2. Regardless of your enjoyment of the league, there is an entire laundry list of ways Betrayal was *objectively* poorly designed. Only a few of its problems have been addressed and even fewer have been fixed. There are several posts in my history which highlight the primary flaws.

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petrovskyz wrote:

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dmt209a wrote:

It may be because of the 3 month cycle. They don't have the time to fix the issues. In the situation where you have to constantly think of new things to implement into your game, a majority of stuffs that are not prioritized has to be put aside. To me, POE used to be a great game. Hope they fix their game in POE 2.

Yeah, but, if you know that you want to stick to that 3 month cycle, make sure you can keep up with it. I don't want POE to become Wolcen.

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de99ial wrote:

Every league starts this way for some ppl. Last one it was for me, this time it is for You. Its Your turn.

That is just a poor excuse.

Its not excuse. It is an observation.