Can we get a summary of Chris's commentary from 7/18/2020?
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I really hope they adopt a more modular approach, where they can rotate in/out league mechanics from core, or let us pick and choose at our whim which we like to have show up.
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" Agree. In the current state the game just forces you away from whatever you think more fun. For me it's the needing to unveil and to delve for recipes instead of playing the leagues... "There's no thing like random one-shots in this game. You only die because you take 353,456,237 hits in 0.2 seconds."
"The best items in the game should not be crafted, they should be TRADED." - Cent, GGG |
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Delve is opt-in. You have to go do it. If you don't, it doesn't bother you a bit.
The master's missions are almost opt-in... sort of. You can emphasize them if you want. Can't completely avoid them if you're running maps, but they're background. It's all the other crap that's been added that shows up. Strongboxes, rogue exiles, abysses, Delirium stuff, Cassia, etc. that's just becoming way too big of a list to manage. And don't get me started on this conqueror nonsense. That needs to go. "Pop up and die" mechanics that are far over-tuned compared to the rest of the environment have to go. |
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" You either buy your 5-6l/crafts or do Delve/Syndicate to unlock. As someone who got scammed once and don't trust anyone and HATE the current trade in PoE the second option is mandatory. The rest is pretty much skipable... Except rogue exiles. Conquerors for me made and still make no sense. Not only the mechanic but the lore/backgrounds just seen way off with PoE, specially Sirus: there's no reason for that dude to become angry and destroy the world. Too bad they will not remove then in PoE2. "There's no thing like random one-shots in this game. You only die because you take 353,456,237 hits in 0.2 seconds."
"The best items in the game should not be crafted, they should be TRADED." - Cent, GGG |
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I think leagues need a masters-like overhaul.
You should be able to "save up" ways of guaranteeing a league mechanic to show up, just like you do masters in mapping. Id like this to work for campaign too, since that ends up being a void of content, but they would have to re-add something like the legacy league UI to allow players to "socket" a few types of leagues that will always show up. Either way, the entire concept of "10% chance" is either a lie ...or grossly misleading. I'll go entire leagues where I don't see a single Breach ...and GGG certainly doesn't want you to enjoy any of that stuff in campaign. Stuff that would change up the rhythm / flow of doing the same otherwise bee-line to maps since there's nothing to see on the way. This is why people really enjoy things like flashback ...because every zone guarantees a bunch of additional content to mix things up. If it wasn't for the fact Niko is a master ...Id probably never set foot in delve. |
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" I am a fairly casual player and I have never had that problem. I do get times where I will get a bunch of the same league type for a while, but it switches. Never have I had to go to far to hit all the available league mechanics in a map. Even if I did I could just use Scarabs, but I generally get a pretty even run on them. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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" See you lose a lot of power in an argument when you just come up with stuff like "I'll go entire leagues where I don't see a single Breach". Really? Entire leagues huh? |
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" Pity. I like Harvest, and I hate trading. While garden micro may be irritating, both lore and crafting options are very good. Thanks for the recap "War's over, soldier. You just don't know it yet. Everybody lost."
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shagsbeard mentioned strongboxes and it came to my mind:
when did you see your last unique strongbox? in the last leagues it was like every...100 maps? well compared to harvest thats more because i cant remember my last one |
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" Nah... Harvest has made 5L trivial. No one is crafting 5L the old way. |
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