What exactly is the point of playing this league mechanic now?

What do you expect when the league mechanic (Grand Heists) literally doesn't function/bugs/bricks.

It’s so hard to believe they rushed this patch out then AFK’d for the weekend.

They added bloat to the loot table and lowered drops across the board while simultaneously making it so you can’t open as many chests either. What the actual F

I understand making it so you can’t open every chest. Everything else doesn’t make sense at all, wow.

That’s depressing for people who wanted to run heists, the whole point of heist is your break into equivalent of a bank. So exiles are going to plan and break into a bank to steal 5 dollars? Why? Shouldn’t this be considerably more rewarding than maps just based the idea of robbing a bank?

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KalHirol wrote:

Did u play since the patch?
Its definitely true now.

They're probably referring to Delirium Orb farming and similar tactics where you don't even do the main objective.
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I felt the League was fun starting out. Buggy as hell but fun.

Now it feels like doing mini-mapping but without any of the integrated dynamics of mapping from other leagues. Abyss, Legion, Syndicates and all the other various randoms that show up.

The whole theme, mechanics and purpose feel gutted now.

Heist is dead for me as well. Tried running 4 grand heists, 1 bugged portal, in 2 of them I couldn't open the final doors and the last one simply crashed.

I get it, shit happens sometimes but goddamn GGG, you shat over the whole fucking floor.

Suppose that crashes, bugs and exploits are gone. Now, why would I run contracts/grand heists at all, if I'm not on SSF?

What's the point of running a contract as long as it's basically a slower atlas map that's also boring, yields close to no XP, has worse loot and makes me want to bang my head on the desk when NPCs prefer to take coffee breaks and just refuse to open doors?!

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Relationship wrote:

It’s so hard to believe they rushed this patch out then AFK’d for the weekend.

They added bloat to the loot table and lowered drops across the board while simultaneously making it so you can’t open as many chests either. What the actual F

I understand making it so you can’t open every chest. Everything else doesn’t make sense at all, wow.

That’s depressing for people who wanted to run heists, the whole point of heist is your break into equivalent of a bank. So exiles are going to plan and break into a bank to steal 5 dollars? Why? Shouldn’t this be considerably more rewarding than maps just based the idea of robbing a bank?

EXACTLY THIS. Why would we bother doing this mechanic AT ALL if we can just do our maps?

I can't understand dev mindset:
8 hours of QA testing before release is too expensive so let the community figure this out on day of release.
Ahh loot is too good. Nerf it.
Ahh people can't afk do heists with necros. Fix it so necros won't cry.
Ahh people are opening all of the boxes. Nerf it.
Ahh people are dying because they cant put a totem up or avoid facials. Make it easier.

Result: I'm now farming at Twilight strands getting bad items with almost zero chance to fail with any res capped build.

Query: Why aren't my users doing heists?


The troubling thing is that the voice acting and art is so amazing. They just flushed it with bad code and poor balancing. Kudos to the artists and voice actors. To everyone else, what do you do every day after you code? Drink?

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BlueWaffles69 wrote:

The troubling thing is that the voice acting and art is so amazing. They just flushed it with bad code and poor balancing. Kudos to the artists and voice actors. To everyone else, what do you do every day after you code? Drink?

I agree. Voice acting and music are currently PoE's redeeming factor for me. Simply phenomenal.

But, hold up. Don't forget that, according to Bex, everything is going just fine:

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This weekend we launched Path of Exile: Heist! The launch day went quite well with just a few small hotfixes to address minor problems

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Ydoum wrote:

But, hold up. Don't forget that, according to Bex, everything is going just fine:

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This weekend we launched Path of Exile: Heist! The launch day went quite well with just a few small hotfixes to address minor problems

Spoiler

Could you expect anything other than lies from a community manager?

I hope artists who worked on Heist are not too sad, seeing how much their work has been butchered by some cheap coding from Fiverr.

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Diuuude123 wrote:

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Ydoum wrote:

But, hold up. Don't forget that, according to Bex, everything is going just fine:

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This weekend we launched Path of Exile: Heist! The launch day went quite well with just a few small hotfixes to address minor problems

Spoiler

Could you expect anything other than lies from a community manager?

I hope artists who worked on Heist are not too sad, seeing how much their work has been butchered by some cheap coding from Fiverr.

Not really, no.

And I agree: the art team, as usual, should be proud of themselves.