POE 2 whats the point

Go look up the game Undecember ARPG coming out this year, the trailer showing game play is nothing short of stunning. I hope Poe2 is on unreal engine 4.

Whats the point?

New 7 acts will provide lots of new maps with new bosses.
The same as patch 3.0 did with the new 6 acts.

Upgrading or changing a body armour will be faster since the 6L part is covered by the gems.

Few new mechanics like shapeshifting and new base weapon types. There could be more in the sleeve but the showcased alone have lots of substance to make some funny new ascendancy classes.

What PoE veterans or most interested in. Endgame (Bosses and mapping V2.0).

We have to wait and see.
My personal opinion is that the whole Atlas is a stepping stone to something potentially more interesting once GGG has figured out interesting and more alternative ways to do endgame (after campaign).


What will happen before Patch 4.0 (POE2):

Incremental graphical changes like visually updated old 10 acts and character animations (and maybe models).

Loot V 2.0.

QoL in different forms.

Slowing down the gameplay in a similar way like slam skills work with war cries.

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Lord_Drakken wrote:

I am hoping they slow the game down and make it so you have to use combinations of skills to win battles.

Considering we can get several buffed skills in POE2 it will be really sad if the game is still one movement skill and one screen clearing attack... over and over and over...

People will find a way to do that but hopefully they've learned not to balance every aspect of the game around it. The people who get up in arms about the possibility of things taking 2 seconds to kill instead of 0.2 are just... baffling.

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Imaginaerum wrote:

the vast majority of players don't make it to maps, the new campaign is kind of a non-factor to the players who do. i'm sure GGG will get creative with the endgame too. i can't come up with any other game that has a character select screen as freaking great as PoE2's

Literally any game with an actual character create is better than PoE2.

The lack of the ability to customize your character, no gender selection, no sculpting, nothing.

This is literally a 2000 character select. This is 2021. There are literally tons of games with far better character select.

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gallaghd wrote:

If its just a new campaign who really cares. People rush campaign in only a few hours and then it's an after thought. Am I missing something? I know there will be a new gem system with six links on gloves and boots for example but how is the end game changing if at all since that is where people will be spending 95% of their time.

The truth is there really is no point. Going from PoE to PoE2 will be about as exciting as going from Microsoft Word 2003 to 2007 or 2010 etc ...

There is literally nothing new to see. They held on to way too much PoE 1 baggage because their (paying) player base is so small they cannot afford to lose a single paying player.

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The_Impeacher wrote:

The opportunity to shed some of the bloat and streamline is reason enough.

Which is kind of odd because typically an expansion adds, not takes away. PoE might be one of the few games that would benefit from a contraction. OTOH that word might scare some people away so let's call it a 'refinement'. PoE: Refined. POER. Pronounced 'Poor'. Er...maybe not.

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The_Impeacher wrote:

POE-Resurrected? :)

Refinement. YES, that would be so good. But you're probably right that the new *woke* (lol) base would revolt!

Oh, nothing that edgy, friend. It's just that 'contraction' sort of connotes 'birth' rather than 'rebirth'.

Oh hey. For the upcoming Japanese localisation project:

PoE: ReBirth;Ascension^ BATTLE THE FINAL

I dunno, maybe I've been browsing shitty VN titles too long.

Paradox is, that Im perfectly fine with 2 skils. Main and moving. Don't need 6 link for everything. Especially when you cannot improve auras, or curses with support gems.

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darciaz wrote:

7 acts versus ten. I speed through them, I get to maps faster.

EZ.

yea...... how about enjoying the game ?

You sound like getting to Maps is like finding a good job after school...
Mucho $$$$ support and only achievement 3 ?

you beat me.

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tuccos wrote:

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darciaz wrote:

7 acts versus ten. I speed through them, I get to maps faster.

EZ.

yea...... how about enjoying the game ?

You sound like getting to Maps is like finding a good job after school...
Mucho $$$$ support and only achievement 3 ?

you beat me.

You know some people don’t actively play the game the way you do, right? I don’t even know what you’re arguing here. I support the game because it’s fun and I play it in my way. Achievements don’t mean much when hitting maps is the most boring part to me. If I wanted to pay someone to help me get achievements, you wouldn’t be anyone I’d think twice about.