Instant death is bad design.

I suck at the game, got it, noted.

I'm working on my layers of defense, I'm trying to build my characters appropriately and getting much better over time. I am choosing to gimp myself by playing SSF. Yep.

Still...

Instant death with no warning or feedback is simply bad design. I can often clear multiple maps no problem. Then after clearing an entire map without issue a boss will randomly one shot me at full hp. That is bad design.

I understand that as a player I may have missed a map mod, built my character incorrectly etc. I have done the homework and am working at improving my own personal play.

The main weakness of this game in my opinion is the lack of feedback and the frequent instant death without game mechanics giving you some kind of warning. It's pretty bad design. No I'm not quitting, I honestly don't even expect it to change. I'm not butthurt and I'm not just complaining for no reason. My honest feedback to the developers is to do something about this problem.

Have a great day everyone.

Agreed!!! Getting 1 shotted just feels like shit.

I have 9,000 EHP and 1,600 life and ES regen per second. Overcapped resistances and a decent amount of chaos resist.

I still get 1 shotted from random stuff.

I agree. BAD DESIGN. GGG Stop pissing off your players please. Give us info on what killed us so we can fix it. Maybe don't implement stupid shit that 1 shots us all the fucking time.

If they want to get rid of <1 second deaths then they'd have to nerf healing too. Otherwise you'd be invulnerable.


If things take 4 seconds to kill you, you can't be able to refill your entire health bar in 4 seconds either.

The game would be very dull without the possibility of instant death. There's some sort of thrill involved in that kind of mechanic. Lack of (visual) feedback is a problem though.

I came to this forum to post a new thread, but seems you alrdy did it for me.
So just signing up on this.

This is probably the reason why PoE not gonna beat Diablo any time soon (if such goal even exists) - cause of the core game design principles here.

You can make new leagues, add more and more stuff and have tons of other great ideas for content, but what does it matter when HALF if not more of the playerbase are your regular casuals.
I'm over 30 closer to 40 and I don't have nither the time nor will to sacrifice tons of time to perfect every aspect of my char in the game (which still won't matter), yet I'd like to at least see some endgame content.
I can bet anything on the fact that over 50% ppl who play this game from time to time, when an interesting league comes out for example, rarely stick in it till after the start of the red maps.
Grind fatigue builds up, but that's NOTHING compared to frustration of constant one-shot death. I mean, I like to grind, that is one thing we play such games for - doing same maps again and again, rng, drops - all that. But when you find yourself thinking "okay, I just got a new level, no exp on my bars, let's go kill those bosses cause I'm sure to die" - even on a decent char - that's when you know its a bad game design. And not even bosses. No amount of resistances, hp/es/shield or armor ratings can save you from insta-death in this game.

If the game at least told you what killed you, it would reduce the frustration levels immensely. When your screen is nothing but a garbled mess, and you're busy trying to dodge mechanics. Suddenly you pop, and have no idea what happened. The game needs some kind of logs, or an on-death message that tells you wtf happened.

Please take the 5mins of development time, and add this feature players have been begging for over the last what, decade? We realize you don't want to add this, because then people will be able to call you out on your bugs, but suck it up. It's a really lame excuse at this point.

instant death is the reason that make me stop playing this game .
It's feel pointless to bump up def layers .

This game requires Adderall but it makes me literally psychotic so I had to stop. How else are you supposed to react to things like this?

https://youtu.be/uRstfgti1zY

Agreed. Now, try getting instant death because you get GRASPING VINES on you 15-20 times per map and can't move anymore.

I'm quite done with this game in its current state.

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Meeperz87 wrote:

Agreed. Now, try getting instant death because you get GRASPING VINES on you 15-20 times per map and can't move anymore.

I'm quite done with this game in its current state.

gotta love volatile flamebloods chasing you when suddenly you cannot move due to vines