Everything is bugged in POE

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dorkdude2 wrote:

TL:DR for OP's post

issues that belong in tech support, and lots of complaints which are not bugs.

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Soosisya_san wrote:

I've played POE for 2k+ hours in total, and I guess I just had enogh with all those issues.

The POE game engine is bugged:
-If you play on Steam client, not Steam Deck, since the Crucible league I can't get into towns due having the endless spinning gear of death on my screen. In fact I couldn't get even into the main menu until I desabled Steam overlay. Anyone else has that issue?
-Whenever mobs spawn, I get quite a drop in FPS, drom 60 to around 0. I have
Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G4400 @ 3.30GHz, 24GB DDR4 RAM, AMD Radeon RX 6400, my internet connection is about 10Mb/s and I still experience perfomance issues, playing at minimal settings. That is until I get to the Atlas and all other additional conntent. Once I get there, well, I just stop playing because I start getting constant disconnections from the server, which is the Russian one, 'cause I'm from Russia (giving that information because maybe there is a problem with Russian servers). In comparison, I can play Doom 2016 or Warframe with a pretty good performance. By the way, POE has been released in 2013 and their DirectX12 is still in betta, lol (yes, I know it has been added as an option much later). I don't think they ever going to work on it anymore.
-Whever I stay still and do nothing, I get constant latency spikes even though nothing happens.
-I like to play POE on my gamepad although I play on PC. Well, I liked before... Because once I had switched from Steam onto the stand-alont POE client, I found out that playing on my gamepad is possible no more. I have the DEXP-G03A, which is basically a PS4 controller, and while on Steam client everything is almost OKAY, on the stand-alone client, on the other hand, is nothing OKAY! Every second skill button opens a chat menu, pouse button opens menu and instantly closes it, unless you opden it after you had open your invintory first, which, by the way, is binded on touch-pad button. No gamepad emulators can help with that. And even if there are some that can, how come they've ported this game on already 3 consoles, but the controls on PC still have such issues?
The stand-alone launcher is bugged/does not work:
-Even their POE-launcher doesn't work as intended. How many times the game has been patched already since the start of this league? Like 3 times or maybe more. And how many times it updated the change-log? The change-log in their launcher has been updated only once with one little note: fixed some bugs, balance changed... Why it shows the change-log in the first pllace if it doesn't show you what has been done? Also you can't read change-log in the launcher if there was no update to download, 'cause it insttly launches the game.
Gameplay is bugged:
-Every time a new league begins, there starts a speedrunner race the goal of which is to beat the game with all newly-added content before everyone else. Which is nice really. Except every time that happens, servers stop working for 3 or more days. And if you are not in USA, you basically can't compit in these races, because east servers get fixed much later. Also you can add to this all those lags I told you about above.
-Increasing your life, and ES is basically useless, because even if you have 5k life you get one shotted by monsters from different leagues. And I don't even talk about Atlas maps, only the main campaign. Which makes the main campaign bosses a joke. You can easily meet a group of blue champions which will destroy you in seconds, and then when you get to an act boss, you kill him in one hit. Nice balance.
-And lemme tell you how useless actual tank builds are. You can increase your HP and ES as much as you want, but then you meet monsters with such nice skills like: an aura which drains all your mana, ES and then HP; skill that prevents you from leeching or regenerating HP. You can meet even other tanks like you, except they still be stronger because they will have more DPS. There is an awsome skill "Mana shield", which makes so your mana takes 40% of incoming damage before your HP. Which means that if you go only with ES, then it's complitely useless for you, 'cause witth that skill you won't spend mana before ES to protect you better. Then, there is a really cool skill that converts all your HP regeneration into ES regeneration. That would mean you can use HP regen skills for the benefit of your ES, except a lot of HP skills use the term "recover" which means they won't affect your ES. Well, here I'm not sure, maybe otherwise It would be OP. Although the Chaos immunity is located on the other side of the skill tree. You could use blocks, except blocking spells is a whole separate skill and even then you are actually not safe from one-shots lol. Also blocking is not constant enough.
Their safety messures are bugged:
-Later, after I had switched from Steam client onto the stand-alone POE launcher, my account, which is registered for Steam client, got temperally blocked because the system noticed that I entered from another IP. To unblock that account I just have to enter the code which has been sent on my email, the password for which is long forgotten lol(that's my foult, I know). But the point is: if I try to log in from that account by using the stand-alone launcher, then I get asked to enter the code. However if I log in into the same account through Steam client, no code asked whatsover! Considering the fact I use the same and only PC I have. Once again, lol. Although I must give them a point for they still preventing me from entering into the game on Steam by using their everloading screen of death. Also that is the account I'm posting this message from. As you can see, they ask me to enter their code only if I use their stand-alone launcher.
Even their staff is bugged:
-They've completely abondened their Steam forums. At least people there think the game is long dead. Well, I've heard they were to stop supporting the game on Steam, but I'm not sure if that's a wise decision because you know, they still want this game to be functional on Steam Deck. So if they drop their support for the game on Steam for PC, how they are going to keep it alive on Steam Deck then? I don't have that fancy console, but I assume people who choose it also like to use their Steam on PC as well as playing games on Steam.
-And finally, while I was writing this post, I've notied that I can use only one tag to describe my issue with the game, which makes me think they have a bad communication between each other. Most likely they have specific people who work only on specific parts of the game and have no clue about what happens with the game outside of their specialisation. That's only my guess and I truelly hope I am actually wrong.

Well, I can only hope this post will get noticed by their staff, though, considering the fact that the staff is also bugged, I think this post will just disappear unnoticeably in nowhere.

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HanSoloDK wrote:

Can I get all your currency and high value items in standard before you quit the game ?
Hit me up ingame --> HanSoloDK

Best of luck to you Exile.