Comba log/death recap?

I know this will never happen but why isnt it in the game? Perhaps this game would retain more players if they know what killed them ? Just a small idea.
It feels really annoying having to plan everything before the game and google stuff. If 5% percent less players would quit the game would it be worth implementing ? I think so.

According to an CW post somewhere the necessary server overhead to provide accurate in depth death logs would be quite severe.

They could probably do something simple like showing the monster name that killed you or maybe even the last hit that finished you off but neither of those infos is going to help much in situations where it isn't already obvious what killed you so they don't bother with it. They are probably also worried about backlash from morons when they provide insufficient information.

Like a guy dying and the last hit was some 1k damage skeleton fireball and the char in question had 90% fire res and 5k life and then goes "how can a 1k fireball kill my invincible char" while ignoring the fact that he had 3 curses + shock on him as well as a -50 fire res from altars. Nevermind the fact that he likely got hit by more than just 1 fireball. A halfhearted deathlog would likely cause more problems than it would solve.

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eternalJOURNEYofTHEloser wrote:

I know this will never happen but why isnt it in the game? Perhaps this game would retain more players if they know what killed them ? Just a small idea.
It feels really annoying having to plan everything before the game and google stuff. If 5% percent less players would quit the game would it be worth implementing ? I think so.

In PoE1 probably not, but in PoE2 who knows. Jonathan is very open on discussion.
For me personally, I don't have problem with digging what killed me, actually it's interesting to learn new things by some effort, not just plain screen info.
You always learn some other things in this way.

Unfortunately the only way to know what killed u in PoE is shadowplay/recording ur gameplay.
GGG said more than once, that they are not planning to implement a death recap or combat log. I can see their reasoning, but I don't agree with it :P

I think the sheer absurdity of some of the results would open up a can of worms they don't want to deal with.

Doesn't Chinese POE have death recap?

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Mmmannn wrote:

Doesn't Chinese POE have death recap?

No, afaik they just print out in chat what monster took the last hit on u.
Like "Skeleton of Evil Madness has killed you" or something.

That's a shame, I was hoping there was an actual system in place that would maybe eventually be adapted to regular POE. I wonder what their plans are for POE2 in this aspect.