1-portal gameplay incentivizes playing SC like it's HC

Overgearing, overlevelling, over-cautious gameplay, encounter anxiety.

Read: nauseatingly boring and timid and stressful. If i wanted any or all of these things, I'd play HC in a heartbeat.

Why are you forcing HC gameplay onto SC players?

I used to be a purely HC player until I got bored of it. I had a funny thought recently that I would enjoy P2 about the same (probably more) if I played it on HC. What an odd realization. A sad one. I don't want to play HC nor HC-shoehorn.


[Edit: forgot overlevelling.]

+1

It's so weird that they're basically forcing HC mechanics and playstyle onto SC players. That is a fast way to make a lot of them quit. Why do you think a person chooses Softcore intentionally? Because they hate losing progress on death and they just wanna chill not be stressed 24/7 lmao

Games are supposed to be fun. Mapping is not fun.

no it doesnt.

I find myself playing extremely safe all the time as well. Pulling minimal mobs at a time instead of dragging 4-5 packs on top of one another. Pulling mobs from off screen to have reaction time for their gap closing speed. Peeking around blind corners because a dozen or more projectiles from a pack of monsters that I cannot see behind terrain can end my run instantly. Pulling mobs to a doorway to funnel them into a kill zone and slow the rush. Constantly backing up while attacking because pushing forward is suicide.

All safe strategies, no adrenaline rush, no dopamine, no satisfaction. It all makes the grind feel even more grindy.

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KingDaMuncha#6025 wrote:

Games are supposed to be fun. Mapping is not fun.

Someone really needs to deliver that message to GGG. Because right now they seem to think the goal is to take a page from the Tarkov devs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzaNzJnh9l8 (Hilarious skit if you haven't seen it.)

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Tridus#0514 wrote:

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KingDaMuncha#6025 wrote:

Games are supposed to be fun. Mapping is not fun.

Someone really needs to deliver that message to GGG. Because right now they seem to think the goal is to take a page from the Tarkov devs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzaNzJnh9l8 (Hilarious skit if you haven't seen it.)

It's scary how accurate that video is to how PoE 2 feels atm lol

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unsane#5479 wrote:

1-portal gameplay incentivizes playing SC like it's HC

And that's a good thing. You can get a taste of actual excitement even on the carebear servers.

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b_ko#7756 wrote:

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unsane#5479 wrote:

1-portal gameplay incentivizes playing SC like it's HC

And that's a good thing. You can get a taste of actual excitement even on the carebear servers.

Nobody asked for this? This game should not be forcing sc players to play in this cringe,safe,boring way as if its hardcore. It should be a choice if you want to play in that way because you can literally click the hardcore checkmark when creating a character if you want to.

All this does is make people quit the game, which is just bad for profits and player retention lmao this doesn't belong in Softcore leagues.

That's like forcing someone who chose easy mode in a game to play on the hardest difficulty which only unlocks after beating the game. Nonsensical game design.

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