Dear GGG: You NEED to watch this video! I cannot emphasize this enough! WATCH THIS!

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Warrax#2850 wrote:

They will nerf the ultra powerful builds next league, clearing a map in a minute and killing a pinnacle boss in 15sec is not the intended way it's pretty obvious so yes it's expected it's gonna get slowed, just not now.

Most mob arn't different from a gameplay pov than the very first zombie you encounter on the beach tho, the problem is deeper than just balance.

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Albundy_84#7604 wrote:

Maybe the best solution would be:

- Slow down PoE2 for players, who like to suffer and kill every monster one by one. I hate it, i like to progress and go fast

- Improve PoE1 visuals, leave everything else.

So every player had the choice. Zooming in PoE1 or play slow in PoE2.

Win-win

It's not "suffer by killing every monster 1 by 1" that would fix PoE2 or be what people even really want. It's just that everything is balanced around killing more fodder enemies faster and faster is the problem. The entire game is just designed and balanced around exponentially scaling more and more wave-clear and pure 1 shot power for bosses instead of actually engaging combat and play-style/build diversity. This is a massive copy pasted mistake from PoE1 that fits even worse into PoE2 with more painful symptoms. We have an "illusion of a power fantasy" right now that actually interferes with good game design.

The entire video, especially towards the end, covers it all very well. It's the most accurate feedback and analysis video I've seen so far by a landslide... And I've even watched spreadsheet videos...

The video is rather long and rambly, but the points made, especially at the end are spot on.

Yeah, 100% this. Campaign 1-3 I'm engaging in mechanics, playing an action game. Campaign cruel, sure, things are getting easier, feeling a bit more like I'm just solving a build, but still can be engaging.

Transition to maps? Just fully build solving. Spreadsheet, when is POB coming out? etc. Sure you could artificially try and play it for engagement, but you'd be fighting everything the game is telling you to do.

Good video, thanks.

Already seen it in other thread, but good video. A bit too much rambling at times and I disagree with a few points but generally spot on. One of the best feedback videos I've seen on PoE2.

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DemonikPath#1311 wrote:

Already seen it in other thread, but good video. A bit too much rambling at times and I disagree with a few points but generally spot on. One of the best feedback videos I've seen on PoE2.

The best feedback vid!? Seriously? I watched it and the dude is literaly clueless about soo many things. All he does is complain endlessly. Complain complain and complain. There are no suggestions in the vid. I got the feeling of a child whining about not wanting to eat brokoli and do exercises.

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LVSviral#3689 wrote:

https://youtu.be/lCUUFZKfxs4

This dude's video shines a light on a lot of development problems and serious issues.

Watched all of it. Agree 100% with it.

The main points
1. PoE1 endgame sucks, that is why majority of players quit 1 month in the league. We don’t need PoE1 endgame in PoE2 to drag the game down.
2. Every mechanic in the endgame is catering to one build and one build only - AoE masher. Every solution to every problem comes down to simply “1 shot aoe them from range”. There is no build variety, just shades of the same one build.
3. Devs seem to be out of touch with what player experience of a new player who hasn’t played PoE1 for a decade or ARPgs for 2 decades is. The way they talk about map sustain and all the drawbacks deaths have is quite evident of that.

…..what even is this take?

Mapping as always been about aoe masher


Why would you go into a map with a single target skill and be like “IVE GOT THe NeW STrAT BoYs”

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

…..what even is this take?

Mapping as always been about aoe masher


Why would you go into a map with a single target skill and be like “IVE GOT THe NeW STrAT BoYs”

And you don’t see a problem with that?..