The new portal system is a good compromise

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h311raiser69#0600 wrote:

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Pizzarugi#6258 wrote:

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Dmo90#6022 wrote:

You can't take any risks in a map or play fast with 1 death per map it's dumb af idk why they changed it and created a problem from something no one complained about in poe 1. Not to mention server instability and general balance issues with the game being in EA and all

And to make the whole thing even more confounding: The first leagues GGG added to PoE 2 are fucking timed leagues. You know, the mechanics that encourages taking risks and playing fast to get any semblance of reward. And it's not something you can just ignore, a good amount of map sustain comes from these leagues.

This is a huge conflict of interest.

Does GGG want us to play slow and safe, or do they want us to be sub-60-second map blitzers?

what i personally find weird, is this idea of over punishement in this game
-1 portal chance
-1 hit death
-1 chance at ubers
-1 map ruined (from 1 try failed from 1 miss-timed dodge)
-1 try at (forced trials) for ascendancy
-high XP cost on death
-extreme high damage from clusters of monsters and bosses
-no movement speed on any "good boots"
-no vendor upgrades if your stuck and cant level so no item resets
-no good loots in SSF
-broken Market (will be as broken in every economy resets)


so what do people do ?
the most logical thing there is to do....

find the most exploitable broken builds in order to overcome all that

then in the stream... they say they are desapointed that ubers and pinacles ended up getting one shotted from broken builds

THEN in the end of the stream what did jonathan say?
"We can not wait to see what broken builds people will come up with"


this, to me makes as much sense as OP's post...

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sephrinx#7591 wrote:

I'm not going to "compromise" I am going to demand 6 portals or just not play the game.

It's that simple.

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sephrinx#7591 wrote:

I'm not going to "compromise" I am going to demand 6 portals or just not play the game.

It's that simple.

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GatoPreto1718#7829 wrote:

As far as I understand...

You can die once...
You can leave 6 times using the portal

If you start a map boss, you can only reset and restart near boss by the checkpoint (if more than 1 death possible)

It got confused, but to me it's not overpunishing.

I like being diferent from poe 1.
As someone said... don't like being it diferent, poe1 still going full (when they put poe2 in a "good" state)

Poe 2 is not poe 1... let them have some differences

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FruitLord#0833 wrote:

New portal system is worse for the players who played endgame more than 2h and gave up. If you made it to T15s and did the grind, all that just became a worse experience due to single portal. No trading, no multiple inventory trips, etc.

I won't be playing with this new portal system in place for sure. But I also don't want it reverted to single death and 6 portals. It just isn't fun.

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CovidPatientZero#0332 wrote:

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FruitLord#0833 wrote:

New portal system is worse for the players who played endgame more than 2h and gave up. If you made it to T15s and did the grind, all that just became a worse experience due to single portal. No trading, no multiple inventory trips, etc.

I won't be playing with this new portal system in place for sure. But I also don't want it reverted to single death and 6 portals. It just isn't fun.

They are just going to drive away players with this garbage. Eliminate the extreme death penalties and just give players with less than x amount of deaths some pretty cosmetics for bragging rights. Even 2.5% exp loss on death + 6 portals would be tolerable, but they just can't settle