Passive skill tree search system issues
So the new addition to search system in the passive skill tree seemed like something perfect, but there's something so wrong with it...
I have tested it for just few minutes, but I have already found two main issues: 1. the tags for the filter just act as regular words just like in the regular word search. Let's look at combining tags: Minion and Spirit. You would suspect, that only nodes that mention minions and spirit will get highlited, but we get that one notable highlited, that doesn't even affect spirit in any way... but the word "Spirit" is in it's name ("Spirit Bonds" link related notable) Another case would be for example picking tag Damage - you want to see offensive nodes, but you also get defensive ones that mention... "Damage Reduction". I suppose that passives need to be using tag system for the tag search to be truly reliable. 2. The search system looks not only at name and visible contents of node but also things like... masteries?!? You can clearly see it with your own eyes by searching (using regular word search) word "mastery". You get 249 results that are not even on the tree. Some other words also can highlight some masteries like the word "modifiers" (17 results). When you cycle through search results (not sure whether the function works with keyboard & mouse, but definitely works with controllers, it's d-pad left and right) you get focus on spaces between nodes... the hidden and non-pickable masteries. Looks like there is some code that doesn't affect gameplay, but affects the search results, probably similar to parts of code with items that are not obtainable, but can still be interpreted by item filters (item filter thing is not a problem though - it was quite comfortable that I didn't need to change too much in my PoE1 filter to fit PoE2). I'm not going to test it any further, cause I don't have enough money to fly to GGG hq in case they wanted me in QA team if I found more issues lol TL;DR: passive skill tree search system has two main issues I found: 1. tag search founds words that don't quite fit the tag, like parts of skill's name 2. search can find non-pickable passives like masteries EL MORADO ES EL MEJOR COLOR BOLA DE IMBECILES Last bumped on Apr 5, 2025, 4:56:10 AM
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