Dawn of the Hunt - What We’re Working On

A fun battle is fun even if it's 20 seconds.
A boring battle remains boring even if it's stretched out to 3 minutes.
Please get rid of the idea that making battle longer will make them meaningful.

WHY the hell do we need more checkpoints WHEN WE JUST NEED TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF LOCATIONS!

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Large Area Sizes
Many players are reporting that areas feel like they are too large. Normally when this is the case, the main reason is due to other concerns such as monster life or player damage being incorrect, or just a lack of entertaining content in the area. However, we are checking to see if there are any outliers that players are spending too long in to see if any changes to area size need to happen.

In the meantime, we did notice that there are some areas that don't have sufficient checkpoints, so we are doing a pass of adding some more of these.

PoE 2 still REEEAAAALY needs a sprint skill (that also doesn't work in combat) or out of combat speed boost. I'm not a zoom zoom player at all but PoE 2 zones have way more backtracking and dead ends than PoE 1 zones. It's all this "dead" time where you know where you need to go to and there is nothing on the way, no player agency, where your idle mind asks "What am I doing with my time? I could play something else, or maybe do the dishes."
And area procedural generation needs a lot of work. Most PoE 1 zones had a clear flow to them and you had a main path to the other end and any side content with some added fluff on the sides too. Too many PoE 2 zones feel like you just fill the whole possible area with noise then plop any content nodes with maximum space inbetween in random places.

Player damage wise, Rake + Stomping Ground is such an outlier and needs to be brought in line but I'd say 80% of that damage is what everything should feel like. Things that are a combo or need two things to set up, should do even more. I feel like a lot of skills that grant you 120% attack damage could do with a PoE 1 like 300% and would feel way better (I'm NOT a fan of deleting bosses but the rest of the game shouldn't be a slog). THEN you can boost health on bosses and rare monsters again. Doing 300% more work for 20% more damage is not feeling right. I know there are a couple of skills that have exactly that, a conditional large damage boost but that is always bound to a lot of conditions that feel clunky and unreliable. I'm all for having a setup and payoff but it needs some actual flow and prompt and clear communication about what's going on. Something that still works in the hectic and chaotic real gameplay without killing you while you're trying to make something happen.

Could you guys work on PoE1 instead? Or better, bring Chris back? Clearly you have no interest, so get some ppl who do. Nobody here really cares about PoE2, its jover.

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New player here. I don't have much knowledge and experience about the game to feel things like the hp is too much or certain classes are garbage or whatever. You know what I can experience?

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I don't give a flying fk if xXxSasukeUchiha7769Xx yapping about the slow combat. Give priority to major issues.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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atasl#3539 wrote:

WHY the hell do we need more checkpoints WHEN WE JUST NEED TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF LOCATIONS!

Because the true about this message is "we hear you and your complaints, but we don´t care" lmao

Adding more check points another band-aid at this point i am pretty sure all the feedback is being ignored because it doesn´t fit the "vision"

fuck off GGG you are the new blizzard. Integral dev's that dont share your "vision" of "slow and meaningful combat" in a wannabe dark souls feaverdream left the sinking ship GGG already, you both introduced dogsht nerf everything into the ground updates that cucked the game, why? I dont give a shit if you reverted all the nerfs to playpower from 0.1 to 0.2, reverted all the buffs to monster hp and damage, even if Jonathan spawned in front of me to suck my dick while apologizing, you wont see a single dollar or second of playtesting your dogshit infested beta cuck wannabe dark souls feverdream from me anymore, good riddance you bunch of cucks especially you Jonathan.

what about undo 80% of the nerf done ?
mana stacker was nerfed in at least 5 ways, from very good to very bad.
1 nerf would be enough.

poe 3.26 when

The fact that you have to work on things that should have been right in the first place, just shows the lack of testing.
If you dicks would have tested your shit before launching it, then MAYBE the problems would not be so severe.