I love 0.2.0, Don't change it!

0.2.0 is amazing so far.

Yes game took a step in best direction, but it broke both legs in doing so.

The challenge: i have no loot, when i find alchemy orb it has value like a mirror, because maybe with next random rare I dont need to repeat next boss 4 times till I kill it.
Even regal orb feels like "yes I can progress now !!" -> tldr: +5% light radius, well next time for sure.

The boring: new content brings 0 value to the game. spears dont interest me at all, still missing swords. I think its completely delusional to release any version of game without swords.
-mace skills are all terrible
-xbow skills are all terrible
-1 or 2 bow skills can be fun for a while
-all spells are somehow meh, boring
-progression is so tedious, its very unfun.
-slow combat is ok, i can fight one white mob for 10 seconds, but why the f do I have to walk another 10 sec to another mob ?
-"tactical" or whatever doesnt mean NO MOVEMENT SPEED AT ALL !!!!! I dont know how very deranged one must be to not get this.

With all that I still want to play only poe2, but I cant because GGG doesn't pay bills for electricity for their servers.

Really its just the fking SERVERS! constant dc. Without that I wouldn't even say a bad thing, I would be too busy grinding for regal shards.

u top !

ps: read my sig

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mekantkl#3384 wrote:

You can't have souls-like game but only half way, meaning, the player is "souls-like" but the mobs are zooming PoE1 style.

+9999999999

I remember valheim. Slow paced is fun but the enemies has to be balanced as well.

If their vision is slow paced combat, then why are the monsters 10 times faster that your character.

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Ironkilt#6473 wrote:

The idea of a souls-like, ARPG crossover was exactly the game I wanted to play. I am enjoying the current state of the game quite a lot.

The game isn't hard, it's tedious.
Plus one item upgrade and the whole souls-like experience crumbles to a joke.

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Correctitude#7532 wrote:

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mekantkl#3384 wrote:

I remember valheim.

Valheim Moskitos and goblings, hiding and hogging your dead corpse? :)

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Ironkilt#6473 wrote:

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

They've been trying so hard to drop PoE 1 it is not even funny

They've been actively supporting it. They're an independent development team with limited resources, they had to siphon some of those resources to get PoE2 online, and as SOON as they did they went back to fashion content for PoE1. Juggling both might get tricky at times for a company of their size, but they have been very very vocal about continuing to support PoE1

Independent? Juggling between two similar games is hard especially when you need to find a fix on your problems ASAP and your playerbase is basically grilling you for the sate of 0.2. But they are not small at all having 200+ developers is very far from indie and there is Tencent their owner which is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. Your statemant only shows that you have no idea about GGGs background and your post should be considered trolling.

I enjoyed it also, best the game has been since launch for my taste.

Act one bosses i found a little easy though, act 2 the first boss was the sweet spot for how i feel the challenge to getting good felt for me to beat boss fights at the lower scale of the game.

Takes a few tries but I know i can get it done with effort and tinkering a bit more with finding or upgrading gear and perhaps a skill point or two.

Maybe not every boss in the act, but most of them i think should be this way, espicially if they hold green items.So i feel i earned the reward or something like that.


Got through to act 2 the fastest without heirloom gear,since launch, no hold ups 3 leg items, No struggle on any boss fights. Last one was the only tense one in the second phase but did it fine.

Over all, i am okay for this pace for act 1, but would prefer some tougher bosses which would make the progress slower ofc. Not a big deal and going into act 2 felt about right for my level and gear for me and how i play.

Act two and monsters are bleeding and blood pool exploding nicely. Not having any issues with white mobs so far.

For those that are genuinely struggling with mob speed pressure, think ahead, throw a explosive spear or aoe, of choice, doesn't need to be charged to clear some or all of the trash packs, before they hit your shield, those that make it will be less and then you are free to parry/disengage and or icefang them.

Problem will be far less imo, that has been the case for me. Give it a go.

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xbabisp#9761 wrote:

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Ironkilt#6473 wrote:

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

They've been trying so hard to drop PoE 1 it is not even funny

They've been actively supporting it. They're an independent development team with limited resources, they had to siphon some of those resources to get PoE2 online, and as SOON as they did they went back to fashion content for PoE1. Juggling both might get tricky at times for a company of their size, but they have been very very vocal about continuing to support PoE1

Independent? Juggling between two similar games is hard especially when you need to find a fix on your problems ASAP and your playerbase is basically grilling you for the sate of 0.2. But they are not small at all having 200+ developers is very far from indie and there is Tencent their owner which is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. Your statemant only shows that you have no idea about GGGs background and your post should be considered trolling.

200 developers is absolutely small when compared to big AAA gaming companies like Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard, Microsoft etc. . Given the scope and quality of both PoE1 and 2 I think this is a fair label to give them. Tencent might have financial interest in their company but does not directly give them access to their resources.

Some people might be grilling them but I'm openly praising them. I believe this version of the game is much closer to their original intention, and specifically the type of game I signed up for. I absolutely did not like the 1 shot meta of 0.1.0, where either you destroy the whole screen at once or you get one shot.

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for the sate of 0.2. But they

starting a sentence with "But"

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Your statemant only

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Hey I think 0.2.0 is great too. I played poe 1 since 2018(i think) and it's great to play something different. I do not need to get to map on the first day. I ok with overlevel( at least on my first character) when doing act and map. It took me many tries to do the boss, and it not the best feeling, but the aftermatch is great. I genuinely think that people come to poe2 for the same thing as poe1. I hope poe1 is not delayed, so others can enjoy Poe1, and you can get much less backlash. I played all day on the weekend to get to map and start mapping on the third day, which is completely fine. I played amazon lightning spear with frenzy and they are not too bad( not the most optimized at lvling, I admit), but it's fun. Critical construction is great, but keep it civil.