Death Penalties

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Albain wrote:

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Smradd wrote:

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Death in games has become SOOOOOoooo ridiculous it's laughable. I remember in AoC dying to get across the zone faster.

Death needs to BE SCARY !!!! You should try your hardest not to die and if you do there should be a major penalty of some sort.

All you young kids these days, I remember a time when you actually had to beat a game on 3 lives.

If you die you should drop all your NoN-equipped loot. You should also have a small chance of dropping a random equipped item that would definitely put the fear in dying, without being too harsh.

I am saying a small percent like maybe %5 percent chance to drop an equipped item.

This would do tons of things, one a very low level character might stumble apon a fight gone bad and pick up a level 80 piece of equipment. Exciting and random.

He may pick up the item and return it to the owner for some sort of reward.

Or the MIGHT tank lost his epic armor and cant go in the dungeon to retrieve it so he asks a bunch of guys to help him fight back through the dungeon and get his item back.

Every time you die first thing you will do is open up your inventory and check your equipment lol even though it is a very low chance you actually lost anything important : )

that is what I said too...

ImHO this is the best way,dying is scary although the punishment is not to crazy.

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Albain wrote:

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turtuma85 wrote:

What about this, every time you die you need to choose one of your equipped items, like sacrifice for rebirth?

And it depends raritynes of an item.. if you sacrifice white/grey item u need to give different amount of money too + lose exp etc.. the better the sacrificed item is: better changes for rebirth (without losing money or experience etc) and even some helpfull buff to regain health or something like that.


If u dont have any items or money, then u lose exp and get somekind of negative buff/curse on you!

I like this it would put the fear of dying back into a game again.

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turtuma85 wrote:

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Albain wrote:

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turtuma85 wrote:

What about this, every time you die you need to choose one of your equipped items, like sacrifice for rebirth?

And it depends raritynes of an item.. if you sacrifice white/grey item u need to give different amount of money too + lose exp etc.. the better the sacrificed item is: better changes for rebirth (without losing money or experience etc) and even some helpfull buff to regain health or something like that.


If u dont have any items or money, then u lose exp and get somekind of negative buff/curse on you!

I like this it would put the fear of dying back into a game again.

thats what im pointing to :) glad that u like it.

EDIT: corrected some that original post :)

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deekin wrote:

Here my ideas:

If you die you have some options:

-Pay good amount of gold or any common used item (potions, scrolls, gems) and respawn in last warp point saved.

-Pay exp and respawn with penalties in last warp point (like damage, hp, mana or luck decreased for 10-15 min).

-Respawn in town with no penalties BUT you have to make all the way back again from 0 (reseting areas and mobs)

With any of those: equipped items should lose durability so eventually you need to repair them in town.

In my opition losing equiped items is a pain, having to run to the corpse without any item equiped is a pain too, that will not make game funny. It's better to pay something, or have penalties instead that losing an important item. For that purpose people can just play in hardcore modes or similar where you permanent lose your character if you die, or items.

Cya guys ^^

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Chris wrote:

The purpose of this "Developer Discussion" forum is for us to discuss topics with you that we feel we need feedback on.

We haven't decided on a system for death penalties in Path of Exile. Clearly in specific leagues like hardcore there is a well defined death penalty, but we haven't come up with anything solid for default play.

I understand that this has already been discussed here, but I'd like to build a bigger discussion that hopefully results in some kind of decision.

Currently, when a player dies, they can respawn (with no penalty) in that act's town. We will probably be introducing something like town portals, soon, so we're going to need a more appropriate penalty.

We don't like the idea of dropping an item upon death, because players of the default league have specifically chosen to not suffer permanent loss when they die.

Having an experience penalty is possible, but maybe there's something more interesting we can do.

Do you guys have any ideas for how we can handle this in an interesting way?

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crs250 wrote:

I believe the old school idea of having the PC's corpse drop with items in it poses a lot of problems and I hope the developers don't go this route.