State of the Beta

You might as well put a new 2 month league between in, end of June early July is a long way to go :(

I would much rather them work out every single fine detail of expansion rather then releasing a broken one. Am I super hyped for expansion and wish it launched tomorrow? Of course. But between those 2 options I am happy to wait as long as needed.


I am sad we didn't get any update on divination cards though. I also would really like some clarification on the top tier item mods as well.

Hopefully all old mirror items and legacy items will become not the best and slowly go away :)

Im also sure if that happens it will piss a lot of people off as a lot of mirror items cost a LOT of currency but thus is the world of ARPGS


Anyway thanks for everything GGG and keep up the great work. Even if people don't say it, we appreciate all the effort you guys keep putting in.

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LMTR14 wrote:

I'm tired of all the unnecessary crap I'm reading in those updates

TRADING FUCKING DO THE TRADING UPDATE. THE LACK OF REMOTE TRADING CRIPPLES THE GAME FFS

no trading -> no more stash tabs.

no announcement of trading fix til mid of the year -> I quit forever

Goodbye then.

Anyway, been loving the beta, and it's a shame the release is being delayed. But you guys have always been honest with the community and you value what we have to say. I appreciate that. I will be posting some feedback in the beta forums later today.

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Miinistry wrote:

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Definition wrote:

Stellar communication from the GGG devs yet again.

On another note, I'm not sure if it's in the budget, and I've never seen others asking for this, but some cinematics in PoE would be really cool.

It's been more or less established that cinematic clips are huge costs for little benefit. They wear off very quickly (majority of players will skip it every time after they've seen it once). However having said that there are a couple of cinematic videos courtesy of Garena which you can search up.

The garena teasers are actually what reminded me of this. I feel it would be so valuable to have something like these in-game, not just for those 2 minutes during which you're actually watching a vid for the first time (after which it becomes old and less interesting, granted). Having even one opening cinematic would just put so much into context. I feel like the quest progression in PoE is highly ad hoc at this point in time. Having clocked at least 1000 hours on PoE (I don't actually want to think too hard about how many hours of my life I've 'lost' to PoE, lol) I can say that I've tried to follow the story but I just have no clue as to why I do anything that I do in game for the most part, quest-wise.

Even one cinematic at the beginning of the game would just contextualise everything, and would make the story easier to follow. I hear that they're changing NPCs' chat mechanics so that you can listen to what they have to say while you fight, and I think that this is such a simple but such a profound change. Things like that would help to tell the story, and it's a good example of how something can be relatively easy to change/not particularly resource-intensive while having a tangible effect on if and how the story of PoE is received. I'm welcome to other suggestions which might be easy for GGG to implement and which might have a noticeable effect as well. I just feel the whole game experience (particularly for new players) would really be enhanced with some better telling of the game's story.

Dont rebalance too many Uniques !!! Only the most needed ones !
My perfect rolled collection will be broken again lol :P

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Arkwright wrote:

Thanks for the update Qarl.

I suspect that many of those bemoaning the delay in reaching release would also be the first to whinge about how bugged and broken a premature release would be.

Keep up the great work.

premature releases are the worst

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roetetoet wrote:

You might as well put a new 2 month league between in, end of June early July is a long way to go :(

+1

Well take all the time you need as long as you give us a league for the meanwhile. Like the announced one month but maybe longer (till a week before act 4 release).

Also I agree that the trading system is the most urgent matter after desync and finishing the game act wise. I cannot imagine anyone likes spamming the trade channel or looking through the forum waiting for the guy who might trade your item to be online (with all the different time zones players live in) it's just annoying and wastes so much time.

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LMTR14 wrote:

I'm tired of all the unnecessary crap I'm reading in those updates

TRADING FUCKING DO THE TRADING UPDATE. THE LACK OF REMOTE TRADING CRIPPLES THE GAME FFS

no trading -> no more stash tabs.

no announcement of trading fix til mid of the year -> I quit forever

I'm pretty sure in Chris' interview with ZiggyD, he said that the same team that is working on Desync and Lockstep would be the same working on the asynchronous trading system. Something along the lines of - Desync won out because of numbers of players wanting it fixed and new skills that require it to work better. Trading system will be next in the queue and GGG wants a QoL trading system that adds to players experience of the game and doesn't wreck it *cough* D3 !

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winniethewhor wrote:

Thanks for the feedback from week 2. These kinds of posts help keep us players in tune with what's going on and keep us from asking dumb questions.

So far my only major concern about how the beta progressing is the skill gems that appear to not been looked at yet. There's not many of them, but with Freezing Pulse being VERY overtuned at the moment compared to other skills I feel like I'd like to know what gems on currently on the list to get changed.

Example: Currently an unlinked freezing pulse does two to three times the damage of any other unlinked spell. The difference is so substantially that when using it compared to other gems I feel like I'm actively choosing to make the game more difficult to use another spell.

Thanks for your time.

I don't know if you hit end game yet or not, but freezing pulse is extremely lackluster in maps. :/ You want overtuned, look at ball lightning - or heavens forbid the new flameblast (glacial cascade).