Anyone else agree that Merciless Malachai sucks?

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Kasparov13 wrote:

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Shovelcut wrote:

It's the only zone in the game like that for me...not a toaster.

Still it's your problem, not GGG's, it's NOT a common problem. And yes, apparently your system/hardware/connection/whatever is not up to standard. GFX wise act4 is not that different from the rest, Dominus is more GFX intensive than 90% of act4. And additions to the rendering engine, render path, are made to all acts, not just act4 because it's new.

there is always this guy.
please stop.

I played on a pretty old PC for the better part of more than 2 years, and watched it grow from "can play in a party with Melees" during Open Beta, to full "15 FPS fighting Hillock" toaster mode - while the graphics engine didn't really change much.
GGG simply keep adding stuff to something that hasn't been optimized seriously since a GFX genius named Greg went back to his homeland of Poland.

currently I play on an Office PC and a brand new Laptop. not gaming PCs by any means, but latest generation mid-end hardware. and an SSD because apparently this game can actually load in less time than Windows does...
so now it's possible for me to actually play in a Party (!) with a Summoner (!!!), and even discharge a couple of times per pack.
and still Malachai brings my FPS down considerably, because of all the shit that's going on simultaneously, on an engine that's pretty much rotten at The Core (end game pun intended).

I still think Malachai as a concept is a cool and very worthy final boss.
battle is epic. theme is scary as hell. voice acting is great. Piety *spoilerAlert* getting impaled like the bitch deserves is awesome...
it's just the size of the arena, and the *everythingincludingthefuckingkitchensink* flying at your face or hitting you for DoT all the fkn time, and all the other "wonderful" things people here have mentioned AND the absolutely-no-reward or incentive to face the bastard - that make him what he is.
and yeah, lag certainly doesn't help either.