SET FREE THE ASCENDANCY POINTS (or rework the lab) [New ascension methods/lab rework ideas]

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FixLabPLSGGG wrote:

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Turtledove wrote:

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MekaDragon wrote:

Welp, maybe I do enjoy both fast paced and slow paced maps.

People here seems to only like ultra-hyper-fast-sanic-maps.

Comparing the labyrinth gameplay to Frogger or Prince of Persia (now this was a good game btw) has just no sense.

And yet for many people it is a reasonable comparison. A pre-release review of Ascendancy was the first that compared labyrinth game play to Prince of Persia. The link to the review and the quote out of the review is linked in the OP. "The Labyrinth leans heavily on the new traps, with complicated patterns that remind me as much of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time"
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/3007174/software-games/path-of-exiles-free-new-ascendancy-expansion-looks-roguelike-like.html

Chris Wilson called it rougelike. Which was also a comparison used in other reviews.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1482095

I play a roguelike called darkest dungeon. Its so hard. But I expect and enjoy the roguelike part of that game. That is the fun of the game. Path of Exile should avoid this and stick to what it does right. Killing monsters and getting loot. Not dodging traps or out regenerating traps or teleporting past traps or however you cheese the traps. Traps do not belong. Remove them

Some traps are fine. Just don't remove the monsters! Killing monsters and getting loot is what PoE is about, not dodging screens full of traps with no monsters. No need to remove the traps, just don't remove the monsters!! If there are no monsters then guess what? You can't kill monsters and get loot. Duh! If there are screens full of traps then it means that there are no monsters and no loot. It means that we're being forced to play a different style game play, a Prince of Persia, Frogger, or Mario style game play.

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IxisNagus wrote:

So decided to give PoE another chance with the new league and all was fun until i needed to start getting lab/asc points done did one ascension/lab and all the yucky lab memories sprung back to my head.

Atleast it only took one day wasted to re verify that this game is not for me anymore.

+1 to emphasize to the incorrect people saying that there's only a handful of people that don't enjoy screens full of traps. PoE is about killing monsters and getting loot. It's not about dodging screens full of traps. Do not remove monsters from the game and make us run through screens full of traps. Not only is it not fun for many people, it's so boring, irritating, and tedious that people stop playing PoE because horrible game play has infiltrated our game. Free the ascendancy points from the horrible game play. Make PoE great again.

It is now. The Lab is part of the game and has been for quite a while.

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Xtorma wrote:

It is now. The Lab is part of the game and has been for quite a while.

I'm sincerely pleased that you feel that PoE is still great. Unfortunately that is not the case for many others.

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Turtledove wrote:

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Xtorma wrote:

It is now. The Lab is part of the game and has been for quite a while.

I'm sincerely pleased that you feel that PoE is still great. Unfortunately that is not the case for many others.

it's the case for a tiny minority full of themselves... meanwhile mostly everyone enjoy it.

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diablofdb wrote:

it's the case for a tiny minority full of themselves... meanwhile mostly everyone enjoy it.

Like this guy (IxisNagus), I suppose, who has deleted his account. No doubt, there are many more just like him.

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IxisNagus wrote:

So decided to give PoE another chance with the new league and all was fun until i needed to start getting lab/asc points done did one ascension/lab and all the yucky lab memories sprung back to my head.

At least it only took one day wasted to re verify that this game is not for me anymore

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ShaUrley wrote:

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diablofdb wrote:

it's the case for a tiny minority full of themselves... meanwhile mostly everyone enjoy it.

Like this guy (IxisNagus), I suppose, who has deleted his account. No doubt, there are many more just like him.

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IxisNagus wrote:

So decided to give PoE another chance with the new league and all was fun until i needed to start getting lab/asc points done did one ascension/lab and all the yucky lab memories sprung back to my head.

At least it only took one day wasted to re verify that this game is not for me anymore

Hardcore league will likely once again be the probable "canary" for the state of PoE player base.

If a few screens "full of traps" (drama intensifies) ruin everything else this game has to offer, then you probably weren't having much fun before, Lab or no Lab.

I always hated the trade-centric design that permeates everything in PoE, not just one side zone. Still, the game has many other good aspects, that help to overcome some shitty design.

GLHF finding a better arpg right now... (GD comes close, but PoE still leads, imo)