Uninstalled the game due to no changes to labyrinth

new meme: aperolling.

to the thread starter: how would you have solved it?

you as the game dev want to empower existing items to keep the game interesting so you introduce new implicit mods.

how do you make them available?

putting them in the main game makes them worthless
putting them in late endgame excludes 90% of the player base from getting them
making them tedious to get puts a huge disadvantage to many players with a functioning social life


the solution to put it behind content which has a high difficulty spike but is manageable even for casuals is genious.

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the decision to put ascendancy points behind the lab is to reward players who have good movement skills and dedication rather than massive time to just "thash mob kill" their way to endgame and char perfection.

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TreeOfDead wrote:

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morbo wrote:

Logging in just to post in the N-th Labwhine thread. Please post more of these, all over feedback, a formerly nice sub-forum.

The world needs to know the truth!!!

+1

+2

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AceNightfire wrote:

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Timewar9 wrote:

So you're saying that a hard boss drops loot proportional to his difficulty and that it's a bad thing.

He didn't say that.

He actually did.

1. You don't need to Ascend your characters. If you don't like the lab, just don't play it, and work like things did before 2.0.

2. There is at most 1 dangerous trap gauntlet per area. And all of the traps are avoidable; there is a pattern and places that are safe within each trap gauntlet. Other traps are very short and easily avoidable.

3. There are always large safe areas in the 3rd Izaro fight, even in the uber lab. While the whole room is not safe, there are safe places.

4. A build with properly layered defences, regardless of what those are, can do Izaro. With 4k+ life and no big buffs on Izaro you will not be oneshot, and the dangerous attacks are telegraphed and can be avoided.

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zSavage wrote:

1. You don't need to Ascend your characters. If you don't like the lab, just don't play it, and work like things did before 2.0.

I never liked these "you dont need to do X..." answers. Ascension classes are too sweet, to claim that they can be just skipped.

I'd change point 1.) into:

1.) Getting your first 6 (six!) points is piss easy and requires only about 1hr of gameplay, if you do all the Labs at lvl 80+. Those 6 points already offer you a ton of power, so it's ok that the last two points are gated behind a more difficult Uber Lab.

I thought I saw a trap in one of the new maps in the trailer. hehe.

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Lachdanan wrote:

Path of Exile is dead anyway,

Whisperers from the Void tell me there´s a new game out soon
that is far more challlenging, easier to learn and harder to master without having to rely on pesky spiketraps or poisoned darts,
its also far more instantly rewarding upon beating it !
Perfect opportunity to switch games if you don´t like the lab.

Most likely will be released on steam and will be tablet-ready in a month.

Check out the new Gameplay-trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A

Joke is on u. They selected me to battle the chimp and I get 200 dollars a day!

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Prebornfetus wrote:

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Lachdanan wrote:

Path of Exile is dead anyway,

Whisperers from the Void tell me there´s a new game out soon
that is far more challlenging, easier to learn and harder to master without having to rely on pesky spiketraps or poisoned darts,
its also far more instantly rewarding upon beating it !
Perfect opportunity to switch games if you don´t like the lab.

Most likely will be released on steam and will be tablet-ready in a month.

Check out the new Gameplay-trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A

Joke is on u. They selected me to battle the chimp and I get 200 dollars a day!

So you were the guy in the video that couldn't beat a chimp?

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mark1030 wrote:

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Prebornfetus wrote:

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Lachdanan wrote:

Path of Exile is dead anyway,

Whisperers from the Void tell me there´s a new game out soon
that is far more challlenging, easier to learn and harder to master without having to rely on pesky spiketraps or poisoned darts,
its also far more instantly rewarding upon beating it !
Perfect opportunity to switch games if you don´t like the lab.

Most likely will be released on steam and will be tablet-ready in a month.

Check out the new Gameplay-trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A

Joke is on u. They selected me to battle the chimp and I get 200 dollars a day!

So you were the guy in the video that couldn't beat a chimp?

Man, those things will rip your face off.

I think there should be a new forum category for lab-related threads lel..

Anyway more good news for lab haters - the new expansion endgame areas are gonna have traps/similar mechanisms too. just read it on one of the press articles.

And just FYI for op, people are doing labs even in the hc flashback race/BLMST race which are 10x harder than the base game, so...

git gud...