Too bad most of the beauty of PoE is wasted. Post your best shots.

I like the cherubs too.

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Arrowneous wrote:

Lilly and Weylam are as stoic and salty as ever about the increased dock traffic:

Hehe!



Love the new Hideout loading screen. Gives a real sense of arriving to set up a new place.

That it's a carpet bag the exile is toting is just perfect.

(The originals were carpet, but that's definitely the style, in a wraeclast material, some kind of hide).

In the Acid Caverns map, Phantasms and Harbinger of Time.

Here's Yeena being converted into a Fire Fox by the Fireflies:







Hopefully the transformation is fast enough that she doesn't feel any/much pain. Poor Yeena, being turned into a fox is a downgrade.

The beauty of synthesis clusterfuck for melee

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Arrowneous wrote:

Wow! Super nice screen shot of a creature phase moving. Incursions are so short and hectic I've not tried to run any zoomed in. Maybe now at level 82 if I go back and run Blood Aqueduct (level 63 zone) it will be a no risk of dieing incursion run and I can zoom in and see what great artwork is hiding in plain sight.

There's lots of phase run minibosses in Vaal outposts in delve - the lighting sucks but when you find one, toss a flare down just behind where you intend to standoff, cast/use your skill, then wait for it and hit the button. They always phasemove just as you've started casting or channeling.

And some of them are even not-stuck-in-the-wall! (Is it just me or do rare monsters in delve undercities habitually get trapped inside walls or outside/under procedurally generated areas?)

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k1rage wrote:

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Nightprowler wrote:

This is all the beauty POE will ever need.



Too bad we'll never see it again.

If only they would sell them as an MXT

And remember all the old, classic aura effects were were told we could no longer have because of graphics issues? Nowadays they'd vanish under the glare of the most unobtrusive, new MTX effects. I figger GGG should give them back to us, a package of the old aura effects, for free. It'd be uncool to charge us for what they took away to begin with. ='[.]'=

Who has time for beauty? Gotta be efficient, zoom zoom.

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Ghai wrote:

Who has time for beauty? Gotta be efficient, zoom zoom.

Very sad but true. GGG doesn't care anymore for QoP. It's all about making a racer/shooter where the quality is out and the total player numbers is #1 importance. Gotta keep their Tencent overlords happy. If GGG could get PoE to be an Esport with international competition events then they would be happiest  :(

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Nightprowler wrote:

This is all the beauty POE will ever need.



Too bad we'll never see it again.

Nope, That is gone forever. Not morally correct to denigrate women. I guess all the Asian anime producers never got the message.

My all time favorite shot of old PoE is this:


This one shot speaks volumes of a time when playing PoE I really felt like a lone exile trapped in the very scary wilderness of Wraeclast. Falsely convicted of a trumped up crime all because I spoke out against the bad policies of the Oriath Theocracy government. Hmm... this is hitting close to home with a current trumped up pres. But I digress. Standing in The Sarn Encampment and not encountering another exile was very common back then. Really made the playing experience even more immersive. Even my pet Kiwi was too scared to adventure out into Wraeclast and insisted on staying at my stash. Those were good times for sure (minus desync... Lockstep saved me from going insane).

Goodbye forever PoE: ARPG and today and forever it's PoE: Speed Racer... {sniff!}

before/after reshade



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