Path of Exile: Legion - What We're Working On

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Shade_RU_N53 wrote:

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We've seen a few players request that we increase the visibility of Legion icons over monsters, generals and chests as well as adding them to the minimap. One of our earlier iterations of the Legion league included symbols for monsters, chests and generals on the minimap. During playtesting, we found that it felt really bad, as people would spend most of their time looking at the minimap rather than focusing on the combat in front of them.

Due to this, we entirely disabled minimap icons for anything that had a Legion reward. This lead to issues where players would release some monsters with rewards and then end up forgetting where they were which resulted in sometimes missing rewards. This also didn't feel great.

Our next iteration involved adding minimap icons but only after Legion enemies had been activated. This is where we're currently at with minimap icons and is the best of the three scenarios we tried.

I think that's the wrong side to approach this problem (although we already are looking at the minimap during play). The problem people request to solve is missing special reward encounters from monolith since there's just a tiny bit of time to explore. You can approach this in a twofold way.

First, you've had Catarina and Vorici "arrow guides" pointing players at the required direction from the master (before Betrayal). Tora, on the other hamd, has had an arrow guide leading from player to the target.
So what's holding you from signaling the player in a similar way a vector to the reward encounters from the monolith, so players will at least know how many rewards are available and make somewhat informed decision to pursue these? Like, when monolith is activated, there can be a brief (1-2 seconds) beams/sparks/tendrils/spikes that point from the monolith to said encounters. Thus, people will be able to decide where to go first (and be more informed in general). If these required final targeting, you've got Tora-way target vectoring.

Second, you can add some time in the activation phase for freing legion monsters and/or freing reward encounters. That'll help slower characters to have more fun with the encounters (let's be honest, most players don't know about clearspeed-meta, and it's not right to penalize them hard just for that).

With these 2 ways combined, Legion encounters will be more fun since players will have their targets and will be able to formulate a strategy, while still being able to make the fight more epic and fun. And fun is the only thing what all of us are here for, aren't we?


PS: And yes, Delve could use some more open travel areas, where players won't be as confined. Would add a new ring to the game's more fun engame activity.

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The_Shiny_Sam wrote:

When will they fix /dance I paid for it and dancing wont work this league. I know its dumb but no body puts Baby in the corner