How the Blight Launch Went

I was very sceptical before the launch but this league is OK. I haven't experienced any crashes (maybe because I'm not playing summoner?) and TD encounters are fun. The only thing that I really don't like is blighted maps:

1) Tower control is awful: you have to run to it to upgrade and it's so hard to click on the right tower sometimes.

2) Tower damage is ridiculous. You need several t4 towers with empower tower for the last waves. Because of this the only useful ones are those that slow mobs.

3) Sometimes portals open too close to the pump and you just don't have time to kill mobs.

4) After 3-4 min fps drops drastically.

Owning a 4000$ pc and still crashing...not the smoothest id say.

It is ok. <3

Given that steam charts shows about 25-30K fewer people playing at launch than last league, this league has been a bit better. On the same note,next league if we will have only 10K people playing while everyone else abandons POE, the launch will be butter smooth.

I'm liking Blight a lot so far. I haven't gotten far in (just Lvl 24 at this stage) because after day one my dog dislocated her leg and I've been running to every vet in town since then. But this is only the second proper "build" I've tried out (Hercanic's summoner, which I intend to supplement with Carrion Golem when I can get my hands on that gem), so I'm enjoying the learning curve on that as well as the new league content.

Have seen some negative reactions in the comments, but from my perspective the tower defence addition is a novel league element and has been incorporated really smoothly both in terms of gameplay and overall campaign narrative. Didn't face any bugs that I noticed in the short time I've spent in league so far. The odd server lag, but it's a launch of significant game upgrades involving what seems like a pretty huge gaming population so what the hell is a little bit of lag to complain about? (plus I'm in a separate country from my local servers so it's to be expected even outside of peak login events).

Awesome job, guys. As always, your dedication to the game and consideration of the community is impressive and makes me proud even to have kept this game in the corner of my eye since the beginning.

League is realy cool. I like it a lot.
Onely i have done 2 blight maps and they both crashed. Its a shame... servers and game can't handle that much shit. If this doesn't get fixed soon, the league is over for me.

It was smooth till the last patch. With the last patch i have lags and cant use wave of conviction without crashing game. smooth? hell no!

If by smooth you mean shit then yeah..
Constant lag, graphics issues as in monsters invisible, characters invisible, monsters solid purple, blue or yellow, screen turns purple or blue when entering places after a loading screen. Broke the majority of the guild stash tabs also still.

Seems like without me playing and spreading the word for PoE the launch events are much smoother and half the population :D