Announcing Ruthless
This sounds intensely stupid and unfun.
On the plus side, everything that sucks about POE in current year makes a whole lot more sense to me now. The people at GGG who think this kind of aggressively punishing, "screw players on purpose" gameplay experience is fun enough to spend time developing are the same people making all the other decisions about the rest of the game. |
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and you know what? after few weeks, less than one thousand will remain playing this mode, that's a waste of resources, just to please some streamrs.
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Will be nice to see Streamers playing it not for a causal like me though.
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spare time to make naked mode...
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How is this gonna make any difference?
Need more brains, exile?
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I had been looking forward to "hard mode" and have to say, this announcement describes something worse than I could have imagined and is extremely disappointing. This isn't "hard mode," it's "tedious mode." Rather than a moderate handful of viable builds Path has now, this mode will likely have 99% of players using the 1 or 2 that are still powerful under its constraints.
Guarantee uber bosses will be downed within a week or two by people playing the "correct" ruthless build. |
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maybe try fixing the actual game first?
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Where is the redesigned item generation that was supposed to at least somewhat counter balance the other stuff?
Oh right - you don't properly understand the concept of proper counter balance (or balance in general), which is why SSF when into effect in a way that was not what 99% of people asking for it wanted. And so, this too comes to pass. " Not really - having to walk over to someone to get a free refill doesn't really change anything, and people will just grind up any cost - and such a cost hybridizes your healing solution with the one you really didn't want in your game (purchasable health/mana potions). " I still cannot fathom why this is not the default, and that the default is carebear hardcore instead. I mean, you finally do a proper HC, but you restrict it to a mode that is flawed in oh so many ways. Well, at least you are consistent. Last edited by BINARYGOD#2440 on Nov 3, 2022, 9:19:39 PM
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" IOW, you know this wont be anything anyone wants to hear now, and want to defend against "wasted resources" comments, but that also means this mode receives even less thought and testing than a major one and those have clearly not be great (and getting less so with time) - so this is basically going to be a worse version of a really bad league. |
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" It's you who don't understand things here ... SSF was NEVER supposed to be something that "99% of people" asked, it was a game mode that was de facto already existing as many players were already choosing to not engage with trading / grouping and wanted to progress on their own. GGG merely made it official, nothing more. SSF is not and will never be a standard for balance, it is not for people entitled to getting more without trading.
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