Absolutely disapointed -- This game is hard, and not in a fun way.

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Wilmots#7633 wrote:

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Hausgeist#5228 wrote:

Regarding to the thread titel - I completely agree.
I made two different chars so far - a witch and a sorceress.

The game feels unbelievable chewy and the movement - it simply doesn't feel smooth. I did not manage to kill a boss with the sorceress in act 1. They are simply to fast for me. It's a real challenge to dodge the massive aoe attacks, cause dodging is so unbelievable slow. I finally managed ACT 1 with a minion witch. But only, when I let the minions do the work for me. The final boss took me about 20 minutes, because I can't do damage myself, since casting is so slow that I will die until the casting is finished - useless. So, I had to wait my minions to be revived about 30 times.

I was so exited when POE 2 was announced and I really looked forward till Friday. Now, I have a couple of disappointments and I am really not sure, if I will continue playing.

Disappointments:

1. Graphics - I play with everything on ULTRA and I use Nvidia DLSS + HDR. The whole game looks grey and even more grey. For this I don't need any graphical details.

2. Movement - The movement is, especially in early stages, simply a joke. Ages to slow and dodging does not help at all since you will never kill anything coz you will need to dodge to survive. Casting against bosses = death.



3. Minions - Minions are so squishy. They die until level 5 of them about 100 times against normal enemies. Against bosses, they die on every hit - completely useless.

4. Item acquisition - I am on ACT 2 and did not even find a yellow item (not legendary, just rare) with two characters - seriously? I am not even talking about finding currencies - Until ACT 2 not even an orb of transmutation - just LOL.

Conclusion:
I played POE 1 for years. I did every content, spent a lot of money for supporter packs, and there was no boss I could not do with the right build. POE 1 brought me fun, relaxation and exitment. POE 2 is ages away from that. It took me about 4 hours to get a char to level 10, including 50 deaths - seriously? When I started with POE I could not wait till the next sparetime continue playing. At POE 2 and not even 10 hours of playing I am only disappointed and don't wanna play this anymore. Fun is definitely something different.

Thats bad luck. I have 3 exalted, 2 uniques...hmmm come on go ahead...

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AzKnc#6160 wrote:

I agree, never died up to the first boss, the game was never hard, just... tedious. Constantly rolling around indefinitely while dealing with spongy enemies.

Eventually i got to the boss, on my way down his dungeon i was already bored out of my mind, trying to skip stuff rather than kill it. Got to the fight, brought him to 20% then died cause of no more flask since the phases with unavoidable damage, and, granted, maybe some mistake too, had left it drained.

When i died i just pressed Esc, Exit path of exile. No way i was gonna waste another, what felt like an hour, slugging it out with yet another damage sponge while spamming dodge roll. Fuck all that. Then i instantly realised that logging back on tomorrow i'll have to descend through the dungeon again, yeah, i don't think i'm gonna log on at all tbh.

I'm thankful that someone gave me a spare key they had no use for cause if i had spent even 30$ for this snoozefest i would have been thoroughly annoyed.

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Valandhir#3958 wrote:

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alhazred70#2994 wrote:

5 hours... I really think they should just delete posts by people who are strenuously complaining about how hard the game is when they have 5h. There's just no way thats fair. No offense but for all we know you might be a guide gamer who'll be a lot happier after others tease out the strong stuff.

I might share your opinion honestly but I'm going to give it a lot more than 5h, hell I even choked down 20h of D4 before I gave up trying to enjoy myself and acknowledge my initial impressions of it being garbage. I'm not sold on Johnathan's idea that Souls-like is the correct direction for ARPG's at all... In fact I suspect I wont like it. I play ARPG's because they're about characters and gearing, and NOT my reflexes.

But in 5h there's no chance you adapted enough, unlearned POE1 enough, experimented enough, found enough gear or progressed a characters skills and passives enough to have a functional opinion, let alone a strongly worded one.

Chances are you're stuck on POE'1 1 button power creeped to the moon and back, solved meta; and you want a brand new game to feel the same.

And there's no way anyone could know tbh so don't act like I'm being mean or unreasonable even.

A starting area should slowly introduce you to mechanics and BASIC gameplay. It should not feel punishing at all, nor should the player already have "to adapt". Sorry, but thats just bad game design. If players, people who come from POE1 quite after only a few hours, because it is simply too frustrating, that says something. Also if they say that it just doesn't feel good, because chars are slow.

And yes, that is feedback the company needs to hear now, not when they go into full launch. That is what early access is for. Getting feedback, realising where players have problems and so forth.

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Valandhir#3958 wrote:

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alhazred70#2994 wrote:

5 hours... I really think they should just delete posts by people who are strenuously complaining about how hard the game is when they have 5h. There's just no way thats fair. No offense but for all we know you might be a guide gamer who'll be a lot happier after others tease out the strong stuff.

I might share your opinion honestly but I'm going to give it a lot more than 5h, hell I even choked down 20h of D4 before I gave up trying to enjoy myself and acknowledge my initial impressions of it being garbage. I'm not sold on Johnathan's idea that Souls-like is the correct direction for ARPG's at all... In fact I suspect I wont like it. I play ARPG's because they're about characters and gearing, and NOT my reflexes.

But in 5h there's no chance you adapted enough, unlearned POE1 enough, experimented enough, found enough gear or progressed a characters skills and passives enough to have a functional opinion, let alone a strongly worded one.

Chances are you're stuck on POE'1 1 button power creeped to the moon and back, solved meta; and you want a brand new game to feel the same.

And there's no way anyone could know tbh so don't act like I'm being mean or unreasonable even.

A starting area should slowly introduce you to mechanics and BASIC gameplay. It should not feel punishing at all, nor should the player already have "to adapt". Sorry, but thats just bad game design. If players, people who come from POE1 quite after only a few hours, because it is simply too frustrating, that says something. Also if they say that it just doesn't feel good, because chars are slow.

And yes, that is feedback the company needs to hear now, not when they go into full launch. That is what early access is for. Getting feedback, realising where players have problems and so forth.