Kinda sad what other people here are saying about POE 2

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Holigawd#2935 wrote:

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Ageless_Emperion#2844 wrote:

I have to ask, why are you defending it? Are you afraid that other people not enjoying it in the way that you do will take away your enjoyment of it? Is them not being satisfied with the product against some unspoken rule? Is there a reason so many people here champion getting less of everything like they are some sort of monks in training, trying to adhere to a vow of poverty?

If PoE 2 has been great for you, no notes, brother, get off the forums and go play the game. Antagonizing people trying to give feedback in a feedback thread because it conflicts with your 'enjoyment' of a product seems like a sign of mental illness.

It's clear you're taking what I'm saying out of context because you're ignoring that it's a response to a far more ignorant post. Have yourself a day.

I am not taking anything out of context and from where I am observing you are really not fit to judge who is ignorant or not. The simple fact of the matter is that you folded like wet tissue paper under the lightest scrutiny of your absurd ideas. Go touch grass, or keep playing the game, I don't really care, just stop pretending you are some kind of authority on anything.

p.s. In all seriousness, if you find you have tied so much of your identity to this product that you feel the need to defend it on the internet against random strangers because they do not demonstrate the same level of zeal towards it, you need help. Professional help. That is simply not healthy.

Haven't had a chance to play that much because of work but the difficulty seems fine to me.

I get the impression, Steam forums as well, that players are trying to go too fast and are under levelled or a bit under geared, I beat the witch and the Mud Burrow guy first attempt, yes i know so what, my point being I've seen a lot of complaints about players getting stuck there.

The game has only been out a few days and I've seen what, 3 or 4 patches, dev is doing a great job imo.

Loot drops can be tweaked, "OP" builds will get some balancing I'm pretty sure.

It's EA for a few days, calm down.

I think the game is fantastic as it is. Needs some tweaking and fine tuning, which they will do over time, I'm sure.
My only major complaint is the trials of Ascendancy (honor system, coin access, chaos trial ridiculous negative buff stacking etc).

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TigerDog#2800 wrote:

Haven't had a chance to play that much because of work but the difficulty seems fine to me.

I get the impression, Steam forums as well, that players are trying to go too fast and are under levelled or a bit under geared

Poe1 fried everyone's brain, they don't even know how to enjoy a simple videogame anymore. Oh boy I gotta speedrun to the end (even though I have no idea how because the game is new) and skip all of the content in the game, basically one big gigantic new league, so I can perma-map and drone-farm divines or something... because that's apparently all I know how to do anymore.

It's really unfortunate they had to call this poe2. If they called it anything else, few people would be acting like this.

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gusgalarnyk#1566 wrote:

I'm having a great time with the game. The ARPG genre comes with a difficulty slider built in. If something is too easy, you push to harder zones earlier, if something is too hard, you farm for mere minutes and get overleveled and overgeared.

This is very well said. I don't understand why people don't get that, it seems so obvious to me.

It seems like a lot of people picked up some habits in POE1, and are now really reluctant to see any changes to the gameplay design. Maybe it's just about feeling safe with what they know and an unwillingness to go beyond the confort zone, idk.

I would be very sad if POE2 get changed into a POE1 clone and I hope GGG will find a way to stay true to their vision while also finding ways to help players that don't like it to get on board and see what is enjoying about it.

No point in reading past the first line.

LOLOLOL.

Have a good night bud.

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Ageless_Emperion#2844 wrote:

I am not taking anything out of context and from where I am observing you are really not fit to judge who is ignorant or not. The simple fact of the matter is that you folded like wet tissue paper under the lightest scrutiny of your absurd ideas. Go touch grass, or keep playing the game, I don't really care, just stop pretending you are some kind of authority on anything.

p.s. In all seriousness, if you find you have tied so much of your identity to this product that you feel the need to defend it on the internet against random strangers because they do not demonstrate the same level of zeal towards it, you need help. Professional help. That is simply not healthy.

So, a bad faith argument? Yikes.

Have a good night bud.

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666lol666#3140 wrote:

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AIDA_TriEdge#4390 wrote:

And running through maps while enemies automatically die is not?

Well that is any arpg's goal. The arpg formula is simple:
1.) start weak
2.) get stronger
3.) become the overlord
An arpg is kind of a power fantasy!

In my admittedly personal perspective, the gameplay loop is an iteration of 1-3. Becoming the overlord to the point that the game is no longer a challenge, flattens that curve and leads to diminishing returns, so the game becomes less about character progression and more about loot grinding to go after that one affix, or x% improvement in damage/armor/resistance. In order to get the same amount of juice for the squeeze the bosses need to be turned into loot piñatas.

Just my thought.

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RottenSausage#6164 wrote:

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matisto29#1060 wrote:

the difficulty gap from poe1 to poe2 is ridiculous i'm sorry it just is !

That's a good thing imo.

It's really not. You're not cool because you like a harder game. You're engaging in a sense of superiority by trying to take pleasure in the misery of others.

GGG need to make a real Standard mode and add 5-10x more loot and reduce enemy HP by 50%.

Then they can add back in a ruthless mode, which can be even more difficult than current poe. Then people can choose what they want to play. I GUARANTEE you wouldn't play the ruthless mode. You're just here to take pleasure in trash talking other people and it's pathetic.

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92ranger#4205 wrote:

It's really not. You're not cool because you like a harder game. You're engaging in a sense of superiority by trying to take pleasure in the misery of others.

GGG need to make a real Standard mode and add 5-10x more loot and reduce enemy HP by 50%.

Then they can add back in a ruthless mode, which can be even more difficult than current poe. Then people can choose what they want to play. I GUARANTEE you wouldn't play the ruthless mode. You're just here to take pleasure in trash talking other people and it's pathetic.

I don't understand what you find hard in POE2, I really don't. My experience seems to have been very different than yours and it would be interesting to understand why.

Honest questions:
Where did you get stuck? and what did you do to try and get past the difficulty?

Personally, getting more levels and tweaking my build, updating my gear with crafting, making sure my weapon is good and having health and resists seems to be more than enough to make the game quite easy.

I feel like people are not using all the tools the game is providing and expect to roll over the content anyway. Am I wrong? Admittedly It's not things we got used to be required to do in POE1 Act1 but is it really a bad thing?

That being said, if the problem is the slower pace, or the fact that it's maybe more "tactical" and might require different kind of builds than POE1, with more control or something like that, then it's fair to say you might not "like the game". But saying it's hard because of that would not describe properly the problem you're facing imo.