POE2 isn't "Hard." It's unfun.
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I think PoE2 lacks fun. It's so arduous. So far for me PoE1 7/10 PoE2 4/10
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The game is fun. Better then POE1.
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Campaign needs serious work. I am in low level maps still, so I won't speak on endgame, but I cannot be bothered to level another character with that campaign this way. Walk forwards three steps, fight a white pack. Have another white pack run in before you even start moving again. Rinse and repeat. I don't understand how this is supposed to be their dream game. They want us this slow, against enemies this fast. We can't skip mobs without huge risk. The areas are massive in size and mostly empty. I constantly get 60%-70% of a zone done and just think, "yea, I should be in another zone by now".
And I haven't gone for my third trial yet, but my goodness are people I know raging about the new ascendancy system. I despise sanctum and liked the old ultimatum, and have used sanctum twice to ascend. That should tell you a lot of what I think about the new system. Ultimatum has many of the mods from the old game, from when we were literal godslayers. We are not currently godslayers. |
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" This one is especially noticeable because ultimatum mods were originally balanced about characters being fast and having movement skills... we got neither right now, and some of the mods feel even stronger than they were in PoE1 | |
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You will hit the dodge button until morale improves.
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Just killed the boss, dropped an unique- finally an upgrade for my weapon (possibly) after 21 levels of zero drops.
Game spawns 30 mobs, kills me, deletes loot. Oh, the Boss is also gone. Now please reset instance and walk back there. Thanks for nothing I guess Oh BTW- whoever had the idea to use Sanctum for the Trials should get a special place in hell Last edited by RoninSJ_2#2260 on Dec 11, 2024, 5:14:47 PM
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I am kinda OK with the general pace of the game, but the bosses destroy the fun for me. I'm broke because my mid-build, which I loved playing, took 10 minutes to kill a boss. I used all gold and most of my currency to convert to a meta build, which I don't like playing, but now I can kill a boss in 7.5 minutes, still 5 times too long for it to be fun and not tedious. I went through the first three acts and can't muster the will to go through it again.
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God bless devs that they spared PoE 1 of this fate and split it into two separate games. Otherwise it would be a tragedy seeing one of my favorite games of all time to amount to something like this. Happy for people who like it. I definitely know which one I'm sticking to. It seems that devs have greatly surpassed my every single concern that I had about PoE 2 before EA and even found new ways to surprise me. At this point even D4 seems more fun even though I'm a big critic of that game, and I feel like this is objectively the worst ARPG I've played in my life in terms of fun and enjoyment, and it is extremely lacking in every aspect that makes ARPG genre fun for me.
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" I'm in Act 3 in the Tomb. My char is in constant danger of dying by white mobs which 2-3 shot me with poison. It's an endless crawl, desperate of finding the next checkpoint. Just wasted my whole money and currency on trying to get an update for my equipment since I still have most of the stuff from Act 1. This game is just a slog, slow, unrewarding and with design decisions which are truly insane imo. I don't get it why "crafting" is so random when it was already 10 times better in POE 1 and to implement Sanctum, which is one of the most hated game mechanics in POE 1, baffles me to no end. Don't get me wrong, the game is nice, but the drops are just crazy low, everything is again rng on rng on rng. Played D2 recently again and even there you get upgrades to your gear all the time (at least in the beginning) Here you get a slap in the face and if something drops, they take it away from you if you happen to die from some stupid post death boss mechanic Last edited by RoninSJ_2#2260 on Dec 11, 2024, 5:43:22 PM
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They made the game extremely tedious and frustrating, yet still made the loot complete garbage and unrewarding. That's a very bad combination. This game is gonna be a complete flop, once people start getting to maps and realize how unfun it is, the player count is going to nose dive. I hit level 70 on my character and wanna try something else but cant bring myself to do this awful campaign slog again. I'll come check the game back out during 1.0 official release I guess and hope things dramatically improve.
Im not trying to be a hater, I loved PoE1 and it's one of my favorite games of all time. Unfortunately PoE2 is just not it. Last edited by dylan33#3435 on Dec 11, 2024, 5:48:58 PM
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