My PS5 Feedback 100+ Hours Hardcore

Overall, I’ve really enjoyed this game on console and also played some couch coop. I played a ton of POE 1 so the curve isn’t so bad for me, but my coop partner struggled to grasp the game, nothing console specific though.

Bad

Targeting
-Monk felt horrible, could not target specific enemies and could not target my own stuff like the ice bomb or the bell. I would say Monk (QStaff) is borderline unplayable on console.
-Essence Drain Contagion difficult to target. Contagion doesn’t seem to target what I expect and Essence Drain needed Chain in order to work for clear.
-Locked targeting and targeting overall for bosses constantly just stops working and you shoot or swing into nothing.
-Can’t target by distance, it’s either full range or nearest enemy. Issues when trying to drop grenades, difficult to play a grenade build or anything where targeting a spot is needed.
-Totems can’t be placed well
-Lightning rods can’t be placed well

Buttons
-Can’t bind L/R3
-Quickly run out of buttons that can be accessed while using skills that require R3 aiming.
-Need to be able to combo buttons. For example pressing R2 and L1 could be bound and so could L2 R1.

Performance
-Frames completely drop when there was a lot of action on the screen no matter which settings I used. This was most obvious in Act 3 Temple when the sun is damaging you in the temple.
-I upgraded to a PS5 Pro and the performance is much improved, but still have major frame drops in that temple.

Random
-I was still able to be attacked while in the single player equipment screen when fighting the Act 2 Hyena boss.
-Could not target the bone cage from Consort boss unless I was melee. Looks like you can roll through it now though.
-Trade was clunky and makes you close screen when trying to back out of a dropdown, incredibly frustrating.
-Trade resets every time you open it, would like it to be more persistent.
-Chat was very confusing to navigate and use. Typing is obviously terrible so basically I never message anyone. Would be nice if you could type from your phone similar to trade (see below).
-Skill tree difficult to navigate, quickly lose where you are because it snaps to something across the screen.
-Applying runes is clunky and doesn’t work like everything else.
-Skill gem navigation clunky when trying to add or remove gems.
-Skill gem stash tab incredibly clunky and is very tedious and frustrating to navigate.
-No item filter is annoying.

Good

-When playing minions, slams, spark, or general aoe type skills the game feels fantastic. I would most rather play on console than PC.
-Most of the game performed well and the visuals looked great!
-Trade can be accessed via your phone or whatever you want and you can use it to message for items in game. Much better than using the in game browser.
-Movement and rolling worked beautifully.
-Inventory management very intuitive with the snap movement.
-Couch coop works so well! I don’t recall any issues that were specific to coop. It was really intuitive.

Like I said, this game is amazing overall and great to play on console with the right builds. I would not play on PC after my experience on console. I’ll have to stick to certain builds and skills so I might get bored sooner than I normally would.

Great job GGG, I know there are many improvements to come as this is early access. What as damn good game for early access!!!

Dude yes, Act 3 Temple was borderline unplayable due to frame drop. I don't have ps5 pro so it was particularly bad.

Great feedback love to see it

Thanks!

the visuals are utterly atrocious on ps5 dude wdym. idk about the pro but on base ps5 its embarrassingly bad looking and running.

https://www.razer.com/console-controllers/razer-wolverine-v2-pro

Solved a few of the issues you mentioned... specially by not needing to use the internal playstation rebind buttons feature...