Are complains about portals, exp loss, and similar coming from zoomers (as in "kids")?

Its not a zoomer or boomer thing at all its an unfair thing as I see it.

The fact there are so many god damn bugs and visually you cant tell where you can go on map levels without keeping your eyes on the map is a HUGE problem. Oh trying to run from a mob guess what the big opening between 2 trees you think you can get through NOPE! Oh everything is on 1 layer and you can see it, time to die. Oh you died LOSE EVERYTHING. I have plenty of maps sustain and understand the game its just frustrating. Oh you have never encountered this pinnacle boss well good luck you only get 1 try after you sink 30 hours into mapping. Im sorry unless you are playing the game as a job or doing RMT its an unfair system.

I would be fine if you lost all loot or even have 2 portals. I am level 91 and the handful of times I have died since 80 I feel like it's because it's completely out of my control. Mobs throwing meteors at you off screen while the tiniest mob stuns you GET F**KED TIME TO DIE. White mobs literally doing more damage than a boss is just insane. I don't mind dying when its my fault but 90% of the time its out of my control and it feels bad. I feel like only the developers who made the game like the system because they are aware of every monster type and know what mobs are on each map. It hurts casual and hardcore gamers. It makes trying a new build nearly impossible for a new player. Sure people can avoid all Bad maps but why should they have too. My final straw was when an elite mob teleported to me from off screen, couldn't see him because of the fog around him and killed me at 91 right before the boss on a map where I would have gotten my last 2 atlas points for the Boss atlas.

I know they are addressing some of these issues in the patch but too little too late. I'm not being a beta tester any more. I'm waiting until the full game is released or maybe and its a big MAYBE; play the new acts whenever they come out, and that will be it, honestly probably wont even do that Dying once maybe twice a level to things out of my control has left a sour taste in my mouth

THERE SHOULD NOT BE TWO PENALTIES FOR DYING, like others have said if people want 1 portal they can play play hardcore. At the very least every 1/4 of a level you get give a safety 1 get out of jail free where y

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kamiknx#1162 wrote:

If you're a boomer that played games, there's a high chance your played some MMO or some other game where you had to grind for real to get to the end game.

I remember playing Priston Tale and being extremely happy when my exp went up 0.5% in an entire day.

Maybe the difference was that the game was better to play with friends? So I didn't mind the grind because I was chatting with people and stuff?

But I've also played another game that was solo, and it was the same, maybe you'll get 1% a day.

There's a very niche game that one of my friends play, he says it's worse than Priston Tale, you'll hit a point that you'll not get 0.5% not even in a week.

Have you had experiences in games like this? And what's your opinion on exp loss and portals?

The nostalgia and memories. Thanks for that.

I often use Priston Tale as a reminder of what an old school grind is, the weeks after weeks in a desert or a dungeon with almost no texture. One death set you back a week of gameplay and if you got one good drop a week it was a good week. There was the constant threat of a rare mob spawning and one hit critted you cuz of low latency or loss of focus.

The big difference in that and what we play now is that the one shot in Priston Tale was suppose to be there, the one shotting in Poe2 is something that will be fixed after tuning.

I was molded the dark sea of xp loss on death as a gamer with early 2000 mmorpgs and think its a element that's suppose to be in games, mostly because it forces you to keep focus on the game and calculate the risks you take.

I don't really have a opinion on the whole one portal thing, the fact is that there is only one death allowed on a map and if that's the rules then I make my playstyle fit the rule. I don't mind adding more portals but I still think death should come with the price of xp loss.

The change to portals on pinnacle bosses I think is good, I love to learn the fight by playing and not have to watch a video and feel force to have to one shot clear the bosses.

I'm not much of a forum poster but when a post starts of with Priston Tale I have to show some support :)

I'm part of the lucky players that don't suffer from any problems with the game, no crash, no fps drop, no scams etc... I'm just a happy gamer that really enjoys this game and looking forward to the changes coming.

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nitefox1337#3569 wrote:

It's obsolete and stupid.

The problem is that it doesn't bring anything to the game nor the gameplay.

It doesn't even bring any extra challenge.

It just changes the way you play the game:

- You play less since you don't want to risk your Char XP because you're tired, so you just do something else.

- Every new map is no more a challenge but a gamble. Will your char be one shot or not?

- You don't play to relax and escape anymore, but like is some kind of job.

I'm actually going to argue the opposite of the OP: that zoomers like this artificial strife, partly due to their youth. A lot of "boomers" are old enough to be done with it, that is, if they actually still work for a living.

I used to like Dark Souls, but I sort of aged out of it by the time Elden Ring came around because I had nothing left to prove. I know I am patient and skilled enough to dominate the game, so it's really just a test of patience and grinding. Unfortunately, I've had plenty of grinding in real life in the last 10 years, so the last thing I want to do is get off work to engage with tedium that doesn't respect my time (that is code for it doesn't reward/pay me enough for the time spent).

I realized this when my boss made the call to build irrigation under a gravel road in the winter, and I started playing Mudrunner. I had to stop because I was doing real life mudrunner and then going home to play more mudrunner. Adults don't do that, kids do. It's like if you worked at a pizza joint for ten years and still only eat pizza from there. Only a true sicko would do that.

I am what you'd ignorantly call a boomer, and I am the absolute target audience for a casual mode. I don't want to search the nonsensical passive tree, and I don't want to have to pay gold to respec it. I don't want to farm for support gems. I'd rather a skill point system as I level. Levels of skill gems? Hard pass. Menus within menus? I'm good. Inventory management? I've actually done real life inventory management in a warehouse full of idiots; NOTE: it sucks. I want a great campaign experience with engaging, SLOW combat, and cool bosses. I'd also like to be able to build a tele-sorc like the old days, but everyone insists on putting in teleport cooldowns. I don't want to have to chase uniques to get the gameplay I want. Not even interested in the endgame other than making oddball builds for fun, but at this point, I think it's pretty clear I won't get there any time soon.

After this patch, they have one more left to convince me they are interested in a relative casual like me. Since I refunded the game, I don't have any reason to buy again unless they do.