Screenshot of a New 0.11.0 Feature

Awesome!!!

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Chris wrote:

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Falcord wrote:

If this is a permanent cut-throat league that somehow does intelligent matchmaking (as in putting you with people of your level range), it might very well be what brings me back to PoE full time.

Let's cross fingers!

I guess several people missed the post I already made in this thread noting that 0.11.0 doesn't yet have a permanent cut-throat league but it's something we're working towards soon! I figure it's worth repeating just so that people aren't disappointed when we post the patch notes and there's no mention of long-term cut-throat.

Oh sorry about that, completely missed the previous post. It's easy to miss them in long announcement threads =).

That leaves me wondering what Onslaught is...

Does Onslaught have anything to do with the "secret awesomeness" you're supposed to reveal soon?

Meh, I'm one of those players that don't give a crap about special leagues.



would have rather seen an expanded 3rd act or something

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Chris wrote:

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Falcord wrote:

If this is a permanent cut-throat league that somehow does intelligent matchmaking (as in putting you with people of your level range), it might very well be what brings me back to PoE full time.

Let's cross fingers!

I guess several people missed the post I already made in this thread noting that 0.11.0 doesn't yet have a permanent cut-throat league but it's something we're working towards soon! I figure it's worth repeating just so that people aren't disappointed when we post the patch notes and there's no mention of long-term cut-throat.

Still needs some method to use skills even if you lose all your gear : )

Looks good, i like that it doesn't take up any of the existing character selection space.

With respect to the info that it won't be a permanent cut throat in this patch, I'd still like to suggest an idea to help combat this:

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...won't 6 man partys dominate the whole league?
It will probably be too dangerous to just play by yourself or with a friend.

Just imagine, you're playing in Merciless with a friend, around lvl 60. And suddenly Kripps Party with 5 man lvl 80 comes into play, 2-shots you, GG.

So Onslaught might be a "play with your party only"-league. Which then will lead to very small player base.
A small fix would be like limiting the party size to 2, and also limiting the maximum number of players that can be in an instance.

The amount of HP and defensive stats (armour,resist,evasion,and energy shield) could be scaled when in a zone that has more than one party in it. it should be scaled so that either the level 60's have 33% more, or the 80's have 25% less, so they match up to eachother better. This way they would still have the benefit of better gear ranges, but it would not be a huge advantage.

Either that or make the max characters per instance 6 the same as it is now. meaning a 6 man party could not mob a solo player. You'd only need to have 2 friends with you to make sure the numbers would be even, and that isn't too much to ask most people.

Or you could enable the "player has entered the area" announcements if the player entering the area is in a party of at least equal size, and/or is of at least equal level.

But i wouldn't bother balancing it. The whole league is called cut throat. it's not meant to be balanced in that way IMO. It's fun to search out and kill other players.

This is a welcome change! :)

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