What went so HORRIBLY wrong?

What went so HORRIBLY wrong?

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I'm not sure how they make performance worse each league but here we are.

Also I laugh when people say "Tencent has had 0 effect on GGG"

More like what went right, game is literally more popular than ever.

>What went so HORRIBLY wrong?
Tencent

>I'm not sure how they make performance worse each league but here we are.
this, each one gets worse and worse.

they need to remember, people are still using beta-poe pc's.

>don't give a shit about performance
>balance content around the top builds, leads to them always nerfing the league mechanic heavily early on because surprise, not everyone has ex to dump on things
>every league has a "color" everything is shades of that color, making visibility awful
>devs are so jaded that they think offscreen and millions of death effects are nice challenges for the player
>too scared to nerf the game speed, which is the real problem, you can't put challenge properly in the game with how fast builds can go
>3 month development cycle when the league launches are pretty much betas for 1 month
Theres many others such as overpriced mtx and stash tabs not getting updated frequently enough, but those don't really hurt the game

My build is ruined every patch. Fuck that game.

Summoner fag or?

The game is supposed to start at maps but that's when it loses me I lose all sense of purpose and it just feels like mindless grinding from that point. I know there are goals like killing Awakener or Elder and shit but I lose motivation really quickly to actually try and kill them.

Visual clarity is the worst I've ever seen, it doesn't look like they've tested how things look when you get conquerer mobs, betrayal mobs, delirium mobs all in one area. Especially when that area is a small corridor like phantasmagoria.

On death mechanics, this kind of goes with visual clarity, almost every single time I've died this league I couldn't see what actually killed me, it's just some gray un-killable homing missile surrounded by other effects from other monsters that have been turned grey due to league mechanic.

Trying to push clear speed while at the same time punish clear speed. There's no reason for delirium to be timed at all, just let the difficulty determine how deep a player can go.

Monsters spawning in your face that can shotgun, this one didn't bother me too much but now with all the on death mechanic dodging with un-killable homing missiles this really is starting to feel painful.

Every league GGG makes same mistakes then takes 2-3 weeks to patch the league to a better state, but by this time a lot of players have just moved on from the league. I think everyone would rather wait a bit more time to get a new league than have it play like shit for the first 2-3 weeks anyway.

"We don't want want players to go fast"
*creates content that punishes you for being slow*

they tried to copy diablo 2 instead of actually progressing the genre by introducing a combat system and an actual AI to enemies.

run by massive kikes and played by reddit soibois too busy sucking chris and bex's dicks to notice their getting jewed

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Performance regression
So much more death
Lackluster loots

>make a league that is supposed to be harder and slow people down
>the league is based on a timer where you have to kill things fast

Who comes up with these decisions?

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Buffed damage of enemies and players but forgot to buff defenses too.

Seconding this

"the game starts at maps" is a meme at best, by people trying to delude themselves that grinding against slightly higher numbers for eternity is gameplay. It's a standard RPG setup of game -> postgame, with the postgame designed to push your character.

I haven't even seen the maps. I always stop around act 2. It's just slow and plodding and getting a party together is pulling teeth.

They've been actively nerfing defences ever since 1.3. There was a time when 4k life in the endgame was considered tanky.

another shit league

yeah, you need friends to get a party together now, old 1.1 days is when parties were almost necessary if you didn't want to spend days getting out of merciless

It's another "touch the portal to spawn monsters" league, except this time the monsters are actually challenging enough to make reddit cry. It's not bad, just boring.

It's just dumb players who think rushing to the end of each delirium until they get oneshot is unfair/doesn't give enough loot. You're supposed to take it much slower if you want to survive, and expecting lootsplosions when there are already too many past league mechanics in core is just idiotic. Your loot is hunting for cluster jewels, which already is a sweeping change to builds.

Also, if you're having problems seeing or running the game because of fog, you are not the target demo of a F2P game. Get that SSD already.

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Did patch of exile 2.0 come out yet?

>I must run to the end of each delirium and die each time because all the extra loot is there!
Protip: it's not.

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>he doesn't know

The devs are pandering too much to neets

Average player doesn't ever get a chance to get to the fun part of the game cause you have to grind for weeks to get there

I still have my fun with the game every other league, but I'm already done with this one

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>take timed event slowly

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incompetent programmers, i played alpha in 2012 we needed 8 years for hardware to catch up for this game to become playable, they also needed like 5 years to fix desynch

Mostly any other ARPG developer being completely impotent or retarded so PoE having no realistic rivals for a very long time. I hoped D4 would have potential to be such a rival, but after that attack/defense reveal it became obvious that suits demanded that game to be made for 80IQ audience and it won't provide anything for people enjoying character building/itemization depth.

>there is a timer, therefore I must rush
How is that working out for you? Good exp? Mirror-worthy loot? Enough splinters to make a simulacrum in less than 20 maps?

Incompetent devs and extreme development bloat. There's so many shitty mechanics and stuff added into the game, the refusal of the devs to add a marketplace into the game instead of having to use shitty third party websites to trade, balancing the game around a few skills while everything else is useless compared to those.

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>the game starts at maps
this is the desperate cope by poetards who are trying to ignore the fact that the entire levelling process and pre-maps is godawful and boring

Poe gets away with its numerous flaws simply because arpg market is fucking empty. And it isn't the only one to do so, grim dawn is even worse game but it gets the pass because there's noting else to play from genre after you're tired of poe. Hell, I recall actual reports of people STILL playing Diablo 3 because games of this genre are THAT scarce.

Name arpg where leveling process isn't like that
>inb4 grim dawn
Sorry you can't equip your core items until 94

i gave up on PoE last league after 5 years of playing

im waiting for PoE 2 now

most arpgs arent anywhere near as boring during early stages as poe
grim dawn is about the same as poe

there are still Wolcels out there playing a completely fucking broken and actually pointless game

Nothing.

Healthpool is too small relative to regen options. Up mob HP, up player HP, nerf LGoH/Leech/Flasks for less rapid recovery.

ragnarok online is the best ARPG of all time

if they nerf the game speed to many mongrels realize how shit the gameplay actually is

Lag/Freeze death is not "challenging." Its stupid game dev mechanics. If they really want to balance game around this performance degradation "challenges", they're a fool.

the devs can't optimize for shit and the game runs worse every single league

Tencent starting around Incursion league.

read the spoiler, sweaty. ;)))

Tencent has 0 effect on the game
Also, runs perfectly on my machine

You can do exactly the same with slight differences just for so long before getting bored.

Also as Chris has said multiple times. He thinks that not all players should be able to do all of PoE's content. That's why streamer's exist.

Game is 10/10, devs are 10/10, cash shop is 10/10

>what went wrong

Absolutely nothing retard

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> You actually believe this
> And not the dozen or so times Chris has said he wanted to slow the game down but can't

But the gameplay is shit already! So making it a little bit more shit to make the thing that the game is actually good at (build variety) actually matter is a huge step forward.

>Chris has said he wanted to slow the game down but can't
Wow, I didn't know Reddit owned Tencent.

In denial much?

Thats funny because a lot of them cant do the content either, they just have a lot of autistic party members who grind the best gear for them.

Reddit buys supporter packs.
When you're a slave to the China man you don't get to make choices when it comes to revenue.

Casuals went wrong. Reddit casuals literally direct this game now.

What gameplay? You just press one button and let your character shit out lasers every direction and clear the map for you. It's like playing one of those idle games on your phone.

The fact that they had more time to work on this league and it ended up with all the same problems of the last several leagues and several more problems really reinforces that they don't know what the fuck they're doing.

what build are you playing, because i have to press like 8 buttons

1-5 flask and 3-4 skills + constant mouse movement