Incline Path of Exile 2 - now available on Early Access

[lukaszek]

Never to early to teach your kids to aurabot for you

wife wont be happy

 

[Ismaul]

Also them removing extra flask is 100% to make it better for controller players.

I hate controllers like the plague and the decline they bring to PC games, but in this case I think it's just the addition of WASD.

Same fingers used at the same time for skills, movement, piano flasking and dickstroking, it's getting a bit much, y'know?

In PoE1, despite no WASD movement, everyone was already finding ways to circumvent flasking reactively by pressing them all blindly, using flask sticks, or macros. So much that GGG added the flask enchantments to automate their use, and despite that Mageblood is the #1 unique because it removes the need to flask manually and just gives you the buffs. At this point, there's a clear design issue.

 

[ADL]

Yeah playing piano with flasks was dumb and it speaks volumes that mageblood is the most valuable unique in the game and the goal of current poe1 flask crafting is to automate it as much as possible. No one liked it. The charms we've seen are significant and more than make up for the loss of utility flasks.

 

[blessed king of longing]

Yeah playing piano with flasks was dumb and it speaks volumes that mageblood is the most valuable unique in the game and the goal of current poe1 flask crafting is to automate it as much as possible. No one liked it. The charms we've seen are significant and more than make up for the loss of utility flasks.

i quit before flasks were automated, what a bizarre design choice, truly. never would have thought that was in the cards

>we made the game play itself bruh

 

[Ismaul]

i quit before flasks were automated, what a bizarre design choice, truly.

RSI mah nigga

People were optimising flasks for constant uptime, rather than using them in critical moments or reactively as they were originally intended. In such a case where they've become permanent buffs, pressing them is just busywork to maintain uptime, so it becomes pointless to have them manually activatable, not a meaningful gameplay mechanic. So the devs gave the option to automate the flasks, and choosing the trigger for automation. But you can still press them if you want, or forgo automation for increased flask effects.

It is a patch to a broken system, admittedly. But PoE2 seems like it fixes it, by moving the power granted by PoE1 flasks back into skills, and keeping flasks and charms as reactive defense tools.

 

[Caim]

This looks interesting, but I'm wainting to get in until after the release because A: I want to know just how many skeletons you can throw at your enemies and B: never buy day one.

 

[Turisas]

Yeah playing piano with flasks was dumb

Everyone just used a flask macro.

 

[Perkel]

I hope they will up the campaign difficulty a lot compared to POE1. Some of the interviews gave an idea that it plays more like Elden Ring aka boss might be early and kill you easily so here you have those "optional areas to do". Who knows how much of it is actually true...

 

[frajaq]

I hope they will up the campaign difficulty a lot compared to POE1. Some of the interviews gave an idea that it plays more like Elden Ring aka boss might be early and kill you easily so here you have those "optional areas to do". Who knows how much of it is actually true...

some of the early boss fights looked very deadly from previews, way harder than something like Vaal Oversoul from Act 2

 

[lukaszek]

some of the early boss fights looked very deadly from previews, way harder than something like Vaal Oversoul from Act 2

what about 2 vaal oversouls

 

[Jaedar]

some of the early boss fights looked very deadly from previews, way harder than something like Vaal Oversoul from Act 2

what about 2 vaal oversouls

I tend to find that any character that can kill Atziri will stomp the dual oversoul with no sweat.

 

[Perkel]

some of the early boss fights looked very deadly from previews, way harder than something like Vaal Oversoul from Act 2

I can't see without playing if those people suck ass or it is actually hard.
Vall Oversoul in ACT2 has such easy movement set that you can fight it blind.

Weirdly we are yet to see any magic/rare monster from what i have seen footage. In one interview Jonathan said that "rare" monsters will actually be rare. They will be more like POE1 unique map monsters than normal "rare". They also seems to reuse some of monsters from later acts as early game "rare" creating that proper progression ladder to feel. Kind of like in Dark Souls Capra is a boss but later on is a mob.

 

[lukaszek]

some of the early boss fights looked very deadly from previews, way harder than something like Vaal Oversoul from Act 2

what about 2 vaal oversouls

I tend to find that any character that can kill Atziri will stomp the dual oversoul with no sweat.

ggg seem to like bullet hell and then obfuscate it with dragonball effects on the screen.
From valid ones, I considered hardest to be that vaal boss from delve

 

[frajaq]

Fucking fextralife releasing a video with waaaay too much details than he should have shown lmao

 

[Berekän]

I thought I would be able to resist until it leaves early access but the closer the 6th is getting the harder it is to resist.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Fucking fextralife

Why giive Fextralife a review copy of all places
Also they sure don't need any more hype than this.

 

[Baron Dupek]

if anyone is curious about his video there's a backup
the whole drama - lamao what a way to start (and end) the weekend...

 

[Perkel]

I thought I would be able to resist until it leaves early access but the closer the 6th is getting the harder it is to resist.

There is nothing to resist. It is 1.0. EE is just a way for them to release 1.0 without completed campaign and get better reviews later.

Daily reminder that POE 1.0 released with 3 acts as well and maps endgame.

 

[lukaszek]

if anyone is curious about his video there's a backup
the whole drama - lamao what a way to start (and end) the weekend...

is that drama about the number of pixels?

 

[Perkel]

if anyone is curious about his video there's a backup
the whole drama - lamao what a way to start (and end) the weekend...

is that drama about the number of pixels?

Drama because someone favorite nigger streamer didn't receive early early access to play game but instead some random dude did.

Yes this is exactly as retarded as you think.

 

[tritosine2k]

Snippets: "dark souls rpgs", "incredible blend" , "controller was a revelation"

"Couch coop", "dethrone diablo"

"ggg best in business"

Soy

 

[ArchAngel]

Snippets: "dark souls rpgs", "incredible blend" , "controller was a revelation"

"Couch coop", "dethrone diablo"

"ggg best in business"

Soy

Nothing he said is untrue and we will see the part about dethroning D2 but it is possible.

 

[tritosine2k]

it is possible.

FYI what's possible, the guy talks in "sound bites" and its a word salad.

 

[GrainWetski]

Melee still bad, it seems.

I wouldn't take gamepad or pre-release gameplay very seriously when trying to judge anything.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

If there is somebody who can sell me a cheaper key I would really appreciate.