Incline Path of Exile II - early access begins December 6th

[tritosine2k]

Now you can REALLY cradle all those Shaper balls, exiles!

This visceral trope overdose would even make Cliffy B proud.

 

[ArchAngel]

Unless they completely fuck up todays presentation there will be lots of money coming into GGG pockets between today and 6th of December.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Twitch live is on, but Blizzard is DDoSing the transmission
https://www.twitch.tv/pathofexile

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

Their servers have always been run by maori haka singers

 

[ADL]

Even though endgame footage has tons of enemy density and attacks going off, it retains visual clarity. Really happy with this footage.

 

[sebas]

Did..did I see that right, a P2W chest that spawns uniques for you?!

 

[ArchAngel]

Even though endgame footage has tons of enemy density and attacks going off, it retains visual clarity. Really happy with this footage.

I would not agree, many spells shown still have over the top effects but the more worring thing shown is clearing whole screens fast not that much different than PoE1.
It seems GGG caved to complainers.

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

A reliquary, it's already in PoE 1. The way it works is:
1) folks who spent lots of money decide what kind of items can show up in this thing
2) you find an item, while playing, that drops just like any other item, of a type "vault key"
3) you stick it up in your map device, you go to an area with no enemies and just a single chest
4) you click the chest, a foil version (fancy animation on top of) random unique out of the pool set up by the rich folks drops for you. Enjoy your Foil Obliteration.

 

[Baron Dupek]

I might miss something, but did they said the atlas map is infinite?
Because the - much simpler - Delve map starts lagging like hell at some point.

 

[tritosine2k]

Even though endgame footage has tons of enemy density and attacks going off, it retains visual clarity. Really happy with this footage.

Dude you shouldn't really compare even >10mbps geforce NOW video feed let alone yt or twitch.

Hate to be a buzzkill but this stuff lol, imagine waiting for this. Youd be better off with mobile port of 1 because theyd need to use 4x MSAA and optimize it to hell and back instead you got this consolitis.

 

[Israfael]

I might miss something, but did they said the atlas map is infinite?

Looks like that, they even said something like 'biome' which exists only in the context of delve. Actually feels deeply satisfying that they are corralling everyone into sanctum and ultimatum, people gotta suffer

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

I hope the Sanctum mechanic will be more inclusive. Last time in PoE 1 I played, anything that wasn't totems or mines just sucked for it due to the honour mechanic.
Ultimatum seems ok and better suited for a large variety of builds.
Don't forget there will be a third ascendancy mechanic in full game. Hopefully it's delve, because wtf no delve in this game...

I don't think the infinite atlas map would be a problem. Contrary to delve, the map doesn't translate to continuous dungeon with tiles etc. So the memory requirements for atlas should be way less. When does the delve map start lagging for you? I usually go to between 600-1000 depth and no slowness there.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Fucking finally, contextual tooltips is a game changer. Hope they actually keep them updated.

 

[Turisas]

I hope the Sanctum mechanic will be more inclusive.

It will be overtuned as hell at first, then they'll bring it down some when the screeching on reddit reaches critical levels.

 

[CountNemo]

Did..did I see that right, a P2W chest that spawns uniques for you?!

no ofc not lmao

 

[made]

I just splurged on the 60$ supporter pack because HYPE! Can't wait to play this after watching the announcement. Threw me back to the early days of POE1 when everything was new and exciting. Looks like they got rid of some most annoying mechanics and streamlined at the right places like socket coloring and links while retaining complexity and customization and improving loot.

I haven't been active in POE1 much in recent years so I'm unbiased towards new trials and league mechanics but we'll find out soon enough.

NO SALVATION WITHOUT SACRIFICE!

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

Surprised they have endgame they did well on that, now let's see progression and if they wage war on data mining for years and years like they did the previous game.

 

[ArchAngel]

I just splurged on the 60$ supporter pack because HYPE! Can't wait to play this after watching the announcement. Threw me back to the early days of POE1 when everything was new and exciting. Looks like they got rid of some most annoying mechanics and streamlined at the right places like socket coloring and links while retaining complexity and customization and improving loot.

I haven't been active in POE1 much in recent years so I'm unbiased towards new trials and league mechanics but we'll find out soon enough.

NO SALVATION WITHOUT SACRIFICE!

It is going to be a completely different game than PoE1. PoE1 has two clear stages, before and after Path of Building.
And needing to play PoE2 without new version of Path of Building is going to make it completely different game.