Dawn of the Hunt - What We’re Working On

If the "vision" is the hill you guys are willing to die on to kill your game. That's your choice, bury that grave deeper then.

No waystones T15 in the endgame maps as mentioned in the patch list. 1st day it was working. but not since yesterday , wtf ggg ?

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..Normally when this is the case, the main reason is due to other concerns such as monster life or player damage being incorrect, or just a lack of entertaining content in the area.

What ?
This is the stupidest sentence I've read recently.

Everyone is acting like their hair is on fire, but the game is fine. It does desperately need some tweaks around the margins though.

Items

Nerf weapons some and put more power into the passive tree or skill gems. This would serve to bring the floor up and I'm 100% positive that is why we're seeing a giant amount of variance in the feedback between the people who have gotten gear or know how to obtain it and those who don't. It's too skewed right now.

In PoE1, you can get through almost the entire campaign with a new weapon base and whetstone recipe, or by getting more supports because support gems give you a vast amount of power. I appreciate PoE2 is making non-damage supports a valid option, but you've removed too many ways of scaling that isn't items, especially early on.


Zones

It's quite obvious where the outliers are if you are actually playing the game. Act 3, especially basically every zone in the 2nd half of it, feels way too large. It's a combination number of monsters, lack of interesting things to find, poor signposting and map discoverability radius (it's easy to miss an exit and spend the next 20 minutes wandering around) and yes.. sheer size. I don't know how you can look at Utzaal and go "yeah this is fun and a reasonable size."

I would really like to see the damage output from parrying on huntress and using it for combos to be buffed a lot as presently the pay off is not worth the set up. The constant light stun from mobs is infuriating. I'm ending up spamming rake in campaign atm and it's not really what I want to be doing but the combos are simply not worth it atm.

The huntresses melee skills should feel chunky and strong and the in and out gameplay should be STRONG. But right now it's not feeling good enough. I really like the concept and hope you improve it.

So, everything fine as is in this great sequel, so you can work on the original again, right?
Jokes aside, I did not expect much from this 4-month patch, but this is a disaster.
And while I am here for long enough to remember the past, this is absurd.
At this point, just rename this nonPoE sequel and keep PoE as is.
Time to wake up, just like ruthless, noone wants this.
Enough of this vision, time to act wisely.

I like the parry mechanic but it feels way to clunky. It needs some aoe range so it "catches" some hits, otherwise moving slightly causes mob attacks to just miss and you end up standing there like an idiot.

The game feels so uncomfortable to play, it's really disgusting. And after many hours of struggling in campaign where I barely took any critical damage I was insta killed when opening essence with skill that has no indicator and was cast literaly at me. I'm done with this, Last Epoch let's go.

Genuine question, I don't know if you guys respond. If you feel one of the reasons for large maps not feeling good is lack of content, why not make the maps smaller until there actually is content? Also many places have an absurd amount of dead ends (such as caves, Act III areas). Will you add checkpoints to all dead ends? Or maybe a "No outlet" sign please?

The zones are 100% oversized. It is not the monster life the zones are just tediously too big. No direction or signs where to find the point of interests (zone boss) or anything.

Huntress skills have the same issue as every other attack based skills. It is a pain to level because the skills don't scale with level or gem lv it scales based on weapon which you won't be able to upgrade every 2 levels and you don't have currency to craft anything. Like from what are we supposed to craft from? Dropped 1 exalted in entire act1.

Entirety of acts need to be made easier and faster. The hardest part of the game is literally act 1. Why? The game should be easy starting off getting people hooked but they hate the game from the start because of how rippy and slow it is. The game should progressively get harder as it goes not super hard instantly. Honestly nobody is interested in souls like "let's try to kill every boss 20 times". Nah we are good people just going to alt f4 if they can't kill a boss in 2-3 tries.

Entire zone respawn upon death is probably one of the worst decision you guys ever made. This is not good. If we die we are already pissed that we have to run again nobody want to reclear the same route again and again.

My problem is that these issues existed back in december. People's feedback did not matter at all.