3.28 - first impressions

Atlas rework is something that actively pushes me away from this game.

I understand innovation or experiments, but this aint it. The UX of this change is TERRIBLE. Everything is needlessly small yet large (atlas is huge, icons are small). Clickable elements are barely visible and almost outside the viewport. The entire ordeal of 'picking any map you want' works only for T16. if you want to experiment in T5s, you have to unsocket your waystone and pick one out of ~7 layouts that are not terrible. Wanna change map tier? juggle stuff again

old system was elegant, self-explanatory and time proven - this one requires a youtube video or reddit post to understand fully. i guess it is better when unveiled on the go. but as a stand-alone product - it is not good.

i never expected to quit POE because of such seemingly minor thing - yet I am actually repulsed by the sloppiness of this new atlas implementation


The launch fiasco caused by MTX is yet another reason to have a global setting to disable MTX in towns. it will never happen, because it affects sales, but still


New skills are.. quite interesting. Holy Hammer is absurdly flashy, Shock Nova is bonkers and Holy skills in general are a closure for Templar archetype. I think that this patch the problem is in what hasnt been done - KF needed a nerf/fix to how it interacts with duration. One minor caveat - Holy minion skills build the same and gear the same. It is on-rails setup with very few moving parts.

+1 regarding bad atlas

+1

The loading times for all towns, and, more importantly to me, the heist base, are really bad. Doing something about this would make the game feel so much better.

And the worst thing are those infuriating trumpets. Nothing breaks immersion to the extend they do. This game seriously needs a setting to MUTE the sound effects of other players' cosmetic items (separate from the audio you need to know that a boss mechanic is being cast).