POE2 isn't "Hard." It's unfun.

Title is correct. Game ain't fun. Played about 2h and I'm struggling to find motivation to continue. It just doesn't feel right. No drops. Wasd is complete trash, you can't move correctly by using W+A and attack with Q. There's no enough fingers simply. Lots of things I don't like in PoE2...

If this is the future of PoE I'll be very sad. PoE was the best game ever for me. I sank thousands of hours into it and I don't see my self doing the same with PoE2.
If they neglect PoE1 I guess that will be the end of my journey here. PoE2 doesn't seem like a game for me sadly.
Like any Souls-like game, the difficulty boils down to timing your dodges correctly. It's just boring
that's the impression i've gotten from watching the streams, very tedious very slow.

people trying hard to enjoy this lol it's funny
I started playing POE because the game made you feel powerful. It was fast paced and sheer the destruction outshined any game on the market. A ton of different builds to play, speed running maps was really fun.

I've played POE2 to the point my eyes are bleeding and how slow everything is right now, It's boring. Nothing feels powerful, no destruction on par with the previous game. None of the classes out now are useful. Builds no matter how you stack it play different; it's all the same underwhelming gameplay.

I feel like this game went backwards in gameplay. I'll go back to POE until this mess gets fixed. Great potential, but wrong direction.



I love it, All of it!
Would you like a stamina bar as well? This isn't dark souls, not even close.

The problem I currently have is that the enemies are very fast at stock speed and some of them can fly/jump and block you off.

The teleport reservation seems almost mandatory later.
I am enjoying PoE2 over POE and just due to you being able to dodge a lot or have to dodge doesnt make this feel like Dark Souls at all lol
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Played all day yesterday and this morning. Tried several classes, respeced for more defense, shield, health, offense, everything.

It would be one thing if the game gradually progressed in challenge in a fun way. It would even be OK if as you approached end game there were tiers of encounters that really pushed even the most professional full time gamer to the limits.

If I couldn't defeat that content, I would at least still have a lot of game that I could play instead. This game starts you out on a mission to punish from moment one. It's not fun.

I am sick to death of every game trying to be dark souls. I've heard people saying that POE1 was "hard" in the beginning. First of all, no it wasn't - not like this. I wanted a game the felt like an evolution of POE1 or ARPGS in general. This has totally transformed it into the kind of game that is NEVER fun for me to play, and excludes me from enjoying the game at all.

I'm just gutted. It's such a disappointment.


absolutly 100% correct
This is concerning, it seems to follow the trend of the updates in PoE 1 campaign. Its a slog at the best of times but its just something you have to go through to get to the end game. Also concerning is a lot of the feedback from "boss" fights. There are several I really don't like. Some are have terrible visuals and some have bad visuals mixed with mechanics that you need to be able to see.

Early Access is just the first three acts, maybe the end game will be worth it. Maybe make the first three acts more engaging and fun. Add some loot so you can start crafting. Like a lot of crafting, don't be stingy with crafting currency like in PoE 1.
This is not a successor to poe1, they should have given this a different name.
The movement in this game is slow and janky. The attacks are all so slow, delayed and weak. The combo system is awkward, slow, sluggish and very janky.
You are constantly on the run because enemies just swarm you with super speed.

EVEN THE DODGE ROLL IS SLOW, COVERS TOO SHORT OF A DISTANCE AND FEELS SLUGGISH.

Maps are massive with multiple objectives and if you complete one you have to do the entire map again to find the second.

Everything is like wading through molasses. Maybe this was the vision of Jonathan but it certainly is not my vision as a poe player or an arpg fan.

My friend wants to play and i find myself dreading the thought of logging in. The game is horrible in every single way.
Last edited by Chimmy81#7163 on Dec 8, 2024, 6:25:29 AM

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