Some feedback from my PS5 playthroughs

Hi, experienced POE player (PC) and wanted to try POE2 on PS5 as I thought it looked fun. A few things that I wanted to point out:

1. The volume of the cinematics that play between acts is SO LOUD. Everything else feels pretty reasonable in terms of volume ranges, but these really stick out and should probably be turned down a bit.

2. The trailer autoplays every time the game starts. It's skippable, but it's a bit annoying. Could this be changed to only play the first time the game is started? Maybe a menu option?

3. Socketing jewels and moving them around on the tree feels pretty janky. I wanted to remove a jewel from my tree to craft it, and the only way that I could figure out to move it into my inventory was to pick it up from the tree and then hit cancel. It would be nice if there was a button prompt that displayed for this.

4. I'm sure that a lot of people have made these same complaints, but in terms of balancing it feels like there's a massive difficulty spike when you get to Utzaal (past version). On one of my characters I ended up in a position where it feels like I'm not strong enough to progress through Utzaal, and the only other thing I have to do (besides going back and grinding in a random zone) is my second ascendancy, which also feels extremely rough right now.

5. This is specific to Blood Mage, but I've seen a ton of feedback that is split between people saying that blood mage is terrible early/bricks your character and others saying it's fine. I'm pretty sure that this is entirely down to the fact that life remnants spawn on kill or on crit, and the people having a rough time probably aren't playing builds that crit frequently. If you wanted to make the ascendancy less narrow and more beginner friendly, it might make sense to find another trigger condition for life remnants.
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