One Death Maps is a monumental failure.

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Yes. When it receives such overwhelming backlash from the playerbase. That's the definition of arrogance actually yes. And many game devs fall victim to this ego pitfall. I've seen it happen many times in many games to the detriment of the game, the community and the company.

Anyone who is talking down their nose at the very many people raising the concern about the one death maps and ridiculous 1HKO mechanics is probably playing an Energy Shield meta-slave build and not even engaging with 99% of the mechanics that are the reason people are coming to this forum and voicing their opinions. It's really hilarious. People are coming in and saying the steak is undercooked consistently, this is not a good steak, we came for a good steak, and all these people keep taking a break from eating their sushi to tell you no, there's nothing wrong with the steak, we're all eating steak the wrong way (lmao).

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ac429#4687 wrote:

Tbh, I love 1 death maps. It kind of forces me to manage my risk, which is really fun for me. If anything, I think it's time to do away with the 10% exp penalty. The exp penalty in PoE1 was to have some kind of penalty for over-reaching. I think PoE2 has an even better map failure penalty, so it no longer needs the exp loss. This is a good way PoE2 can differentiate itself from 1.

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litler#9087 wrote:

I too clear whole screens using a build I made myself on my Monk and kill bosses extremely quickly, and dodge 99% of hits with an almost 100% uptime on my power charges but I still die to ridiculous 1HKO stuff that is impossible to detect properly and if you think that isn't a serious problem with the game right now then you're just being a typical forum contrarian who wants to make themselves seem better than they really are.

The game is full of this, denying it makes you look like a fool.

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litler#9087 wrote:

Lmao, it's clearly not a minority of people that are feeling this way, in fact the minority is clearly in the camp that says that One Death Maps with the current iteration of mapping is fine. It's not. Everyone I've spoken to hates it. Every. Single. Person. Funnily enough, the only people that never seem to hate it are the ones that come into threads like this to defend it and talk down at those who are raising valid complaints. Honestly, I find it suspicious, but at the least, you're shouting into a void when you tell me this because I will just not be replying to a single other person that tries to tell me that this isn't a problem, when I could go to twitter, youtube, the steam reviews or facebook or instagram and peruse the comment reply section for anything PoE2 related and immediately find yet another person or group of persons complaining about the One Death Map bullshit.

It's laughable that you would deny that reality.

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GnMQDMLmWZ#3336 wrote:

If you force me to deal with this current, terrible iteration of the system, I and tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of other people, here in the forums and all across various forums of social media and in the steam review section etc., will continue to complain.

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Z3RoNightMare#7140 wrote:

Can we just drop the pretense that one portal is nothing more than Hardcore mechanics bleeding more and more into Softcore because GGG doesn't know how to actually balance the game, in addition to the benefit of wasting more of your time artificially?

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