Path of Exile 2: A Frustrating Disappointment

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Sirius_Man#0785 wrote:

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Knuk#4425 wrote:

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Andalha#6923 wrote:

You're on the forums, maybe read some of them and take the people at their word?

This game is heavily RNG based and unbalanced. Are your 2 guys meta builds? Are you getting consistent currency drops or valuable items? If either of those questions is a yes, then you're obviously not going to see the issues everyone else is having. Not running a meta build means you're dying way more often, even if your stats are great. Not getting currency or valuable items means upgrading stats is painfully slow, so progress stalls. I shouldn't grind 30+ maps with only a meager pittance of currency to show for it.

The game isn't for everyone, because only some people are feeling rewarded for playing it. The rest of us are feeling fucked over, and when we come to the forums to voice our concerns, we're just told to "git guud" or "im not having any problem, must be skill issue"

You must not be grinding effectively. When my wife and I grind juicy breaches we are dropping 10 to 15 div in 1 to 1.5 hrs. And when I'm solo I grind ritual. Yesturday I made 50 div in 4 hrs of ritual. Games to easy honestly. Ppl just playing it wrong.

That's not the case for the majority playing the game right now.

How much did you spend for your Build? a few hundred Divine?

Most people like you use RMT to buy the Divines to make your builds like the streamers and sharks do, it's so common and than you people come on the forums and state their is nothing wrong, game is great, blah, blah, blah..

Yeah, I bet it's fun when you have a big enough bank account to fund your in game adventures and gear requirements like Elon XD..

What ? People are playing the game better than you, without issues, so they have to be cheating ??? Bruh, are you sure about that ? Are you, like, the best player in the universe to make such statement ?

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Lynnwaisse#4198 wrote:

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Yeah you dummies. Just grind the same mechanic all day every day so you can play the game. LOL

And another one comes: u are playing grinding game with a core mech of GRINDING.
You cry, because u have to grind meta strats in GRINDING game.

Just perfect logic ))))

I'm not grinding anything. As soon as I figured out the only way you can play this game past act 2 is holding down 1 button while drooling on yourself I uninstalled. Maybe this game will be good in 12 months but right now its

A W F U L

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Smallpox74#1013 wrote:

The game is a disappointment to me too. I strongly suspect that a lot of people that are in endgame now actually cheated or profiteered off of cheaters/dupers. Those who just want to play the game, have to face a difficulty curve based on exploitive builds and underhanded trading rather than on hard work and skill. This "Meta" gameplay is boring as hell. There are builds that either have a 1 button set up or those builds that do not require you to hit any buttons at all. I do not see how this would be fun for anyone. This is not skill, it is bad design. The developers either are sleeping at the wheel, or they are making the game to cater to those that want cookie cutter uber builds requiring no skill. It is sad that ARPGs are turning into this. There is no reward in this game for pursuing a non-exploitive build. Never mind Solo self found, it is a grueling, slogging, unrewarding horrible experience. I feel sorry to those who think they are some sort of leet gamer. Feeling good about using some of these builds when in fact they are just copying someone else. Cookie cutter role playing game.

Pretty much this. The campaign was a blast and I felt like it took skill having to dodge roll effectively while combining different attacks. T15 endgame forced me to use a boring 1 click build to avoid 1 shots, which still happened with bosses or walking through a narrow passage as a mob stacks spells that were unavoidable.

The frustration and boredom of late end game just started outweighing the addictive gameplay. Kind of reminds me of when I quit smoking, eventually the morning flem and price were just too much to justify the dopamine hits

I just fought the Arbiter of Ash, and honestly, this fight is a joke!! Not only did I lose 50% of my EXP after five deaths, but the mechanics are completely over the top.

The corridor, in particular, is the last straw. I gave it my best shot, but at this point, they’re straight-up mocking us with this kind of design!

That’s it, I’m done. I’m moving on. Thanks, GGG, but this game is definitely not for me.

It's just frustration after frustration, there’s no fun left. If things change, I might come back, but as it stands, no thanks.

I agree completely. The only plus for me is the combat system. It's really good. But other than that, the worst of all games out there. It gets me so frustrated that I have to walk away to stop myself from deleting my account just to keep this frustration from happening again. Maybe I should just delete it and be done with this terrible experience. Putting in balance the bad vs the good ... I am not sure it's worth it. The experience loss it's beyond frustrating.

I like the difficulty, I would not change much, maybe the atlas passives meaning should be more strict in maps. Like decreasing the map boss difficulty should be strict. IF I specifically decrease the difficulty, that setting meaning should be very strict in the map. While getting away from trouble in combat with regular and rare mobs can be difficult, it's possible to do so, but not on boss. You cannot abandon boss fight or exit the arena, making the atlas passives on boss difficulty very important. I feel like these settings are ignored at times. Or the range between too easy and too difficult it's too large!

The experience loss it's too painful ... And I feel like the closer you get to leveling up (at level 96) the more aggressive the mobs are. As I said above, atlas passives seem to be ignored when the player gets close to level up. Is pushing ppl to quit playing the game part of the strategy here? It's been consistent this experience, where the boss difficulty feels different the closer you get to leveling up.

SSF

I have a fair amount of experience with the game now.

Campaign is awesome. Could be improved of course, theres a ton of basic stuff that could be shored up; but its good, difficult, fun.

The later you get into the game, the more is slows down, the more problems start to show up. This steadily gets worse and worse until endgame.

Endgame is trash. It doesn't really make sense with the story of the game, the plot is lost, so then I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing. It gets insanely repetitive and things start to not even make sense.

Such as a tier map.

So a tier 1 can be white, blue, yellow upto 6 mod. Those are all tier 1... ehhhh, nah. lol

Conceptually from step one, I'm immediately wondering whats going on. Diablo was not that way at all. Is it a better game, nah, but was it a clearer game- oh by far.

Alters are explained, kinda, honestly not really. Like, those are where you can get omens and currency. What the fuck is an omen, oh right- yeah those just all of a sudden appear. Which also means theres no sort of guidance or anything regarding crafting.

Seriously, play the whole game. Does the game ever introduce currency and how it works? They introduce how to equip gear, lol. No one really needs that, but currency and crafting would be interesting.

Even if you could just hover the currency in your stash and it explained what it does, you know, like everything else in the game?

Its just weird.

“The Game of Nothingness”
All you get is a waste of time.

Playing through every season is a waste of life.
It’s wiser to play only the good seasons where GGG messed up.

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D_pc#7480 wrote:

“The Game of Nothingness”
All you get is a waste of time.

Playing through every season is a waste of life.
It’s wiser to play only the good seasons where GGG messed up.

And how exactly is a good season not "a waste of time"?

Cry babies. Nobody forces you all to play the game you dont like. I like poe2 and its my forever game so far, high hopes it stays this way. I have thousands of hours in it. I dont like Fortnite for example, do you see me whining in their forums about it? Probably not.
Complaining about experience loss in a league where you can level up from 60 to 98 in a matter of 2 hrs is literally the dumbest thing ever... Ever heard of Omen of Amelioration? Or actually interacting with the league mechanic?
I cant believe some people think their opinion matters more than others... you are just a number here, wake up. Just a reminder, your progress after next league starts is not lost, it is being moved to Standard League, where it can wait for the actual game launch.... oh yeah, and there's the early access thing...

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Bugs and Terrible Performance
Despite years of development, the game is riddled with bugs. Frequent crashes, broken skill interactions, and connection issues make the experience incredibly frustrating. On top of that, optimization is terrible—even with a high-end PC, FPS drops are common, and loading times are abnormally long.

3770K with gtx960 here
game run like a charm - especually after 0.4 they really did something to skyrocket performance (in my case)

sounds like your Nvidia settings are broken or set to Global
instead of PoE2.exe specific ones.

there is a few good videos on YT in regards NV optimizations that REALLY helped me from day1 & every update game just runs better on same set

Lock your FPS would be step1 - everything else follows accordingly

dunno man,

EXP loss is a bitch - YET Diablo 2 the godfather of ARPGS had exp loss that is FAAAAAAAAAAR more punishing at higher level (epecually in clasic) without any aids like Omens of Refreshment or Omen of EXP loss

Sounds to me like you are not using entire tool-set the game provides you before getting frustrated.

in reality U only loose 25% exp with Omen - instead of full 100%