Unexplained instant death in POE 2

This is definitely still happening in 0.2.0…dying out of no where fully geared up. Super annoying

This is still happening to me as well. I have no idea why I died. Sometimes I die, walk back to the location, and just die again. 1 shotted by some invisible force. No ground effects, or projectiles that I can see, or any mobs close to me. And I am pretty well geared. Decent ES, Evasion, Life with max resists.

Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the death penalty being so insane.

When my chrono-Titan still worked (before 0.2) it was much easier to diagnose these.

I believe a lot of the mystery one-shot-from-nowhere effects are graphics lag. The mob is not rendered by your graphics card (for whatever reason) and you cannot react to its approach and attack.

This happened MUCH less with Blasphemy running an 80% slow aura that reached almost the entire screen.

This happened to me just now twice in a row, my body suddenly exploded like a I stepped on a landmine, respawned then came back for it to happen again. This has happened to me many times before since launch.

I cannot tell you how frustrating this is when you are battling XP loss, start getting a decent start again to make up what you lost then die to some BS like this TWICE IN A ROW. Apparently the expedition mobs have the ability to make you spontaneously combust from the inside with no indicator.

This is even with Omen of Resurgence equipped. One step forward 15 steps backwards, I don't mind loosing all my progress but it would sure feel nice if it felt deserved sometimes.

Shame GGG are fucking retarded and don't care... This is never going to change, the game is just trash.

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Vrondhafeld#0644 wrote:

Unexplained instant death in POE 2

let me comment this: hahahahah
Critical Kill is part of PoE2 engine and GGG will never change it.

One shots are cheap, manufactured, garbage.
No matter your defensive layers, it will most likely happen.
It’s just cheap.
Then, they take your xp.
It’s almost if they don’t want more customers .

Posting some videos would help investigate the issue.
I'd say its just some invisible effects or just EA bugs, which will be fixed for sure in later patches.

Screen video recording tools are handy for this.
I would go as far as to say that they are mandatory for PoE, especially PoE2 that is in EA stage.

I myself use Steam continuous "Game Recording" of my game sessions, I have set it to keep last 2 hours (adjustable).
Easy to take clips later, very usable for analyzing both deaths and successes.
Steam in-game overlay must be enabled for it.