Dawn of the Hunt - What We’re Working On

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Large Area Sizes
Many players are reporting that areas feel like they are too large. Normally when this is the case, the main reason is due to other concerns such as monster life or player damage being incorrect, or just a lack of entertaining content in the area. However, we are checking to see if there are any outliers that players are spending too long in to see if any changes to area size need to happen.

I am concerned with the direction happening here. This issue seems so obvious to all the players, with several parts of Act 3 being notorious for being slow to get through.

Things like the checkpoint system are a band-aid fix that don't resolve the issue of the frustration you feel when you wasted 20 minutes because you went left instead of right. The backtracking certainly doesn't help, but ultimately people getting "lost" while trying to complete their next quest is the issue.

This passive tone of "We are checking to see if there are any outliers" after people have been shouting their frustrations since day 1 gives the impression that the feedback isn't being taken seriously.

I can appreciate that refactoring something like map generation in the campaign is not an easy issue to solve, but if it's this difficult to get the feedback regarding large map areas across, how are we ever gonna see the improvements we want to the Atlas, skill balance, etc?

I hope this issue legitimately makes it onto 2's roadmap while it's still Early Access. I think the areas without the issues highlight some excellent design, but the ones that are not so good need some love.

I don't expect a fix tommorow or anything, but committing to working on the issue would be a great step forward.

I already live in a dictatorship country with elections canceled and censorship, you really started to censor people everywhere??? Serious question. I'm done forever with this game!

I just wanted to escape the matrix ...back in the matrix after work and to have some fun... the f is wrong with that ?

This game now feels like it's balanced for selling P2W boosts.

If we don't see massive changes I expect to see P2W in the store at 1.0
I hope I'm wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAYRy8pWzKs
This post is meaningless, it ignores the actual issues in favor of platitudes. You can't release a game you didn't play test and then suggest terrible solutions after ignoring player feedback.

it already took to long to progress before 0.2, now its just dreadful. please fix this.

i understand its early access but if the goal is to have "huge maps" when the game is done, and you guys plan on filling that empty space with content in the future, then you guys shouldve planned ahead and made the maps smaller to compensate for the missing content at least. but even still it all feels like such a slog.

I have almost no interest in logging in and playing this version. It’s better to leave such a good “game” to you employees to play yourselves.

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RubikMonat#5137 wrote:

This game now feels like it's balanced for selling P2W boosts.

If we don't see massive changes I expect to see P2W in the store at 1.0
I hope I'm wrong.

Why would they put it in the store when they can just keep it under cover like it is now?

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thefjk#1883 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAYRy8pWzKs
This post is meaningless, it ignores the actual issues in favor of platitudes. You can't release a game you didn't play test and then suggest terrible solutions after ignoring player feedback.

this video summarizes all the people's anger, dissapointment and frustration =

I was really looking forward to testing all the new added stuff but my spark sorceress was neutered to the point of barely being able to clear t10’s. The deletion of gem locations (especially 1 to the right) hurt bad. The EB doubling costs is just asinine. I was never dominating bosses but with some work I cleared level 3 ones

I get 3 spark casts before mana is depleted and it’s just not fun anymore so I log in, check to see if anything has been reverted and log back out. It sucks

Even the original bards tale 30 odd years ago when I had to the make my own maps on graph paper since there were no in game maps was more enjoyable than this the past few days

I never posted on the forum. I already put 400 hours in POE2 and honestly loved it, even if new content was indeed needed.

However, I have to say : everything that everyone said before.

I'm still in act 2 because I can't take more than 1 or 2 hours of gameplay before realizing any game is funnier. You made me play some League of Legends games ! That should be noted, Ramonade played League of Legends Sunday the 8th of April.

ETA : If there was no update, I would've only played POE2 for a few more months still. Now I don't even know if I will reach maps, I'm taking my time hoping for changes to come asap.