Early Access Patch Notes - 0.3.0b Hotfix 2 - Forum

" DisposableHeero#1679 wrote: " Dâgon#5163 wrote: Why does it feel like the frozen mandibles are allot less aggressive? Yesterday they ran out ahead murdering stuff where as today they are hiding behind me. This is the effect of the speed aura I believe. They still wander ahead and move towards enemies, but they leash back closer I suspect due to lower movement speed. I suspect at endgame when stacking spirit cost efficiency, since we have a lot more sources of that now, it will be possible to run a decent muster setup with a companion with a haste aura, at least on an infernalist who can get a very large spirit pool which should return this behavior to how it felt before. It will be a much longer journey than it was before however. There was nothing from a balance perspective wrong with having an 84 spirit cost minion that provided a 25% movement speed and attack speed aura. That is a substantial spirit investment and the moth did not have a strong stat block on its own for its spirit cost. Units like that with interesting auras and abilities should be something you can get with specters, it makes for deeper and more interesting build design and gives that catching a rare pokemon feeling when building up your character when you go out and get that special ingredient for your build. My suggestion to GGG would be to add some interesting minion auras as lineage supports in a future patch. A lineage support gem with a flat spirit cost of 35-45 spirit that gave the minion a haste aura would make a fantastic chase item for minion players. Well, they have less HP and the charge/leap ability is missing. These were not hidden modifiers so clearly they're not being 100% transparent in their patch notes. It's just sad how they disregard popular broken builds and decimate niche ones like this that weren't even broken to begin with.	Posted by Curike#1050 on Sep 4, 2025, 11:17:40 AM Quote this Post
how was the Navali Hideout NPC glitch not part of this patch	Posted by breakya#9727 on Sep 4, 2025, 11:18:47 AM Quote this Post
Game keeps crashing for me(and for a lot of my friends)... It's been an issue since poe2 start. It's also the only game that crashes for me so I know it's not on my end. The client Freezes and then it gives me the option to close or wait for program to resume but it never does so I have to close, reopen and hope it doesn't crash again for the next 30mins (which it always does). I know it's still in early access but please fix the non-stop crashes before doing another big beta patch lol. It's not worth anything when the game just crashes continuously. This is beyond frustrating at this point... Last edited by Pearleem#3191 on Sep 4, 2025, 11:41:02 AM	Posted by Pearleem#3191 on Sep 4, 2025, 11:38:15 AM Quote this Post
YO FIX RAPID CASTING 3 PLEASE! STOP IGNORING IT!!!!	Posted by TheLaststand97#2608 on Sep 4, 2025, 11:39:43 AM Quote this Post
" Since the new patch, I keep getting "please restart your game for the update" but no patch downloads and I can't play :'(((( I too am having this problem. Tried a few things: - restart steam - manually validate files - restart the game (obviously) Nothing. I'm in an update loop. 1. Launch game. 2. Login screen says you need to restart to apply patch 3. Close game 4. Steam downloads something (like 100 kb or something incredibly small) and then does a verify that takes like 5-10 minutes 5. Game relaunches 6. Go to #2 EDIT: I got mine to work. I checked for a steam app update, and there was one so I restarted. Then after that I changed my "download region" under settings to a different city by me. Then I manually did a scan of the game files. Not sure if this had nothing to do with it all, but I'm not able to login and play. Last edited by StarScream159#5793 on Sep 4, 2025, 12:22:58 PM	Posted by StarScream159#5793 on Sep 4, 2025, 11:44:46 AM Quote this Post
" reagan247#2008 wrote: There are 12 pages here telling you to equip and cast that. IT IS THE FROZEN MANDIBLE, they just didn't "fix" the name in the hotfix. There was a slight nerf to their damage. It is noticeable. But size, shape, color, etc. they are just called "nettle ant" on the spirit gem. Actually I can't even bind them anymore. If I equip a bind spectre skill, when I kill him I see it on the ground for 99 spirit. When I click to bind,it deleted the body and my skill gem still a basic gem. I did this 4 times now, resetting the instance I still can't get it to even bind the spectre now	Posted by Malejas#1960 on Sep 4, 2025, 11:51:31 AM Quote this Post
" Dâgon#5163 wrote: Why does it feel like the frozen mandibles are allot less aggressive? Yesterday they ran out ahead murdering stuff where as today they are hiding behind me. THIS. People coping its because we lost haste aura. I did not use the haste spectre before this hotfix, and they are definitely more passive. Most of the time they just stand by me, only attack when im about to get slapped.	Posted by jimbe4mXL#6156 on Sep 4, 2025, 12:05:33 PM Quote this Post
I got my ants back, thank you! I think the AI is just as aggressive as before, they're just not quite as fast without the haste buff, which is totally fine!	Posted by greefum#2270 on Sep 4, 2025, 12:16:13 PM Quote this Post
I lost the connection in the alien copy. I can log in to the character interface but can't enter the game.	Posted by 123zhoujiawei#7321 on Sep 4, 2025, 12:24:40 PM Quote this Post
Can we get Aftershocks enabled on Forge Hammer while we're addressing Forge Hammer bugs? Thnx	Posted by Orion121#7739 on Sep 4, 2025, 12:48:43 PM Quote this Post