Negative points About 0.3 - Probably quitting till next season :)
Feedback on Path of Exile 2: Season 0.3
Hello, I'd like to share my feedback on POE2 for this 0.3 season. I started playing POE with the second game and I understand that the game is in Early Access. I have a little over 1000 hours on Steam and I come here every season to share some thoughts. Negative Points Bugs: This season has been a buggy mess for me, something I didn't experience in 0.1 or 0.2. Honestly, I'm quitting the game right now because of one specific bug. I even died while the game was paused and I was alone on the map! Every two maps, my game freezes and it's like a reload happens. The gears spin infinitely on a black screen until the game finally returns. I've already formatted my computer. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, a 4060, and 32GB of RAM. My internet connection is 1Gbps. I've changed my DNS, my IPV4/6 protocols, and even subscribed to Exitlag to change my routing, but none of these solutions worked. This happens all the time and I no longer want to play a game that is this buggy. It's incredibly frustrating when you're in the middle of a breach, delirium, or a boss fight, and your game just stops out of nowhere. Sometimes you return to find yourself dead, losing XP and the map. Abyss: The Abyss is an incredible mechanic, but I've consistently gotten stuck on the Abyss boss. The boss dies, but doesn't drop loot. The room won't let me leave, I can't teleport to another player, and I can't exit through my portal. I lose the boss key and have to wait 15 minutes outside the game to get back to my hideout. Lack of Testing: I can't shake the feeling that this patch was NOT tested. To me, it feels like it was literally released just to farm money since they took the time to design new skins and skill effects. The patch has bugs from the beginning to the end game that are obvious to everyone. If a dev had tested the game for at least ten hours, they would have seen several of them. Inaccessible End-Game Maps: Even when you meet the prerequisites to unlock maps or have the necessary items in your inventory, like the "idol," the map simply fails to open and you can't enter. Final Thoughts I KNOW the game isn't ready and is in Early Access, but it's frustrating that in addition to paying to play the Early Access, many of our feedbacks are simply ignored. GGG's communication is poor, really poor. We go weeks with a bug and there's no official statement, not even a note saying, "we're aware of this." We PAY to test the game, we don't get anything in return, and we're often treated like "noobs" by Jonathan himself, who at various times seems to mock the community's concerns when he talks about the game. I think before I stress myself out in future leagues, I'll remember what has happened so far and just wait for the game to be fully released. I hope you don't see me as a hater of the game because I'm not. I loved many aspects, like the Abyss, the game's story, and Act 4 is a work of art, as is the overall visual design. The min-max mechanics of the game are very appealing to me. However, it's frustrating that I can't have fluid gameplay due to a lack of optimization that existed in past seasons but has now disappeared. Something that was working has regressed, and it's not just me; if you check various Discords, you'll find similar reports. Last bumped on Sep 13, 2025, 9:00:28 AM
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" On this one havqe you change your output to vulcan rather than dx12? This was a major issue for me for first few days of the season, and it was frustrating as you lost progresion in the map and didnt know which areas you had been too But within 24hours of changing to Vulcan this has fully stopped for me, and i can now play for hours with no freezes of the sort. |
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