Bring back 0.1 difficulty or people will not return - and playerbase will match poe 1

Most of my friends - and around of 20 people from work just stopped playing due to game to be to much of POE 1 - to fast and with to big power to early.
by having "identity issues" while they liked the core gameplay - that gameplay was not present in end game

i guess many people was somehow similar as i hear it from time to time.

so i don't think people will back - unless GGG will really return to 0.1 difficulty - making game more of poe 2 - and different than poe 1. Which now is goin to be more of poe 1 pace of gameplay again.

if the pace of gameplay is ruined - no matter what will be added - majority of people who was attracted by more methodical and slower gameplay will not return. As it's only campain like that

so slowly POE 2 losing it's target base and being flooded by zoomers/one button enjoyers. And more and more feedback will be about "fastering" and toning game to poe 1 pace of gameplay

If only I had 1 shop point for every post complaining about the difficulty of the campaign when 0.1 launched...

This game was about zooming in the endgame from the get go, nothing has changed in that aspect.

+1

They really need to bring back the campaign difficulty back to 0.1.
Don't turn this into some Diablo 4 slop leveling experience.

Why spend so much time creating awesome boss mechanics during the campaign only to kill them within 10 seconds face-tanking them.

Just play an off meta character in solo self found (hardcore) and you will struggle to your heart's content - so much so it's actually painful (farming zones before bosses repeatedly to get resistance & good flasks).

PS: 0.1 detonate dead on warriors was very overpowered.

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arandan#3174 wrote:

If only I had 1 shop point for every post complaining about the difficulty of the campaign when 0.1 launched...

This game was about zooming in the endgame from the get go, nothing has changed in that aspect.

That's right, that's why GGG marketed it as slower and is going back to it.

Zooming is awesome.

Is this post a joke or something?

0.1 was literally the most broken - zoomiest thing ever made. It was even zoomier than most poe-1 builds with Temporalis / attri stackers etc.

The game has become significantly slower and more combo-based / tedious.

Perhaps your friends are quitting for those reasons.

Its become a cringe meta to hate on POE-1 and give the same "Oh ur a lame zoomer" takes.

Poe - 1 endgame is 50 times harder than poe-2.

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zeddy123#4861 wrote:

Is this post a joke or something?

0.1 was literally the most broken - zoomiest thing ever made. It was even zoomier than most poe-1 builds with Temporalis / attri stackers etc.

The game has become significantly slower and more combo-based / tedious.

lol exactly. I would pay money for 0.1 to actually come back because it was the best version of this game, and it was extremely zoom zoom lmao.

The uniques were actually good and god tier. Of course a lot were trash but the top end uniques were sexy as fuck.

In 0.1 minion was god tier, you could afk tier 4 simulacrum. You could turn in a literal god if you geared accordingly.

Storm Weaver was insanely powerful too.

I swear to god, it's almost as if people are not playing the same game as I do. I have close to 2000 hours in.

The breakdown is more or less:

0.1: 1400h
0.2: 80h
0.3: 500h

I skipped 0.2 (yes 80 hours is a skip) mainly because it was atrocious/tedious/slow, ridiculous, bad, the worst iteration that ever existed, absolute trash of an iteration. It radicalized me and I was ready to delete this game if it kept going in that direction.

Then they redeemed with 0.3 because the uproar was overwhelming from the vast majority.

I just can't believe how deep is the disconnect with slow pacers and the "methodical gameplay" crowd.

@Oinkaments
There is a giant disconnect between you and us.
In every single league when my character reached a high power level and clearing was quick and safe, I got bored and stopped playing soon after.
My favourite builds involved many different actively used skills and usually unpopular builds like infusion chronomancer or parry-disengage huntress.

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Elena#1466 wrote:

@Oinkaments
There is a giant disconnect between you and us.
In every single league when my character reached a high power level and clearing was quick and safe, I got bored and stopped playing soon after.
My favourite builds involved many different actively used skills and usually unpopular builds like infusion chronomancer or parry-disengage huntress.

You and us?

Bro, 0.1 was by extremely far the most broken state in which POE2 was. There was so many broken builds that you felt like a god. Please stop.