Content Patch 0.5.0: Are We Getting New Class or Act?
" Wait... do you honestly believe that they only started working on the end game since the start of this league? They have been talking about it for I think the last two leagues and saying it just has not been ready for release. I believe there was mention of it being close to finished this league but they were not confident to release it just yet. But honestly it has most likely been something in the works since 0.1. I just hope that they throw away this silly interactive atlas map. I like the tablets that allows you choose the different end game mechanics without making a semi-permanent commitment. I think that part is well done, I would just like to see the actual MAPPING side of things reworked. They need to come up with a better solution for scaling the waystones, I am all for different waystone mods but I think some mods are just painful to play instead of being an interesting challenge, chilled ground is one of them, temporal chains, while better than before is still annoying. OTher changes they need to make is literally triple the size of some of the boss arena's it is rediculous that some bosses slam abilities can take up 2/3 of the arena, or they will sit in a corner and make it near impossible to dodge the mechanic because you cannot slip behind them |
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" cant get worse then this shit when we had tempolaris or mirror dupe it wasnt that bad |
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" Classes and league content are part of the end game too. If people are really wanting to play swords or axes or whatnot, and try out new builds, then revamping the atlas system doesn't really help much. Realistically, they can of course be doing many things at the same time. I really don't think people here understand how development of large projects - whether software or even e.g. construction - works. You don't put 200 people to work on a single thing, like atlas update. That's a lot of wasted work due to the complexity overhead you get from adding more and more people to the same task. And many of those 200 people working on PoE2 don't necessarily even have anything useful to do for the atlas update. Like if your specialty is character animation, how much useful work is there in the atlas update for you? etc. |
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" thats not how game development works. You dont start working on something after a league ends and race to finish it until next league. You work on a shit ton of things in parallel, and release what is finished. Druid was prob worked for years, prob even before early access, same with act 4, or the next act 5. Our endgame is a bandaid, but the true endgame idea has been worked for several leagues already. Last edited by zepberonha#9748 on Jan 9, 2026, 7:09:52 AM
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" Yeah, tbh in some leagues there's so much character work and environmental details and integration to the core game that most likely a couple of designers, artists and programmers have worked on it for more a year or more by when it releases. Even now I imagine that the gameplay content of all the leagues thus far released were at least somewhat planned and tentatively decided on by when the early access launch happened. People really need to remember that GGG is not 10 people doing one thing at a time. It's a company of +200 people. Last edited by tzaeru#0912 on Jan 9, 2026, 7:17:52 AM
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" This. The whole endgame patch thing is a meme at this point. You don't just put a little effort in and get an endgame like poe1's. That took a decade of content to achieve, and poe2 isn't going to get it much faster. |
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No more leagues and just finish the game. Reset the economy if need be but stop treating this like a full release.
Finish the game and fix the jank. If something gets done, patch it in as soon as it's ready. |
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if the delay endgame remake again ill go crazy
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" The leagues are part of the game when it's finished. If you're expecting the game to be radically different down the line, I mean, that's just setting yourself up for a disappointment. It'll mostly be what it is now, with a bit of a revamped end game (how much will remained to be seen; I'd not assume that it's going to be completely different. You're still doing maps with tablets and waystones) and new league mechanics introduced that form the bulk of the end game aside of the maps themselves. Three new weapons with the associated ascendancies, tho quite possibly just two weapons next year. The end game gameplay loop is playing maps across the atlas and doing the league mechanics. That's not gonna radically change I don't think. |
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" They did not say any of the things you are claiming other than addressing endgame. What even is BD? I don't even know what that stands for. |
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