Weird question, but

is there a lore reason mobs can't go through portals? I think it's more likely for monsters to go through first while you're standing there using the device. Same thing for town portal lol

basic one phase encryption, those noobs don't have the right passphrase :>

No, and further, portals seem to be almost entirely a gameplay abstraction, not a in universe one.

Same as waypoints.

Remember - when You do act 1 you just went through whole continent. But from gameplay one does not feels like.

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de99ial#0161 wrote:

Same as waypoints.

Remember - when You do act 1 you just went through whole continent. But from gameplay one does not feels like.

To expand on this, I think the physical time it would take the amount of distance you go through through Acts 1 through 5 (discounting the one for sure real teleport from Highgate's peak to Oriath), would take months (perhaps even on the short end of 2 years, given how much combat you'd expect), traveling all the way up the coast, almost all off road, with no stable source of food save sorta when you make it to a town (and even then, these are survivor refugee camps, they're not exactly flush with food and fresh water).

The Exile would be forced to hunt and source local foods (raiding cannible camps seem dubious, but the giant act 1 crabs might be fine, and raiding blackguard camps in act 3 for supplies would help). You could make a VERY different version of PoE 1's narrative in the first half by making it a survival-travel game with light combat.

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Northern_Ronin#6465 wrote:

No, and further, portals seem to be almost entirely a gameplay abstraction, not a in universe one.

The Resonator at the start of Act 5 (The Ascent) implies that portals are templar technology, no?

Physics. Definitely something to do with physics.

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Northern_Ronin#6465 wrote:

The Exile would be forced to hunt and source local foods (raiding cannible camps seem dubious, but the giant act 1 crabs might be fine, and raiding blackguard camps in act 3 for supplies would help). You could make a VERY different version of PoE 1's narrative in the first half by making it a survival-travel game with light combat.

Well... Tehy are forced to do such things. Just pay attention to dialogues from Tarkleygh or Bestel. Especially after the lowering Shavrone Barrier.

And what Nessa says about rohas.

Player characters are special in more than one way from rest of exiles.

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Broadsword#0971 wrote:

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Northern_Ronin#6465 wrote:

No, and further, portals seem to be almost entirely a gameplay abstraction, not a in universe one.

The Resonator at the start of Act 5 (The Ascent) implies that portals are templar technology, no?

I assume you mean the end of Act 4, but The Resonator means the Templar (or at least Dominous) have some ability to do teleportation. But that thing isn't exactly small, and looked much more experimental than proven tech, AND was tapping a huge power source, requiring very careful construction and placement. There was an implication it had never been used, and to insure himself against failure (or assassination), Dominus had instructed that the creator to go through it before he would just in case it teleported him into a wall or whatever.