Skip Acts function for the second and subsequent characters in the league

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AdmiralBatr#6143 wrote:

Dear Developers,


I am writing to you with a heavy heart, on behalf of the entire
AUCTIONERS Guild community — and personally from Denis Sergeevich.
Please, we are sincerely begging you to consider these crucial
quality-of-life improvements to our beloved game POE 2.
Please don’t see this as just another piece of feedback. This is a cry
from the soul… a reflection of what truly feels like the opinion of
every single player in Path of Exile 2.

First of all — as someone who has been playing since the very
beginning of the POE2 release, and who has completed the Acts multiple
times — I cannot stress this enough: please give players the option
not to replay the Acts again after the start of a new league and the
first full completion.
We are exhausted.
The Acts are not engaging after the first run. They feel overwhelming,
repetitive, and emotionally draining. One playthrough is more than
enough to understand the mechanics, abilities, and flow of the game.
After that… it becomes a chore. A painful one.

Right now, the necessity to go through the Acts again discourages
experimentation. It pushes players away from trying new builds, new
classes — from actually enjoying the depth of your game.


Please… give us a choose how to begin the development of a new
character: Start at level 1 and act 1 or at level 65, early endgame
(T1 maps). This one change alone would bring back excitement,
creativity, and freedom.
At the moment, the thought of replaying the Acts again feels so
unbearable that many players simply choose not to try something new at
all…


But this opportunity must cost some currency or gold, we need to think about this. It's don't must be free.


Secondly, we desperately need a detailed incoming damage statistics system.

Players need to understand what is killing them — the type of damage,
the element, the source. Without this information, improving or
adapting builds becomes frustrating and unclear. It leaves players
feeling lost and helpless.

And finally, as a small additional request for the future — it would
be wonderful to see more microtransactions for ROA mounts, such as
wolves, panthers, or other similar creatures.
Not everyone enjoys the chocobo-style design inspired by Final
Fantasy. Many players would love the option to replace it with
something that better fits their personal taste and the darker
atmosphere of the game.

We truly love this game. That’s why this hurts so much to say.

Please hear us.

Please don’t let this frustration push players away from something
that has so much potential to be extraordinary.


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arkanie#2558 wrote:

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600lbpanther#3839 wrote:

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Soulsniper1313#7576 wrote:

It is all a slog. It was fine and dandy the first few times. After 10+ there is no desire to do it ever again. I dont care how good they want to make it, even the best movie ever gets boring when you rewatch it dozens of times. It is never the same experience. Act 1 is ok, 2 is crap until dreadnaught, all of 3 is crap, 4 is meh. They still have 2 more to go!

I get your firmly on the "Skip Campaign" side due to the reason of "I've done this 20 times" as highlighted by your "best movie ever gets boring when you rewatch it dozens of times" analogy.

What I don't understand (yet) is that the "I've done this 20 times" argument can can also be used for end game or to put it another way:

If the campaign is boring after 15 runs then the endgame MUST be boring after run 300.

However, you don't identify the end game as repetitive (and many others who like the skip option don't either).

My initial assumption is it isn't the content. It's that maps lets you choose your repetition and the campaign doesn't.

This goes back to the "Dynamic Systems" proposal or said in another fashion: Give the campaign the same agency and decision making ability as end game mapping does and the argument disappears.

Here is some rough math just to highlight the disparity in the argument and why NOT having a choice in the campaign (i.e. doing the same exact thing everytime) is the problem (not the concept of a campaign).

Campaign length: 20-40 hours per character (linear, unchanging).

Endgame length per league: 200-600+ hours (voluntary, however functionally identical loop repeated hundreds of times).

being repetitve, grindd something (or mechanic), etc. these are all difrent thigns. and yetr poe 2 doesnt have true endgame yet, we are still on EA. but campaign is for sure, boring after first time. it doesn serve to game. adding skip option doesnt hurt anything and its not same way 'grind;', its just meaningless annoying procedure. PS iam against anything free, like intsa lvl 65 or something. everybody igrnores what people say and with tunnel effect they stay in their darkness and yell others, not try to understand

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arkanie#2558 wrote:

Thank for your aproach man! Even I agree your solution or not, doesnt matter but the important point is that you understand what is going on and why we want 'skip' option. as you created the solution, its actually GGG's problem that they have to find the best solution. I am okay with your solution becosue its at least not the same cam'pain' over and over brocracy and thanks alot for you effort (ps: i loved your solution)

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600lbpanther#3839 wrote:

The game already moved on from repeating acts (Cruel/Merciless) to scaling zones to level. Opening multiple zones (Exile's Hunt example) and letting players choose their path is just the next step in that evolution.

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

Really has so many effects if it was put forward.


just one example,


The amount of complaints(not that I care or it effects my gameplay) when it comes to the temple breaking the economy, would seem like a grain of sand compared to the amount of complaints where the economy is shot in less than week 1 because of of the alt overload.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

Finished the Lord of Hatred campaign in Diablo 4. Feels like an actual story with charcters and dialogues. You not mindlessly running from point a to point b. Something is happening around you. It makes you stay engaged with the story. It was like 7 or 8 hours long without skipping cutscenes.

And we have POE2 campaign. 95% of the time walking in dead dunes. Nothing is happening. Just slow boring slog stretched up to 10-15 hours. This thing should be much shorter than it is now. I have literally zero hype for 0.5 rn solely because of this.