Going to try the game to see if it is still bad...

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Arcadia#3923 wrote:

Tried 0.5 for 3 mins after doing act 1 for the cosmetics in 0.4 and ditching. Can confirm it's still bad.

I went from excitement and huge support in 0.1 to thinking this isn't even worth a minute of my time as each patch made the game worse. They keep thinking adding new content is the thing to do instead of fixing the broken foundation.

Actually they're not thinking. They're just doing, uh, something. God knows there's no rhyme or reason to most of the balance changes. At least not if you assume making a fun game is part of the desired outcome.

50gb of patch only to actually fix nothing. Poe 2 cannot be repaired at this point.

- still don't like the combat and movement
- still don't like the campaign
- can't really test the endgame cause i doubt i'll last that long

i find game too hard. constant dodge must be done what is annoying.
yeah RF/totem/minion player that like relaxed gameplay.

i just feel all time punished. maeby i try too hard to like game?

same shit. cant build defense, do no damage, just grinding waiting for a lucky weapon drop so it doesnt feel like garbage for a few levels.

slow, tedious and aggravating.

the only game that puts me in a bad mood. which is pointless, i play for fun. not to be pissed off. cant see myself continuing with this garbage.

also no melee....hammers are just earth casters with earthquakes and shit. super annoying. spears cast whirlwinds, absolute aids.

Unfortunately it still feels bad.

The only "fun" play style is mace melee, imo. It feels terrible though, until you are 5-10 hours into mapping.

The combat is clunky. You literally glitch out when a mob runs into you. Seems as though they reduced the distance of these pushes, but the glitch effect is even more intense now. Dodge is an almost constant requirement because defenses are poor and fights are AOE hells. Almost every fight is a samey experiences. It's always lightning projectiles from everywhere, some sort of insane degen all over the place, and significant bosses will just make 3/4 of the screen explode and insta kill you if you get close to finishing the fight. There is so much spam on the screen most of the time I have a hard time knowing WTH even happened.

I will say, allowing us to bind dodge to it's own key so we don't have to stagger at the end of every roll if we hold the button for a split second was a good change. That's about all I have found so far.

Burn out imminent anyhow.

I do not mind poe 2 being harder but there should be some kind of combat log to actually know what hit you and for how much. BUT THEY WILL NEVER ADD COMBAT LOG. THEY WOULD RATHER CREATE 1 000 NEW WORTHLESS UNIQUES and bloat the game with nonsense.

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arebee865#4278 wrote:

same shit. cant build defense, do no damage, just grinding waiting for a lucky weapon drop so it doesnt feel like garbage for a few levels.

slow, tedious and aggravating.

the only game that puts me in a bad mood. which is pointless, i play for fun. not to be pissed off. cant see myself continuing with this garbage.

also no melee....hammers are just earth casters with earthquakes and shit. super annoying. spears cast whirlwinds, absolute aids.

This is exactly what i will write in my final steam review before 1.0 launch.

Gave them a chance to see if they turn this game around. This was the last league in Early Access and they haven't even done the balance overhaul yet. Who the hell waits for early access to be over to test balance changes just wow.

If this is the state the game is launching i am not impressed.

It's exactly like you said, slow and tedious.

They did massive endgame changes but i barely have the will to finish the campaign to see those changes.

All the campaign zones still have horible layouts, your character is super slow, it takes a lot of time to get even 15% movement speed on boots, sprint is a super clunky bad aid as you have to dodgeroll and hold a button between every attack instead of just walking and attacking.

What's worse is that you don't even have access to the auction house until act 4 so the first 4 acts feel like dogshit.

I even started to hate WASD movement because the whe point of it is to attack while moving but they nerf onliterated movement speed penalty nodes that you barelly get 2% per node, it's a frikin joke.

Campaign actually makes me feel mad playing the game.

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arebee865#4278 wrote:

same shit. cant build defense, do no damage, just grinding waiting for a lucky weapon drop so it doesnt feel like garbage for a few levels.

slow, tedious and aggravating.

the only game that puts me in a bad mood. which is pointless, i play for fun. not to be pissed off. cant see myself continuing with this garbage.

also no melee....hammers are just earth casters with earthquakes and shit. super annoying. spears cast whirlwinds, absolute aids.

So true. I'm basically trying to force myself to like the game, and try my best to not get aggravated.

And the longer i play the more aggro i get, then i get to the point where i ask myself "Why the hell am i putting myself through this?"

And then i quit.

Got the MTX and quit instantly. Its just not fun to me. I would rather run Act 1-10 in PoE1 multiple times than finish PoE2s Campaign once. it just feels absolutely awful to me and I noticed that I mentally allready quit and just wanna rush through and be done with it, by the time I reached Hunting Grounds.

lol