So POE is finally a Space Ship shootemup aka Volley Support

Something about this support really disappoints me it looks so immersion breaking (I know lots of people don't care and just want moar power). Weapon pods in an ARPG? Why not right? Well there's immersion for one, and not ludicrously pushing the bounds of verisimilitude.


To me all the people running clear speed builds wiping out entire screens (whole screen smart bombs, you remember Defender one of the first shmups?) with things like VFB and spark, KB wands and etc. already makes your game look bad enough. It sells your game as some sort of ADHD feaver dream of frenetic silliness. But this support is offical, not a result of ostensibly unintended synergies that the players meta gamed. This support is GGG giving up and saying "welp the game already looks more like a shmup than a ARPG, might as well go full retard".


Yea weapon pods, now we're talking, that's not a Knight or a Wizard, it's a space ship with outboard automated weapon pods, oh and like every Shump they apear in: they look stupid af.

POE last I heard is supposed to have a "dark and gritty" fantasy setting... this support just takes 1 step too far from "it's magic" into the realm of "this looks dumb af"

PoE has been Xenon 2 Megablast since they added LMP, tbh. Volley just gives it another shape.

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When game is going full retard, you can only go with it. If you start going against it, if you start going half retard, you're done for!

-DOTA 2 Pro n0tail

Jokes on you, i have been playing beyblade since the beginning. So far the other beyblades i encountered did not match my power!!

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Mythabril написал:

PoE has been Xenon 2 Megablast since they added LMP, tbh. Volley just gives it another shape.

You're not wrong, but somehow the effect materializing out of thin air besides you just stretches this past the point of "magic arrows splitting off" for me.

If they called this Support "phalanx" and made 4 copies of the player materialize and fire the volley I could maybe stomach it. As it stands it looks unfinished low production value. Presentation is everything as they say.

Thing is they are all about trying to get people to use more than one button right now, so it seems like a missed opportunity here:

Phalanx skill: for 4 seconds there are 2 to 4 copies of you abreast spells fired by your copies have 60 to 50% less damage, your spells have 10% less damage while using Phalanx

Volley support: fire an additional projectile with your off hand. When used with Phalanx active all your copies cast their spells with only a 10% less penalty.

Boom rewards for using two buttons. Adjust penalties for whats needed to balance them ofc those are just place holder numbers.

My solution: Play SSF and don't use it.

Dunno if that works for you.

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Shagsbeard написал:

My solution: Play SSF and don't use it.

Dunno if that works for you.

It does, fellow ssf bro sadly I still have a soft spot for how the game appears, or sells itself even if the core/trade league part of the game is becoming a ludicrous shit show.

One of the Dev's last year publicly stated that the attack/cast speed available in the game is all out of proportion to what he feels looks good or sells the game as an ARPG. It's a sad commentary that GGG has admitedly lost control of how their game looks and plays to the extent they have. But somehow it really hits home when they make a support that is basically a white flag of surrender to the clear speed meta.

Agree, Volley is officially a meme now.

But op, dude, how big is your fucking screen?
Let's play sherlock for a while...
Those projectile pics you made are tiny as fuck, suggesting you made them using a huge default screen.
Looking at your supporter titles one can deduct you got a lotta extra cash.

So, how big is your screen?
40-50 inch? Some beast master race gaming setup?

LOL exactly what I thought once I’ve seen t war for atlas announcement video, like wtf is that skill? But I don’t bother much, if I don’t like it I don’t play it;)
GL&HF

Lets all have a good cry about people who don't play useless hipster builds that can clear t1 maps in under 20 minutes.