Absolutely disapointed -- This game is hard, and not in a fun way.

I agree with the OP. I am disappointed at how hard the game is. I am stuck on Draven in act 1. You are constantly dodging his attacks or running from things leaving little to no time to actually damage him. I fail to see how this is fun.

Understand I am in favor of having mechanics. But in a game with no choice of difficulty level I think you have gone too far too early. Without difficulty options I honestly don't know how you are going to reach both the hardcore and casual audience. You seem to have forgotten that people of all ages want to play games like this, not just 20- and 30-year-olds. You seem to have targeted the hardcore players and not people of all skill levels. For what it is worth I consider myself to be at an intermediate skill level. I have no problem getting mythic gear in one of the other ARPGs.

I know there is an audience for souls-like games. But having played POE 1 I did not expect this level of difficulty. With the game in its current state, I will likely never beat Draven since as you level up so does he.

I regret now having so much faith that I opted for one of the expensive supporter packs. I know it is early access, and I hope the difficulty issue can be addressed in a way that satisfies all skill levels of players. I will likely pause playing for now as there is no point. I will keep an eye on things in hopes that things will improve.

+1

But if this is the game the devs want to present to the world, I am ok with that, I can always find something else that I enjoy more.

I believe that they are going to drive off a large portion of the player base and their revenue is going to reflect that. They have made piles of money off PoE1, so if they want to follow this route more power to them, but I won't be joining them on the journey.

I do hope they don't abandon PoE1.

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wickedprayer#5920 написал:

Hi, the act 1, it was the hardest part for me really, but the act 1 ending boss was not the worse. I was not able to kill the rituals boss for example..
Skeletons warriors were dying so fast.. So, for me the solution, was to use skeletons archer poison skill + concentrated effect + mangnified effect.. But yeah, it was slow.. This changed when i took my loyal hellhound, and unearth skill + infernal legion help on big packs.

Btw, i have taken as many minion damage nodes + some minion life + minion revive speed.. Now it's decent, it's still not easy, but maybe, with some items..

Then I have hope I can still do it. Ty

+1 to OP
Overtuned game with an annoying campaign, no telegraphed one-shots, terrible loot, and no fun at all. I thought Diablo 4 was bad, but this is far worse. Uninstalled in Act 2 and not coming back.

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Jadrann#2079 написал:

+1 to OP
Overtuned game with an annoying campaign, no telegraphed one-shots, terrible loot, and no fun at all. I thought Diablo 4 was bad, but this is far worse. Uninstalled in Act 2 and not coming back.

It's early access mate.
I don't bloody like it either, hell I dropped it after 11 hours.
But writing the game off at this point is premature. I would be happy to come back and give it another go once GGG course correct.

There are the bones of a good ARPG here, but the numbers are all way off.

Leveling is way too slow.

In a bossfight loosing all progress because of dying is meeeh.

Give us more loot!

Give us more different skill gems!

Rest makes fun.

seems like it's all just a skill issue, you got a dodge roll use it.

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Alonvice#2412 написал:

Seems like some people need to go to the build categorie..
My witch just melt all the bosses like a french cheese during a "fondue".

Just look Asmongold video. He died x time when trying to rush. And then just changed for a necromancer, took time in building his character and now he is melting all the bosses easy.

Developer if you read this. Your game is too easy.

Proof : just look for hardcore player on youtube.
They have passed the act 2 whitout dying.

If you think this easy game is too hard. Look at the mirror, you have made a mistake somwhere and need to fix it.

Ps: Developers said that we can skip some bosses and come back to them when we are more powerful. Maybe do something like that

GGG devs - "Yep, next nerf will hit the witch for sure" :D
Im also playing witch, but this will be my only char in EA until i see that there are massive changes in the game coming, which will make campaign more ...hm, digestible and not so time-costly.

+1 I'm with the OP. I'm putting this down until it gets a couple of patches. Running with a Witch Minion build and its absolutely terrible.

+1, I absolutely agree, this game is really not fun to play.

Maybe this game is just not for me, but I had so much fun in POE1, even at early stage leveling in each season, but POE2 is just so strange and so much struggle for me.

I play as warrior, I cannot get accuracy talent in early game, yet I missed so much atk that I had to get accuracy on weapon and other items, even that I still misses a lot atk(at least it feels like a lot), and there is no way to tell at which accuracy number you won't miss, I guess that's for official release?

And without dmg number or hit indicator, sometimes I don't even know if I missed atk or game just bugged, or hitbox got messed up. Please add a toggleable text for dmg and "miss" indicator？

Dodge mechanics is terrible at current stage. It is SOOOO important you made it to a level like dark soul, BM Wukong, and Elden ring, yet I cant dodge thru mobs (and no jump dodge like other games either). When you are surrounded, you are fu'd. I know, "don't get surrounded", but its a game that supposed for killing countless mobs and farming loot, why can't I dodge through mobs?

I understand this is a different game than POE1, but I don't see how late game will be fun after a build is complete if early game is had much struggle.

I hope the official release will be better, I mean MUCH better.