Party play scaling is really harsh for duos.

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LizzyInATizzy#6295 написал:

My husband introduced me to PoE after helping alpha test the original game, and we love it to death except for one thing. We have to "play together alone" in PoE. The scaling of a 2 person group feels like it's scaled up to a full party. While solo, either of us can complete the areas and bosses without issue. Go in as a duo, though, and it's a different game. We tested some of this already.

It's taking us approximately 5x-10x as long to kill a Unique Boss while partied as two players. If we go back and solo it, it's easy as pie. Yeah, you have to kite and use some strategy and this is welcome to both of us. What stinks is that just like the original, we feel forced to "play together alone". I don't want to sit next to my husband and play the exact online game together but in separate instances/solo because the difficulty is ramped up so intensely for two players.

I am seriously wondering if there is an issue in the code that is making the game consider any party to be a "full party" and scaling the mobs and bosses in that manner. It's even worse than PoE (1). In the original, we only had to separate and play solo for Pinnacle bosses and such. We are still in the Acts and already do not feel like the game is playable as a party, at least, as a duo.

I know a ton of gamers out there who just want to play with their best friend, their sibling, or their partner. A lot of us who play in a group are *not* playing in a full group!! I feel like the scaling for everything from normal (white) mobs to Unique Bosses is just incredibly punishing for 2 person parties. This is what led us to quit the original title a couple years ago. Battling into the endgame together, crafting together, making amazing characters - and then having to say "bye I guess...." and go do certain encounters alone or face them scaled up to a level where you just automatically perish.

I was truly hoping PoE 2 would address this issue and that it would be enjoyable to play with the husband, not just enjoyable - but *Possible*.

I don't mind the difficulty level on solo at all (I've heard a lot of "it's too hard", this is not me). I just feel the scaling when adding 1 more person to the party is not correct mathematically. Something feels very off, and even worse than it did in the original PoE.

It really feels like the numbers are off in the coding. Solo is a breeze. Duo is devastating. I'd really like to play this game together, not as two people sitting next to each other forced to play solo. I can only imagine this problem will worsen as we progress into the endgame and it is a bit disappointing. I am still leaning towards thinking there is an issue with the code that is equating *any size* party to a *full party*. We will test more but it would be nice of someone on the team to look into this as its a big factor for a lot of players.

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Morghus#4174 написал:

I think loot definitely needs to be multiplied for co-op of any levels, as well as enemy or boss frequency increased. Besides that though, because of the heavy boss mechanics now, there needs to be an option to disable spell/visual effects from other players/allied npcs.