I gave this league 12 h but POE2 is Just Anti-Fun

It is still a slog. There is fun to be had occasionally but everything just feels so slow and unrewarding. Loot drops are still absolutely awful, especially in abyss. Movement is too slow. Maps are too big. Abyss looks fun but the rewards at the end are not worth it. Crafting is a lottery.

Loot is so bad it makes gearing your character horrific in campaign. They have to fix it.


There's also a misconception that all critique of POE2 comes from POE1 veterans.
The only season of POE1 I've played was the latest season. I understand people have an attachments to a game they enjoy but a lot of the criticism and feedback here is completely valid. Also, it seems like the positive voices are becoming fewer and fewer. I want to enjoy this game as I'd imagine most of those posting criticism do. GGG just make it SO hard to enjoy it.

I can't bare to read this complain fest. The gaming community just wants child level gameplay where they can dopamine drain their brain by looking at flashing lights and exploding the whole screen by 1 click.

All 3 major patches I've had no problems with
-campaign
-trials
-getting to t15 maps

while I have not looked at any guides or followed any meta builds...

You just don't want to engage your brain and that's the bottom line here.

GGG should clearly branch poe1 and 2 for the different audiences and be done with it. POE2 is my dream ARPG and the only worthy successor of D2.

It's actually hilarious how consistently people play fast builds which clear screens. They want this. The slow or whatever the crap RPG you want doesn't exist. The aim is always to make the gameplay more like PoE 1

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Saruman100#7067 написал:

I can't bare to read this complain fest. The gaming community just wants child level gameplay where they can dopamine drain their brain by looking at flashing lights and exploding the whole screen by 1 click.

All 3 major patches I've had no problems with
-campaign
-trials
-getting to t15 maps

while I have not looked at any guides or followed any meta builds...

You just don't want to engage your brain and that's the bottom line here.

GGG should clearly branch poe1 and 2 for the different audiences and be done with it. POE2 is my dream ARPG and the only worthy successor of D2.

Pretty much the case. Is just abnormal how many people complain about certain things over and over, even though they were presented with solutions: change build, be aware of mechanics, relics honour resistance, and so on; and yet they refuse to do those things and still call the game bad or too "hard".

dang I was hoping to dive back in after 0.3 patch notes but I'll give it a skip then. Guessing streamers hyped up the patch too much then.

I shelved the game after 0.2 because I was just a pita to play tbh with like 2 or 3 decent builds and the rest just trash. Game seems to have a massive balance issue and Like OP said forget about melee if you like your sanity. Guess it will stay there. D4 and LE are too easy but at least they are a bit of fun for a bit.

Disappointed...

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Saruman100#7067 написал:

I can't bare to read this complain fest. The gaming community just wants child level gameplay where they can dopamine drain their brain by looking at flashing lights and exploding the whole screen by 1 click.

All 3 major patches I've had no problems with
-campaign
-trials
-getting to t15 maps

while I have not looked at any guides or followed any meta builds...

You just don't want to engage your brain and that's the bottom line here.

GGG should clearly branch poe1 and 2 for the different audiences and be done with it. POE2 is my dream ARPG and the only worthy successor of D2.

This level of "No the kids are wrong" is quite terrifying.

What your doing is looking at the backlash of three leagues,going "no you are ALL wrong",and are trying to argue the game is fine despite uh.....that very clearly not being the case.

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Saruman100#7067 написал:

People want to have fun.

Yes

Pushed through the campaign and calling it quits at like tier 7 waystones this time around. The game isn't even comparable to poe1.

40% of the player base playing one ascendancy. It's almost like people want to to play a build that doesn't move like a snail and can clear packs without "engaging combat" with white monsters.

The entire game feels like it's meant to piss you off. The atlas system needs a complete rework. Spamming trash maps to find overlapping towers to then be able to do juiced maps is just not it, it's a chore. No ways to become immune to ailments, no ways to become immune to curses, no way to become immune to the 1000 ground effects and degens. Maps are WAY too big and it's mostly empty space with packs of 3-5 white monsters. You move slower than a poe1 character in act5 while at level 95 in poe2 (unless you play the one close to passable build).

Good for those that are enjoying the game, hope you continue to. It gave me nothing but a headache this league.

For those saying poe2 is "difficult" and poe1 player just want "easy", it isn't. It's just extremely slow, tedious and has WAY too much friction for the player; big difference.

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Saruman100#7067 написал:

I can't bare to read this complain fest. The gaming community just wants child level gameplay where they can dopamine drain their brain by looking at flashing lights and exploding the whole screen by 1 click.

All 3 major patches I've had no problems with
-campaign
-trials
-getting to t15 maps

while I have not looked at any guides or followed any meta builds...

You just don't want to engage your brain and that's the bottom line here.

GGG should clearly branch poe1 and 2 for the different audiences and be done with it. POE2 is my dream ARPG and the only worthy successor of D2.

This is my take as well. I absolutely love the combat in the game.

It's ok to not like something. I don't like POE1. This game isn't that. And for me, that's a great thing. For me, it's a fun thing.

Go play POE1. It's ok.

I find it hard to understand how a PoE fan is going into 0.3 playing for 12 hours and is not blown away by how good the game is right now pre-launch.

After playing 3.26 which was a wonderful league and I played to 100 and 96 on multiple characters. Within the first few hours of PoE2 I was already complaining to friends on discord how much more engaging and fun the campaign is than poe1. How challenging the game is and makes you think how to get the most of your build. You can do act bosses in 15seconds or 10 minutes by the time you get halfway through Act 1.

If you've played this patch and don't like it, then I don't think you'll ever enjoy PoE2 because it's the most fun I've had in PoE since pre-nerf purposeful harbinger Power Siphon builds. Every build seems cool, Act 4 and the interludes were absolutely amazing, 95% of the annoying things have been fixed. Endgame maps feel full and have a nice progression curve. Crafting imo is in an incredible state, possibly even better than PoE1 now.

It's ok if you don't like it, but don't try to change the game because it's not PoE1. The overwhelming majority seem to love the game in it's current state and don't want PoE1 version 2.