Path of Exile
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Jox
Molten Core Raider
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So you're saying they gave a mess of a league to start, with none of the shit you mentioned and then took the route that would take the least work to "fix" and you think reddit did this. Should probably get that tencent dick out of your throat, it's lodged so deep you might suffocate.
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For the merc who has a chance to double the loot drops, does that mean it drops mirrors of everything if it procs, or that if it drops 10 currency items it now drops 20, not specifically the same as what dropped?
Looking to get into this game after a hiatus! Any advice on a decent SSF build and loot filter? Is it even a fun league to jump into?
Caliane
Avatar of War Slayer
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ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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I'm not usually one to be all on the "hurr-durr beta test league" but holy shit this league is really bad. The amount of shit that just doesn't work at all, or bugs out in a catastrophic way, is just out of control, even after their patches.
It's so bad it's not even clear what the intended functionality is for a lot of stuff. Are you supposed to be able to leave grand heists between wings? Are you supposed to exit a heist back to the prep area before the alarm and secure all your loot? What is actually intended vs what is just bugged out bullshit?
Doors STILL fail to open properly, crew STILL gets stuck constantly trying to open doors/fight mobs, trap hallways STILL spawn with the interaction point on the wrong side, grand heists STILL will just randomly not even have entry zones.
Fucking hell all you have to do is look at silver coins/prophecy. Like they forgot it even exists at all - prophecies all trigger in heists and then just fail, no mobs no nothing. Fucking silver coins that drop in heist aren't even tagged as contraband lol, they literally didn't even look at it or think about it.
It's so bad it's not even clear what the intended functionality is for a lot of stuff. Are you supposed to be able to leave grand heists between wings? Are you supposed to exit a heist back to the prep area before the alarm and secure all your loot? What is actually intended vs what is just bugged out bullshit?
Doors STILL fail to open properly, crew STILL gets stuck constantly trying to open doors/fight mobs, trap hallways STILL spawn with the interaction point on the wrong side, grand heists STILL will just randomly not even have entry zones.
Fucking hell all you have to do is look at silver coins/prophecy. Like they forgot it even exists at all - prophecies all trigger in heists and then just fail, no mobs no nothing. Fucking silver coins that drop in heist aren't even tagged as contraband lol, they literally didn't even look at it or think about it.
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This is the guy I was thinking about, duplicate their contents makes it sound like mirrored drops?
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They can have longer on leagues, they need it. Blaming it on COVID seems...idk. I manage QA for a software product, it's obviously not the same as game development, but COVID hasn't really affected our quality and release schedule. It's not like they have a bunch of PH gear name and half finish assets. I can see people collaborating in person helping there.
Xevy
Log Wizard
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It all depends. Do you want new content every 3 month with 2 weeks of bugs up front? Or do you want new content every 6 months with probably less bugs?
There's almost no way to keep player retention at this point with 3 month gaps between leagues. Throwbacks are fun, but get stale very quickly. Races are fun too, but I think the revolving schedule and point and reward system is a hassle for them.
Besides the ACTUAL bugs right now I think the balance is fine. If you use the right mercs, with the right items, and ALCHEMY YOUR FUCKING HEISTS you can loot every chest in the whole place. But people didn't have to do that so they don't know to do that. And reddit is just QQ threads and shit-tier memes burying the actual helpful information.
Roll a map. Look at Implicits. There's an "alert level" and "lockdown timer" modifier that goes up as affixes go up. You can get up to 40% reduced alert level and 40% extra lockdown time (afaik) before your merc bonuses. It's quite helpful.
There's almost no way to keep player retention at this point with 3 month gaps between leagues. Throwbacks are fun, but get stale very quickly. Races are fun too, but I think the revolving schedule and point and reward system is a hassle for them.
Besides the ACTUAL bugs right now I think the balance is fine. If you use the right mercs, with the right items, and ALCHEMY YOUR FUCKING HEISTS you can loot every chest in the whole place. But people didn't have to do that so they don't know to do that. And reddit is just QQ threads and shit-tier memes burying the actual helpful information.
Roll a map. Look at Implicits. There's an "alert level" and "lockdown timer" modifier that goes up as affixes go up. You can get up to 40% reduced alert level and 40% extra lockdown time (afaik) before your merc bonuses. It's quite helpful.
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Judge_Mental
Trakanon Raider
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There's more than enough content to go back and re release leagues to give them additional time to make new things much better. Redo all the loose ends in leagues as a throwback spacer with enhanced features like more lore, better uniques etc. All of the principal NPC can have a more fleshed out storyline bosses etc.
I don't think most people would really be annoyed if Tane came back and the parts actually unlocked diablo ubers or Einhar revamping talismans to unlock crafting or other bosses.
Currently they are just throwing unused assets (and a lot of cash in disposable voiceovers) for a totally new league which realistically cant happen in a 3 month cycle Covid or otherwise.
If They space it with a half league worth of updated features, they could probably gain an additional 2-4 months to finish the new league shit annually. Otherwise we are realistically just playing standard fresh every 3 months to watch bots print money to pay their rent.
I don't think most people would really be annoyed if Tane came back and the parts actually unlocked diablo ubers or Einhar revamping talismans to unlock crafting or other bosses.
Currently they are just throwing unused assets (and a lot of cash in disposable voiceovers) for a totally new league which realistically cant happen in a 3 month cycle Covid or otherwise.
If They space it with a half league worth of updated features, they could probably gain an additional 2-4 months to finish the new league shit annually. Otherwise we are realistically just playing standard fresh every 3 months to watch bots print money to pay their rent.
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OU Ariakas
Diet Dr. Pepper Enjoyer
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It's like they dont want to admit that their old content could be refined and integrated better than the first time.
LiquidDeath
Magnus Deadlift the Fucktiger
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The baffling thing is that they could take leagues that people loved and make them better since they know the issues from the first go round.
Tell me who wouldn't like a Harvest redo where they give you a premade garden and take the time to refine the crafting options and allow you to save them to your crafting bench. Shit, they could take the leftover dev time and use it to massively rework how the crafting bench works and it would be a double win.
Why they don't do this and instead leave talismans and fucking ghosts in the game I will never know.
Also, I know they aren't called ghosts, but they are so fucking worthless that I can't even be bothered to remember their actual name. Nobody gives a shit, take them out of the goddamn game already.
Tell me who wouldn't like a Harvest redo where they give you a premade garden and take the time to refine the crafting options and allow you to save them to your crafting bench. Shit, they could take the leftover dev time and use it to massively rework how the crafting bench works and it would be a double win.
Why they don't do this and instead leave talismans and fucking ghosts in the game I will never know.
Also, I know they aren't called ghosts, but they are so fucking worthless that I can't even be bothered to remember their actual name. Nobody gives a shit, take them out of the goddamn game already.
AladainAF
Best Rabbit
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I was a senior QA engineer for over a decade, and I can attest to this as well. COVID wouldn't affect anything quality wise or release schedule including on games. However, I guarantee you that they have a "3 months or else" schedule, and nothing can go outside of that 3 months, and QA concerns are often put on the backburner or deemed not release gating, unless its a bug that's so serious that it wouldn't allow the software to function whatsoever.
They are well aware of these crashes, they just have to have something even remotely releasable every 3 months. Nothing else matters. They'll fix the crashes later.
Caeden
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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I’m enjoying the league but this is the least I’ve played in league start timeframe since I started the game in delve.
i played the shit out of harvest and delirium. I honestly think they need to do four month leagues or three with a 1 month community voted rehash league with some minor fixes.
i played the shit out of harvest and delirium. I honestly think they need to do four month leagues or three with a 1 month community voted rehash league with some minor fixes.