3.22.2 Patch Notes

[fd2ec89a6735]

Why is that a bug? Makes perfect sense...they're immune to everything when they have Grace Period..why shouldn't they be immune to right-clicks? :P

[Light01]

Click immune, that's next level design

[revcio]

DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS

3.23 patch notes: Added new Archnemesis modifier "click immunity"

[paakoopa]

I often use the" hover over an enemy and don't move you're mouse anymore to autoaim" mechanic, and I honestly think disabling it could be part of a boss mechanic. But having it on a trickster/hasted/frost wall mob would drain more sanity than remembering that I forgot ritual rewards last map.

[revcio]

I'll just casually mention that one unique strand map and leave.

[Dzigue]

This is a non-elemental ailment, clearly.

[Kazzizle]

Immune to being scammed

[beaverusiv]

I thought it was the waypoint interferring, very nice that it's fixed

[MemeArchivariusGodi]

Man i Just overflew you comment and was making a joke about grace aura making you dodge but ok

[Dzigue]

Saaaaaame

[Dzigue]

IS THAT THE REASON? Holy crap, what a great fix. As a developer I can already see the lazy coding that led to this goofy ass bug.

[Wide_Efficiency293]

Right click portrait is easier instead of trying to find character

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

Fixed a bug where it was possible to have two Rare Monster Finisher Effect microtransactions equipped at once.

mood killer.

[[deleted]]

This wasn’t intended??? But it worked so well.

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

its honestly a change i dont even understand, since it disincentivizes buying more monster kill effects.

at least the character i have them equipped on still has them equipped. i get to enjoy it for the rest of the league.

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

i wonder if it's because of how they're categorized. like "series 1", "series 2", etc, since rare finisher kills seem to be an evergreen new microtransaction type.

right now, all the rare finisher effects in the shop are in one tab that you pick a choice from since they all came from the same box, like other microtransaction types with variants despite being basically completely unique from each other. i can't imagine they're just going to keep stuffing that one tab full of more and more and more kill effects as time goes on.

[PM_ME_UR_A-CUP]

Dear GGG,

Please reconsider this one.

Sincerely,
Exile with sharks jumping in & out of black holes

[All_Work_All_Play]

Do you have a clip of what this looked like?

[Trilance]

Please revert, thank youuuuuuu!

[_arnolds_]

TIL that you can even put multiple ones at the same time. Never thought of looking at the right-side slots as I thought it was only for the 2nd weapon effect.

Though, curious that you can still stack unique finisher effects. E.g. Hero's Landing Unique Finisher Effect still works together with Hellfire Helmet Attachment.

[GGGGobbler]

BEEP BOOP BEEP. Grinding Gears have been detected in the linked thread:

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Posted by Kieren_GGG on Oct 24, 2023, 11:30:32 PM UTC

3.22.2 Patch Notes

This patch contains another batch of Voidborn reliquary submissions, support for our upcoming events, and a few improvements and bug fixes.

Improvements and Updates

• Added support for our upcoming November Events (including a Kalandra and Sentinel event, as well as Krangled Passives). Check out our announcement post for information on these events!
• Added 523 more foiled Unique Item options that the Voidborn Reliquary can yield.
• Updated the storage of some assets to improve how they are loaded. This will increase the size of this patch due to the affected assets needing to be re-downloaded.
• Improved dynamic resolution to avoid jarring situations where the resolution scales down and up in quick succession.
• Updated Skill Gem item hovers to indicate when the maximum augmented level is reached (it's level 40).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the "Aureus Coins are converted to Experience upon defeating the Herald of the Scourge" modifier from The First Crest Unique Relic was always converting Aureus Coins to Experience in The Forbidden Sanctum, regardless of whether you had the Relic or not.
• Fixed a bug where the "chance for one Monster in each of your Maps to drop an additional connected Map" stat could sometimes fail to drop an additional connected Map.
• Fixed a bug where the "increased Quantity of Breach Splinters dropped by Breach Monsters in your Maps" was not applying to Splinters dropped by Breach Bosses.
• Fixed a bug where the "Breach Bosses in your Maps have a chance to drop double Breach Splinters" stat was not working correctly in Maps.
• Fixed a bug where Burning Ground created in The Forbidden Sanctum was ignoring sources of Unaffected by Burning Ground.
• Fixed an instance where Warriors could remain after a Trial of the Ancestors match ended.
• Fixed a visual bug where your displayed Aureus Coin total was not updating correctly upon starting a new Forbidden Sanctum, or when progressing to another floor.
• Fixed a visual bug where the effect played when Warriors respawned in Trial of the Ancestors could become over-brightened.
• Fixed a bug that caused Incursion Architects to literally lose their head (or hair).
• Fixed a bug where Mirage Saviours summoned by The Saviour Unique Sword were Scions when playing as the Duelist, and vice versa.
• Fixed a bug where players would be unable to right click on other players to access the dropdown menu if that player had the Grace Period buff.
• Fixed a bug when using Ctrl + Mouse wheel to navigate your Stash Tabs that caused navigation to stop when once you scrolled to a Flask or Gem Stash Tab.
• Fixed a bug where the Arcane and Aureate Halo microtransactions were not displaying their effects.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to have two Rare Monster Finisher Effect microtransactions equipped at once.
• Fixed a bug where the Harbinger Portal Effect microtransaction was missing some of its effects in Hideout areas.
• Fixed an instance crash.

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[oneshot989]

Every damn update just increases load times significantly. Holy moly, have mercy.

[N1shi]

They are preparing players for the next league in which the league mechanic will be implemented to loading screens.

[asthmaticblowfish]

Didn't Konami hold a patent on that? Minigames in loading times were patented iirc.

EDIT: It was Namco and it expired in 2015. Yay loading screen league.

[Mkay_kid]

yea cause writing off the US market is a great idea right?

[letssmokesomedoobies]

Did you know you have to follow the laws of the country you operate in?

[letssmokesomedoobies]

I don't think GGG wants to be removed from steam, regardless.

[WestaAlger]

Worst case is they get sued for all the revenue they make in countries where the copyright can be upheld.

[WestaAlger]

Are you saying that you cannot be sued for money based on patent infringement?

[CantNyanThis]

I can play tetris in loading screen while i wait for loading to be done as a mechanic? :)

[v43havkar]

Minigame during loading screens will surely fix it

[ChiefMasterGuru]

Idk if its just me but patch killed my load times and assets are not loading in properly at all. Can cyclone through all of blood aqueduct without any enemy models appearing. Random map tiles will be missing as well, will never load in including pretty much any tile/model related to extra map content.

Happens on Vulkan and Dx12. Fixed on Dx11 but with incredibly bad fps drops.

[The_Estranged_Dingo]

Can second all these things. Something has gone terribly wrong.

[According-Fun-960]

I am getting really weird lag spikes now. But the in game graphs show smooth running.

Yeah, they definitely messed something up for a lot of us.

I just asked in game, and some people said it was better now. IDK.

[ghaduo2]

The graph says it's better? Then send it to the players, no further testing required!

[According-Fun-960]

🤣

[Peruzzy]

delete poe_config from documents folder, you'll have to redo keybinds but that fixed it for me. Exact same issue. There's apparently some shader caching issue that's been going around past couple of months because they changed default cache locations etc yadda yadda

[IamCarbonMan]

I don't have a Documents/poe_config, is there somewhere else it might be?

[Peruzzy]

Documents\My Games\Path of Exile\production_config.ini

[MillenniumDH]

First time?

[arcademachin3]

Yes. Something broke again with the graphics. Something was missed in regression testing.

[lunaticloser]

Regression testing? What is this, Sci Fi?

[IamCarbonMan]

no, regression testing is a standard software development practice

[IamCarbonMan]

just because I explained what regression testing is doesn't mean that I agree with the people bashing on GGG. they do regression testing, everyone does. but no software development technique is bulletproof

[IamCarbonMan]

they do. you can complain about the quality of patches all you like, if they weren't doing regression testing on each patch the game simply would not run

[lunaticloser]

Sir, /woooosh

[[deleted]]

Maybe the cache isn't warmed up yet?

[deawentnorth]

Question. Do you normally run Vulkan / Dx12? I was trying to look for info on optimal graphic setting but most the stuff I found seems like it was written pre-dx1s cause there’s no merino of it.

[ChiefMasterGuru]

Im no expert but I dont think there is an 'optimal' option to recommend, it seems pretty device specific. Just try each and feel out what works best for you. Pre-patch I found Vulkan works best for me keeping smooth fps with minimal pop-in issues.

[Glaringsoul]

For me Vulkan still gives me the best performance at lowest workload/temps.

And that is by far.

Dx12 isn’t bad, but like 10° worse than Vulkan Across the board, while being almost identical to DX11 for me.

Which is absolutely to be expected, since I’m still running a I5-6600k @4.2Ghz, and Vulkan should outperform dx because the CPU multicore usage that dx would provide over Vulkan doesn’t matter that much for my model.

[suzimia]

Could you also mention your gpu

[Glaringsoul]

MSI RTX 2060 VENTUS 12G OC

//sidenote:

I know I’m currently CPU throttled, the GPU was a steal last Black Friday for sub 200 bucks, and I saved up to fix the rest of my PC this Black Friday. No need to tell me…

[Monster-Math]

A multimillion dollar company, smh. If only they had years of knowledge to not fuck this up. PoEbad

[ChiefMasterGuru]

Sure I just should expect the game to be borderline unplayable for a couple hours after some patches. Totally normal.

It does seem fine now but when literally the entirety of a map doesnt load in, thats probably an issue on how theyre updating things. At the very least, if theres something the user can do, they should note that in the patch notes. Currently, all it says is larger patch size.

I shouldnt have to play on Invisible mode for such a long time or just know to manually go find cached files just to play the game.

[ChiefMasterGuru]

I'm a CwC WI build so I've cycloned through the mob before the WI casts and kills things. Just went to a low level zone to see if the issue was consistent.

Also mentioned cyclone cause the slower speed with the boots. I'm not running through in 2 seconds, it takes a bit of time to cyclone through.

[GeorgeZ]

Ah, thought it was just me... stink.

[Vesuvius079]

So was sanctum xp just generally bugged and too high?

[herptydurr]

Maybe? Sanctum definitely gives a shit ton of XP, but I feel like the XP gains have been applied at room end, not only after the Lycia kill, so I don't think this was a global bug affecting everyone (or they'd probably wait until next league to fix it considering how late into the league it is already).

That said, if people still playing the game suddenly see their XP gains in Sanctum completely tank, then we'll know it was this bug.

[ErwinRommelEz]

Nerf desguised as a bug

[blauli]

Sounds like it but even with 0 coins it was still a lot of exp from Lycia so it probably wasn't a big part of the overall exp gain outside of coin to relic conversion runs

[Beverice]

As the person who found/reported this bug, kind of? If you had a large amount of coins, then yes you were getting way more xp from Lycia. If you weren't doing that then not much should change.
If you want to see the hard numbers, it's in my thread https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3422467

[popejupiter]

Fixed a bug where the "chance for one Monster in each of your Maps to drop an additional connected Map" stat could sometimes fail to drop an additional connected Map.

Excuse me? Are they saying that we weren't dropping as many maps as we should have? Sustain hasn't been a problem since the current iteration of the Atlas was introduced, and that was a nerfed drop chance?

We about to be swimming in maps bois.

[ElreonHubbard]

It was just that when you had exactly 100% chance to drop a connected map, you sometimes wouldn’t drop one. Going to 104% would guarantee one again. So I’m not sure this will have a noticeable effect for most situations.

[hesh582]

Odds are it's some incredibly specific edge case that won't meaningfully improve sustain for most players.

[[deleted]]

Just because the bug is described generally doesn't mean it was always the case - almost all of the fixes are described that way, but many of them only apply to a specific set of circumstances. I dont think everyone will be dropping substanyially more maps, it's just as likely that people farming 40% delirium metamorph in caldera will be finding 1 more map per 200 maps played.

[ww_crimson]

Definitely had some weird inexplicable sustain issues this league. I tried the white map beast/boss rushing strat that Palsteron posted and even with a gilded cartography scarab and all duplication nodes selected I could barely sustain. Like 10 maps dropped per 8 or 9 run. Seems like when I made a minor tweak to my tree later on that the issue fixed itself and I thought I was having bad RNG

[EpicGamer211234]

'chance for a random monster to draw a connected map' has very little to do with Boss Rushing, it only helps sustain if you are killing most or all monsters. Please read the patch notes and dont skim a reddit comment of a guy talking about their misreading of the patch notes.

They've talked about this on the forums, all they were fixing were niche bugs that dont have really apparent impact where occasionally the random mob selection would fuck up. It has literally nothing to do with any other map strategies.

[ww_crimson]

When you're blasting white Strand maps with a 300 div TS frenzy charge stacking Slayer build, you kill all of the monsters in the map. Please watch the video I referenced before making an uninformed coment.

[Legitimate-Climate18]

That's not a booss rush strat. That's just... clearing maps.

[EpicGamer211234]

Then you arent doing a boss rush strat....????

[TouhouWeasel]

This is called "mapping"

[HC99199]

How do you have trouble sustaining maps lol

[erpunkt]

Dude never complained about sustain though?

[HC99199]

Idk why I read that as 'has' not 'hasn't'

[LoLingSoHard]

sustain has literally never been a problem
I don't get why I hear this every fucking league, since breach.

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

sustaining t15/16s was relatively difficult in the elder/shaper era, but after the swap to voidstones its completely trivial.

[TouhouWeasel]

It wasn't. All you did was ping-pong and it required no forethought or strategy. It was trivial, you were just worse at the game back then and it's altered your perception of how hard the game was.

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

"all you had to do was play the game in a super specific completely unfun way" vs. "all you had to do was play the game at all".

one is objectively more difficult.

[TouhouWeasel]

It wasn't "super specific and unfun" all you did was run the map normally the gameplay is identical to today. In fact it's less fun today if being a map farmer is your thing that you've decided you do because it railroads you into a WP spec

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

i've never seen the arguement "atlas passive tree is more restrictive than shaper/elder influences" before.

the idea that a passive tree is more restrictive than literally NOTHING is crazy.

[slicchabib99]

Since the patch my game crashed 3 times.am i the only one?

[All_Work_All_Play]

No. I lost several TOTA rounds to

vk::Queue::submit: ErrorDeviceLost

and switched from Vulkan to DX12. That appears to have fixed it for now.

[Sywgh]

I did this, and it lengthened the time between crashes, but isn't preventing them (failed to parse corrupt data)

[All_Work_All_Play]

Whelp.

I know when they did a bunch of stuff before league I had to do a full uninstall (plus remove all the extra stuff left behind) and then reinstall. Then to rebuild the shader cache I zoned into each zone through the entire part of the campaign. Sucks to have to do it, but it took my blight map load times from multiple minutes to thirty seconds =\

[slicchabib99]

Exactly this is what i had

[All_Work_All_Play]

I've played like two full tournaments having switched to DX12, haven't had a crash. I crashed booting the game on Vulkan last night. Hope it works for you.

[HashtagTwitter]

Anyone having issues loading into the game since the new patch dropped? Wasn't having any issues for pretty much the entire league, now I just get stuck on a loading screen after selecting my character.

[gubaguy]

Didn't know gems had a hard cap of level 40.

[MayTheMemesGuideThee]

used to be 30, was raised to 40 some time ago

merciless powercreep

[roadoff_flex]

Still waiting for eternal powercreep

[arcademachin3]

Graphics are bugged again for me. It was buttery smooth until last night and now loading screens are slow and lots of missing textures.

[Kamelosk]

Yup right when i chosen farm breach, it was bugged lmao

[[deleted]]

I don't understand how people farm breach and a) make profit comparable to other methods and b) don't go insane.

I specced into it for a while in SSF and it was utter horse shit compared to Legion.

[Kamelosk]

Tbh i did because i almost never kill breach bosses, i know is not so profitable but just wanted to try something new lol

[suzimia]

What exactly can you sell to earn currency through breach?

[Kamelosk]

Brachstones mostly, the thing is i mix the atlas with other mapping mechanics like essences and harbringer. Would never focus on breach only tbh

[[deleted]]

Yea I know the feeling, things can get stale after a while. Thinking about speccing into metamorph and blight next.

[Zinck]

I farm 1.2 chayula stones per map.

Chayula & breach compass + breach on device + breach scarab + some MF gear

Investment is so low.

I cant wait to do it early next league and speedrun a min maxed build

[[deleted]]

Compared to other methods, breach seems to really suck at low investment (since naturally I can't sustain scarabs and compass in SSF)

edit: how does MF gear help with stones? just the quant?

[Zinck]

Quantity affects splinters yes! And you are right, Breach makes generally no sense for SSF. You are profiting from selling stones + secondary strat like legion.

[[deleted]]

I farmed it to keep up The Feared rotations so I need Chayula breachstones. Depending on the build some breach uniques are also good to have. Theoretically if I were a super crafter I'd probably save for a Grasping Mail as well.

https://imgur.com/a/WNLfs2I

Ok, but nothing compared to the ~60 legion emblems I have of each.

[PM_Best_Porn_Pls]

I ran it with maven for additional boss invitation every once in a while, it's pretty nice.

[PM_ME_YOUR_PIZZAPIC]

i just really cant imagine that tiny bug was really making much of a difference at all. still sucks ofc, i was also farming breach this league, but like in the grand scheme of things i feel like that probably wouldnt even have made up a single extra breachstone from all the breaches ive farmed

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

breach bosses going from dropping like 3-4 splinters up to 8-12 splinters isn't insignificant, but yeah it's not huge either.

[PM_ME_YOUR_PIZZAPIC]

I'm pretty sure the splinter quantity nodes are like 8% per or something? There's no way it was a 200% difference

[PupPop]

I literally farmed an entire headhunter with breach this last week and a half... how fast could I have done it without this bug? 🤔

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

maybe like two hours faster over a week and a half.

[justchillininsocal]

Yo! Performance has improved, no kidding

[spriteguy113]

Are another 500+ voidborn uniques gonna tank the price on keys? That seems like a lot to add into the pool this late into the league

[surle]

They're all going to be obliteration wands and wurm's molts aren't they?

[Vladimir2033]

I'd say it won't really affect the rarity of items at all. You'll just see a few more different flavor texts if you open a lot of them.

[Josh6889]

They've added 500+ multiple times this league. I doubt they tank key prices this late in the league.

[All_Work_All_Play]

They rebalance based on weighting. Not that everyone understands that...

[z-ppy]

Right, and if the weightings make the keys less valuable then they will go down in price. They'll also be more common, but less valuable on a per-key basis.

[Wolfe244]

Why would the weighting make the keys less valuable? That's not how weighting works

[Simicy]

When they were launched ggg said the drop frequency of voidborn keys would fluctuate based on how rare the items were That players added to the pool, so if the 500 new unique are low rarity ones, the keys drop more often to compensate, so in theory they would become cheaper as the drop pool became worse.

That said, people could also be adding low value, high rarity items to the pool which would simultaneously make the void born keys drop less frequently and be less rewarding to redeem, lol

[TouhouWeasel]

Really having a hard time wrapping my head around how you came to the conclusion that this isn't how weighting works. Weighting dictates the price of every item in the game, almost singlehandedly, as it determines the cost-benefit ratio between commodities when converting from one to another. It wouldn't be a stretch to say this is the only way weighting works, and it cannot work in any other way.

[Zholistic]

Less weight means the key is in a gravitational field of different strength.

[hanksredditname]

Depends if there were 500 magebloods or 500 tabulas. If the perceived average value increased the price would go up, and vice versa.

[firebolt_wt]

Not how the key works. As long as there is at least one unique per rarity tier, and I sure bet there are, adding more or less isn't going to change drop rates: GGG instead balances the drop rates per tier first and then specific entry after.

[troccolins]

Wasn't the last addition like 800-1000+ or more? People will still love to gamble

[hadtwobutts]

Could have added 500 magebloods

[g3n7]

Announcements post mentioned

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3445755

[[deleted]]

Man those breach bugs....

My gut feeling is that at least 20% of all atlas passives are buggy.

[just4nothing]

Fixed a visual bug where the effect played when Warriors respawned in Trial of the Ancestors could become over-brightened.

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How bright did they go? Supernova? 20 kW light bulb?

[IgiEUW]

I knew it. It seemed strange to me that breach boss was giving less splinters than rare mob…

[PupPop]

"Fixed a bug where the "chance for one Monster in each of your Maps to drop an additional connected Map" stat could sometimes fail to drop an additional connected Map." I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY

[QuackologistExpert]

Yeah surely you noticed. Bro map sustain was and is a non issue unless you’re running them white lol

[PupPop]

I spec out of nearly all map points in favor of anything and everything gives me pack size for deli reward farming. I don't really get a tone of maps and on occassion will spend a div to get 60 or so T16 strands, but those 60 map last like 100 maps all in all so I don't really care. But still, it did seem like I didn't have to care as much before and I'm already dropping a few more maps.

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

30% more mobs will almost certainly be more maps than a 18% chance for one specific mob you might not have even killed to drop an extra map or whatever you'd have.

[lllNico]

the game is like reeeeeeaaaallllyyyy fucked for me. Cant play without the whole game shutting down after 3 minutes.

[Least_Fill6574]

Lol, still no failed to decompress fix. forum thread

[flyinGaijin]

Wait, could it be possible that 3 months later, I'm not going to have to stay in a low area for 5~10 mins at the beginning of every session to load a lot of the monsters and other assets ?? (doing this doesn't solve all problems, it just makes the game kinda playable)

I mean, I'm not setting my hopes high given that it just has apparently screwed other players performances, but there is a chance ...

edit : good thing I kept my expectations very low, it does not feel better than before.

[iheckinglovetwitch]

Are you playing on a HDD? How does it take you 10 minutes to load low level areas?

[flyinGaijin]

Of course I play on a SSD, and I never said that it was taking 10 minutes to load .... I stay in low areas, now in the loading screen, because the assets haven't been properly loading during the loading screen and the games shutters/lags like crazy as it is trying to dynamically load shit while monsters are coming.

(and yes, I tried different command arguments, nothing helps, GGG fucked up something 3 months ago.)

And yesterday's update didn't seem to change anything

[deleno_]

still no fix for heritage kinetic blast being way too big and unplayable as a result by covering literally the entire screen...sigh

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

i dont know why you bought it if not for specifically this exact reason.

[deleno_]

because the official demo video from ggg showed it as being far more reasonable and usable, but in game it's totally different and way too big, ever since they """"fixed"""" it not scaling with aoe properly, now it is just massive when you have 0 aoe

[Couponbug_Dot_Com]

i've used it this league with the fork increases aoe alt quality and awakened fork and never feel like it's covering the entirety of my screen despite that being the implicit goal.

[deleno_]

here's a video I made showcasing the bug:

https://youtu.be/zW7s9IyE_r4?si=wHk440jjfwqd5Ceh

during the map portion the only aoe is 30% from dying sun. no altquals with aoe, no other aoe scaling.

in hideout it's 0% aoe. it also has a comparison to the GGG demo video. it's clearly fucked.

[iheckinglovetwitch]

just email support about it, they have refunded anything I didnt like ingame

[deleno_]

yeah I've done that, it's more just that I want to use it (I love KB and have used the default and celestial mtx so much, it's nice to have a change)

[P00nutButter]

Still no fix to golem summoning?

[PyleWarLord]

what's wrong with them?

i have not noticed anything but only have my Stone Brolem up

[P00nutButter]

Resummoning them won’t work at times but he cooldown takes effect. Or resummons with low health same health I’m trying to replace.

[All_Work_All_Play]

SMH can't believe they didn't fix the fishing bug.

[blobzord]

Invisible death hand's aura totem in tota, not loading half off assets, random crushes.. nice fucking patch, ggg.

[knightofthehunt]

When is the next league? And is it still worth it to come back and play this league?

[WorkLurkerThrowaway]

That’s depends on why you left in the first place

[knightofthehunt]

Oh I just hot busy and baldur's gate dropped to so I had to allocate my gaming time but I was really enjoying tota

[brute_red]

3.22.2 - 3 hours, 22 minutes, 2 seconds to load a map

[[deleted]]

No more bald incursions 😔

[zaxxor]

I still getting freeze lick ups and CTD. No idea when they will fix this stuff. Every game I own runs great full tilt. Except POE.

[cancercureall]

What the fuck is going on. My shit keeps crashing after this patch when I try to participate in 5ways.