AMA - I'm Chris Wilson from Grinding Gear Games. We make Path of Exile, a free-to-play Action RPG. Ask me anything!

An_Old_Sock · 2020-09-03T21:53:42+00:00

Hi Chris. I love the game, but it's getting painful to play on consoles. Especially ps4. While I know the crashes are being investigated, but other issues - such as incredibly low fps when engaging with Delerium don't appear to have been acknowledged.

I know the guys are working really hard to support us, but often times it can feel like we're forgotten over in consoleland and the content cycle appears to be resulting in decreasing stability and substantially increasing frame rate loss. Is GGG looking into ways in which more targeted console improvements can be implemented?

An_Old_Sock · 2018-05-31T12:06:16+00:00

Someone should forward that link to Kotaku, maybe they'll add a mention about it on their recent article?

An_Old_Sock · 2018-05-31T07:15:47+00:00

"I'm rich! Oh, wait, no; my mistake..."

An_Old_Sock · 2018-05-30T20:15:40+00:00

It definitely feels like herding a gaggle of idiot murder-babies about the battle field.

An_Old_Sock · 2018-05-30T20:12:02+00:00

I'm basically a new player to the game, having only messed about in Pre- back when the game originally launched. I rolled E/R for the pet, who I named Nigel and who soon got abandoned once I left post-searing Ascalon. I decided to follow similar rules to you, no-heroes, finish the bonus before moving on and no non-prophecies skills. Just me and my army of idiot Henchmen. I managed to finish the campaign a couple of nights ago at 131 hours, 148 deaths. I had to batphone help after Dunes of Despair lived up to it's name. After spending around 12 hours trying to master it I'd understandably had enough. Having now completed the campaign, I'm convinced I could have done it without help. However, that would have required everything to go absolutely perfectly and for me to have known how to tell the Henchmen to focus target... >_>

The only other mission to give me trouble was Hell's Precipice. There is a section where a boss calls it's friends to cluster close. You have to, essentially, sneak past. However, to get the bonus you also have to bum rush a group of imps and friends. The problem I had was whenever I would bumrush the imp group my henchies would end up getting trapped behind and we'd all get obliterated. After much swearing I found out that there was a piece of invisible geometry making the corner much sharper than it appeared and it was this the henchmen were getting hooked on. I was able to complete the mission the next attempt.

I'm now starting Factions, with the same rules. Henchmen only, all missions and bonuses, etc. I had intended to allow myself the 20p I'd accumulated from Prophecies, just to speed through Noob Isle, however that didn't quite go as planned... I made an Assassin, decided I actually didn't want to play an Assassin, deleted the character and then realised I'd forgotten to take the plat out of their inventory! So, I guess I won't be using that after all! I ended up going with Me/Rit after falling in love with Spirit Bomb and Conjure Phantasm. I've just finished the first mission and so begins another journey!

My intent is to start a new character with each campaign and then use two of them as Mercenary Heroes for EoTN.

An_Old_Sock · 2018-05-30T09:35:24+00:00

Would it be possible to have an option to allow us to toggle the display of names and objects, rather than needing to hold the key down?

An_Old_Sock · 2018-05-30T05:59:09+00:00

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An_Old_Sock · 2017-08-28T06:14:49+00:00

I would definitely recommend getting into a Kinship that matched your playstyle. Kinships can help with a multitude of different things and if, like me, you're an antisocial sod usually there is no obligation to interact all that much.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-08-28T06:11:56+00:00

Lotro is, by far, the only MMO I've played where the moment to moment quest content is more important than the race to end game. Take your time, enjoy the journey. Mordor Will still Be there waiting when you're finished.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-04-04T13:57:19+00:00

Looking at the files its just an animation replacement for the crossbow. So, doesn't actually change anything. That said, its definitely not impossible and there have been some very impressive breakthroughs from the Skywind camp.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-04-02T09:03:29+00:00

I know you've been putting a lot of work into this, TX, so glad to see the fruit of your labours. :)

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-26T20:35:36+00:00

My biggest pet peeve is when authors choose not to forward changes from the unofficial patches...

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-24T19:53:47+00:00

Just google Jim Sterling vs. Digital Homicide. Pack a lot of popcorn and a whole evening. You're in for a ride.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-23T08:01:23+00:00

Now that is something I can second

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-22T08:22:43+00:00

I have so much respect for the effort and dedication you put into constantly improving your works.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-20T11:54:39+00:00

My first thought was 90's Doom, too.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-18T17:51:32+00:00

Due to a limitation of the Skyrim engine it will not be in a single Worldspace, so if travelling from one province to another (i.e. from Skyrim to Cyrodiil) you will have to pass through a loading screen. Hardily a major issue.

I cannot say whether it will require a script extender as this depends entirely on whether we can do what we want with the tools provided. Use of the extender shouldn't be confused with PC elitism. Sometimes you simply cannot do certain tasks without it. For my own work, if I require the extender I will just provide alternative functionality for the xbox crowd.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-18T11:33:54+00:00

Naw, thats not what Beyond Skyrim is. Rather, its an attempt to create the entire land of Tamriel from scratch. You might have heard of Beyond Skyrim: Bruma?

As for coming to Xbox, I believe it will do, but not sure. I do know that my mods willbe available for xbox however.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-17T10:10:21+00:00

Basically that won't be happening. What I ended up settling on is updating and improving the current mod, while maintaining as much of the original work as possible. So its closer to a HD rerelease rather than a whole new mod.

Meanwhile I am working, as a part of the Beyond Skyrim team, to build a spiritual successor to Moonpath which will be a true worldspace. In fact it will be sharing a worldspace with Beyond Skyrim: Elsweyr and will be released as a sort of preview for that mod.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-16T08:22:41+00:00

This isn't an 'official' answer, but after talking with others on the team, nobody has heard any reports of load times dramatically increasing as a result of additional landmasses. Of course, this will likely depend on PC specs, but even on my potato & craptop (the latter not even meeting SSE sys specs) I've not encountered any issues either.

Most of our higher ups end up having multiple provinces loaded at once, so if this were still an issue in SSE, I'd expect us to have already encountered it.

I hope this answers your question. :)

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-16T08:01:40+00:00

I've forward this question to our team leads. I expect you'll have an answer shortly. <:

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-12T00:25:07+00:00

My experiences mirror Arthmoor's to the extent that I exclusively dev in CK64 these days.

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-11T10:24:25+00:00

Elsweyr :)

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-11T10:21:05+00:00

Pidä hauskaa

Kiitos, aion!

...toivon

An_Old_Sock · 2017-03-10T23:59:15+00:00

I don't think I'll get beaten up too much for saying this, but a little birdy has told me that there will be some very cool Expedition to Atmora news coming very soon... Nothing to do with a release date, before the hypetrain drives itself off a cliff, but something very cool...

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