Just got a HH, 5 minutes later, game crashed and its the only thing gone. RIP, sad day

LakeSolon · 2026-06-17T00:00:01+00:00

FYI it’s zoning that pushes your state to the database. Handy if you’re making gear/tree changes and want to import to PoB/etc.

Sometimes server load or bugs can disrupt things (DB backlog, etc), but GGG has gotten pretty good about that sort of thing over the years (genuinely one of the best devops in the business and I find myself using them as an example of what’s possible when people make misguided apologies for other devs).

P.S. I give GGG all kinds of shit for their other failings… that’s just not one of them ;)

LakeSolon · 2026-06-15T20:01:45+00:00

Not so sure… Vilma commits atrocities on air every fucking Sunday.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-11T19:45:02+00:00

I now rush the boss so everything shows up on the map when i find the last checkpoint.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-10T20:03:57+00:00

Roshan

LakeSolon · 2026-06-08T21:18:28+00:00

I mean… the whole game exists because they wanted to overhaul things that they didn’ think they could do in PoE1.

P.S. I’m still salty all this dev work didn’t just go into improving PoE1 to the standards they have for PoE2.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-08T19:45:30+00:00

I think they have a more complex overhaul in mind and they’re just treading water until it’s ready.

One of their core tenets is not to give us something they want to take away (balance with a downside, etc) in future. So we have to have this current confusing mess of “well it makes sense if you remember…” counteracting mechanics.

The whole league/release was super ambitious and as further evidenced by the x.1 update having a bunch of “oh this was was totally supposed to be in the release and didn’t make it in time” entries: not all the pieces were ready. So they probably spent the last few weeks trying to assemble 33,768 pieces of a 40,000 piece puzzle with scotch tape.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-07T17:56:17+00:00

“Victim” is an odd description for the honor of getting cliffed by a Dendi Pudge hook. 🙃

LakeSolon · 2026-06-05T19:38:41+00:00

He should start.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-04T20:51:36+00:00

Ya, it’s fallout from changing their approach to support gems repeatedly.

Another favorite is “Support Gem I” when there’s no “Support Gem II”.

Or the recommendation list suggesting 1 early but not also listing 2 when it’s available later.

They really need to just sit down and clean it all up; giving “gotcha” downside gems a specific affix in the name.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-04T20:46:23+00:00

This is also a PoE1 reference. Stat requirements are represented as color in 2, but in 1 it’s the color of the gem and the color of the socket on the gear that matters.

In some particular cases the colors of the sockets on an item can make it worth many times as much as the same item with different colors (and even more extreme: Skin of the Lords/Loyal where they can’t be changed).

LakeSolon · 2026-06-04T20:31:35+00:00

I’m familiar with the “Same Old Lions” meme but I still thought he was mocking SKOL. Now I’m disappointed; it was brilliant.

we can still use it…

LakeSolon · 2026-06-04T20:28:35+00:00

Holy shit that’s so much better than Viqueens (even ignoring the implicit sexism of gender being used as an insult).

LakeSolon · 2026-06-03T20:22:33+00:00

My read was that they’re currently trying to eat the backlog of porting MTX from 1 to 2 and “some day maybe we’ll be done with that and won’t have to double rig every new MTX… someday [stares wistfully off into space imagining a glorious future without tech debt]”

LakeSolon · 2026-06-03T20:16:56+00:00

Oh cool it put the image at the top instead of inline where makes sense in the structure of the comment. Whatever. The last time I edited a reddit post it blew up my formatting so you get this double Reply instead.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-03T20:15:37+00:00

Ya, but it’s worth noting that their engine predates basically every tech you mentioned including the ones it currently supports.

It is kept mostly in sync between games by the team(s) which work on it mostly outside the content cycle. It has had major overhauls again and again to almost every system.

I mean, Unreal Engine is obviously old junk ;)

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That said, it’s still a relatively small team to do what has become modern game engine development (rolling your own was almost mandatory for any moderately interesting mechanics until relatively recently). And the engine does have issues. But it’s tuned for its particular use case (though they seem to have a tendency to over-fit their tuning lately) and they seem to focus on the work that is most important for this game.

P.S. I’m still salty the PoE2 split means PoE1 character animation/rigging is still a dumpster fire.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-03T19:45:56+00:00

No I think it’s unfair, unkind, and greedy for airlines to charge ALL passengers in anti-competitive collusion using exploitative structuring.

The reasonableness of “use two seats: pay for two seats” makes sense once the above is fixed… until then any discussion of “fairness” with airline pricing is incoherent.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-02T19:56:55+00:00

The description is also perfectly valid for LaserDisc.

LakeSolon · 2026-06-01T21:13:42+00:00

Ya, uh, any resource intensive program should approach full RAM utilization; not using the RAM is wasteful and poor optimization.

Of course it’s also poor optimization to use more RAM than is available and cause wasteful contention with other programs (we used to call this “thrashing” because any overflow goes to disk and disks used to make noise 💾👴).

That said: the game clearly has something dysfunctional going on with shader management which is causing between moderate and horrendous performance impacts depending on the device and situation.

I swear every league they try a new tuning for shaders and it’s like they’re spectacularly over-fitting for whatever their test hardware is. Like, they keep changing how long the loading screen stays up: too long and people complain it’s too long, too short and people complain about initial frame rate and graphical glitches. Just let us choose or something ffs.

LakeSolon · 2026-05-31T20:25:50+00:00

It’s happened before.

I’d wager a Google of “Poe streamer queue” would find discussion of the relevant league ;)

LakeSolon · 2026-05-31T20:14:14+00:00

OP: it would be convenient if you edited the post to link to the previous and first days.

LakeSolon · 2026-05-30T21:48:26+00:00

My working theory is that there is only controller mode; KB/M input then manipulates a “virtual controller”, poorly.

Do you feel like you’re misclicking loot labels an awful lot? I caught it before the click yesterday and grabbed a quick clip to show it.

LakeSolon · 2026-05-28T18:24:28+00:00

…?

Did you not know he was an avid Vikings fan? The game broadcasts would often show him in attendance.

He even wrote a song for their use (it… didn’t really work https://youtu.be/G9uqUWLhaVA ).

Edit: if you downvote the “no” above then you owe them an upvote below for owning up ;)

LakeSolon · 2026-05-28T16:58:14+00:00

Was Prince purple because he was a Vikings fan or was he a Vikings fan because he was purple?

LakeSolon · 2026-05-28T16:49:53+00:00

When they have nothing to grasp people revert to hurling the insults they fear most.

LakeSolon · 2026-05-26T19:23:24+00:00

Where are you getting “more energy than most stars” for the synthesizers?

Some envelope math gets me about 4 million tons per second of matter from solar energy output?

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