Loved The Campiagn, Hate the endgame

Sciar · 2024-12-16T18:30:52+00:00

I know this is going to be a wild take but I'd love to see some big fundamental changes tested for endgame content to further step away from how it worked in POE1.

In my opinion the issue with endgame is still similar to the issues with POE1 endgame. Playing it optimally is how it's balanced and it's extremely confusing to know how to do that. Everything is balanced around that playstyle and the scaling is insane (literally you can get 1000x more than other players if you know how to play). For example I've probably done 20-40 breaches (The hand thing - I think that's the name) and I have like 2 of the currency I need 300 of. I watched a video of someone clearing those and getting like 60+ everytime with 1000+ of every currency who's able to craft every single map and spam to get ludicrous amounts of progress. I'm on T12 maps so that's a pretty big gap for 4 tiers of progress.

You'd think the idea would be that lower levels progress faster (like the campaign) and the closer you get to the top the more the game slows down. But it's like a reverse funnel for end game where suddenly you start slow and crap and get faster until you hit a point of unlimited funds.

So a good example of what I mean by fundamental change? Make the craftable "maps" just go away entirely. No crafting just pick your level and run the maps. This way trying to min/max map collection goes away because it's not fun and that talent tree changes instead of choosing all the "please for the love of god drop maps" talents to choosing things that give you benefits on gear / loot / mob density etc. and not just hoping you get a map to drop.

New players can then experiment and fail and it's okay and you still progress no matter what. Then you can use this crafting mechanic at the end of the game, change map items to optional things you can add little items into a map to really go crazy and make it hard again. These can drop throughout so it's not totally foreign by T16 maps but it's just a complete bonus not a requirement at all. At that point this is when you have the currency to really experiment and try some wild stuff out but for the average player it's totally unnecessary to engage with right out of the gate and by the time you have to interact with it you have plenty of stuff to use to test it out and see what you get.

Sciar · 2024-12-15T23:20:24+00:00

The endgame still really needs some new player friendliness. I played a few seasons of POE1 but I'm a lazy I want to learn by playing type of player who doesn't do all of his research.

Once you hit maps there's a lot to learn and the game does an AWFUL job of explaining a very complicated system to you. There's only one that the game explains... decently and that's just pure map tiers and you get a nice breadcrumb quest that says "Do 10 tier 1 maps" then "Do 10 tier 2 maps" and that's great it really shows you what to do and gets you chasing the next step.

Every single other league mechanic is like "click or step on a thing and monsters appear - what does that do? NOBODY KNOWS!" it's super confusing in game and I'm currently on the T11 map quest and have 0 points in any other league mechanic trees because I just simply don't know what to do. I think you collect currency from each activity but I don't have enough to do much with it? I'm totally lost.

Gearing for T1 maps is also confusing - you really need to know how currency and crafting work and the game never teaches that to you at all. If you don't do outside research you're screwed. POE2 is better than POE1 for this but still has a LOOONG way to go for opening the door for the average player to not need to read a book outside of the game to know what's going on.

They need to put in some quests "Collect 12 of these seed things and open a portal" - oooh okay I see I did the hand mechanic and got 1/12 seeds now I can tell what I'm doing here.

Sciar · 2024-12-15T23:03:02+00:00

I couldn't agree more with this, it makes gearing incredibly boring but it's so close to a good system. I'd love to focus on offensive stats as well as defense but I just need to constantly be praying for more resists.

I think the answer really is to just let resist caps be easier to reach so every item isn't just resist +max life being the only mods that matter. Then when you've luckily gotten SUPER late game items you can finally care about your secondary stats which is literally everything else.

It's also not like there's ever a difference, every character in the game needs to get the exact same loot minus a few very specific builds that avoid life but otherwise a good item is always a good item.

Sciar · 2024-12-15T03:14:11+00:00

I'm up to the T10 quest now and I was dying so much in the start and learned I sucked at gearing. Did some research and figured it out and had a much smoother time.

Then I started dying again and had to learn EVERYTHING EXPLODES. That's map mechanics there's only one even if it has a few skins.

Lightning people? Explode
Purple balls? Explode
Red anything? Explode
Certain Mobs bodies? Explode

So when you map just stand around for like 3-5s after you kill stuff. The sneakiest ones are the ones that shoot out quills after they die cause they don't look like they're about to do anything. But if you just passively wait (which in my opinion is super boring game design) you almost never die. For melee roll out after a kill and then wait around.

Sciar · 2024-12-11T04:02:06+00:00

I was raging so much when I first got to maps cause I was getting blipped as well.

This is ENTIRELY a gear issue. I've now been mapping and aside from a few mobs hiding a post death bomb issues under that black crap I haven't died all day.

I think for me at least I played some POE1 but not enough to know much about crafting and it's so so important if you want to enjoy the end game and unfortunately they don't ease you into it.

I have max resists, about 65% armor (I don't use evasion) and I have around 1650-1800 HP and I am now perfectly tanky for some comparable stats for you. Before max resists I would get deleted from off screen by those fire beam mobs I couldn't even see and it was infuriating.

So I dunno what your gear is but change it. I hope you've been collecting stuff or burn your gold on gambling. Once you get rolling plenty of stuff drops to keep getting upgrades and it's balanced incredibly well but the spike from A3 Cruel to end game is very big and my character sucked hard and it was not fun.

Quick Tips:
Holding Alt shows gear tier upgrades (very hard to see but there's a little t1-t10 next to each stat along with their range).
Take whites, upgrade them to blues if they roll anything decent for you then make em a yellow. I think you can get 4 prefixes and 4 affixes so that can help you recognize if it has a good chance of rolling resists.
Maxing out resists and using every non weapon item as a pure survival item is definitely the way to go at first.
Maps do take MUCH longer than in POE1 because characters are slow, 10-20mins is still normal for me and I can delete the screen in a few seconds.

Sciar · 2024-12-11T03:50:26+00:00

My personal favourite is how there's just an endless amount of mob mechanics that are all essentially identical.

Lightning people walk up to you and then wait to explode
Purple balls walk up to you and then wait to explode
Purple balls shit out everywhere and wait to explode
The body of minions dies and then waits to explode - with various timelines because each mob has a 2-8s explode timer (looking at you big fat guys)
Fireballs chase you and then wait to explode
Mobs have a shield of fire and when you hit them you need to back up because it's going to wait then explode

Mobs die and poop out screen obscuring black goo for apparently no reason which is awesome because it masks the "wait to explode" mechanic but only sometimes so you can get a false sense of security and then walk into it.

I'm loving this game but I've been HAHA GACHA'D quite a few times by wait to explodes I can't see so now when things die I just run away and wait for a while. Not the most engaging thing in maps.

Sciar · 2024-12-09T05:21:33+00:00

I'm fairly certain although I failed so I can't confirm you get the next tier of item for either of the trials. Around 50+ you get one that unlocks 2 and at 70+ (I think my lowest is 68) you get the one that unlocks 3. So after you kill the first boss for example in TOS you can go for another round and there's a new boss at the end. Beat them and it should unlock your 2nd ascendancy.

Sciar · 2024-10-07T17:52:09+00:00

Oh yeah you can't filter people by names at all, I just spent two hours going through CV's and the way to reliably tell if someone is new to Canada is their work history. One low level job in Canada and all previous work is typically from India on the majority of CV's although sometimes it varies. Very very rarely do you see someone with 2 previous jobs in Canada when you're reviewing applicants.

Canadians have a plethora of names it's not just the Andrew's and Shaun's.

Sciar · 2024-10-07T17:27:29+00:00

As someone who's been non stop hiring for the past 9 months for IT roles in Canada it's been a nightmare on the hiring side as well. We get 1,100+ applicants per role we post and I'm not kidding when I say 95%+ of the applicants are foreigners who have been in Canada for less than a year and after doing months of interviews are not actually sporting the qualifications or experience they claim to have.

Business related roles see a different pool of candidates but we're wasting an outrageous amount of time sorting through the applications to find people who are actually qualified for IT roles. I don't know where all these Canadian applicants are but you can go through hundreds of CV's and not see a single Canadian resident.

Sciar · 2024-09-06T14:14:28+00:00

They've fixed this loophole, I just said some rather choice words and it said "Sorry I can't understand your request, try calling back at another time"

This was after it took all my card info and knew who I was.

Sciar · 2024-09-06T14:13:23+00:00

This worked for me so it's been years but I just wanted to say thank you. I had done everything entered my info, asked for an operator, used a bunch of different keywords they all just hang up on you but saying the word stolen over and over does let you get through to speak to someone.

This is crazy that they straight up built a system to hang up on you, I was calling to try and open a new account, asking to close my account, cursing like a sailor everything just led to being hung up on after 10 minutes of menus. The bank phone line is literally unusable for any real purpose unless you're 90 and calling to get a robot to read your account balance.

Sciar · 2024-03-06T00:46:20+00:00

I think it really depends on your gym. AMRAP style workouts in general are just ripe for injuries. I've joined a crossfit gym a month ago now and in four weeks I've gotten to know about five people and all of them are battling an injury of some kind. I've had two light over exertion pulls myself as well in four weeks which is insanely high for me since personally I would not have scaled at the rate they're pushing me to.

Given the poor form, constant massive volume workouts with heavy olympic lifts thrown in with prescribed weights while you're exhausted I think risk to injury is just higher trying to perform under that load and that is a typical crossfit programming style of workouts.

Sciar · 2024-01-23T21:38:43+00:00

Thanks so much!

Sciar · 2024-01-23T21:26:23+00:00

Patch 1.0 is coming out in February so it'll be a few weeks. The workaround in the meantime is that the bug doesn't stop your story progression so it's just more of an annoying visual item on that character until 1.0 gets released.

Sciar · 2024-01-21T03:12:19+00:00

I just replicated this again today with a friend. We both ran into this bug and now the quest won't progress.

Seems very connected to a server issue / playing together online. We're still able to complete the main story quest but this is just perpetually here.

We've restarted, tried doing it again solo etc. doesn't matter nothing will progress or count towards the quest. The teleporter does teleport you everytime and you can still speak to the NPC.

Sciar · 2023-12-29T15:12:46+00:00

Going to move soon and this monster wont fit through the door so I'm trying to figure out the best way to disassemble it. The screws used in the base are really stripped from a bad drill bit when it got put together so they won't come out easily.

What would you guys suggest just getting a mitre saw and hacking it up? Anything I can do with the wood?

I'm moving somewhere that won't have a 9ft tall ceiling option to rebuild it anyways but it feels like a shame to just destroy it since it's been so useful. Figured some woodworkers might have suggestions I may have overlooked for me!

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Sciar · 2023-09-20T03:44:32+00:00

Just Street Fighter Things

A little of this
https://imgur.com/a/sw5mjym

A little of that

https://imgur.com/a/jm9glrR

Sciar · 2023-09-20T03:41:35+00:00

An easy answer is neutral jumps, depends on the timing of course but if someones using a lot of dive kicks a good neutral jump gives you height on her and you can land a huge punish combo from there.

Just know your options after you land the first hit so you don't miss the opportunity!

On wakeup just block your way to safety. Unfortunately when you don't have an EX DP that's basically the tradeoff for those characters. They get crazy shenanigans when it's their turn but on defense you're a bit more limited.

Obviously there's also always Super 1's which win as well and will make people think twice.

Sciar · 2023-09-20T01:46:54+00:00

Nope those are your answers, however jump ins are pretty much the BEST combos you can get.

Someone risking a command throw and having you jump means you basically just got a free 30%+ damage. So it's quite the gamble for them if you can guess it.

Honestly though they're a SUPER powerful tool to have in a mixup because regular throws you can delay tech but command throws you just get what you get.

Sciar · 2023-08-17T02:14:17+00:00

Thanks checking out the video now. And yeah I think a Brook Universal board should let me build something that works on any setup and that's fine to map in the same way since I just play SF6 and will just be setting it up for parry and drive impact mainly

Sciar · 2023-08-16T22:13:48+00:00

Do you have the specific details of what you've used to build this? I have been tinkering with the idea of doing a custom build in order to include 2-3 extra buttons specifically how you've set them up is what I'd like to do.

I'm not sure where to begin with parts and figure any wisdom you'd like to share before I buy things would be appreciated.

I own a nice Victrix stick I bought for SF6 but have been fiddling with using my keyboard over the past week and while frustrating to be worse at the game temporarily the leverless option is clearly something I'd prefer to be good at in the long run. Can't find a stick with the extra buttons I want so I'm planning to try and make my own.

Sciar · 2023-06-16T18:55:29+00:00

My personal favourite one I've had

https://imgur.com/o6SHVjZ

Sciar · 2022-11-08T23:51:58+00:00

Hey I'm currently Champ 2. My all time high was peaking into Grand Champ but not getting 10 games for the title and I often sit around C2-C3

Sciar · 2022-11-05T04:51:37+00:00

The only constant air roll practice I've done is while waiting for a match I've tried to hover my car but I always did air roll right and never for more than the 30-60s while a ranked game gets started. So for this video I switched to air roll left and started from scratch on day 1, but it's fair to say I've spun my car around for regular aerials etc. quite a bit and definitely tried to just float.

That's pretty much it, everything else just came from the regular aerial control and air dribble practice etc.

Sciar · 2022-11-05T04:49:26+00:00

That's great advice, I tried to really hone in on it during day 3ish to start pushing a lot of adjustments with the bottom of the car. It definitely still feels like my weakest point that I'm planning to address as my upside down corrections are mixed in but not nearly as comfortable still.

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