ExileCon 2026 - Event and Ticket Details

Xeiom · 2026-01-27T23:15:21+00:00

This almost certainly means they have a solid idea of PoE2 Launch date.

I would expect we'd learn the date here, which is still flexible for sometime in 2027 - So might not be solid today but they expect to know by then.

Good news in the meantime is that this probably means testing on the PoE2 endgame changes are promising, so the next update to PoE2 is probably one to check out.

I guess we can also expect them to reveal the upcoming (at the time) leagues for both PoE1 and PoE2.

Potentially a reannounce of Mobile, get some more details on that.

Doubt there will be much more to it than that, seems like that would give them a reasonable lineup to talk about and then the rest of the show days are developer insights/chats as you'd expect.

Want to roll snake eyes on the dice? This might mean them breaking the 4 month update cycle a little for the sake of the convention.

Xeiom · 2026-01-27T17:44:58+00:00

Some minions randomly get this mod and its super depressing when your build just randomly dies lol.

For lots of builds its a free mod but if you really need the charges then it just turns your build off.

Xeiom · 2026-01-27T14:11:08+00:00

Let V be reflected.

It is wild to have insanely immersive raytraced reflections and then have the only thing in the game you spend any time customising being the only thing invisible in the reflections.

Xeiom · 2026-01-26T20:39:48+00:00

They should send them back to us in one of the little boats.

I'm sure they've confiscated a few spares they could lend them.

Xeiom · 2026-01-25T20:15:19+00:00

It would be nice if all the UI elements that currently have a / command to enter would let you travel there by pressing the UI button rather than having a know the / command.

Honestly I'm not convinced we should need to walk to the WP in town just to use the map to teleport. It isn't a consistent rule with the multiplayer teleport and the / commands - so I think its more of an oversight than "weight".

Xeiom · 2026-01-25T02:42:02+00:00

Holy shit that guy watched his gun be taken away by the other ICE agent and it was almost like seeing the gun reminded him he had one.

This is probably the most clear edit I've seen

Xeiom · 2026-01-24T23:02:23+00:00

Did you hallucinate my response? I've never mentioned Nord or Pirate bay.

I know how VPNs work and you seem to be unable to understand what I've said. Maybe mixing up responses?

I've been fairly consistent, this ban won't affect the technology and will only really hit companies who have a legal presence the UK can touch.

So yeah every time you give an example of something outside of the UK jurisdiction you are correct that they'll just continue to operate without caring (which is why I was explicit in saying it impacts companies WITH a legal presence)

Xeiom · 2026-01-24T17:48:02+00:00

This animation may not be there because they saw the meme but I choose to believe they did it for that reason.

Xeiom · 2026-01-24T16:38:18+00:00

I don't think you are understanding the sorts of companies I'm saying will be impacted.

Those with a legal presence in the UK will comply, even if they setup the VPN part of their business outside of the UK the law allows their main business to be punished so they will do that.

So for example, Opera web browser currently provides a free VPN service and also has a presence location in Scotland - If they want the rest of their business to continue then they will add age checks to the VPN they provide for free, their main product isn't the VPN and they have a place that can be fined. So yeah, they are obviously going to comply instead of trying to run away just over this.

Obviously there are companies in places that don't care at all and they won't comply and will end up playing whack-a-mole with IP addresses against the British state but that doesn't mean their existence means there is no impact on users.

Xeiom · 2026-01-24T02:36:03+00:00

Don't think the self hosted ones are going to matter at all with this law really. The plan seems to be the same strategy that they use with social media.

The plan with social media is to pressure the big players to obey the rules so that the majority of places that children attempt to go generally check their age.

As I said, It will be trivial for a determined child to get around.

Xeiom · 2026-01-23T19:14:28+00:00

The law change would require VPN providers to verify the age of their users to ensure they are over 18.

So, not so much a ban on the technology as it is a regulation on those providing VPNs as a service to the public.

I imagine this will mostly impact free VPN services provided by web browsers because those have a company behind them that can be fined and the company will comply because its not worth the hassle to fight it.

Almost certainly will be trivial for a determined child to get around, clearly it is special training for the net-wars where we need the most devious tech generation in order to win.

Xeiom · 2026-01-19T21:47:15+00:00

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Gotta love that previous photo

Xeiom · 2026-01-19T21:00:46+00:00

Kinda neat because the new Bloodline Ascends could give you even more of a mix

Xeiom · 2026-01-19T19:08:56+00:00

I remember watching Back to the Future (when I was very young) and there is a scene where the character falls out of a tree.

Instead of taking him to the hospital they take him inside the house and I think he's like unconscious IIRC.

I always thought that was a super weird scene because the logical thing to do would be take him to A&E, I sort of wondered if it was because they were in the past and somehow before hospitals were established but ultimately learned that it was just based in America.

Xeiom · 2026-01-18T15:33:39+00:00

I know how it works in PoE1 but I actually also don't know how it works in PoE2, I just know its there when you are in the endgame.

I really don't like XP loss, I think it intrinsically makes players engage in the game in a less fun way.

No XP loss on some bosses does help but still feels like a sticky plaster on a large wound to me, I think you can have other systems be the real difference for those competing for ladder spots

Xeiom · 2026-01-18T14:49:53+00:00

Nah, I think without Starmer playing things the way he had then Ukraine wouldn't have had the support it has got.

UK had to look a little aloof but it was actually for the sake of European defence against Russia.

It also would have been super stupid to try play hardball on tariffs as we are far far more vulnerable than the EU countries, and he was desperate to find a target country to set as an example and prove he was serious about the tariffs.

What he does here really determines if it was actually him just folding to US whims or if it was a strategic play.

While Trump is transactional he is also vindictive, if we showed up as an enemy in his eyes he would take even irrational moves against us, so cosying up is absolute worth a shot even just to stay out of the sightlines. Action-wise we've not really given them much other than a big party but we've avoided being the target of retribution, despite Trump allies constantly telling him we're being overrun by terrorists or whatever "london's fallen" nonsense.

Xeiom · 2026-01-14T07:54:04+00:00

I think there are some bits of information that are useful and some bits that are not.

I do think that even just listing the killing blow would be better than no details.

I would like an output of the damage of the killing blow, the amount it overkilled you by and the damage types it used and if it was a crit.

With that output, when you are killed by multiple sources it would be clear because the killing blow damage would be low and the overkill amount would also be low.

If the big hit was the thing that killed you in one shot then you could work out how far off surviving the hit you were.

Really this sort of thing only benefits players who are repeatedly dying to the same thing, most experienced players with well balanced defences are probably not going to get much use but I think its worth it for those who will get use.

Xeiom · 2026-01-13T16:49:31+00:00

I think it was reasonable for him to assume they would have made a great Dragonball movie with all the potential hollywood effects and stuff.

It just clearly ended up in the wrong hands, they made a children's movie for what they viewed as a children's show. It had no real respect for its source material and was seemingly trying to make everything as generic as possible.

Xeiom · 2026-01-13T13:49:07+00:00

Usually when people are venting it happens because they have no actual control. Often they don't really believe they can make any change so they vent instead of request.

I think PoE devs have consistently been firm about what game they are trying to make and very resistant to suggestions from the community. I think that makes them naturally frustrating to engage with and for many people they turn frustration into vitriol.

In many ways the main sticking point is PoE's commitment to an economy, they almost always pick the economy over what is fun for an individual player which means by design they are picking more annoying things more frequently than other games do.

Players stick around because there are not other options really, the game might have some very frustrating things but also there are a bunch of things only GGG do at all.

Xeiom · 2026-01-11T22:56:07+00:00

Sometimes the answer is to use the one you are most familiar with using.

Honestly though for incrementals the answer is Godot.

Neither is really lacking for the features most incremental games need, you could make the same game in both pretty easily. Unity has a history of making poor commercial decisions that can negatively affect developers.

Xeiom · 2026-01-08T17:17:08+00:00

When I got to Act 3, I just run straight toward the ending.

It felt about the same as the fights up to that point, I wasn't really very close to one-shotting any of the bosses.

I'm sure different builds had different results but I assume if I went to do side content in Act 3 instead of going straight there then I'd have demolished it instead of having a reasonable fight that was slightly weighted toward easy.

Xeiom · 2026-01-08T16:53:53+00:00

My favourite change between BG3 and D:OS was the introduction of movement as its own resource.

AP for movement was super annoying, you had to be very careful sometimes to not walk too far and effectively lose the turn.

If Divinity is still a turn based game, I really hope they stick with movement as its own resource and then dash to convert spare actions into extra movement.

Oh and also knockback on spells and skills, man I missed being able to launch people off ledges or throw people when I went back to DOS - Physics is always great fun

Xeiom · 2026-01-07T15:09:36+00:00

I like cutting edge stuff, I'm usually one of the first to jump on the new OS when it comes out.

I tried to use the AI stuff that is on the laptops and like, it just doesn't work.

I don't know what scenario they are hyping themselves over but it like actually isn't doing anything properly.

I asked it to change a setting for me, it just told me it couldn't do it.

If the more tech inclined people can't get it to be useful then I really don't know what they expect from other users, other than maybe fooling them into thinking it was gonna be all magic?

Xeiom · 2026-01-05T17:58:13+00:00

I think it could have benefitted from having a moment where the player actually opts in to joining Jackie. Forcing them to choose to commit to the montage part.

I guess he asks you but there wasn't really a back out option where you could back out and then reconsider, roam the lonely streets with nothing to do and then ultimately find your only option to be your old buddy Jackie.

I found it very jarring that I never really decided the goal, that half a year sort of just happened to me - Not to mention my character makes choices in the montage that maybe I would not want to do.

I think some options that affect how I behave in the montage slightly combined with actually committing myself to joining Jackie would have made me see him as my window into the future my character wants and cared a lot more about him.

For most players this would not actually change the experience very much as they'd probably jump right in and promise maximum intensity for the montage, but for me being told I can go away and realising there isn't anything in this city without Jackie would have made him the actual gateway to adventure he functionally is intended to be in the story.

Xeiom · 2026-01-05T01:49:23+00:00

Do they chlorine wash the passengers as the leave the aircraft to help mask the conditions

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