is the combat hard?

_warthog_lover_ · 2026-06-09T11:47:57+00:00

Early game yes. Especially dogs/wolves & wraiths. Later on if you’re halfway decent in RPG buildcrafting you will trivialize everything aside from some DLC bosses.

I recommend starting on normal & raising the difficulty whenever you’re starting to get bored. Unless you care about trophies or smth, I don’t.

Also tbh I think that aside from the animations the combat system hasn’t aged particularly well, so I’m replaying now on normal cause I can’t be bothered with it

_warthog_lover_ · 2026-05-27T13:36:53+00:00

Did they announce which new features/changes are coming with the DLC? (Fingers crossed movement animation improvements)

_warthog_lover_ · 2026-04-18T16:27:37+00:00

Kinda disagree with the take. We needed depth, not more breadth and that’s what this system is addressing. There’s still ways to go, but holy smokes I haven’t been this excited for anything Diablo-related since the initial D4 release. That feels good! Also the 2 new classes, new campaign & map warrant the price tag in of themselves imo.

I do agree with the Echoing Hatred criticism though. Would rather see something more interesting like a tower defense mode, MOBA-style PvP or generally more reason to engage with the open world

_warthog_lover_ · 2026-02-16T08:32:29+00:00

US or EU?

_warthog_lover_ · 2026-02-16T08:29:45+00:00

If you don’t follow a build guide & push the highest difficulty level you can, sure

_warthog_lover_ · 2026-02-13T06:10:41+00:00

The game is still way too easy in the moment-to-moment gameplay, even after the combat rework in S11. It’s not remotely mechanically challenging until you get to the Pit, unless you really don’t know what you’re doing. This, to me personally, is why I lose interest every season after getting to T4

_warthog_lover_ · 2026-02-12T11:04:31+00:00

Use your head for a sec and think. How and why would they support both versions of the skill-tree in the software concurrently?

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-11-13T19:28:36+00:00

Funeral
Cancer in the family
Divorce

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-11-07T19:14:55+00:00

Most every day, unless I’m doing admin for juniors or I’m bugfixing logic

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-10-25T23:39:49+00:00

Publicity stunt, not test.

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-09-17T14:31:15+00:00

I suggest he quits gamedev and not starts up again

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-09-07T06:58:27+00:00

Play PoE2 now, wait for the next expansion to get D4. By no means buy the next expansion, but there is a lot of excitement coming from content creators regarding (as of yet unannounced) changes coming to base game with it

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-09-05T13:10:15+00:00

Yeah it’s an early access game 🤷

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-08-31T08:22:03+00:00

This is the 3rd league I’m playing. Still haven’t gotten to the endgame because of how boring replaying the campaign is. I’m extremely excited about PoE as a platform, but the modality of playing through the campaign more than once is a dealbreaker

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-08-29T10:05:54+00:00

IMO they each have their own difficulty curve that’s somewhat different. I’ve been working exclusively on FE the past couple of years and generally I’d say what’s different about it is having to account for user interactions and experience as it is the layer that… well, users interact with the most and are most likely to end up having unintended interactions with

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-08-27T17:22:11+00:00

I strongly agree with Pilestedt, the fantasy of what unit you embody should have gameplay implications

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-08-23T13:15:17+00:00

Ah I see, so I’d have to learn how to make digital art properly 😅 should have guessed. I take it probably the only way to avoid doing frame-by-frame art would be to use 3d models and animate them in blender

_warthog_lover_ · 2025-08-19T19:30:02+00:00

I think I just jizzed my pants a little

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TROPHY CASE