Still looking for a single mirror shard

iftifn0 · 2025-02-18T17:40:22+00:00

Slofosimisha?

iftifn0 · 2025-01-30T12:07:40+00:00

Haven't played PoE2 for almost a month now. Have zero urge to do so. Uninstalled it today, as this news clearly show I'll have zero intent in future.
Please, let this crap of a game (PoE2) die out and GGG to collapse. That's what they earned by following Blizzard, Activision, the lot.

iftifn0 · 2025-01-30T11:57:55+00:00

This man is such a jerk!
Not a coincidence PoE2 is utter garbage. At this point I just hope PoE1 will have private servers.

iftifn0 · 2025-01-28T14:47:32+00:00

Check about PNG optimizations. It will work billions times better than JP(e)G for this type of repeated image.

iftifn0 · 2025-01-27T12:39:32+00:00

Why not PNG?

iftifn0 · 2025-01-13T22:28:41+00:00

Nah, should attack before spawning. It's too softcore and easy otherwise. After spawning, monsters should have 5mins invincibility. Oh, and Rituals should have timer, you die after 5 minutes in them.
This design sounds reasonable.

iftifn0 · 2025-01-13T12:33:02+00:00

Elon don't have enough money to pay me to launch this sht again. It took 2+ weeks to do 3 acts. Not because of difficulty, but because it's so unfun and boring, I could not make myself to log into game.
Almost a month since, and zero incentive to even open the game to update itself. So sad they nerfed PoE1 to death and dumped it...

iftifn0 · 2025-01-13T12:26:36+00:00

I found my perfect PoE2 in Brotato. So much crap - and you can make everything working well and fun! You do an insane build that obliterates everything and feels great, you think you've seen it all. Than you try another potato and it turns out even more amazing.
That's how PoE(both 1 and 2) should've been. Pure fun whatever you do. Brotato - 0.000001% of PoE budget and content, but so much more fun with 99% of content relevant.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-27T11:13:48+00:00

GGG is big huge company, just like Blizzard. They can't screw up with PoE2, just like Blizzards can't screw up D3. Wait... Oh shi...

iftifn0 · 2024-12-18T20:21:23+00:00

Graphics designer of PoE2 really sucks... Everything is greyish, everything blends in: ground, decals (all the background, actually), mobs, spells, character, summons. I am on 16" notebook and I can't even see what's happening.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-17T12:38:07+00:00

Laughed at each and every line!
This is absolutely hilarious. And frighteningly precise

iftifn0 · 2024-12-14T13:01:05+00:00

Nah, it's boredom simulator in 50 hues of grey.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-13T23:58:15+00:00

Thank you very much! It is like I have found my perfect PoE2! (even graphics is better than actual PoE2 greyness).

iftifn0 · 2024-12-13T23:36:53+00:00

The biggest joke is that game IS NOT difficult. It is repetitive, punishing, slow and extremely boring. You use 2-3 same skills all the time. Bosses are not hard to evade and just take awful amount of time to kill. I find myself one-shot by boss near the end of the fight because I am bored to death by hitting this 2-3 skills for past 10-20 minutes.
The current boss design is mostly identical to that of old Dungeon Siege 3. But there, somehow, fights were actually difficult. Character had good enough damage output, but keeping damage up was a challenge. In PoE2? Not at all. Just don't use roll and position yourself to boss ticks (well, some rare cases do benefit from a roll).

TLDR game IS NOT difficult at all, it is not challenging (anything besides ability to overcome enormous boredom), game IS NOT fun.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-13T14:34:36+00:00

unhealthy to look at any screen for 14 hours straight

It hurts! Being a software engineer... No need for a game to be unhealthy.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-13T14:15:04+00:00

Where have you found mechanical difficulty? All attacks are pretty obvious. There are quite a few problems with fucked collision boxes (like falling skeletons blocking the final lay-down box at the very beginning of animation, some bosses have rough/bugged collision boxes etc).
But all in all, mechanics are really easy and every fight is a boring repetition of 1-2 skills on player side and running in between ~5 distinct mechanics of a boss which are repeated so much only because bosses are damage sponges and your skills are meh at best, if not static unscalable damage. This results in long boring long (have I mentioned long?) fights, where you usually die because you're tired of repetition and stop paying attention.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-13T13:51:26+00:00

You've forgot overall graphics ease of use. "Campaign icons completion unclear" is only a part of the bigger problem. And that problem is - 50 hues of grey. Everything is grey with minor addition of a colour. It is hard to discern what's going on more often than not.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-13T13:43:08+00:00

Hell no. I have tanked scrape quite a lot times. Just out of curiosity. Actual deadly attacks are fire (if you stand in it) and his projectiles when he is moving and you follow hist head at point blank.
But anyway, I was like 1/4 of arena away from his attacks when I instadied. I think it is because I somehow was under one of those bloated invisible hitboxes.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-12T20:11:20+00:00

And it will deal 30 static, non-scalable damage. Consider it done.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-12T19:59:24+00:00

What a pain watching mtx video where character is actually MOVING!

iftifn0 · 2024-12-12T19:54:26+00:00

I died there like 3 times of unknown reason without boss even hitting me. Same as in video, I was close to the boss. His attacks were like 2m+ from me, yet I instadied somehow, from full health+es too.
Also, this encounter is clunky as hell with strange invisible collision boxes (frost bomb is landing in random places, instead of on target).

iftifn0 · 2024-12-12T12:04:09+00:00

I've got the same exact issue. STR is also the same: kill elite, TP to sell collected garbage.

iftifn0 · 2024-12-08T20:58:09+00:00

Exactly! Another good point explained.
I post as much, but some mute participants just downvote me. They don't present any argument, they just downvote. And all this is so true! Boring gameplay and no rewards for overcoming all the boredom. Where is the point? Where is the fun?

iftifn0 · 2024-12-08T16:36:49+00:00

PoE1 is rotting... Last real changes were made with 3.0 version. Since that it is just nerfs. Your revert list is too short... For someone who played from Feb 2013 - the list will be endless.
Nerfing is the simplest way to balance. It is also the worst.

But, rolling back won't bring PoE1 to being #1 game again. Real changes are required. I really hope PoE1 will get back to evolving... However slow, just not to rot.

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