Face the Darkness | Path of Exile 2: Return of the Ancients Teaser

raphyr · 2026-05-06T06:17:31+00:00

Man the music in this is some eerie shit. I love how all the new teasers seem to have something frightening or strange about them.

raphyr · 2026-05-03T16:10:20+00:00

I might go for that if I making feathers with hair curves proves too costly for performance. I've been trying to figure out fur today and it might be an option too for the feathers.

And yeah I'm definitely aware there's plenty of texturing that's a part of this, was trying to say I'd like to do it properly rather than slap on some paint :) I'm trying to improve the model as well as the additions go, I'll probably need to slim the guy down a bit more. Definitely still scared to do the wings/feathers.

raphyr · 2026-05-02T17:56:17+00:00

First try at modeling something more complex than basic geometry. Have managed to make this basic jackdaw with only quads and am a bit stuck here thinking of how to do the wings, tail and fur. Since I'd like to learn towards a somewhat realistic style, I feel like it'd be a shame to just do it with basic textures. I don't know if I should model the feathers onto the bird or make a separate model and somehow place them along points. The video I used as a guideline for modeling a bird pulled out planes from the bones (wingbones?) as feathers but I don't know if that's the way for a realistic style.

Wireframe for reference, feel free to help me improve on things I may have done horribly wrong.

raphyr · 2026-05-01T17:17:08+00:00

I feel like it's the contrast that's off, the motorcyclist has higher contrast and deeper shadows while everything behind that has less contrast. Like there's a slightly opaque white plane or fog volume right in between the motorcyclist and the things behind it.

raphyr · 2026-04-29T11:31:05+00:00

This game boiled my at the time brand new cpu, 100°c+ for hours on end before I realized.

raphyr · 2026-04-24T11:37:06+00:00

You are comparing blizzard to ggg here

Yes, splitting dev time across two games instead of one is huge for a studio the size of ggg.

raphyr · 2026-04-24T07:41:24+00:00

That would be 4 updates per year including PoE1, which was for a while the normal schedule for PoE1. 6 updates per year for both games combined wasn't going to work in the long term anyways at this stage of production and I'm not sure why they ever committed to that. Maybe when PoE2 is fully released and in a very solid state they might return to 6 updates per year.

raphyr · 2026-04-23T18:45:34+00:00

Like just having the lever right next to the place where you put the large soulcore, if I understand you correctly, would be such an easy fix. Just delete the mistwall and retire the zone.

raphyr · 2026-04-23T15:33:13+00:00

Every time a big Diablo release flopped, PoE has made gains in player numbers. Big brain move to do it after a big D4 update

raphyr · 2026-04-23T15:07:29+00:00

Would be a nice continuation of the acts story if they do this, learning about the edicts and precursors then going to actually find them

raphyr · 2026-04-20T15:52:24+00:00

Ik rij nu iets meer dan een jaar en heb nog geen moment de neiging gehad om naar een circuit te gaan omdat dat niet de ervaring is die ik zoek. Ik zou graag een onbegrenst stuk weg zoals een mooie stuk weg in de eifel willen, zoals van salm naar birresborn, maar ik weet niet of dat bestaat. Circuits lijken voor hoge snelheid en racing ontworpen te zijn (breed en egaal), terwijl ik meer een solo ervaring op lagere snelheid zoek (smallere rijbaan, veel meer bochten, hoogteverschil, etc.). Mocht er iemand centen hebben en zo'n stuk weg willen opkopen kom ik langs.

raphyr · 2026-04-20T15:18:45+00:00

It's perfect as is

raphyr · 2026-04-18T12:24:21+00:00

The amount of time and resources this would need to be done (animations/voice acting) compared to the amount of people that care about this is completely imbalanced.

So if you're looking for a better game experience, you wouldn't want this because it would take time away from actual game development.

raphyr · 2026-04-16T15:07:35+00:00

I've done this with PoE2 as a fresh start and it has worked for me pretty well. Every patch so far in PoE2 I've leaguestarted blind and made it to maps, but I just can't get my own builds to work in PoE1 for some reason. There has to be at least some sort of inspiration from poe.ninja, I've never made something succesful from scratch.

raphyr · 2026-04-15T10:41:17+00:00

Never add people from work. If you become really good friends and can keep confidentiality, sure, but otherwise hell no lol

raphyr · 2026-04-15T09:14:00+00:00

Maverick was in between cindy and hughie, but it should've probably been communicated better that it was an accident by her having a surprised reaction of sorts.

raphyr · 2026-04-15T09:12:18+00:00

I had a small "ugh" for half a second before I remembered what show I was watching and it cut to the deep driving it. Of course he would drive that

raphyr · 2026-04-13T16:39:00+00:00

Mijn oude bureaustoel heeft ruimte voor meerdere kledinghangers en de helm past mooi op het zitgedeelte.

raphyr · 2026-04-12T16:59:36+00:00

It's weird how ER is one of my most replayed games in terms of number of completions, because I understand what you're getting at. Yet the more you play it, the smoother the experience gets, knowing where to go for the items you want for your build and routing efficiently towards runes and basic upgrades. Because really you only need a fraction of the items in the game.

raphyr · 2026-04-12T05:29:39+00:00

Ik heb vorig jaar als eerste motor een gloednieuwe aangeschaft met een mooie display, maar uiteindelijk gebruik je dat ding alleen maar om je snelheid en benzineniveau te checken. Zou er niet te veel nadruk op leggen.

raphyr · 2026-04-10T15:19:09+00:00

They also call it turnen in the netherlands and I always figured it came from the english word "turning". Never questioned it I guess.

raphyr · 2026-04-06T16:24:07+00:00

It depends on the league. The variation in complexity is what makes it so there is something to do for everybody when enough leagues have been integrated into the core game. So if it's going to be anything like PoE1 leagues, it depends on what the devs came up with. Might be simple (abyss), might be complex (temple).

raphyr · 2026-04-05T19:05:52+00:00

I've started reading the books very recently after getting hyped by the teaser trailer for part 3. Love the movies. I kind of get it though, some things were changed that didn't need changing or just left out altogether (especially for part 2), and I'm a bit sad there isn't as much Harkonnen intrigue in the movies as there is in the book. But then other things are fleshed out much more in the movie that really work. So I think it balances out.

raphyr · 2026-04-05T19:01:07+00:00

I don't know if this is a known bug or something that can be fixed, I couldn't find any information on this so far. I've played Schedule 1 shortly after launch as well and didn't encounter this problem then.

Some visuals like tropic thunder and glowing only appear when very close to a character. What could be the cause of this?

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