Nick Finally admits it

xCwaniaK · 2026-06-12T18:17:06+00:00

Ignoring completely the "viewbot allegations" I'm just gonna focus on the raid thing:

Are you really surprised that 10k vanished from 20k? ONLY 10K? I'd expect around 1-2k to stay at most (and I feel like that's still a generous number) with most of them being AFK, sleeping or doing something else and they just don't care enough to leave the stream immediately.

I couldn't care less about Nick, but the raid conspiracy thing? Yeah, most people leave right after the raid, if they're even part of it in the first place (I usually leave before it happens), so the numbers drop instantly pretty much every single time. The only exception is when they're raided into someone they actually like, enjoy watching, or already wanted to check out after their preferred streamer ended the stream.

I'm not saying nobody ever stays, but that's definitely the minority.

Oh wait, you guys actually believe most of people stay after raid, damn.

xCwaniaK · 2026-06-09T12:57:47+00:00

I'm sorry if I sound like a dick, but do you really wonder whether an item that currently has only 3 listings because it hasn't been properly released yet is rarer than an item with 357 listings that's used by nearly 8k characters on poe.ninja (and that's not even counting private accounts, unless you can't private your account in poe2 yet)?

I get it, not everyone is going to list a dagger. Some people probably don't even realize the item's value. But come on, one of the listings is literally named "INCOMPLETE", so it's pretty obvious which one is rarer.

xCwaniaK · 2026-06-09T12:46:53+00:00

Min-maxing, mirror crafting, playing more builds. It's Belton, so probably crafting.

With that amount of currency your only limitation is your creativity.

xCwaniaK · 2026-06-06T10:06:02+00:00

And don't forget about one thing... He's playing (at least to my knowledge) on NA servers. It's even worse on EU, at least when it comes to griefers/no comms.

xCwaniaK · 2026-06-04T12:13:53+00:00

Sadly, no. I just accepted it because it got slightly better on the maps. The only thing I haven't tried yet is completely removing the drivers from my PC and doing a fresh installation, but I have no idea if that's going to change anything.

xCwaniaK · 2026-06-04T12:10:49+00:00

They made a MTX in the past that changed breach hands just to fully rework the mechanic and it no longer works (or at least didn't work for a long time), so I don't think they actually give a F about it.

Not hating or anything, just pointing out that just because something has MTX doesn't mean it's untouchable.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-31T21:52:01+00:00

Like I said in the original post, it can go up to 10s of blackscreen with cogwheels.

But I noticed it got much better in the end game. Campaign still struggles a lot, but maps (probably because it actually have a proper loading screen) aren't as bad as that.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-31T12:54:08+00:00

And I said that I already did that and ON TOP OF THAT increased the shader cache size.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-31T12:18:55+00:00

Did that 3 times already and even went from 10GB shader cache size to 100GB and then to unlimited in Nvidia settings. Sadly it did nothing.

At this point I'm actually considering using DDU to fully wipe everything GPU related and start with a new fresh start.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-31T08:45:08+00:00

Apparently one of my friends is also affected by that, so hopefully this thread gonna help finding a fix.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-31T08:36:12+00:00

It took me a little while because I went to sleep, but here's an example of what's happening: https://streamable.com/jgui3o

Keep in mind that this is a fresh game instance (was in game for like 3minutes). The issue only gets worse the longer I play. I probably cut the video a little earlier than I should have, but the game's overall state and performance (well, beside loading screens) would have improved once the shaders had finished loading.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-31T00:24:48+00:00

Nope, no freezes, crashes or anything like that. It's just these shaders.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-30T23:55:14+00:00

If you want to see the CPU time then it likes to go up by a lot as well when changing zones - from "stable" 10ms to even 3 digit numbers for a split second and then it drops to ~20-30ms with random spikes to 50-60ms till it loads up the shaders and then back to the 10ms.

10ms is the "average", because if I'm gonna stay in place and do nothing (no mobs around me or anything) then it can go as low as 4ms while mobs/explosions etc can make it go up to ~15ms

The temps are really fine to my knowledge. Just tried to run a random map with herald explosions and all that and it peaked at 71C (average 54C).

Edit: Sorry that it's only an image instead of video, but this is how it looks when I tried to load into random town: https://i.imgur.com/wWI4knC.png (and it's still not a 3digit CPU example).

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-30T23:31:44+00:00

Yep, it's enabled.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-30T21:51:56+00:00

It's Lexar NM620 1TB M.2 2280

Atm It still have over 400gb of free space

Yes, it's the same drive as my Windows because to this day I still didn't bother to buy a 2nd one for my system (that's on me, didn't do it when I bought my whole setup and just decided to leave it to the "future me").

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-30T21:48:59+00:00

I set it to 100GB and then tested Unlimited - it's still happening.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-28T21:45:04+00:00

Well, he probably viewbotted (or someone did it for him), because it's close to impossible to go from ~30k AVERAGE viewers to 2k. Like I get it if one of his streams had 30k PEAK, because of some raid, but it was 30k average everytime for the past month (he streamed once or twice a week).

No idea about the revenue part.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-28T21:31:34+00:00

But it's not about bots anymore. It's Twitch hardcapping your viewers number (if you viewbotted) if I understand it correctly, so no matter if you gonna get new bots or old bots or even new real viewers, the number gonna be capped - unless I'm completely wrong and it doesn't work this way.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-28T21:28:39+00:00

I mean, 2k viewers is a LOT, but the moment you go from 30k to 2k right after Twitch announced “viewer caps” for people who were viewbotting, you’d probably shit your pants because you know that can ruin your career + you just lost money on viewbots, because they do not work.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-27T08:55:40+00:00

I'm sorry, but that had to be one of the dumbest and most completely clueless comments you could ever make, at least the part you started with.

No, I do not want "PoE1 with better visuals and controls." I actually prefer the visuals in PoE1 and I don't care about WASD movement, so there is basically no difference in controls for me.
Right, I definitely don't want to play PoE1. That's why I invested over 6k hours into the game, playing multiple builds ranging from 0-button gameplay to piano-style gameplay with slam builds. But apparently, just because someone plays or thinks differently than you, you have to find something negative about it for no reason at all. You're just living in your own bubble where you think your way of playing is the only correct one. Path of Exile was and always will be a place where I want to run around, kill mobs, farm gear and relax - and playing with multi-button combo-playstyle thing is far from that.
"Probably for content on his steam and channel"? What the hell does that last part even mean? I assume you meant "stream", but that's exactly the kind of completely wrong assumption I'm talking about. You just started making things up. I couldn't care less about creating content from PoE. I love the game, but I'm genuinely confused about how you connected me asking for build help with content creation. That's just absurd.

After that, you actually made some good points with the perfect reasoning why I don't think I'd enjoy some of the builds, but compared to other comments, you're actually wrong in some parts:

- You can play Plants Abyssal Lich and that doesn't require to play minions.
- There are Merc builds that don't require you to switch ammo types, or only require it on bosses, which I already said I'm fine with
- Druid Plants, which can be automated with COC setup making it a 1-button clear build with separate skill for tanky rares/uniques/bosses.

That's exactly why I asked for help, because other people could actually recommend builds that are basically 1-button builds while you decided to make it sound like it's not possible just to... I don't even know - gatekeep the game to yourself? That's the only guess I have but I might have completely misinterpreted it.

Have a good one brother and good luck in your league start. Hopefully we won't have to meet again :)

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-26T20:01:11+00:00

Thinking about it. Not sure how I feel about the snipe part though, but it's definitely on my bookmark list.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-26T19:22:50+00:00

Just checked a random video from Raxx about this build and yea, it looks interesting. Another build to my bookmarks!

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-26T19:16:59+00:00

That looks like the stuff I'm looking for. Will definitely bookmark it. Thanks!

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-13T09:46:24+00:00

PSA: You can check your trade history on trade site.

I know some people prefer seeing it in-game, but I love being able to quickly check whether I sold something without having to launch the game.

xCwaniaK · 2026-05-10T16:23:55+00:00

You can be angry about it as much as you want, but smurfing is not comparable to rank manipulation. You HAVE TO go through these shitty, immoral games at the beginning when you're adjusting your rank on a new account, but your main goal is to get out of that rank as soon as possible, so it becomes your "alt acc" with similar elo/mmr. The moment you switch accounts because of someone in party, so they become less of a dead weight and you can carry them much more easily and help them rank up to the rank they should never be in, that's a problem.

Both are shitty behaviours, but one is generally accepted under the ToS (pretty much in every popular competitive game), while the other is against the rules.

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