With only a week to go until Path of Exile finally launches, Grinding Gear Games has outlined some of the changes and additions to the ARPG for v1.0.0,
Among the tentative list of patch notes is news that Steam trading cards are planned to be available for the game’s launch as it makes its debut on the Steam platform.
The team are also going to be renaming some of the areas players will have been familiar with from the beta as these were internal placeholder names, there are quite a few new Uniques being added and also eight new end-game Maps with new tilesets.
The notes we have so far from GGG include:
Scavengers have been replaced by Cannibals. In addition to adding new content, we’re updating older parts of the game. There are new Buzzard monsters in the Coves, for example.
Waypoints, quest locations and talking objects have been updated to have nicer graphical markers on the map.
Several world areas have been renamed to finally get rid of our old internal names and to be more consistent with other names. For example, River Crossings is now The Riverways, Terraces is nowThe Coast and Church Dungeon is now The Crypt.
Players now receive two more life points per level.
Some monster types now have the Far Shot implicit mod. This is like a reverse Point Blank passive in that they do more damage to characters that are far away.
Added a new Rogue Exile, Xandro Blooddrinker – the winner of the Well Dressed Exile competition! He’s a pretty tough fight.
Player and monster Shock has been reduced from 40% to 30% per stack.
1.0.0 contains three new supporter Uniques, six new Uniques that can only occur in Domination and Nemesis, one Unique only found in Domination and one only found in Nemesis.
There are eight new end-game Maps that use the new tilsets. They’re in tiers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 13. Tier 13 is a new tier of (level 78!) Maps.
We’re expecting to have Steam Trading Cards available.
This game has a very confusing skill system or whatever it's called. That big ass gigantic grid full of stuff to learn and upgrade. I got lost in there.
shall i hold your hand while you play ? really just take the time to learn it, thats the fun of games like this. Not this prechewed diablo3 baby food skill crap
shall i hold your hand while you play ? really just take the time to learn it, thats the fun of games like this. Not this prechewed diablo3 baby food skill crap
writing 10 lines of code in unix, vs just right click/properties in windows does not make you smarter. or that writing better.
that big tree is an illusion. or at least was when i played. they could merge / eliminate 90% of it, and you will have the same result, without obvious shit choices/paths.
u never played d2 i guess ? where preplanning a char based on loot u found was the best fun ever, and ye its a bit bloated but it does require some planning an effort and i prefer that rather then everyone have the same fucking builds we see nowadays
u never played d2 i guess ? where preplanning a char based on loot u found was the best fun ever, and ye its a bit bloated but it does require some planning an effort and i prefer that rather then everyone have the same fucking builds we see nowadays
It's just smoke and mirrors. There's always an optimal build and everyone and their mother will use it.
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u never played d2 i guess ? where preplanning a char based on loot u found was the best fun ever, and ye its a bit bloated but it does require some planning an effort and i prefer that rather then everyone have the same fucking builds we see nowadays
at some time i had 5 high level necros. with differences like 1 skill point putted somewhere else between them. but that one skill point makes a radical difference in terms of gear and gameplay.
still, poe skill tree is a bloated shit. of course, from my pov. if you are happy with it, that is all it matters.
and because is so bloated, because is kinda permanent, and because you are not leveling to an "endlevel" in a few hourse instead of days, regular people turn to forum to get an optimal build. so instead of having build diversity, you actually enforce optimal builds.
u never played d2 i guess ? where preplanning a char based on loot u found was the best fun ever, and ye its a bit bloated but it does require some planning an effort and i prefer that rather then everyone have the same fucking builds we see nowadays
at some time i had 5 high level necros. with differences like 1 skill point putted somewhere else between them. but that one skill point makes a radical difference in terms of gear and gameplay.
still, poe skill tree is a bloated shit. of course, from my pov. if you are happy with it, that is all it matters.
and because is so bloated, because is kinda permanent, and because you are not leveling to an "endlevel" in a few hourse instead of days, regular people turn to forum to get an optimal build. so instead of having build diversity, you actually enforce optimal builds.
The skill tree was the only reason I ever tried this game really, I absolutely love stuff like that!
This seems like the kind of build I would make, even though I wouldn't make exactly this one. Everything's based around one active spell/skill pretty much, which is buffed to hell and back and accompanied by auras.
u never played d2 i guess ? where preplanning a char based on loot u found was the best fun ever, and ye its a bit bloated but it does require some planning an effort and i prefer that rather then everyone have the same fucking builds we see nowadays
It's just smoke and mirrors. There's always an optimal build and everyone and their mother will use it.
You're an idiot or ignorant. This game has dozens of viable builds.
u never played d2 i guess ? where preplanning a char based on loot u found was the best fun ever, and ye its a bit bloated but it does require some planning an effort and i prefer that rather then everyone have the same fucking builds we see nowadays
at some time i had 5 high level necros. with differences like 1 skill point putted somewhere else between them. but that one skill point makes a radical difference in terms of gear and gameplay.
still, poe skill tree is a bloated shit. of course, from my pov. if you are happy with it, that is all it matters.
and because is so bloated, because is kinda permanent, and because you are not leveling to an "endlevel" in a few hourse instead of days, regular people turn to forum to get an optimal build. so instead of having build diversity, you actually enforce optimal builds.
This game caters to certain playerbase - it doesn't aim to please everyone and their grandmother like Diablo 3 does. If people feel overwhelmed by the tree, don't feel they have the time or willingness to try different builds, learn the ropes based on their own mistakes then it's not the game for them, plain and simple. And the fact the people go to forum to optimal build doesn't mean there is no build diversity - lol. Maybe look at those forum and look how many builds are there.
I'll say it once again: it's not a game for everyone! You want casual experience? Go fucking play derped down D3 with it's instant gratification and everything that's wrong in current video game business. Paraphrising what Obi-Wan said: PoE is "An elegant game for a more civilized age"
i dont consider the retarded system of bartering for exploited orbs neither elegant, neither belonging in a civilized age. because drops were shit in poe aswell, you had to rely on trade to get some good stuff. and rolf @ 2000+ orbs for a 10% chance for 6 links.
difference between poe and diablo 3 at that stage was that poe was easier to finish/farm/play with shit gear, vs d3 insane inferno requirement in latest acts. (until they nerfed).
instant gratification in d3 ? i presume you kinda skipped a shitstorm about shit loot and inferno only with rmah/gah items .
personally i would play anytime d2 over poe. like i said, you like it ? good for you. but is not the holly grail of hackandslah. not even close.
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u never played d2 i guess ? where preplanning a char based on loot u found was the best fun ever, and ye its a bit bloated but it does require some planning an effort and i prefer that rather then everyone have the same fucking builds we see nowadays
It's just smoke and mirrors. There's always an optimal build and everyone and their mother will use it.
You're an idiot or ignorant. This game has dozens of viable builds.
Good joke.
This game is garbage. No wait, that would be a compliment. I rather play d2 again for the next 10 years than play this pile of diarrhea.
It's just smoke and mirrors. There's always an optimal build and everyone and their mother will use it.
You're an idiot or ignorant. This game has dozens of viable builds.
Good joke.
This game is garbage. No wait, that would be a compliment. I rather play d2 again for the next 10 years than play this pile of diarrhea.
O wait i see your sig now.
PRAISE POE PRAISE POE
Sure I'll be praising it 'cause I think it deserves it. If you think it's garbage sure man, it's your right. Is Pl@tinum an idiot or ignorat? Yes, he is because what he wrote is blatant lack of knowledge or sheer idiocy on his part to write about something he has clearly no idea about. And as for you, throw more emoticons, more caps and all that bullshit - you'll sound even more like some raging kid on the internet, lol...
i dont consider the retarded system of bartering for exploited orbs neither elegant, neither belonging in a civilized age. because drops were shit in poe aswell, you had to rely on trade to get some good stuff. and rolf @ 2000+ orbs for a 10% chance for 6 links.
difference between poe and diablo 3 at that stage was that poe was easier to finish/farm/play with shit gear, vs d3 insane inferno requirement in latest acts. (until they nerfed).
instant gratification in d3 ? i presume you kinda skipped a shitstorm about shit loot and inferno only with rmah/gah items .
personally i would play anytime d2 over poe. like i said, you like it ? good for you. but is not the holly grail of hackandslah. not even close.
1. Drops shit? RNG man, rng Imho it's not that bad as you make it.
2. 6 links are like ZOD rune in D2 It's a pinnacle of your item build - somehing that is extremely powerful and in that regard should be extremely hard to obtain. BTW, they are making 4 links MUCH easier to make now as they are basically a core item and 5 links will be easier to make, too.
3. About instant gratification I meant the fact that from level 1 you feel like fucking god meaning that you don't really FEEL that different on a character of lvl 5 and 50. PoE has a bit different, old-school apporach in that regard - start slow and gradually move toward being infernal whirlwind of death Also, it fits in the general theme of the game where you start the adventure with nothing more than a shirt on your back
Just stop trying, stop quoting them, ignore them and move on. Please, mate...
Oh look who's here!
"Frostbite engine doesn't work on my ancient pc so i'm gonna pretend it's complete crap even though it has top of the line visuals just so i can feel better about myself"
u never played d2 i guess ? where preplanning a char based on loot u found was the best fun ever, and ye its a bit bloated but it does require some planning an effort and i prefer that rather then everyone have the same fucking builds we see nowadays
It's just smoke and mirrors. There's always an optimal build and everyone and their mother will use it.
You're an idiot or ignorant. This game has dozens of viable builds.
I'm sorry, i thought there was a difference between viable and optimal, my bad.
still that horrible camera angle that makes me turbo vomit within minutes
I don't like it either, WAY too close
there was some tweaking to the camera a while ago (bought it in alpha) but i quit following so i dunno what happened, i know it was the number 1 request during the alpha, option to change the angle and zoom a bit
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just take the time to learn it, thats the fun of games like this. Not this prechewed diablo3 baby food skill crap
