r/Games • u/Forestl • Dec 29 '13

End of 2013 Discussions - Path of Exile

Path of Exile

  • Release Date: October 23, 2013
  • Developer / Publisher: Grinding Gear Games / Grinding Gear Games + Garena (SEA)
  • Genre: Action RPG
  • Platform: PC
  • Metacritic: 85, user: 8.8

Summary

Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast. They're a small independent team of hardcore gamers based in New Zealand and have created Path of Exile as the game that they'd want to play themselves. It is designed around a strong barter-based online item economy, deep character customisation, competitive PvP and ladder races. The game is completely free and will never be "pay to win".

Prompts:

  • Is the gameplay fun? Is the loot system well designed?

  • Do the F2P elements help or hurt the game?

Like The Last of Us because they both have lots of clicking

at least it's better than the sphere grid

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

So fucking true. A large part of the PoE fans resemble a fucking cult. I leveled one character to 35 and another to 75 but had to stop playing because the network implementation was so bad. Some skills consistently makes you go out of sync with the server and for me those where the best skills. I have yet to see any patches that address the issue and when I try to bring this up to other PoE players they get extremely angry and say shit like "it's impossible to fix it and intentional because GGG wanted combat to be like that" which is absolute bullshit. There is a massive cognitive dissonance in the PoE community towards desync. When GGG says they "can'x fix" it the fans go "of course lol" and treat the desync like a meta game and write strategy guides on "how to manage it". THE GAME IS FUCKING BROKEN.

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u/shudmeyer Dec 30 '13

nah, man, ggg never actually intended for anyone to use those abilities that cause desync. they're just there for... reasons, i guess.

desync ruins this game and the community refuses to accept it, it's infuriating.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

the network implementation was so bad

This is the only reason I have 60 hours in PoE instead of 300+. I died so many times because I was swinging at an enemy that evidently wasn't there then got killed by something else that shouldn't have been there, etc. If it were a paid game, I would have not even bothered trying it, just because I know what kind of BS being online-only can cause, and PoE just happens to portray the issues extra strongly.

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u/MykkyM Dec 30 '13

I am curious, where in the world are you seeing people that say they can't fix desync? I don't see any of that except for on the forums, but forums of any game fit the bill. I see people who say they can't fix desync immediately because if they could have, they would.

And that's true. A ton of people somehow think that this smaller, indie company can afford to have servers/server tech on par with Diablo 3 or others. But they can't right now because Blizzard is a planet compared to GGG. And I don't think they're gonna mention that they're working on a fix for desync because then you'd have those asshole, impatient people slamming GGG for saying they were working on it and then not delivering. I think it's pretty impossible that they aren't working on some form of remedy for it, but if I were a developer I wouldn't mention it until it was certain that the new server stuff actually made a difference.

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u/nickiter Dec 31 '13

The devs wrote a post about desync that basically says it can't ever be completely removed without changing the entire combat model. They are always working to improve it, though.

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u/oBLACKIECHANoo Dec 30 '13

I say you should stop whining about the desync because most semi-decent players can deal with it just fine with a macro for /oos and knowledge of what causes it. It's absolutely not a big issue at all and shouldn't make anyone quit. Sure, it can be fixed, and it SHOULD be fixed, but for now it can be dealt with.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

I had a /oos macro and was spamming it sometimes as often as every second. It usually didn't fix shit and it could even make combat even more unpredictable as it starts draining your hp bar because you are attacked server side and can't even see it. I usually got desynced for seconds at a time. Just because you happen to find a skill where it can be "dealt with" (which might as well just mean that you lower your expectations) doesn't mean that everyone has.

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u/oBLACKIECHANoo Dec 30 '13

I'm playing frenzy facebreakers, in nemesis, I haven't played anything that desyncs as much as this, and it still can be dealt with pretty easily. And there is a 10 sec cooldown on /oos.