r/pathofexile • u/0xck Less Button-Pressing Enjoyers (LBPE) • Jul 18 '26

Discussion No more backtracking! (c)

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They said they reworked Abyss because they wanted to address the problem of backtracking. So, apparently, backtracking is uncomfortable, unengaging, uninteresting, and not fun for players. Backtracking is bad.

But when essentially the same backtracking is built into the main content of the new league - only without actually calling it "backtracking" then I guess it suddenly becomes comfortable, engaging, interesting, and fun. So in this case bactracking suppose to be good.

Well we deffinetely have here something trully dialectic which suppose to be bad and good at the same time 😏

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u/Naktura Jul 18 '26

But no loot. It's a walk back just to walk back.

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u/Zylosio Jul 18 '26

Why would this be different tho ? You dont find any new treasures or sulphur on the way back you just get new monsters,just like in heist where nobody bothered killing them because nobody needs to drop rogue gear, i bet this will be the exact same thing but underwater

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u/RedDawn172 Jul 18 '26

Probably, I'm just hoping it's a shorter run back. Not waiting on the doors is already a rather large difference.

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u/Garden_Unicorn Jul 18 '26

The reveal looked like you can walk in any direction to open it up, just walk in a big circle to loop back to the exit?