Incline Path of Exile II - early access begins December 6th

[Damned Registrations]

Yes, clearly giving players the ability to kill everything on screen twice per second is what fixed desync and map sustain while adding end game bosses. That makes perfect sense.

 

[frajaq]

You know that Connor guy is a pretty good player but come on the game is in like Closed Beta (and the devs change shit all the fucking time), feels a bit too soon to deep dive autism into what the meta will be

 

[Perkel]

my penis is hard:

 

[Damned Registrations]

Definitely a cool idea. Though I can't imagine the magma barrier thing being anything but frustrating with an always online game. No way that won't routinely desync and get you killed. But I can imagine it baiting in a lot of parry whores to try the game.

 

[Perkel]

I mean POE has lockstep mode. Desync isn't a thing in that mode.

 

[tritosine2k]

"raise shield" *

*Doesn't count for AoE

Headfirst dive shield

Your i-frame is lucky

 

[Gerrard]

There absolutely still is desync even in lockstep mode, because the player position is only synchronized on performing an action.
Also the lag that lockstep introduces is much worse then what the ping indicator might suggest, even on 30ms going from predictive to lockstep is incredibly jarring.

 

[Israfael]

I think there is inherent desync in some boss abilities, there was some inconsistency with how malachai worked in a4 in the gauntlet (because he had maven barriers / abilities etc), and I basically live on top of the servers with average ping of 3-4 ms

 

[Kjaska]

You know that Connor guy is a pretty good player but come on the game is in like Closed Beta (and the devs change shit all the fucking time), feels a bit too soon to deep dive autism into what the meta will be

Autists gonna tism. People like the speculations and the hype train is gearing up, gotta make those vids. I used to sneer at hype, but over time I changed my stance to "single player games only". For online/mmo type games hype is very good.

I think there is inherent desync in some boss abilities, there was some inconsistency with how malachai worked in a4 in the gauntlet (because he had maven barriers / abilities etc), and I basically live on top of the servers with average ping of 3-4 ms

I should migrate to burger land.

 

[Israfael]

I should migrate to burger land.

We have a city-wide LAN basically here in Moscow (msk-ix), which basically makes all the resources inside the city (which is probably most of the major Russian Internet hosts/datacenters etc) available at max speed and very low ping if your ISP doesn't suck donkey balls (like my previous ISP before I've signed up to a fiber connection)

Also, I don't think it provides any benefits apart from more smooth gameplay. If anything, it seems that low LAN-like ping makes fights harder (I sometimes played on Frankfurt server with ~ 40ms ping) as there is some sort of lag compensation even with lockstep mode on, so this gives more time to dodge things or it coalesces incoming damage/ sustain in a way that benefits you, dunno.

 

[Gerrard]

Imagine playing active block or dodge in a game like this



This is the moment that you actually get hit

Good luck!

 

[frajaq]

this... THIS IS THE REAL MELEE!!!!

(not shown: the ranged attacks coming your way to one-shot you in maps because you didn't play a screen explosion skill)

They really need to show us more Templar stuff

 

[tritosine2k]

Grindin gear more like garbage gimmick

 

[Gerrard]

Don't post that faggot, he's just your typical gaming news youtuber that has nothing worthwhile to say on his own, but focuses on PoE.

 

[tritosine2k]

The most positive exile on the planet

garbage gimmick

That fits too.

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

Expecting lackluster content probably still above any other arpg but the community won't take it too well.

 

[frajaq]

Man when is their fucking livestream they said they were gonna do about the EA

 

[Kjaska]

The funny thing about Talkative Tri is he's like the biggest fanboy of poe2 and when they finally let him play some of the beta build a couple of months ago, he really struggled and didn't enjoy it. That's when Jonathan realized they went overboard on the whole "muh difficulty" and "muh meaningful combat".

Man when is their fucking livestream they said they were gonna do about the EA

iirc it's gonna be a week from launch, so 7th nov or so.

 

[Lacrymas]

A single person not enjoying it isn't a sign to do a 180.

 

[Kjaska]

Did you miss the part where he's the most religious shill they have? The most positive person ever? You just love your non-statements.

 

[Lacrymas]

It's fine if the game isn't for the most positive shill. He'll just continue playing PoE1. Wasn't that the whole point? Two different games for two different audiences. Other shills will inevitably come anyway.

 

[Perkel]

Did you miss the part where he's the most religious shill they have? The most positive person ever? You just love your non-statements.

That's wrong. The biggest cultist shill is you.
And yeah if POE2 is actually hard to beat that's improvement over POE1. Cope harder.

 

[d1r]

Is the EA phase open or closed?

 

[Lacrymas]

Is the EA phase open or closed?

You can buy access.

 

[Perkel]

It is full game like they wanted to do beta before or just limited first act or something ?