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Dead wrote: December 8th, 2024, 05:05
why is dickline so mad about this game lmao? nobody likes d4 regardless of poe2.
I am not mad. I am just bewildered about its cultlings screaming BESTEST GAME EVER while denying objective reality regarding this Very Mediocre Game^TM.
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Decline wrote: December 8th, 2024, 18:06
Dead wrote: December 8th, 2024, 05:05
why is dickline so mad about this game lmao? nobody likes d4 regardless of poe2.
I am not mad. I am just bewildered about its cultlings screaming BESTEST GAME EVER while denying objective reality regarding this Very Mediocre Game^TM.
You can pause the game.
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Decline wrote: December 8th, 2024, 18:06
Dead wrote: December 8th, 2024, 05:05
why is dickline so mad about this game lmao? nobody likes d4 regardless of poe2.
I am not mad. I am just bewildered about its cultlings screaming BESTEST GAME EVER while denying objective reality regarding this Very Mediocre Game^TM.
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Nooneatall wrote: December 8th, 2024, 19:06
Decline wrote: December 8th, 2024, 18:06
Dead wrote: December 8th, 2024, 05:05
why is dickline so mad about this game lmao? nobody likes d4 regardless of poe2.
I am not mad. I am just bewildered about its cultlings screaming BESTEST GAME EVER while denying objective reality regarding this Very Mediocre Game^TM.
You can pause the game.
Not only can you pause the game, the game will pause itself mid-combat to give you helpful hints, for example what button to press to consume a health potion.
Sometimes the game will even pause itself with no way to unpause except killing it.
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Act 1 done. The bosses are definitely the highlight of the game. Love the voice acting. Monster design is pretty cool in a macabre kinda way. Only died once so far, hope Act 2 picks up on that.
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Can someone explain to me what the point of melee in this game is other than getting gibbed?
Why not simply roll a ranged class and play like its Diablo IV on beginner mode, ignoring all of the ****** and tiresome combat mechanics?
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Decline wrote: December 8th, 2024, 22:02
Can someone explain to me what the point of melee in this game is other than getting gibbed?
Why not simply roll a ranged class and play like its Diablo IV on beginner mode, ignoring all of the ****** and tiresome combat mechanics?
Melee nearly always suck in online RPGs.
To make a long rant short, 'tank' and 'damage dealer' archetypes shouldn't be separate when it comes to melee because of how powerful an advantage of being able to attack from range is.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: December 8th, 2024, 22:07
To make a long rant short, 'tank' and 'damage dealer' archetypes shouldn't be separate when it comes to melee because of how powerful an advantage of being able to attack from range is.
Technically that has always been true in PoE, ex: As warrior just be a totem caster and ignore melee!

The main point here is that if you're an edgy developer like GGG tends to be and put LE SOULS LIKE COMBAT into your game, you should also realize that this whole ARPG fabric completely breaks down because a large part of class balance in those games stems from the fact that you mow down trash mobs in the 1000s per minute.
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They literally did say that the balancing will be off for a while until they get feedback and data.
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Finarfin wrote: December 8th, 2024, 22:18
They literally did say that the balancing will be off for a while until they get feedback and data.
I don't think it's fixable.
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I have beaten the "campaign" as a melee warrior. Having a lot of fun and getting into end game content now. If you are struggling in act 1 you are a noob and I'm laughing at you

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Nooneatall wrote: December 7th, 2024, 19:23
rusty_shackleford wrote: December 7th, 2024, 19:16
Finarfin wrote: December 7th, 2024, 19:15
I assume that anyone who either does speedrunning or hardcore ladders is a ******
Most of the people I know/knew that play these games played exclusively in hardcore.
I refuse to play any online game in hardcore because I'm not about to lose dozens/hundreds of hours of work to an internet outage or lagspike.
I just play games as a casual because I'm too fat and ******** to play without a bag of cheetos in my lap. If a game is too hard I just turn it off and go back to Gun Smoke.
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Xenich wrote: December 9th, 2024, 00:48
Nooneatall wrote: December 7th, 2024, 19:23
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Most of the people I know/knew that play these games played exclusively in hardcore.
I refuse to play any online game in hardcore because I'm not about to lose dozens/hundreds of hours of work to an internet outage or lagspike.
I just play games as a casual because I'm too fat and ******** to play without a bag of cheetos in my lap. If a game is too hard I just turn it off and go back to Gun Smoke.
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Grenades should damage you too. This looks stupid.
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@Finarfin generously gave me an extra key, so I'm downloading this now. Looking forward to trying it out when this enormous download finishes. (I know we complain about it around here all the time, but, since I rarely play new games, their file sizes still shock me. ~84 GB! I had to delete and uninstall a bunch of stuff to make room.)
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WhiteShark wrote: December 9th, 2024, 16:48
@Finarfin generously gave me an extra key, so I'm downloading this now. Looking forward to trying it out when this enormous download finishes. (I know we complain about it around here all the time, but, since I rarely play new games, their file sizes still shock me. ~84 GB! I had to delete and uninstall a bunch of stuff to make room.)
Yeah, it is ******** . I wonder how large it actually has to be? I remember ARK was ridiculous in file size for download from Steam and then I ran across the complete game (all expansions) that a repacker did and the storage size of it was only 40gbs (compared to Steams roughly 150 gb download). They are getting so lazy these days.
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Some guy on the PoE forums was asking the devs about "strong female representation", 2 users laughed at him and he deleted the thread. Remember kids, laughter is the best medicine.
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If you dont want difficulty, try minion witch. I tried her and Ive been breezing through act 1. She steamrolls everything. Balanced.
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Can you be hot in this?
I'm just stating the facts.
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Vergil wrote: December 9th, 2024, 18:01
Can you be hot in this?
Yes, specially if you purposely take lots of fire damage.
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Yankee Zulu wrote: December 9th, 2024, 18:01
If you dont want difficulty, try minion witch. I tried her and Ive been breezing through act 1. She steamrolls everything. Balanced.
I've had fun but still died many times.
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Statesman wrote: December 9th, 2024, 21:43
Vergil wrote: December 9th, 2024, 18:01
Can you be hot in this?
Yes, specially if you purposely take lots of fire damage.
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Is the warrior always black or is there a way to change his race because the artwork for the class depicts him as white
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First game suckd **** and was boring as ****. CAn't imagine this **** being any more complex/good/not homo/etc.
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I got to my first Dark Souls style boss that is filtering me but it's all the way at the end of act 1.
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W1llus wrote: December 10th, 2024, 05:39
Is the warrior always black or is there a way to change his race because the artwork for the class depicts him as white
No sadly, you must play as a canoe rider
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W1llus wrote: December 10th, 2024, 05:39
Is the warrior always black or is there a way to change his race because the artwork for the class depicts him as white
His voice is white which is funny to me
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I made a Mercenary yesterday and played for a few hours. Got all the way through the cemetery. I can sense that the game wants me to combo things somehow, but, right now, my highest DPS seems to still be just shooting things with my lightning-and-poison-enhanced basic bolts. Still fun, though. Feels like playing a top down shooter. I don't like the way misses work, though. It's hard to tell what's a misclick and what's the enemy evading my attack.