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This is still happening for me. I will find another game to play.

Did anyone note the showstopper bug that occurs where saves become corrupt and can't be loaded? Can't play currently because my last 5 saves all say 'Error Loading Next Map'. This is probably one of the most serious bugs out there since I can't even load the game and use cheats to fix the corrupted data like I did many times in PoE1.

What broken quests in Neketaka? I literally haven't found one, I have found some strange ones that work a little odd, but they weren't broke. Also those heinous import bugs were fixed in a patch that was available by the time you made this post? Yes people have a right to be upset, yes you have a right to call out and report bugs, there is nothing wrong with that. Just please stop calling the game broken, it is not broken. You can boot it up, you can play it, you can complete it. Could it be better? Yes. Does it need a difficulty balancing? Sure does. Are there some bugs? Yes, there are bugs. None of that means the game is "broken and unplayable" though. My game is completely broken now. Whenever I try to load my last 5 saves it says 'Failed to Load Next Map'. Up to that point though I had only crashed twice and experienced only minor issues.

The premise of several of your arguments is that tedium and loading screens aren't a deterrent, but they are, and were for me. If I don't have camp materials: Would I rather walk back up and rest once or go back and buy more camp materials because I know I'll need to rest more than once? If I do have campfire materials: Do I press on further or camp now? If not campfire materials, I think there are other ways to make resting not two clicks away at any point. Some kind of encounter system while resting might work too, although you'd have to think of way to not have it be totally abused by reloading - perhaps by seeding it or some other system. My point in mentioning these things was to highlight that even if potd combat difficulty is increased, I will still miss the added difficulty that I felt out of combat in poe1 - and added difficulty out of combat that could have been possible in a sequel. In fact, to be honest, the combat in poe1 got boring near the end because I felt there were too many encounters. Out of combat difficulty is a welcome addition imo. Make player resource management have far deeper consequences in harder difficulties!

I'm not 'objectively' wrong, lmao. I literally described the process to you, point by point, but even that isn't enough? There's nothing DIFFICULT about it, it doesn't require skill to overcome, it's not particularly a hardship. It's just an annoyance. A stupid, unnecessary annoyance. Sorry to say but your last sentence describes how I feel about your responses to my posts. But let's forget how objectively wrong you are for the sake of progress. Another probably better way to deter resting in potd difficulty would be that in dangerous areas there would be random encounters when attempting to rest. There are plenty of other ideas too!

What do you mean? I'm not following your logic. How could it not be more difficult if it is objectively more difficult to rest? I'm sorry, I don't mean this as an insult but you are logically and objectively wrong. Anyways, this isn't a list of commandments, just some thoughts I had on adding more difficulty for people that wanted it! Signing out for the night.

Well, I think you would have to agree it is more of a deterrent than it is now. But I believe I also qualified it by saying that poe1 didn't have a perfect rest mechanic either. Hence also why I mentioned more rogue-like elements. --Harder to rest --Health doesn't regenerate after combat without abilities/food. --Easier perma-death of characters, etc. --Dialog options and other choice-based elements have deeper consequences

Just a few more notes: --Campfire lumber in poe1 wasn't a perfect mechanic but made resting a difficult choice at times. Resting whenever I feel like it definitely isn't as fun. Endless Paths also helped further cement that attrition idea. It added a macro difficulty beyond just per-combat difficulty. Wherever the game can challenge me adds fun for me! --1 per rest abilities in poe1 tied into the attrition mechanics as well. Now that most everything is 1 per encounter if I accidentally pull a few enemies from a group and kill them it's twice as much of a benefit as before. --Honestly without attrition mechanics an Endless Paths style dungeon is pretty pointless so I wouldn't care for one without it. Would feel like cheating. --Would love to see more rogue-like settings incorporated as optional settings. I don't just want combat to be harder, I want more hard choices at every possible turn!

Aside from the difficulty issues, this game seemed solid but this morning my game will no longer load (failed to load next map). Showstopper bug killed the game for me and verifying steam files does nothing. Hopefully they fix it in upcoming patch else I may just move on to another game. I played potd in poe1 from day 1 and it was a decent difficulty level, so I was already a little tuned out from poe2's cakewalk settings. Still I got about 20 hours in and even if that's the last I will play it was still a good game!

I think it's tempting to say that a ranger isn't that bad because you just equip frostseeker and can do alright. Once they adjust the difficulty settings I hope they give the ranger some buffs to keep up with the other classes. After 20 hours I used IRoll20s and used OpenCharacterCreation and Kill <Pet> to switch from ranger (sharpshooter) to swashbuckler (devoted) since I wanted to not have my main character be the worst in the party (even though I'm playing PotD and it's pretty easy already). I had to cheat because I wouldn't play this game over again. I would play it over again if the writers managed to create a story I enjoyed more (Like BG2 or PS:T) or it was more of a rogue-like or had rogue-like options that disabled story.

The only argument you seem to be presenting here is that the balance of Frostseeker should be looked at - especially with how early you can get it.

Suddenly happened. My last 5 saves won't load anymore. Maybe because of the talking item manager? Seems like my playthrough is over now as I'm not going to redo the last few hours of play. Including lines leading up to the error and the offending callstack from the output log: ------- BEGIN LEVEL LOAD INITIATED -------- Pending level = RM_WorldMap_Forest_01. (Filename: C:/buildslave/unity/build/artifacts/generated/common/runtime/DebugBindings.gen.cpp Line: 51) Unloading 5 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 17) Unloading 2891 unused Assets to reduce memory usage. Loaded Objects now: 118251. Total: 538.803650 ms (FindLiveObjects: 9.702377 ms CreateObjectMapping: 4.237914 ms MarkObjects: 409.961182 ms DeleteObjects: 114.901329 ms) NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object at Game.TalkingItemManager.PostLoad () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Game.SaveLoadManager+<HandlePostLoadProcessing>c__IteratorB.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Game.SaveLoadManager+<RestorePersistenceData>c__Iterator0.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Game.SceneLoadManager+LoadedScene+<SceneLoadRoutine>c__Iterator2.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 UnityEngine.DebugLogHandler:Internal_LogException(Exception, Object) UnityEngine.DebugLogHandler:LogException(Exception, Object) UnityEngine.Logger:LogException(Exception, Object) UnityEngine.Debug:LogException(Exception) Game.<SceneLoadRoutine>c__Iterator2:MoveNext() UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine:InvokeMoveNext(IEnumerator, IntPtr) (Filename: Line: -1)

Yes, speaking as one of the people who is not bothered by challenge, particularly, and is rather enjoying Ascendant Cipher, I'd rather see them balance it by making the PotD encounters much harder (better tactics, more combined arms) for you guys, rather than drastically nerfing things for everyone. Buff the encounters, not nerf the characters. (To an extent.) (I mean, if I'm DMing - which is sort of what they're doing - and the PCs find a new new death mechanic, I nick it and use it right back. So, I dunno, give the monsters a few Ascendant Ciphers right back. And when you PotD guys manage to break that, then use that knowledge back again to give the mosnters counters and so on. It's always gonna a bit iterative to do it right, as opposed to just buffing hit points and stats.) (Also, yes, I'm still a bit sore they nerfed Mind Blaes and Amplifoed Wave in PoE 1...) You have a very strange mind! None of your logic makes any sense to me.

Devoted Fighter gets +2 penetration and crit damage increase at all times with their chosen proficiency with no disadvantages as long as you use only one weapon. There's probably some nuances here and there (like the animal companion damage), but to me it seems like a strictly better choice than Ranger with Sharpshooter for a two-handed character.

I don't need a overpowered class, I just want rangers to not be terrible - especially with bows since there is literally no disadvantage to swapping your bow out for a gun at any point. I enabled cheats and changed my class to Fighter(Devoted - War Bow)/Rogue and having a lot more fun now! I wish I didn't have to enable cheats though. My cipher was just outshining my main character too much and I couldn't handle it anymore. If I had taken Maia I'm sure I'd be a lot more pissed too.

I'd like it if there was a class that supported archery that had a few skills/passives specifically for bows. I find it odd that ranger doesn't have a single option in their skill tree to support bows over guns. (See Twinned Arrows being turned into Twinned Shot. Also see Gunner passive and Maia). I suppose guns would be better than bows in this universe though so I guess story-wise it makes sense. Still, I think it would be cool if they just made one ability or passive - Call it like Archer/Bow Mastery or something and it could even be weak so guns are still superior like the designers want.

On second thought I agree. For me, I assume ranger is a double entendre but it might just be one of the carryovers from real-world rangers and D&D. Further adding to confusion is the druid class and their involvement with nature as well.

In conclusion, if you want a ranged character just pick one of the many other classes as they are all vastly better at ranged combat and there really is no need to be micromanaging a gimped companion when you can build dedicated body-shields to protect your true "ranger" class. In PoE3 or an expansion, rename this to beastmaster and remove the tiny amount of ranged specific abilities as they just get in the way of your animal micromanagement!

If you look at other classes - like cipher - they can get penetration on their attacks or bonus damage through passives. But the ranger sharpshooter has to pay a penalty for it? Why subclass into a sharpshooter when you can just pick a different class that gets a bunch of bonuses without negatives? It's weird. I think another issue is that as a "ranger" I'd expect more ways to increase range damage, attack speed, or penetration through passives and skills. But especially early on there is mainly just accuracy and DoTs with a bunch of animal focused talents. I feel like calling it a ranger at this point is a misnomer. Just call it the beastmaster or something to avoid confusion! When I read ranger I would expect to be specializing above other classes in ranged weapons! And one final point: The animal companion would work more in a small party or solo party and feels like a gimped companion even when fully leveled. In a party-based game it feels like a weird mechanic to force into the class. Could just be my personal bias, I suppose...

I agree with this too. I have a Sharpshooter ranger and I also made a Mindstalker out of Ydwin for fun and she is doing at least as much ranged dps as my ranger with unoptimized stats and gear...

While I have encountered several bugs in PoE2, there are far fewer than when PoE1 was first released - few enough that it doesn't put a horrible taste in my mouth like it did for the first. PoE2 also has vastly upgraded systems that make the game more enjoyable; like no more one bonus limit on equipped items! For these reasons and more I hope that it does better in sales and reviews.

This is actually a massive improvement over PoE1. The passives are far more intuitive this way with the way they are worded. It simply served as a gotcha for new players back in PoE1 as the wording was super lazy and badly needed to either have better wording & clarification or the mechanics simplified as it is now.

Two-Handed Style appears to work with all two-handed ranged weapons. It doesn't display on the weapon context window but does display correctly in your character information and shows up correctly in combat logs.

Two Weapon Style appears to work - for two guns or gun/melee. Also there's a unique gun that has a bonus with melee weapons.

It doesn't make sense because you misunderstood me, horribly. Having ALL of the abilities makes a class boring. And yes, making choices is more interesting than not making choices . 30-60 well-designed abilities is way more than enough to be versatile...