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Thats the thing. As far as i can see right now, all they seem to be doing is adding extra mobs, and increasing power level of enemy skills, but its honestly still the same strategy. Thats not really challenging, thats just extra time to burn. Just like Boeroer mentioned, we can only look forward for better DLC's. Unless they rework each fight to make them more memorable. My perspective ATM, don't hate the game, hate the playerrr.. Maybe the players are just too skilled, that the game feels too easy. They should honestly work on the bugs instead. I hate dieing in trial of iron because my stealth won't let me stealth, or my chanter wont generate phrases randomly, and those random moments where your character says he will cast something, but he never attempts it.

Honestly, after playing the challenges, and doing solo runs, gonna have to say... the games pretty balanced. Some enemies have infinite skills, some enemies just jump on you even if you have an army of summons, they do the 1 boom boom combo on you, and GG time to restart. (Note again, I'm playing challenges, meaning I can't escape and reset fights, this means if the game glitches you can't regenerate any resource unless your a monk cypher, or chanter and you will be forced to keep fighting till everythings dead) I feel if your playing with a party, it will always end up being easy mode. I literally tried a chanter party, game got boring after 5 seconds of using it. Then I tried a Solo Holy slayer ( no challenges, on POTD) You can literally just pick at everything, kill something instantly, stealth, rinse and repeat until enemies are all dead, whats that? a super hard boss? Gouging Strike, and Brand Enemy.. nuff said. Just sit in a corner, sip a cup of tea, and play your classic music while the enemies die in agony. Edit The ONLY way this game will be better is if they improve the AI, look at the beast of winter, atleast the enemies are using potions. They could do that for all enemies (not all), and they could let enemies use poisonss, bombs, everything under the sun. Thats how you make a super challenge.

Magrans Challenge - Edited Also, RPG = ROLE PLAYING GAME, this means your playing as something in the fantasy aspect. World of warcraft is a mmorpg, mostly all online games are RPGs. This means saying something is an RPG, doesn't define it's play style. I would like to note, POE's game style is more on the RTS(Real Time Strategy/ATB(Active Time Battle) systems than anything else.

This is a video with spoilers in it , but good job on the video!!

Yes, I have this same problem, it came after patch 2.0. Mines occur whenever i play for a certain amount of time, or after 1 heavy duty battle. I can't find my topic on this exact same issue, but you could send them some gameoutput file via e-mail... I wasnt able to do it, I'm not sending 2G worth of files( this would take a long time for me to send), I have to pay for it since I'm going off data. Net where I am is expensive. It's really annoying, you have to literally close the game, because for me even going to the main menu, is hard to look at.

I wonder how we could suggest this to them, or if they will even see this.

That's exactly what I thought they were gonna do, when they said they added new challenges before the 2.0 patch. Boy was I suprised when i figured out they made a hidden menu for some reason.

D Settling for what you can only do isn't a good reason, how do you have a group of mod makers who can make more and better AI options? That just sounds like someones being lazy IMOOh, we do? Please show me which mods modify the AI behaviour of enemies, I'd love to try it.I'd certainly take your word for it. However wouldn't it be quite easy for Obsidian to allow you to. I.e. give you access to party AI scripting for enemies? Thats exactly what I'm implying. (The enemies use the same AI scripts we use, I'm pretty sure they are programmed to act a certain way already)- this can be improved

The reality that will unfold is Person 1: "Hey everyone!!! I beat a solo game, and I got an achievement!! Praise meee for how good I am!!" Random Person: "Wow nice, what did you get?" Person 1: " I UNLOCKED A BADGE ON STEAM REEEEEEEEEEEEE" Random Person: Oh, thats nice, good for you? 1 year later Person 1: " LOOK EVERYONE I STILL SEE NO ONE ELSE WITH THE ACHIEVEMENTTTT, Im so special!! Praisee mee everyone!" Person 2: " Eh congrats? We are just playing to have fun." Your arguement states that players who played the game for a long time, and gone far in the storyline shouldnt be rewarded, and should be disqualified. If what your saying is that beraths blessings are no better than cheats, why even have beraths blessings? Might as well just cheat in the game and get +20 stats in everything, and all characters which beraths only affect the main. There's a distinction between blessings and cheats, blessings only give you a honest amount of something, but not game breaking, and is earned by playing the game (you can still earn all achievements with blessings currently). Cheats well, your playing the game not as intended. At the end of the day, your saying we should support narcissistic people's behavioral patterns, just because a few people want to gimp themselves, this doesnt mean everyone wants to be gimped. The only time I look up videos on POE 2 is to find good builds, or how to complete certain things, not see someone else play a game with no competitive scene. If anyone wants to be recognized so badly, they should just play an mmorpg. The devs already said they have no intention of even adding co-op to this game, as well as people don't go in the forums to care about peoples achievements, its usually about game mechanics, and overall concern of the game. I mean, I use to be a well known player in wow on a pvp server, beating people with only a weapon, and no armor (before wow made the game dummy friendly) At the end of the day, no one really cares 1 person wanting to be gimped doesnt = everyone wanting to be gimped

Settling for what you can only do isn't a good reason, how do you have a group of mod makers who can make more and better AI options? That just sounds like someones being lazy IMO

Well, the blessings are earned, and are part of the game. What if you beat all the challenges, and you decide you wanted to play a rerun with a little more ease? Why can't it be an option? Anyways as i said earlier +2 stats doesnt break the game, and the game is still fun, and challenging if you play solo.

You can bind skills by mousing over them and pressing the desired key (though I think this is limited to Fs). That being said, I do agree, and strongly, that if one wants to play the game without pausing, using keyboard shortcuts is a must. Alas, this is not entirely feasible due to the response time of the interface (sluggish); and this is something that needs to be improved. Personally, as a Broodwar veteran, I would love to do boss battles using the keyboard for everything except targeting. However, I'm not sure if this level of reactivity is implementable given the turn-based nature of the game, which is supposed to emulate the look and feel of the good old Infinity Engine games ("Balduroids") to a degree. Holy Moly, I never knew you could do that. You my friend, you have opened up new possibilities, although i dislike F's it feels awkward to reach on my keyboard.

Exactly and why is it so expensive

>.> You only get a plushie if you payed them 500$? Thats a bit expensive..The game is already worth 75$ and isnt even complete (never seen a offline game with so many bugs before, and FPS issues) Technically there still making it. That plushie better be durable and radioactive proof, being able to survive any nuclear blast, made of the most finest materials only the heavens can offer, making it resistant to dirt, and when you touch it, it's texture better make you have some kind of internal orgasm that gives you the feel of grandeur. When you hug it it better have a chip that says your name,tells you it loves you, and makes chronic oinking sounds randomly. It better be able to be used as a toilet paper that never gets soiled if for some reason you need it for those weird purposes.

Yeah, I think I remember the same but you should be able to find that back in the original Fig campaign one way or another. I don't get the desire for a "physical" game. Like, unless you live somewhere with no internet access, in which case how are you posting / how did you back the fig campaign Well some people like me who had to leave the states for college into another foreign country would love a way to install the game without net, you wouldn't be able to comprehend the speed of the internet and how expensive it is. Trust me the 20G took a long time for me to download My current install speed where I live is incredibly inconsistent. My download speed currently is 28kb/s (Yes that's kilobytes!) and has been for about two days. No joke. I absolutely understand the frustration. I do not live in a place with good internet and when it does work it's also very poor. It sucks. XD same here man, philippines has the slowest internet thats expensive in asia.

This is a feature I feel the game is missing, recently playing magrans fire with both challenges, it's physically impossible to do triple crown solo with magrans challenge using a point and click. Unless you have some ultimate RPM, and the ability the avoid the sometimes unresponsive interface that takes time to open. This forces you to just play AI mode, a mode where you just watch the battle unfold, and hopefully your AI making skills are good enough. (Unless your mixed with a chanter who can abuse the inability to leave combat) I feel this would make the game feel more interactable. Currently It feels like playing a awkward moba if you don't use AI (which i prefer not to use). If the enemy, doesnt have engagement you play around there attack animations zig zaging back and forward so the enemies waste there attack and you can get a free hit. But the annoying part is when you want to use a skill, and you want to avoid as much damage as possible, you are forced to go run a safe distance to try and select a skill so you can use them.. But don't let me forget to mention the aiming it takes, if you misclick you better reclick that skill tab againnn, and the fact that sometimes your character runs up to the enemy, and forgets he was suppose to use his attack . I feel like this should be a thing, Relying on AI is kinda lame, and takes the skill base out of it. Just to note, I've gone really far in triple crown solo and all challenges. I don't do reloads and cheat. The only thing that ever kills me is broken areas, glitches that freezes me in a spot unable to leave battle even if everything is dead. One example is a quest in nekataka with the magic fingers. If you choose to fight the guy, you fight the whole town, you get forced to slaughter to whole village. But since i never knew that glitch on my first run, i used up all my rogue skills to slaughter the group of enemies, and was left vulnerable to everything else.

Exactly, I've been playing the 2 challenges, it's not fun. Sometimes you fight 1 group, you fight the whole map. You don't even have enough resources to kill everything. This forces you to play monk / chanters as a sub class. All you get is bragging rights LolIf it's not fun why do it?Because normal mode is too easy? Are saying some things not fun because of bugs wrong? Also making the game less fun by not having the ability to mod, or use blessings? Disabling Features = Less fun. Anyways, this post is about why they should let us use mods, and blessings. Stick to the topic plz, The whole point is we would like to use some features with challenges. If a few players don't want to use said features, they also have to right not to click and activate them. I'd love to play challenge modes with mods, but clearly the idea is to prevent people using cheat items to nerf the difficulty. Same thing with Berath's Blessings- if you want a challenge surely you don't also want a bunch of extra stat and skill points Then the people who don't want to use those, dont have too Haha. Why does it have to be black or white? Do you not like to have a variety of options? Besides, those + 2 stats and skill bonus you speak off aren't really game breaking especially if it's a triple crown solo, with magrans fire challenges. Magrans challenge, pretty much forces you to play AI mode (unless your a rogue/chanter harbringer who can abuse the never leave battle). Obsidian doesn't provide better AI option either, thats where mods come in. Speaking of AI, if they truly wanted the game to be more intense, they could give enemies better AI's instead of just putting extra mobs. Besides, people are also not content with POE 2 difficulty, thats why there are more mods to increase difficulty than decrease it. Now that I think about it, I haven't seen a make POE 2 easier mod.

Exactly, I've been playing the 2 challenges, it's not fun. Sometimes you fight 1 group, you fight the whole map. You don't even have enough resources to kill everything. This forces you to play monk / chanters as a sub class. All you get is bragging rights LolIf it's not fun why do it? Well, it's not a online game, but you still compete with others. You want to do the challenges, but if there are no achievements to gain, nobody would know you have done it. Example: The Ultimate Challenge in PoE 1. Doubt much ppl got that. Exactly, but anyways at the current moment, people can activate all achievements and claim they have it by playing with the files

Exactly, I've been playing the 2 challenges, it's not fun. Sometimes you fight 1 group, you fight the whole map. You don't even have enough resources to kill everything. This forces you to play monk / chanters as a sub class. All you get is bragging rights LolIf it's not fun why do it? Because normal mode is too easy? Are saying some things not fun because of bugs wrong? Also making the game less fun by not having the ability to mod, or use blessings? Disabling Features = Less fun. Anyways, this post is about why they should let us use mods, and blessings. Stick to the topic plz, The whole point is we would like to use some features with challenges. If a few players don't want to use said features, they also have to right not to click and activate them.

E Exactly, I've been playing the 2 challenges, it's not fun. Sometimes you fight 1 group, you fight the whole map. You don't even have enough resources to kill everything. This forces you to play monk / chanters as a sub class. All you get is bragging rights Lol

I believe instead of them increasing the number of enemies per an encounter, they should just improve the AI's of the enemy. There is no point of having a bigger group of enemies, when they are all stupid. They could also add legendary weapons on some enemies, to make battles harder,

I honestly don't see why you can't use either with the challenges. I don't understand how disabling features make the game fun. Let's face it, its a single player offline game, we aren't competing with anyone. Some of us just want's to do a triple crown solo mode without having to worry about accidentally accepting party members because we already read all the dialogue 1000 times. Some of us use Mod's that make the game better and more challenging, Mods that fill in where the game is lacking (customization) which for some reason the devs won't add themselves. I don't understand how removing the ability to optimize your game the way you want to play it is a bad thing. Why in the world is there 2 option screens for starting a game? Why not just make it one screen, and you can pick what you want to choose from? I know there will be people saying "HEY ITS SUPPOSE TO BE CHALLENGING, I COULD USE BERATHS BLESSINGSSSS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" well you have the option not to use it too, and if your tempted then thats a internal issue. I'm sorry, I just don't see how a more enhanced customization mod breaks the challenge. These challenges pretty much force you to play boring style 2.0 instead, with its frustrating bugs, and glitches. I know some of you are gonna say its because it's suppose to be "challenge" but the problem with that is what happens after you beat the challenges? What do you get, extra berath points for normal mode? Why would anyone play normal mode after beating the challenges? What else do you get? Bragging rights that no one cares about? Are the obsidian devs gonna put your name on a trophy cabinet? All in all, the freewill to customize is what makes games better, look at the elder scroll, and fallout franchise. Please Devs, make this happen.

Yeah, I think I remember the same but you should be able to find that back in the original Fig campaign one way or another. I don't get the desire for a "physical" game. Like, unless you live somewhere with no internet access, in which case how are you posting / how did you back the fig campaign Well some people like me who had to leave the states for college into another foreign country would love a way to install the game without net, you wouldn't be able to comprehend the speed of the internet and how expensive it is. Trust me the 20G took a long time for me to download

Thanks ffor the reply, will see what i can do. Wait, do you mean the 2gb file?

If you mean turn all setting down, yes