Looking at stuff like fireball or the bouncing magic missile (can't remember the name), i think the animation speed has to be decreased by half.

They are so fast paced that they look like you are in fast mode, even in slow mode.

Edited March 15, 201510 yr by Mazisky

You mean decreased by half after you click "half speed" to the left of the clock?

 

IMO, movement animations are a bit faster than what I'm used to in the IE games, but I haven't compared footage from PoE and BGII for example.

 

On average, there are more active abilities in a PoE party than in an IE game's party, so I guess people who want to play optimally will have to pause more. I pause an awful lot, but I doubt I'll be able to win encounters otherwise, not until I'm much better at the game at least.

Fireball is moving uberfast even in slow mode : \

Edited March 15, 201510 yr by Mazisky

Fireball is moving uberfast even in slow mode : \

Isn't fireballs in IE games also superfast?

 

Also I find slow mode makes combat pace in PoE much better.

Hope they can do something like auto-slow mode when in combat... if it's still manageable.

Auto-Slow-Mo is in, I believe.

That is, if you enable slow mode during combat, it will return to normal speed at the end of combat, and will enable slow mode itself upon entering combat.

 

At least, I think that's how it went. I've mostly played on regular speed and paused, paused, paused.

Would have to check.

maybe they are meant to be faster?

Can you check if there is an option to auto slow-mode when entering combat?

Whoops. I was wrong.

There's no Auto Slow Mode.

 

What it will do, however, is drop you out of Fast Mode to normal speed when entering combat, and back up to Fast when combat is over. (If you were exploring in Fast Mode, that is.)

 

Sorry for the confusion // dashed hopes.

Edited March 16, 201510 yr by Ark Evensong