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Path of Exile – (2013 game) reworked.

It’s souls-like but with muddy graphics and no telegraphing for one-hit mechanics, so it’s all luck. No skill variety.
Not recommended.

• aka POE2

• Early access subforum

• Changing an account name – email support @grindinggear.com

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• 2026-03-15 – Shit is invisible, and I can’t do unlimited damage. The boss goes from easy to simple to utterly impossible. Fuck it.
• 2025-12-16 – Waited for the Druid update. The Sorceress stuff is shit until you get a dude, all the dude abilities suggest a main ability and secondary but it’s weird. Played for a while, built around the dude. Can’t defeat The Prisoner; insane unforgiving one shot mechanics, and even then it regens to 100% and I can’t tell why. Uninstalled. I wish these guys played their own game.

• 2025-10-29 – Trying again with solo self found (SSF) and another class; who knows.

  • For fuck’s sake, my first introduction to regeneration and it’s impossible. Built well, good gear, can’t do it. Fuck right off game.

• 2025-10-02 – Killing. I’ll leave it installed so it’s easier to patch later.

  • It has literally impossible bosses. Great gear and a build made for damage using the damage type a boss is vulnerable to. Perfect mechanics understanding. It’s on a timer; can’t do it. Fuck off game.
• 2024-12-08 – Uninstalled.

• 2024-12-06 – 0.1.0 (Early Access) – I got the early access. This replaces Path of Exile – (2013 game), but I haven’t played that in a long time.

2024-12-06 – 0.1.0 (Early Access) ∞

• It requires a graphics driver update; I hate that.
• In options, clicking the hide email option crashes the game
• The gateway selection window has a ping list which is covered by the scroll bar.

• I had system hanging issues and had to hard reboot twice. I’ll try changing it to fullscreen.

  • After experimentation, I confirm it’s Twitch streaming at the same time, even though Twitch is at 480p
• Wait a second, its default graphics setting was fucking insane. I think it was scaling itself down from the highest possible. I’ll fullscreen but make it proper, which seems to prevent my graphics card from self-immolating.
• It doesn’t prompt to confirm when clicking exit.
• My god the login screen was cooking my GPU. I fiddled with settings and maybe it did something…
• The queue counter doesn’t have commas, and it could use a time estimate.
• I wish it saved my position in queue when I crash, so that if I were logged in I could just get back in again without waiting.
• God damn, my computer is having issues playing this. :/ I had to fiddle with settings.
• Phenomenal gameplay.
• I love that it’s so easy to pick things up.
• I love wasd so much, but I’m pausing to shoot with a wand.
• Gold autopickup is awesome
• My microtransactions from POE1 aren’t available? Not even my portals?

• How do I make skeletal snipers work? I can’t make the skill gem do anything. I can’t put it in a bar. Is it magic?

  • Oh, they’re just “there” and I have a key to make them relocate.
• Why have a well? Just autofill flasks like before.
• I don’t need to click a waypoint any more.
• The different currencies are a mess that all look the same.
• You STILL can’t equip items from the sell panel.
• Summoning is easymode. I get an aoe which also resurrects? Silly.
• I can’t actually follow any of the story line.
• What… it remembered my portal location from a previous login!
• I cannot control-backspace in chat to delete the previous word.

(After my refund request, I would give it another decent try over the next couple of days, but it’s just a bad game.)

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Why I requested a refund:

• Game is not an arpg, it is souls-like from poor telegraphing and muddy graphics; making it wholly luck-based
• Graphics are muddy and unclear. It’s not an art style, it’s just bad.

• Cannot distinguish skill gems, leading to an unworkable inventory.

Why I asked Steam for a refund, and how that could have been prevented ∞

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3597361

This is not an ARPG, it is a souls-like game, only much worse.

I say souls-like for the same reason everyone else does, because ones own actions are plodding and mechanics are one-shot.

Although I use WASD it does not feel good because every cast pauses while moving. Having true movement would solve the plodding character.

Mechanics are one shot because there is no telegraphing. I’ve heard this word used by GGG and apparently it’s not understood. The player needs to know what’s going on in the fight in order to make decisions. That has to be done in two passes

(1) they have to see what’s going on
(2) they need to learn to predict outcomes from what they see.

I guess I’m meant to just panic when I see a boss pause, emote, or wind up, because I don’t know what’s going to happen until it kills me. Then I have to memorize it and redo the fight like some sort of 1980s arcade game.

There is no learning process when failure to see what’s going on leads to immediate death. A workaround is to raise boss health, and have the early uses of a boss mechanic do reduced damage. If the player cannot guess at what is being telegraphed, don’t kill them immediately. Let them learn by being hurt with the understanding that it’ll sting a little more each subsequent time they get hit.

This will likely make things too easy for good players, so I recommend if a boss takes a certain amount of damage over a certain period this mechanic is silently reduced or abandoned.

Personally I think all campaign bosses should have charge attacks which do percentage damage, not flat damage.

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The next problem is how muddy everything is. This isn’t just an art direction (which is bad) but a decision on individual skill gems. They all look the same. There’s an unnecessary crescent and then a color and then some sort of muddy texture. They all look the same. Even two of the colors are close.

In the game field, I was once killed by The Nothing, and I had to learn to not have fun and instead keep moving because there was no way for me to know what would happen next. I’d have to roll all the time just in case. I then learned that I was killed by the dark purple that appeared under the dark brown.

Another time I died from a lightning storm. I thought I was fine because I could see I was in a safe spot. Apparently there might have been a slight twinkling under me which I must have been standing on and covering.

I simply cannot distinguish things when they are all the same color scheme. I recommend GGG have some devs take their glasses off and play to see what I mean. Don’t play it at 60 fps and fiddle with settings to see what’ll happen with them.

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None of my microtransactions were available. I thought this would be the case. Are they unavailable for the early access but available for the release? At least for portals? This made me nervous because I would have rather started fresh with a different account and fresh Steam account (for streaming) had I known my microtransactions wouldn’t be supported.