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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was excited for…

  • the new gem system - there was this promise, that you don’t have to roll fusings/chromatic/jeweller orbs anymore to make the sockets fit for your build on a certain item.
  • the graphical update - game looks phenomenal, let’s be honest here.
  • Technical Upgrades on the engine - PoE1 has a shitton of technical debt and runs like ass. I was excited for them to be able to maybe start from scratch, or solve some longer lasting pains, that they never got around to with PoE2 (since the games ended up so different, that they drifted apart).
  • More smooth gameplay - I enjoyed the look of some of the older demos. It really seemed like travel skills felt more fluid and combat overall had more flow to it.

  But honestly, I’m not really the right person to judge PoE2, I played roughly 10 hours in 0.1, almost finished Act 1 but then Life got a bit in the way and my playthrough fizzled out. From what I remember, monsters were too strong and too fast, playing melee kinda sucked (as is tradition).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon falls through the cracks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah same here.

  I’m in a similar situation at the moment where my team is pretty unorganized, most employees are from an external company, and noone bothers to explain shit to me, even after I asked several times already. Plus, because of unenforced rules, it’s basically 100% home office and noone is ever present, even if I go in the office. I COULD just do nothing and pretend like I’m working all of the time, noone ever contacts me anyway. But that would genuinely make me wanna die.

  I’m already feeling super useless most of the time and try to chew through old legacy code to at least gain an understanding of the project. It’s somewhat working, but it’s tough to keep up my motivation. Overall I kinda oscillate between feeling useless and frustrated because I’m just not as productive as I would want to be as an employee.

  Anyway, I’m already sending out CVs to other job offers. This is not the ideal life for me and I don’t plan on keeping it going for longer than necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take your time with the combat tutorial - Understand the difference between a dodge roll, a sidestep, a parry and blocking.

  Other than that, have fun!