Path of Exile 2

Loved Diablo 4 so looking forward to this, are people going to play M&K or controller? Or just try both and see what's best? I'm guessing it will be WASD movement rather then point and click going off the gameplay clips I've seen.
 
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Wilko_Dog said:
Loved Diablo 4 so looking forward to this, are people going to play M&K or controller? Or just try both and see what's best? I'm guessing it will be WASD movement rather then point and click going off the gameplay clips I've seen.
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All control types are supported, but having seen some of the classes attacking while moving, I think point and click is gonna be less favoured.

I'm starting merc with a view to going gemling legionairre, so will try starting with controller. I'll switch to m+kb for WASD if the general UI is a pain on controller (I suspect it will be)
 
I think WASD will still be the preferred method if you are just sat at the desk, though it's probably going to take a bit of getting used to for a lot of us. The controller support does look good, but my experience from trying out the controller support in a number of these types of games is that inventory/menu management always feels slow and clunky compared to just being able to shift/ctrl click things.

I also read that Fextralife tried their usual shenanigans, but their POE2 pages have been getting bombarded and abused to the point of most of it being taken down.
 
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cHk4 said:
I'm looking forward to trying this out, I think I will use a controller, it's such a shame that mixed controller mouse/keyboard isn't available at launch. I do think first night I'll be using the M&K as I want to easily look throughout the passive tree.
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Yeah, this is a big deal for me. I play Diablo IV on a controller and just seamlessly switch to M/KB for inventory management.

I've never found ARPGs easy to control on M/KB. Then it looks like PoE2 with have skills while moving and a dodge roll so controller makes much more sense to me, but not for inventory management! It seems WSAD is an option too, but I imagine positioning will be finicky using that over an analogue stick, I've never used WSAD for an isometric game before.

I'll cope with a controller, hopefully seamless transition between controller types gets introduced soon.
 
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Wilko_Dog said:
Loved Diablo 4 so looking forward to this, are people going to play M&K or controller? Or just try both and see what's best? I'm guessing it will be WASD movement rather then point and click going off the gameplay clips I've seen.
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Going to give controller a go ... I prefer that for D4.
 
Tombstone said:
Yeah I'm wondering if I should avoid starting with a hardcore character in case I get server disconkilled
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Why would you start a hc character in a game with brutal bosses that everyone's expected to die on, multiple times? :confused:

Twitch drops over the first week. The pet is cool, but GGG putting 2 fingers up to people holding MTX currency by requiring it be bought as subs via twitch.
I hate to say but this is pretty low from them, but I suspect it's got something to do with a side deal with AWS providing them servers. /disappointed

 
D3K said:
Why would you start a hc character in a game with brutal bosses that everyone's expected to die on, multiple times? :confused:
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For the same reason that I play HC in most games that have HC , why I played HC mode in stuff like WoW, why I generally prefer playing permadeath modes in games, because I like it. I get that others dont but I do
 
D3K said:
Why would you start a hc character in a game with brutal bosses that everyone's expected to die on, multiple times? :confused:

Twitch drops over the first week. The pet is cool, but GGG putting 2 fingers up to people holding MTX currency by requiring it be bought as subs via twitch.
I hate to say but this is pretty low from them, but I suspect it's got something to do with a side deal with AWS providing them servers. /disappointed

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I hate Twitch as a platform ... so guess I'll be missing out.
 
dr_volki said:
just start hc and if you die early carry on in SC?
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I start again when I die in hc, it will just depend how stable the servers are initially as its one thing to die in hc/permadeath in a game due to me making a mistake and another to die in hc/permadeath in a game because I lose connection to the server. I'm hoping all the practice they've had with release days on leagues will mean the server stability will be decent.
 
Grim5 said:
Wtf is a twitch drop?
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Its an ingame item, usually a cosmetic, that you get given in a game for watching x number of hours of a particular game stream. Theres a huge amount of games that have twitch drops, everything from Deep Rock Galactic, to V-Rising to Call of Duty.
 
throwaway4372 said:
I see it as a red flag, if a game has drops on twitch then it is a microtransaction scum game.
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You need to readjust your metric. The only mtx that isn't purely cosmetic are stash tabs that you need to make the game tolerable in dealing with your loot. It's a fair trade off for f2p game that gets more content in a single league update than d4 has had across all its seasons and paid expansions.
 
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