On November 30 2012 22:12 sob3k wrote: How much has this game improved since a few months ago? When I played it was just too damn clunky to really get into.
There are still issues with latency especially and particularly in attack-sequences, but it has improved a lot over the last months and as anything involving server-stability it will improve gradually over time. At the moment the fun happens in the alpha realm, where they are testing act 3 and a get the patches in less tested packages than before. Open beta has been almost promised to start in december, so we are more or less waiting for that. Doesn't mean that the game build on the beta-server isn't very good. It is basically a "finished" game without the last layers of polish. It seems that Act 3 has become quite a treat. At the moment they say it is about half the game in the Act 3 on alpha! Not only that, but they are even developing more content in Act 3 which is gonna be the first mini-expansion of the game, a few months in. I think they are where they need to be in the engine development to open the dam, so let us just wait patiently and follow the announcements of how far along she is: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/54
On November 30 2012 22:12 sob3k wrote: How much has this game improved since a few months ago? When I played it was just too damn clunky to really get into.
Played as a witch for about 4 hours,quite fun. Very much has the feel of an indy game, found quite a few bugs.
Interesting concept though, basing all your skills of sockets. The spiral passive skill tree reminds me a lot of a final fantasy game...was it ffx? not sure but I've surely seen that somewhere. Fels like a diablo game in terms of loot, art style. And the loot actually feels like it could be more fun than the +stats loot of d3. Will logon later and play somemore.
On December 01 2012 10:43 dartoo wrote: Played as a witch for about 4 hours,quite fun. Very much has the feel of an indy game, found quite a few bugs.
Interesting concept though, basing all your skills of sockets. The spiral passive skill tree reminds me a lot of a final fantasy game...was it ffx? not sure but I've surely seen that somewhere. Fels like a diablo game in terms of loot, art style. And the loot actually feels like it could be more fun than the +stats loot of d3. Will logon later and play somemore.
Ya FF X had a similar skill tree. I've only played for a few hours as well as a marauder and I'm really enjoying it. Looks like it gets much much better late on as well.
This game should not be judged till you get the idea how it looks like past 30-40 level. Its kinda like inverted Diablo 3, look mediocre/ just ok at the beginning and transforms into good/super good (depending on taste).
On December 01 2012 10:43 dartoo wrote: Played as a witch for about 4 hours,quite fun. Very much has the feel of an indy game, found quite a few bugs.
Interesting concept though, basing all your skills of sockets. The spiral passive skill tree reminds me a lot of a final fantasy game...was it ffx? not sure but I've surely seen that somewhere. Fels like a diablo game in terms of loot, art style. And the loot actually feels like it could be more fun than the +stats loot of d3. Will logon later and play somemore.
The skill system is basically a marriage of FFVII and FFX.
On December 02 2012 09:46 -Dustin- wrote: Hm open beta is scheduled for this month. May go ahead and try PoE again is anyone still playing?
And from where you got this information ? , i cant find official confirmation of this.. just speculations from players.
Yeah it's mostly speculation. I dont think they will announce too much in advance. Then people would just wait instead of getting the supporter packs.
Directly quoting Chris: "Work on the 0.10.0 patch (which will be deployed in December when we enter Open Beta) is going well and an early version should be available for Alpha testers sometime next week."
The 0.10.0 patch is on the alpha at the moment and has been for some time in different patches. I think they are careful about giving more exact time-frames because they want the game to be in a relatively good shape. The exact date of release will be announced soon, again according to Chris:
"in the near future we will be announcing the date that Open Beta begins. I cannot post a date yet because we're still scheduling some PR/media activities and want the date to be absolutely correct before we announce it. Once it's announced, there will be no turning back because we will perform the last wipe on that date, deploy 0.10.0, enable public access and brace ourselves for the storm."
On December 02 2012 09:46 -Dustin- wrote: Hm open beta is scheduled for this month. May go ahead and try PoE again is anyone still playing?
And from where you got this information ? , i cant find official confirmation of this.. just speculations from players.
Yeah it's mostly speculation. I dont think they will announce too much in advance. Then people would just wait instead of getting the supporter packs.
Directly quoting Chris: "Work on the 0.10.0 patch (which will be deployed in December when we enter Open Beta) is going well and an early version should be available for Alpha testers sometime next week."
The 0.10.0 patch is on the alpha at the moment and has been for some time in different patches. I think they are careful about giving more exact time-frames because they want the game to be in a relatively good shape. The exact date of release will be announced soon, again according to Chris:
"in the near future we will be announcing the date that Open Beta begins. I cannot post a date yet because we're still scheduling some PR/media activities and want the date to be absolutely correct before we announce it. Once it's announced, there will be no turning back because we will perform the last wipe on that date, deploy 0.10.0, enable public access and brace ourselves for the storm."
On December 02 2012 09:46 -Dustin- wrote: Hm open beta is scheduled for this month. May go ahead and try PoE again is anyone still playing?
And from where you got this information ? , i cant find official confirmation of this.. just speculations from players.
Yeah it's mostly speculation. I dont think they will announce too much in advance. Then people would just wait instead of getting the supporter packs.
Directly quoting Chris: "Work on the 0.10.0 patch (which will be deployed in December when we enter Open Beta) is going well and an early version should be available for Alpha testers sometime next week."
The 0.10.0 patch is on the alpha at the moment and has been for some time in different patches. I think they are careful about giving more exact time-frames because they want the game to be in a relatively good shape. The exact date of release will be announced soon, again according to Chris:
"in the near future we will be announcing the date that Open Beta begins. I cannot post a date yet because we're still scheduling some PR/media activities and want the date to be absolutely correct before we announce it. Once it's announced, there will be no turning back because we will perform the last wipe on that date, deploy 0.10.0, enable public access and brace ourselves for the storm."
I would say that a december release is very likely based on those statements and it is more than just speculations.
I dont belive it... i follow and play PoE long time.. and i remmember that first open beta ETA was in August , now we have december
Actually the first ETA's for open beta after closed beta started was january 2012, even reinforcing your point I guess! Anyway, it is the first time they have promised to announce a release date. That is progress!
Was able to play a bit this past week (ty to gingerfluffmuff for the key) and got my Marauder to mid 30s. I'm glad I didn't start off in hardcore because it gets pretty dicey at times.
Like i was writing some post ago ... no Open beta in 2012
"We have therefore decided to enter Open Beta on January 23, 2013, US time. The final character wipe and deployment of patch 0.10.0 (including Act Three) will occur then. "
This game is great! its like Diablo but better! The skill tree is so customizable to every class and you can tune your class to w.e. you want. The freedom is so unreal and awesome because you can be who you want to be!
Besides that I got some minor issues with my char melee hits not landing sometimes(only happened once, couldve been lag)
Will there be expansions or something in the future ?
Yeah I'm not 100% sure about the open beta either but if it does happen I'm going to play again. Not much reason to start now with a possible wipe coming. Man Radiatoren you should have control of this thread you know 1000x more than I do about the game.
EPT
, now we have december 
