Path of Exile 2 “not rewarding enough”, its developer admits amid incoming changes

Path of Exile 2 is “not rewarding sufficient”, developer Grinding Gear Video games has admitted, amid a plan to “urgently” replace the sport.

An intensive submit on the sport’s neighborhood discussion board particulars a variety of adjustments based mostly on suggestions from the sport’s launch weekend final week. Some adjustments have already been carried out, whereas others can be deployed in a future patch.

“There are heaps extra issues coming,” reads the submit. “The listing on this submit are a number of the issues we felt wanted to be extra urgently addressed.”

A serious sticking level is that the sport is “not rewarding sufficient”, with a plan to change objects, uncommon monsters, forex, and map mods.

“That is an space that we’ve to be very cautious when adjusting as a result of it is very exhausting to scale back drops if we improve them by an excessive amount of,” stated the developer.

The rewards given for defeating uncommon monsters have been boosted, which ought to enhance the endgame. Particularly, the rarity bonus per uncommon mod has been doubled, the amount bonus per uncommon mod has elevated by 10 %, and there is an elevated probability of uncommon monsters inherently having extra modifiers.

“These adjustments will trigger uncommon monster rewards to naturally scale up as you get to larger ranges as a result of the variety of mods a monster can have will increase all through the marketing campaign and into endgame,” the submit reads.

Additional, the drop charges of assorted currencies have been raised, whereas the rewards for the added issue of map mods have been “considerably elevated”.

Different adjustments to Path of Exile 2 embrace: an enchancment to dodging to forestall gamers turning into trapped as usually; new checkpoints have been added to forestall retreading previous floor; the ‘Transfer Solely’ command not namelocks to forestall characters attacking within the improper route; and uncommon monsters will seem on the minimap extra simply to spice up endgame development.

The total listing of adjustments will be seen on the Path of Exile 2 discussion board.

Forward of the sport’s launch final weekend, Path of Exile 2’s director warned of doable queues and server points. Regardless of this, the sport received off to a fantastic begin on Steam – it reached a peak of 578,569 concurrent gamers, in accordance with SteamDB.

“Path of Exile 2 is flexing its blockbuster chops right here, and displaying it is worthy of all of the expectation heaped upon it, and able to confronting the largest motion RPG titans head-on,” reads our Path of Exile 2 early entry review-in-progress.