The deeper I delve into the intricacies of the design and development process, the more I grasp the extensive duration required to prepare for the release of PoE2, take all the time you need guys, get everything polished and ready, we'll be here to support you when the time comes.

Thank you path of exile youtube account manger person. For not dumping all these videos all at once. My sub box thanks you

With Ed being a martial artist, I want to know how often he'd get up and demonstrate the motions for an animation for others or himself

The more I hear the more I believe in their vision. And it’s good that Chris Wilson is also open to this expansion of PoE. Splitting the games makes more sense as we get all this information on the changes. Keeps us anticipating more news too

Can we finally dual wield shields? I wanna be do a confused turtle build.

Thank you Ed for creating such beautiful and accurate animations. I can't wait to see more of what you've created for us in PoE2!!

The improvement in player feel and visual noise of skills will be *everything*.

I really excited about having a martial artist type character class/skills in Path of Exile. The build up of info and videos are great! Keep em coming GGG 😁

it really seems like they are thinking everything through. I'm so excited to see their vision come to life and I'm sure the final product will ooze passion and care just like poe1

Great presentation! Really excited for how it all comes together

The sheer amount of effort that went into finally making the characters and animations nice is staggering. They really care about making PoE2 work!

Now I'm in love with a game I never played. Diablo 1 was my last and only RPG.

that is insane detail great work, pls keep up the good work

Keep up the great work!

The amount of thinking through of mechanics is astounding. Take notes D4. Very looking forward to the beta next year!

Really impressive how much work, skill and ingenuity goes into these details. I look very much forward to playing POE2. I really liked Ed Tate's explanations, seems like he is not used to public speaking, but put in a lot of effort. And I really enjoyed his insight on the intricacies of animating and it is clear that he has a lot of experience.

It is rare nowadays that the people who decide the release date of a game, actually love and play games. There's no doubt in my mind that they've drilled down on every detail and continue to scrutinize seemingly random things that can make 2 feel better to play. The animations are looking great. As long as you continue to care about your game to this degree, I will continue to spend thousands of hours playing it.

Speed variation! Awesome.

Can't wait to play the beta!

I can't imagine how you'd program animation blending

man im so incredibly hyped for poe2, especially after playing SSFHC and experiencing a poe that is a lot slower

Looks and sounds amazing!

I hate to compare this to Blizzard, but this animation is seriously good. I can't wait to try it. As someone who works in the industry, I can't find fault with the anims and it actually seems on par (or better) than Diablo 4. Ed and the animation team is seriously good.

Can you let us fight completely unarmed with it's own pros and cons? I am in love with this style, but almost never see it meaningfully added to games.

been said before but please don't rush release on this, take your time dudes! looking great

I wonder if weapon switch speed will vary per item type, IE claws/daggers being faster to swap than 2-hand axes or spears

I love everything these guys are saying, I was a bit iffy about skills being restricted by weapon type, but using that to give each weapon more uniqueness I am down for. And now a wishlist: 1.Let me wield a wand and a melee weapon dang it, we have had the technology since torchlight 2, 2.Some crazy unique/keystone/acendency that turns the dodge into a teleport 3.Make mirror arrow/blink arrow clone army good again, having a horde of myself all plinking away at dudes was so much fun. Very indulgent

There resource-generating skills I hated already in D3, and they did the same thing in D4. The PoE devs put it perfectly, "you use the fun skill once and then you have to go back to the not fun ones". There goes a lot of passion, but also a lot of understanding into PoE2, and that's just so great!

It's great to hear them speak about considering mechanics, but later discarding them for something that is more complex in depth because it's just better gameplay for the character. I won't drop any names of recent games that could've MASSIVELY benefitted from this kind of development... POE has been pioneering the genre from the start, it's great to see that they haven't deviated from that philosophy at all over the years. They're still nerds making a game that they hope other nerds will want to play.

In what video you can see the two player cooperating togheter with a stream of light beetween them?

OH the dodge roll workign on movespeed sounds nice. SO if you get like 300% runspeed are you going to leaping tumble 15-20 feet?

Will cooldowns be an option for those who want them via support gems? Last Epoch handles this well by giving skills different effects or increased damage as a tradeoff.

please add sirus abilities for us players to use or anything looks and sounds like it

I'm a little worried about the new skill system, I but i do truly want this game to be good

22:44 it's hard to not have rotations of sorts with how many synergies skills have. I suppose swapping the gems to tweak skills use may help a bit with that rotationy type of gameplay via automating some of the stuff.

I really hope that vaal skills still in the game. Ita super cool to have a form of ultimate habilit

Super excited for PoE 2!!!!!!

I can't wait! ;)

4k video where?

40:50 I hope they do put a ranger backflip on a really punchy bow or xbow skill, that'd be sick

I really love how they don't pull punches when talking about their previous game. Big companies like to pretend their previous games were perfect, which probably compromises their ability to make the next one actually better.

This is what happens when developers actually care about the game. Love the vision and I will definitely be playing it. Amazing animations.

Extremely happy with the more action focused gameplay that POE2 has. Can't wait to eventually play this.

YES

Im one of the few that only plays campaign and hate mapping over and over.

Hrm.... You know how a tire rim seems to slow down at some higher speeds because humans can only see so fast? You can make it so that hammer has certain break speeds like at 80% attack speed you see 2 hammers at once. And at 150% attack speed you see 3 hammers at once. And eventually if you get some crazy like 400% attack speed it is moving so fast you see 4 or 5 hammers at all times and have to use the sound to convey how many hits are landing.

I m waiting the game so badly :)

I am almost crying with joy at the thought of the animal minion inclusion and minion flexibility improvements (as well as pros/cons)! :'-)

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Dang it beats D4 hands down.

🎉🎉🎉

Would be this a step forward into action combat like BDO? This would be an absolutly game changer. I love attack while in movement thats why I use autobombers and cyclone based builds (walking simulators) and this festure opens the game completly for my play style. 😮

Love the devs honesty here.

I want to know the reason behind those reposts

Will it be possible to finish POE2 without getting hit at all? Maybe there can be some ultra_HC_challange!

Middle lad look like matt Damon ❤

THESE GUYS KNOW HOW TO MAKE A GOOD ARPG! kEEP THE GOOD WORK, PALS!

Good day comrades.🌄🌊✊🙂

перекаты это жесть конечно, я очень надеюсь, что завезут оптимизацию движка.

They getting rid of cyclone? If not, what is the point in the whirling one?

GG

22:47 skill rotation base can have depth, i like lost ark skill rotation base, it's has depth an actually you use you brain instead of mindlessly spamming basic and core skill... the guardian and and pvp feels rewarding because you skills as a player shine just like how you played dota2

For the years of alienating melee users in POE 1 can you make melee good?

Will the skill gem system still be there? I hope so because Diablo 4's skill tree's are super restrictive.

Nice video. There are some questions I haven't found the answer so far: I - would be easier to reset your passive skill / atlas tree? Would we be able to customize our characters (gender, hair....) despite the class we choose?

I like the changes you've made to avoid power creep devolving the game into stacking every offensive and defensive advantage to an insane level because new content difficulty is balanced around min-maxed builds, thus encouraging even more ludicrous min-maxing and exploits just to see what's in the game. Although part of that game genre's fun comes from theorycraft it shouldn't come to a level where it harms gameplay and build diversity. I like the game slowing down a bit and I hope it will keep having this feel of making deliberate choices even with "endgame" speed. I like playing with big charged/channelled attacks that requires to think about positioning and when to commit so I'm glad you're trying to make slow but hard hitting skills a viable thing. I hope there will be some dope new spells going along those lines along with classics like Flameblast and -Kamehameha- Divine Ire :D

Niceee

I'm really worried about the way the system will pidgeonhole players into rotations. Seems the "use more skills" is the imperative they are working under, so the utility and effect has been split around, the only real question i have as of now is how much granular the split has been. To get a good level of effectiveness a setup will be put in the situation where mutiple preparing skills will be needed for a single effective one. Being it situational and more or less long as a chain, still I can compare it to a classic mmo rotation where i could skip a keystroke from time to time but why bother, just commit to muscle memory. Example shown is the power charges or the mentioned in other talks armor break: set condition 1, set condition 2, use skill, repeat. It is far from dull as cooldown usage, but it is quite contrived and moving the game from a relaxing state of predictability in your build to a constant need to worry about being consistent in executing a sequence or otherwise wasting potential. I guess we will see the results on open beta and at least won't need to waste 70$ and have poe1 still alive and kicking to fallback to.

lol, literally describing the issues with cooldowns and resource builders and spenders in Diablo 4 as examples of what was not fun and why

У меня в голове пока не укладывается концепция того, что игра буквально выглядит как диабло 4, но играться должна как супер динамичная пое, где ты пробегаешь карту за 1-2 минуты (имею ввиду какой-нибудь дорогой билд). Ну вот как будет выглядеть геймплей, когда ты играешь за супер дорогого RF, у которого аое на пол экрана, ты бегаешь с 200% мс и при этом у тебя есть перекаты?

can we still spam full-screen skill, 1 hit end-game boss, walking simulator or... in PoE2?

They look so nervous, soon They will know that They are the GODs of POE 🙃

Does the bear need honey instead of mana to use skill ? Does the bear smell like fish? it would be nice to see assasin and lancer to dodge like konoha running style.

FINALLY, Will I be able to dual wield *TWO SHIELDS* Don't disappoint me PoE devs, you gave shield so little love is wrenching. Lemme bash enemies

4:21 Still sane? EXILE (in game) it feels like dante short xd

feel like cartman in that south park wii episode... cmon poe2 cmooon

It’s sad that we cant use combos of skills. From one skill transitions to another.

Ohhh, watching big monsters sorta shove little creatures out of the way should be fun. These new flowing mechanics and non dedicated animations sounds bad ass.

Hopefully they'll increase the carrying capacity of the character so you can carry more items instead of using portal scrolls all the time!

BTW I love 1 button play for lazy people, plz have that option for us ^^

I feel that we will have to continuosly switch to a secondary set over and over just to adapt to different situations and boss fight mechanics. mmmm... idk

Will the game be more beginner friendly?

Ohhhhh... Now you can have Thorns be a literal character animation that grows bigger and bigger thorn like objects and have very "pushy" stuff get knocked back by thorns (because thorns hurt) unless the large pushy is metal, because the thorns wouldnt make metal stuff wince in pain. Can even work this thorn factor into spells and stuff make big stuff say "OUch!" and move away from the thorns.

I think the ranger's jump animation is a bit disappointing, you don't feel the power in his legs, he just gets lifted up. Otherwise, amazing work guys, the game looks so f*cking promising, would love to work on the project with you !

"what with vaal skills" ? Legit said : "You're not ready for this one" Haha it's fun seing introvert people just talking about what they work for ! Superb team !

It's gonna be dodge roll meta xD

if a developer is seeing this, im concern about de contexture: height, muscular form, the biologicaly particularities that all of creatures has in real life, i want to see them on the enemies, i look a horde of minions coming at me and see the same height in everyone, same body components, want to see a dwarf zombie or fat or i dont know... without a leg? or arm, those variation gonna make a game look so real, but i dont know if its possible

god game

does anyone play PoE for the visuals? i think PoE 1 is in a great spot visually, and just needs the ability to make player animations invisible (or at least see thru for party play)

*"Killing should be fun"* Best quote of the entire show! Now wouldn't it be amazing when it comes out some ten years from now that Ed was secretly a serial killer all this time? Just like the Dating Game Killer? 😁

It’s funny how James Hype is in a totally different personality and he is in the game industry? Beat that Fred again!

To make skills impactfull we have to make our enemies interact with our weapons. For example when they shown an axe animation it fells like enemy is dont care that he is been hit with an axe. It looks just like a bubblehead toy. That is not impactfull animation. I always wanted small enemies to simply fly away from my character's hits during a Cyclone, fall, get up if they were still alive and come at me again. But at the same time, so that large characters or bosses could stop my Cyclone, and it would not look like I was just swinging a sword or an ax through the textures of monsters. That is the way to make skills feels impactfull.

9:47 After Baldur's Gate, this feels wrong.

POE 1 For the win!

WHERE IS THE SUMMONER STUFF !!!!!!!!!!!!

My god this looks amazing..... Take your time by all means...... but hurry up! 😂

Is it just me or does Ed look like Mat Damon? 🤔

PLEASE add a auction house, not to just shit on it but the current trade system is so bad, 50% of the traders are price fixers, and there are a lot of scammers. And the longer a league goes on the less people will even respond to trade requests. A auction house solves all of these issues and many more

In maplestory long ago there was a skill the shadower had that could explode currency thats on the ground. Pls can you guys make something like that maybe gold throwing skill or gold detonation. Tbh just sounds like blade blast butt.. In maplestory players would drop loads of currency intentionally to use this for a lot of damage and it was completely broken so maybe have fun with that idea :) anyway

Guy on the left looks like Smeagol before the ring.