man this shit is literally what i want in a game fucking dark souls with a poe twist

It feels like the poe players with 10k+ hours ingame is the least hyped for poe2. And the rest of us is suuuper hyped

Playing WASD in PoE 2 is hand acrobatics intensive? Yooo my 16k hours in WoW moving with WASD & having 36 keybinds is gonna have some carryover value.

I really don't mind the fact that gameplay has been slowed down. It is obvious that GGG wants to go in a different direction and PoE2 is a perfect opportunity to do so. I just hope they stick with it, there will be 2 games for a reason and if both will end up being exactly the same then PoE2 might of as well been just a visual upgrade to PoE1 with some additional acts...

I see why they had to separate poe1 and poe2, the playerbases might be vastly different. Seeing more gameplay of poe2 makes me realize that poe1 doesn't really feel like an action game, the content is there to test your character but not you the player. If I copy a simulacrum farmer and know how the build works, I can farm simulacrum, no questions asked. I'm carefully optimistic that GGG will deliver a banger game, but maybe it won't replace poe1 for me right away. At the end of the day, the same people that create the poe1 we love will be working on poe 2 leagues and evolution so I'm expecting the 2 games to evolve closer to each other over time

I'm actually excited because POE2 is not POE 1 2 Electric Boogaloo. It means there's still reason to play original POE and I think it speaks to an intention to not let either drop off

Lol “I’ve been to Montreal and that place smells like piiiiiss” 🤣

Slower style of PoE 2 looks very nice change of pace imo.

I see why a lot of PoE players seem skeptical but as a FromSoft and D2 fan that's just what I personally was dreaming of in new installment, it's really reminding me how I saw and felt D2 as a kid and how Souls feels when you're completely new to it. Don't need to zoom past everything but want to actually encounter stuff, not blowing entire screens every 0.5 seconds. Which will probably still be a thing, just not to current extend.

Let me translate. Subtractem hates PoE2, but he is afraid to say it because he is a PoE fanboi. Its fine if you dont like PoE2.

Players that speedrun campaign when they see Act 1 gameplay:

My hand naturally goes to wasd when I put it on the keyboard. 12 years of counter-strike 1.6 and source. I'm super excited for it in PoE. Gameplay looks like Hades controls on PoE.

I'm super optimistic about poe2. The fact that poe1 can be a lootgambapinata and poe2 beeing more grounded, combat combo focused is awesome to me. If poe2 would be poe1 with nicer graphics it would have probably been a waste of an opportunity.

Thanks man! I really enjoy your content and the fact that you seem to be very honest in such reviews!

It’s interesting how you speak about it in this darksouls frame and ziz speaks about it more like actual Poe 1 after he played the ranger

The only complaint I'd have about the Executioner Boss fight is how the telegraphed area for the big slam gets easily lost between the other screen effects.

I'm a PoE1 player, and i'm excited for PoE2. Looking forward to more skills, dodge/roll, and not needing to link my gear. Confused, why we can sell items for gold or shards. Although after your and others played PoE2, the Devs delayed the Open Beta, to fix the issues that you all brought up. Good job.

i rly like the combat and the dark art

Hey. How's bane pop occultist? I remember playing it once and loved it. Was wondering, if it's still usable.

Is it weird to change my wasd controls to sdfg instead so I can hit my flasks and abilities?

I'm glad they're doing something different and that its not just PoE 1 in HD. I'll get to choose whether I want to zoom in PoE 1 or be more intentional in PoE 2.

'Frostbolt' looks more like frost slow moving ball lol

Thank you for your service

Btw, with an uber boss at every second stage, is this still linear? Eg. the boss order will always be the same or more like an Elden Ring style boss / enemy hunting (parallel) type?

meanwhile jousis finding an exploit right away, I guess the dev team was like: we'd like it to have jousis try break all of our characters first before we go to beta.

running past everything in undead burg is honestly easy once you have experience. i feel like people really underrate all the subtle muscle memory you will have 1 year into POE2. ps i should have not paused to write this comment i guess lol.

I’m excited for this, as a hardcore only player it seems this will be heaven. But I wonder will they continue with poe1 content after this comes out?

I love Dark Souls gameplay, but a big appeal from DS is the simplicity of the gear and just being able to play the game without constant gear updates. If you combine longer, more difficult DS boss fights with POE's typically abysmal drop chance of items from bosses, then that means you have to farm DS-like bosses for hours on end to progress. That would be completely terrible.

what year is that gibson? also interested in the guitar behind it :)

30:15 honestly idk what youre talking about that damage looks totally fine in comparison to other footage ive seen (other classes), except for the ones that had really lucky gear, but then again that would be like you having a +1 cold or other wand/shield. or this early in the game, having that amount of damage actually makes the bossfights feel memorable, if youd crush all bosses like you did the devourer it would be way to easy imo. But for you that might the right pace, i thought your damage was way too high to actually really experience the mechanics, like other people that died to it did.

This looks and sound sick! Some obvious balance issues, cant wait for launch.

Watching a lot of footage from this event now, i absolutly get it why they pushed back the beta. As much as i want to get my hands on this, i'd also appreaciate if any skill was at least playable without feeling misserable for taking a certain skill. I think it's pretty important to get beta already in a very good state. Won't be the best PR if people only complain that the game is just way to hard and some classes are way better than others. also, i remember back when people played D4 for the first time, everyone said "holy shit it feels so crisp and smooth". Now for PoE2 stuff people say it looks amazing and the sound is great, but no one says "gameplay feels crips/amazing". Is the gameplay lagging still or why is no one really giving it credits, as a viewer it looks as good as D4 that everyone loved (gameplay wise obviously)

Man i'm so glad to hear stuff like "it doesn't play like PoE" or like @3:50 about the game speed. One of my main issues with PoE is that the meta is just ridiculously fast, it's as if it was artificially sped up past the point of any reason. I don't want my loaded up character to be slow, but i also don't want any of that spastic meta gameplay PoE has. It is simply not fun, feels too floaty and weightless. Also separating the playerbases means less whiny PoE manchildren in my game. Hype.

As a POE and Soul Series fan, I loved POE 2 gameplay. It is what I wished for. Of course it needs more tuning but I don't think that's a concern for now. Thanks man!

Watching Waggle's video of playing Sorc made me fall in love with this.. they definitely need to make it so you can take any gem though

People dont recall how slow (movement and damage) POE 1 was early on - it's taken years for the game to progress to the zoom zoom screen clearing builds we have today. Basically they've slowly ramped up the speed and damage as the game evolved. POE 2 is just resetting that back to the starting position - then as things get added over years you'll see the same progression.

I think one good idea would be for skill combos to give flask charges, since they're difficult to execute and don't give you much in return besides the big damage.

I played 45 minutes of POE 2 at PAX East, I chose the Sorceress as well. The graphics looked okay, the combat was interesting ur character would drift in one direction even after stopping movement. (Nobody there was using WASD) the skills all seem to interact with each other, which slowed down my clear. Town Portal was infinite. It’s almost like this is what D4 should have been. I’m quite concerned….it was ok, but I don’t think this game was made with the POE lover in mind. But I am hopeful.

I'm quite happy about all of this (with some tuning) When you get so strong you're just zooming and tp all over the maps, it's fine but you never really interact with mobs or environment or anything that way and any build that can"'t zoom like that is bad (poor melee enjoyer), so i'm happy it's different. Poe 1 is still there for these shennanigans.

Can you turn off "wsad" movement? And play as in poe1?

Could the gmp possibly be because of the dexterity requirement? It seems like all the new support gems have stat requirements now

I love how you highlighted the difference between difficulty and complexity - they are not the same. Knowledge is king in PoE1. I hope they continue to tune PoE2, I'm really excited for it. OMG so sorry you were in Hollywood, it's really not a good area to be in LA.

I love the look of this tbh. I mean, tuning needed. But I'm so ready for POE but with fights that are actually more difficult mechanics wise.

I'm a one-button build guy. When I saw their first trailer, I had a bad feeling about where POE2 was heading. I guess I'll just treat it as a new game that shares a common back story with POE1. I'll still go and try it, but I'm probably going to stick with POE1 most of the time.

the leachim6 guy in chat is so annoying holy shit. But good video to talk about everything very open

Hmm I think I might end up mostly sticking with POE 1. Still excited to play 2 though!

I meeean, we can just play more of poe 1 while waiting for poe 2?

From what I've seen is that you actually have a dodge mechanic like in dark souls not the typical flame dash.

Wooo for new

fun change of pace, after blazing through D4 content while watching a soccer game (was a good time not gonna lie), I really welcome this.

What is he on about being 8/10 exited when we can clearly see that he is 10/10 exited :DDD

Feels a lot like D2, nice. Lets just hope, they'll make it complex towards endgame

I'm sad POE2 Beta is delayed, but man this game looks SO good. I can't wait to play.

I'm personally worried about boss fights and the optimal strategy being to spam town portal when ever it's safe. Since there is no downside to using the town portal and boss fights are hard, why wouldn't you spam the shit out of it? And will this not cheapen the experience of boss fights? Since you never run out of flasks you only die do 1 shots or getting comboed. It doesn't really punish you much for taking small hits and using charges. Not to mention it's just boring to spam town portal over and over. I really hope using town portal constantly during boss fights is not optimal. Curious what others think. I wish it was just disabled and give players more flask charges.

This games going to have very fun interactions and boss mechanics, great build variety etc. for the initial launch of the game at its base it’s going to blow every other game out of the water that’s the same genre that is. Can’t wait

I think WASD will finally be my time to shine using my Razer Tartarus. WASD all on your thumb will be the best way to play I think

Looking at some other content creator, it seems that the poe1 crowd is lukewarn towards poe2, but players coming from outside (diablo fan, or maybe non arpg players) are really excited by chat they see, so if it hits it may be a big win for GGG in a different way from poe1

so "multiple projectiles support" says it requires +15 dex... as in it ADDS 15 dex to the required minimum of your gem (stacking with other supports?) that might have been why it couldn't be socketed. I believe mathil or somebody mentioned that in their own video as well. it's not very obvious especially coming from PoE1 but yeah seems like that's how it works

I'm so playing this on a controller xD

This discourse is both enlightening and empowering, fueling my desire for knowledge and growth.💞

I wished they implemented a mechanic to make this flasks situation less annoying. Idk maybe give each class a way to gain flasks beased on how often they use them. Example: sorcerer have an ability called "meditation" that allows her to recharge mana as long as she is pressing. The same with other classes but having different results. Maybe even giving them different skills such as double roll when you can't recharge flasks. Cause the way it is idk. I'm not feeling it.

I'm excited to begin my new journey with POE 2. I've played rpg style games for as long as I can remember. (diablo 1 on a compaq presario lol /w dial up connection) I love the complexity POE 1 & 2 bring. It really keeps me engaged. Something that was hard to do for many games following diablo 2. I've been on and off with POE 1 for some time now. I started off wrong by spending real money which is something I've never done before. But it definitely ruined my experience a bit, and I'm not a afraid to admit that it was a childish mistake. However. Seeing all the creators such as yourself... really investing time and effort into it, it reminded me of what this game has for me in the future! I plan on going with a few people that are looking to delve deep into the game as much as myself. Daily play, learning as a group, no egos, etc. Keep creating... your stuff is just amazing as far as a different perspective.

I think they made a wise decision making it a different game in the same universe. That way they don't feel obligated to replicate POE which they would always be doomed to fail. Keep POE going and then bring in a fresh game. It also seems to line up with gamers like myself who take their time and end up overlevelling.

ive been using insane kbm binds since quake. i use my pink and my thumb for movement, so my middle 3 fingers are free to press buttons while im moving. i have 38 buttons i can press while moving in WoW with shift key(mouse button). im excited for this game. i think my crazy way of doing things will be a benefit in poe2. IF ggg doesn't pull a japanese dev move and make it so i cant bind the keys i use.

using the Azeron cyborg for wasd (joystick) and the button, will be much easier than keyboard :)

Seems very ruthless like. We'll see since it is really early. The boss fights look good but a lot of tedious elements. I'll definitely try it on release though

Umm I dont like WASD in isometric games, hope this is only an option and there is a "Move only key" which works best for such games IMO. Recharging your flasks in town sounds terrible same as the gold prices, has me now concerned :/. Lets hope they dont mess this game up, was really looking forward to it.

if they can pull of a merge of Dark Sould and Poe 1 , it will be the greatest game ever.

What is used to trade with players? What's the plan there? I really hope it won't be crafting currency again because economy and crafting will be the same as in PoE 1.

My general fear I had about Path of Dark Souls is only growing after listening to your feedback and some other people's. This make me sad but it is what it is. I'm not a player that enjoys games that feel like work where the stress is 100% of the time there, andit looks like Path of Dark Souls is exactly that. I'm especially sad because it looks truly amazing GFX wise.

It sounds a lot like poe is made for controllers. Are there tests with controllers or even the steamdeck? I was hyped for d4 on the steamdeck and while it ran great, the screen was too small for me to like it. Looking at the minimap wasnt comfortable for me for example.

holy, this shit looks beautiful. It's like Diablo 2 modernised.

I played hardcore WoW back when 40 man raids were still a thing, having to press 5 while moving is 2nd nature xD So this isnt even close to button intensive for me. Very interested in seeing how the wasd will play like in a game like PoE 2

I believe it is the right tuning because you overlevelled lots of other people really enjoyed the hard bosses and got through them without over levelling

I think it looks amazing! And I bet it will still feel amazing and powerful just the endgame. It’s different from POE1 but that’s why they are keeping both. When I’m craving an intentional souls/diablo 2 like game I’ll play POE. When I’m craving crazy builds I’ll play POE1 there’s not just room for this game there’s a huge gap in the ARPG genre for this exact thing. It needs work FOR SURE. But it’s in alpha.

Things I dont like on Po2, the healing change and the damage sponge bosses, it would be ok on a separate mode, like a raid, but every boss being like that is kinda annoying, because it becomes a chore that you do while praying that the internet doesnt lag.

i think we shouldn´t discuss number stuff at all. its an alpha build. we should just focus on the overall stuff. like how are the bosses, the zones the monsters atc cause this stuff can´t change in like 5 seconds of development. and they really got that stuff down. the content in the game is amazing. the flaws everyone mentiones like balance and few items and the sorc being weak etc. is stuff that can easily change during alpha and beta

I wonder how this will feel on controller. I play PoE with controller and my friend thinks im crazy but honestly it feels really good lol

this actually got me really hyped - i was worried to have 3 - 4 games fighting for the same space in d4, poe 1 and 2 and LE and i am hyped to see this is so much different that its almost a new genre in a way and i really like it. if everything goes right we have 4 really different arpgs next year that are all worthwhile playing and feel different. what a time to live for arpg fans =) i like that the slower pace gives way more meaning to combat like status effects on bosses and positioning and what not. POE 1 got overboard for me a little with the crazy stuff (i mean there are literally builds designed to not push a single button and still clear a whole screen). This is such a fresh take that i can see myself again dumping hundreds of hours into this because no other game does what poe2 tries to do at the moment and thats exactly what poe 1 did back in the day.

I feel like they failed with the sorceress demo. Few other content creators also ended up just autoattacking bosses because the spells are too clunky and/or don't deal enough damage. Ranger gameplay looked much better.

Seems like everyone enjoyed it broadly but the flask/portal/fountain stuff really blows

Another KZfaqr was pretty much tanking everything in Act 2, using a shield. Just bosses were tough. Devs talking about crafting being easier. And they will block the Numlock trick in the future.

no wonder got pushed back i guess alot of people was pissed after this 4 hour event most people flew across the world for this im sure some people had good experience and i heard some had bad experience they def need to fix after watching alot of videos from content creators watch us be locked to skills i recon it wont be like poe 1 were im a warrior but wanna use a bow with skills have a feeling be locked in some way and combo like and watch nearly everyone be the same im a bit worried.

We still don't know how crazy the endgame on poe2, is it like poe1 or just really different?

It looks VERY good. i hope it will work with Steam Play Proton on linux and hope for Vulkan mode, in Path Of Exile good

Was it a beta or alpha?

WASD looks really cool but I can see it being a problem later on in the game when things are faster paced. How are you pressing flasks and QERT and stuff while using WASD? Also seems like they are now designing around this which puts click to move at a disadvantage. Still very excited for this game

it really bugs met hat the stun window that's designed for you to have some space wasn't utilized on a lot of these bosses. When he stunned Lachlann (39:15), he had the perfect opportunity to place Flame Wall and spam frost bolt and Ice nova combo on boss for big dmg. Mind you, this is clearly a sign of not being comfortable and knowing the game enough. Its little things like this that make me hold off on forming an opinion until I play it myself. Still very interesting to hear everyone's opinions though. Edit 1: Might be better to cast Frost Bolt / Ice Nova towards edge of screen before you get too close. A lot of little things that are apparent and seem to be POE 1 "Rot" xD. A lot of the decisions made are made under the premise that this is PoE and played as such. which ends up being a double edged sword as its so different. Man I am so excited to get my hands on PoE 2 but that delay :c Edit 2: It really looks like status's are huge in PoE 2. Freeze looks really good and give you that necessary window needed for your animations. Same with Shock giving ranger so much dmg and Stuns being huge on Warrior. Very cool.

They literally said in interviews that you well be a god in end game wiping screens so chill tf out people

yoo that video explanation for skills would be amazing for newer players. insteaad of them youtubing what the skill does

It really feels like they are designing a great single player game but not a game I want to grind for 500+ hours a league.

Ruthless in PoE1 is such a big different game than normal, the only downside to it, in my opinion, is that we get no movement skills....even if we get like Dodge as the only gem, it would attract more players... 😅

Can't help but think that Pathfinder + old flask system would have been absolutely **CRACKED** in PoE2. "Oh, you bozos have *limited* flasks? How unfortunate for you. Now hold this endlessly regenning life flask." It also makes me think that *every* recovery mechanic will be either nonexistent (LGoH, leech), or even *more* viciously toned down. Though that said, PoE's generous life recovery mechanisms are also why so many enemies are just a case of "oh, you got hit despite 4 defensive layers? Too bad, so sad, you're dead." Regarding the executioner fight, it has a lot of echoes of A4 Kaom. Big, slow, telegraphed bozo, buuuuuut...where the heck was the ginormous "oops you got killed by a falling rock" telegraph? Is it supposed to just be an audio cue? Because I feel like this gets back to "GGG boss fights have amazing design EXCEPT for this one aspect" part. E.G. Exarch? AMAZING fight EXCEPT that f'ing ball phase. Sirus? Okay Sirus is just an awful fight all around. Shaper? AMAZING fight *EXCEPT* for the "I have you in Zana's bubble AND have a ball homing in on you." Maven fight? Again, amazing EXCEPT those speedy DoT balls that are kind of hard to tell apart from the rest of the color palette that form deadly puddles. Okay, and the memory game, but the memory game would be that much better if you didn't have to worry about the dot puddles. It feels like so many bosses have that *ONE* mechanic/move/technique that just takes them from "cool and reasonable" to "yeah, I'd rather just not engage with this and just get a build that nukes them".

They have an almost perfect game just update the graphics update the skills make some new stuff ok no one will hate that the bosses and everything looks like cool idea and it is already better.. they took a game people like and made something im bot even sure for who.. arpg is nish darksouls is nish dipping in both.. there are no one thats looking for this lol

> thinks gold auto-picks-up > gets 20 gold per zone Hmmmm 🤔 lol just razzing, great thoughtful takes, super excited to see more on PoE2! Edit: omg the way the video ends 😂 💀

I dont know WASD movent seems like a hard pass for me, Seems using abilities will be clunky as hell. If you use the mouse on your right had and WASD to move how do you use your skills?

the style/speed of combat almost has a d2 vibe to it, if they ease it up a little bit, they might just get that feel down , that would be sick. Its gonna be great having Poe2 and D4 on the opposite ends of the spectrum in the arpg genre, I plan on no lifing both games.

The sorc might need a buff, but I am SO happy that they are making a hard game, most arpgs are so easy they bore me to tears.

53:50 yes, actually I've been to a city before and it didn't smell, maybe it's a US thing

Not every city smells like piss