D4 - Bring lilith to a shooter game as a cameo. PoE - Bring the shooter concept in the game as its own class.

Thank you GGG for taking all the risks for the futur of ARPG genre !

18:25 "i've not seen a single combat roll" - he did one just 3-4 seconds before :D

Another thing to note about the advantage of playing with WASD, is that it's so much less painful for players with wrist problems. I noticed a real difference in my wrist pains playing Inquisitor Martyr on WASD (although it plays out like a tank) over the same amount of play time in Grim Dawn or PoE. And since there's an option to play either way, it's only a win win situation. And remember... The mercenary gameplay isn't exclusive to itself, as we saw the ranger using the "crossbow" as well.

FINALLY! With WASD I will actually switch to POE2. Makes my choice of game easy. What a change!

I believe the "Z" key would be perfect for switching from CTM to WADS with ease.

wasd is going to be so nice paired with the dodge and micromanaging movement, ill still use click to move probably, but it lets me be so much more precise

This game looks amazing! Can't wait for the Beta in June!

Take a shot every time Rhykker says “oh my gosh”. We’d all be dead, surely.

Hey Rhykker love your videos. A few things to note: -- Swapping Weapons: You don't really press buttons to swap weapons. Imagine you have 3 skills equipped (all slotted in armor for example purposes). Skill "A" you want to use with "weapon 1"; Skill "B" you want to use with "weapon 2"; Skill "C" you want to use with both; To do this the devs did the following: On your skill bar, you slot the skills like normal. But on the skill tab (a new tab for POE2) you can select, on each skill equipped, which weapon to use (1, 2 or both). So when you use skill "A" it will switch to "weapon 1" and when you use skill "B" it will switch to "weapon 2". But, when you use skill "C" it will use the weapon that you are using. This will allow the game to go faster, without all that swapping with buttons. -- "WASD" movement: "WASD", is a good compromise for ranged combat. While the player now has a lot of fingers devoted to movement, which complicates the use of skills, it facilitates engaging faraway targets. In CTM, clicking on the enemy to attack and then on the ground closer to you (but not in the direction of the target so you can "strafe") feels awful. Moving the Cursor frenetically through the screen to execute the most basic of tactics was always a problem. The solution to this has always been - "Fire stuff almost POINT BLANK and then DODGE", which is fine but... you know. The GGG guys must have thought of implementing this from the start (or at least kept the option open). FOR EXAMPLE: Melee skills have movement incorporated. For pathfinding, sure. But it also compensates when you take off one of your fingers from "WASD" to click a skill button. This "Movement Scheme" is very common in certain Action Rogue-likes, like "Hades" and "Enter the Gungeon". --Slow Gameplay Now -> Fast Gameplay Later: Like you, I don't really think that's the case. The amount of stuff that you have to manage and think moment to moment, won't let people reach the insane speeds that modern ARPGs get. This is both Good and BAD, depending on the person. But I don't think it will get "boring" or "slow". Look at Souls-like: Most of them if you aren't playing, look very slow and sluggish. But if you are playing, the amount of stuff you need to keep track of is crazy. People die to 2 or 3 mobs. What matters in "Action" games is the amount of "Inputs and Outputs" that the player has to engage. (At least that is my view on the topic - sure some things are more fun than others, but we are talking about tactical combat) Well..... thanks for coming to my TED-Talk.

I'm so used to walking with Spacebar as the click to move. :D

I cannot imagine the crazy stuff GGG will do with unique crossbows and attachments.

i think some commants saying "grim dawn has a shooter class" is not fully understanding something, that class was esentually a bow type class with a skin of guns, it plays just like any bow type class in other games only it has fire skills with it the mercenary not only has a gun type skin on its skills, but actually has unique movement to mimic a twin stick shooter type game, it plays like a shooter instead of looking like it

I really hope the gameplay stats at this pace.. it is SO much more atmospheric and immersive!

Grim Dawn has a shooting class, since 2016. Shotgun, granades and so on. But the movement in this is new. Seems great.

Why does Path of Exile 2 look more like Diablo than Diablo does now? I wish PoE2 could release already!

Love the class! POE2 is doing it correctly. POE vs POE2 focuses on introducing new characters n gameplay style while maintaining previous style menus, stats, and gems. Adding new layers on but not revamping everything because it’s a new game. Hope someone at blizzard is taking notes. Excited about POE2!

to be fair while I do agree an optimized character (especially at the end game) with be much faster than this, I do get the sense that Poe 2 will be a more deliberate, slower-paced game than Poe 1. There just seems to be a lot more deliberate combos like freezing enemies and then following up with something, or the monks orbs that enable other abilities. I'm all for it as long as both are supported (i do like both slower and zoomy gameplay).

Cool to see that Jason Statham is the voice of this new char

Remember from previous trailer. they show that u can have 2 weapons sets equiped and choose which one u use for every skill

It could still be click to move and using inverted movement when firing the gun. Like if you put gun fire on your rmb, and move only on your lmb, you move regulary with lmb, but as soon as you hold down rmb, you start to move away from the target. Because each of the times the character was moving backward, it was directly opposite the mouse courser.

Wow, it seems great! Gives me Hellgate London vibes, and I'll surely play the Merc too! The thing is I use WASD as my skill buttons in PoE, mainly because it was point and move... I might have to adapt to the new style...

Can you change the tooltip font? Always had trouble reading the all caps. I guess i could just make it really big

There could be a setting to when you press W it moves towards where the cursor is and etc. It's a bit more advanced but some people can get used to it. If they gonna have it is another whole story

Just like SRB2, the best control scheme is Mouse in right hand, Controller in left!

This class is my new favorite in PoE 2 for now. Love the ranged classes in general. Can't wait for the Beta in June!

Did they scrap the artillery crossbows? or did I miss something?

looks great, looking forward to see other classes i hope there equally as diverse.

Wolcen definitely is a traditional ARPG and had guns and gun skills. Maybe not the best game in general, but an ARPG that had guns.

Grim dawn has a shooter class that uses guns.

WASD movement is going to be a gamechanger, especially with PoE 2's pacing, difficulty and emphasis on skill. I remember playing Victor Vran, an ARPG with WASD, probably the first one for me, and loving it. As well as V Rising earlier this year, which isn't a full-blown ARPG, but shares the same emphasis on skill for combat as well as WASD movement It's going to open a lot of possibilities for gameplay

I will download the game again just because the wasd movement and the new class “specifically” without wasd it was unplayable for me. When does this class release?

This is why I liked Grim Dawn, the gunslinger! So i may play this just for the Mercenary. I don't care about lore!

Everything you said about WASD being the best way to play a ranged character in an isometric ARPG applied to how I played a gunner Crusader in Inquisitor Martyr!

I guess the controls of the mercenary will be similar to the Ascent, awesome!!

One ARPG to rule them all

Love it! ...and you as well, Mr. Rhykker. Thank you.

4:42 I see it in the video, and a bit obvious too, that you can click to move anytime while you can press WASD to move anytime as well. wouldn't need to bind anything just play :). so that's why it'll be a seamless transition between movements.

re 15:40 - Halls of Torment & Vampire Survivors solve that problem with simultaneous self-casting abilities & Auto Aim😂

I loved how they showcased comboing various skills in the past, but this placed it at whole new level

It looks slower. I really hope it stays that way the whole way through. Make it feel closer to D1 or D2 classic

As someone with little PoE experience and only marginal PoE2 interest until this point, this class makes me want to play the game.

This looks really badass. Looks like its almost 2 games un one.

I been commenting this under every video I come across talking about PoE2. If people want to experience something similar to this in an ARPG until the game releases, check out Warhammer 40k Inquisitor Martyr. Very similar vibe but with a futuristic aesthetic and the 40k technobabble. The 40k game has shotguns, grenades, machine guns, and other weapons that will give you an idea of how POE2 Mercenary will feel, but obviously it should be better and more polished👍

I hope they make it a blunderbus. I love gun builds in Wolcen and Grimdawn. Tge Ascent is also a great template for isometric shooting mechanics.

Ui looks a lot better than Poe 1 as well. The gold colour matches perfectly

As WITNESSED - this gameplay just MAKES YOU SMILE! At first I was like "...C'MON! A crossbow machine gun? Shotgun?? in an ARPG?.." But HEY, IT'S A GAME!! I'll def be suspending my disbelief with that hella-nice weapon! 👍 I need to export this crossbow brother here over to my XCOM team - NICE! PROPS, GGG - you guys are on FIYAH!

I can’t wait for this! It looks incredible!

WASD control also means controller support is very likely, or easily applicable. Nice news for us gamers with accessibility limitations.

There are keyboards now with optical switches that can detect how much you are pressing down on a certain key, I wonder if those could be programmed to work like a joystick for movement in games.

The reason I like poe 2 is I can start fresh with all of the mechanics as they are released. In the original poe, I first played AFTER many patches and systems were put in place. It became too confusing. Poe looks really good visually and I like the slower pace

Looks very interesting and fun functionally and I love the innovation. Granted though I'm not a fan of the crossbow gimmick. If they act like guns and fire like guns and work like guns.. just make them guns. Firing a shot that for all intents and purposes is a sniper rifle blast or carbine burst and getting nothing but the anemic "thwp" arrow sound effect is really weird and unsatisfying on the sound and effect design side of things. But I guess thats a nitpick really.

when i heard about shooting and WASD i thought immediately about "Alien Shooter" 😅 this is the class i would start in poe 2

Moving with WASD/joystick and aiming with the mouse seems like it is going to be the easiest way to play for every class. I could be wrong here, but it just seems objectively easier to dodge projectiles and AoE's by using direct input, instead of having to take your mouse off the target, find a good spot to click, hope the pathfinding makes you go where you want to go, and then reacquire the target with the mouse.

When is release

18:31 "I notice Im not seeing a combat roll" said literally 2 seconds after one happens 😅

Sick class. Cant wait to try it.

Like the Demolitionist from Grim Dawn. Awesome

Okej am playing this class when its coming out

WASD is amazing. Even being a longtime ARPG player, WASD is the way. There's also tons of amazing isometric WASD based games on Steam. Nice to see the ARPG genre evolving for the better, with deeper combat mechanics and better control settings.

Grim Dawn has shooter class since forever ago! But yea, it will be fun in PoE2 as well

They said you can move and shoot with click to move by clicking on a location, then using the skill in any direction.

The WASD aspect also invites more players that uses controllers. For example, I play druid in D4 with controller.

I am really liking where PoE 2 is going, the ideas GGG is implementing, and making fun gameplay overall for their fans. And the kicker: PoE is free to play. I don't know if PoE 2 will be free to play, but I would be safe to assume it will be. GGG is a company I am very happy to simp for. They show their progress in strides. I can't wait to see the debut of the other classes, like the Warrior, the Amazon, the Templar, the Monk and Sorc they already showed during ExileCon, Duelist, Shadow, Ranger, Scion, etc with this updated engine.

7:30 - Thank you very much for bringing up this point. It seems like a majority of the vocal community doesn't understand the purpose of a (tech) demo. If the demo goes too fast like end game Path of Exile, it doesn't really showcase the intricacies or the finer details of what's being shown.

I looove how Rhykker is getting bukkaked by the Mercenary in the thumbnail...

god this has really hyped me up for PoE2 in a big way, merc looks sick af and ive been wanting WASD movement forever. Every time i see something new about PoE2 it just looks better and better and I cant wait

I can imagine something like the Lenovo Legion Go would be amazing since you get joystick movement with a vertical mouse.

very hyped for this

ohohoho...those melee are gonna look at us with envy

This class alone sold me on PoE2. Thank you for covering this.

I am intrigued with this change, been playing Chronicon lately and I have enjoyed the WASD style of it.

Okay. You guys got me. WASD is SO much better than point and click. I get so tired of the left clicking issues in D4 because of it having to act as both a move and a action.

It’s grim dawn, d&d spell interactions/bg3/dos, and poe all in one and I can’t wait the choices and options will be bonkers. As far as pace goes they are clearly aiming for more tactical play so I don’t think they are aiming for poe1-style one-click fullscreen herald pop that will probably die with poe1.

Merc class looks amazing. At this point I don’t know what class to start with.

My wife picked up my controller playing D4 and immediately tried to use the R stick to change the camera angle. Why haven’t they added this as an “option” like traditional vs a slight angle if you want it for a different perspective. She played wow and just expected D4 to do that lol

Lost ark still is hands down the best arpg regarding combat feel. The shooter classes have SUPERB feeling

The problem with wasd is that im already using bunch of flasks and abilities and by the looks of it the button creep will be even greater in poe 2.

Given me some van helsing vibes with this class and I dig it

Because this is a demo we are seeing super slow gameplay with 0 support gems or unique items. He only uses magic (blue) items. We can only imagine what this would look like with uniques and support gems such as greater multiple projectiles for example. You can select which skills to use on each crossbow and you can also link each crossbow with different 6 links as well.I imagine we will see similar fast phase gameplay like PoE when these stuff comes to the picture as well.

The Ascent goes fantasy😁 can't remember if the old fallout arpg had twinstick shooter gunplay as well

18:27 LOL one combat roll.

GGG did the one thing I wanted in Diablo 4, WASD MOVEMENT! Well, until D4 gets it, I won't go back to it after using WASD in PoE2.

I won't use WASD but I'm glad they're including it for those who want it. I love having more accessibility options, and in a free game that's a lot.

Hopefully open beta will be available late next year

18:33 "i don't see i am going to see a combat roll ever".... the guy just did one 5 seconds before he said that XD

my fav class wow

Aim and movement are independent of each other. You can move in one direction while attacking in another.

As a Mercenary I can't wait!

I don’t play the game, but I could swear when I tried it out, there was already an archery class

This is like my beloved and forgotten Hellgate: London

looks so good i can not wait for this looking forward to this big time and i love how it will be free and all of my POE 1 juicy juicy bank tabs get transfered over im so happy plus this just looks amazing.

i think the reason why we prefer ctm for non shooter class is because we piano-ing those skills, thus using wasd isn't something we can imagine. I personally fine with whether going with WASD TSS or ctm but with WASD definitely not gonna playing piano

Wsad is probably the best feature they brought in I'm very hyped for this game big fan of the mercenary class they just brought better features as in regards to any rpg iv seen so far very inative gameplay I'm liking the way it looks and just so excited

WASD movement is such a welcome addition.

Joystick is also objectively better than WASD in that it is analog and not binary. You can theoretically move at any speed between 0 and 100% with a stick, whereas WASD is only either 0% or 100%.

I really hope that they will have rebindable keys. As someone who had to take typewriting in school, I'm more used to the more correct, ESDF.

That thumbnail is just naughty 😂

Grim Dawn has a similar class, but with an actual gun. Can't remeber it's name, but still. This is still awesome, big ups GGG.

God, I'll love playing Path of Warhammer 2 40k Exiled Inquisitor.