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A pretty big thing about the new expansion that might be of interest to those of you who've dropped PoE because of the desync issues:

"With the expansion we are adding a Deterministic Lockstep mode to Path of Exile that will have no desync. Bear in mind that this means that when you click you will have to wait for whatever your ping time is before you start to move or do a skill.

>This works the same way as you would see in strategy game like Starcraft or a MOBA like Dota.

>Because this requires a fairly low latency to feel good we are still supporting the old mode for high ping players, however, we have a lot of improvements there too.

It's not quite finished yet and we are working out the bugs, but I'm optimisitic that we will be able to get it done before the beta starts, or otherwise a week or so into it.

We are also adding a bunch more servers to new locations in order to reduce latency so expect to see East and West coast of America servers, as well as more locations in Europe like London."
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/324u94/rewrite_of_netcode_with_a4_to_reduce_dsync/cq7wqhs

>That is awesome! Does GGG already know the ping threshold whether it's treated as lockstep or traditional? If so, would you mind sharing? Also is this dynamic as your ping changes? Based on the instance? or Based on initial connection to the login server?

"So we haven't actually nailed down the specifics on any of those questions since it's still in development. The threshold is probably going to be something like 150ms, but that is just a default so that the average player who starts the game doesn't have to know about it. You will be able to set the mode in the options if you like."

If that ain't neat, I don't know what is.

I have never played PoE, but it looks cool. How p2w is it?

>>13639
Not at all. They only thing that you can buy that in any way impact gameplay is stash tabs, but you start with four so it's not like you must have more, though I'd recommend it.

>>13643
>>13639

Stash tabs are only like $15 too. Coincidentally, by the time I had around 150 hours played I felt like buying more tabs would be nice and I'd already gotten my money's worth from the game. Even then, most of the shit I had in those tabs was junk selling for like 1alc/1co.

Jewels seem interesting but I'm mostly interested in the new act 4 content and how they're going to rebalance everything. The issue I've had with GGG and PoE is they take the DaS2 route to challenge, if it's not interesting make it hard.

I played from alpha to release and burned out. It's sad, too, cause I know how much new stuff there is but just don't have the motivation to sink another couple hundred hours into it.

Gud game, tho.

>>13676
Yea, I ended up buying a set of stash tabs after a few hundred hours just for convenience and so I could support development.
I am looking forward to the supposed desync fixes, will have to check it out again once the update hits.

>>13732

See;

>>13619

They're adding a different type of netcode.

So I tried to pick up this game at one point, and I remember the starting areas being so boring.

I rolled a Ranger, and I could absolutely devstate everything in the Flooded Depths with Rain of Arrows.

It just seemed so droll and tedious to play.

Does it get better? I assuem when you get out of the tutorial area the game opens up a bit?

>>14014
Yeah, the game as a notoriously slow start.

But it does get better when you get some attack speed and linked up support gems. You also might want to switch out Rain of Arrows with Tornado Shot + multiple projectiles support if you are not sure what you are doing.

They also said that they want to rework the early stages of the game in their next expansion which should be released in the next one or two months, I think.

>>14018
Okay cool. I was going to say, I got to the Prison as that Ranger and I was almost one-shotting everything. Just spam Rain of Arrows and Fire Arrow and lay waste. And not only that, but I could tank a ton of damage and it just got … boring.

But if it gets better I'll keep with it. Thanks for the info Anon.

You were in the first half of the first act of the first difficulty.

Things don't get] 'hard' till you reach act three, though it does get faster during act 2 once support gems make an appearance.