So I heard Final Release after EA in 2026-2027?

[MACIORELLA]

Is this true?

[MedeaFleecestealer]

No one knows. Early access should start some time this winter, but how long it will last for we'll have to wait and see.

[Derp]

Wouldn't surprise me, not sure why they announced as 'coming soon' 13 months ago for it to be an EA release that isn't due out for a few more months. 16 months after 'coming soon' for an EA half cooked game? big L.

edit: i just watched some of the demo gameplay on youtube where the devs have stated the initial EA would feature 'at least' 3 bosses, 3 masteries and around 10-12 hours of gameplay.. to say i'm annoyed would be an understatement. All this hype and 'coming soon' for over a year to tell me there's only going to be 10 hours of content and 3 masteries at launch is ♥♥♥♥..

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Although 2026 would be a good year as it would be 20 years since the original game launched.

[Mike]

Originally posted by Derp:

Wouldn't surprise me, not sure why they announced as 'coming soon' 13 months ago for it to be an EA release that isn't due out for a few more months. 16 months after 'coming soon' for an EA half cooked game? big L.

edit: i just watched some of the demo gameplay on youtube where the devs have stated the initial EA would feature 'at least' 3 bosses, 3 masteries and around 10-12 hours of gameplay.. to say i'm annoyed would be an understatement. All this hype and 'coming soon' for over a year to tell me there's only going to be 10 hours of content and 3 masteries at launch is ♥♥♥♥..

To be fair when Grim Dawn launched in EA the first act was about 10-12 hours to get to the act boss, and since these are aRPGs the point is to REPLAY the game with different builds adn things like that. So to me 10-12 hours with the class variation TQ2 is looking to have is plenty to keep people playing while more content is added.

For me the real question is "How much is the EA buy in price going to be?". If the EA is more then 30 bucks I will be disappointed. Overall I still don't like the idea of this game going into EA at all, but the game looks good and the devs seem to want to preserve the OG TQ feel as much as possible, which I have to respect as a really big TQ fan.

[MACIORELLA]

Is POE 2 also in EA? If not then waiting for Titan Quest can be sweater...

[Mike]

Originally posted by MACIOREX:

Is POE 2 also in EA? If not then waiting for Titan Quest can be sweater...

POE 2 is a live service game so imo it will always be in a state of "EA" in some form because it will constantly be changing/evolving over time like POE 1 did. POE 1 when it offocially released it was a completely different game then what it is today, and POE2 will probably be the same because a live service game HAS to change to keep players interesetd for years and years.

Once TQ2 is released in 1.0 (when ever that is), outside of paid DLC expansions, and normal patches, it will be more or less in a finished state.

Of course you can do what you want but POE2 and TQ2 are a bad comparison because they are 2 different types of aRPGs targeting 2 different types of players bases. I personally could careless about POE2 despite how amazing it looks because I just can't support these F2P live service titles and their egregious monetary systems.

[[LWT]Karpiu]

I hope it's as far away from now as possible. The animations need those 1-2 years of work.

[Łşk]

Originally posted by Mike:

Originally posted by Derp:

Wouldn't surprise me, not sure why they announced as 'coming soon' 13 months ago for it to be an EA release that isn't due out for a few more months. 16 months after 'coming soon' for an EA half cooked game? big L.

edit: i just watched some of the demo gameplay on youtube where the devs have stated the initial EA would feature 'at least' 3 bosses, 3 masteries and around 10-12 hours of gameplay.. to say i'm annoyed would be an understatement. All this hype and 'coming soon' for over a year to tell me there's only going to be 10 hours of content and 3 masteries at launch is ♥♥♥♥..

To be fair when Grim Dawn launched in EA the first act was about 10-12 hours to get to the act boss, and since these are aRPGs the point is to REPLAY the game with different builds adn things like that. So to me 10-12 hours with the class variation TQ2 is looking to have is plenty to keep people playing while more content is added.

For me the real question is "How much is the EA buy in price going to be?". If the EA is more then 30 bucks I will be disappointed. Overall I still don't like the idea of this game going into EA at all, but the game looks good and the devs seem to want to preserve the OG TQ feel as much as possible, which I have to respect as a really big TQ fan.

I guess there is a little replay value, but if it’s like TQ1 and GD you can take 2 masteries and there’s only going to be 3 total at EA release. So only one other that you can’t take on a single play through. If the game is this early in development why the ♥♥♥♥ has it been on steam for 13 months as coning soon and not TBA early access?

[Scipo0419]

Originally posted by Łşk:

Originally posted by Mike:

To be fair when Grim Dawn launched in EA the first act was about 10-12 hours to get to the act boss, and since these are aRPGs the point is to REPLAY the game with different builds adn things like that. So to me 10-12 hours with the class variation TQ2 is looking to have is plenty to keep people playing while more content is added.

For me the real question is "How much is the EA buy in price going to be?". If the EA is more then 30 bucks I will be disappointed. Overall I still don't like the idea of this game going into EA at all, but the game looks good and the devs seem to want to preserve the OG TQ feel as much as possible, which I have to respect as a really big TQ fan.

I guess there is a little replay value, but if it’s like TQ1 and GD you can take 2 masteries and there’s only going to be 3 total at EA release. So only one other that you can’t take on a single play through. If the game is this early in development why the ♥♥♥♥ has it been on steam for 13 months as coning soon and not TBA early access?

3 (AB, AC, BC) Mastery combinations for 11 hours average is 33 hours of EA gameplay without consideration for replaying the same Mastery with a different build or single Mastery specs. Single Spec brings us to 66 hours total and if every Mastery has 2 build options that's another 33 for 99 hours total.

Then there's other challenge run options like "passives only" or "basic attack only" etc.

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Grim Dawn only had 3 masteries when it went into early access. Arcanist, Nightblade and Shaman were added later in EA.

[^7ja^1co]

Originally posted by MedeaFleecestealer:

Grim Dawn only had 3 masteries when it went into early access. Arcanist, Nightblade and Shaman were added later in EA.

Grim Dawn was being released by a small indie studio without big THQ backing, lets be real and compare apples to apples. Also that was ages ago, its a different world now.

Since you like unfair comparisons, POE2 is going to release with 100 bosses...how many will TQ2 have in early access start huh? I am very curious.

[Midrak]

Originally posted by ^7ja^1co:

Originally posted by MedeaFleecestealer:

Grim Dawn only had 3 masteries when it went into early access. Arcanist, Nightblade and Shaman were added later in EA.

Grim Dawn was being released by a small indie studio without big THQ backing, lets be real and compare apples to apples. Also that was ages ago, its a different world now.

Since you like unfair comparisons, POE2 is going to release with 100 bosses...how many will TQ2 have in early access start huh? I am very curious.

Than buy TQ2 and wait for PoE2 or just wait for PoE2 and dont Buy. For me who have played almost all ARPG Diablo like games, even when some are Terribel still got 100H out of it.