What's your honest opinion?

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Shoot

[sgtkoolaid]

not feeling it. visually impressive yes. gameplay loop meh. loot drops are spares, mobs and bosses are hard. tried to beat the devourer, not sure if he is a group boss or a regular boss but definitely not a lvl 3 boss to fight. lol. warrior class sword and board and having to actively block when there is 4-8 mobs around you is useless. it's faster to kill them then block with your shield. skill tree is complex and interesting, but a bit overwhelming. right now i'd say im not ready to plunk down $30 to 'test' the game. I will wait til it comes out. i refunded given its current gameplay state is just not fun right now. just doesn't grab me.

[Diminutive]

Haven't tried the crossbow or bow yet.

[Theory]

Bye blizzard employee.

[Kozzy]

It is great, liking it more than i did POE 1.

[EmperorVolo]

The difficulty of the game is RNG. So if you find some good gear early you lower the difficulty if you get ♥♥♥♥ you get ♥♥♥♥ on. I'm not sure I agree with this philosophy. I ♥♥♥♥ you not the bosses can have thousands of life and if you gear is not up to the task you end up doing so little damage that it looks like it can take an ABSURD amount of time to beat a boss. I mean you can do a boss that hits you ZERO times but you can hit it all day long and it won't go down if you are not properly geared or skilled. Some skills kind of bypass the need for gear while weapon based skills are HIGHLY reliant on the weapons you use.

It's a bit of a ♥♥♥♥ show cause they lowered the drop rates but forgot that at the beginning of the game you REALLY need them.

This coincides with a lot of play testers and streamers opinions of early game and some of the class difficulties in the early stages. They were 100% correct.

[rascalson]

They went too Souls like. Game was not ready for early access. Dodge Roll clunky with KB&Mouse. Combat is a bit off with some attacks passing right through mobs. Drops were advertised as being less but more meaningful, however it is probably even more stingy the PoE1 Ruthless and not meaningful. I would rate the feeling of this being a bad purchase right up their with D4. The targeted group for this game did not need to buy a key because they were already in the 80 lines worth of badges group anyway. The rest of us where baited by the hype from streamers so GGG could get a bunch of extra cash. Anyone sittin gon the fence who is not a hardcore 10+hour day PoE1 player( and even some of those) should give this a pass.

[Matti]

Originally posted by CiggyPop ✝:

Shoot

ruthless 2.0 (no loot).
darksouls 4, not poe2.
dont like wasd, dont like mouseplay (walks into monsters), dont like rolling prefer dodging, have to roll tho.
slow gameplay, boring gameplay, unbalanced classes, some are terrible, some are good, heard mixed stuff. (friend already rerolled) (i already try for a refund).

some things were improved, some were made worse, mixed bag.
i hate it tho. i'll see in summer 2025 whether its good, doubt they'll fix their stuff soon.

[Azrac]

So far, so bad.
Excessive difficulty will drive away a lot of people.
Shared loot means partying up is strongly discouraged. Who wants to fight a boss for 10 min and then have loot taken by someone else.
Limited healing and bosses with 1-shot mechanics means lots of frustrated dying.
People suffering memory-leaks and crashes a lot
Toxic-as-♥♥♥♥ community, global is 90% whining and people talking if it's better or worse than D4.

I'd say it's worth the price........if you wait until it's Free.

[TheBasque]

Lol this game is not hard, I am not a good ARPG player and while not super easy, this game is a lot of fun in the right way. It's a challenge but pretty much every boss fight is beat on the first try, sometimes second, and rarely third. I also feel like this is the only ARPG out there with an actual combat system that isn't just spamming the same move over and over again.

[Lacky]

Loot is too sparse
I dislike the changes that have killed a lot of build diversity
Dislike that you can only use one of each support gem total even on separate skills

Where are all the movement skills? Maps are huge and if you have to backtrack it takes forever.

Minion build felt really strong then hit a wall where there is basically no progress for me, waiting on gaining more spirit which seems to be given out by quests? Odd.

[Husker]

10/10

[Hormesis]

i'm enjoying it. easily worth the $30 bucks i invested. right now mercenary seems borderline broken with how strong he is.

dislikes:
*not a fan of the limitation with support gems. seems a poor decision from a development standpoint since it'll just bottleneck builds, forcing them to more less resemble one another.
*some support skills don't seem to do anything (overpower)
*gender locked means I will only ever play half the classes
*seems like melee classes are underwhelming while ranged/magic seem OP, especially against bosses
*not a fan of the antiquated act1-4 nonsense

likes:
*I enjoy how seamless it is for each class to choose a different build type. seems especially true with the gemling legionnaire.
*combat seems more impactful
*graphics are nice
*VA, story is compelling
*skill appearances
*uniqueness of appearance of skills
*build variety
*complex skill tree
*lots of content
*$30 for a game i'll likely drop hundreds of hours into represents a sound fiscal investment

[CoOp]

excellent. I actually want them to increase the difficulty, with a party of 5 everything is dying to easy. Solo it just needs a tiny bit more difficulty and it would feel great.

[🅸🅲🅴 🅸🅲🅴 🅱🅰🅱🆈]

my view is that they made a massive mistake making it souls-like. because if they had just made a good arpg then we'd be comparing it to diablo 4 and that's a slam dunk. instead they made a game that makes me think of elden ring. and do you really want to get compared against one of the greatest games ever made? you'll lose every time. it makes the game look way worse from that perspective.

[Redeemer]

Originally posted by sgtkoolaid:

not feeling it. visually impressive yes. gameplay loop meh. loot drops are spares, mobs and bosses are hard. tried to beat the devourer, not sure if he is a group boss or a regular boss but definitely not a lvl 3 boss to fight. lol. warrior class sword and board and having to actively block when there is 4-8 mobs around you is useless. it's faster to kill them then block with your shield. skill tree is complex and interesting, but a bit overwhelming. right now i'd say im not ready to plunk down $30 to 'test' the game. I will wait til it comes out. i refunded given its current gameplay state is just not fun right now. just doesn't grab me.

1. Agree with loot. Feel misled by devs saying you can live off the land with drops. My Warrior was getting so many twig circlets.. if it wasnt for Marksman coop'ing with me Id still be wearing NOTHING but a helmet....

2. Boss fights can be unfair; clearly not designed for all char classes. Case and point Lachlann. Im basically going to have to distract/tank it for Mercenary to plink it down, because (1) I have a ♥♥♥♥ for dmg 1h (thx drops) and (2) I cant swing for more than 2s before he turns me into a tree stump. Warrior is SLOOOW, like Chronomage cursing him from the netherworld or something. Side/angle block on shield though is quite welcome, Thxxxx

Other thoughts: World/Graphics/Music/Design/Voice Acting/Story all TOP CROP. Just Garbo class feel atm. Bosses either need to be redesigned for all classes *SOLO* (this way they can be coop'd as well!) or I dunno; give Warrior a Red Bull lol. (or more dmg + mitigate!!) I went all Str in his tree and still hit like a wet noodle (outside of slam skill; abuse the living F out of that....