There is so much content in this game!

[76561198046838937]

[some spoilers in this about random side quests so careful]

I've heard some say this game is shorter than PoE1 when imo the city of Nekataka is the size of Defiance bay + Twin Elms put together (not to mention the rest of deadfire and all its explorable waters).
For people who only did main quest, you're missing out on some really good side quests and story. Every time I finish a side quest I go exploring and stumble across something new. There's just so much!

I was doing bounties and noticed some of them drop torn pieces of a treasure map. As you do more bounties some (not all) will drop more pieces and eventually you can put it together. I've completed the map and haven't yet seen where it leads as I'm too engrossed in other side quests.

There's breaking into a wizards vault and finding away into it, there's raiding an ancient tomb where something deep guards, there's a rescue mission to save some slaves. On top of that while you explore the different islands you'll see unique structures like a lighthouse or a monument (not talking about the towers), which lead to even more dungeon type side quests. Best thing is a lot of the times you'll find some unique loot. The first window of my I stash inventory is filled with unique, soulbound, superb items. I've yet to sort through it.

I come on to the forums and find someone talk about a character called Nemnok. I google it to find I haven't even discovered his island yet.

All this and not to mention all the companion side quests. 80 hours in - i'm just afraid I won't be able to finish this before my holiday ends in a couple of days.

[Lem]

The game is definitely bigger than PoE1. It might even be bigger than PoE1+DLC. I feel like the seafaring and multiclass aspect will add more replay value as well. I've got no worries about getting my money's worth. At this rate, I'll definitely hit the 80 hour mark.

The prospect of moddability will definitely add replay value as well. PoE1 was very locked down, like most unity games. That made me a little sad. For this one, they're promising something akin to mod tools and they've left a huge chunk of the game files exposed for tinkering. Even if the tools never come out, we'll have a lot of mods targeting the exposed game files. There's even an override system in place to help avoid mod conflicts when two mods target the same file.

[rasabt]

yeah, i think content wise PoE2 is very impressive and when you think about upcoming dlc here than this game can be called massive without a fault.
they did more than fine when it comes to different gameplayoptions and amount of quests/areas to explore.

[🐺Blue Wolf]

I've been focusing mostly on Nekataka now and I'm almost 50 hours in so far, whereas I completed PoE1 (without DLC) in about 68 hours

[Kel'Ithra]

Yeah Nekata is drowning in stuff to do. I think I'm 30 hours in and I haven't continued the main story quests since arriving there. Just keep stumbling on side quests. Just finished old city last night.

Only thing keeping me from exploring too much are the bigger ships roaming and having to constantly maintain morale and resources.

And yeah all ready named two Islands.

And keep forgetting what their called, but got one of those short lizard folks Xautrix(sp?). As a crew member.

[76561198046838937]

Originally posted by IceTitan:

Yeah Nekata is drowning in stuff to do. I think I'm 30 hours in and I haven't continued the main story quests since arriving there. Just keep stumbling on side quests. Just finished old city last night.

Only thing keeping me from exploring too much are the bigger ships roaming and having to constantly maintain morale and resources.

And yeah all ready named two Islands.

And keep forgetting what their called, but got one of those short lizard folks Xautrix(sp?). As a crew member.

I'd imagine for some Nekataka could be overwhelming. The way I did was do deal with each district separately. Once if finished one district I'd go out to sea and explore some islands or do bounties. After a while of doing that i'd come back. Nearly don't, only need to do 1 more district and that's to deal with the queen.


I just found another town/island on the south east of the map. I'd imagine its similar size to Port maje but it has 3 districts + one locked disctrict at the peak of the mountain. Wonder what is up there.

[FredDie]

Originally posted by Jon Snow:

Originally posted by IceTitan:

Yeah Nekata is drowning in stuff to do. I think I'm 30 hours in and I haven't continued the main story quests since arriving there. Just keep stumbling on side quests. Just finished old city last night.

Only thing keeping me from exploring too much are the bigger ships roaming and having to constantly maintain morale and resources.

And yeah all ready named two Islands.

And keep forgetting what their called, but got one of those short lizard folks Xautrix(sp?). As a crew member.

I'd imagine for some Nekataka could be overwhelming. The way I did was do deal with each district separately. Once if finished one district I'd go out to sea and explore some islands or do bounties. After a while of doing that i'd come back. Nearly don't, only need to do 1 more district and that's to deal with the queen.


I just found another town/island on the south east of the map. I'd imagine its similar size to Port maje but it has 3 districts + one locked disctrict at the peak of the mountain. Wonder what is up there.

Finished that location last night...its fun :) (if you play on PoTD + up scaling - bring potions xD)

[76561198046838937]

Originally posted by FredDie:

Originally posted by Jon Snow:

I'd imagine for some Nekataka could be overwhelming. The way I did was do deal with each district separately. Once if finished one district I'd go out to sea and explore some islands or do bounties. After a while of doing that i'd come back. Nearly don't, only need to do 1 more district and that's to deal with the queen.


I just found another town/island on the south east of the map. I'd imagine its similar size to Port maje but it has 3 districts + one locked disctrict at the peak of the mountain. Wonder what is up there.

Finished that location last night...its fun :) (if you play on PoTD + up scaling - bring potions xD)

HOLY HECK.

I'm level 17 and finding it really difficult. I've restarted this fight 20+ times. I keep getting paralyzed or getting swarmed upon by the minions that Fampyrs summon.

On side note, I literally can't understand how people find this game easy. They either played on normal mode or just did the essential main quests to finish the game. This guy is crazy hard.


edit: I had to cheese it and initialized early attack (my most powerful spell) without talking to him. Good thing it has huge AoE.

[Kel'Ithra]

There

Originally posted by Jon Snow:

Originally posted by FredDie:

Finished that location last night...its fun :) (if you play on PoTD + up scaling - bring potions xD)

HOLY HECK.

I'm level 17 and finding it really difficult. I've restarted this fight 20+ times. I keep getting paralyzed or getting swarmed upon by the minions that Fampyrs summon.

On side note, I literally can't understand how people find this game easy. They either played on normal mode or just did the essential main quests to finish the game. This guy is crazy hard.


edit: I had to cheese it and initialized early attack (my most powerful spell) without talking to him. Good thing it has huge AoE.

There are ways to counter paralyze etc. You just gotta gear use potions, scrolls and abilities accordingly.

[Chungo Beepis]

My 2 playthroughs of POE1 (one with and one without the WhiteMarch DLC) came to 95 hours, and i'm generally a full content tourist sucking all the plot/sidequest marrows, so i'd say base POE1 has maybe 35-40 hours in there? 1 play through of POE2 came to 97 hours. About the same as Skyrim for me, so is very big.

[76561198046838937]

Originally posted by IceTitan:

There

Originally posted by Jon Snow:

HOLY HECK.

I'm level 17 and finding it really difficult. I've restarted this fight 20+ times. I keep getting paralyzed or getting swarmed upon by the minions that Fampyrs summon.

On side note, I literally can't understand how people find this game easy. They either played on normal mode or just did the essential main quests to finish the game. This guy is crazy hard.


edit: I had to cheese it and initialized early attack (my most powerful spell) without talking to him. Good thing it has huge AoE.

There are ways to counter paralyze etc. You just gotta gear use potions, scrolls and abilities accordingly.

Yeah I know. I'm just shocked at all the people saying its easy and even some saying they leave it on A.I mode and just click. It's nothing like that, there's actually a lot to think about in fights like this.

Also, apparently killing the guy using my method above glitches these game and makes it so that you can't progress to the tower section :S

[RedShirt]

36 hours in and it feels like ive seen nothing yet. Havent seen half the map and even in the half i have explored there are still islands i havent been yet...

[rasabt]

Originally posted by Jon Snow:

Originally posted by IceTitan:

There



There are ways to counter paralyze etc. You just gotta gear use potions, scrolls and abilities accordingly.

Yeah I know. I'm just shocked at all the people saying its easy and even some saying they leave it on A.I mode and just click. It's nothing like that, there's actually a lot to think about in fights like this.

Also, apparently killing the guy using my method above glitches these game and makes it so that you can't progress to the tower section :S

a) in general people braggin how easy a game like this is can be safely ignored
b) lots of us played a lot and i do mean a lot out of PoE(and White March) and some mechanics definitly still work nearly the same
c) there are (just as with any other crpg like this at launch) lots of broken builds which can steamroll every encounter
d) PoE and PoE2 are currently probably (next to Tyranny) the most complex new age crpgs out there...and i love Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2, but Obsidian games are far more indepth when it comes to mechanics
e) the A.I can't handle any real fight..sadly the somewhat disfunctional script system doesn't help either...well most of us probably want to manage everything themselves anyway (i do for sure).

[Morgian]

I hit level 12 already and I am pretty sure I am far from the end. I have a lot of open quests and not explored much yet after 44 hours, the map has a lot of fogged areas still. I did several of the obvious quests in Neketaka, but there are cropping up more when I look around. I'd say the game is pretty big.

[Memnarch]

Originally posted by rasabt:

a) in general people braggin how easy a game like this is can be safely ignored

Im level 13 with my party on POTD atm and I havent met a single really challenging fight but then again maybe its because I know the games base mechanics so well from PoE1

Game is too easy tho, sorry but it is. We're not talking by huge margin tho, Obsidian just needs to tune enemies or AI.

[76561198046838937]

Originally posted by IxiFoori:

Game is too easy tho, sorry but it is. We're not talking by huge margin tho,

Not sure about that. I played PoE1 (not the dlc's though) and it was the first time I played anything PoE related. I had a wizard and most of the skills I got werre self buffs. I had maxed out resolve because my friend said it comes in handy in discussions and about 13 int. Basically I made quite a shoddy wizard and I played the game without any issue (very few reloads).

PoE2 on the other hand I have a min-max shattered pillar monk with soulblade and certain fights are crazy hard. It's just certain islands have content which are really challenging. Take Splintered Reef for example. I've been doing this same boss for the last 2 hours and reloaded about 20 times.