Path of Exile 2 “not rewarding sufficient”, its developer admits amid incoming adjustments

Path of Exile 2 is “not rewarding sufficient”, developer Grinding Gear Games has admitted, amid a plan to “urgently” replace the sport.

An intensive publish on the sport’s neighborhood discussion board particulars a variety of adjustments based mostly on suggestions from the sport’s launch weekend final week. Some adjustments have already been applied, whereas others shall be deployed in a future patch.

“There are heaps extra issues coming,” reads the publish. “The checklist on this publish are among the issues we felt wanted to be extra urgently addressed.”

A significant sticking level is that the sport is “not rewarding sufficient”, with a plan to change objects, uncommon monsters, foreign money, and map mods.

“This is an space that now we have to be very cautious when adjusting as a result of it’s extremely exhausting to cut back drops if we improve them by an excessive amount of,” stated the developer.

The rewards given for defeating uncommon monsters have been boosted, which ought to enhance the endgame. Specifically, the rarity bonus per uncommon mod has been doubled, the amount bonus per uncommon mod has elevated by 10 %, and there is an elevated likelihood of uncommon monsters inherently having extra modifiers.

“These adjustments will trigger uncommon monster rewards to naturally scale up as you get to larger ranges as a result of the variety of mods a monster can have will increase all through the marketing campaign and into endgame,” the publish reads.

Further, the drop charges of varied currencies have been raised, whereas the rewards for the added issue of map mods have been “considerably elevated”.

Other adjustments to Path of Exile 2 embody: an enchancment to dodging to forestall gamers changing into trapped as typically; new checkpoints have been added to forestall retreading outdated floor; the ‘Move Only’ command not namelocks to forestall characters attacking within the improper path; and uncommon monsters will seem on the minimap extra simply to spice up endgame development.

The full checklist of adjustments might be seen on the Path of Exile 2 discussion board.

Ahead of the sport’s launch final weekend, Path of Exile 2’s director warned of attainable queues and server points. Despite this, the sport received off to an amazing begin on Steam – it reached a peak of 578,569 concurrent gamers, based on SteamDB.

“Path of Exile 2 is flexing its blockbuster chops right here, and displaying it is worthy of all of the expectation heaped upon it, and able to confronting the largest motion RPG titans head-on,” reads our Path of Exile 2 early entry review-in-progress.