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Path of Exile Releases ExileCon Video Discussing Mechanics and Fan Questions - MMORPG.com
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Path of Exile Releases ExileCon Video Discussing Mechanics and Fan Questions - MMORPG.com
Grinding Gear Games released another ExileCon video earlier, this time featuring a discussion on mechanics in Path of Exile.
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Personally I don't think you need to zoom out anymore, plenty of builds can off screen kill you don't really need a bigger field of view.
In regards to spike damage the only real way to counter it is with block and armour for mitigation, personally never found evasion very good.
Completely agree!
I use windowed mode and change the height of my window making it shorter and I leave the Width the entire width of my screen. This enables me to see farther out on the sides and it feels SO MUCH BETTER being able to see the monsters at least a little more than what I could before.
I believe that players would applaud allowing the camera to zoom out, it just feels so much better than what it is now.
Current Zoom View = No ability to evaluate what the monster is, I cannot mouse over a rare or unique to evaluate its abilities, getting melted or one shot because I cannot see anything ahead of me.
Whatever their reason is for not allowing us to zoom out more is, it probably is not a good reason.
When we say the camera should be zoomed out, it is not so we can kill what is off screen. Yes many attacks kill off screen monsters. While that is awesome and fun, it would actually be more impressive to see what I am killing and how many. This information is valuable in assessing situations, will I live or die based off of prior experience or situations.
Zooming out the camera gives the player MORE information so the player can use that information to be useful and beneficial to their play style.
Yes Armor and high health can mitigate the spike damage, yet it is still there. I am well familiar with how to get by using mitigation however, one shot spike damage hits from off screen mobs is a horrible mechanic and design. I had no trouble at all with a T11 map the other night and there was 1 ranged monster who was off the screen, I could not see it, I could not mouse over it to see what its mods are and it one shot me. I tried to go back 2-3 times and got one shot. The only time I was able to see it's mods was after I died. Even still the mods did not help me understand what was killing me in one shot except a colorful animation.
Reduce the sudden Spike damage, and allow us to zoom out the camera, and this would alleviate a lot of frustration for a player and encourage more people to play.
I cannot imagine any reason good enough to keep the players at such a disadvantage using these kind of mechanics.
Using Wide Screen view is a nice trick which makes the game feel a lot better, but not a solution. I still cannot see up and down much.
It is NOT fair at all a monster can shoot you before you can see it.
This is not difficult, 0.o
Things that one or 2 shot you out of no where with no time to react. And players clearing entire screens in one push of a button. I miss the days when the game was a bit more slower paced and less insta kill everything or be insta killed.