The 0.2.0 replace for Path of Exile 2 has not been well-received, to place it calmly. A heavy hand on the nerf hammer has pushed away a major chunk of these gamers who like motion RPGs for the monster-blasting motion, revealing a core rigidity on the coronary heart of Path of Exile 2’s design, as Russell Adderson put it.
Eleventh Hour Video games, the studio behind competing motion RPG Final Epoch, unintentionally put itself within the excellent place to learn—like Jon Lovitz lurking backstage off-stage in The Marriage ceremony Singer. It delayed Final Epoch’s Season 2 replace, Tombs of the Erased, to keep away from being overshadowed and as a substitute launched on the excellent time to choose up a bunch of disaffected Path of Exile 2 gamers.
“We have not too long ago discovered that our buddies within the ARPG house have chosen a launch date only a couple days after ours which might divide the participant base and hinder the success of our Season 2 launch”, as recreation director Judd “Moxx” Cobbler introduced on the Final Epoch discussion board, explaining that Tombs of the Erased would as a substitute launch on April 17.
As SteamDB exhibits, it labored. Final Epoch went from just a few thousand concurrent gamers to 150,198 when Season 2 began, and is at present quantity 6 in Steam’s prime 10 most-played video games, proper between Bongo Cat and Baldur’s Gate 3.
Tombs of the Erased is a major replace for Final Epoch, representing “over 100 pages internally of patch notes“. The sentinel class has been utterly reworked and the rogue marksman given a brand new talent, six new endgame crafting strategies added, and the titular Tombs of the Erased are new aspect zones that apparently kind “the muse for interacting with our new endgame techniques”.
It is a hefty addition and revision, and gamers are already celebrating its success by meming on Path of Exile 2. Nonetheless, I am unable to assist however assume it’s kind of of a satan’s cut price to commerce one continuously updating live-service motion RPG for one more—particularly when Grim Daybreak is true there.
