SvennoJ said:
I'm starting to get fed up with POE2's death penalty. It makes no sense. I'm trying to catch up with my wife with the chaos trials, but there you lose xp as well on death and all the bullshit modifiers that accumulate got me on the end boss.
Btw the Chaos trials also don't work in co-op, the game doesn't let you start it as it claims for both of us that only the map owner can choose the parameters.
Maybe I can use the shittema trials to catch up as the game freezes when you run out of honor and thus don't die... My wife leveled, so she is 'safe' for now (can't go below 0 in the next level), but I'm falling further behind with every death.
Terrible game design, every seems stacked against couch co-op. Why do developers hate couch co-op so much. They'll include it to get more sales as it's rare to have nowadays, but then they make such a shitty job of it. Tons of things don't work for my wife, the game crashes or locks up shortly after I die in a map, only one person can use the shop at the time (which is the only thing that works for my wife as p2, she can't use waypoints, the tool benches, can't pick up waystones in maps)
I don't know about this game anymore, it keeps getting worse in the end game. Sure there are still fun experiences, but then you suddenly get one shot again and the game crashes shortly after as it can't handle P2 walking away from P1's corpse. It's a roller coaster that's starting to fall apart. |
That's one reason why I stepped away from the early access until the full release. It isn't very balanced in the endgame, so I am not wasting my time dying over and over to imbalance and being punished by it.
Remember at least 6 months of balancing until the full release. A lot can change.
As for me I am now playing Dynasty Warriors Origin. It is fun, the gameplay is better but... still a lackluster experience without my favorite officers. Also another game undoubtably that moved away from couch co-op.
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