In an announcement video hosted on the channel of streamer Darth Microtransaction, Grinding Gear Games outlined what to anticipate from Path of Exile 2’s first patch of the brand new yr. Game director Jonathan Rogers characterised it as a fast turnaround replace to deal with widespread complaints, with extra far reaching steadiness modifications deliberate for when PoE2 will get a brand new League. Some 0.1.1 highlights embody:
- Adjustments to make endgame mapping “extra rewarding.”
- Quality of life tweaks like having the ability to override runes and different socketables.
- Four new Towers and important modifications to the one already within the recreation.
- The addition of respawns to pinnacle content material, beginning with Arbiter of Ash.
Speaking in an prolonged interview after the seven minute video, Rogers and fellow PoE2 recreation director Mark Roberts defined that the respawn system would see a wider rollout to different pinnacle fights shortly, possibly even in 0.1.1, however that Arbiter of Ash was the one one they had been prepared to ensure for the replace on account of time constraints. Players could have six respawns by default within the struggle, with that quantity reducing at greater difficulties.
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The new Towers look like a very hefty addition, with the only one current at PoE2’s early entry launch in December set to be augmented with an extra 4. Along with this modification to the endgame, 0.1.1 will see the loot and monster numbers on endgame maps tweaked, with Rogers saying it ought to end in a “extra rewarding” mapping expertise.
As for what’s subsequent after 0.1.1, Rogers stated that GGG “has an enormous quantity of far more meta-shifting modifications” deliberate. “One of the very best issues about having the sport in early entry with the endgame is that we now have a a lot better thought of the place we wish character energy to be, and what the steadiness of bosses and monsters must be relative to that,” Rogers defined. “But these forms of modifications are going to have to attend till we’re able to make a brand new League with a brand new financial system for individuals to play in.”
