why i HATE Path of Exile 2

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

I've been playing the new Path of Exile 2

Early Access, and I really wanted to like

this game as a massive fan of Diablo 4. I

thought this game would be right up my

alley, but unfortunately it's kind of

getting annoying playing this game. I've

gotten fairly far into the game, about

level 18, been doing some dungeons,

already killed a bunch of bosses, and I

think I have come to the conclusion that

this game is designed to be as irritating

as possible. And we're going to talk about

Things I hate about Path of Exile 2.

Okay, so first of all, they don't really

make it clear where you have to go when

you're in one of the dungeons. It's just

like a sprawling maze, a map of endless

ways you can get lost, and they just throw

hordes and hordes of enemies at you that

end up just swarming you. And because of

the way the game mechanics work, if you

get surrounded by enemies, you can't just

simply walk through the enemies. They can

actually block your path, surround you,

and prevent you from rolling away, and

then you just get swamped. I don't know

why they decided to design the game this

way because it is not fun in any way at

all. So the maps in the dungeons are very

irritating. You get lost. There's no arrow

pointing you which way you're supposed to

go. You end up having to go through every

single nook and cranny in the dungeon map

in order to find where you're supposed to

go, and you just end up running around in

circles for ages. And then you start to

get kind of bored, and then you start

getting a bit sloppy, and then you

accidentally die. And then that respawns

every single enemy in the map and now

you've got to try and get back to where

you died and find out where you have to go

next whilst having to fight through every

single damn enemy in the dungeon all over

again. This is not fun. They just bombard

you with wave after wave after wave of the

same enemy types over and over again,

like the foot soldiers and then the ranged

ones in the back and then the big giant

ones and you just take them out in the

same way really, just keep spamming your

most efficient combos and attacks to try

and kill them all without taking too much

damage yourself. And I noticed something

weird happens sometimes. Sometimes you are

right in front of the enemy and you're

trying to swing at them or do an attack on

them, and for some reason the attack just

doesn't connect. You have to do it again.

It just misses them. It's kind of like

you're not attacking them even though

they're right in front of you, and your

swing just misses the hitbox completely.

I don't know if this is a bug or if this

is how the game is intended to be played,

but it's kind of annoying and very

frustrating. Sometimes in the maps, for

example this one, you're in a cave and

it's very constricted and confined, and

the camera angle does get kind of

annoying. You have to zoom all the way out

to be able to see your character because

you're in a tunnel and the walls kind of

get in your way. So it's kind of annoying.

And also the character seems to run

extremely slowly and there's no way to

sprint, so you're going to be trundling

through this dungeon forever until you get

to the final boss. So this is one of the

final bosses, and yeah, some of the final

bosses in the dungeons are pretty cool.

They've got some cool animations, cool

cool voice acting, but it's all the same

really. They'll do like some swipes, some

AOEs, few AOE ranged attacks,

and like a big wind-up charge-up attack

where they'll glow red and you have to

dodge out of the way. And then you just

keep spamming your attacks, try and stun

them, try and get out of the way, heal

yourself up. And I feel like all the

bosses I fought so far, they've all felt

exactly the same. They've all had the same

playstyle, same tactics to defeat them.

Is to roll around, don't get hit, keep

spamming your attacks on them, keep

yourself healed up. That's basically the

gameplay loop that you're going to be

dealing with against every single

encounter and boss encounter in this game,

and it does start to get a bit repetitive

and tedious. Also, the loot you get from

defeating the bosses isn't very good. You

don't really get loot that makes you

think, oh my God, this is my new best

weapon, I've just upgraded one of my armor

pieces or weapons with this boss drop.

You can see here, you just get like a

bunch of blues, a couple yellows that I

can't even use. They keep giving me loot

that isn't for my class, which is kind of

annoying. I'm a warrior, I want weapons

and strength and that kind of stuff. I

don't want— why are you giving me sorcerer

stuff and wands and scepters and staves

when I can't even use that stuff? So it'd

be nice if the loot actually dropped stuff

I would be able to use. And when I defeat

a boss that was quite hard, it'd be nice

if it actually gave me loot that would

actually get me excited and be able to

make my character much more powerful than

he was before. But no, I kill the boss and

I get some stupid sorcerer's amulet or

sorcerer's stave that I just chuck in the

bin straight away. And then we've got the

skill tree, which is just— Jesus Christ,

look at this thing. It's a complete mess.

At least the skill tree in Diablo 4 was

kind of organized and flowed in a nice

way. This is just like a sprawling mess of

nodes and it just seems so, I don't

know, ugly to look at. So I guess you got

different playstyles depending on your

class. So I'm the Warrior, and then if you

go for these ones you can increase your

melee damage or your armor, or if you went

for this one you could have increased your

armor, evasion, and projectile damage,

attack speed boosts. So this one's like

evasion and speed boosts. This one is

evasion and projectile damage, but isn't

that the same as this? That also does

projectile damage, and this one does

projectile damage. And these green ones

are kind of like invade evasion

increasing, movement speed increasing. So

if you want to be fast and evasive, I

guess you go for the green ones. And also

these green ones gives you armor and

evasion, and this one gives you pure

damage, melee damage. So I've gone for

pure damage. And I want to get to the

critical strike damage buffs here.

Critical chance, critical damage. But to

get to there, I need to go through here,

and I have to get these ones that I don't

really want, but it's the shortest way to

get to the critical chance, uh, things.

This one does totems. I don't know what

this one is. Spell damage as a warrior?

Really? You want to buff your spell damage

when you're a warrior? That's kind of

weird. And your armor. And this one,

spell damage again. It's kind of weird to

have a spell damage-focused warrior. And

this one's got skill speed, evasion

rating. So I guess if I get bored of just

having pure damage, I could switch over to

like an evasive playstyle. My point is,

there's just so many damn skills. I mean,

look at all this, it's endless. And then

look at the very outer ones. Like these

ones, I guess these are the ones you want

to be aiming for because they're right on

the edge, which means they're going to be

the hardest to get to. So it's kind of

cool how it's shaped. So this is all

buffing spear critical strike damage, and

it's shaped like a spear. That's kind of

funny. And this one's a bow, I guess,

because it looks like a bow. And this one

is what, a charm? So this

one's also a bow, and this one's a bow. I

don't know what that is. I don't know what

this is. This one's a sword, maybe?

A Herald, no. So yeah,

to get to these weapon buffs, you gotta go

all the way through this. It takes you

ages. So here's a sword. So yeah, to get

sword buffs, you get all the way to the

end by plotting a course through this like

a star map or something. I just think it's

kind of silly. I don't think it's well

designed at all. It seems like a complete

mess, and they really need to just

condense this and reduce it down by at

least 70% because there's just too many

nodes that do really boring things. Like

this one, for example, here you get 8%

increased melee damage. Well, it's nice,

I guess. Oh, another 8% increased melee

damage. It's nice, I guess, but it's just

the same thing, isn't it? And then this

one, oh, 10%. Oh, 10%. Oh, 10%.

It's just like incremental buffs doing

the same thing over and over again. Each

time you level up, you get 1 point to

spend in an incremental upgrade, and it

just doesn't really feel that exciting to

have to go one by one through these nodes

when it takes so long. Like, this 4 could

be condensed down to +40% melee damage,

but no, they split it up into 4 separate

ones. Also, the inventory is kind of

annoying. Number one, I can't move the

window. The inventory is just on the right

side of the screen. I can't drag it like

it's a box. And also, for some reason,

you can't right-click on equipment to

equip it. So look at this helmet. I'm

right-clicking. Right-click does nothing.

Why doesn't it do anything? I have to— to

equip it, I'll click it and then drag it

over to my head. Like that, and then it

puts the unequipped helmet onto my cursor.

So now I've got to drag that back down to

where I just picked up the new one instead

of it automatically pinging to the space

that I brought the new one from. So I'll

bring this back down, bring this one back

up. It's just not very intuitive game

design in my opinion. You get all these

little things like the Iron Rune, Glacial

Rune, Orb of Augmentation, skill gems.

You get all these stupid flasks that you

end up building up that you don't really

need because you've already got one. So

you get all these flasks you'll constantly

get rid of, and, uh, there's just

too many things cluttering up the

inventory all the time. You gotta do a

Scroll of Wisdom on nearly every single

new item you get to unlock the special

blue bonus skill thing, and it just makes

no sense why you can't right-click it to

equip it.