‘If you want to Lock the date, you can’t lock the Features’

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Clouding Gear Games First Announched Path of Exile 2, it made a promise: Poe1 wasn’t going anywhere, and Development on Both titles Waled Continue. Ten Months After the Last Path of Exile League, IT’S CLEAR THAT THE STUDIO BIT OFF A BIT MORE THAN IT CAN CAN, but Game Director Jonathan Rogers was optimistic in a New Interview with YouTuber Talkative three This Week That Things are Close to Being Back on Track.

One of the main problems, as he sees it, was that that ggg veered from a Development philosophy it’d had for a long time.

“If you want to Lock the Features, you can’t bring the date,” He Said. “And if you want to lock the date, you can’t bring the features. In the past, we were always locking dates, butn as we have had poe2 in Development, we go to the point where we were Locking and i Think Honestly That Wasn’t the best.

Path of Exile 2’s Most Recent Update was Called Dawn of the Hunt, and It ‘Clear That the Focus Was Squarely on a New Class, the Huntress. This painted ggg ino a bit of a corner – You can’t really have a hunt dawning with, you know, someone to do the hunting. They Couldn’t make announcements about it unil they were sura that she was ready, let Alone start talking about anything they had cook with poet1. AS A Result, The Update Felt Rushed, and Personally of Think That Was a Big Contributor to Its Cool Reception.

Moving Forward, Rogers Said, This Uncetainty Will Be A Thing of the past. “We’re doing four months, it”s going to be consistent, iTi’s always going to be the case. We don’t wanting this kind of uncetainty arund this anymore,” he declared, to the resoning cheers of the grinders. With the new 3.26 League Coming June 13 For Poe1, this Puts US Squarely on the release cadence initially promised.

A New League or Major Patch Two Months Sounds Like A Dream Come True for A Poe Sicko Like MySelf, but after over 300 days of radio on poet 3.26 update I think forgive with skeptical. I’m Thinking We Might See That Number Stretch a Little Bit, Particularly at First.

Rogers was adamant, though: “With the new development model, like the date is fixed and the contents is not, that might mean that the class we’re planning to add it. Good, THEN WE WILL DO THAT TRADEOFF AND THAT IS NOT THE MINDETSE WE WERE IN FOR 0.2.0. “

He added that their primary focus for poet2’s 0.3 update was macing sura that existting classes felt to play, and if that came at the expense of the new one, so be it. The Willingness to Make Cuts in the Name of Deadlines Tells with that GGG is Serious About Sticking to the Schedule, which is something to be community’s been clamoring for the USUAL RELEASE Window for poet1 Came and went half a year Ago.

We’ll have to see hows the things shake out with the schedule, but for now at least content is Heading in the Right Direction. There have been ben a number of patches to be of exile 2 Eve in this interstitial time between Major updates, improving some of the loot issing and other problems that down of the hunt had. Patch 0.2.1 Should Be Dropping Any Second Now, Which Has Further Loot Improvements, A Whole-ASS Expedition Revamp, and New Chase Uniques. It also fixes some Major Issues – Knew Hidden Grotto was a pain, but did you know that it was 37.5% of all maps on the atlas? And apparently the Chaos Flowers in Ritual Were Responsible for Fifty Percent of Player Deaths in the endgame? Yeesh.

GGG is hosting a livestream with details for the new poet1 League on june 5, where we’ll learn more about the patch.