Setec_Astronomy fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 26, 2024

wemgo fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Mar 26, 2024

• Unlimited corpse storage, but graveyard has a capacity of 60 (was 27 just yesterday).
  
• Idea is to use it fairly liberally early on. Some "minimum sockets/links" crafts to help in early game.
  
• NPC's long rambling speech only shows up at really high corpse numbers, just a few words if there's fairly few number of corpses. Lengthy speech builds suspense, doesn't want to put in an option to disable/skip it now but if it becomes a problem a few weeks out will revisit.
  
• Harder monsters more likely to turn into corpses, so reason to actually juice this mechanic.
  
• "+100 to physical modifier tier rating" = bottom 50% of physical tiers cannot be rolled, remaining tiers' weight increases somewhat proportionally. Enough investment means only T1 mods would be available (not guaranteed, you can still miss entirely, but if you hit you get a T1). 50 = 1/3, 100 = 1/2, 200 = 2/3.
  
• In party play random chance for party members to gain one. Undertaker will show up when your graveyard is full to offer the opportunity to itemize corpses so you don't override. There is a delete ("Cremate") button so you can get rid of crappy ones.
  
• Pretty sure mods exclusive to this method will be in mod groups (like +1 charges sharing with the Influenced mod)
  
• Mechanic also appears in non-map stuff like Heist and Abyss, and those monsters have some exclusive modes.
  
• Stuff like "chance to create a Mirrored copy" or "chance to Fracture an item" can stack above 100%, so you could in theory make a 6 Fractured mod item
  
• There are some mods that are mutually exclusive and the game will stop you from planting those combos

• T17s can't drop T17s
  
• Voidstones grant chance for T16s to convert to T17. Was just lowered to 0.4% chance per, but it works like Grand Spectrums, so a full 4 Voidstones = 6.4% chance. However there's diminishing returns after one drops (specifically to normalize between alch-and-go players and MF giga-chad groups)
  
• Aiming for a 1/5 chance for a T17 to drop in a juiced T16.
  
• A T16 map will only a drop a specific T17, so target farming is possible
  
• Mechanically T17s should be easier than Uber Pinnacles, but the random mods can certainly make them harder
  
• Twice the size of normal maps, twice the pack size, said packs are also a bit more valuable in terms of IIR/IIQ. Affected by Atlas tree and can be Scarab juiced. No div card drops (naturally).
  
• T17 monsters can be Spectre'd. They have slightly higher life than other monsters ( Attention Detonate Dead players )
  
• The new T17 boss fights are fairly familiar from their previous iterations. Catarina has 3 Abyss Liches you have to fight through.

• Unironically Mark found it to be quality feedback. Better than some 10,000 word essay.
  
• Internally had a back and forth on a combat dummy. Concern is that putting numbers means players will go "if this setup does less than X then it's crap" rather than playing by feel. Can't really do anything about PoB existing though. Ziz: But you can use it to see if an interaction actually works. <loving ad break>. Mark: We need to do a better job of making the character sheet not actually suck in PoE1.
  
• No reason not to have auras turn off when you die
  
• Could consider adding a rucksack to the map device ("not a character one")
  
• Flip of coin if stash tab sorting will be introduced soon. Doesn't want a item filter-esque complex sorting, just "here's the basic algorithm, have fun".
  
• Wouldn't be surprised if 3.25 gets increased pickup radius
  
• Some concern about color-coding mods because it can make things look like poo poo. Using symbols might make things look more complex.
  
• Removed Veiled Chaos Orbs as a means to rein in the sheer number of crafting options. Removing stuff can open design space (see: Sextants).
  
• Ziz wanted to trade Engineering Orbs for Veiled Chaos Orbs, but the latter is actually going to be dealt with next league (was planning on dealing with it this league but it got axed for time)

whypick1 fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Mar 27, 2024

euphronius fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Mar 27, 2024