Why can't I play "maps" sooner?

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yosheee89#3525 schrieb:

you can't run maps yet because maps are end game and you are not at the end yet. Will Death Stranding 2 let you fight the final boss and watch the final cinematics half way through your playthrough because you just want to?

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aGauldoth#2464 schrieb:

You didn't answer my main and only question. Why can't I play maps sooner? Would it really break the game if I could have even a single map available tu run after act 3? Why not give players options to try different content?

You guys are crazy to think that "casual" players (by casual I mean people who are new to poe) will stick around long enough to find out what maps, abyss, towers, or whatever the fuck you are talking about is.

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Cullonde#3546 schrieb:

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yosheee89#3525 schrieb:

you can't run maps yet because maps are end game and you are not at the end yet. Will Death Stranding 2 let you fight the final boss and watch the final cinematics half way through your playthrough because you just want to?

You really compare a Boss of a "Story Game" with the map system in PoE2?!? LOL!

It's not about defeating any boss in the campaign prematurely or about defeating the final boss of a story campaign before you've even done any quest.

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yosheee89#3525 schrieb:

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Cullonde#3546 schrieb:

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yosheee89#3525 schrieb:

you can't run maps yet because maps are end game and you are not at the end yet. Will Death Stranding 2 let you fight the final boss and watch the final cinematics half way through your playthrough because you just want to?

You really compare a Boss of a "Story Game" with the map system in PoE2?!? LOL!

It's not about defeating any boss in the campaign prematurely or about defeating the final boss of a story campaign before you've even done any quest.

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it's the same concept. Maybe just stop being impatient and learn to grow an attention span that will see you through the campaign. If you really don't like the campaign, let's be honest, you're not gonna like the end game either. This isn't D4 you're not going to get a skip campaign option

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yosheee89#3525 schrieb:

you can't run maps yet because maps are end game and you are not at the end yet. Will Death Stranding 2 let you fight the final boss and watch the final cinematics half way through your playthrough because you just want to?

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ShiyoKozuki#4168 schrieb:

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aGauldoth#2464 schrieb:

You can't do maps because it's meant to be the end game an something to look forward to doing. This was normal game design in the early 2000s.

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aGauldoth#2464 schrieb:

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yosheee89#3525 schrieb:

you can't run maps yet because maps are end game and you are not at the end yet. Will Death Stranding 2 let you fight the final boss and watch the final cinematics half way through your playthrough because you just want to?

Fair point although in Death Stranding you can actually do the end game content (build roads, build zip lines, connect nodes, do deliveries, get upgrades, ...) at any time during the game. The main story only limits you in how much of the continent you have unlocked (you can still travel everywhere you mostly just don't have anyone to deliver to there)

It could easily be the same thing with POE. My issue is that I finished 4 acts (some people here can't read and are telling me to finish the campaign) now there is interlude act.

Great. Why not. But why can't I get taste of the end game content before finishing the interlude? No one here answered my question. Because there is no reason. Vertical progression sucks.

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aGauldoth#2464 schrieb:

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ShiyoKozuki#4168 schrieb:

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aGauldoth#2464 schrieb:

You can't do maps because it's meant to be the end game an something to look forward to doing. This was normal game design in the early 2000s.

Do you play other games? Do you know what the difference between vertical and horizontal progression is? Vertical progression is the reason why pretty much all modern MMOs suck. People (do the campaign) level to 60 so that they can do "what they were looking forward to doing". And before that happens half the people quit because there are better ways to spend their time. Death Stranding 2, Clair Obscure, Silksong, ...

Imagine that players can do campaign and run maps at the same time. You could make the campaign however difficult you want and set any level requirements you want because people would have a fun and effective way to level up / farm gear.

Actually you wouldn't need interlude act at all. You could set higher requirements for Act 4 and let people do maps starting after Act 3.

The fact that you have to "complete" the game in order to do content that lets you level up / farm gear is beyond stupid.

And the reason why making campaign optional wouldn't work (and doesn't work for D4) is because then the game becomes a sandbox and there is no reason to run maps when there is no game to play.

It is not that difficult to understand. I would love to meet the people designing these games. Honestly I expected better from people behind POE.

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Cult_of_Resine#3258 schrieb:

what difference does it make if you're levelling up in the campaign or in maps