Path of Exile 2 PS5 PlayStation

Path of Exile 2 seems to be giving Diablo IV a proper run in the action RPG arena, and a big patch promising a bunch of "positive changes" has been prepared for fans this week. It doesn't sound like the endgame is going to get any easier, however, with Grinding Gear Games maintaining that "the whole death actually mattering thing is actually important".

Observed by PC Gamer, in an interview with streamers, director Johnathon Rogers commented on the unforgiving nature of the endgame. If you didn't know, you get one chance at an endgame map in PoE2, kark it, and you'll be booted back to the Atlas, forfeiting XP and loot droops not hoovered up. You can try a gain, but you'll need another way stone, losing any modifiers it may have had.

According to invested players, it's a high-stakes, high-reward loot run and part of the fun. Rogers says: "We did discuss quite a lot about whether we wanted to go back on one portal or not. I think it comes down to the fact that it just wouldn't feel the same... you have to have some level of failure being possible."

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[source pcgamer.com, via pcgamer.com]