My overall thoughts / Feedback of the EA on PS5 and PS5 Pro

To start I have multiple characters at 80, 1 @ 90 and have cleared T15 maps. I have 255 hours in the game. I have a terminal disease so i really just played the game every day lol.

I started my POE2 journey on a regular PS5. It was absolutely awesome, until like level 30-40. Once the screen truly started to get cluttered and skills got flashier... i would argue, its unplayable. The game turns into one big blurry screen.

Around level 40, I ended up getting a PS5 pro and it has made the game 10/10 enjoyable. I rarely get any stuttering or blurring. I obviously have to run the game in performance mode in maps, or it gets pretty bad. With performance mode on, the game runs beautifully.

Overall the controls feel really great and the difficulty was fun during my first play through. On my other characters journey to maps, it was a breeze (maybe even too easy). As long as you either 1 tapped the bosses or dodge roll you just zoomed through the game. It's almost too easy to find/craft a weapon that will zoom you through everything.

The campaign felt meaningful and the cut scenes were dope the first time around. Maybe add a skip for replays? The bosses were unique and fun. All of the scenery was 10/10 and I really enjoyed my play through.

As a veteran POE player, I knew what the end game loop would be. So no real complaints there. I know more mechanics will be added.

The endgame maps are beautiful and different. Some maps allow different builds to do well, which is awesome. Corridors work for some, not for others.

I do also enjoy that you cant really just run blind through most of the time, lots of 1 shots.

I am very excited for the new classes and weapon types to drop.
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Now for the bad.

Not having the same detailed information as PC was horrifying. I could only imagine being new to the series and not having access to that.

I'm hopeful with the Neversink filter being finalized, we will get that as well in the upcoming week or so. Whoever on your team designed the default filter is honestly, an asshole. All of the currency is the same size, same color, same sound. Wisdom scrolls... really? I truly think i have missed divines and tons of exalts. I just refuse to spend 20 mins on a map looting. Doing a breach is horrifying with loot.

The overall reduction in loot was nice however.

On the same note. If you turn off game sounds but leave loot filter sounds on, you can't hear anything. Kind of sucks if I want to mute my constantly screaming warrior but still hear the loot sounds.

Defenses do feel horribly unbalanced and it does feel bad sometimes seeing other people facepalm the keyboard. ES is so damn strong. Hp stacking and armor.. just doesn't feel right? My warrior with over 70% armor, max resists, 74% block seems to get melted by physical projectiles at times. This truly doesn't make sense to me. MoM isn't really all that bad. Just pretty hard for a lot of classes to path to it effectively.

Trading was well implemented in my opinion. However, I use my ghetto laptop to search and initiate trades. Using purely the console, would be pretty rough i think.

You cannot currently do any type of filtering with Time-less jewels. This is really bad. I spent 1-2 hours just doom scrolling, Crtl-f'ing to find a single jewel i needed.

I have 0 issue with magic find, but a lot of people do. So i guess I'll leave that as a negative? I don't find it hard to sport some MF.

This is really all I've got. I'm very excited for what you're team does next.

P.S. Please for the love of god, let us have neversinks filter next week. Thank you.

Update.

The method of auto targeting on shield charge needs a fix. You will be facing away from a pack trying to gtfo of town, only to rush back into all the explosions. Maybe a setting that allows up to go in the direction we are aiming? Similar issues to Leap.

There are random huge frame drops in Sekhemas when you are in a hourglass room.

I currently have a bug where i have basically unlimited skill points (they dont work). Always to have make sure the right color is showing when i retool my build.

When in Sekhemas or chaos trial room, if you press triangle to pull loot out of the stash... it drops it on the floor. Almost had a heart attack when i couldn't find some divines.

Currently my tabs always seem to be a different order when i reopen my stash? I continue to reorder them, only to have them drift when i come back.

Sometimes during sekhemas, when i port in to the trial of time. I get "terrain miss match" and have to end the trial early.