The latest version 0.2.0 update of "Road to Exile 2" has received poor responses among players.This update has "doomsday-level weakening" a large number of professions and skills, while making it harder to deal with by increasing the monster's health.The official said that the purpose of the update is to make the later game more challenging, but at least from player feedback, this makes the game rhythm extremely slow, depriving the ARPG core experience of pleasure and rapid growth.
Developer Grinding Gear Games (GGG) responded to these concerns in its official blog, both defending some of the changes and acknowledging that other changes had unexpected consequences.Since then, the team has released several subsequent updates.The latest 0.2.0f version was launched two days ago, and the sublimation profession mechanism has been adjusted, and the amulet system, forging system and endgame content have been modified.
Now, GGG has revealed its next round of update plans for "Road to Exile 2"."As the 0.2.0f patch is deployed, we have begun planning for the next wave of improvements. The core of the 0.2.0g version will focus on two of the most popular optimizations, as well as a series of moderately light adjustments," the development team wrote in a Steam announcement.
The first optimization revolves around the loot drop mechanism.Some players reported that they encountered a "treasure trough" in "Road to Exile 2", and the quality of equipment obtained after defeating the boss was not satisfactory.Therefore, the next update will "raise the lower limit of quality for dropped items".It is presumed that this means that BOSS drops will set a minimum quality benchmark, and this update will also "comprehensively improve the overall quality of BOSS drops."In addition, monsters possessed by Yazmo's spirit will also drop higher-quality loot.
The second major adjustment is aimed at the "Corrosion Fracture" - the final content includes special areas with corrupt monsters and unique bosses.GGG explained that these areas are "hard to detect and time-consuming, and players often upgrade their teleportation stone levels far exceeding the progress of completing the rift."Therefore, the 0.2.0g version will optimize the discovery mechanism of corroded cracks, while reducing the number of cracks required by players to obtain all passive points of the map.
GGG said these "are just some of the changes planned to be deployed in the coming weeks".Due to Easter holidays and public holidays in New Zealand, where the studio is located, the development team is unable to determine the exact date of the update, but promises to "get the preparations as soon as possible".
