Path of Exile 2 gamers endure the results of dealing unlawful quantities of injury as boss shrugs off a 95M-damage hit
It has been nearly 4 weeks because the begin of Path of Exile 2’s newest league, so, naturally, gamers with nothing higher to do are attempting to see if they will break the sport. This entails placing collectively ridiculously overkill builds to squeeze out as a lot injury as doable for the enjoyable of it.
YouTuber Swedge, and some different gamers, found that PoE 2 shares the identical injury cap as Path of Exile 1 by lighting bosses on hearth for obscene quantities of injury. They put collectively builds that complement one another by multiplying the injury output to the very best diploma. However the outcome was removed from satisfying.
In the event you handle to hit a boss for over 35.79 million injury per second, the sport refuses to calculate it anymore. However not like PoE 1, PoE 2 does not let the injury roll slightly below the cap, it turns it off utterly.
The rationale for this might need to do with how injury is dealt with within the engine that runs each video games, as Swedge factors out. In PoE 1, damage-over-time (DoT) is known by the sport as injury per minute, in all probability for server tick fee causes. Which means the cap is 2,147,483,647 injury per minute, or 35.79 million when transformed to break per second. Any greater than that and the integer will overflow and turn into damaging.
So, when Swedge and crew ignite bosses for greater than that cap in PoE 2, the quantity would possibly flip into the negatives and make it unrecognizable to the sport, leading to zero injury. That is a bummer for a recreation all about chasing larger and greater numbers. The reward for accumulating a few of the rarest gear within the recreation and creating a construct all about dealing probably the most injury as doable is, nicely, nothing. My dinky sorceress with thrift retailer gear not less than makes the well being bar go down.
Swedge ends the video dissatisfied and says they hope Grinding Gear Video games modifications it in order that it not less than works like PoE 1, regardless that they’d truly favor if the cap have been raised to please the gamers who wish to push the sport to the restrict. I might agree: PoE 2’s bosses have loads of assaults that may one-shot you, so it is solely honest in the event you get to do it again.