Blizz devs have promised filters before and it never happened. It's just a false promise to retain players with copium and hope for the future. People keep falling for the same blizzard song and dance though. Most veterans gave up on the company and see the same propaganda for what it is, a bogus lie. I get that some employees/devs are trying to right the ship, but when you put sprinkles on crap, it's still crap at the end of the day.

This post was edited by BlakeXeal on Oct 20 2023 02:44pm

don't you dare talk about my rare axe like that sir

nice kicksin, bro

Agree.

Btw pvp is shit in d4 but they had low cost opportunity to add another layer to pvp, by adding simple console command for the session for example /XPoff, this way they could create LLD scene in D4. One simple thing like that could at least made me forget about game being trash and wasting 100$. So small change but difference like between night and day, both for hunting for perf rare craft bases and for discussing LLD potential with available item powers, mirror tvt's or 1v1 and way more.

Ya, game is saved to be in the trash can.

cool little evolution of the "items on the ground" stemmed from the good ol alt-key to show items. brevik's intended purpose for this was to remove clutter from the ground and be part of the looting experience (can't remember the interview).

even poe 10 years ago followed this same principal. you had to hold alt. then players wanted a "always show items on the ground" option. which was added by pressing z.

then, poe got to the point of holy sh*t batman there's way too many items on the ground, we're gonna implement a loot filter system for players!

next, the zoom zoom meta is so bad on poe, players just wait for their item filter to make their custom sound effect they added, and stop to pick up the loot. the entire process of walking over, manually pressing alt to show items, and sifting through items or "wall of text" is rare. i'd argue this is a degradation of the looting experience and hinders the potential of good itemization to shine. i recognize a lot of players like it, but i personally don't believe in it

now the complaints of "holy shit dave, the floor is just littered with items, there's just too much clutter!" are still rampant. which begs the question.. i wonder why? the devs who were onboard for the implementation of the alt-key know!

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Oct 20 2023 03:33pm

PoE got different issue which is few portals to use per map, so you cant even keep decent loot even if you wanted, filters just fixed it so you set brutal level of filtering and dont waste time looking on things you cant take back to hideout anyway

yeah true too

look here, at 1:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYUm0qM_R0g&ab_channel=Kripparrian

compare that to what some arpgs do nowadays. a team of players in a party (gasp!), actually fighting and taking over a boss instead of one shotting them or have 90% visual clutter you can't even see what's going on.

oh, and also look at how they all scurry to get the loot lmao amazing. good times

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Oct 20 2023 03:51pm

nice, looks like a high level boss fight in D4. thanks for sharing

lol yw