“We are in the last year of development and we still have quite a bit to go,” say devs
Previously, Path Of Exile 2 was going to be a kind of extra large expansion to the original game, rather than a standalone sequel, but that’s no longer the case. The good news, though, is that Grinding Gear Games will continue to support both games simultaneously. “People like that game, there’s no reason to destroy it if we don’t have to, and we can run them both concurrently so we might as well do so.”
Until then the closed beta date, there are still going to be Path Of Exile 1 expansions coming out every three months “just like normal,” and many of those expansions will also be present in Path Of Exile 2, he confirms.
“We’re going to go through all of [the expansions] and basically revamp it using POE2 effects and so on, so a lot of that stuff will carry on to POE2,” Rogers continues. “But anything we believe doesn’t belong there for various balance reasons, we will take out if we need to. By default things will stay in, but if we have a compelling reason to change it, then we will change it if we need to.”
I’m personally quite excited for the beta, especially after watching the big new gameplay chunk they showed off this evening, which you can watch in the video above. I’m particularly keen to get my hands on thenew Monk class, as the combination of its fluid staff twirls and neat magical spells look like great fun.
