Developer Grinding Gear Video games lately introduced that the free-to-play motion RPG Path of Exile II will launch in late 2024 in Early Entry for PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC by way of Steam and Epic Video games Retailer. A brand new trailer was additionally launched. Based on the developer, Path of Exile II is a brand new seven-act storyline that’s accessible alongside the unique Path of Exile 1 marketing campaign. Each the previous and new storyline result in the identical shared Atlas endgame. Path of Exile 2 retains all growth content material that has been created during the last six years and introduces a brand new ability system, ascendancy courses, engine enhancements, and extra.
Path of Exile has all the time been a sport that performs nice with your pals, however till now, you wanted a number of units to play it on. For Path of Exile II although, we actually wished to carry the expertise of enjoying collectively to the sofa. Gamers can play collaboratively on a single account, or log in with two separate Path of Exile accounts on the identical console.
As well as, Path of Exile II is introducing full cross-play and cross-progression. Play with your pals with out shedding any progress!
Key Options
Twelve Character Courses – Path of Exile II options twelve character courses, two for each mixture of Energy, Dexterity and Intelligence. Whereas every of the category variants focuses on a unique playstyle, they’re simply a place to begin. You’ll be able to mix abilities from many courses collectively to create your supreme character construct. Every of the twelve character courses has its personal three Ascendancy specializations, leading to a complete of 36 Ascendancy Courses to select between.
New Talent Gem System – Path of Exile II options 240 Talent Gems that grant devastating energetic abilities, and 200 Help Gems that modify their habits. Earn the Gems as you play via the Marketing campaign and mix them collectively to create your excellent construct. That is the subsequent technology of Path of Exile’s well-known ability system. Help Gems at the moment are socketed instantly into Talent Gems, eradicating most of the frustrations current within the previous system whereas sustaining all of the earlier depth. It’s now attainable to six-link each ability your character makes use of.
Twin-Specialize Your Passive Talent Tree – Path of Exile’s iconic Passive Talent Tree has made a return, with 1,500 abilities that can help you fully customise your gameplay expertise. It now options Twin Specialization, the flexibility to allocate some passive ability factors to 2 completely different units of abilities. They interact at any time when the suitable weapon or ability sort is used. For instance, you may have some factors allotted to each daggers and traps, or ice and lightning, and as you swap between assaults, the suitable ability factors will apply. This allows you to specialise in a number of areas with out alternative value.
Uncover All-New Gadgets – Path of Exile II options 700 gear base sorts and each single one has its personal distinctive merchandise yow will discover. You’ll be able to increase your arsenal with new weapons similar to Spears, Crossbows and Flails, in addition to supplementary objects like Focuses, Traps and redesigned Sceptres.
Encounter Distinctive Bosses – In Path of Exile II, each space of the Marketing campaign incorporates a boss encounter. There’s over 100 bosses to combat as you make your means via the Acts they usually all have distinctive mechanics to study.
Discover a New Endgame – On the conclusion of Path of Exile II’s six-act marketing campaign, you’ll achieve entry to its endgame. Every of the greater than 100 endgame maps has its personal boss encounter! We’ll reveal extra particulars of the surprises that await you in Path of Exile II’s endgame within the leadup to launch.
Truthful-to-Play. By no means Pay-to-Win – Path of Exile II is a separate sport to the unique Path of Exile. We’ll proceed to supply expansions for each video games going ahead. They’re fully free-to-play and can by no means be “pay to win.” Purchases are shared between the 2 video games.