Path of Exile nearly got a cyberpunk league based on Incursion

Grinding Gear Games' co-founder Chris Wilson isn't shy about borrowing from genres or other works when thinking up ideas for Path of Exile's leagues. The upcoming PoE heist league came about because he caught Ocean's 11 on Netflix, and the studio has borrowed from games like Pokemon in the past. Did you know, though, that the Path of Exile team put some thought into bringing the Incursion league back with a cyberpunk twist?

In case you missed it, the Incursion league is about influencing the past by travelling to a temple and killing a particular architect. The way the temple is constructed changes depending on who you kill. So you may return to the present to find a garden in the place of a weapons room if you killed the person who was going to build it. Whatever change you brought about, also influences the loot you gain.

Wilson tells us the cyberpunk version would be more of the same, but you'd be sent into the future to find the Vaal as a corporation rather than an Aztec sacrifice based culture.

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