Path of Exile News

We're excited to share a presentation given by Rhys Abraham, a senior programmer and one of our veteran GGG employees at ExileCon. In this talk Rhys explains how we generate areas in Path of Exile and shares a bit about upcoming area improvements in Path of Exile 2. To top it off, he also answers some questions from the audience!

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Tomorrow (Friday NZT) we're planning to deploy the 3.9.2c update on PC with various improvements to the Conquerors of the Atlas and Metamorph content, as well as some bug fixes.

While you're waiting for the patch to be released, check out its patch notes below. Please note that the following list may be changed prior to the 3.9.2c release.

Metamorph & Conquerors Improvements

• Maps now display their Atlas Region by default. Holding Alt displays Map Completion, Bonus Objective Completion and Awakening Objective Completion status.
  
• Added frames to the Map Stash which indicate if a Map is influenced by a Conqueror.
  
• Added visual indicators at the centre of the Atlas which display which Conquerors have been defeated. These visual indicators are removed upon opening portals to the Eye of the Storm.
  
• Clicking anywhere on a Citadel with a non-Unique Watchstone on your cursor now sockets that Watchstone into the appropriate socket if one is available.
  
• Adjusted the positions of various Citadels so that they aren't hidden by UI elements.
  
• Opening a Map that is affected by multiple of the same or similar Sextant modifiers no longer consumes a use of the duplicate Sextant modifier.
  
• The Mark of the Shaper and Mark of the Elder unique rings now grant both bonuses if your other ring is Shaper and Elder influenced.
  
• Sirus, Awakener of Worlds now drops Influenced Items when killed.
  
• Immunity to Shock now correctly prevents you from being Shocked while standing in the Desolation of the Awakener ground effect.
  
• Added a visual indicator to Maps in the Map Stash which indicates if the Awakening Objective has been completed.
  
• Added a visual indicator to Watchstones and Watchstones socketed in Citadels which indicates whether or not they have a Sextant applied to them.
  
• Added some additional modifiers to the pool of modifiers that Awakened Sextants can apply.
  
• Portals to Maps which contain a Conqueror encounter now use Zana's portal effect.
  
• Fixed a bug where Maps that had already spawned Influence for a specific Conqueror had a lower chance to spawn Influence than intended.
  
• Fixed a bug where Conqueror's Exalted Orbs didn't respect the "Cannot roll Caster Modifiers" and "Cannot roll Attack Modifiers" modifiers.
  
• Fixed a bug where portals to the Conqueror encounters could spawn in inaccessible locations.
  
• Fixed a bug where applying a Sextant to a Watchstone socketed in a Citadel could generate the same or a similar modifier which was already on another Watchstone in that same Citadel.
  
• Fixed a bug where various modifiers found on the Precursor's Emblem unique ring were not affected by Quality applied by Catalysts.
  
• Fixed a bug where various Chaos Resistance modifiers were not being increased by Quality applied by Prismatic Catalysts.
  
• Fixed various performance issues that could occur when encountering Conquerors and their monsters in Maps.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where only the creator of an area would see the organ collection graphic when killing Metamorph targets.
  

General Improvements

• Unique Maps can once again be searched by name on the Atlas.
  
• Divination Cards which grant Shaper-related items now have their Shaper background once again.
  
• Maps that are Influenced by The Shaper or The Elder now have a fancy background or border.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Ignites applied by Explosive Arrow sometimes dealt no damage.
  
• Fixed a bug where Volatile Dead orbs didn't detonate when reaching the maximum amount allowed (60).
  
• Fixed a bug where a Terrain Generation Failure could occur when entering the Plaza Map.
  
• Fixed a bug which prevented using the Time Portal to leave an Incursion.
  
• Fixed a bug introduced in 3.9.0 that made the Miracle Map Device much bigger than intended.
  
• Fixed a client crash that could occur when getting near party members who were using the Chains of Command unique body armour.
  

The Talent Competition has just begun, and we've already received a lot of good submissions. We'll be publishing the highlights of this competition over the coming weeks. Today we're showcasing some of the entries we've received in the Talent Competition so far.

The Lioneye's Theme by xTheCopperCatx
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Fan Art by RaVirr17

Kitava by Bolaway

Kitava by PiikaLatvija

Celestial Cat Pet by Lin7in

Check out more submissions here!

Last year we released new annual Core Supporter Packs which have been received very well by our community. In addition to exclusive microtransactions and physical items, the highest tier of the current Core Supporter Packs includes a pack of signed concept art prints. Today we've gathered some of the pieces of the Core Supporter Packs concept art to give you an idea of what to expect from these prints.



Check out more images here.

It's been two months since ExileCon, which became one of the most memorable events of 2019 for us (hopefully for you too!). We've finally managed to go through a massive amount of footage recorded at the convention, and have montaged it into a short video with highlights from the ExileCon weekend. We hope you enjoy it!

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Check out our ExileCon playlist if you're interested in watching presentations given by our developers at the convention. We'll release the rest of the talks over the coming weeks.