Uri from Overwolf emailed me earlier this year to ask my thoughts on whether we'd be okay with a potential third-party program. I replied with

"Generally we ban users who run programs that interact with the game client directly (overlays, etc). They're allowed to run/create third party programs that can operate without the game client running, for example ones that process logs from the hard drive. It sounds to me like what is being proposed here would not be allowed, unfortunately."

He replied clarifying some features of the program. My reply was:

I figured it'd be useful to explain some key reasons why we don't encourage people to download external tools:

• Downloaded tools run on the user's machine and can steal Path of Exile passwords or install malware. While I understand that your tool probably doesn't do this, there's nothing to stop that being the case (for example if your build machines were compromised). We cannot encourage a user to run a program developed by a third pa...

Rejolt

That doesn't fit his narrative of always complaining about free rewards tho...

One of the tricky things about challenge rewards is that tastes aren't universal so we do always aim for something that we hope the greatest number of people will enjoy. It's understandable that some people have negative feedback, it's the nature of things. We don't mind that too much. What I do mind is the amount of times people say "GGG suck because they did this and I'm mad about it!" when that thing didn't happen. Constructive feedback about real events whether people enjoyed them or not is always welcome.

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This is the second time in three years that footprints have been a challenge reward. It's definitely not 'always'.

Felepole

Is this the major news of the day or is there something else?

Very tired european asking

This is the main post but there are teasers coming. Go to sleep, though!

Chewu

I have some bad news for you.

Oh no! Hopefully my good news can make up for it.

guard_press

My question is more aimed at what happens in game logic when Bringer is unusable due to stat insufficiency, re-enabling the chest, which re-enables Bringer, which disables the chest and itself, which re-enables the chest etc. Is it a feedback loop, and if so how quickly does it flip?

My question is more aimed at what happens in game logic when Bringer is unusable due to stat insufficiency, re-enabling the chest

That doesn't happen. Bringer of Rain doesn't grant you a stat that disables the chest slot like a normal, sane item, it has a stat with special handling in the disable scan code, such that it will continue to disable the chest slot as long as Bringer is in the helm slot, even if it is itself disabled.

gaxlr

What about Barrage? Is each projectile truly a separate attack?

After a short preparation time, you attack repeatedly with a ranged weapon

If so, does Barrage Support have the same behavior? Description doesn't mention multiple attacks, just "Supported Skills Fire Projectiles sequentially".

Barrage is multiple projectile firings from one attack - that description is incorrect and I have notes somewhere to change it at some point, but it's not high priority.

squidyj

I'm slightly confused about the wording and the emphasis on using other skills to proc Earthshatter spikes. If I attack with Earthshatter and then attack with Earthshatter again do the spikes from my first attack pop?

Earthquake's fissures can't trigger the spike explosion, but explosions from other Earthshatter spikes can.

Samwise210

Bex I'm afraid. Can you confirm PH is dead?

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