

This has a destructive domino effect on the rest of the game world.Īcts 6 through 10 primarily involve revisiting areas from the first portion of the game that have changed since the first time you explored them.

Your hero has accidentally released the gods of the world, once held in check by a divine creature called the Beast.

This act involves a visit to the Torched Courts. Players will climb a mountainous region to find a magical machine that teleports them back to the homeland from which they were exiled (hence the game's title).Īct 5, the first new chapter added in the latest expansion, sees your character returning to the city that exiled him or her in order to exact justice. We sampled a few of these new acts, and here are some details.Ī new section at the end of Act 4 bridges this act with the next one. That way, players won't lose their characters, time, or money like they typically would when moving over to a sequel. The plan is to keep adding content like the new acts to the game instead of making sequels. Instead, Grinding Gear chose to add six new acts on top of the original four acts, more than doubling the size of the game. With the Fall of Oriath expansion, the structure has shifted so that players no longer have to move through difficulty levels in order to reach higher difficulties. Originally, Path of Exile consisted of four Acts and multiple difficulty levels for each act – a game structure based on Diablo. The instanced areas are randomly generated, so levels are different every time you play. The actual multiplayer is online-only, but Grinding Gear tells us they'd like to add local multiplayer at some point in the future. Path of Exile's world includes shared encampments where players can meet and group up, as well as instanced areas to tackle solo or as part of a group.
