Path of Exile is a game so complex, that there’s an inside joke within its community about needing a 4-year university course to learn the whole game. Path of Exile 2 shares that complexity to a certain extent, especially in its Early Access phase. However, one player might have discovered a way to fast-track all the learning from Path of Exile 2‘s tutorials. Fair warning though: the Path of Exile 2 trick won’t work for most people, sadly.
Reddit user u/Dmask13 went ahead and shared his findings with the Path of Exile 2 community. In a captured gameplay video, the Path of Exile 2 player demonstrates how you can actually open as many in-game tutorial mini-videos as you like. There’s no limit to how many picture-in-picture tutorial videos are in Path of Exile 2. Here’s how it works (or rather how it doesn’t):
You can do this by clicking on the play button beside a skill screen as many times as you like, for multiple skills.
I mean, if you think you can make it work so you can speedrun being a Path of Exile 2 pundit, be our guest. The only problem with the method is how the tutorial videos keep going on a loop. You have to admit that several loops of in-game videos voicing out over each other is hell unleashed. The scene practically sums up the legendary Path of Exile learning curve.
It’s as if the devs have taken one of the issues of the previous Path of Exile to heart and overdid the Path of Exile 2 tutorials, perhaps accidentally. It’s not clear whether this is an unintended feature, but there’s still a chance the devs might remove this by limiting the in-game tutorials to play only once.
A New Path of Exile 2 Challenge Has Emerged
On the flip side, some players took it as a new form of challenge in their Path of Exile 2 runs. Others have lauded user DMask13’s focus since he still played the game while the hordes of tutorial videos were blocking his view. It takes a special kind of concentration and foresight to play like that in a boss fight. Hence, other players saw the interaction as a potential exhibition challenge.
With that in mind, Path of Exile 2 and Path of Exile have further cemented their renown in the gaming industry as the “Dark Souls of isometric ARPGs.” There’s no shortage of players having trouble with the game’s difficulty whether it’s from mechanical complexity or lack of tutorials.
So a tutorial spam challenge run or trick might not be out of the question for some top or veteran Path of Exile 2 streamers. Such a new milestone could also invite the theorycrafters and min-maxers to come up with a build that won’t die even if you can’t see what’s happening on the screen.
After all, the meta arms race for Path of Exile 2 has begun early. The community is already coming up with busted builds (leading to recent and swift developer nerfs).
