What are the downsides of playing Offline rather then online?
Are future leagues or seasons going to be online only? Will all content be on both?
No trde (in 1.0), no (internet-based) lag. There are fewer bugs in offline. Currently all season stuff is going to be applied to both online & offline at the same time however that may or may not change at some indeterminate point in the future (or I may be thinking about season/standard).
As I understand it, mxt/cosmetics won’t ba available offline, at least for now.
I feel like if there are season rewards that they should be only online so people don’t cheat. Other than that, offline feels beneficial for server demand at least.
If people cheat offline you won’t be able to see said rewards since they’ll be offline…
It’s the principle of not rewarding cheaters. And if they can get rewards offline then there’s no reason they can’t use them online, it’s tied to the account.
I currently only play online, but sit with a 150ms+ ping (at best) to EU West since there are no servers in South Africa. I’ve become used to a 21ms ping in PoE with servers available in South Africa, so the difference is very noticeable, unfortunately.
I think the state of the ping will be the sole decider for whether I end up playing online or offline upon the 1.0 release.
I have way better experience with LE with 100-200ms than other games like PoE.
LE runs very smooth for me even with that high of a ping.
The gameplay feel is barely impacted by that ping for me.
Once I start having 250-300ms the impact becomes we’re noticeable.