When u get one shot or your shield/health randomly melts and u don’t even know from what because your screen is having a seizure from all the things that are happening. Is it really that hard to have some sort of a log or report on death? Showing you who did what amount of damage, what type of damage, how much was blocked and the amount that went over that managed to kill u. For a game like this it would make sense to have it and would be very useful…

ripnburn69 | Le Toucan Has Arrived !

19 | 12 hours ago

people have been asking for this for 14 years and 2 games now

grip_on_set

2 | an hour ago

You are right.. it would be nice… But why don’t we have that? Well.. because…

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DgtlShark

1 | 6 hours ago

Bruh fr. Sometimes I know, but when I don’t know I’m like 5000x more mad

Ladnil

0 | 11 hours ago

Apparently it is a technical challenge due to something or other, something to do with how the servers calculate stuff and communicate it to the player’s PC or whatever.

thekmanpwnudwn

3 | 10 hours ago

Chinese version of the game has a death recap

The real answer is FrIcTiOn

Polym0rphed

2 | 9 hours ago

It does? Is it a replay only or is there a summary of data too? Layers/filters/perspectives etc? Is it anything like replays in SC2?

FreytagMorgan

2 | 5 hours ago

Dont they also have a pet, that picks up currency?

Wimpy14

-1 | 4 hours ago

The real answer is ThEy DoNt KnOw HoW

They let friction be the blame for anything.

Stop blaming friction for things that can just be explained by being inept.

Why are patches bad and need to be immediately hotfixed? Friction? Why are new mechanics broken? Friction? Why do half the ascendancies flat out suck? Friction? Why are 90% of uniques just chances shards with extra steps? Friction?

Im noticing a trend

kmoz

-6 | 10 hours ago

TLDR: Not technically feasible. This game has a staggering amount of calculations and essentially all of them are done server side and they are heavily optimized so the servers dont melt down harder than they already do.

They are not storing that data (let alone packetizing it, sending it to the client side, etc) because it simply is too massive of a performance hit. The only thing that is sent client side damage wise are the net outcomes.

If you want a reasonable solution, use your GPU’s built in replay capture and watch your deaths back a couple times. You can almost always figure out what killed you on a watch or two, regardless of knowing all of the details of each tick of damage. Ben (best player in the world) has quite a few videos of him doing replay analysis in PoE1 if youre curious what good replay analysis looks like.

DianKali

4 | 9 hours ago

That data is at most a few kilobyte for the last X seconds. Attack ID, DMG per DMG type, if it was a crit, done. If even riot manages to give you a clean death recap, so should arpgs.

kmoz

-4 | 8 hours ago

Lol not even close. There are like 1/1000th the calcs happening in LoL compared to a complex poe scenario. Hundreds of monsters, bazillions of projectiles, status effects, super complex gear, complex skill interactions, complex gear interactions, buffs, ground effects, debuffs, terrain interactions, loot tables, crit/block/dodge/evasion/accuracy calcs, etc etc etc.

Seriously go watch a video of empys 6man league start stuff in PoE. LoL is not in the same universe of complexity.

lordofthehomeless

1 | 4 hours ago

Last I checked numbers are not the resource heavy part in games. It’s the visuals. 1000 particle effects takes a lot off resources. Rolling dmg 10000 times easy.

DianKali

1 | 3 hours ago

All of these interactions already need to get calculated for the final DMG taken…just like in league. Just because there is more small DMG numbers doesn’t make the calculation harder or meaningfully more complex.

All I am asking is for them to log the last X seconds before you death and list it all, which can very likely be easily parallelized and wouldn’t even be noticeable.

Tsunamie101

-7 | 11 hours ago

It’s been talked to death for years now, but the tldr is that, unless you’re a new player going through the acts, it’s incredibly unlikely for a damage breakdown is gonna actually show helpful information. It would be fun information to have, but when you’re in maps and already have a basic grasp of the game mechanics then a damage breakdown/death log is gonna provide pretty much no useful information.

PoE just isn’t the kind of game where you build specific defenses for a specific circumstance, like you would in a game like Monster Hunter. You just build your defenses, and in the vast majority of cases you die because you get unlucky, don’t pay enough attention, or tackle content that is too difficult for your current build.

Why no damage log on death?