Path of Exile 2 Faces Backlash For Making The Combat "Soulless"The recent update for Path of Exile 2, Dawn of the Hunt, has caused quite a backlash among the game's community. It aimed to make the game more challenging, but instead, resulted in the game feeling too slow and frustrating."Reducing Skill Damage, adding cooldowns/delays, and removing components of Skills has really watered this game down... And the delays and cooldowns that were added needs to get removed." Reddit user FreshmeatOW wrote, which was agreed by nearly 8,000 players. The nerfs introduced with this update, which made the combats "soulless," have upset them so much, to the extent that they'd remove the vacation and go to work."The thing I don't get, two years ago or so they talked about cooldowns beeing bad for arpg's. Now we got them in poe2." The desperation is everywhere in the comment section from players who used to be supportive and looking forward to its full release. "Its like they forgot what actually makes a game fun. "Besides the gameplay changes, some players have reported performance issues such as framerate drops, lags, and crashes, leading to the game being review-bombed on Steam and its rating has now dropped to Mixed.These concerns spread over to developer Grinding Gear Games, who released a community post titled "What We're Working On," admitting that this attempt to "mostly hit the top of the endgame" had "an unintended effect on campaign play as well," and saying that they've started making changes. However, their response didn't seem to win the players' hearts back, as their explanation made some feel like "reading a Blizzard post on fixing Diablo 4," as GuyInUniverse wrote on Reddit.