Path of Exile 2's game director thinks a death recap will finally allow us players to complain about the right things

I've been playing Path of Exile for almost ten years and have put a ton of hours into PoE2 since it entered early access, and in all that time there's one feature that I've wished for more than any other. More than stash tabs, more than fancy microtransactions, even more than finally finding a mirror in the wild.

What I want more than anything is a death recap: a way to finally have some idea why my turbo powerful character that's blasting through a map went pop. At an interview at ExileCon this weekend, game director Jonathan Rogers confirmed that it's finally coming to Path of Exile 2.

I don't know whether Grinding Gear intended to announce the feature this weekend, but during the keynote's live demo of new content, Mark Roberts' character died. And there before our eyes, live and in person, was a death recap screen. …