And how you explore this infinite dungeon

The Delve map quickly becomes a labyrinth of choices.

And how you explore this infinite dungeon is also up to you POE currency trade . While the levels you delve through are relatively linear, the way they're connected to one another isn't. Your progress through the mines is charted on a map and it's here that you can select the next location that you want to travel towards. You can choose to go on delves that take you deeper into the mine while gradually increasing the difficulty and rarity of items, or you can play it (relatively) safe and travel horizontally to keep the challenge the same.

The mines aren't just a series of caves either, but players will discover entirely new biomes, like lost subterranean cities, that have corresponding rewards. The map will highlight these points of interest so you have objectives to work toward as your push deeper into the mines. And, of course, this is all infinite so players can move through the dungeon in any direction and will always find new areas to explore. Wilson says it'll actually be the first time competitive Path of Exile players will be able to measure their skill against one another since the mines act like a kind of leaderboard. Bragging rights will go to whoever is furthest through the mines when the league eventually ends later this fall.

The league will also introduce socketable currency and crafting items.

That's just the main chunk of stuff coming in Delve, too. The league will also introduce socketable currency and crafting items. Path of Exile's crafting system is hopelessly complex, so I won't bother going into the nitty-gritty of it here, but these crafting items have sockets that you can fill with fossils that add a sense of determinism to the otherwise random crafting process. So, for example, if you wanted to increase your chances of getting a lightning damage modifier on a weapon, you can slot a specific kind of fossil into your crafting item that increases the odds of getting a lightning modifier. It's great because it'll (hopefully) make crafting feel a little less daunting for new players by giving them more deterministic methods while giving hardcore veterans that little extra edge when min-maxing their gear. Then there's the usual addition of new and reworked skills and items to play around with.

If you're a dedicated Path of Exile player, Delve is already a no-brainer. For me, as more of a casual who dips in and out throughout the year, Delve is one league I definitely want to play. I love the tension that its emphasis on light creates—that sense of mystery in not knowing what wonders (and dangers) could be lurking just a little deeper into the mine.

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Path of Exile's free Betrayal expansion, which lets you play as a detective (of sorts), has clearly struck a chord with players: soon after it launched yesterday, the ARPG smashed its concurrent player record, and at its peak, 117,000 people were logged in at the same time on Steam alone.

It was the first time the game passed 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, according to Steam Charts, and was more than double its highest player count in the three months prior. Judging by what lead developer Chris Wilson has said previously about the number of players that go through the game's standalone client instead, the total player count was probably closer to 200,000 (thanks to Reddit user Vindexus for pointing that out).

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Betrayal is a huge update that reworks old leagues into the main game, adds new masters, missions, maps and skills, and unifies hideouts. The detective work comes in when you face the Immortal Syndicate, a group of necromancers. To stop them, you have to hunt down members from the organisation's four divisions and interrogate them—or bargain with them—to learn about its structure buy POE orbs .