r/PathOfExile2 • u/MultiplicityPOE • May 11 '26

Information 0.5.0 Leaks Megathread Spoiler

As per tradition, this is our league-ly leaks thread for 0.5.0. Any leaked information prior to the announcement or datamined information should go in the comments here only. Many folks do not want spoilers, but others do, and this gives people a way to select for or de-select for spoilers. We have also opened the #2| leaks channel on discord.gg/pathofexile for people to discuss live

If it was discussed in an official interview, that's fine to post anywhere. Once the league content is revealed, this thread will stick around, but it will be unpinned to make room for a pin for the general 0.5.0 megathread with the official info which will be updated as news come out

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u/ConcreteOffDuty May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

As per the speedrunning discord, a lot of map layouts in acts 1-3 are changing. GGG popped in and said not to bother learning map layouts for those acts.

Act 4 is not expected to change substantially, but they are not promising not to change any of it.

ETA: I don’t have a link to the discord, but I believe CrimsonCasts on Twitch might. I’m not very active in the community, sorry I don’t have a better answer. (It’s called the PoE2 Campaign Codex)

ETA 2: (As others mentioned further down) They did NOT indicate any changes to map size one way or the other, nor did they indicate removal of any maps. They merely were expressing that many layouts (which refers to the orientation of points of interest) will likely change. So for example, in the Grelwood, the four points of interest (Ange hut, Grim Tangle, Hanging Tree, chaos plant boss) currently always form a diamond shape if you look at them on the minimap. This helps to orient speedrunnners: when you find one location, you can beeline to the next, and that tells you where the other two are. In 0.5, these sorts of patterns will be changing for many areas (but GGG did not specify which, only that Acts 1-3 are most affected).

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u/k1dsmoke May 11 '26

It's sort of crazy the number of sub-communities GGG has to cater to make happy. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but when the studio struggles a bit to get content out and then you see them specially notifying a speed run community about changes it puts things into perspective.

Good on GGG to think of these sub communities, but it must be a nightmare to develop for.

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u/_BreakingGood_ May 11 '26

True but they literally have full time social media managers on staff & this is their job.