Anyone who's been living in Path of Exile 2 maps for the past week knows the new temple layouts don't mess around. You go in thinking it'll be a clean push from room to room, then you realise the place is a grid of weird side wings and specialist zones that all want your attention at once. Half the time you're juggling doors, fog of war, and whether it's worth burning resources, especially if you're also watching your stash of PoE 2 Currency and trying not to waste runs on bad routing.
How it's meant to work
The intended flow is pretty familiar. Clear a chamber, open the next connection, and the map slowly becomes yours. Checkpoints come online as you reach them, and dying isn't supposed to be a full wipe. Most of the time you pop back at the closest secured spot and keep going. It's a nice rhythm, honestly. You learn the temple's shape by pushing forward, and you build confidence because progress sticks. Even when it gets ugly—sudden rares, stacked auras, a trap corridor that eats your life bar—you expect the game to respect the path you earned.
The respawn glitch that breaks the grid
Then there's this one bug that makes the whole "nearest checkpoint" idea fall apart. You die in a room you've already cleared—nothing fancy, no new area, no fresh trigger—and the respawn just… goes rogue. Instead of landing you in the last place you actually touched, it can dump you in some totally undiscovered checkpoint buried deep in the temple. Not one or two rooms away, either. People are seeing jumps that feel like fifteen-plus rooms, straight into areas you haven't even sniffed yet.
What it looks like in practice
The funniest part is the minimap. You open it expecting a sensible route, and you get this split-screen reality: your starting cluster looks normal, nicely explored, while your character is now standing on a lonely little island surrounded by black fog. No corridors lit up between. No breadcrumbs. Just proof you were dragged across the grid like the game's coordinates got scrambled for a second. You'll wake up in something like an Automaton Lab vibe—mid-run difficulty, real enemies—while the "missing" rooms are still sitting there untouched, waiting as if nothing happened.
Why it's annoying but not a run-killer
Weirdly, it doesn't usually brick the run. The temple doesn't punish you for the skip, and it doesn't lock those in-between rooms forever. You can play it two ways: treat it like a free, chaotic fast-travel and keep pushing from the new checkpoint, or backtrack and reconnect the gaps once you've stabilised. Either way, you're still making progress, just in a messy order that you didn't choose. It's the kind of glitch that makes you laugh after you stop panicking, then you carry on because, hey, if the game wants to fling you forward, you might as well farm the new wing and hope it spits out something worth the trouble, maybe even an Exalted Orb somewhere along the way.
