Hello Travelers.

We are aware of an issue causing new accounts to encounter an LE-52 error upon trying to enter character creation/login for the first time. Existing accounts and characters are not affected. We are investigating and will provide an update within one hour.

Latest Update

Update 2024-03-14T03:24:00Z :
We’ve released a small client update to fix the LE-52 for new accounts - Patch 1.0.3.1. If you are experiencing this issue, please restart steam and download the patch. Thank you for your patience.

Previous Updates

Update 2024-03-14T02:24:00Z :
We have a strong lead on the issue which we are currently pursuing. We will check back in with another update within the next hour.

That does not sound related no. That sounds like the game is crashing trying to load. Try checking your log files to see if they contain more information: https://support.lastepoch.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260805192629-The-Game-s-Log-File

– If you haven’t tried verifying the game files through Steam, that’s always a great first step as it resolves a significant number of problems.