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4s good afternoon everybody and welcome
6s back to another last Epoch Dev stream
9s better late than never as always I'm
12s your host Mike
13s how are you doing today
16s let me get a few little technical
17s difficulties there we got ourselves
20s back up and running let's get the sound
22s back to where it was normally
25s we're gonna hop right back into things
29s we're rocking we're rolling
32s let's go right let's have some fun
35s chatterboxing
45s apparently I'm echoing badly
63s hmm
69s how do I sound now
78s any better is it still echoing terribly
87s that delay you know I just gotta wait
89s for the reply I'm just gonna keep going
92s seems good now wonderful
95s just switched
97s input devices and then switched right
99s back to the way it was
104s sweet all right let's keep rolling we're
107s gonna we're gonna let's let's get a
109s let's go in here dog training don't do
111s that all res
113s do you like that one
115s during threshold is nice
119s oh we have good blessings
124s let's start working on this one
127s your first time here please feel free to
129s ask questions about me about the video
132s of me about the video game I'm playing
133s last epoch which I am a senior developer
137s on
140s um we do stream for charity here and as
144s it is the first stream of the month we
145s have a new charity
147s um we're helping oceans again do
149s different ocean charity but you know
151s we're back back to Oceans
153s because oceans are
154s phenomenal
158s uh and I'm getting my goal today for for
160s in-game here is I really want to get I
163s really want to get a um
165s an exalted helmet to to pair up with
167s this that's my goal today
170s foreign
175s spicy
181s um so do you have a question here I
182s think I saw a couple questions I will
184s get to them I apologize the slight delay
186s uh have you considered that spell skill
188s has faster attack when clicking
191s the
194s sorry have you considered that this that
196s spell skill
199s has faster attack when clicking and
202s heavier more powerful when holding the
205s button oh so like um
209s have an ability whereby you can
213s um change the functionality of the
215s ability based on if you're holding the
217s button or if you just tap it once so
219s like if you just tap it it does one
220s thing and if you hold it it does like
222s something else that's bigger
224s um
225s we we have considered various input
227s methods for for different abilities like
229s that and it doesn't really tend to fit
231s well
233s um in a gameplay flow it's also really
235s difficult for
237s um
238s like uh animation smoothing and
242s um like preempting animations so that it
244s feels really Snappy
246s when you have a system like that so
249s it's not impossible but uh it provides a
253s lot of problems in that category
258s um and that's the sort of stuff that
258s we're really working on having feel
260s really tight so any problems that show
262s up there are uh something we like to
264s avoid
266s um
270s so unlikely to add something like that
275s remember to add me yeah someone had a
278s question then
279s hey you can't wait for at least when is
281s the time approximately we do not have
282s any estimates on a release date yet I
285s apologize
289s hey I was wondering what the decision
292s for creating swarmblade form instead of
295s the traditional cat form uh that fills
297s the role of agile shapeshifter in other
299s arpgs there was there was a lot that
301s went into that really
303s um
304s part of it was
306s like let's see if we can come up with
308s something unique and interesting and new
310s and that's that's sort of like a special
313s for last Epoch that's you know it's
315s different that sort of stuff
318s just to give us a little bit more
319s identity in the in the genre
322s um
323s set us a part of it you know all sort of
324s stuff but also just
326s someone I think pitched the idea and it
328s was just really exciting and we really
329s love it and so it was it was partially
332s just a hey that's cool let's make the
333s thing we think is the coolest you know
337s um that's the main part of it really
340s we spent a long time uh designing that
344s creature debating what it's going to
345s look like we went through literally
349s dozens of like different concepts
353s Silhouettes from different angles
355s um you know okay let's take the wings
356s from this and the legs from this and the
359s shoulder from that and
360s um it was a long time of like of just
363s like debating all the little details
366s because we're creating a new
368s um like creature and and it's something
370s that you're shape shifting into so some
371s of you me playing as and
373s getting that feeling just right was
375s really important so we we spent a long
377s time
378s you know in in the in that uh
380s conversation that was that was
383s well over a year long uh process
394s [Music]
399s as far as I know there's not a penalty
400s being lower level than the Zone
402s regarding damage to the mobs and our
403s chance to hit only their HP
406s uh damage of being higher level
408s Experience slash experience cap is that
410s correct yeah there's no
412s um
413s scaling that happens for the power of an
416s enemy relative to your level the enemy
419s has its level and has its stats
421s that's it
428s shield on my way
430s [Music]
443s foreign
446s puncture kind of works like that you
448s more damage the longer the channel yeah
450s and it's it's it's a little janky I
452s think you'd agree probably
454s um there's two skills I think that work
455s that way actually there's there's
456s puncture and there's one other two I
458s think and they're not they don't feel
460s quite perfect especially when you get
462s into multiplayer there's even more
463s problems
465s um so yeah it's we you're right we do
467s have that uh and I guess probably is why
469s we don't do it more is because I don't
470s know personally I wasn't overly happy
472s with the way that one turned out
475s I don't think it's overly popular
477s um mechanic either to use
483s yeah break that channeling
488s I know I mentioned it like every time
489s but it's still so weird to see the 15
491s plus as a uh as does like this is how
495s many
496s um
497s Stacks do you have something because in
498s multiplayer it's it's not like that
500s anymore
503s all right some fish asks can I make the
505s screen turn a reddish when I'm low
507s Health sometimes I think everything is
509s fine when my HP is low and I'm dead
511s um so yeah there's
513s we did have that for a while actually
516s um or we may even still have it to some
518s degree
520s um there's a few things that do happen
521s when you go low health and some of them
522s might be a little too subtle but there
524s are reasons for the
526s power that they're at um if you have
528s suggestions on that please feel free to
529s head on over the forums and throw those
532s down there
536s do we know release date for multiplayer
537s no we do not know a release date for
539s multiplayer
549s yeah when there's when there is a
550s release date for multiplayer
554s um it'll be everywhere it'll be just
557s plastered all over everything
559s like our website our forums Reddit Steam
564s uh Discord like it'll just be everywhere
571s my favorite Shrine the ice beetle
573s I I it's I don't get some Flack
575s sometimes but the freeze that it does I
577s don't know
578s feels very useful to me
586s and don't forget if you have questions
587s please feel please put at last default
589s game in front of those questions so I
591s see it
592s better I think I saw one there
596s um what build do you recommend Purdue
598s players I recommend picking what draws
601s your attention thematically the most so
604s just go to the new character select
605s screen
607s um and and look at each one of them and
608s just say that one's cool I'm gonna pick
611s that and then like as you unlock
613s abilities just try every new ability you
615s unlock and if you think hey that's cool
618s play that
620s um
621s you you can't really make any decisions
623s that will ruin your character
626s um the only permanent decisions of the
627s classes you pick and
630s you know there's there's very solid
632s builds for every class at this point
635s um
636s so yeah just go have fun
639s can you tell us anything about trading I
640s cannot
653s all right next question I have worst
656s Vision than a drunk mole on a holiday
658s I lose my curse of frequently when
660s playing are there any plans to add the
662s ability to skin the mouse pointer also
664s because the size it'll be really helpful
665s visually challenged like myself
667s um we don't have any like concrete plans
669s for like okay well these are the ones
671s we're gonna do or anything like that
673s um
673s but it's it is something we do get
675s requested a fair bit and I think it's a
677s good a good request
679s um
680s there's several accessibility options
682s that were still
683s um that are still sort of like on the
685s list of hopefully soon we'll get to it
687s type thing
689s um
690s just a lot of things on that list
693s but uh yeah this is another one of those
695s like if you've got suggestions on things
697s you'd really like to see the best way to
699s get that push that agenda pushed is head
701s on over the forums leave uh suggestion
705s thread
710s oh what do we got here this is a great
712s ambulance
714s it's a really great amulet
721s it's not for the build we're playing
722s right now but yeah real nice
735s okay don't die Mike we're just gonna
737s we're just gonna make sure we we just
739s fulfill that don't die plan
755s big hop
757s all right let's drop something here
761s is there a Pity buff regarding blessings
764s not discovered no there's not
767s the blessing system does not care which
768s blessings you have previously discovered
770s or have equipped in any way
784s oh yeah that Circle
788s that could have been bad
789s could have been bad oh
793s that's like a nice exalted if we're
794s gonna slap something on uh on a weapon
797s on a legendary
800s uh can you tell us anything about trade
802s is there anything you can share with us
804s at this time nothing other than what's
806s in the official documentation that's
807s like the the multiplayer thank you
809s there's some really broad Strokes
811s overviews there
813s um but if if you've if you've read that
815s you know all the information we have
816s that's public right now
818s um and if not go read it there's not
820s much there
822s um there's just some general philosophy
824s stuff just I don't have any details I
826s can give you on what the
828s I'm like this is the size there's
830s actually there's a there's a thread that
832s Andrew Tilly started on the forums as
833s well that has literally I think every
835s official communication we've given about
837s trades
838s and uh there's there's a lot of stuff in
841s there but I'd uh
845s possible prefer not to repeat it all
846s over again but
848s yeah
850s sorry uh can you tell what our top areas
855s um
856s and What needs improving based on
858s feedback besides multiplayer combat
860s feeling performance visuals animations
862s um
863s oh like like the the stuff we're
866s focusing on the most
869s I guess
871s um I mean yeah combat feels the probably
873s the number one thing Comet feel and
875s performance
876s are the big things outside of
878s multiplayer
879s really
881s um
882s you know just general uh General quality
885s improvements so like just little things
888s all over the place
890s um trying to get that quality bar up on
893s uh just across the board so like enemies
895s that have fallen behind that are really
896s old maybe
897s um
899s I think we recently
903s uh replaced there's some enemies that we
905s had made from like a long time ago
908s before we had our modern pipeline in
910s place
911s um I think we just finished making the
915s last replacement for that so I think we
917s were officially out of like
920s enemies that were created by taking
922s three things of the accessories
923s literally just slapping them together
926s um because there are a few enemies like
927s that still in the game the uh man of not
930s um the void fused armor come to mind
936s um
939s yeah
943s not really much surprises there uh
945s there's probably more details on the
947s things we're focusing on in the last
948s couple development update posts on the
951s forums
952s uh that that'll have details on on the
955s types of things we're working on really
958s but yeah it's it's multiplayer combat
960s feel and
962s um performance those are the big ones
965s and a story presentation I think I put
967s story presentation in the in that
968s category as well um there's a lot of
970s things we're doing for story
971s presentation
972s um and that's from just like like
975s rewriting a lot of the script stuff
977s um
978s changing the way that uh just dialogue
980s appears the way it's physically
981s presented The Styling of that
984s um the the different uh some of the
988s different story beats there's just a lot
990s of like little improvements that are
991s happening in that category uh so I'd put
994s that in there too
997s the start of the game The Campaign needs
999s a little a little bit of a glow up let's
1001s call it that
1010s all right
1015s uh will hard idle drop chance be a
1019s little less or will it remain the same
1021s uh I mean the the we don't have any
1024s major plans to change drop chance of
1027s idols
1028s I'm not sure what the hard idle part is
1030s but yeah
1034s um how big of a drop in power should we
1036s expect to see with the impending ailment
1038s changes specifically wondering about
1039s non-poison damaging elements uh like
1041s electrified Knight bleed Etc I I minimal
1045s I would say or maybe not minimum minor
1047s it's a minor
1052s I don't I don't think you'll
1054s I don't think you'll be disappointed in
1056s the viability of ailments post to change
1059s at all I think what will happen is
1062s um
1064s things will be simplified a little bit
1066s in the way they work and uh
1070s that's the biggest change that'll happen
1072s you'll probably actually have
1074s um
1078s yeah it's not a humongous change
1081s so yeah I wouldn't be worried about it
1083s if you're like oh well my bot dot build
1085s still be viable to play uh when multiple
1088s launches yeah duck builds are still
1090s viable to play
1099s all right
1103s are you considering platforms such as
1106s Steam deck throughout new and upcoming
1107s development processes uh being that the
1110s manufacturing hurdles valve was
1112s encountering seems to be fading away and
1114s more players should have access to this
1115s Hardware additionally are we going to
1117s see more improvements to controller
1118s support that would potentially impact
1119s steam deck players as well yeah so um
1122s first off controller support yes
1124s controller support is a what I would say
1126s a core piece of functionality that we
1128s want to have
1130s um fully implemented at our same high
1132s quality standards for 1.0 launch so yes
1134s that will affect steam deck
1137s um people because they use controller
1138s controls
1140s um
1143s as as far as do we consider platforms
1146s such as theme deck yes we do definitely
1147s consider them we don't develop for them
1149s though
1150s um because we don't have the we know the
1153s resources to to really make sure that
1156s they that they all work and they're all
1157s happy there's lots of people that do
1158s play on some of these other platforms
1160s like um
1161s uh GeForce now is there GeForce next
1164s first now oh crap whatever the the
1167s the
1169s that device is it it has like there's
1173s some unique bugs regarding loot filters
1175s uh on that one
1177s um unfortunately it's not really a
1178s platform we're supporting yet so it
1180s would not on our the top of our list to
1182s fix bugs like that
1184s um if we can get easy wins there yeah
1187s it's something we we do consider and
1189s keep in mind but the primary focus is
1191s getting the the PC release out the door
1194s smooth sailing
1196s lovely all that sort of stuff and then
1198s after launch we can start looking at
1200s other platforms we can start deciding
1201s hey oh there's there's this platform is
1204s really easy to get in because we already
1205s have support for like controller and
1208s Linux support and suddenly there's a
1211s device that's basically a giant Linux
1213s controller that already runs on Steam
1215s and hey it's not a big stretch to get
1216s that in but for for now it is
1219s um if you can get it to work great if
1221s you can't sorry we don't actually
1222s support it yet is the official stance on
1224s that one
1227s and I have seen people getting it to
1228s work
1231s um and I do expect that we'll get a lot
1233s better especially with the performance
1234s improvements that are coming because one
1235s of the big things I do see is is
1237s performance issues being a large
1239s consideration for uh steam deck not
1242s being fully finished and and controller
1244s functionality not being fully finished
1245s so I mean there's there's natural
1247s improvements to that that will come
1249s incidental improvements to that that
1250s will come
1252s um but it's not a focus for us
1253s unfortunately right now
1256s are there any plans to happen two-handed
1258s weapons feel better is that an issue for
1260s you I mean there's there's plans to make
1261s all
1263s combat feel better so yes encapsulated
1265s in the combat improvements two-handed
1266s weapon improvements
1267s um we'll definitely be there so yes
1271s any update on Co-op uh it's going great
1275s uh we recently put an update out for uh
1278s the
1280s RCT build program
1284s I think it's out it's either like out or
1285s out today or out tomorrow or something
1286s like that but it's it's um
1289s coming along real strong
1292s constant stream of people that are still
1294s coming in that program is expanding
1296s um which is great great to see if you're
1298s still waiting to get into that I am
1299s really sorry we're doing our best to get
1301s everyone as quick as we can it takes a
1303s long time
1304s um because it is a closed system that
1306s does require ndas uh there is manual
1308s checks that need to be done to make sure
1310s everything is
1311s um solid and appropriate and everything
1314s so we're still making sure we're doing
1317s our due diligence there
1319s um
1320s and unfortunately those slow things down
1321s a bit
1328s but we've already surpassed
1330s what what our goal for Edmunds into the
1333s CC program was when we started we opened
1334s things up again
1336s um we've already blown past that goal
1338s weeks ago
1343s I did see a request I don't know if
1345s we're gonna do this or not I know people
1346s have been asking for this but I just
1348s wanted to acknowledge that I didn't see
1349s the request uh someone asked to uh
1352s to have a like a a pending applications
1356s counter and a total number of
1358s applications accepted counter I don't
1361s know if that's information we're ready
1361s to share it specifically
1365s um I thought it was a cool idea
1373s these squirrels are just doing work my
1375s gear is junky
1384s uh with your current experience what
1386s would you say are the most difficult
1387s things to code and yet look relatively
1389s simple on the outside
1392s um I mean everything's everything's
1394s harder than it looks
1397s um
1398s everything's harder than it looks
1401s I think
1407s I don't know what's the most like harder
1409s than it looks
1411s everything is
1414s um
1417s just just getting getting the animation
1420s and the abilities to line up smoothly I
1422s don't see that yeah that seems like a
1424s relatively simple thing to do but just
1425s having that behave really tight
1428s and uh efficient is
1431s surprisingly
1433s difficult thing to get to get really
1436s really smooth
1438s I think that's where a lot of it comes
1440s down to as well is getting the quality
1442s so like a lot lots of the things you can
1443s do you can do like yeah it's in it's
1445s easy it's great it worked no problem but
1447s it's just like it's not awesome
1450s and give them that last little bit of
1452s quality is the really the really hard
1453s part usually
1456s like I'm I'm right now I'm trying to I'm
1460s re reworking this panel right now
1463s um and we just we just improved the
1466s speed at which these fields populate
1471s um
1473s and
1477s um
1479s it it caused the ability caused the
1482s panel to kind of Jitter because it
1484s populates too quickly now
1487s um so we have to back during rear text
1488s how it actually works for a faster
1491s loading set of data set
1494s um
1497s that's funny I thought
1504s come on go through the portal
1506s uh will you have statistics on which
1508s build is the best now uh so you can Nerf
1512s him oh excuse him so you could never
1514s buff those uh who are too weak
1516s um so I I think the there's the reason
1518s why I just snap said no to that answer
1520s like Define best Okay
1523s um and I don't think you I don't think
1525s there's a right answer to that like how
1528s do you define best I don't think it's
1529s the right answer that question
1530s um
1531s there's thousands of different answers
1533s to that question and
1535s um
1536s I I think it's dangerous to try and
1538s Define it actually
1550s I think we might switch let's do a
1552s little let's do a little crafting
1556s oh yeah
1559s this is what happens when you're late
1560s and you try and Rush stuff out
1566s uh
1568s you can get out of this bad boy here
1571s I think we want let's just try and seal
1573s this right out of the gate
1577s yeah got one there all right what oh but
1580s our Fortune potentials got destroyed and
1582s it won't even let us do a discovery now
1584s will it no
1586s womp womp it's too bad
1593s lose void physical those will drop down
1595s too low
1601s it's probably better overall anyways
1605s let's roll with it
1610s uh will you have I got greedy on that
1613s one it's okay
1614s uh what Bill am I playing today I am
1616s playing
1618s squirrel builds we're all about
1620s squirrels we're basically just uh
1622s playing Harold Discovery and squirrels
1625s all day every day it's a toll build
1630s foreign
1643s I do like this Shield the way it looks
1645s more as well it's beefy
1656s no question just want to see the game's
1658s awesome well thank you glad you're
1659s having fun playing and enjoying it it's
1661s awesome
1663s uh hi amateur Poe player here could you
1665s please explain text and vlogging
1671s there's little known art
1676s and and it's it's the ability to block
1679s with literally any object it could be a
1682s teacup
1684s it could be could be a wet paper towel
1686s but as long as you're good enough at
1688s blocking you can block with literally
1689s anything
1690s and and sometimes an object any object
1693s you have lying around can be useful so
1695s you gotta like be aware of all the
1697s things that are around you that you can
1698s use for blocking if you need to
1701s and and sometimes like
1703s you're in some sort of like oh God I
1706s just ran into the lava like an idiot
1709s [Laughter]
1709s [Music]
1716s I'm gonna have to come with like
1717s prepared answers to the sex the vlogging
1719s question aren't I
1725s uh any spoilers today around some of
1728s those main things you guys are working
1729s on anything else I don't have any I
1731s don't have any spoilers around that
1733s stuff prepared
1735s specifically I actually have
1737s I was I was so late getting in here that
1739s I um
1741s may have uh forgotten to grab the
1744s spoiler
1748s see if there are any oh there is oh cool
1751s oh that's neat
1753s yeah
1755s that's fun
1762s okay give me a second I'll get one of
1764s these in because I uh I died so you know
1766s we'll get a little treat a little treat
1767s for everyone
1771s foreign
1782s speaking just a moment
1797s here
1799s we
1801s go
1804s which really is how that trailer should
1806s have ended am I right
1807s so here we come here we go anyone
1817s and
1821s where's the picture there's a picture I
1823s can replace nope
1825s what is going on
1842s we're getting there
1847s all right little little spoilery
1849s spoilery boy here
1853s a little little model update
1859s um yeah just just some zombies
1862s you know
1863s it's good to have it's good to have
1865s brains
1868s uh question here are there any plans for
1871s twitch drop campaigns if so the unique
1874s items specific to Twitch same question
1876s um but also for Amazon Prime we don't
1878s have any specific uh plans in place for
1880s that just yet that is the sort of thing
1882s that we'd love to do and we do plan to
1883s get
1884s um integration to systems like this a
1886s lot better
1887s um we know that there's a huge like
1890s Community opportunity around twitch
1892s drops and all the things like that
1894s um
1895s a really important thing to note is like
1897s with any
1899s um external
1901s uh I I put this in the same category as
1905s um
1906s like MTX and cosmetics and things like
1908s that whereby you're you're doing
1910s something outside of the game to get a
1911s bonus inside the game and even even if
1913s even if it's free on Twitch there
1915s wouldn't be anything that was
1917s mechanically unique or power boosting
1919s that could happen
1921s um in in a Twist drop that wouldn't also
1923s be available in game so it would likely
1925s be cosmetic related stuff if we did it
1928s um
1930s just just to make sure that it's there's
1932s not like an unfair Advantage where it's
1934s like oh you can only have this special
1935s build if you come to the twitch stream
1937s that we want to avoid things like that
1944s all right let's keep going oh Chris Ryan
1946s I'll take it
1948s yes and I purchase you are angry get
1951s angrier
1952s and when we do this their eyes turn
1956s I'm gonna die if I stand still
1958s um the uh the scoring rage if uh if you
1961s when you use it their eyes go all red
1963s and glowy
1965s let me see we'll find it
1970s ah glowy eyes yes
1976s I love it
1987s all right next question you can use a
1991s multiplayer nope
1992s uh what was your product vision for
1994s making this RPG stand out in the market
1996s oh that's a that's that's that's a deep
2000s question
2001s um
2003s I don't know I think we so when we
2004s started this we just were
2007s um
2008s the goal was just to make an awesome RPG
2010s that we wanted to play that was the
2012s whole thing like let's let's make
2013s something that we are really excited to
2015s play ourselves
2017s um
2018s anything uh I think a lot of the
2020s identity of the game sort of evolved as
2023s we were as we were going and
2025s um
2026s a lot of it was just hey wouldn't this
2028s be cool what wouldn't it be cool if
2031s um
2032s and so we a lot came up from that as far
2035s as standing out I think we wanted to
2037s lean into the the time travel theming
2040s um and and have that be a really uh
2043s unique unique look in that airbn genre
2045s because I don't think there's like the
2047s the theming specifically like you look
2049s at most of the other big ones there's
2050s not really a heavy emphasis on time
2052s travel
2054s um so yes that was how we were looking
2055s to stand up and wow holy crap uh trusty
2058s tree has tipped a hundred dollars thank
2060s you very much that's
2063s very cool appreciate that I absolutely
2065s love last Epoch you and your team are
2067s amazing keep up the great work keep up
2068s the work
2069s I appreciate it thank you
2072s very cool
2075s very very cool
2077s um
2079s yeah
2083s don't see that every day
2088s all right take the next question
2093s don't forget to put our uh Atlas Lassie
2097s gave me your question
2099s um
2102s so I see it uh loot filter related
2104s question if I select specific item type
2107s let's say two-handed spear why Loop
2109s filter doesn't hide affixes that can't
2111s be crafted on Spears I can't remember
2113s why we didn't do this because this is
2115s something we definitely considered
2117s um
2118s and I don't know if it was
2123s I can't remember if it was like a
2124s technical reason why there's a problem
2125s that didn't work or those specific
2127s design reason I can't remember there was
2129s a very good reason why we didn't have
2130s this
2132s um I don't know what it is I'm sorry
2135s which is a terrible answer I'm well
2137s aware
2140s sunshines
2145s I play a G-Force now that's what I was
2146s trying to remember uh there's a way to
2148s White list their servers so I don't get
2150s my inbox flooded with suspicious
2151s activity emails
2155s baby
2161s you're playing G-Force now is there a
2162s way to whitelist their servers so I
2164s don't get my inbox but it was suspicious
2165s activity email so like
2168s um like whitelisting last epoch on
2171s GeForce now
2174s is that you're asking I I don't know
2176s um sorry
2178s I've not used it ever actually have used
2181s it once
2182s um
2187s from the sounds that looks like
2189s something you'd want to head to Nvidia
2190s support with help for for help with
2193s uh can you add something like sacrifice
2195s alter which Shred
2198s our 10 to 20 idols and give us Idols
2200s with powerful class affixes uh and maybe
2203s that doesn't sound like
2204s um
2208s like San Francisco that sounds like an
2211s idea for uh like a dungeon reward
2214s um
2215s and uh for everyone who's been here for
2218s a long time I'm gonna say it again if
2219s you have any suggestions head on over to
2221s the forums and leave them there
2223s um because I won't remember them here
2224s and I know you can get a conversation
2226s star to get feedback from other players
2227s maybe hone that idea a little bit
2230s um
2230s yeah that sounds that sounds like a idea
2233s for a dungeon reward system I'd say it's
2236s unlikely for us to implement that
2238s before 1.0
2241s um I very much appreciate you taking the
2242s time to answer my question you all are
2244s the best top notch
2246s you're welcome glad I could answer it
2248s remember which I do not remember which
2249s question it was but I'm glad I answered
2251s it uh what's the largest concurrent
2253s amount of players you all have had on
2255s the CT test at once if you're able to
2257s share of course I don't know the answer
2258s to that
2262s um
2262s if that's a number that we have and
2265s we're okay with sharing uh Kane can I
2268s please ask you to grab that and post it
2271s if it's if it's there we have which I'm
2273s assuming it is um but if it's a number
2275s we're interested in Sharing
2277s um
2280s or not I don't know
2289s uh will there be a market or something
2291s like this for trade I have no
2292s information I'm ready to share about for
2294s trade I'm sorry
2299s good amulet too uh thanks to this
2301s amazing game you're welcome I was just
2303s wondering if you could bless me with Dev
2305s luck in order to get myself gluing
2307s gloves please the drop side I'll summon
2309s win-win amen all right
2312s I'm gonna I'm thinking about your
2314s character
2315s I'm thinking about your character I'm
2317s thinking about how this is completely
2319s fraudulent and will never work and I'm
2320s sorry uh I I would love to help you out
2324s I do not have special powers
2330s but this squirrel
2332s this this squirrel right here
2335s he believes in you and that's what's
2337s really important
2339s good luck I hope you get it
2343s all right
2346s how do you open friends list with h for
2348s hey there buddy
2352s you talk about animations should be
2354s tight and nice when you kill enemies
2356s they fly around like they were on the
2358s moon gravity it's way too thin
2360s uh yeah that's if you if you check out
2362s the
2364s um
2366s Dev blog I want to say the last devlog
2369s maybe the one before that there's a lot
2370s of info on exactly that
2383s uh can you give us the ability to
2384s increase the size of the text box of
2386s items on the ground they're kind of
2387s small compared to other games
2388s um so if we so we we don't have any
2392s um immediate plans for
2395s um UI customization or UI scaling at the
2397s moment however it's not out of the
2399s question and if we were to do it it
2401s would be a wholesale approach so it
2403s would be
2405s um at least initially it would be
2407s everything so if you just like change
2409s the UI of everything and you can kind of
2411s do that if you change the resolution the
2412s UI for the this the UI scale changes
2415s with resolution
2417s uh so you should see it bigger
2422s you can you can if it's really a problem
2423s and you're struggling to see it the best
2425s thing to do right now I think I think
2426s dropping the resolution should help
2429s it could be wrong on that but I would be
2431s surprised if it didn't do that
2444s all right do you think introducing
2447s something similar to the D2 Terror zones
2449s would be something that we could use to
2451s add in-game content to revive some of
2454s the specific areas to see less attention
2457s um
2457s tear zones work really well in in Diablo
2461s 2 specifically because there's the they
2463s have the normal nightmare hell
2465s um and so there's so much
2468s uh there's so many more areas that exist
2472s um in like a level range I think
2476s and there's a lot more of a like wide
2478s open
2479s um explore to kill stuff
2481s uh type I want to say Vibe or like uh
2484s functions that you can do where it's
2486s just like kill like clear this randomly
2488s generated area and I think it works a
2490s lot better in Diablo 2 it is something
2492s that we've we've considered and we'll
2493s continue to look at but
2495s um it doesn't I don't think it works one
2497s to one with last debug we'd have to
2499s change some things to make it work for
2500s us which is which is fine
2502s um but we've got some other plans for
2504s for things and we had some uh we had
2507s some stuff that was like weirdly similar
2508s that we were planning a while ago
2510s um that we pulled up on but we'll see
2513s what happens for now I'd say
2515s um it's kind of a soft no but
2518s um
2519s still possible
2523s uh I have an A you provide the Q a 42
2530s this is the ultimate question
2532s of life the universe and everything
2544s also the answer to what's 40 plus two
2549s there we go
2553s uh how come when looking at blessings
2556s the ones I haven't discovered yet aren't
2558s shown I appreciate the idea of having an
2560s in-game Wiki uh but this is a weird one
2563s that always feels weird to look up to
2565s figure out what models I want to learn
2568s um
2569s so this was
2571s an attempt I guess to sort of have that
2574s information be uncovered as you go
2576s because it's especially initially it's
2578s really difficult to
2582s um
2585s Target specific blessings like early on
2588s targeting them is not really a super
2590s necessary thing I'd really like to see
2592s it be account discoverable instead of
2594s character discoverable
2596s um I think that would be quite helpful
2601s um
2606s and there's there's also like themings
2608s for them so like
2610s you can kind of guess that there's void
2612s related things in the void wine and fire
2614s related things in the fire one you know
2615s like that sort of stuff so there's
2619s there's less of a need and it is
2621s difficult to to push specific stuff like
2624s that
2625s um
2625s I also think that if you're if you're
2627s really going to be getting into like I
2629s need this specific blessing to start min
2631s max and stuff it's um
2635s yeah it's it's a tough one to say like
2637s okay yeah I should stay not visible in
2641s game but I don't know we
2643s we went back and forth on this a few
2645s times and it could keep going back and
2647s forth more
2657s but I guess we just didn't feel like it
2659s was information that would uh
2661s those super necessary for especially
2663s early players
2670s and might put too much emphasis on
2672s farming specific
2674s monoliths early
2679s uh
2685s uh you have mentioned previously
2687s cosmetic Shuffle open with 0.9 can we
2689s get a sneak peek at an item or two
2692s um
2693s may have spoiled a couple on here
2695s already actually
2697s um throughout throughout the last couple
2698s years of uh like concept art that was
2701s being used to develop them all two away
2703s come off it eh
2706s come off it
2713s let's pick an easy one here
2718s chance to dodgeball isn't that bad
2723s rage at half health
2725s damage
2743s endurance we have culling yeah
2750s [Music]
2752s will you be implementing Microsoft's
2754s direct storage I don't think we have any
2756s plans to
2760s uh will Falconer use a falcon yeah
2771s the pain is there a way to turn off
2774s tutorials not yet but uh yeah that's
2776s that's something that needs to be put in
2778s so that's definitely on the list
2780s um
2782s just a list of like
2784s oh my goodness wow
2787s I just gotta blowed the up
2793s uh yeah it's it's on the list
2796s ice hockey player
2802s like two I'm a nice hockey player
2808s originally Health yeah let's do that why
2810s not
2812s uh do you guys planning on any more
2814s dungeons yep
2815s in relation to Bill bouncing do you
2819s design the systems first and let people
2820s come up with whatever including crazy op
2823s builds or to find the builds first and
2824s then tweak the systems to reach this
2826s elusive balance
2827s um I I think there's there's a more
2831s designing new skills
2835s there's definitely an element of hey
2837s this would be really good with that and
2839s hey uh you know like we're like let's
2842s put this node in this bill in this tree
2844s so that it like goes well with the seal
2845s that skill and kind of we'll sort of
2848s start to make we'll build in intentional
2851s Synergy I think it's a good way to put
2852s it that are designed to be played with
2854s certain other uh skills that we're like
2857s okay like there's probably a build in
2859s here that's like around this sort of
2860s stuff and
2862s um you know as it goes through through
2864s QA testing and and just like design
2866s development things like that there's you
2868s know other ideas like oh like I was
2870s playing this build and I'd I'd love to
2872s have this other function that goes in
2873s here to help with it and you know
2874s sometimes We'll add those in and there's
2876s it's it's a fairly fluid process uh we
2880s we try not to put hard like all right
2884s this node is for the this build and
2887s we're gonna we're gonna design like
2888s these 10 builds to go in this tree and
2891s we don't we don't really think of it
2892s that way it's more of like uh
2895s trying to design tools and let people
2897s create their own builds to go with it
2901s um
2903s I think there's there's usually a lot of
2906s room for
2908s variety that way and and players come up
2910s with some cool builds that we definitely
2912s didn't consider when we were initially
2913s designing things which is awesome
2917s um
2917s and uh sometimes we'll like react to
2920s builds that players have created by
2922s sometimes you know including
2923s intentionally new tools to go with it be
2925s like oh this is a really cool build but
2926s it's not quite clicking hey maybe we can
2929s add in some Synergy here that'll that'll
2931s help it out a little bit
2934s um or some or maybe sometimes there's
2937s like when we were designing something we
2938s were like hoping for a build that worked
2940s well in a certain way and it just never
2942s came together no one was playing it and
2943s we'll say like okay let's let's buff
2945s this type of mechanic up a little bit so
2947s that there's there's a little bit more
2949s help there
2951s I'll turn some of these off
2970s foreign
2973s [Music]
2978s yes
2981s um don't forget to add oh yeah
2984s um
2986s cool
2987s uh no I'm getting emails from ehg for
2990s logging on different IPS all the time oh
2995s that sucks
2997s um
2999s I I contact support contact support go
3001s just go to the
3002s um
3003s support page
3006s support.lassypugame.com
3007s and I think that's what it is I just
3009s Google support last Epoch every time I
3011s want to go to it
3012s uh and
3016s yeah it'll um
3018s some will be able to help you
3022s I don't know if we have I don't know if
3023s we have a way to fix that if anyone can
3025s help you first on the other end of that
3027s line we'll be able to
3031s because yeah that would be frustrating
3034s and you don't really want to like
3035s Blacklist
3037s uh the the official uh Epoch accounts uh
3040s Auto mailer because um
3043s you might miss something actually
3044s important right
3046s I guess you could like
3048s make a if you have if you're using uh
3050s like email client that has that can make
3053s rules which almost all of them do
3054s nowadays
3055s um you can like make a rule where if
3057s like the text includes
3059s suspicious IP logon but then if it
3061s actually I don't know
3065s workarounds contact support they'll be
3067s able to help you out better
3070s uh any items or mechanics you wanted to
3074s make but couldn't because reason
3076s uh I mean yeah tons
3080s uh
3085s um Diablo 2 corpse explosion we can't
3088s make that because reason
3093s that was that was a sad day when we
3095s realized we couldn't put that in
3104s uh no no other like really good examples
3106s come to mind off the top my head
3108s usually we find a way
3110s sometimes sometimes it just doesn't work
3114s okay where am I going
3119s uh so is it this way or this way I
3122s cannot remember
3123s so this way first
3125s I think it's to the right though
3129s see pretty quick
3135s am I gonna be wrong
3137s I hope I'm wrong
3138s well right and the way I went wrong in
3141s the
3142s never mind
3144s yeah we found
3145s um
3153s all right it's boss time
3157s it's boss time
3160s uh we have a request from Steam to show
3164s defense's characters information page
3167s oh oh
3168s um yeah happy to
3171s thanks again I'm sorry I I don't have
3174s the Steam Chat up I probably should
3177s um
3178s what's the best way to do that
3184s um
3185s what is the best way to do that
3190s when I would like open it and it's just
3192s gonna be crazy loud and echoey
3198s show chat okay that is the jankiest
3201s window ever for this
3204s is a way to like go right into this
3209s come on
3213s okay doing all sorts of awesome stuff
3216s huh look at you go bud thanks
3224s I appreciate that it's wonderful
3228s if I find a way to pop out a little
3230s screen of that I can possibly check both
3232s of them that would be tricky though I'm
3233s not that good at it yet
3235s hi Excel Enthusiast and long time Eve
3238s online player
3239s ah yes Eve online I have I have a few
3243s friends that play Eve online
3245s um and it's like it's one of those games
3247s that I want to love so much
3251s um that was a huge freelancer player
3254s um
3255s it's like the predecessor to
3258s um Star Citizen really and oh my God
3262s that game's great and Eve was just like
3263s it was so close to being what I was
3265s hoping for and just didn't quite fit the
3268s yeah anyways I'll keep reading sorry
3270s when nerfinger buffing skills how do you
3272s decide values by which to Nerf or buff
3274s them another small Indie Studio game
3277s that you may have heard of POV is
3279s notorious roughing significantly
3280s underperforming skills by minuscule
3282s amounts will you be able to avoid that
3286s I think there's
3288s um
3291s I I think it's really hard to evaluate
3296s um appropriate Buffs and nerves for
3298s abilities and and getting getting the
3300s specific like the right value for how
3302s much you're gonna buff a skill how much
3303s you're gonna Murphy skill getting that
3305s number just right is so difficult
3307s especially in a game where there's so
3310s many interconnected moving Parts
3312s um
3314s and I think I think that
3316s um one of the reasons why it's
3319s hahaha
3321s wasn't taking that fight seriously
3323s enough obviously I need to get some more
3326s void res before I go into there we'll do
3328s that I need to answer this question
3330s first properly though
3332s um I think one of the reasons why it's
3333s so difficult for
3335s um
3336s uh let me rephrase this answer actually
3338s I think one of the things that we have
3340s as an advantage as a tool in our tool
3343s belt for doing balancing is the fact
3345s that all of the skill trees are very
3348s isolated
3350s um so there's
3352s this node only affects
3355s work right this node does not affect
3359s um Fireball like on another class
3362s um and because we're so we're strongly
3364s typed and all of our skill trees are
3366s self-contained there's
3368s um it's a lot easier for us to uh to to
3373s make these changes and make these
3374s adjustments and
3376s um and not have it super adversely
3379s affect other skills have those like
3381s those knock-on effects are minimized
3383s because of this
3384s that does not mean we get it right every
3386s time at all
3388s um but I think it makes it easier for us
3390s so um
3392s and I like we're still very young as a
3395s company and as uh like live service
3398s model provider for for a big game like
3400s this and
3401s um we're still learning techniques and
3404s and ways to approach balancing and
3406s things like that so it's that that whole
3407s process just from our our our side of
3410s how we do things is evolving constantly
3413s um we we like to to take a uh a data
3418s supported approach not a data-driven
3420s approach
3421s um so having having data for things like
3425s okay these these 10 skills are the most
3428s played skills
3430s um
3430s is is good information but we we don't
3433s want to just take those 10 skills and
3435s say okay these are the 10 skills we're
3436s nerfing these are the 10 least played
3438s skills these are 10 skills we're buffing
3439s done and
3441s um you know like and I I appreciate
3443s that's almost probably not what you're
3445s suggesting here at all but um that's
3448s sort of the extreme example of a
3450s data-driven exclusively data-driven
3452s approach
3453s um and we we are still expanding the
3455s data we're collecting
3457s um we don't collect a ton of data right
3459s now on it a lot of it is
3462s um through like our feel like the
3464s designers the developers QA uh CTS uh
3468s player feedback everyone who's who's
3470s just playing how how it feels is sort of
3473s like the primary thing we do
3476s um and and we're still
3477s like the game's still in development all
3479s sorts of things so there's just a long
3481s way for us to go to get all these things
3482s squared away I want to say and um
3487s it's still evolving overall
3489s yeah
3491s let's let's let's go always always Vines
3495s why not right
3497s um
3498s got the call threshold there
3504s just okay we need more void res so we
3507s don't get bopped
3509s I know I lost a bunch of voidbers when I
3511s switched out my shield do I just put
3512s that back and call it a day void
3514s physical
3515s now good to go probably right
3519s or blockchain seeks a huge hit which
3521s isn't great
3523s um
3524s here do we go
3526s hey we don't do this cold res anymore do
3528s we
3530s not so much let's see if we can find
3532s some one slot void res
3536s I'm crying not so much
3539s it's a nice incredible no seven yeah
3540s okay let's find a void poison physical
3544s single slot
3547s uh
3553s so many of them
3559s go void res
3562s grab that
3578s come on
3580s oh
3587s dude
3593s it's quick
3599s there you go
3601s look at these ones so Fizz and Boyd and
3606s Boyd
3608s nice get us closer
3611s is that close enough
3613s I don't know
3615s who can be Fortune that's a real Ultras
3624s my Gear's too good
3627s but not good enough
3630s all right
3635s oh there's a ton of void right there we
3637s still walk there too yeah
3649s let's go another shot
3653s yeah I hope I hope that
3655s helped answer that question
3657s will you be able to avoid that I mean
3658s we're gonna try
3660s this is the answer there
3663s it's your best
3665s uh do you have specialized designer and
3668s developer developers working with just
3669s UI
3671s um no one works exclusively on one thing
3673s uh we do have someone who's primary
3677s uh design
3680s field is UI and he designs
3685s basically all the UI stuff
3687s um does a few other things too but
3689s that's his primary thing is UI designing
3691s um
3693s and then usually I I go in after and
3697s hook everything up get a bunch of
3699s wireframes and
3701s um
3702s you know this button make this button do
3704s that make that button do this let's talk
3706s that
3708s my goodness oh my goodness
3713s leave that potion going
3716s I do not need that
3719s all right
3721s shallow it
3723s actually got a question ready for this
3726s uh in terms of story could you spoil
3728s which era we'll see content in the
3729s future all of them I don't know
3732s goodness
3735s he's just like welcome to the slam
3739s come on and slam
3741s welcome to the slam yeah he just wants
3744s to
3746s wants to party
3749s yeah you you can do it guys I believe in
3751s you
3761s this is bad this is bad
3776s this is bad
3803s this is bad
3808s frenzy oh they're all close enough dang
3810s it
3819s that's what I'm talking about right
3820s there
3821s oh crit multi healthy on the Block void
3824s res oh
3826s I mean we kind of have to do that right
3829s so nice
3831s yeah
3833s okay
3837s yeah these are really useful for us
3839s unfortunately
3841s cool items though
3844s boom boom
3847s all right Bill Boom Boom sure
3857s uh what is a good way to get Smite Idol
3861s um
3862s basically you want to be
3865s doing as
3867s um
3869s figure out which Idol which idle slot it
3871s is okay which one it is
3873s um and then make sure you get the
3874s blessing whichever one of these has like
3877s the idol blessings and getting the right
3879s Idol blessing reward
3881s um
3882s and just doing as many idle timelines as
3884s you can uh keep an eye out for idle
3887s shrines
3888s um yeah it's about it's about volume
3892s drop volume uh I wonder if there's a
3897s is there in lightless Arbor
3901s I don't have any waypoints
3905s tragedy strikes come on buddy hey
3910s do we not have any of these dewy
3913s uh tragedy strikes
3916s this is why I couldn't do it before
3917s isn't it I have no way points in this
3919s character
3921s none
3923s we're tired
3926s we are tired but this does mean that I
3930s can take my void Reds off of here
3934s because we got our lovely void Reds
3940s that's what needs finishing off here
3943s Cold's not quite finished there we go
3945s cold
3947s um the chronic's not quite finished
3949s they're going to Chronic
3952s very cool
3953s pretty cool which other ones would be
3955s good to do
3958s that all res is nice we just go for a
3961s better all res
3962s it's an option
3968s uh do you plan to add monk type class or
3971s fist weapons in the future also while
3973s added can you explain Dev team's General
3975s opinion about new classes
3977s um Okay so
3979s there are some very clearly missing
3984s archetypes when it comes to uh to to
3987s classes and weapon types
3991s um and people who've done some digging
3994s in the like like scraping data from the
3997s game like in there have seen there are
4000s some weapon types that have ID numbers
4004s um which are not implemented in the game
4008s um
4010s and uh there are things that we
4014s want to have in the game and have very
4018s intentionally left them out so far
4022s some of the most of those types are
4025s fairly class defining uh weapon
4028s archetypes
4031s vague foreshadowing
4033s um as far as
4036s specifics for new classes
4039s um new classes be great a whole new base
4043s class with three masteries is a very
4045s large undertaking for us
4047s um and it is something that we would
4050s that will definitely consider post
4051s launch
4053s um
4054s we have designed the system to function
4056s with adding in fourth Mastery classes
4059s fairly easily as well
4062s um
4063s I don't mean that it would be an easy
4065s thing to put them in but just like
4066s there's we've designed it such that
4067s there aren't blockers for that like
4069s we've we've kept in when we've been
4071s designing the things we've put in so far
4072s we've been keeping in mind a potential
4074s fourth mastery
4076s and and most of the classes
4079s um we already have picked out sort of
4081s the four not not specifically the fourth
4084s Master we knew but like it's pretty
4086s likely it'll be that
4088s um one of them is that we already have
4090s it planned out specifically
4092s um but yeah so there's there's there are
4095s long-term plans for new classes and new
4098s master classes that we'd like to do
4100s um who knows when it'll happen who knows
4102s if it'll happen
4104s um at this point it's very much a just
4106s wouldn't it be cool if
4110s and wouldn't it be cool if
4113s you know
4118s all right moving right along
4121s [Music]
4130s I'm having trouble deciding between Mage
4132s or Sentinel which do you recommend
4135s um honestly like it's kind of a cop-out
4137s answer whichever one you find more
4140s interesting
4143s that's nice
4145s um whichever one you're like whichever
4147s one you find more exciting maybe
4148s whichever one you've
4150s um played more similar Styles in other
4153s games in the past and you had a real
4154s connection to
4156s um
4157s you know if you're if you want that
4161s Elemental focus spellsling and light
4163s armor type character spellcaster
4166s um possibly a spells to enhance melee
4168s you know go Mage if you are looking for
4171s more of a
4173s uh take your class uh like more
4176s traditional sword and board or possibly
4178s even some spells in there too you can go
4182s signal
4184s there's lots of other stuff in both of
4185s those as well
4188s there's no there's no real right answer
4190s unfortunately
4192s well actually it's it's actually really
4193s fortunate I think there's no right
4194s answer to that question but uh
4196s unfortunately for you right now there's
4198s no real right answer that question
4205s all right I know you guys are constantly
4208s hiring at the moment yeah we are I'm
4209s curious if there'd be a place for
4211s someone uh most the way through a
4213s computer science degree with only a
4216s little experience I'm super Keen to get
4217s into the game industry in a huge into
4219s arpgs and build customizations yeah I
4221s mean there's there's no harm in applying
4224s it's it's sort of always what I say
4225s about things like this
4226s um as far as
4228s um developers that we're looking for
4230s right now we're definitely looking for
4231s people with with um high amounts of
4233s experience
4234s um and specific specializations uh and I
4238s could be wrong so check the website
4240s careers page
4241s um because that has details and if if
4243s there's if there's one in there that
4245s speaks to you I mean
4247s you know there's there's no harm in
4248s applying really
4249s um
4252s I'm not super involved with the hiring
4255s process anymore it's been a long time
4256s since I've been involved in that
4259s um
4259s so I don't uh I don't have any Insider
4263s details to help you out with
4264s unfortunately I'm sorry
4266s um
4282s all right next question any thoughts to
4284s develop a twitch Overlook they have for
4286s Poe yeah we'd love to be great
4291s uh I don't really have the time for it
4294s right now so not yet but it would be
4297s pretty darn sweet and one day
4299s hope to be able to say oh yeah go here
4307s all right
4309s he died small time yeah I I don't have
4312s that many so I took one for free
4317s because I'm terrible
4324s won't do that again
4327s I respect artistic Vision in the extreme
4330s if after launch an extremely popular
4332s player requests
4334s if after launch a extremely popular
4337s player request would conflict against
4340s the vision of the game would there ever
4342s be a chance for compromise
4344s uh it can be frustrating for large
4346s game-changing patches that are the
4348s vision but negatively impact the player
4350s community
4351s I I mean so yeah there's
4354s um
4356s there's always room for discussion on
4357s things I think it's the the important
4359s thing
4360s um
4362s and
4367s I I think it would have to be
4371s yeah I I don't want to make any promises
4373s or broad sweeping statements or
4374s something like this I I think it would
4377s have to be
4379s I want to be careful here
4381s I think it would have to be a
4384s pretty dress if we're doing something
4388s that's like
4389s like a community-wide outcry of
4391s something wrong
4392s um
4396s and I think that's really hard to judge
4398s as well of like what's actually a
4400s community-wide outcry something wrong
4402s um
4404s because I think the vast majority of the
4406s community is completely silent
4408s um I could be wrong with that
4410s um
4412s but if there was that like yeah
4415s we we really I think one of the key
4418s things we try and
4420s put a lot of focus on is you know
4423s keeping the community involved with our
4425s decisions and how we're how we're
4426s building the game and
4428s [Music]
4428s um
4430s you know we we try and incorporate as
4432s much feedback as we can and and yes
4434s there are times where we look at
4435s feedback and go
4437s um
4438s yeah that's like there's a lot of people
4440s saying this one thing but you know we've
4442s we've tried it and we don't like the way
4443s it plays or you know we just like we've
4446s talked about it we just like don't agree
4449s or something like that and sometimes
4451s there's conflict there
4453s um but I'd like to Hope I I hope the
4455s conversation is always open
4457s um
4459s and it's really it's such a case-by-case
4461s thing
4463s um I'm trying to think of an example
4464s where we would just be like no uh and I
4467s can't think of anything
4470s um okay here's an example if the if the
4472s if the community is like like we want
4474s guns we want guns and we're like
4479s there's no guns in the universe no I am
4482s like
4485s but we'd still talk about it if there's
4486s that many people
4487s asking for it I don't know that's a real
4490s that's a really hard question to answer
4491s and I don't have a good answer for you
4493s I'm sorry
4494s um and it was kind of rambly
4496s I was thinking about it as I was
4498s answering it
4499s um
4506s yeah like
4509s I I don't think we are we I want to like
4511s make it clear that we're not
4513s guaranteeing that every majorly popular
4515s request will be uh implemented that
4519s that's not the case
4520s um but we do really try to
4524s you know use the feedback we get from
4527s our players to make the game better and
4532s um it's it's very rare that the feedback
4535s we like the wholesale disagree with the
4537s feedback
4539s um it's also I've never seen any piece
4541s of feedback that was universally
4543s accepted by or even like vast majority
4545s accepted I don't think like
4547s almost every time and and another
4550s interesting thing is that we get a lot
4552s of feedback from private channels where
4554s people like don't want to post publicly
4555s but they're like I saw this thing and I
4558s didn't want to post in the channel but I
4560s just wanted to tell you what I thought
4561s about it
4562s um we get a lot of emails like that
4565s which is totally cool
4567s um because you know we know that a lot
4569s of people want to have their voice heard
4570s but don't like posting publicly on
4571s forums and Discord things like that so
4574s you know totally totally okay
4577s um
4580s and I I think sometimes the
4584s uh sometimes you can get into a bit of
4587s an echo chamber situation where it seems
4589s like the feedback's a little more
4591s overwhelmingly one-sided than it is
4596s so there's some some dangers in there
4598s too but yeah
4601s but yeah I feel like I've gone
4602s completely off topic here
4604s we do
4606s pay very close attention to the feedback
4607s we get I think we've proven that
4609s um
4610s with with how we've been developing the
4612s game so far
4618s at the end of the day it's like it's
4620s it's the game where we're building and
4625s we've got to make decisions sometimes
4626s they're not easy
4636s I hope that was an okay answer
4640s if it wasn't please feel free to restate
4642s the question maybe a little different
4643s I'll try again
4648s uh I sent my answer I found some monster
4650s death packs from dead blog look nice
4652s more please yep don't worry every single
4655s Monster in the game is getting them
4656s updated or has had them updated already
4658s so
4665s yes
4666s uh does anybody get smart at all yeah
4669s you gotta find it
4671s all right is there anything you could
4673s get ideas for last Epoch in other games
4675s of the genre like on December or super
4678s fuse for instance yeah
4680s it might be hard to
4682s um
4685s to not lift ideas from other games
4687s because that's not exactly awesome to do
4693s um because those people work really hard
4694s on those games and
4696s um
4697s we we really try to just look at last
4700s epoc and design for last Epoch
4701s specifically
4703s um
4703s I think that pretty frequently people
4705s come with suggestions that are heavily
4707s influenced by other games
4709s um and and we
4711s tend to get in influence from other
4713s games more second hand like that I think
4716s um
4718s which is totally fine and um
4722s yeah so like we we also try to we kind
4726s of try and ignore
4727s towards the wrong word we play a lot of
4729s arpgs as as a development Studio a lot
4732s of us are that's like time off for like
4734s yeah it's gonna play some refugees you
4736s know
4737s um
4737s and and and that the influence from
4741s those RPGs seeps in like little bits
4744s here and there regardless So like
4746s um
4747s I like as a kid played a lot of
4750s enchantress in Diablo 2 like that was
4752s one of my even though it's terrible it
4753s was a fun build I just love to play
4755s um and because I love playing that so
4758s much when we were making the Mage
4759s um and it wasn't like a hard thing that
4761s I had to push for but like one of the
4763s things I was like I really want to make
4765s sure we get this in is a melee Mage
4767s playstyle as an option
4771s [Music]
4771s um
4773s so yeah like your experiences shaped the
4775s games you make for sure but we try and
4777s like let's just make last epoch
4780s and kind of ignore everything else if we
4782s can
4790s um do you feel that maybe set items are
4792s not getting in are getting not enough
4794s love
4796s because for example when I live in
4797s Diablo series I was getting sets that
4800s make a certain build just playable while
4801s changing the way it works certain skills
4804s um I think it's so uh
4806s um
4808s I I do I would agree that in general
4810s most sets are not in-game viable right
4813s now
4816s um I think it's really interesting you
4817s brought up Diablo 2 as an example of a
4819s good set item system
4822s um I would very strongly argue the exact
4825s opposite of that I think set items in
4827s Diablo 2 are almost entirely awful and
4830s the other is one of my favorite games of
4831s all time possibly number one but like
4836s there's like three sets that are useful
4839s total
4841s um a little bit more now that you can up
4842s them
4844s um and this is some shakeups that have
4845s happened but like let's take before d2r
4848s happened to
4850s um in a bubble and and uh there's like
4853s there's toe rashes
4855s and usually you're just three-piece in
4857s that
4858s uh like you you go neck chest belt
4863s that's about it like like eating avianas
4866s and like there's there's a couple other
4867s things you can do too like
4869s um ik is pretty good still not great but
4872s it's like it's good leveling pieces it's
4874s good like getting up there but like
4876s you're all basically every single set
4878s there's a stepping stone to the end game
4880s item builds
4882s um
4883s or like or it's used for magic find or
4885s it's like a one piece that's just like
4887s it's always good but there's always
4888s something better and like like ik boots
4891s are are really good and the gloves are
4893s really good but there's always something
4894s better
4895s and uh
4898s yeah I I I think
4901s um
4902s yeah
4904s I I I don't think double cheese if
4906s you're gonna if you're gonna pitch a set
4908s another game's implementation of set
4910s items as an example uh to emulate I do
4914s not think Diablo 2 is a good one to go
4915s for
4924s because I think they've got the exact
4925s same problems we do
4930s all right uh what do you pick to
4932s represent the company because you have
4933s the most majestic beard of the lot I
4935s love your game looking forward to
4936s everything you have in store for the
4938s community and this game in general no I
4940s think uh it was the only I was I was the
4942s one who's like I kind of want to do this
4943s can I do this and they're like I guess
4945s don't mess it up I'm like I won't
4949s um
4952s I've just been around forever that's all
4953s it is
4962s there's other people that do uh
4966s I did more high profile appearances as
4969s well so there's
4972s you know like
4975s producers
4977s other developers do that do some higher
4979s profile stuff but I do the weekly stuff
4980s here
4985s and thank you I do appreciate the uh
4988s the beard appreciation
4992s I'm quite pleased with it right now
4994s it's a good spot it's not like it's not
4997s been itchy lately which is so nice
5001s let's get good length
5008s all right uh have you guys played around
5011s with new Intel gpus I have not
5014s personally know
5015s um I'd be surprised if no one on the
5016s team has but not not specifically new
5021s oh my God I just saw someone that noted
5023s the void res buff I got I'm so far
5025s behind okay let's try and catch up a bit
5028s uh it was big scroll it's nice all right
5030s dual wield Shields when oh be nice
5032s wouldn't it not nothing yet sorry uh
5035s crossbows would be good compromise to
5037s guns one of the item types that's listed
5041s in the game files but is not implemented
5043s in any way
5044s crossbows
5047s how dare you insult all the guys science
5050s Lobby flexing
5052s okay I'm not that far behind yeah lovely
5056s ones you know it's good for leveling
5060s I'd love to do just like uh fully like
5063s double up to like Elite versions full
5066s Saigon set see if you can make a build
5068s work with that
5069s I love it
5073s I wasn't that far behind
5076s well I've actually caught up to all the
5078s questions that had me tagged in them so
5079s I bet there's a bunch of questions that
5080s had me not tagged
5082s sorry about that
5085s also I just picked up really quickly and
5087s if you saw this but there was um there
5089s were two
5090s of the same rare affix that dropped
5092s simultaneously
5094s um and that's the if when you see that
5096s happen especially with rare ones
5098s um that's the effect that
5100s um I've I've got some
5103s one of these things will say like
5105s uh prefix share dropper this was
5108s probably a prefix
5110s so eight percent rolled on and it drops
5112s two instead of of just one
5114s um and that's the that's the way we we
5117s force
5119s um
5120s that's the way we force more like
5123s increasing one thing not to reduce other
5125s things is that you just get more items
5127s total
5138s any plans some more casts on X buildings
5140s for warpath's been to win I mean not
5143s specifically for Warpath but not
5144s specifically not for Warpath either
5147s um I'm sure more things like that will
5149s show up there's lots of things triggered
5151s abilities are things people love
5154s um and and we're not shying away from it
5159s so there'll be more in general but
5160s nothing specific
5164s this totem's so ugly compared to the new
5166s one coming
5169s the new totems are so much better
5176s look at us is there any is there still
5177s goal for arena waves that
5179s builds should cap at I remember you guys
5182s used to say 300 before but the game has
5184s changed a lot and the game mode is
5186s really skill based as there is the
5188s vision for that changed
5190s um
5192s I I'd say
5195s it hasn't had much attention lately
5198s um Vision probably hasn't changed much
5200s uh part of part of why we liked the
5203s number 300 was that it's still it's it's
5205s quite high but it's not quite into the
5209s like
5211s heavy endurance range where you're not
5213s like
5215s I've had seven bathroom breaks in this
5217s run and I am exhausted and I had it's
5219s it's six a.m and I've been playing all
5221s night you know like like that's the type
5223s of of uh of push that we don't really
5227s want to
5229s um
5230s encourage
5234s uh a good night's sleep and going
5237s outside is is important for your body
5241s stay healthy
5246s as I drink crazy sugar-filled ginger ale
5260s um yeah I don't think it's I don't think
5262s it's had much of a reevaluation recently
5264s and I think it's due for one
5268s um
5269s but I don't think it's changed heavily
5273s oh that's been answered before but how
5276s are
5277s at the moment the feedback about
5279s multiplayer
5280s uh not meaning about bugs instead of
5283s more like if the gameplay per se add to
5286s the experience in challenges and item
5288s drops Etc so um
5291s first of all if you don't know uh item
5293s drops in multiplayer are instanced so
5295s you still just see your own item drop so
5298s nothing's changed there
5301s um as far as like multiplayer gameplay
5305s and how it feels all sort of stuff that
5307s that was the major focus of the first
5309s couple rounds of multiplayer testing we
5311s did was like we're like don't report
5313s bugs tell us how it feels
5316s and of course you get a bajillion bug
5318s reports which is great and we use those
5320s to fix the bugs but
5322s um you know like it's it's that that was
5324s the big part of our focus and that's
5326s what I was talking about earlier about
5326s getting like animations to line up
5328s properly and like do the effects feel
5330s good and there's a lot of little things
5332s that we're doing there still to improve
5334s that experience and I think overall the
5336s feedback for that like how smooth is the
5337s multiplayer
5339s um how is it fun to play with friends
5341s like is there nice interactions between
5343s skills and
5344s um
5345s are there interesting interesting things
5348s that show up because you're playing in a
5349s party instead of just playing on your
5350s own and and I think the general answer
5352s that is yeah it's it's great there's
5354s there's all sorts of new stuff that
5356s happens and
5358s um getting to play with your friends is
5359s fine and interesting and works great and
5360s all sort of stuff and
5362s um it was always room for improvement so
5364s we are improving those things based on
5365s the feedback we've been getting from
5366s people uh in the CT program and you know
5369s I think people are gonna be really happy
5371s with it
5373s um
5375s yeah
5378s I'm really happy with it
5384s which is all that matters really
5386s I'm just kidding
5388s um
5389s all right
5396s any plans to make Arena more run more
5399s worth to run currently it feels compared
5401s to epochs the rewards are kind of
5403s lacking
5405s um not specifically no but um
5408s if you want to get feedback like that on
5410s the books
5411s head on over to the forums and a button
5412s that just like pops up a thing head to
5414s the forums
5420s sorry if this has been answered but I
5422s haven't seen her to 0.9 when when it's
5424s ready
5426s oh yep when
5429s we have a set date for 0.9
5432s I'll like put it in the how about this
5434s and I can't just say this blanket
5436s statement for everyone that will join
5437s but when 0.9 has a date and I stream
5441s I'll put the date in the title of the
5443s Stream
5444s yeah
5446s yeah
5448s this is a cool it's a really cool
5451s uh
5453s Shield but I'm not I don't need it some
5457s believing it behind because I'm the
5459s worst
5463s all right
5467s uh but yeah as far as rewards in the
5469s arena It's tricky to to balance because
5475s it's really easy for
5483s um do you mean it's just become like
5484s stand in the center and hold two buttons
5486s for three hours and you know
5489s get a bunch of Rewards
5491s that sure was engaging gameplay uh so
5494s like we you know like
5498s I think ideally we'd like to push
5500s um generally monolith being a little bit
5503s more rewarding overall if we can I mean
5505s just like just a slight Edge just like a
5508s little bit better a model you know
5510s that's the goal
5518s I think ideally actually the way it
5520s would be is just like
5521s to get the most efficiency out of it
5523s you're trying different things and it's
5526s not any one thing
5534s right next question
5540s are you guys going to reach out to
5542s bigger streamers to play the game like
5543s maybe asthma gold
5547s um I'd be surprised if well I I I don't
5550s know I
5552s I know there's still people that we
5554s haven't specifically reached out to that
5555s we probably want to still
5557s um
5559s and
5561s I I know there's like there's like lots
5563s of us on the team have streamers that
5565s we've watched for years
5567s um and I've definitely got my like
5570s my like one wish list of a person that
5572s I'd love to get streaming with us
5574s I'm like
5575s if you ever if you ever did it'd be like
5577s yeah that's my goal
5580s you know like
5582s achievement unlocked yes got there
5585s but we haven't reached out to him yet so
5589s one day we will I hope
5596s uh I I I I would also like asthma gold
5599s that's not who I was talking about but
5601s like he's high on my list too for sure
5604s um
5605s there's lots there's lots of really
5606s great streamers out there
5608s um
5610s and like we it it was I gotta say just a
5613s side note it was a ton of fun getting to
5615s play with this and steel Mage
5617s um and like
5619s all the streamers I've got to to hang
5621s out with uh and talk to you and let the
5624s interviews we've done oh it's been so
5625s great to do
5627s what's this side lots of fun
5632s I'd love to do more I really I really
5635s hope we're
5636s able to like I don't know do more of
5639s that
5640s join other people on streams like when
5642s multiplayer gets gets going a little
5644s more
5645s sort of stuff
5647s that would be that'd be a lot of fun I'd
5649s love to do that
5651s um
5652s and not just not just uh people who are
5654s like huge from other games too but like
5657s I I'd love to do a stream with people
5659s who I haven't seen this game for forever
5661s in our community and stuff like that
5663s like
5663s yeah
5665s tons of fun
5668s let's go let's get uh
5670s public multiplayer beta going first
5675s those are the best when you can like
5677s play together on stream
5679s properly yeah
5686s uh have you considered a memory keys to
5689s always start from half your highest push
5691s on that character can be tedious at the
5693s moment if you're already clearing high
5694s content
5695s um yeah memory keys are
5698s are interesting part of the reason why
5700s they go back down is because
5704s um because your build can like save
5709s uh like like so your build can change
5711s and so if it was always the heist you've
5712s ever done on that character if you've
5714s like gone gone to a different build but
5715s maybe isn't as strong you can get stuck
5717s and not being able to do it
5723s uh also I like the endless Arena to be
5726s all about the latter as it's not for
5728s everyone and and yeah like it that is
5730s the primary focus of it right now and I
5732s do I do also want to say that
5735s um
5735s if we can sort of uh we don't know how
5739s we're gonna do it yet but if we can
5740s figure out a way to do it I'm getting
5742s more ladders more types of letters that
5744s aren't just for the arena and I think
5745s would be really cool
5747s I'd love to see some some more more
5750s types of ladders
5754s we can
5763s hello as someone who has played through
5765s the campaign two to three times not
5766s gotten too far into the end game or
5767s their plans to make campaign a bit more
5768s difficult it feels a bit like a walking
5771s simulator at times something crazy but
5773s feels like you're just walking through
5774s without much interaction if that's the
5776s right way to say yeah the um
5779s I think the campaign not including the
5782s last chapter is probably a little bit
5784s too easy for the most part it is
5787s designed a little bit as a like ease you
5789s into it a bit
5791s um we're trying to make dungeons sort of
5792s a way to help and speed that up and and
5795s and like a select your own difficulties
5797s type situation by using dungeons the
5799s early low-level dungeons aren't quite
5802s right for that yet
5804s um we need more dungeons as well to make
5805s that better and pop a little bit better
5808s um so yeah there's there's some things
5809s missing there we are also looking at
5811s especially the early
5813s um the early campaign zones uh they're
5816s just not quite up to the same quality
5817s standards or feature
5819s feature levels that the later ones later
5821s campaigns are and this goes back into
5823s the
5825s um
5826s improving the like the story
5827s presentation as well uh I think there's
5830s room to improve that whole experience
5831s yeah that's the sort of stuff we are
5833s looking at it I can't really share
5834s specific details as to what's going to
5836s happen but
5838s um
5839s you know all that's up for improvement
5843s I just like not found I don't know what
5845s it is but it's like I'm not finding
5847s exalted helmets right
5849s foreign
5866s ly than multiplayer they have fixed the
5868s armor issue where mods matter on
5870s equipment and means something
5873s to the gameplay feature
5877s have they fixed the armor issue or mods
5880s matter on equipment
5881s and mean something to the gameplay
5883s feature
5888s why do you understand the question I
5890s think I think what you're asking is
5893s um have we adjusted the Power Balance
5894s between skill trees and gear affixes
5898s I think that's what you're asking we
5899s haven't done any major changes to it yet
5902s um but we're still still on the list of
5904s things to look at as improvements that
5906s can be made
5907s with the itemization as a whole
5914s I hope when the squirrels get a bunch of
5916s bucks on them and they're just like
5917s these little colored balls flying around
5918s the map
5927s you're jumping to that Avalanche you
5929s know how you do it
5933s uh have you ever been asked a question
5935s so Random there are no point answer so
5939s you just smile
5941s uh so Random there's no point in
5943s answering that you so you just smile
5945s probably yeah
5960s all right oh yeah ask me to tag people
5965s where's that question
5971s do you expect multiplayer economy to be
5973s a big part of the game or is it more
5975s solo with Party play tact on
5978s um I I don't think it's either of those
5980s things
5981s um but the
5983s multiplayer economy is not a uh
5987s something that we're focusing on as a
5989s like a game mode to play
5992s um we don't want people to be
5996s um
5997s like the how did I wear this last time I
5999s say like people who are looking to a
6002s market system as a way to like play the
6005s market as a primary gameplay method are
6008s probably gonna be disappointed with the
6010s the the implementation that we've got
6013s ready
6015s um
6017s and it's it's something that still has
6019s to go through several stages of feedback
6020s and all that sort of stuff but like
6022s um
6024s if you
6028s if if your goal is to come in and
6031s treat the the trading market like a
6034s stock exchange and you know just like
6036s Buy sell to like accrue wealth and
6039s things like that that's that's not an
6041s experience we're gonna tailor to
6051s uh do you have more monolith Mission
6053s types coming in point nine oh more
6055s Mission types
6057s I don't know
6060s I don't know sorry
6062s do you certain multiple oh yeah I
6064s already answered that cool
6066s uh what kind of in-game system
6069s expansions are you planning you've
6071s mentioned Seasons might be a thing yes
6073s uh Cycles we're calling them are similar
6075s and more dungeons are given but what
6077s about what level of creativity is
6079s expected for endgame to come
6084s table here
6085s um
6086s I think the first uh the first few
6089s Cycles will
6091s probably this is very speculative
6095s but the first few seconds will probably
6097s be focused a little bit more on
6100s um expanding core systems and really
6103s really focusing on on things that are
6106s like
6107s like heavily integrated into the game
6109s systems as like key features and things
6112s like that and and expanding those to the
6114s features that are already in the game
6114s and
6116s um
6118s and and then then once once that's a
6120s little bit more solidified and you know
6123s future rich I I'd say like
6126s probably look more to
6128s a a little less obvious things to add in
6132s you want to say I'm like not really much
6135s information there but
6137s um
6137s I don't know what it's going to be but
6140s um
6141s yeah
6143s probably you
6145s there's not really a limit to what we're
6147s gonna put in
6149s um it's not gonna be like uh
6151s oh that's that's two that's too
6153s interesting can't put that in or
6156s anything like that
6157s um
6158s you know some someone comes up with a
6159s good idea for a cycle theme and we're
6162s like okay what just has to be in the
6164s game you know let's go for it
6174s there's there are lots of
6176s um
6177s like easy things we can do and um I
6181s think small things can have big impacts
6183s if we do them right and uh like even
6186s something as little is just like you say
6188s a new dungeon with a new reward type on
6189s it can have a pretty huge impact on on
6191s the overall gameplay
6193s um like case in point being when we
6195s added the first just the very first
6196s dungeon that added legendaries to the
6197s game a humongous impact
6207s it was actually really cool that
6208s happened when we did that but but uh
6209s like the day we did that
6212s um
6212s instantly there was there was just so
6216s many more posts on our subreddit about
6218s like check out this cool item I found
6220s and it was it was the day we ate we
6223s released legendary and that that type of
6225s post started showing up I was like yes
6227s there we go
6229s that's what I'm talking about
6239s I love those posts by the way
6242s just like a little oh we just had a
6244s torch on a one LP torch yeah look at
6246s that look at that
6250s let me go close then I read it here we
6252s go
6258s all right
6267s listen I'm sorry I have no idea what
6269s you're talking about
6274s oh hey Mike can you add a unique light
6277s beam to normal items the loop filter
6278s like we call it light beam would be
6279s awesome uh we do not have any plans for
6281s that at the moment
6283s um
6285s in general if you've got suggestions or
6287s ideas or requests please head on over to
6288s the forums to post those as you can get
6290s feedback and discussions going with
6292s other community members but with regards
6293s to this one I can tell you a big part of
6295s it is we want to avoid the ability to
6297s say like in the loot filter
6301s like show all items light beam and just
6304s be like bomb
6306s tight disco rave party here we go
6309s um
6312s there's a few other considerations too
6314s so it's it's not something we're
6316s planning at the moment it's not a hard
6317s no
6318s it's a maybe one day if we figure out a
6320s way to do it right it's possible maybe
6324s um for now no no sorry
6326s call it a soft now soft now
6330s uh hello any reason there is uh no one
6334s click button to reset the skillshare I'm
6336s assuming talk about passive trees
6338s um and there's
6343s it's still it's still sort of an ongoing
6345s debate if I should add one of those uh
6347s really and
6349s you know I'll I'll leave it at that I
6351s think
6352s hello multiplayer coming yes it is Ellie
6355s does a great thank you
6359s uh is there any talks about outfit
6361s transmit system yeah we've been talking
6362s about something like that
6365s I don't have any if I can share with it
6367s with you right now sorry uh are there
6371s any more crafting changes coming or is
6373s the process pretty set for the next few
6375s Cycles I mean the like the overall
6377s Mechanics for the crafting how it works
6379s now
6380s um I I I'd be something very very
6384s dramatic would have to show up as a like
6387s oh my God we we forgot this was a thing
6390s oh no oh no like something really big
6393s would have to show up for us to uh
6397s to change the core mechanics on how
6399s crafting works
6403s um as far as little things like maybe a
6404s dungeon shows up and the reward is like
6406s an extra Avenue for crafting or
6409s um
6410s or new glyphs or new runes coming in
6412s yeah that'll happen for sure
6415s um
6417s so like the overall crafting experience
6419s will change and shift and grow as the
6421s game does too but the the core like
6424s here we're gonna we're gonna take an
6425s item and we're gonna like bump up this
6428s one we're gonna bump up this one you
6430s know we've got some glyphs we got some
6431s runes you know that sort of stuff like
6433s that's
6434s that's in place uh something would have
6436s to be very
6438s very dramatically wrong for us to uh
6441s make changes there
6445s it's actually a pretty cool
6448s all that melee damage I found an LP
6450s version of this get slapped on it yeah
6454s oh yeah
6458s uh any plans for translating the game to
6460s other languages yes
6462s I do not know which languages yet I'm
6464s sorry
6466s um
6468s it is much later than I thought but you
6470s know what I started late so I'm gonna
6471s end late too
6473s um and I've got here's here's a little
6479s don't know what size it's gonna be oh I
6481s have no idea what it's gonna look like I
6482s hope it's right
6490s no it's not right
6498s sorry
6501s I did transform Center on screen and
6503s didn't send it on screen
6504s okay here we go
6510s wait I know how to I'm so good at this
6513s guys I know exactly how this all works
6525s there's a new VFX update for smite
6529s so this is
6533s green audio from this
6535s yeah it was really good I hope you can
6537s hear it
6540s they're freeze
6549s no audio looks like it froze
6552s oh
6565s yep that's definitely judgment you're
6567s right llama sorry
6572s I just replaced a video file named Smite
6575s and just forgot that it was judgment
6594s okay this is going terribly and I
6597s apologize and we're gonna try and just
6599s like play through VLC and see if it
6600s works better there
6604s I'm just gonna just gonna quickly do
6606s this one second I'll be right back
6620s here we go
6641s there we go
6647s show up the volume I'm sorry I closed it
6649s that's that's where that's that's how we
6651s got now unless it was terrible I'll
6653s bring it up again that was adequate I'm
6655s Gonna Leave It
6657s um
6658s so I really appreciate this opportunity
6660s to ask questions and see you Dev played
6661s the dawn game wow glad you're having fun
6664s that's what we're here for
6671s a few questions about ETA multiplayer
6673s when it's ready questions about uh new
6676s classes
6678s um they'll be 1.0 release not before
6681s it's new classes the three new Mastery
6683s classes will come with launch main
6685s launch
6691s oh get out of that
6696s hey Mike not sure if you've ever been
6698s asked this before
6700s but find out uh but did you ever work on
6702s any arpg before in your life before last
6705s Epoch this is the first day of which
6707s you've ever worked on yeah
6712s um
6719s yeah yeah the first one I ever worked on
6730s I think it's going pretty well so far
6731s though feels good
6734s I like to think it's doing well
6738s I try so hard to just ignore any numbers
6740s or anything like that and just like
6743s no make the game
6746s talk to people about it have fun
6749s those are the important things right
6756s and that way when numbers do come out
6758s it's like it's always a surprise so it
6760s doesn't really matter there and they
6761s feel good when they do
6768s welcome to the dark side
6772s hello hello let's go saying hello hi
6776s thanks for coming glad to have you here
6783s okay I think this is gonna be the last
6785s Echo here I was hoping to do a couple
6786s more
6789s didn't find a helmet I'm looking for
6791s this helmet oh
6793s need it it's this way
6811s foreign
6816s if people have
6819s requests for specific builds to play on
6822s stream
6823s be open I'd be open here in that for uh
6825s later if you head on over to
6828s Discord or
6830s anywhere and drop that down I'd be happy
6832s to maybe try something else out people
6834s have real
6835s anything they really want to see played
6837s next week
6842s so I'm gonna play your game two months
6843s ago and had a blast this doubling
6845s sorcerer a tad said the Mage didn't
6847s start
6849s uh Magic no magic Missile to start with
6851s yeah there's there's um I mean you can
6854s kind of make Fireball you can get like a
6856s magic missile-esque effect on Fireball
6858s pretty pretty well
6860s um
6862s that's as part of the trees you can kind
6864s of build it
6866s how do you feel a cycle will keep a
6868s player interested currently in other
6869s games the average player lifespan is a
6871s little over a month is their target goal
6873s for retention the team has in mind
6875s we've talked about some of those metrics
6878s I don't think there's anything specific
6880s that I can really share because I don't
6882s know what they are if we do have
6884s anything
6885s um
6887s I I think I just almost went right back
6889s in another one uh I think a lot of it is
6892s just it's just keeping you know adding
6894s as much new fun stuff as we can
6897s um
6898s yeah
6903s and that's the best way to do it just
6904s keep keep making the game better
6907s how do you know Boardman 20 or do you
6908s know Boardman 21 I mean I've never met
6911s him in person uh I've talked to him
6913s quite a few times uh through chat and uh
6916s voice chat a few times and you know been
6918s to his streams a few times and watched
6920s his videos but like so I I wouldn't say
6922s we know each other well
6924s um I know he's met up with a few other
6925s people on the team
6927s um yeah I know Boardman
6929s it's cool good
6931s uh last question uh if uh you like to
6936s see a classic Diablo 2 Frost orb stork
6939s how would you make that work is it
6941s doable yeah I can do frostwork uh Frozen
6943s orb is uh uh a node on volcanic orb and
6948s it works almost exactly the same way
6951s um yeah
6952s let's see how the Frozen orb
6954s together
6955s trying to do that for next week
6957s uh I held a ton of fun
6959s I hope you did too
6960s thanks for coming out I will be here
6963s same time same place next week
6967s um a little bit earlier in this week so
6968s it was late this week but
6970s um back answering my questions if I
6972s missed any questions if there was
6973s anything that you wanted to ask and I
6974s didn't get to you I skipped over or I
6976s just ran out of time please feel free to
6978s head on over to our Discord or forums or
6980s Reddit all sorts of places where people
6982s hanging out answering questions lots of
6983s people in the community can answer cool
6984s stuff too
6987s uh
6991s uh hope you have
6993s a great day there's uh there's a sweet
6995s podcast happening it started a couple
6997s minutes ago let's go getting picking up
6998s right now so we'll go say hi to that
7000s um
7002s I hope you all have a wonderful day
7021s we