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| 3s | good afternoon everybody and welcome |
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| 5s | back to another last Epoch Dev |
| 9s | stream as always I'm your host |
| 11s | Mike how's it going |
| 17s | everybody hello hello hello welcome to |
| 20s | the stream if this is your first time |
| 22s | here glad to have you with us as always |
| 23s | we stream for charity Tres above my |
| 25s | head I am one of the senior Developers |
| 28s | for 11 hour games working on last def |
| 30s | here we're going to play some lasty have |
| 32s | some fun if you have any questions |
| 35s | please feel free to ask them in the chat |
| 37s | about the game other stuff too if you |
| 39s | really want um put at last ebok game in |
| 43s | the question please and I'll mention |
| 44s | that again later as well just so I see |
| 46s | it pop up in my face |
| 53s | better oh yeah we were we were |
| 55s | struggling here weren't |
| 58s | we what a little fun |
| 66s | happy Friday oh my God it is Friday the |
| 68s | 13th I I hurt my back pretty severely |
| 72s | this morning and um the only reason I'm |
| 75s | able to stand right now is because of |
| 76s | some sweet sweet |
| 79s | Robo avoid taking that stuff like as |
| 82s | much as I can but |
| 89s | sometimes |
| 102s | give me that cast |
| 103s | [Music] |
| 113s | speed I've been I've been struggling a |
| 115s | little bit with um so as I've been |
| 118s | playing more and more run master |
| 121s | cuz we played a lot leading up to the |
| 122s | patch that's all we played but like this |
| 124s | build in particular is the first time I |
| 126s | really experienced this where I'm really |
| 128s | trying to get a and and this is |
| 130s | something that we're we're looking at |
| 131s | addressing um I'm really trying to get |
| 134s | that uh that cold fire fire um meteor |
| 138s | swarm whatever it's called I don't know |
| 140s | the names of the actual abilities I call |
| 142s | meteor swarm um ability as as like my |
| 145s | main damaging invocation that's like the |
| 147s | one I want to get |
| 151s | but I find sometimes that I don't |
| 153s | necessarily want it so I don't want to |
| 154s | lock it in all of the |
| 157s | time |
| 158s | but I do know sometimes that I'm going |
| 161s | to I'm going to try and get one I start |
| 163s | with the the cold and I try and get up |
| 166s | to two fire but sometimes I accient hit |
| 168s | a third fire ability like I hit flame |
| 170s | Ward that's a fire ability or I I go to |
| 172s | Dash and I and I lose that leading cold |
| 176s | room and I find myself popping off a |
| 179s | fireball and it's not the end of the |
| 180s | world world you know and you you go |
| 181s | about your day and and it's fine but I'd |
| 185s | love for that to be a way to |
| 188s | like um like once you get to three just |
| 190s | like stay at three or like um I mean I |
| 194s | know I know there there's ways to like |
| 195s | force |
| 197s | specific |
| 199s | um stuff as well but like I I don't know |
| 201s | there's I don't want to always force it |
| 203s | is is the problem for me right |
| 206s | now so i' I've seen some suggestions to |
| 209s | help help remedy things like that |
| 212s | recently um so I'm hoping we're going to |
| 214s | get that |
| 215s | in I just I literally just did |
| 230s | [Music] |
| 237s | it here we go I got a question and love |
| 240s | them |
| 243s | questions uh when the Discord rework was |
| 245s | happening I talked with Kane about the |
| 248s | asid's channel and why you guys opted |
| 250s | out of making it Forum based as well he |
| 252s | told me whatever Kane told you Trump's |
| 254s | whatever I'm going to tell |
| 256s | you oh let's turn those notifications |
| 261s | off two |
| 265s | hours |
| 269s | um |
| 279s | okay just work stuff you know no no big |
| 284s | deal |
| 286s | oh oh I felt that chuckle in my back |
| 289s | that was good all right the roback kick |
| 291s | in come on here we |
| 294s | go uh he told me it was because you guys |
| 297s | wanted to keep it more conversational as |
| 299s | such to me as such me and some others |
| 302s | have had a few kind of long- winded |
| 304s | conversations in there like the one |
| 306s | about tags for holor and stuff was just |
| 308s | wondering if it was fine or if it or if |
| 310s | we should refrain if you're going to |
| 311s | have if you're going to start to have a |
| 313s | conversation |
| 315s | um especially when there's pending like |
| 317s | with each other especially when there's |
| 320s | pending um questions in the Channel |
| 322s | please take that conversation somewhere |
| 324s | else |
| 326s | um just just just because it's I I can |
| 329s | be really cuz I can't keep an eye on the |
| 331s | channel 24/7 I TR I try my best to keep |
| 333s | um keep up to date with it as much as |
| 335s | possible but sometimes it's like 2 a.m. |
| 338s | and I'm like I'll do it in the morning |
| 341s | and then I show up in the morning and |
| 342s | there's |
| 343s | like a bunch of buried questions in a |
| 346s | conversation and it's a little tough for |
| 347s | me to catch up with that and questions |
| 349s | get lost and um I find that |
| 353s | frustrating so if possible I would |
| 355s | appreciate conversations happening in |
| 356s | another Channel um just so I can not |
| 360s | lose track of other conversation other |
| 368s | questions but if no one's messaging you |
| 370s | with like a direct warning it's not that |
| 372s | big of a |
| 383s | deal all right next |
| 385s | [Music] |
| 388s | question |
| 393s | I would love to have a way to keep it |
| 395s | always on two runes and never third |
| 397s | added for specific abilities yeah that's |
| 399s | that's |
| 400s | yes I agree with that too I think that's |
| 402s | another use case that's not quite well |
| 404s | supported yet um and it's actually |
| 406s | interesting in the development of the |
| 408s | Run Master we we toyed with the idea of |
| 410s | of you starting when you unlock rication |
| 413s | you just have two runes available and |
| 416s | and we may actually go to this at some |
| 417s | point and once you either some node or |
| 421s | some probably not an item probably a |
| 423s | node that you have to have to take in |
| 425s | order to get up to three |
| 427s | invocation |
| 430s | um |
| 434s | runes also other news I fixed my printer |
| 436s | two days ago yeah 3D printer um and so I |
| 441s | can finally print stuff again I'm very |
| 443s | excited um I'm going to play Magic |
| 446s | tonight and um |
| 450s | I've I've got a new deck that |
| 452s | uses |
| 453s | um the Monarch mechanic oh that was a |
| 457s | mistake and uh so I'm I printed a crown |
| 460s | to go take and uh put on my head it like |
| 463s | just finished like seconds before the |
| 465s | stream went live so I can't go get it |
| 470s | yet little bit of spaghetti on that prin |
| 473s | um it's the filament's fault not the |
| 478s | printer all |
| 482s | right uh will there be a roll Dodge |
| 487s | mechanic added this is some this is |
| 489s | something that gets brought up quite |
| 490s | frequently um it's it's something that |
| 493s | we've experimented with in the past um |
| 496s | it's not something we are going to |
| 498s | include at 1.0 I can say that for |
| 500s | certain |
| 502s | um depending on how the development of |
| 504s | the game goes um there there's it's not |
| 506s | off the table for longer term uh stuff |
| 510s | for us to to do and explore I think it's |
| 513s | it can be a lot of fun um and I think |
| 515s | the the really big upside for it in my |
| 517s | world is that it it opens up a lot of |
| 519s | things you can do in boss fight |
| 521s | mechanics |
| 523s | um because you can guarantee that |
| 525s | players have this reactive resource this |
| 528s | reactive fast move limited resource that |
| 531s | you can like um like oh if you don't use |
| 533s | it wisely you're going to be in trouble |
| 535s | or if you don't use it wisely you need |
| 536s | to have some other tool to do with this |
| 538s | deal with this as well um |
| 542s | and I I I I think I think it just |
| 545s | creates some cool stuff you can do with |
| 546s | it that that makes the the mechanics of |
| 549s | the fight more engaging |
| 552s | overall |
| 556s | um so yeah there's there's upsides there |
| 559s | downsides um you know it's you give that |
| 563s | level of Mobility to um every class and |
| 567s | it it takes away a little bit of the |
| 569s | identity of each class so like the the |
| 571s | the the one class that it makes a lot of |
| 573s | sense for like the most sense for is is |
| 576s | Rogue and and Rogue has shift which is a |
| 579s | very similar |
| 581s | ability you know and |
| 583s | and |
| 586s | um it it it kind of eats into that |
| 588s | identity I think Rogue has as this um as |
| 592s | as that type of character now now then |
| 593s | you can we we looked into doing all this |
| 595s | stuff and it may or may not come back |
| 597s | still but um definitely not for one |
| 599s | point .0 I can tell you that the |
| 602s | um like we we looked at having skill |
| 605s | trees for it as like a a a basically a |
| 607s | dedicated skill in your bar with like a |
| 609s | mini skill tree that goes with it or we |
| 611s | looked at having like um one Central |
| 614s | skill tree for the whole skill it's like |
| 616s | everyone has Dodge roll and Dodge roll |
| 617s | has a skill tree but then there's like |
| 619s | nodes on Dodge roll that are unique to |
| 621s | Rogue or there's like Rogue items or |
| 624s | like Rogue specific items that can |
| 626s | interact with Dodge roll that that give |
| 627s | it new special abilities and things like |
| 629s | that um and and so we we we we've |
| 632s | definitely gone down this Rabbit Hole |
| 633s | pretty hard and um there's a lot of |
| 635s | pluses to it there's a lot of |
| 636s | interesting stuff that can come out of |
| 637s | it it's it's just and we we' even |
| 640s | implemented and tried it a little bit it |
| 642s | just doesn't quite fit with what we want |
| 643s | to do um and so it's not something we're |
| 647s | we're we're putting in right now um I |
| 650s | really I don't want to close the door on |
| 651s | it but um I wouldn't expect |
| 658s | it |
| 660s | but I will say it's a good thing to make |
| 661s | a post about on the forums in the |
| 664s | suggestions section if you want it maybe |
| 666s | or or go find an existing post send it |
| 668s | some there and up of |
| 671s | them all right I'm hearing a particular |
| 674s | crash bandicut sound from playing Rune |
| 677s | Master by hearing things there was |
| 678s | possible the same sound pack from 1997 |
| 680s | was used I would be shocked if there was |
| 682s | a similar sound pack that was used |
| 684s | because the sounds are all custom |
| 687s | made um I mean maybe there's |
| 691s | like uh like an instrument or something |
| 694s | that's similar I don't |
| 701s | know I think it's one of those things |
| 702s | where it's just like coincidentally |
| 704s | really close and you have a strong |
| 705s | connection to the game so you hear it |
| 706s | and it triggers memories for |
| 709s | you which is very |
| 714s | cool health and damage oops I right |
| 717s | clicked so we're going |
| 721s | uh any news on adding more servers um I |
| 724s | mean we are I I think the I I don't |
| 727s | nothing I don't have anything special |
| 728s | I'm sorry I don't |
| 731s | know |
| 735s | um I I I know it's still a goal to have |
| 737s | better |
| 738s | coverage um I can at least say that but |
| 743s | I don't I don't have any details to |
| 744s | share right now I'm |
| 747s | sorry so I know you usually the like |
| 751s | better server question or like like um |
| 753s | better coverage question for servers |
| 754s | comes with it the um implication of |
| 757s | specific servers that you want to know |
| 759s | about um and I definitely don't know |
| 769s | that |
| 772s | ooo |
| 778s | juicy |
| 786s | oh what's |
| 791s | that oh El |
| 801s | cool okay where was |
| 804s | I I I I Sor I run the Ser thing I I know |
| 807s | there's there I know there are active |
| 808s | like ongo conversations about um like so |
| 812s | many aspects of our servers and it is a |
| 815s | very high priority for us so if it's not |
| 817s | up to what you're hoping for right now |
| 820s | we're very likely working on the |
| 821s | specific aspect of it um but we're |
| 823s | definitely working on the overall aspect |
| 825s | of it and uh we'll continue to work on |
| 827s | it because it's an extremely important |
| 829s | part of the entire game |
| 838s | experience |
| 846s | more |
| 848s | questions feel like Audrey 3 |
| 851s | questions |
| 856s | questions uh is the reason that none of |
| 859s | the Rogue skills that have the movement |
| 861s | tag also have the traversal T because it |
| 864s | make them share a cool down um basically |
| 866s | it's it's the uh there's sort of a a a a |
| 870s | judgment call we make on the |
| 872s | significance of the movement granted by |
| 874s | the ability to determine if it is a |
| 876s | traversal skill or |
| 877s | not so something that just has like a |
| 880s | slight hop associated with it like |
| 884s | um |
| 886s | uh RI the Riven ability dancing strikes |
| 891s | um it |
| 894s | um um I really hope it's not marsal it |
| 897s | shouldn't be |
| 898s | marsal um I don't think it |
| 900s | is uh mostly mostly just because it |
| 903s | doesn't go far enough it's not as it's |
| 905s | not like it's not in the same that line |
| 909s | there's there's like think of like |
| 910s | buckets of um movement quality and it's |
| 914s | it's to it's it's in a different bucket |
| 916s | than |
| 918s | um |
| 923s | teleport these both getting right no |
| 925s | just so okay physical how's our our |
| 929s | armor and physical resistance poo poo |
| 933s | garbage I mean do we have any foring |
| 935s | potential to work with right now five |
| 938s | 10 can we do anything just Health give |
| 942s | me |
| 944s | Health Elemental damage over time we |
| 946s | like |
| 947s | do it's not is that is this considered a |
| 953s | DOT no it is not a |
| 958s | DOT |
| 962s | what am I doing let's roll this let's |
| 966s | cast |
| 969s | this okay I I will not uh turn my nose |
| 973s | up at |
| 974s | that zero for what we |
| 988s | doing |
| 994s | okay not a ton of boost there but you |
| 995s | know just just a little little little |
| 998s | bump here and |
| 1001s | there I still don't think the physical |
| 1003s | we need we need more |
| 1006s | um yeah SEC CR chance |
| 1010s | perfect I think we need more phys |
| 1015s | res that's what I think we |
| 1017s | need |
| 1025s | when add apist |
| 1030s | class there's no plans to add one at the |
| 1038s | moment I mean the prime list has a lot |
| 1040s | there |
| 1042s | right I don't actually really know what |
| 1043s | that means I'm assuming it means |
| 1047s | bees |
| 1067s | is that what someone who tends to bees |
| 1068s | are called |
| 1073s | APS I'm really just going off the fact |
| 1075s | that certain city builders have Apiaries |
| 1077s | which are |
| 1079s | leg generate |
| 1082s | honey so could be horribly |
| 1085s | wrong uh why do some enemies out heal |
| 1088s | the main character sometimes in |
| 1090s | RPGs um was it supposed to teach the |
| 1092s | player besides run away or give up I |
| 1095s | know I can get more damage but that is |
| 1097s | not interesting to me it's a DPS check |
| 1099s | that randomly pops up otherwise you're |
| 1101s | fine um I mean we we try to put |
| 1104s | different types of defenses on different |
| 1106s | enemies um so we |
| 1110s | can cuz cuz like certain certain builds |
| 1113s | will uh will certain abilities certain |
| 1116s | tactics will will shine and falter |
| 1118s | against different types of defenses in |
| 1120s | general |
| 1121s | um and so we try to we try to mix things |
| 1124s | up so that you um e either you're you're |
| 1127s | you're like trying different |
| 1128s | tactics um or you're like having a more |
| 1132s | versatile build um you know to to to |
| 1136s | complete different challenges and and so |
| 1138s | it's I think it just comes down to that |
| 1139s | really it may have just been something |
| 1141s | that didn't work well with the builds |
| 1142s | you're playing maybe some other builds |
| 1143s | would would have been fine with that but |
| 1145s | have had a tougher time with other |
| 1146s | things I I'm not sure exactly |
| 1159s | um it's it's it's a similar line of like |
| 1162s | giving it giving it leech or giving it |
| 1165s | the ability to like I don't know pick up |
| 1168s | health potions and use them like just a |
| 1169s | different way of having a different uh |
| 1171s | defensive |
| 1193s | layer are there any cosmetics in the 1.0 |
| 1196s | there are if you're asking if there's |
| 1197s | new Cosmetics coming to at 1 .0 I |
| 1199s | believe there |
| 1201s | are yes I've seen a |
| 1207s | couple it looks |
| 1209s | sweet um also if you have a question for |
| 1212s | me please put it with at last game in |
| 1215s | the question and I will see it more |
| 1219s | likely um I do the first time chat |
| 1223s | bubbles do pop out enough and they're |
| 1224s | usually questions so I grab those D |
| 1227s | sometimes |
| 1229s | um will there be more introduction to |
| 1231s | party-wide Buffs or debuffs to use uh |
| 1234s | such as curse bot Lich or Orbot py |
| 1237s | possible another class uh for the party |
| 1241s | play um yeah we we |
| 1243s | put |
| 1245s | um we we put things like that in like |
| 1248s | like crit vulnerability in uh Rogue |
| 1251s | already has that um so yeah there's |
| 1253s | there's there's things like that that we |
| 1254s | pepper around um and I do know there are |
| 1257s | more of those coming |
| 1261s | I I think there's actually I |
| 1264s | think I leave it there's more of this |
| 1278s | coming uh if Le eventually comes to |
| 1280s | console is there possibility for it to |
| 1283s | be crossplatform or does that throw too |
| 1285s | many spanners in the works wrenches for |
| 1288s | all my North American |
| 1290s | friends |
| 1294s | um uh I I I don't know I don't know yet |
| 1297s | um I think that crossplay is something |
| 1300s | that we would definitely look into and |
| 1302s | uh would be a significant Plus for us if |
| 1305s | we |
| 1306s | can |
| 1309s | um my headset just turn up too high let |
| 1311s | me know how the audio balances for you |
| 1312s | guys |
| 1314s | um if if we can make it so that just |
| 1318s | everyone gets to play together and |
| 1320s | there's not any major problems there yes |
| 1323s | we'll do that |
| 1326s | um chances of there being at least some |
| 1329s | significant problems are almost |
| 1332s | inevitable |
| 1333s | um if those problems are going to be too |
| 1336s | big to to allow us to to do crossplay I |
| 1339s | don't know it remains to be seen just |
| 1341s | like a glass |
| 1345s | casket all right |
| 1349s | uh if I get you teleport goes the whole |
| 1351s | screen uh while Dash only goes like half |
| 1353s | the screen l no sorry I mean |
| 1356s | um like there's real movement abilities |
| 1360s | and um that that are traversal abilities |
| 1364s | and abilities that cause you to move a |
| 1366s | tiny bit that are not traversal |
| 1367s | abilities those are the two |
| 1377s | categories |
| 1381s | every ability that's primary function is |
| 1383s | to move you like flame rush or surge or |
| 1387s | teleport um on on the Mage and then like |
| 1390s | uh shift and shield rush and lunge and |
| 1394s | fury leap um and and and and and um |
| 1400s | those those are ult traversal abilities |
| 1401s | CU they're they're like primary function |
| 1404s | is |
| 1405s | movement and yeah you can spec them to |
| 1407s | be were the primary function not |
| 1408s | movement but like out of the gate |
| 1410s | default functionality primary is |
| 1411s | movement usually those are the traversal |
| 1413s | skills um or the abilities that get |
| 1417s | granted um a movement in that same |
| 1421s | category at that same |
| 1424s | scale like I think when you when you add |
| 1427s | descend to Smite it gets traversal |
| 1429s | because it's basically the same as |
| 1433s | teleport it may or may not cast |
| 1437s | teleport |
| 1448s | uh hey Mike will we see some gameplay of |
| 1452s | warlock or Falconer before 1.0 or can we |
| 1454s | eventually play with them before um I'm |
| 1456s | not 100% sure what's going to happen |
| 1458s | with that that roll out |
| 1460s | um the uh like the CT program is is |
| 1463s | still running and um like there there |
| 1466s | will be some early access to uh to those |
| 1469s | classes to the CT program |
| 1473s | um at at at some point I don't know when |
| 1476s | that'll be it might |
| 1478s | be a while |
| 1483s | still |
| 1484s | um I would say likely after we've like |
| 1488s | done the major like class reveal |
| 1491s | posts on um on our Forum where we like |
| 1494s | we lay out like the main mechanics of |
| 1497s | the class and like like some some some |
| 1499s | skill examples and things like that um I |
| 1503s | I might do I might do a very curated |
| 1506s | build um where like we pick one like |
| 1509s | abilities that are working particularly |
| 1511s | well and |
| 1515s | uh maybe do a little preview that way |
| 1517s | we'll |
| 1527s | see get me get get me Day N uh to to |
| 1531s | stream a reveal with me H |
| 1534s | H don't actually go harass him please |
| 1536s | that was |
| 1538s | just don't |
| 1542s | yeah he's busy |
| 1545s | enough all |
| 1548s | right uh I love how people refer to |
| 1551s | reroll an IT people uh prefer to roll on |
| 1554s | items mods uh in other RPGs as chaos the |
| 1557s | item oh refer as chaos I see what you're |
| 1559s | saying |
| 1564s | yes yeah it's it's it's not Poe |
| 1571s | chaos it kind of |
| 1587s | is I mean you get coins like that you |
| 1590s | get terms like that coined |
| 1593s | um it happens it happens a lot in um in |
| 1597s | Magic it happens a |
| 1598s | lot |
| 1601s | um like where where where an ability |
| 1603s | will get an effect or an ability like |
| 1606s | template will get coined by a very |
| 1607s | specific card um to the point where they |
| 1610s | like actually just sometimes take the |
| 1612s | name of that card and like the effect |
| 1615s | that it gave and just turn it into a |
| 1616s | like static named ability |
| 1626s | don't have a good example but I bet |
| 1627s | there's like I bet vigilance or |
| 1629s | something like that is like |
| 1635s | that unofficially fire |
| 1639s | breathing I should be able to come with |
| 1640s | better examples than that doesn't |
| 1643s | matter all |
| 1645s | right are there plans to add plus damage |
| 1649s | tab to player stat screen showing all |
| 1651s | the plus damage per type uh as is for |
| 1654s | increased damage um the I I don't know |
| 1658s | specifically what's going to be added to |
| 1660s | the character sheet we've been sort of |
| 1661s | talking about this vague idea of a |
| 1664s | character sheet rework for like three |
| 1666s | years now um and we keep we keep add |
| 1669s | every time we start working on it we |
| 1671s | keep adding things to the |
| 1672s | scope |
| 1674s | um eventually eventually that will |
| 1677s | happen |
| 1679s | um I I think that would be a good |
| 1680s | addition to |
| 1682s | it well there's |
| 1685s | some some interesting gloves right there |
| 1687s | not too |
| 1689s | shabby little LP on |
| 1693s | there when can we expect to shake up the |
| 1695s | monolith idland 1.0 1.1 1.2 um I don't |
| 1699s | know but I think of those three guesses |
| 1702s | your 1.2 guess is the best of the three |
| 1704s | of those |
| 1706s | guesses it's just a weird way of saying |
| 1710s | give it a |
| 1711s | bit uh right is the volatile zombie |
| 1715s | summons experimental ax functioning as |
| 1717s | intended a lot of people believe it's a |
| 1718s | bug I have no idea cuz I don't know what |
| 1721s | it says |
| 1723s | um if you think it's a bug please report |
| 1725s | it as a bug and we'll figure it |
| 1727s | out |
| 1734s | um what is it saying what is it |
| 1736s | doing |
| 1742s | I've had my head so buried in in Falcon |
| 1744s | and stuff |
| 1749s | lately let's go look for |
| 1759s | it experimental volatile zombie which |
| 1762s | what did you |
| 1763s | say there's two of them there's two of |
| 1767s | them |
| 1769s | uh is the volatile zombie summons |
| 1772s | experimental aex functioning properly oh |
| 1775s | that was not experimental volatile |
| 1777s | zombie on potion |
| 1784s | use I mean it should summon that many |
| 1787s | zombies when you use a |
| 1790s | potion um they should count towards your |
| 1792s | zombie summons like normal um if you |
| 1796s | have some node that for forces you to |
| 1798s | only one zombie it should only summon |
| 1800s | one zombie like your your tree should |
| 1802s | take effect and be included so any |
| 1804s | restrictions in the tree should apply |
| 1810s | still uh those are the things I would |
| 1812s | assume are possibly going wrong with |
| 1821s | it all right seems how you guys love |
| 1824s | passive trees so much we do that you |
| 1826s | give every skill one have you guys ever |
| 1829s | thought about giving one to the monolith |
| 1830s | of Fate yes we definitely |
| 1834s | have |
| 1836s | um I think that sounds like a fantastic |
| 1840s | cycle mechanic to me personally um |
| 1843s | socare I'm not saying that this is |
| 1845s | something we've talked about and will be |
| 1846s | a psych mechanic or anything like that |
| 1847s | what I'm just saying is that personally |
| 1848s | I think it's a good idea for a psych |
| 1850s | mechanic |
| 1852s | um the core functionality of the um |
| 1859s | of the monolith isn't going to be |
| 1860s | dramatically changing for 1.0 you're |
| 1862s | going to see basically with what's there |
| 1864s | is what's there for 1.0 um you know make |
| 1868s | improvements on things and um like make |
| 1872s | make small small quality fixes and |
| 1875s | changes and stuff like that but it's um |
| 1877s | core functionality is going to be 1 |
| 1879s | point out |
| 1880s | it's basically locked in |
| 1885s | um but after that oh baby do we got room |
| 1888s | for |
| 1894s | stuff and yeah I think that's a that's |
| 1896s | the sort of thing that I would be really |
| 1898s | cool to do in a |
| 1900s | cycle when warlock when it's |
| 1903s | ready I guess I can say 1.0 no |
| 1909s | 1.0 the Warlock the warlock's looking |
| 1911s | sick right now though that one's that |
| 1913s | one's mostly ready like the core um core |
| 1917s | stuff is ready ready still got lots of |
| 1919s | bug to fix thanks Justin doing a great |
| 1933s | job plus three |
| 1937s | Raptor always |
| 1939s | fun I really want to um R Raptor's been |
| 1943s | on my short list for a while of uh of of |
| 1947s | abilities I really want to take a deep |
| 1948s | dive into cuz there was a lot of things |
| 1951s | we tried to do with it and it just never |
| 1952s | quite found its place I think |
| 1958s | um and I think some of the uh |
| 1961s | improvements and changes we've made to |
| 1963s | ailments and how those work I think |
| 1965s | there's a lot of room in Raptor for some |
| 1968s | um some really nice updates there's |
| 1969s | there's lots of things that have to |
| 1970s | happen first cuz it's still pretty good |
| 1971s | but there's like I I I I just remember |
| 1974s | working on Raptor a bunch and there's a |
| 1975s | lot of nodes now that I'm like I would |
| 1977s | change that |
| 1987s | that my back does not feel |
| 1991s | awesome probably complain about it a few |
| 1994s | dozen more |
| 1996s | times rare enemies regen Health they |
| 1998s | won't live long enough to |
| 2003s | regenerate uh when are we getting a |
| 2006s | giant form like a 10 foot tall truid or |
| 2009s | something um there's |
| 2011s | a I'd say it's pretty unlikely I think |
| 2014s | if we were going to do a significant |
| 2016s | size change with a druid form probably |
| 2019s | would have seen it with |
| 2022s | bear |
| 2025s | um there's there's a lot of stuff that |
| 2028s | like assumes the player character is a |
| 2030s | really specific |
| 2031s | size um and so that's why that's why all |
| 2034s | the transforms are are pretty similar in |
| 2036s | size and all the player models model |
| 2037s | technically have the same collider you |
| 2039s | know it's it's there's just a lot of |
| 2041s | stuff that's um assumes the player is a |
| 2045s | specific size and Devi deviation from |
| 2048s | that uh can can cause |
| 2058s | problems that meteor Storm's so |
| 2065s | good he defin the job yeah he tried to |
| 2069s | get out of there but he couldn't |
| 2073s | run all right will trade be publicly |
| 2076s | tested before 1.0 launch I saw some |
| 2079s | discussion on it potentially messing up |
| 2081s | the game release if it came with 1.0 I |
| 2084s | mean I I I that discussion wasn't being |
| 2088s | had |
| 2089s | by |
| 2094s | um like people working on it cu |
| 2098s | were not been saying that I there |
| 2101s | there's there's always the chance any |
| 2102s | feature has causes issues you know |
| 2106s | um we are uh we are going to have people |
| 2111s | that do not work at ehg testing the Ade |
| 2115s | system before it goes live |
| 2118s | um there won't be a public patch that |
| 2122s | enables the bizarre pre 1.0 launch for |
| 2128s | just every single person who plays the |
| 2130s | game that that won't happen the the |
| 2132s | first time that just like you buy the |
| 2134s | game on Steam you download you install |
| 2136s | it you boot it up okay you can access |
| 2138s | the bizar the first time that'll happen |
| 2139s | is |
| 2147s | 1.0 so yes and no |
| 2150s | somehow uh will you be adding more Maps |
| 2152s | secret Areas or dungeons later on yes to |
| 2154s | all of that uh hey Mike do you think |
| 2156s | each you will ever develop your own game |
| 2159s | engine for the longevity of improving |
| 2160s | last Epoch or possible |
| 2162s | le2 and do you see any pros and cons |
| 2165s | with having your own game engine |
| 2166s | developed for last Eon um I think |
| 2171s | that |
| 2173s | um I think the chances of us developing |
| 2176s | our own engine are pretty small I think |
| 2178s | the chances of us developing our own |
| 2179s | engine specifically for use on last |
| 2181s | Epoch and converting it from Unity to |
| 2183s | that custom engine is way tinier |
| 2188s | um I I would I would be absolutely |
| 2193s | shocked if we ever moved last defo onto |
| 2195s | a new engine um I mean who knows right |
| 2199s | stuff could change the generally I I I |
| 2203s | could be wrong with this but I I feel |
| 2206s | the implication of um this being asked |
| 2210s | because of recent |
| 2213s | um stuff let's called Stuff happening um |
| 2217s | at at Unity um and I I guess the the the |
| 2222s | only thing I can say to that that is |
| 2224s | just hopefully in re insurance is that |
| 2226s | um none of it affects us in any way all |
| 2229s | all the stuff that's been happening |
| 2230s | we're completely unaffected by it in any |
| 2233s | way um at least directly affected by it |
| 2235s | there's I'm sure there's knock on stuff |
| 2237s | and um you know maybe down the line |
| 2240s | stuff but but right now it has had zero |
| 2243s | effect on us and will have zero effect |
| 2244s | on us going forward the version of unity |
| 2246s | we use is is |
| 2247s | unaffected |
| 2252s | um now future |
| 2255s | games I can't really comment too much on |
| 2258s | what engine we'd use in the future um |
| 2262s | but either either picking a different |
| 2264s | engine that already exists or developing |
| 2266s | another engine for games in the future |
| 2268s | is not impossible I'd say there's a much |
| 2270s | higher chance of that happening than |
| 2272s | ever using a different engine on last |
| 2274s | Dex specifically um so like hypothetic |
| 2277s | an le2 in I don't know what 10 years um |
| 2282s | yeah give me those keys all that chest |
| 2284s | was stacked and |
| 2286s | exalted I am not a man of many pockets |
| 2290s | no but I am a man of |
| 2292s | many crafting material slots I don't |
| 2299s | know it's probably up anyways uh yeah so |
| 2302s | I I hope that answered that whole |
| 2305s | question I think it did |
| 2310s | if not please feel free to submit a |
| 2312s | follow-up question it'll be answered in |
| 2314s | the order was |
| 2323s | received oh my back is |
| 2326s | hurting I am |
| 2335s | struggling okay back back on Old topic |
| 2337s | that we were just talking about uh on |
| 2339s | enemies out regenerating the player I |
| 2342s | meant more in other RPG games I find any |
| 2346s | I rarely find anything like it in |
| 2348s | Le but I see it all over in RPG games |
| 2353s | where at the moment it feels like |
| 2353s | there's nothing I could have done to |
| 2355s | beat the enemy besides run away or give |
| 2357s | her comeback my DPS is high enough if at |
| 2359s | appropriate |
| 2363s | levels like you're saying you see bosses |
| 2366s | out regening you in other games and are |
| 2369s | happy we don't do that in |
| 2371s | last is that what that |
| 2389s | said I mean we we do we definitely do |
| 2391s | use regen as a defensive tool for for |
| 2395s | enemies um it's usually not crazy |
| 2403s | powerful sorry I don't fully |
| 2405s | understand Mike and chat will you guys |
| 2408s | release a mobile version I mean I I hate |
| 2412s | saying hard no to anything |
| 2415s | um but if a phone wants to run last |
| 2418s | Epoch that phone's got to get a lot more |
| 2421s | power in it before it's going to be run |
| 2422s | in this |
| 2425s | game |
| 2431s | I mean I'd love to do a mobile version |
| 2433s | um we've no intention of doing a mobile |
| 2436s | version at |
| 2438s | all um I just the only the only part |
| 2441s | that intrigues me about it really is the |
| 2444s | um it I I I don't think that putting |
| 2448s | last Epoch specifically as a mobile game |
| 2450s | is a good idea I think mobile games |
| 2452s | should be developed as mobile games and |
| 2454s | non-mobile Games should be developed as |
| 2456s | non-mobile games I'm I know there are |
| 2458s | exceptions to this |
| 2461s | um uh and and I but I think that there's |
| 2467s | like not there's so many things that we |
| 2470s | do in last Epoch as it is that wouldn't |
| 2472s | translate well to a mobile environment I |
| 2474s | don't |
| 2475s | think um so I'm not really interested in |
| 2478s | taking last Epoch and putting it on |
| 2479s | mobile devices um but I am really |
| 2482s | interested by the prospect of what you |
| 2484s | can do with a mobile arpg I think |
| 2487s | there's lots of cool things you can do |
| 2488s | that you can't do with a a non-mobile |
| 2490s | one um I said that we have no plans to |
| 2493s | make any mobile games at all right now |
| 2497s | um who knows that could change we got |
| 2501s | hopefully we got a long time ahead of us |
| 2503s | here but |
| 2506s | um no no le |
| 2515s | mobile |
| 2524s | you know |
| 2526s | what I'm GNA I okay I'm G to put |
| 2529s | something up on screen to show you guys |
| 2531s | and I'm going to go get that cool thing |
| 2532s | I just mentioned be right |
| 2545s | back |
| 2586s | hello I'm back how's it |
| 2605s | going |
| 2620s | all right I think what I've learned is |
| 2621s | I'm going to have to print uh print this |
| 2623s | thing in two pieces and glue it |
| 2626s | together because my print bed is not as |
| 2628s | big as my |
| 2630s | head I think that's what we've |
| 2633s | learned still pretty |
| 2635s | cool |
| 2641s | I'm just so happy to have my printer |
| 2642s | back up and running again oh my |
| 2648s | goodness I put a new extruder new direct |
| 2651s | drive extruder on |
| 2652s | it oh it fixed all the problems I was |
| 2655s | having so I've got a ton of settings to |
| 2658s | work |
| 2662s | through all right thank you for |
| 2664s | indulging me |
| 2670s | I'm |
| 2672s | back uh let's try and find out where I |
| 2674s | was in |
| 2676s | chat started scrolling on |
| 2679s | me uh I think this is close I don't |
| 2682s | recognize do you have any favorite skill |
| 2685s | from another arpg that you'd like to |
| 2687s | bring to Le or that have already besides |
| 2690s | D2 stuff obviously you know me too well |
| 2695s | um |
| 2700s | nothing really particular comes to mind |
| 2702s | off of Just immediate |
| 2706s | um I mean so Grim Grim Dawn does have |
| 2710s | some some gun stuff that I think would |
| 2712s | be a lot of fun to bring in |
| 2717s | um that's that's where my thought went |
| 2719s | first I know we don't have any gun stuff |
| 2721s | at all and like we don't really have |
| 2723s | plans to add it but maybe eventually |
| 2724s | sort of thing um |
| 2728s | and this might be influenced by me uh |
| 2730s | working on Falcon right now as well |
| 2731s | which is like the closest thing we have |
| 2734s | to well Marksman as Rogue in general is |
| 2736s | the closest thing we have to a class |
| 2738s | where that style would fit |
| 2744s | nicely |
| 2752s | um he said no D2 so can I do D3 |
| 2758s | uh there's a lot there's a lot of Monk |
| 2759s | abilities that I really like the like |
| 2761s | um the |
| 2764s | Masters big fan of that the multimaster |
| 2767s | build whatever it was called I'm sure |
| 2768s | there's a proper name for it I'm just |
| 2770s | getting |
| 2774s | wrong oh there another one here I missed |
| 2776s | uh the Emperor of corps's fight is |
| 2778s | extremely broken oh |
| 2780s | no he gets uh when it comes to using a |
| 2783s | traversal skill they break immediately |
| 2785s | making them use usess to escape his AOE |
| 2787s | do you know if this will be fixed in 1.0 |
| 2789s | I have no information on the status of |
| 2791s | potential upcoming bug fixes I am |
| 2796s | sorry uh what is one of the higher T |
| 2798s | tier skills in Falcon it's pretty |
| 2801s | awesome is what it |
| 2803s | is uh when will the API become public I |
| 2807s | don't know um I know we're in sort of a |
| 2809s | like uh a trial phase for it right now |
| 2813s | um I actually didn't know it was being |
| 2814s | worked on and someone said that was like |
| 2816s | out and I was like what that's awesome |
| 2819s | um so right now it is uh limited to |
| 2822s | there's there's two people there two |
| 2824s | websites we've given access to the API |
| 2826s | um for now um this is this is not a |
| 2831s | permanent situation we do plan to give |
| 2834s | everyone the same access to it |
| 2839s | um |
| 2842s | and uh it's it's it's the reason it's uh |
| 2845s | rolled rolling out slowly is just so we |
| 2846s | have a chance to you know make sure |
| 2848s | things are uh working the way we expect |
| 2850s | them to you know that that there's no |
| 2852s | major problems with it that it's not |
| 2854s | going to cost us an arm and a leg and |
| 2855s | some sort of um some sort of extra fees |
| 2859s | that get incurred or something that we |
| 2860s | just didn't anticipate or so I don't |
| 2861s | know something there's like a whole |
| 2862s | bunch of stuff we're testing out right |
| 2863s | now with regards to that API system and |
| 2866s | um once once it's more well tested um by |
| 2872s | having other people use it and give us |
| 2873s | feedback on it |
| 2875s | um |
| 2878s | we'll uh we'll look at rolling it out on |
| 2880s | a wider scale I don't know when that's |
| 2881s | going to be I'm |
| 2889s | sorry would you sit still for a second |
| 2895s | please yeah use that channel ability you |
| 2898s | know you like |
| 2900s | it |
| 2905s | yes |
| 2906s | I am not a man of many |
| 2909s | pockets sounds so fed up with me on it I |
| 2913s | swear to God if you try and pick up one |
| 2915s | more thing I got to slap |
| 2919s | you dream Thorn that's too big to fit n |
| 2928s | Pockets uh how long will Cycles last and |
| 2932s | how many do you already have planned out |
| 2934s | um how long how long they last exactly |
| 2937s | will depend um quite a bit on feedback |
| 2940s | we get from doing them um it'll depend |
| 2943s | quite a bit on like what else is |
| 2945s | happening in the in the arpg space at |
| 2947s | that time like is there another game |
| 2949s | that's um that's going to come out uh |
| 2951s | with with one of their uh leagues or |
| 2953s | seasons and do we want to adjust things |
| 2955s | forward or back to um to avoid that type |
| 2958s | thing so like the the the the time for |
| 2962s | each will fluctuate a little bit here |
| 2963s | and there |
| 2964s | depending um um I think that they'll be |
| 2968s | roughly similar to what you expect from |
| 2971s | other games in the genre and what our |
| 2973s | patch Cadence has generally been so um |
| 2976s | it's it's I think those those numbers |
| 2978s | average out to roughly somewhere in the |
| 2981s | general range of 3ish to 4ish months is |
| 2986s | um hopefully that was non-committal |
| 2987s | enough because I don't know how long |
| 2988s | they're actually going to |
| 2989s | be |
| 2990s | [Music] |
| 2992s | um and and and that could change maybe |
| 2994s | we get a bunch of feedback that people |
| 2995s | are like we want we desperately want |
| 2996s | them to be six months or we desperately |
| 2998s | want tiny ones to be two months or we |
| 3000s | desperately want like one big one and |
| 3002s | one small one alternating or you know |
| 3003s | like there's all sorts of things that we |
| 3005s | can um we can we can do to adjust that |
| 3008s | and |
| 3009s | um how many do we already have planned |
| 3012s | out I know I've seen the plans for three |
| 3014s | of |
| 3015s | them |
| 3016s | [Music] |
| 3017s | um with like with like I've seen the |
| 3021s | plans |
| 3022s | for three specific ones um and I've seen |
| 3026s | plans for many more that were not like |
| 3028s | this is going to be 1.1 and this is |
| 3030s | going to be 1.2 type |
| 3041s | specific but I'm sure the people like |
| 3044s | those um higher level planning stuff |
| 3047s | happens oh my goodness I died high level |
| 3051s | planning stuff happens |
| 3053s | um without me as it should uh so I'm |
| 3056s | sure there's even more stuff that I |
| 3058s | don't know |
| 3062s | about that one was not meant to be |
| 3065s | apparently straight increased health is |
| 3067s | not awesome for us right |
| 3072s | now |
| 3076s | yeah |
| 3078s | yeah |
| 3084s | yeah Glyph of dominion is bugged versus |
| 3088s | Lon fight oh no do not seem damage B |
| 3091s | please submit your bug reports on the |
| 3093s | forums or using the in-game tool report |
| 3095s | a bug right |
| 3097s | here do you have any funny coding |
| 3100s | stories where bug was caused by |
| 3101s | something dumb me spelled or forgotten |
| 3103s | semicolon I mean these are the things |
| 3106s | you you try and forget uh I nothing |
| 3108s | comes to mind specifically but yes |
| 3114s | Lots um |
| 3118s | um the first time I here's here's here's |
| 3121s | one actually uh when we started out uh |
| 3125s | working on homing |
| 3127s | abilities like having St heat seek |
| 3129s | targets um I I I had accidentally put a |
| 3134s | negative somewhere that wasn't supposed |
| 3135s | to |
| 3136s | be um may have been someone else I think |
| 3139s | it was me I think one of us had put an |
| 3140s | negative somewhere that wasn't supposed |
| 3141s | to be and so he was actually doing the |
| 3144s | like so you say like home in at Power |
| 3146s | four and so it's like we the the Homing |
| 3149s | has like a a range that it works at and |
| 3151s | U like the power that it works at at |
| 3153s | that range and it like scales based on |
| 3155s | how close it is all that sort stuff but |
| 3157s | um so it |
| 3158s | would because there there was a negative |
| 3161s | number there it would instead of like |
| 3162s | turning towards an enemy it would turn |
| 3163s | away from the enemies um so we started |
| 3167s | setting up like obstacle courses where |
| 3171s | there'd be like a dummy here a dummy |
| 3173s | here a dummy here a dummy here and then |
| 3177s | you'd like um you you you you You' stand |
| 3181s | here woo that's me and you shoot a |
| 3184s | fireball this way um and you try and you |
| 3187s | try and like find a way to like get it |
| 3189s | to go through the obstacle course |
| 3192s | without hitting anything because it was |
| 3194s | it would repel from stuff so you'd like |
| 3196s | shoot the fireball here and it would |
| 3197s | like come out this way cuz it go around |
| 3199s | that one and it would come this way go |
| 3200s | around that one you'd like try and like |
| 3202s | get it to go through the course I'm |
| 3205s | dying right now I can feel |
| 3209s | it |
| 3212s | um with without hitting |
| 3224s | anything pick it |
| 3227s | up um that's the coolest one I can think |
| 3233s | of uh will all skill have a skill tree |
| 3236s | in 1.0 specifically Healing Hands I did |
| 3239s | see something about healing hands on |
| 3242s | a like if we got time it needs to it was |
| 3247s | the first thing after Falconer and |
| 3250s | warlock to go for 1.0 for skills |
| 3254s | um so that everything had a |
| 3259s | um so that everything had a um a skill |
| 3263s | tree so we're we're we we we definitely |
| 3266s | want to I don't know if it's going to |
| 3267s | make it or not I hope it does I think it |
| 3281s | will uh any plans in allowing upgrade |
| 3284s | lower level item bases that have |
| 3286s | favorable implicits for our builds so |
| 3288s | they can keep up with higher level bases |
| 3291s | um generally so um we we have no plans |
| 3294s | at this time to do that that um |
| 3297s | generally this gets uh is is talking |
| 3299s | about unique items usually is the is the |
| 3301s | question there but not always |
| 3303s | um I I think this is a cool if um if I |
| 3308s | was going to be in a design meeting |
| 3309s | about discussing doing something like |
| 3310s | this I would probably pitch that it |
| 3312s | should be a reward for a |
| 3322s | dungeon um but quite often so unique |
| 3325s | items in particular uh frequently part |
| 3328s | of how we balance the |
| 3330s | item um is the base that's chosen for it |
| 3334s | um sometimes that base item is kind of |
| 3336s | intrinsic to how that item functions or |
| 3340s | um the thematics behind that item so |
| 3342s | like the unique items in particular we |
| 3344s | take we take pretty bit pretty large |
| 3346s | amount of care in picking the right base |
| 3348s | item for it um so it's upgrading That |
| 3352s | Base item can cause some confusing |
| 3355s | situations I think in certain situ in |
| 3357s | certain cases um so I think would be |
| 3360s | hesitant to allow that um upgrading the |
| 3363s | base on like an exalted item or |
| 3365s | something like that that basically the |
| 3367s | base is um it's it's randomly generated |
| 3370s | is definitely less problematic there |
| 3375s | um and uh you also it also doesn't break |
| 3379s | the convention of not being able to |
| 3380s | craft un unique |
| 3384s | items |
| 3391s | [Music] |
| 3393s | any plans to improve the improve on the |
| 3396s | engine yeah we do it all the time I |
| 3398s | makes my PC run rather hot even compared |
| 3401s | to something like cyber Punk Steam |
| 3402s | Reviews also mention engine problems |
| 3404s | quite often yeah I don't |
| 3408s | um I think that probably almost every |
| 3413s | single one of those reviews that mention |
| 3415s | it are |
| 3418s | um kind of misunderstanding the problem |
| 3420s | but have a valid |
| 3422s | concern |
| 3427s | um I I don't think it's specifically the |
| 3430s | engine um causing the majority of those |
| 3440s | problems uh I'm happy rare monsters |
| 3443s | don't out regen the player in e but |
| 3445s | wanted to a de perspective on other args |
| 3450s | oh having uh having out regening rare |
| 3452s | monsters for lower damage characters um |
| 3455s | I think it's fine I think it's I for all |
| 3459s | the reasons I said that we use it in our |
| 3461s | game I think it's fine I think it's |
| 3465s | um uh it's just it's another way of just |
| 3468s | having that difficulty go up |
| 3472s | um and like if if there was an enemy |
| 3476s | like like I guess try try and flip it a |
| 3478s | little bit and see how it feels um say |
| 3481s | that there's an enemy that has an attack |
| 3484s | that deals a th000 |
| 3486s | damage um it doesn't matter how much |
| 3489s | defenses you have doesn't matter |
| 3491s | anything it always subtracts a th000 |
| 3493s | damage from your health pool no matter |
| 3495s | what zero exceptions um and your |
| 3499s | character only has 500 health you will |
| 3502s | die as soon as this thing engages with |
| 3504s | you and just take away a th000 health |
| 3506s | from you you go to zero and you die no |
| 3507s | matter what um |
| 3511s | and um okay as this is like an extreme |
| 3514s | contrived example and it's not very |
| 3515s | interesting y yada y but um I I think |
| 3517s | it's kind of the other half of the same |
| 3519s | coin where it's like that's a defense |
| 3521s | check instead of a DPS check but um you |
| 3525s | know it's it's at some point the like |
| 3528s | the enemies have to get harder in order |
| 3529s | for you to feel uh a character |
| 3533s | advancement with uh relative to the rest |
| 3536s | of the world that that your character is |
| 3538s | is is existing |
| 3540s | in um so I don't think it's unreasonable |
| 3543s | to have uh situations where sort of |
| 3547s | minimum uh damage numbers are needed to |
| 3551s | to |
| 3551s | progress um and whether that's done |
| 3555s | through um and like you you can do that |
| 3558s | a lot of different ways you can do that |
| 3559s | with like an an enraged timer it's the |
| 3560s | same thing really |
| 3564s | um |
| 3566s | it's just a little more obvious because |
| 3568s | it comes to a head very quickly um but |
| 3571s | yeah I think I think it's the same thing |
| 3573s | as in a rage timer really yes like when |
| 3574s | you when you get down to |
| 3580s | it I'm I'm not saying you should uh |
| 3583s | intentionally put people in situations |
| 3586s | where they have no hope of being |
| 3588s | successful um but I think if if a player |
| 3593s | uh maybe like |
| 3596s | uh skips ahead to a point where their |
| 3598s | character is not ready for whatever the |
| 3600s | challenge they're being presented with |
| 3601s | is I I think it's fine if um if if that |
| 3606s | like reason that it's too difficult is |
| 3609s | because regen is too high I think that's |
| 3610s | a fine reason for it to be too |
| 3615s | difficult mostly because that is |
| 3617s | something you |
| 3618s | can um train your character to um to |
| 3624s | overcome |
| 3629s | like oh my Fireball is not strong enough |
| 3631s | to defeat this enemy okay let me go get |
| 3634s | a better |
| 3636s | Fireball that's like that's the charact |
| 3638s | it's a very very very simple version of |
| 3640s | the the character story arc of |
| 3643s | overcoming this |
| 3650s | challenge is an ascended master ball I |
| 3653s | don't know what that means but I love |
| 3655s | love |
| 3659s | it I'll take |
| 3664s | it saavs I've always thought Wario had |
| 3666s | good taste and |
| 3681s | underwear for everyone who is uh |
| 3684s | possibly confused by what I just said |
| 3686s | here is an upside down master |
| 3699s | ball uh all right what is |
| 3703s | the uh that is one oddl looking Falcon |
| 3706s | oh oh oh my God we're that far behind |
| 3709s | still oh |
| 3713s | a |
| 3722s | thank you |
| 3725s | someone oh that hurt |
| 3730s | okay Ma just seized up there a little |
| 3733s | all right thank you gayb very much he |
| 3735s | get S quin69 Ah that's |
| 3737s | great awesome thank you very |
| 3741s | much welcome |
| 3743s | Quinn |
| 3750s | gretings I have a feeling he's probably |
| 3752s | not actually here but that's |
| 3760s | okay okay random aside here and I hope |
| 3763s | there's enough people here that are as |
| 3764s | big a nerds as I am actually let me |
| 3766s | strike that who are way bigger nerds |
| 3767s | than I am in the best possible way um |
| 3770s | that can help me answer this question uh |
| 3772s | there was an episode of Loki that came |
| 3775s | out recently and I'm just I'm no Major |
| 3777s | Spoilers here but there's a character |
| 3779s | called Brad |
| 3781s | wolf and I'm wondering if that's a |
| 3784s | reference |
| 3786s | to um to Doctor Who or not with bad |
| 3791s | wolf or or if the timing of this |
| 3794s | character is just like this character |
| 3795s | came out U 80 years ago Mike in a comic |
| 3798s | and you're just wrong um or if it's just |
| 3801s | a coincidence so if anyone knows uh I'm |
| 3804s | very interested to know if Brad wolf is |
| 3806s | a bad wolf reference or |
| 3810s | not I haven't even watched that whole |
| 3812s | episode I just I saw the like the very |
| 3815s | few seconds of it and |
| 3817s | uh or maybe a minute of it or something |
| 3819s | and saw that like |
| 3833s | ah I'm very early on my doctor who |
| 3836s | Journey as |
| 3842s | well all |
| 3846s | right uh what is the life cycle of the |
| 3850s | last Epoch are you planning to finish |
| 3851s | the game and move on to other projects |
| 3853s | no or is it a long project with lots of |
| 3855s | updates like pee thank you absolutely a |
| 3857s | long project with lots of updates for |
| 3859s | many years um the line I always say is |
| 3862s | um I hope if I'm doing this in years I |
| 3865s | will be |
| 3869s | ecstatic and every time I say it the |
| 3871s | timer |
| 3877s | restarts got stop making myself laugh uh |
| 3880s | how do we know it's not Mike's clone now |
| 3883s | because my back hurts my clone's back |
| 3885s | would not hurt this |
| 3888s | much uh please no guns no guns we're not |
| 3891s | planning on guns right |
| 3893s | now |
| 3898s | is something spawning did I ruin |
| 3903s | this there's some enemy |
| 3906s | somewhere and it's right here and I are |
| 3908s | Dum Dum and it's |
| 3917s | okay oh God get out |
| 3920s | [Laughter] |
| 3923s | there |
| 3936s | give me that extra regen I just got that |
| 3938s | that Mana |
| 3940s | regen see that come in handy all right |
| 3943s | another question will I run around the |
| 3945s | outside uh I wish Le gon sounded less |
| 3948s | mocking and Goofy when trying to be |
| 3950s | menacing and more eldrich mysteriously |
| 3953s | scary |
| 3955s | um like oh |
| 3959s | no oh I don't know that name but I feel |
| 3961s | like I should like haros MOA from Elder |
| 3966s | Scrolls I should definitely know what |
| 3967s | that is uh I felt more intimidated by |
| 3970s | him before I met him as he seemed |
| 3972s | uncaring to his people yet super |
| 3974s | powerful uh he sounds like a |
| 3976s | condescending Manchild with is that the |
| 3979s | best you can do it hurts no less with |
| 3981s | the 10th time he says it |
| 3985s | um I'd really like to |
| 3987s | see uh context specific I I I don't know |
| 3991s | if um oh there's no question here it's |
| 3994s | just a comment cool I agree with your |
| 3996s | with your with your desire I personally |
| 3998s | really hope that there is some um |
| 4001s | context specific lines that we we add in |
| 4004s | that's that's one thing I really want is |
| 4005s | a context specific voice line system for |
| 4007s | bosses and and enemies too but most most |
| 4010s | importantly for bosses like um like oh |
| 4013s | it just got crit and it says a line when |
| 4015s | it gets crit or um it does a hit to you |
| 4018s | that's like particularly damaging and |
| 4020s | you like almost die and was like almost |
| 4022s | had you there or something like that um |
| 4025s | uh and and and having context specific |
| 4027s | lines for like specific triggers that |
| 4030s | can like only happen once in the fight |
| 4032s | um so like sometimes maybe they don't |
| 4033s | happen if that trigger never happens um |
| 4035s | or maybe they can happen like only once |
| 4036s | every like three minutes in the fights |
| 4039s | like if it goes long enough um you can |
| 4041s | hear it a second time but like you know |
| 4043s | you know I think that there the I think |
| 4045s | there's a lot of room for some cool |
| 4046s | stuff to happen there |
| 4048s | um it's a little outside the 1.0 scope |
| 4051s | though |
| 4053s | unfortunately are you planning paid |
| 4055s | Seasons like D4 or free ones like Poe |
| 4057s | without a season or without a season the |
| 4061s | so we're doing we're doing our own thing |
| 4062s | we're calling them Cycles they they will |
| 4064s | most |
| 4065s | similarly um resemble path of Exiles |
| 4069s | Seasons or leagues sorry um peee leagues |
| 4071s | will be the closest thing to last defox |
| 4074s | CES they won't be exactly the same um |
| 4078s | Poe is incredibly good at cranking out |
| 4081s | cohesive content with a a storyline and |
| 4084s | tons of amazing artwork and all this |
| 4086s | stuff so the scale of a Poe League will |
| 4089s | definitely be um greater especially |
| 4092s | initially than the ones we can we can |
| 4094s | deliver on probably um but that's all |
| 4097s | the sort of stuff that we're going to |
| 4098s | like we're we're taking a lot of steps |
| 4100s | now that will have very positive |
| 4102s | cascading effects as we go on |
| 4106s | um and get us in a situation where where |
| 4108s | we'll be able to to deliver very |
| 4111s | frequent really awesome updates um |
| 4114s | that'll be a little bit juicier than |
| 4115s | what we can do initially at least um |
| 4118s | also on top of that there's a lot of |
| 4119s | things that are um that are coming in |
| 4122s | early cycles that are that are kind of |
| 4127s | um more I guess core to the game itself |
| 4132s | than sometimes you see in |
| 4134s | leagues |
| 4138s | um like for example the item factions or |
| 4143s | the falconer the Warlock you know these |
| 4145s | things are not |
| 4147s | really |
| 4149s | um they're kind of different to what |
| 4150s | you'd see in most leagues or |
| 4153s | Seasons |
| 4155s | um and you know like there there systems |
| 4159s | that we plan |
| 4160s | to that we always plan to have be part |
| 4163s | of the the core game going forward and |
| 4166s | not be um something that you |
| 4168s | conditionally interact with so the the |
| 4170s | first few are more ubiquitous content at |
| 4174s | least um and then we'll start to Branch |
| 4175s | out into |
| 4178s | um I guess |
| 4183s | more self-contained experiences it's not |
| 4186s | a bad way to put it |
| 4190s | yeah and and another thing I want to |
| 4192s | mention about this is that that all of |
| 4194s | the um all the stuff we're going to do |
| 4196s | with how we're releasing cycles and how |
| 4198s | we're going to be delivering on that |
| 4199s | content um it's very much subject to |
| 4202s | change based on feedback as as is |
| 4204s | basically everything else we do |
| 4206s | um we we really try and listen to what's |
| 4210s | going on and how we can improve based on |
| 4212s | that feedback |
| 4214s | um our favorite feedback comes in the |
| 4216s | form of when X happens I feel |
| 4223s | why |
| 4229s | just in case anyone's wondering no no |
| 4245s | reason uh does last Epoch use any type |
| 4247s | of smart loot system can you explain the |
| 4249s | loot philosophy being uh being last deck |
| 4251s | yes there are te technically so |
| 4255s | uh I would say ve extremely light smart |
| 4258s | loot systems are used um for |
| 4263s | example |
| 4265s | um a helmet chest and Relic the random |
| 4270s | drop items for that be it normal magic |
| 4273s | rare |
| 4275s | exalted uh items for for those |
| 4277s | categories |
| 4279s | all um all are class |
| 4282s | specific um |
| 4285s | so when a when a when a like a normal |
| 4287s | helmet drops there's it's something like |
| 4289s | a 99% or 98% chance I don't know what |
| 4292s | the actal number is it's it's an |
| 4294s | extremely high chance that it's going to |
| 4295s | be an item that your class can use um so |
| 4301s | if you're looking for normal magic rare |
| 4303s | or exalted helmet chest or Relic pieces |
| 4307s | it's of of for a specific class you'll |
| 4311s | find way more of them on that class um |
| 4314s | that's the extent of the smart loot |
| 4315s | that's it the smart loot does not affect |
| 4319s | um it's not it's not even smart loot |
| 4322s | it's just not dumb loot um the the it |
| 4326s | doesn't affect what uniques drop it |
| 4328s | doesn't affect what shards drop it |
| 4331s | doesn't affect |
| 4334s | um like the skills you're playing |
| 4336s | doesn't affect it |
| 4340s | um uh yeah like nothing else it's it's |
| 4344s | real Limited in what actually is changed |
| 4347s | based on some factor and it's just your |
| 4350s | base class and and it's really just so |
| 4352s | that you it's just so that most um items |
| 4355s | that drop are equipable by your |
| 4358s | character that you're playing that's |
| 4360s | that's all it is because the it's very |
| 4363s | few and far between items that are not |
| 4364s | equipped by your character and it's |
| 4366s | usually just because there are uh class |
| 4368s | specific affixes or a class specific |
| 4370s | base for those three slots or some |
| 4373s | unique items as well now a uh unique |
| 4377s | item being on a class specific base does |
| 4380s | not affect its drop chance uh relative |
| 4384s | to which class you're playing so a mage |
| 4387s | specific um helmet unique helmet a mage |
| 4391s | specific unique helmet will have the |
| 4393s | same chance to drop on a rogue as a mage |
| 4397s | um the only items that are affected by |
| 4398s | this not dumb loot are normal magic and |
| 4403s | rare and exed helmet chest and Relics so |
| 4407s | not uniques not sets um not experimental |
| 4413s | not personal uh what other item types do |
| 4416s | we |
| 4417s | have legendaries but they can't |
| 4423s | drop um I oh can you explain the loot |
| 4426s | philosophy being lasty so the the I I |
| 4429s | guess the loot philosophy in general is |
| 4432s | um |
| 4434s | we kind of want to give you as many |
| 4437s | options as |
| 4438s | possible um and let you decide what you |
| 4442s | most want to |
| 4444s | see |
| 4445s | um and that's mostly coming from a |
| 4448s | standpoint of wanting |
| 4451s | to |
| 4452s | um we we we really want to give you the |
| 4455s | opportunity to succeed in uh in your |
| 4459s | goals that's the easy way to put it and |
| 4462s | um we don't want want to tell you we we |
| 4465s | we we want to put as |
| 4468s | few how do say this we don't want to |
| 4470s | tell you what your goals should |
| 4472s | be um so |
| 4476s | like I I I don't know how to say this |
| 4478s | properly |
| 4480s | um we like giving you obvious options |
| 4484s | that work well together um that that |
| 4489s | that sets you up for Success so that |
| 4490s | there's like if you if you really don't |
| 4492s | want to go too far down the rabbit hole |
| 4493s | hole you can still do really well by |
| 4496s | just combining things together that you |
| 4499s | think like seem like they should go |
| 4501s | together cuz they seem similar right so |
| 4504s | like um uh what's an example what's an |
| 4507s | example flame Reeve has a fireball nodes |
| 4510s | oh my goodness where are |
| 4513s | they oh I haven't spoke flame re in a |
| 4516s | long |
| 4520s | time yes was hiding with the icon for |
| 4524s | the skill I was talking |
| 4526s | about good on Mike uh okay so um like |
| 4531s | Fireball and Flame re are like very |
| 4533s | similar theming abilities so we put |
| 4535s | things to synergize with them together |
| 4536s | type thing and so like we we do these |
| 4539s | types of things that are a little more |
| 4540s | on the obvious side um but we also want |
| 4543s | to give players the ability to um |
| 4546s | experiment and and Tinker with stuff |
| 4549s | that kind of doesn't seem like it should |
| 4550s | really work but does somehow um |
| 4555s | and uh so to help facilitate that we we |
| 4558s | we prefer to give um to put less |
| 4562s | restrictions put put um less influence |
| 4564s | on the loot that's dropping um because |
| 4568s | there might be some weird build that |
| 4570s | you've got your your your eyes set on |
| 4572s | your heart set on and um it only works |
| 4576s | with like some non-standard gear maybe |
| 4579s | you're like oh I really need to have |
| 4581s | this like Attunement dexterity gear |
| 4585s | um and because theun and dexterity |
| 4588s | generally don't go together like maybe |
| 4590s | we like so we we if we were doing heavy |
| 4592s | smart loot stuff T dexterity J to go |
| 4594s | together so we we make like some sort of |
| 4596s | rule uh in the item generation system |
| 4598s | it's like well if dexterity rolls on the |
| 4599s | item we don't roll Attunement on the |
| 4601s | item um we don't do that because we |
| 4603s | don't want there to be this sort of |
| 4606s | like damper on finding items for |
| 4609s | unconventional |
| 4611s | builds um so this does and then in order |
| 4615s | to drop an a a significant and frequent |
| 4619s | amount of items that are interesting and |
| 4620s | exciting and possible upgrades and all |
| 4622s | that sort of stuff we have to drop a lot |
| 4624s | of gear because we don't look at how the |
| 4627s | player is building their character right |
| 4629s | now in order to determine what we think |
| 4631s | they might want uh in order to improve |
| 4633s | those |
| 4634s | odds |
| 4636s | um which is which is why there's a |
| 4638s | built-in loot filter in the |
| 4641s | game I know a lot of you knew I was |
| 4643s | going there |
| 4654s | but oh I should have picked a longer |
| 4656s | question to |
| 4670s | answer |
| 4672s | oh I I was I was looking at at the other |
| 4675s | screen and trying to dodge it out of the |
| 4676s | corner of my eye I got it dang it ah |
| 4679s | Grumble Grumble Grumble Grumble Grumble |
| 4680s | Grumble Grumble |
| 4684s | Grumble hey Mike is the plan to update |
| 4687s | to set items something that'll arrive |
| 4688s | with 1.0 or afterwards so I just want to |
| 4691s | be super |
| 4693s | clear um because the the way I've |
| 4697s | recently oh Andrew good it's you all |
| 4699s | right great let me put this on record |
| 4700s | the way that I last however I however I |
| 4703s | said it last time where was that I just |
| 4705s | want to go read that out cuz that was I |
| 4708s | worded it really good last time I think |
| 4711s | it may be on the |
| 4722s | Discord not going to find it I'm just |
| 4724s | going to try and redo it um okay so we |
| 4727s | we we we don't we want to we want to |
| 4729s | adjust how set items fit into the |
| 4733s | overall all gearing process for your |
| 4736s | character that's pretty good |
| 4739s | um I think a lot of people have |
| 4741s | interpreted this to mean we're changing |
| 4745s | uh how set items work or we're changing |
| 4747s | something specific about set items maybe |
| 4750s | but that those those are not the same |
| 4752s | thing really and I just want to be clear |
| 4753s | that those are um I'm talking about how |
| 4755s | set items fit into the overall picture |
| 4758s | of like how they fulfill their role in |
| 4761s | the overall gearing process and what |
| 4763s | that role is um we're going to be |
| 4765s | updating that stuff so it's it's less |
| 4768s | about um CU I think a lot of people are |
| 4771s | like oh I I the expectation with oh um |
| 4774s | set updates the set items are coming |
| 4776s | what does that mean oh they're probably |
| 4777s | going to buff them in some way and |
| 4781s | um getting set items to a to a point |
| 4784s | where they are um part of the processing |
| 4787s | gearing an endgame character um the |
| 4790s | obvious way to do that is to tip off |
| 4792s | them |
| 4797s | but I'm not saying that's what we're |
| 4800s | doing you know it sounds like I'm saying |
| 4802s | that but I'm not saying |
| 4808s | that okay so what do we need we need we |
| 4810s | need void resistance oh yeah right I |
| 4813s | looked at this earlier I should I should |
| 4815s | never have got into that |
| 4820s | fight oh oh Andrew sorry but to answer |
| 4822s | your actual question that you asked |
| 4824s | after |
| 4824s | 1.0 um that it's a set the set stuff is |
| 4828s | not planed to come with 1.0 I don't |
| 4833s | think we'll |
| 4835s | see so part of the problem is it's not |
| 4837s | done yet there like I've um we have a |
| 4840s | plan for it I've seen the plan it's |
| 4842s | fantastic plan we've discussed it we |
| 4843s | talked about it um some things don't |
| 4845s | survive |
| 4846s | implementation so I don't want to start |
| 4848s | talking too heavily about |
| 4850s | it so I'm also being super Vegas because |
| 4852s | it could change |
| 4854s | all right moving on if you guys can try |
| 4857s | not to release 1.0 too close too soon to |
| 4861s | come releases Poe D4 Etc all coming |
| 4864s | really soon yes |
| 4868s | um yeah Poe's Po's recent uh release |
| 4871s | date |
| 4874s | shift |
| 4878s | um not not awesome for us um |
| 4883s | I I do not begrudge them taking more |
| 4885s | time at |
| 4887s | all |
| 4893s | um it's it's it's something as as as the |
| 4898s | uh as the scrappy Underdog on the |
| 4900s | playground we we it's something we have |
| 4902s | to to uh be prepared to adapt to |
| 4907s | um but yeah it's it's |
| 4910s | good I I I we we we do try to avoid |
| 4913s | major releases um from from the more INF |
| 4917s | franchise titles that's a good way put |
| 4922s | it are you guys doing controller or |
| 4924s | steam deck support there's already what |
| 4926s | I would call very good controller |
| 4927s | support not perfect there's definitely |
| 4930s | problems with it um there's things we're |
| 4932s | working on we're working to improve that |
| 4934s | that's that's a that's controller |
| 4935s | support is a major part of our our plan |
| 4938s | for 1.0 our goals for the game um steam |
| 4940s | deck support is something that we are |
| 4942s | very interested in um but haven't put |
| 4945s | any time or effort into it whatsoever we |
| 4947s | do have controller support we do have a |
| 4948s | Linux build it's kind of natural that it |
| 4950s | just works right there's some things we |
| 4953s | have to do to make it work really and |
| 4955s | play really nice um so we're not going |
| 4957s | to officially support steam deck uh at |
| 4960s | 1.0 um it is something we're keeping our |
| 4962s | eye on and something that we hope to |
| 4965s | expand into eventually |
| 4968s | um but it it all comes down to uh uh how |
| 4973s | how many like resources do we have and |
| 4975s | and what's the upshot from doing it type |
| 4976s | thing so |
| 4979s | um I it's a really |
| 4981s | interesting um form |
| 4983s | uh uh what's it called platform to get |
| 4987s | on to um but it is a separate platform |
| 4989s | that we are once once we add a platform |
| 4991s | it's something that we're like it's part |
| 4993s | of our um technical debt forever is now |
| 4998s | we have to include this this another |
| 5000s | build platform in there and it's that's |
| 5001s | that's the main reason we |
| 5003s | cut Mac support so long ago um was just |
| 5007s | it because it was Mac was going to |
| 5008s | become two |
| 5009s | platforms |
| 5011s | um and we had Linux as platform and we |
| 5013s | had windows and four platforms was just |
| 5015s | too much and we're like if we cut Mac we |
| 5016s | go down to two platforms oh my God |
| 5018s | that's so much better um and there was |
| 5021s | the whole processor stuff and there lots |
| 5023s | of stuff now that make it a lot better |
| 5024s | but |
| 5026s | um at least initially we need fewer |
| 5029s | platforms not more but we are definitely |
| 5032s | looking to them in the |
| 5034s | Horizon and and I also want to say that |
| 5037s | um there are a lot of people that have |
| 5038s | steam deck working already um it is not |
| 5040s | perfect and there's a few things you got |
| 5042s | to you got to tweak and change um to get |
| 5044s | it working nicely um but if you talk to |
| 5046s | some people on uh subreddit you probably |
| 5049s | be able to get it going pretty decent |
| 5052s | it's definitely not perfect and it's |
| 5053s | definitely not officially supported but |
| 5056s | um it's it's close it's closer than I |
| 5058s | expected with us doing literally |
| 5061s | nothing |
| 5064s | how's Falcon going so good um really |
| 5067s | really good |
| 5069s | actually uh any plans for a traditional |
| 5071s | Hydra skill um we've toyed around with a |
| 5075s | Hydra skill a few |
| 5076s | times uh it actually so one of the one |
| 5079s | of the Front Runners for um one of the |
| 5083s | front runner like build ideas or like |
| 5086s | design uh structure ideas I don't know |
| 5088s | what you want to call them like themes |
| 5089s | design |
| 5090s | themes it's the wrong way to put it |
| 5092s | there there's a term for that that I'm |
| 5093s | missing but like one of the core |
| 5095s | feelings for uh Rune master that we |
| 5098s | considered uh going with before we |
| 5101s | locked in um the the runes and the |
| 5103s | invocation system uh was it did include |
| 5107s | Hydra as the top level skill for uh fman |
| 5112s | Master which is part of the reason why |
| 5114s | you have the hydr hedron as um one of |
| 5117s | the |
| 5118s | invocations so I'd say it's um it it |
| 5123s | it's it's definitely not off the table |
| 5124s | by any means um I would say it's given |
| 5129s | the density of abilities you see on this |
| 5131s | screen I would say it is very unlikely |
| 5135s | that uh Mage will get any new abilities |
| 5137s | for quite a while um there's there's |
| 5141s | like there's there's room for more from |
| 5143s | the Mastery to come uh from each Mastery |
| 5145s | to come in the future and I and we will |
| 5146s | see those eventually but there's um if |
| 5149s | you look at how densely populated this |
| 5151s | page is compared to the other classes |
| 5153s | it's pretty hopefully pretty obvious |
| 5155s | that the other classes are going to see |
| 5157s | new skills |
| 5161s | first |
| 5163s | um and I mean like we we're all going |
| 5165s | we're going to continue with with more |
| 5166s | masteries as well so |
| 5168s | like uh probably wouldn't fit too well |
| 5170s | but it's it's possible that we could add |
| 5172s | it if like in a new Mastery or |
| 5180s | something oh |
| 5184s | any plans for planning the plans about |
| 5186s | the plans absolutely we have one of |
| 5188s | those meetings every |
| 5190s | week uh I got a pretty modern is laptop |
| 5194s | and ran Le pretty terribly at super low |
| 5197s | RS and settings I3 13 gen 8 GES of ram |
| 5200s | just PC runs um better on ultra settings |
| 5203s | though so maybe laptops aren't good for |
| 5205s | Le |
| 5206s | possibly |
| 5211s | um |
| 5220s | can you like leave me alone Mr baddy |
| 5225s | jerk face huh huh oh my God I went into |
| 5229s | the boss fight without getting any void |
| 5231s | res |
| 5234s | again is there any way we can squeak out |
| 5237s | some void res out of any of our gear we |
| 5239s | could try and roll This Fire |
| 5241s | Res |
| 5247s | great |
| 5250s | perfect |
| 5256s | um we are up a |
| 5260s | creek is what we |
| 5271s | are |
| 5286s | you might be able to make this better |
| 5287s | than |
| 5294s | our let's roll |
| 5301s | this |
| 5308s | okay so if I'm going to do this I got to |
| 5310s | be |
| 5313s | perfect I'm going |
| 5315s | to put this up here's a cool thing I'm |
| 5319s | going to answer questions till I come to |
| 5321s | a longer question that I can talk about |
| 5323s | while I'm playing this boss fight so |
| 5325s | here's a cool thing which I didn't |
| 5327s | actually press the button for it earlier |
| 5329s | sorry who knows what this is it's a |
| 5332s | little reminiscent of some of stuff in |
| 5333s | the game but it's definitely different |
| 5335s | uh what meta builds what meta build is |
| 5338s | surprised you not bugs |
| 5341s | one um what the community made and it |
| 5345s | was not planned |
| 5350s | um I mean we we rarely sit down and say |
| 5353s | like Hey we're going to make sure we |
| 5355s | enable this build and we're going to |
| 5356s | make sure we enable this build and we're |
| 5357s | going to make sure we enable this build |
| 5359s | as like um top tier power build |
| 5363s | we do we do try and add support for |
| 5365s | certain things that we we try and make |
| 5366s | as balanced as we can we say like okay |
| 5368s | well like someone wants to take this |
| 5370s | class fantasy um let's let's make sure |
| 5372s | that there's stuff to make this fantasy |
| 5377s | work like just that is there not |
| 5379s | necessarily commenting on how much |
| 5381s | damage it |
| 5383s | deals um and usually and metab builds |
| 5385s | are all about you know high damage |
| 5387s | output stuff so |
| 5389s | it's it's a hard question to answer I'm |
| 5392s | sorry I don't I don't have a good answer |
| 5393s | for |
| 5395s | you hi last week you said that the Uber |
| 5397s | boss wouldn't be available for 1.0 uh |
| 5400s | will it arrive for the second cycle or |
| 5403s | in an intermediate patch it when we do |
| 5405s | add an Uber boss to the game it will |
| 5409s | arrive as |
| 5412s | a like as a main patch like here's |
| 5415s | here's a patch Uber boss in patch as a |
| 5417s | main it it'll be like a large feature in |
| 5420s | the patch like that that'll be a big |
| 5421s | deal |
| 5425s | um I had I heard bosses have some sort |
| 5429s | of dynamic damage reduction which causes |
| 5432s | uh that your which causes that your DPS |
| 5434s | is very low compared to other enemies uh |
| 5437s | how this work is this going to be |
| 5438s | changed adjusted because it seems to |
| 5440s | break power fantasy |
| 5444s | um I I I can talk about this one for a |
| 5446s | while |
| 5448s | actually |
| 5450s | nope yep okay um So |
| 5454s | currently boss spawns |
| 5458s | um as as ideal damage to this |
| 5463s | boss um and as as his basically as his |
| 5466s | health goes down um he gets a |
| 5470s | scaling |
| 5472s | Dr uh buff so he'll he'll take less and |
| 5475s | less and less and less and less damage |
| 5476s | as I deal damage to |
| 5478s | him now um the amount of |
| 5483s | as as time |
| 5484s | passes um that that buff sort of falls |
| 5487s | off as |
| 5489s | well so someone who is um killing the |
| 5493s | boss very slowly will not be affected by |
| 5497s | uh by that Dynamic Dr anywhere near as |
| 5499s | much as someone who is um doing up |
| 5502s | Bonkers oh my God what the f amount of |
| 5506s | damage um |
| 5509s | this I think is a uh a really good |
| 5514s | idea |
| 5516s | conceptually uh like the the goals |
| 5518s | behind that system are something we are |
| 5520s | very interested in continuing uh going |
| 5525s | forward however the current system is |
| 5528s | not achieving those |
| 5530s | goals uh in in in a way that we're happy |
| 5534s | with |
| 5535s | um it's a terribly aim shot that's okay |
| 5539s | though and |
| 5541s | um so we we we have uh a a plan for a |
| 5545s | system revamp that will |
| 5550s | um hopefully achieve the same |
| 5556s | goal |
| 5558s | better well achieve it at all instead of |
| 5560s | failing miserably |
| 5567s | um we get out of that |
| 5571s | one |
| 5579s | so one of the main goals um we we really |
| 5583s | like creating fun and engaging boss |
| 5592s | content |
| 5597s | um |
| 5599s | sometimes uh there can be situations |
| 5601s | where comes |
| 5603s | together that completely trivializes the |
| 5606s | mechanics of the boss |
| 5609s | fight like to the point where it it may |
| 5612s | as well be a training |
| 5616s | dummy um and we're less thrilled when |
| 5619s | when when that becomes the goal of this |
| 5623s | of of a um or or maybe not goals the |
| 5626s | wrong when that becomes the expected |
| 5628s | when someone's like oh is a build viable |
| 5630s | well can it one shot this boss can it |
| 5632s | kill this can it kill the final hardest |
| 5635s | boss situation in less than one second |
| 5638s | all right it is deemed inv viable build |
| 5640s | that that's that's not the sort of |
| 5641s | Benchmark we're looking |
| 5643s | for |
| 5652s | um and like for the most |
| 5656s | part um like a balanced |
| 5660s | build that gets to engage with the |
| 5662s | content is more what we're looking to to |
| 5666s | uh |
| 5675s | incentivize um and |
| 5680s | currently what happens |
| 5684s | is basically anyone who's got a like |
| 5689s | pretty decent build |
| 5692s | um and damage numbers turned |
| 5696s | on feels like they're hitting bosses uh |
| 5699s | with a pool |
| 5706s | noodle um and we the the generally I |
| 5710s | think the obvious like um solution to |
| 5714s | this that gets brought up usually is |
| 5716s | okay we'll just make um boss's Health |
| 5719s | Dynamic uh there's a bunch of problems |
| 5722s | with |
| 5724s | that that was |
| 5727s | close um so we we we can't do |
| 5730s | that |
| 5733s | um I don't want to |
| 5750s | fail and |
| 5754s | um sorry I've gone into the |
| 5760s | tank um where was I oh it's not it's not |
| 5764s | doing it's not doing its job properly um |
| 5766s | and there's there's a ton of you can see |
| 5768s | a ton of uh comments on forums and and |
| 5771s | and reviews and videos and things like |
| 5773s | that talking about how the system's not |
| 5774s | working and not not doing what it should |
| 5776s | be type thing and and and they are |
| 5778s | correct in that it is not um it doesn't |
| 5782s | feel good to play it's not fun and um |
| 5785s | that's the primary goal of all our |
| 5786s | systems is to be |
| 5789s | fun uh and and and it's that's a such a |
| 5792s | hard and vague uh criteria cuz you know |
| 5796s | defining fun is one of the hardest |
| 5797s | things in the world to do |
| 5806s | um oh man time that feeling when you |
| 5809s | just want call on a build um |
| 5815s | um oh |
| 5835s | no hey there's my void |
| 5838s | res we doing void |
| 5840s | res |
| 5859s | okay I'm just so I'm just so happy |
| 5861s | that's what's going on I'm just so |
| 5862s | happy |
| 5866s | um so yes we we are looking at a way to |
| 5871s | I like the long longest wayed answer |
| 5872s | ever I'm sorry um we we are trying to |
| 5875s | find a way to still have um uh a a |
| 5879s | mechanic in a boss fight in in boss |
| 5881s | fights in general that |
| 5885s | um |
| 5887s | a do do do have that a similar um |
| 5892s | normalizing effect on Boss kill times |
| 5894s | less extreme than what is now um but but |
| 5896s | that is one of the one of the pieces to |
| 5899s | the to the whole puzzle that we are |
| 5900s | trying to do is is a slight normalizing |
| 5902s | effect on Boss skill times um however |
| 5905s | the the the really important part about |
| 5907s | it is is not that it's normalizing boss |
| 5910s | heal times the really important part is |
| 5911s | that it's um giving something fun to |
| 5913s | interact with and so the way that we're |
| 5915s | going to do this is going to be a system |
| 5918s | that you can interact with right now the |
| 5920s | the way boss Dr works is there there's |
| 5922s | no count there the way adapted boss Dr |
| 5923s | works there's no counterplay |
| 5926s | um like the fastest way to kill a boss |
| 5928s | is to do the most damage as fast as you |
| 5930s | can and what the Adaptive Dr does is it |
| 5932s | just reduces that speed and that those |
| 5934s | numbers by an amount that is if you know |
| 5937s | how fast you're going to kill them |
| 5938s | actually a fixed |
| 5940s | amount and any attempt to like slow DPS |
| 5943s | to let those numbers go back up and all |
| 5945s | that sort of stuff y y y it doesn't work |
| 5947s | the fastest way to kill a boss is to |
| 5948s | kill it as fast as you can um which is |
| 5950s | great and um should still be the case |
| 5954s | that you can um kill a boss Faster by |
| 5958s | doing more damage to it yes you should |
| 5960s | be able to kill a boss Faster by doing |
| 5961s | more damage to it I I know that that |
| 5964s | sounds like the opposite of what I'm |
| 5966s | kind of talking about here and it's not |
| 5967s | true it's not it's not the opposite um |
| 5970s | and I know I'm being super vague and not |
| 5971s | really talking about it because the |
| 5972s | system we've planned is not implemented |
| 5974s | not tested y y y but I mean it's start |
| 5976s | to talk about the goals and what we want |
| 5977s | to achieve here for it and and it may |
| 5979s | not be something that we fix right away |
| 5980s | it may be something that needs more |
| 5981s | feedback and more iterations um but I |
| 5984s | think the next version is going to give |
| 5986s | ways to like have counterplay and um |
| 5990s | have more interesting decisions in um |
| 5993s | how you want to approach the boss fight |
| 5998s | um and and be more intuitive as well one |
| 6001s | of the big problems with the system we |
| 6002s | have now is it's very black boxy feeling |
| 6005s | um where you don't really understand why |
| 6008s | it's happening until you go into the |
| 6010s | game guide um or or the forums or you |
| 6014s | know like come here and ask about it |
| 6016s | type thing so like there's um we we we |
| 6018s | need the system to be more a obvious |
| 6020s | what's happening um and and be intuitive |
| 6023s | on how to interact with that um to to to |
| 6027s | make it uh advantageous for you to to be |
| 6029s | more successful um than if you just held |
| 6032s | the DPS button down |
| 6034s | possibly and then in some situations if |
| 6036s | you get your DPS high enough just |
| 6038s | holding the DPS button down will still |
| 6039s | be the best way so it's it's it's it's |
| 6041s | it's that Dynamic nature of of that boss |
| 6044s | fight and and having be being able to |
| 6047s | improve your character's performance |
| 6050s | through strategy rather than uh than not |
| 6053s | be able to do that is important too as |
| 6056s | well I we we've we've got some some |
| 6060s | vague plans to improve |
| 6063s | it that that will hopefully not impact |
| 6065s | your power fantasy will hopefully |
| 6067s | enhance it |
| 6072s | actually I think it's going to be sweet |
| 6074s | very elegant solution very |
| 6077s | simple um I think a regen up to a cat so |
| 6081s | they cannot regen More than 70% 75% of |
| 6084s | their last health so you'll eventually |
| 6086s | kill them but it takes longer and you'll |
| 6088s | have to dodge more of their skills |
| 6090s | instead of being |
| 6093s | impossible |
| 6095s | yeah I I I don't think it's terrible |
| 6097s | that you can get into a situation if you |
| 6099s | overextend yourself where it's not |
| 6100s | possible to win the fight I I don't |
| 6102s | think that's |
| 6103s | terrible I think having that be a the |
| 6106s | norm is is not fun and disheartening but |
| 6110s | but having that exists in the game is I |
| 6112s | think totally |
| 6114s | fine I think it's |
| 6120s | good especially in a campaign I think |
| 6122s | it's especially good and that might seem |
| 6124s | kind of ridiculous |
| 6127s | um but having |
| 6130s | a like a hiccup that you have to maybe |
| 6134s | like go back and train for a bit and |
| 6136s | overcome and then um and then you can |
| 6140s | like you come back and you you you beat |
| 6142s | it and it's great and there's that |
| 6143s | there's that feeling of like um like |
| 6148s | that that that that that cycle there's |
| 6149s | probably a term for this I don't know |
| 6150s | what it is but like the failure the |
| 6154s | retraining and the the the success the |
| 6156s | overcoming the the the sports |
| 6160s | movie having the built-in sports movie |
| 6163s | because that's that's like that's the |
| 6164s | storyline just described the story of |
| 6165s | every single sports movie ever |
| 6168s | um I gu having having having the sports |
| 6170s | movie built in into that um a small |
| 6173s | section of this campaign is actually |
| 6174s | pretty good um because I think if you |
| 6178s | don't have situations like that it's |
| 6181s | possible for you to get into a uh like |
| 6184s | if a worse situation later where you end |
| 6187s | up you come to a point where your |
| 6188s | character has slipped behind bit by bit |
| 6191s | constantly as you go forward and maybe |
| 6193s | you get to a point where you're just so |
| 6195s | far behind when you get to a boss fight |
| 6198s | um that it's it's like you you're like |
| 6200s | okay well I guess I'm going to go and um |
| 6204s | try and farm my character up and improve |
| 6205s | my character a little bit to to face |
| 6206s | face this boss fight but it's like two |
| 6208s | weeks of farming or something I don't |
| 6209s | know it's an exaggeration but um I I |
| 6212s | think that that when you're not like you |
| 6215s | can be working towards that goal in a |
| 6217s | campaign too long and lose interest |
| 6221s | possibly I I think I think there's a |
| 6223s | danger of that in in some |
| 6230s | situations |
| 6233s | hopefully obviously it depends heavily |
| 6235s | on the game and like where in that |
| 6237s | campaign they are or maybe they're not |
| 6239s | in the campaign you know there's so many |
| 6241s | factors that impact it but I think in |
| 6242s | general that type of um mechanic is fine |
| 6245s | to have in most most games at some point |
| 6247s | in |
| 6257s | there I know it's a small thing but when |
| 6260s | leveling up and changing skills in your |
| 6262s | attack bar you still can't back out of |
| 6265s | the box When selecting it when is this |
| 6270s | fixed like |
| 6275s | this when leveling up and changing |
| 6277s | skills in your attack bar yeah like so |
| 6278s | in your attack yeah there's like there's |
| 6281s | when when this opens when this when this |
| 6282s | window opens there's a gigantic window |
| 6284s | that's bigger than the screen that's |
| 6285s | open behind it that's a big button that |
| 6287s | says close this |
| 6290s | window |
| 6292s | I know because I implemented |
| 6299s | it someone had a question above this I |
| 6301s | will scroll up and find |
| 6303s | it |
| 6305s | FXX hi Paladin have a few things that |
| 6309s | can help team members will team play |
| 6311s | becomes something you focus more on so |
| 6313s | the players can form a good team to |
| 6315s | clear hard content or the focus be |
| 6317s | mostly on solo play with a few team |
| 6319s | abilities just for fun um we try to |
| 6324s | give |
| 6326s | um we we we we we are expanding the |
| 6330s | number of abilities that thrive in a |
| 6332s | group setting and there's there's a lot |
| 6334s | of them already that may be a little |
| 6335s | less obvious quite often they're nodes |
| 6337s | on other abilities |
| 6340s | um so like here I'll give you an example |
| 6342s | in a second on uh on on Frost |
| 6348s | wall um you can you can apply |
| 6353s | um flame W I know the name of the skill |
| 6356s | don't worry you can apply flame warb to |
| 6358s | allies in Frost |
| 6360s | wall here we go um so whenever an ally |
| 6363s | walks through the frost wall they get |
| 6365s | flame W um |
| 6368s | and so yeah like like most of the time |
| 6371s | we put these Party play mechanics in |
| 6374s | skill trees as optional things um |
| 6377s | because we we know that a lot of people |
| 6379s | play games like this completely solo and |
| 6383s | um if most abilities at their Baseline |
| 6385s | assumed a party play situation there'd |
| 6388s | be a lot of wasted power and a lot of |
| 6390s | abilities uh in their base base power um |
| 6393s | and the the |
| 6395s | um yeah so we we we we slip a lot of |
| 6397s | those things into the skill trees |
| 6399s | themselves but yes having |
| 6403s | um having uh Party play mechanics like |
| 6406s | that is is important and something we |
| 6408s | will continue to add more of um I don't |
| 6411s | I don't think we really put a an |
| 6413s | emphasis on one or the other at least we |
| 6414s | try not |
| 6415s | to um we are not planning on encouraging |
| 6420s | a holy trinity style gameplay so the |
| 6424s | um like tank heals |
| 6427s | DPS type um like like MMO structure |
| 6431s | for um is not something we're we're |
| 6434s | planning on pushing and we are we do |
| 6437s | design all content to be completable |
| 6439s | solo |
| 6441s | um I mean that it's possible that like |
| 6444s | some content could show up at some point |
| 6446s | that we accidentally make it only |
| 6448s | possible to complete it in a very Niche |
| 6450s | party situation or something I can see |
| 6451s | that |
| 6453s | happening um but generally we do plan |
| 6455s | things to be |
| 6457s | soloable um with with like high quality |
| 6459s | build and stuff like that but probably a |
| 6461s | little easier with a I think the here |
| 6464s | here's the line um a well |
| 6468s | organized um |
| 6471s | uh synergist a well organized |
| 6473s | synergistic group of players will |
| 6476s | typically |
| 6478s | outperform uh solo player in most |
| 6482s | situations and a disorganized group will |
| 6488s | be outperformed by a solo player in most |
| 6491s | situations |
| 6492s | um so it's like if you really plan out |
| 6495s | your party really well together and |
| 6496s | you're like okay well this abili is like |
| 6498s | this guy's giving me this buff that's |
| 6499s | really good for me cuz I'm doing that |
| 6501s | type of damage and I'm giving this other |
| 6502s | guy this other buff that's really good |
| 6503s | for him because he's doing that type of |
| 6504s | damage and like where like okay he's |
| 6506s | giving us all haste you know he's giving |
| 6508s | us all like a bunch of a bunch of armor |
| 6511s | and like you know like we're working |
| 6512s | together like really have this like core |
| 6514s | synergistic build in a group like that's |
| 6517s | going to work better than uh a solo |
| 6519s | player that that's got their own Build |
| 6520s | Together in most situations |
| 6527s | um um but you'll you'll still |
| 6531s | but if it's just like all right we're |
| 6533s | going to have five people jump in |
| 6534s | together |
| 6536s | and uh just ignore what everyone else is |
| 6539s | doing or in some situations actively |
| 6542s | like like oh this person's cleansing |
| 6544s | debuffs off that other person as an |
| 6546s | attack so it's going to uh cause the the |
| 6548s | first one who wanted those debuffs to be |
| 6550s | on there to trigger some ability do to |
| 6552s | do less damage you know like we try to |
| 6553s | avoid situations like that but I'm sure |
| 6554s | some of them |
| 6556s | exist oh sh armor we don't want that |
| 6560s | health and damage we can probably |
| 6561s | started that |
| 6572s | earlier do you guys plan on doing ads |
| 6575s | for Le on social media closer to release |
| 6578s | we do adds on social media |
| 6581s | um I it's not an extreme reach um but |
| 6586s | you know we we throw some out there I |
| 6588s | think we've um we're still experimenting |
| 6590s | with what has the best rate of return uh |
| 6592s | between social media and um other other |
| 6597s | I don't know I'm not a marketer I'm |
| 6599s | sorry um other types of advertising but |
| 6603s | yeah like we are especially leading up |
| 6604s | to 1.0 we're spinning that marketing |
| 6606s | engine up um and because this is like |
| 6609s | this is the point that we're really like |
| 6610s | ready to shout from the rooftops like |
| 6611s | Hey we're here this game's awesome come |
| 6613s | play it um and having having that that |
| 6618s | marketing start now is is really good |
| 6619s | for us so we've we we've been |
| 6621s | intentionally a little and we also have |
| 6624s | a limited marketing budget so |
| 6626s | like um we we've been strategic with how |
| 6629s | we spent our marketing budget and |
| 6633s | um I I I assume it's uh it's it's |
| 6637s | ramping up as we get closer to |
| 6640s | 1.0 as someone who knows nothing about |
| 6643s | what we do for marketing other than what |
| 6644s | I see CU every I've seen a couple ads |
| 6647s | for last defac it was it was kind of |
| 6648s | funny I'm like well that was a wasted ad |
| 6663s | whoops I hope e doesn't get a gun |
| 6666s | amendment I mean the so we we have no |
| 6670s | plans or designs towards guns in the |
| 6672s | game I use that as sort of a a generic |
| 6674s | example um and it's it's but at the same |
| 6679s | time it's not something that we are are |
| 6681s | completely ruling out long term so it is |
| 6684s | possible that we might add guns at some |
| 6687s | point long term um we have no plans for |
| 6690s | it there's no designs for it but we just |
| 6693s | don't want to be like never you know |
| 6697s | that's |
| 6698s | all oh get that outline fixed what's |
| 6701s | going |
| 6703s | on Guarantee I know what log there is if |
| 6706s | I open the the log right |
| 6709s | now yeah yeah it's a whole bunch of null |
| 6715s | refs texture is not assigned properly |
| 6724s | oh give me that ascendance I said give |
| 6727s | me that |
| 6735s | ascendance I wish Le monoliths had |
| 6738s | crafed mechanics like items so we |
| 6741s | wouldn't so we'd have super rare Le |
| 6744s | potential monoliths with some rare mods |
| 6746s | to make the area super interesting |
| 6748s | difficult but rewarding uh crafting can |
| 6750s | expand monus uh so much if added um yeah |
| 6754s | so this is this is um this is pee Maps |
| 6757s | is what we're talking about here um and |
| 6761s | we talked a lot like so you may notice |
| 6763s | that dungeon keys don't |
| 6765s | stack |
| 6766s | um we had originally talked about having |
| 6770s | dungeon keys work the same as how Maps |
| 6772s | work where there's like a magic map and |
| 6774s | you can like you different types of maps |
| 6776s | that you can craft on change the things |
| 6777s | on them you can add stuff to them take |
| 6779s | stuff off them y y y and um I think a uh |
| 6784s | a an endgame mechanic whether that is |
| 6785s | dungeons unlikely at this point or uh an |
| 6789s | optional monolith mode or a completely |
| 6792s | different um like type of type of thing |
| 6796s | entirely I don't know like um one option |
| 6799s | I saw I think this is a community post |
| 6801s | oh I don't remember where I saw it um it |
| 6803s | was like these these uh items that could |
| 6807s | drop that would be craftable basically |
| 6810s | like Maps um but yeah so they're |
| 6812s | craftable items that can drop that you |
| 6814s | can that have specific risks and rewards |
| 6816s | on specific mods basically basically the |
| 6818s | specific Echoes that drop as items that |
| 6820s | you can craft on that you could use in |
| 6823s | the monolith map screen to to replace uh |
| 6826s | an echo that's there so like say there's |
| 6828s | an echo that like um you're like oh that |
| 6830s | one's way too hard for me you have this |
| 6832s | item you use the item it changes that |
| 6834s | Echo into something else um so it's like |
| 6836s | a different U diff maybe maybe your |
| 6838s | build has 100% crit avoidance and so you |
| 6841s | you you Pi you pick one that um gives |
| 6844s | enemies a ton of crit chance and so it |
| 6846s | doesn't hurt your build at all and you |
| 6848s | just get an easy one and it lets you |
| 6849s | advance better because you use this |
| 6851s | item so that was that was my favorite I |
| 6853s | can't remember where that was I'm pretty |
| 6854s | sure that was a Reddit post may have |
| 6857s | been |
| 6859s | Discord |
| 6861s | um but I really like that |
| 6867s | one just hopefully because it was clear |
| 6869s | but if not making sure it's not |
| 6872s | something we've designed or talked about |
| 6873s | it's not something that's in the works |
| 6874s | but that type of thing is stuff we have |
| 6878s | discussed and we will be looking to |
| 6880s | expand our endgame systems and that's a |
| 6882s | great way to do |
| 6886s | it um that was a repeat question which |
| 6889s | is fine cuz we still paying and the |
| 6890s | reping which is great thank you very |
| 6891s | much all right I think it was mentioned |
| 6894s | that corruption rework rebalance was |
| 6895s | going to make it into 1.0 I know the |
| 6898s | goal is to shift more of the power to |
| 6900s | the actual corruption and not to the |
| 6901s | echo uh not the echo modifiers but could |
| 6904s | you share any more details maybe no I'm |
| 6906s | sorry I |
| 6909s | can't there's there's not a lot to it |
| 6911s | but that's you basically got it that's |
| 6913s | basically what's going to happen we're |
| 6914s | going to shift a bunch of the power from |
| 6916s | the to corruption from the modifiers |
| 6918s | themselves and |
| 6921s | that's B basically |
| 6929s | it all right random stuff in Echoes like |
| 6932s | Exel mes are great yes absolutely uh |
| 6935s | will there be more added on the release |
| 6936s | or will that sort of thing come with |
| 6937s | Cycles I don't think any more of those |
| 6939s | are coming at |
| 6941s | 1.0 I think |
| 6945s | the I'm pretty sure 1.0 doesn't include |
| 6947s | any more of |
| 6949s | these |
| 6956s | trying to I can't think of |
| 6962s | any um but we will we will definitely be |
| 6964s | looking to add more of those um like a |
| 6968s | little bit longer like like through |
| 6970s | through uh through through the cycles as |
| 6973s | we go that that is the type of thing |
| 6975s | that we are very much interested in |
| 6979s | adding |
| 6984s | oh hey two volatile zombies someone to |
| 6986s | potion |
| 6995s | use I know what item I just picked |
| 6999s | up |
| 7001s | sweet they're fire zombies see |
| 7004s | that are Vol oh yeah they're Fire by |
| 7006s | default I was I was playing poison |
| 7008s | recently I'm like I have it in my brain |
| 7011s | that they're just |
| 7016s | poison probably not the best one for us |
| 7018s | so we're I even look what else is on |
| 7019s | there Health NS actually not a bad |
| 7032s | belt yeah we will be adding more stuff |
| 7034s | like that in Cycles |
| 7036s | though is the offline mode still set to |
| 7039s | be truly 100% offline at 1.0 as |
| 7041s | previously announced back in March |
| 7045s | yes I I know I know a ton of work's been |
| 7048s | being done on this um and I I know it's |
| 7050s | either working or very close to working |
| 7053s | um and I'm pretty sure it's scope for |
| 7058s | 1.0 |
| 7062s | um yes yeah let's go with |
| 7064s | yes Final Answer |
| 7068s | Alex |
| 7071s | all |
| 7074s | right |
| 7077s | um oh my God not Alex sorry that was bad |
| 7081s | all right what's the headcat working at |
| 7083s | La now on after launch is that uh |
| 7086s | inevitable boost and funding going to |
| 7087s | lead to more hands on deck I do not know |
| 7089s | the exact number um I think we're in the |
| 7096s | like high 80s to low 90s |
| 7101s | range like we we're talking we're |
| 7103s | talking absolutely everyone that that |
| 7106s | has that's working on the project in in |
| 7109s | a including like contractors and all |
| 7112s | that sort of stuff like yeah I think |
| 7113s | it's in that range I don't I'm sorry I |
| 7116s | don't know the number I get asked this |
| 7118s | one pretty frequently and I should know |
| 7119s | the number and I just don't I'm sorry um |
| 7121s | but yeah we are pretty constantly hiring |
| 7124s | people |
| 7128s | um |
| 7131s | do careers page |
| 7143s | up what's up there right |
| 7146s | now yeah UI and gameplay |
| 7152s | developer come work with me that's |
| 7155s | that's basic that that position is |
| 7156s | basically take take a third of Mike's |
| 7158s | responsibilities away from Mike it's |
| 7160s | basically what that job |
| 7166s | is so come come take a third of my |
| 7173s | responsibilities um all right I |
| 7177s | literally can't stop playing this game |
| 7179s | that's that's dangerous I mean like if |
| 7181s | you're actually stuck like just I don't |
| 7183s | know start blinking in moris code or |
| 7185s | something someone someone will find |
| 7188s | you um |
| 7191s | any anybody's touch take a break and |
| 7193s | touch grass I was I was joking |
| 7196s | originally but yeah I |
| 7198s | mean |
| 7200s | um I think |
| 7202s | [Music] |
| 7204s | having um H having a having like a fixed |
| 7209s | timer so there's like a fixed fixed like |
| 7212s | like before you sit down set a fixed |
| 7214s | amount of time that you want to play |
| 7217s | for |
| 7218s | um |
| 7220s | and I know I know you can't always like |
| 7222s | end immediately afterwards but like set |
| 7224s | some sort of condition be like okay I'm |
| 7225s | going to do I'm going to spend two hours |
| 7228s | doing Echoes and um as soon as that |
| 7233s | alarm goes off I'll finish the echo I'm |
| 7235s | on and then immediately |
| 7239s | quit no Lolly gagging no just one |
| 7242s | more a lot of it's just discipline I |
| 7244s | mean if you |
| 7247s | um you you can set up |
| 7250s | up |
| 7252s | um like disciplinary AIDS that's a bad |
| 7257s | way to put sounds like a sex thing um |
| 7259s | you can you can put up like uh things in |
| 7263s | place that will force you to comply with |
| 7266s | your schedule but you could overcome if |
| 7268s | you really wanted to so like um uh you |
| 7272s | you could put like a a a lock screen |
| 7276s | that shows up when when when it finish |
| 7279s | when the time finishes or something I |
| 7280s | don't know and like you know the |
| 7282s | password to it but you have to like |
| 7285s | complete you have to beat you have to |
| 7286s | beat a chess puzzle to get back in and |
| 7288s | it like it gives you time to think like |
| 7290s | do I really want to circumnavigate the |
| 7293s | Restriction I put in place on myself |
| 7295s | just so there like a little bit of delay |
| 7308s | there |
| 7311s | this could be something as weird as |
| 7313s | like if it's like if you're if you're |
| 7315s | really struggling with something like |
| 7316s | this you can do something weird like um |
| 7317s | install the game on a like on a on a a |
| 7321s | easily removable drive from your |
| 7323s | computer and when like the time's up and |
| 7327s | you like you're not like you're you've |
| 7328s | used up all your time for the day you |
| 7330s | can like take that drive and like go put |
| 7331s | it in like a locked box that has like a |
| 7334s | combination on it or something and like |
| 7336s | it's that extra step of like going to |
| 7338s | get the drive out of the locked box |
| 7339s | unlock it and plug it into your computer |
| 7340s | so it can play it again and like that |
| 7342s | little bit of extra time can sometimes |
| 7343s | let you uh get a little perspective on |
| 7346s | on if you're really trying hard to not |
| 7349s | um not do this the other thing um that I |
| 7352s | find really good when trying to develop |
| 7353s | or break habits is is keeping records of |
| 7355s | things um so having having a way to like |
| 7359s | like track how much you're playing and |
| 7361s | say like okay maybe um like like so |
| 7364s | write down so you finish playing for the |
| 7365s | day um and you're like okay I played |
| 7366s | three hours today or something and um |
| 7369s | then you can like really see over time |
| 7371s | how much you're playing and if that's |
| 7372s | like going up or going down you can |
| 7373s | track your progress and you can you know |
| 7375s | like okay I'm really trying to get my |
| 7376s | game time down to two hours a day from |
| 7378s | three hours a day and you can like see |
| 7380s | it going down slowly and when you get |
| 7382s | there you know it's like it feels more |
| 7384s | like an achievement rather than just |
| 7385s | like a something |
| 7388s | happened I hope it |
| 7393s | helps also super duper not an expert on |
| 7396s | this sort of thing these are just the |
| 7397s | sort of things that I do um |
| 7400s | and if you're really looking for help |
| 7401s | and advice on this I'm sure there's |
| 7403s | better resources and I do not know what |
| 7404s | those are I'm |
| 7407s | sorry uh all right next question please |
| 7409s | make a new Pinnacle bosses that have a |
| 7412s | race for first kill um not be practice |
| 7416s | on standard like it is on Poe I want to |
| 7418s | see hardcore players enter blind in the |
| 7421s | arena and get one-shotted that is part |
| 7422s | of the fun watching |
| 7425s | them yeah it's it's a really tricky |
| 7427s | balancing act because there's lots of my |
| 7429s | goodness I am not surviving this oh no |
| 7434s | okay you can do this mik um oh my God |
| 7438s | I'm over |
| 7439s | time I just burned right through oh I'm |
| 7441s | probably so far behind okay here's |
| 7443s | here's here's what we're going to do I'm |
| 7444s | going to answer this question I'm going |
| 7445s | to almost for sure die in this Arena |
| 7447s | which is fine um and I'm going to just |
| 7451s | speedrun some |
| 7452s | questions uh at the end of this for like |
| 7455s | 15 |
| 7457s | minutes and if I don't good tears I |
| 7465s | apologize okay let's try and answer some |
| 7467s | buiness um oh yeah Pinnacle bosses and |
| 7470s | and stuff yeah so |
| 7472s | there's there's tricky stuff with that |
| 7475s | because especially because we're also |
| 7476s | doing an offline mode um it it it makes |
| 7480s | this like blind first online playthrough |
| 7483s | uh tough cuz there's like ways to to |
| 7486s | figure out what's going on and test |
| 7487s | things even if it's like like just |
| 7489s | simultaneously with launch it's it's |
| 7492s | it's tough um so we'll we we'll see what |
| 7495s | happens um I agree with the sentiment |
| 7499s | you've got there and it is something we |
| 7500s | are mindful of so we'll do our |
| 7509s | best but we're not going to sacrifice |
| 7511s | offline mode uh to make it happen type |
| 7513s | thing like we won't just like cut a mode |
| 7515s | if it's causing problems with |
| 7518s | that |
| 7529s | okay next question so the game content |
| 7531s | from cycle will stay after it ends yes |
| 7533s | uh was wondering how much further along |
| 7536s | uh dual Shields are from last Friday |
| 7539s | 0% um uh who is the community manager of |
| 7543s | Le uh Kane who is here in chat is the |
| 7548s | community manager |
| 7550s | it does a fantastic |
| 7554s | job oh my |
| 7559s | goodness oh my that was |
| 7567s | lovely okay we are going to sit |
| 7570s | here with got ice brush |
| 7573s | nice with boring stuff on screen I don't |
| 7576s | know what will be on screen we'll |
| 7578s | just |
| 7581s | I let's let's let's find some stuff to |
| 7583s | talk about I'm going to answer some |
| 7584s | questions I I know what do I know what |
| 7585s | do I'll put this back up but I'm gonna |
| 7588s | I'm GNA move |
| 7591s | it here there we |
| 7595s | go |
| 7596s | [Music] |
| 7597s | um okay we're we're gonna try and answer |
| 7599s | as many of these as possible I'm |
| 7601s | overtime but I really want to get |
| 7602s | through these and uh I'm going to be |
| 7605s | quick on the answers not going to do |
| 7606s | long rambly one sorry all right yeah |
| 7609s | Kane is the um |
| 7613s | manager |
| 7618s | um I'll pass the feedback on to |
| 7623s | him uh how about I highlight the best |
| 7625s | questions reveals modes from the stream |
| 7627s | on the forums um uh action Aaron action |
| 7630s | RPG does a uh a recap of every single |
| 7633s | one of uh these streams and Andrew Tilly |
| 7636s | has a ton of compiled info on forms as |
| 7641s | well uh few questions one thoughts on |
| 7643s | adding a rarity to the stash tab search |
| 7646s | uh love it um will a similar mindset in |
| 7649s | how run master was made into Warlock and |
| 7651s | Falcon since playing run Master feels |
| 7653s | like there is great room for build |
| 7654s | variety and experation yes we we we put |
| 7656s | the same sort of |
| 7659s | um philosophy the philosophy for |
| 7661s | generating new classes hasn't changed |
| 7663s | much in the last like three years really |
| 7666s | um we we don't add that many new classes |
| 7668s | the the the drw revamp was almost like |
| 7670s | add a new class and uh Shaman's gonna be |
| 7673s | pretty big too I think and um |
| 7679s | the uh but yes yes the way the way we |
| 7681s | approached adding Warlock and Falconer |
| 7683s | was the exact same way we approached |
| 7684s | adding run Master it neither of them |
| 7686s | will be as complex as Rune Masters run |
| 7689s | Masters are most complex class and will |
| 7691s | remain that way um there's a ton of fun |
| 7693s | things to do there uh I'm I'm really |
| 7696s | excited to show off that stuff all right |
| 7698s | with regards to controller support can |
| 7700s | you please allow us to rebind more |
| 7701s | buttons uh maybe there's some tricks |
| 7703s | there um and there there's there's a few |
| 7707s | there's a few gotchas that we've had to |
| 7708s | work |
| 7709s | around um uh don't buff the set items |
| 7712s | overall set items are a bad mechanic for |
| 7715s | the end game it creates limited choices |
| 7717s | and takes away the puzzle feels in my |
| 7719s | opinion it's better to concentrate on |
| 7721s | adding more legendary items uniques I |
| 7723s | think is what meant uh and slowly get |
| 7725s | rid of set items or exchange them for a |
| 7727s | new type of loot something refreshing |
| 7728s | like experimental items they are very |
| 7730s | cool uh uh interesting take I'm sorry no |
| 7734s | comment um what type of extra endg game |
| 7738s | activities will be offered on full |
| 7740s | release of the game uh there's not a lot |
| 7742s | of new like fullon activities um |
| 7746s | interaction with the item factions will |
| 7748s | be the biggest source of new activities |
| 7749s | at |
| 7751s | 1.0 |
| 7755s | um of set items we're not actually |
| 7757s | removing set items just to be clear |
| 7759s | uh any updates on WD movement uh it's |
| 7762s | still not |
| 7764s | planned uh can you play this without |
| 7767s | following a build guide |
| 7770s | absolutely um most of the time when I |
| 7772s | see people like like I go to Reddit or |
| 7773s | something and they're like I'm a new |
| 7774s | player uh any advice the like the first |
| 7777s | 20 comments are just just go play it |
| 7779s | have fun and then come look at a guide |
| 7781s | once you've uh got your first character |
| 7783s | through end game that's like the the top |
| 7785s | answer every single time um from the |
| 7787s | community and I agree uh are we never |
| 7789s | going to get and and like even there's |
| 7790s | like like Perry the pig makes great |
| 7792s | videos for lasto and he's got like a a |
| 7794s | beginner like a noob guide video type |
| 7796s | thing it's like this is a beginner guide |
| 7797s | the video starts out with you don't need |
| 7799s | this guide it's like how the video |
| 7801s | starts that was great um all right are |
| 7803s | we never going to get commas in the |
| 7805s | damage numbers uh yes no no we're no |
| 7810s | we're not never going to get Dam commas |
| 7812s | in the damage numbers uh any plans to |
| 7815s | change the end of echo reward popup menu |
| 7818s | I've had some many times covering the |
| 7819s | screen and not seeing something on the |
| 7821s | floor mobs the all of those mobs are |
| 7823s | supposed to be killed by the boss and |
| 7824s | the boss dies there's some like weird |
| 7825s | race conditions that cause it to be |
| 7826s | possible to happen um uh that that |
| 7829s | window does need to be either movable or |
| 7832s | minimiz probably minimiz is likely the |
| 7834s | option that we'll |
| 7836s | see uh that job position I was |
| 7838s | mentioning that would be their job to do |
| 7841s | uh do you have plans to have other end |
| 7844s | of game leaderboards yes like perhap |
| 7846s | corruption level and such instead of |
| 7847s | just read it absolutely um what those |
| 7849s | will be I don't know but yes we do have |
| 7851s | there's a few things we've considered |
| 7852s | we've also considered having like cycle |
| 7854s | specific leaderboards like oh this cycle |
| 7855s | there's like this special leader board |
| 7856s | that's cool and if people don't care |
| 7858s | about it we just ditch it if they like |
| 7859s | it maybe we keep it you know we consider |
| 7861s | stuff like that too uh any update on the |
| 7862s | blessing changes that were talked about |
| 7864s | in the maxr interview being able to more |
| 7866s | easily switch between previously |
| 7867s | unlocked blessings uh nothing's |
| 7869s | implemented but we still plan to um it |
| 7872s | it's essentially like it's not finished |
| 7874s | yet but essentially this instead of this |
| 7876s | just being something you just click on |
| 7877s | and just pick the ones that you've done |
| 7878s | and these instead of just saying the |
| 7879s | ranges will actually have specific |
| 7881s | values as the highest value you've ever |
| 7882s | rolled on that |
| 7887s | thing because because spoiler alert |
| 7889s | these are technically items these are |
| 7891s | actually items that you have in a |
| 7893s | special storage these These are as much |
| 7896s | of an item as as these and like the |
| 7899s | special storage they're in this |
| 7900s | literally the exact same |
| 7902s | system just displayed slightly |
| 7905s | differently uh the real question is oh |
| 7907s | my gosh you can't see what I was just |
| 7908s | looking at I'm sorry I just realized the |
| 7910s | the pictures up on the screen it's okay |
| 7911s | we're going to keep going charging |
| 7912s | ahead uh the real question is when we |
| 7914s | getting |
| 7915s | lightsabers I mean there's already kind |
| 7918s | of one in the game a little bitsh sort |
| 7919s | of not really |
| 7922s | um thanks for the answers I do like the |
| 7924s | support skills are nodes it's always a |
| 7926s | fun boost to your friends with with uh |
| 7928s | crit or heal or something um but still |
| 7930s | doing your build yeah there's and |
| 7931s | there's lots of things like like uh |
| 7933s | haste in uh when when you uh Rogue has a |
| 7937s | bunch of haste Generation stuff for the |
| 7938s | part so you can like um one of my |
| 7940s | favorite things to do is is is play a |
| 7941s | rogue in a big party and just take all |
| 7943s | the things that give everyone else haste |
| 7945s | and you're just like constantly dropping |
| 7946s | like little haste bombs for everyone all |
| 7948s | over the place and it's just like |
| 7949s | everyone just goes so fast it's great um |
| 7953s | will you be playing uh what will you be |
| 7958s | playing Megan Fox to be on a Le for you |
| 7962s | sorry I don't that means um what are you |
| 7964s | most proud of in Le as you get closer to |
| 7967s | release |
| 7980s | um that's a really tough question to |
| 7983s | answer I don't know um the things that |
| 7986s | immediately come to mind is the is is |
| 7988s | the skill system and and and all all our |
| 7990s | skill trees um I think part of that's |
| 7993s | because this is a lot of what I work on |
| 7996s | with a lot of other extremely talented |
| 7998s | people |
| 7999s | um |
| 8000s | and just just the way that this this |
| 8003s | system and this this is system is the |
| 8004s | reason I got into the game um like the |
| 8006s | reason I started working here it's it's |
| 8008s | what I spend most more time on than |
| 8009s | anything else like so it's really close |
| 8011s | to me um I think it's something that |
| 8013s | that |
| 8014s | is um it's one of it's one of our things |
| 8017s | that like make us unique uh and and I I |
| 8020s | think we do I think we execute it really |
| 8021s | well so I I think I think the skill |
| 8022s | system in |
| 8024s | general uh couple more questions I'm |
| 8027s | gonna end this pretty soon |
| 8029s | um blame the intern uh I hope someday |
| 8032s | Ellie gets a crossover with Poe for a |
| 8033s | skin for each game that'll be themed for |
| 8035s | the other so we can play as the Mage and |
| 8037s | play in the templ that would be really |
| 8038s | cool it would be |
| 8041s | awesome um I |
| 8044s | I I have no idea if that will ever |
| 8046s | happen um got to meet a bunch of them at |
| 8048s | Gamescom in Germany recently so awesome |
| 8053s | um I I I I'm I'm all for it I'm all for |
| 8056s | it I have no idea if it could ever |
| 8058s | happen um but I'd love to that that |
| 8060s | would be sweet that' be really cool all |
| 8063s | right can you please tell Aaron to |
| 8065s | get uh Aon to get a steam deck he'll see |
| 8069s | this so you just did uh I love the |
| 8071s | shatter Valley soundtrack it's so |
| 8072s | haunting yet terrifying and sad some uh |
| 8074s | areas just have iconic music like The |
| 8077s | Traveler at the end of time |
| 8080s | yeah oh would it be easier to have a |
| 8082s | currency or material in the game to just |
| 8084s | change an echo map be utilizing the |
| 8086s | currency material adding a whole whole |
| 8088s | new crafting function uh for Echo M |
| 8091s | seems more cumbersome as a player |
| 8093s | probably for you all as well uh in my |
| 8096s | tiny brain at least um possibly it's a |
| 8099s | good |
| 8100s | point um you've perfectly highlighted |
| 8104s | the fact that I have not thought about |
| 8106s | this in depth very much |
| 8109s | um but yeah it's that that's that's |
| 8112s | definitely an option |
| 8114s | too uh I don't see any yeah I don't see |
| 8117s | any major problems with that really yeah |
| 8119s | uh do you know which element has the |
| 8120s | highest damage cap for the soric well no |
| 8124s | sorry n technically none of them have |
| 8126s | the damage cap |
| 8130s | um yeah I don't |
| 8133s | know uh I see a lot of people using the |
| 8136s | Fire and Ice Rune Master builds but I |
| 8137s | play as only lightning build uh I just |
| 8139s | blow things up with it yeah I there's |
| 8142s | there's there's several very powerful |
| 8143s | lightning |
| 8144s | builds |
| 8147s | um |
| 8149s | game work on Steam deck yet uh it it can |
| 8153s | um if you haven't got it to work it |
| 8154s | there are there are people on Reddit |
| 8155s | that I've seen with like information on |
| 8157s | how to get it to work I would search the |
| 8159s | subreddit for uh steam deck and I bet |
| 8162s | there'll be a bunch of posts that'll |
| 8163s | come up for you if not just be like |
| 8164s | someone help me with this and someone |
| 8166s | I'm sure would help you with it I'm |
| 8168s | sorry I can't help you with it so I have |
| 8170s | no idea what it |
| 8172s | needs and that's it we made it all right |
| 8176s | fantastic work everyone thanks for |
| 8178s | sticking with |
| 8179s | me I had a ton of fun I hope you did too |
| 8183s | uh if I didn't answer your question and |
| 8185s | you would like to ask it it still please |
| 8186s | head on over to our Discord there is a |
| 8189s | ask the devs channel a freshly reamped |
| 8191s | Discord actually with lots of new stuff |
| 8193s | that's awesome |
| 8198s | um here we go let's head on over |
| 8205s | to something who I was talking about |
| 8207s | earlier |
| 8209s | um yeah it be here same time same place |
| 8212s | next week |
| 8214s | um playing more play more builds uh next |
| 8217s | week we're actually uh I'm going to be |
| 8219s | playing the winner of the build |
| 8222s | competition uh that's being run uh I |
| 8226s | think Perry might be one of the captains |
| 8227s | for it as well if not he'll definitely |
| 8229s | know who is um check it out have fun see |
| 8232s | you |
| 8237s | later |