[2020] Opt-In Testing For Patch 0.8b Social Features

We have recently been working on very significant changes to our infrastructure. On Sunday we released Patch 0.8b which enabled some social features (e.g. chat, leaderboards) which rely on this new infrastructure, however we subsequently pulled the update after issues were uncovered. Since then, we have been identifying and resolving a number of these problems.

Naturally we wish to avoid a similar situation occuring in future, and so we are making an updated version of Patch 0.8b available on an opt-in basis. If you are interested in helping us test this update, please see the following post for instructions on how to access it. This testing currently only involves a Windows client available through Steam.

If you do opt-into this testing, please report any issues you encounter here in this thread. Thank you to everyone who chooses to help us with this testing, we very much appreciate it.

How to Opt-In to Patch 0.8b

Right-click Last Epoch in Steam and click Properties:

 
Open the BETAS tab, enter the code ShiCiCeanDEvItat and click CHECK CODE:

 
Select ‘socialfeatures’ from the betas dropdown. It should look like this:

 
You should see the beta reflected in your Steam Library once it’s finished downloading.

You can return to the publicly available version of the game at any time by selecting ‘default’ from the beta branch dropdown.

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Please let us know if you encounter any issues! We will be monitoring this thread and our systems very closely.

Thanks everyone for testing! We’ve now released 0.8c, which re-enables the Social Features, addresses some feedback from the test, and makes other fixes. Read the patch notes here.

If you opted-in to testing Beta 0.8b, you will need to switch back to the default version of the game to receive the 0.8c update.

Right click on Last Epoch in your Steam library, then navigate to Properties -> Betas and select “default” from the dropdown.