[2020] New Monolith System is frustrating

We hear your frustration. The monolith system was definitely designed for starting it right after the campaign and we did not sufficiently account for players wanting to play with existing higher level characters. There is also understandable confusion from people assuming that the whole monolith is level 55 when in reality each timeline is a different level, and only the first one is level 55.

We’re considering the following changes for a hotfix to address this

• Remove the experience penalty for being a higher level than the zone for all zones above level 53.
• Make the quest echoes in the first timeline show up much earlier, so that players can more quickly progress to higher level timelines.
• Reduce a source of unintuitively high damage in the first timeline’s boss fight so that players are less likely to die to that boss.

We’ll also be making the levels of timelines adjacent to those you have unlocked visible. For example if you only have the level 55 timelines unlocked you will also be able to see the levels of the level 62 and level 68 timeline. This is to make it clearer that there are different timelines with their own levels.

0.7.9b will be coming very soon, but won’t contain these changes as they were made after the build process started.

0.7.9c will be coming shortly after that and will contain these changes.

Hey everyone,

Thank you for your candid feedback on the Monolith. We have been following along very closely and will be releasing a number of updates closely mirroring what @Trasochi had mentioned above.

We are evaluating other changes as well, like checkpoints, certain boss abilities and difficulty, ensuring that battling through echos remain enjoyable, time investment to get to quest echos and bosses, and more.

As always, we value your feedback immensely and can assure you that your comments are not falling on deaf ears. We will continue monitoring your feedback and making adjustments as needed.

Hi everyone, just wanted to chime in here again. The next hotfix is coming within the next day or two and will address the power of early Monolith bosses and Timelines completely resetting on death. The changes are in testing now.