Last Epoch Dev Tracker

Loading times and smoothness of online play is the actual top of our priority list to continue to improve. I have a lot of high caliber engineers working on this and we have clear paths defined to improve them! We agree that a 10 second loading time, for example, is unacceptable

Yea we actually use this in our main marketing points - in the competitive landscape we aim to stay easier to come in, understand and make builds than PoE - so slightly less complex and have more depth than the Diablo games.

We put a lot of effort into making sure you don’t have to exit the game to understand game mechanics or anything else (G for in-game guide)!

Haha glad you’re seeing them. Lots more to come

There is a new mobility skill coming in 092 that is internally a team favorite! We’ve been having some other general discussions on mobility skills that I shouldn’t share the details on just yet - but saying that so you know that mobility skills are on our mind and being talked about.

Completely understand the want there, however the reason we do this is so that people cannot modify offline characters and then bring them into the online realm. This is necessary so we can have ladders that aren’t just filled with cheaters, an actual item economy, hold race events, and other things. Grim Dawn isn’t server authoritative in the same way LE, PoE, and Diablo are.

Oh that’s good feedback and I don’t know if that one is on our radar. I’ll bring it up today with the world and story team. I suspect this isn’t a huge amount of effort to change

Yea we have some tune ups to do to animation and VFX timing of networked abilities - like Rive. It’s tracked in our production queue and we’re working through those lists! There’s other things like making sure each enemy has good flinch animations so you feel each hit impact, all of the imperial enemies needing death rag-dolling so bones fly off in a satisfying way, mastering sounds. We have two people working through all of this atm and it will do wonders for combat feeling crunchy

We’re all huge PoE fans as well. One of the coolest things about having started EHG and Epoch is getting the chance to speak directly with Chris and his team. We have a great relationship and plan to stagger our releases so our community and team can play both Cycles/Leagues without too much overlap

Appreciate your early support! Couldn’t have done it without you guys that backed us early

Glad you’re enjoying it! Yes we believe we’ll have much of the rubber banding addressed by then. We are using a network library that is sending a bit of unnecessary data back and forth quickly for some actions that happen very frequently and have been working towards removing that library all together for a lower level networking solution where it’s used. Funny enough we got our first internal playtest session in with the new solution yesterday and it seems to have gone very well. This should make a big impact there and we’ll continue to push for better and better client and server performance

At 1.0 we’ll have our first Cycle where existing characters will be moved to Legacy (non current season)and everyone can start the 1.0 content on fresh characters. Each Cycle existing characters will move to Legacy

I'm trying really hard to cultivate a reputation as the guy that never knows dates. And I actually don't know the exact date. I know when my stuff has to be done because we are doing an earlier cutoff this time so we can do more rigorous testing.

Hello everyone, game director for LE / CEO of Eleventh Hour here. We do see a lot of new people coming to LE in the last few days and I want to welcome you all and give a little info.

First of all, LE was an after hours project that I started 6 years ago right here on Reddit that we spent evenings planning and creating a vertical slice to take to Kickstarter. Enough kind individuals took a leap of faith to get us started and we’ve pushed hard to make Epoch what it is now - and over that time we’ve had the opportunity and great pleasure to update the game significantly as we’ve progressed, earned the community’s support, and hired more fantastic and talented individuals with the mission to make the next great ARPG. Our team has been built from passionate Diablo-like game enthusiasts and developers like many of you!

I’m thrilled to hear the positive responses our new players are having and please know that there is a ton of polish coming this year to the game. Some t...

Sounds about right to me.

I was actually just looking to see what you've put out recently this morning. I wasn't too surprised to see a lul. I think we will have something fun to sink your teeth into next patch :)

For when you don't want to throw the boss all the way under the bus.

Someone official leaked that our internal goal was end of the year in the in-game chat a couple months ago. It was later confirmed on reddit, discord, and on the dev stream that our internal goal is the end of the year. We aren't ready to actually set a date yet but things are looking pretty good overall.

I’ll bring it up in our design meeting

It’s something we intend to do but after we are stable in our live release development cadence. We’re a new team so I don’t want to spread us too thin too fast. Pc first!

It’ll be here before you know it. So much polish and good stuff going into the game right now! But remember, 1.0 for us is just kickoff.

This is simply not implmeneted yet but certainly on our radar and will be coming. It's just not as high priority as some of the things that we have those engineers working on before 1.0.

Thank you for supporting our team and LE! We very much appreciate it.