Last Epoch Dev Tracker

My three favorite games right there!!! ;)

We'll keep pushing hard, u/Zhalorous!

Haha that's very much appreciated :)

appreciate the kind words, Snaqbar!

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Last Epoch started as an after-hours project that myself and a few other Action-RPG fanatics would pour all our free time into. Within 12 months we were able to launch our Kickstarter campaign which raised just over $250,000. This allowed me to officially bring on a few team members full time and begin laying the foundation for what EHG would become. Since then I have been able to hire over 50 full-time amazing individuals from around the world. This includes people from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Russia and many other countries in between. As a result of the team’s passion and energy we made it onto Steam’s Top Seller list multiple times while still in Early Access and self-publishing. I’m excited...

Thanks for taking the time to post about your concerns.

Polishing an Early Access game is an important part of ensuring it will be ready for release.

To touch on the subjects you raise;

• We've shared that Multiplayer is coming in Patch 0.9 later this year,

• We are actively working on multiple significant changes to itemisation which will affect both loot and crafting

• Patch 0.8.2 (this month's update) focuses on endgame progressio...

Yes; Last Epoch is currently in Phase 3 of its Early Access forecast, and we're actively implementing Phase 3 items.

I'm not quite following why you think it should have happened before now though, sorry.

Could you elaborate on that?

"2021" is the first ETA we've offered for including multiplayer functionality in builds released to the community.

This patch will not. While we are making lots of progress and testing internally there is still more work to do. We're working very diligently with many developers on it and there's no major blockers, it's just an intense amount of engineering. Thanks for your patience, we want to make sure it's done right.

Late this month :)

We've been approached by every publisher and investor under the sun it feels like. We've actually explored this a bit but we're unwilling to lose any decision making power or agility that has gotten us to where we are, so we are still fully independent without outside funding. The funds come from the sales of the game and we've been very fortunate that people have had enough faith in our team and vision to continue to support us by purchasing higher tier supporter packs and spreading the word to their gamer friends. It has been quite a ride, haha!

Hey Joey, we’re excited to let you guys play together more than you can imagine. Multiplayer is one of those things that will be ready when it’s ready but I can assure you that we’re playtesting it internally, working through updates diligently, and when it’s in your hands it will be in a state we believe is solid. For more context, right now we’re addressing server side quest issues related to different party states (party leader and party members at different progressions).

You’re not the only one that experiencing some performance issues, especially in certain areas or around certain effects/events. Plenty of optimization efforts still in the works and rolling out each patch. What you’re describing seems more severe than most though so there may be some software/hardware incompatibility lurking on the machine you’re playing on. Hopefully the updates we have coming down the pipe resolve it for you though - keep a look out for patches!

Thanks for helping the community u/federalX, that is the right answer :)

The support we’ve gained as an indie team has been amazing. We’ve grown this team and game from an after hours project I started in the summer of 2017 to what it is via a modest Kickstarter and the backing of this player base through early access sales. We’re now at the point where funding is what we need to make the game we want to make with a team we’re very confident in. You’ll see a ton of updates to content that was made when we were a much smaller low-budget studio in upcoming patches.

And we’re always listening and asking for feedback! Join our discord and forums for more Epoch discussions with the community and our team https://dis...

I can see how that can be confusing. What I can do is have the team add a better ALT (more info) description underneath it to clarify.

That's an interesting idea for sure. I'll bring this up with the dev team in our next meeting. Thanks for the suggestion