Last Epoch Dev Tracker

There will be a cost associated with reallocating your characters skills and passives so if players like the character they have and would like to try another build it's likely that they will re-roll another character of the same class. They of course can spend less effort altering their current character but it won't be as easy to switch skills/passives as, say, Diablo III, but less punishing than PoE.

We'd love to have as many people playing Last Epoch as possible! After release we'll be a in a better position to answer this question. Unity does make it fairly easy to export to other platforms so, if we have the funds, it's likely we'll get there. My son and I would love to play Epoch on our Switch :)

Having challenging content with more deterministic rewards is something that we plan to have via monster/boss -specific drop tables. I think the Epoch's Call and the Monolith system may fill this role decently.

I'd love to hear what you think would be fun in this regard.

I wouldn't say that we frown upon builds like that but the major issue with those builds is that players feel pigeonholed into playing them because they are noticeably more powerful than other options.

We want to keep content fresh for our playerbase and will be releasing small content patches frequently, however we will save larger changes for patches that are released less frequently.

There are lots of reasons to play online! You have access to races, leaderboards, PvP, group play, trading, chatting, safe storage of your character server-side, the ability to gain XP/items a bit faster if organized, some class synergies (think paladin with heals or warlocks with debuffs). The team expects to see over 80% of players play online.

We've discussed adding these in an expansion but there are no details at the moment.

The game will be free to play up to level 20 so that you can try before you buy and then be $14.99 supported by selling cosmetic items that make your character look even cooler.

Thanks for the feedback!

As other people have said, the balance is in its early stages but we are actively working on it and we are balancing around Veteran.

We most likely will not have character customization for a couple of reasons. We are focusing very heavily on class identity and each character class having a distinct look is a big part of that. Cost is also a serious concern, even just having male and female versions of the characters would double the modeling time for our artists, both for the character models and all the associated armor sets. We're open to discussing it, but for now our team is not planning to have customization of that variety.

We do have camera zoom, it's the mouse scroll wheel.

All the UI is work in progress. The style/color-scheme is reflective of how we want it, but it will absolutely be getting an overhaul.

Levels are also placeholder, we are not planning to use these levels in the final game.

A lot of...

Thanks for the feedback!

You can press escape to close all windows right now, and we will be implementing keybinding soon.

Regarding pace, as /u/Sartuk said, the rate of gaining skills, experience, and items is highly accelerated for the demo so that players can get a feel for the gameplay and character customization. The rate of progression will be slowed down drastically for the final game.

There are multiple difficulties, if the demo is to easy try a higher one!

Performance is something we are actively working on, and we have made some very significant performance improvements in the past couple patches. Performance issues aren't the fault of Unity, but because Unity is such an easy platform to develop on, a lot of poorly optimized games are made with Unity. We've also only recen...

Controller support is our first stretch goal for Kickstarter :)

If you do a crafting 101, you should add the info to the wiki page on crafting, that would be really helpful for new players! https://lastepoch.gamepedia.com/Crafting

Correct! Here's a little added detail:

Shattering stones drop from lv6 enemies and above, but enemy level doesn't exactly correlate to character level, so "early on" is an accurate descriptor.

Correct on the potion. The flask gains charges as you kill enemies, so you don't have to look for potions. There will be some small tweaks to the potion in the next patch which improve how it scales later on in the game. Our design team is actively discussing the potion's place in our design long-term so you may see some changes in the future.

The demo does have to be redownloaded when we release a new patch, we announce new patches on the ...

 I feel like finding a near perfect white base should be almost as promising to craft on as finding an item with 3 mods you want (keeping in mind having to find more shards to craft on a white base)

We're setting up the crafting system so that it's easier to craft on an existing item rather than crafting from scratch. That way it's better to find an item close to what you want, and improve it. If it was easier to craft from a white item, it would be more optimal to shatter all the items you find with good stats rather than looking for items you want.

I was almost sure that this was the case, but the fractures on boots were absolutely ridiculous

That's mostly a factor of sample size, and what items you're crafting on. You were definitely a bit unlucky on those crafts, which is unfortunate, but with any system with randomness, it's bound to happen sometimes. Hope you have better luck crafting those boots going forwards!

That helmet (Decayed Skull) was definitely a bit boring before, we've given it a bit more flavor in the next patch. Here's a sneak peek

That's a lot of crafting! :D

Solid feedback, we've definitely noticed the lack of good prefixes for armor and we have talked about moving added health to being a prefix.

Increased Movement Speed (even while crafted first, feels like an unreasonable brick rate)<

Different affixes don't have different fracture chances, do you think the fracture chance is too high overall?