Last Epoch Dev Tracker

Good Callout! We've actually changed this for 0.9 in multiplayer. The result is that you're sent back to the monolith stone in the hub, not sent back to End of Time 'town' upon completing the final monolith quest. Currently in offline you're sent back to End of Time instead of the monolith Hub. We are looking into updating it to also send you to the monolith rock in the Hub for offline as well.

The reason it doesn't send you back to the rest zone (the zone you arrive at after completing a normal web node) after completing the final quest is that you normally also unlock another monolith for you to progress to, and pushing back out to the hub helps complement that. We want to keep the same behavior for empowered for consistency (however now being sent back to the rock in the hub, not the End of Time 'town').

In multiplayer as well, the hub and rest zone are additively loaded with echo zones so there's also no loading going back to the hub or rest zone so you can ...

Thread from 4 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/106788h/fate_of_saves_with_multiplayer

Maybe, we don't have anything actively in development for it but it's also not something we have explicitly avoided. It will likely depend heavily on feedback we receive from 0.9

It's also been in the multiplayer FAQ for a very long time.

We don't have any auto-content matching system or automatic group finder systems that will be coming with patch 0.9 in March.

Just to be super clear, this is how it is planned at the moment and might be slightly altered if we run into a problem.

With internet connected: you can use online characters online or offline characters offline.

Without internet connected: you can use offline characters offline.

The current plan and what will happen unless something goes wrong (unlikely, but it's not fully finished yet) is that you can turn the game client on without being connected to the internet at all and still play your offline characters, offline.

Edit: I'm pretty sure that once the client starts up without an internet connection, you'll probably have to restart the client to be able to get into online mode. This would be an extremely rare case I think though.

I only even mentioned it because someone recently linked an old post on the forums which said that we were going to have separate game clients.

Yes, you'll still only be able to play offline characters offline and online characters online.

No, everything else McFluffin said was right, you'll still only be able to play offline characters offline and online characters online.

Very close and this was what we had said in the past. We no longer are going to be splitting the clients. Now, it's just one client that you can run in offline mode if you want.

Edit: You'll still only be able to play offline characters offline and online characters online.

No need to change it really, I just like to try and give advice to heavily reported posts that I don't remove if I can.

I think you'll see a more positive reaction to a more inclusive set of options. People advocating for fully open trade like D2/PoE don't really have a good option to select here.