Hello Travelers,

Welcome to the second Pre-Patch Blog Post! Today we’re going to be highlighting some of the Quality of Life changes, as well as a few other changes, coming with the Last Epoch 1.1 : Harbingers of Ruin update on July 9th.

While we’ll be covering some hot topics today, fear not, the full Patch Notes will cover everything being added, changed, or fixed in 1.1! (Looks at word count of the Patch Note post) Make sure to set some time aside to read those.

Mechanical Changes

In this section we’re covering some of the much requested quality of life updates to the most commonly used mechanics in game that should help Travelers as they progress through Eterra, even our Alt-oholics too!

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Thanks for the feedback

And we’re back to “it’s not that simple”

Yes you do. That suggestion would introduce a level of jank that may have been ok for us 6 years ago but we aren’t willing to have it look like that right now.

Because you can’t move and shoot in two different directions at the same time.

It’s really just what’s already been said on this thread so I won’t just say it all again.

Currently every animation assumes that the movement and casting directions are the same at all times. Allowing moving one way and casting the other either redoing every player animation in the game means you will see people moonwalking all over the place.

Every ability in the game assumes that the player is facing the directing that they are moving. If this becomes false, hundreds of abilities, cast and triggered, need to be checked, updated and tested. I wasn’t even thinking of this before so tack another thousand dev hours onto my previous estimate.

I’m sure there are other things I’m not thinking about too. When you’re making the systems, you make every time optimization you can. Anything you know is going to be one way every time can be used to make the game run faster. We’ve used the knowledge that the player is moving and casting in the same direction all over the pl...

It is a mandatory step and we can’t ship WASD controls without it.

This is a major feature that can’t be completed quickly.

Yea, that’s the hard part. Disassociating the targeting direction from movement direction adds a few thousand extra dev hours if everything goes perfectly.

Please remember to follow the Code of Conduct. I’m closing this thread due to multiple CoC violations (I will be going back and cleaning up the thread), in addition to this conversation going in a constant circle.

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