Last Epoch Dev Tracker

The zookeeper is one of my personal favorites when it comes to build archetypes. Summoning a pantheon of pets to fight along side me is great! With our limited number of action bar slots, players who take mostly pets have very few actions that they can take moment to moment in gameplay. We want to give the zookeeper a more active role in their adventure. We also want the Primalist pets to feel like they are a part of your character and to form a real bond. With these goals in mind, we have made several changes to the pet system.

1. Primalist pets are now companions. They are still minions and will still be affected by minion affixes. Companions include the: wolf, scorpion, sabretooth, bear and spriggan. Temporary pets like the serpent and totems like thorn totem are not companions.

2. When a companion runs out of health they enter a downed state and can be revived by the player. If you neglect to revive your minion for a significant period of time, they ...

Patch 0.6.1 is currently in QA and should be released in under a week.

Since the last patch we have been hard at work optimizing and upgrading the graphics in Last Epoch. Today I’d like to share a few of the changes that we have made so far. Many framerate issues were caused by either grass or real-time lighting.

To resolve the bad performance with shadows we have begun the process for baking shadows into the levels, as well as swapping our real-time shadows to a new solution that uses a Monte Carlo method to blend hard shadows.

The main advantage of baked effects is they are entirely calculated on our end, rather than being created by your computer. This means that baked effects are much more performant - but the downside is that they cannot adapt to changing conditions in the game, making them better suited for objects that don’t move. This allows us to make the shadows on Medium look as good as the shadows previously did on Ultra, while performing better.

Don’t apologize! Please do keep 'em coming.

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Our web developer established that automated badge assignment could fail when the account was registered mid-purchase, and has pushed a fix for this which is now live.

See? I’m not the only one who works on the weekend!

Thanks for the report!

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I tracked down why Firefox was using the Discourse logo for favicon and corrected the issue.

Our web developer has found and corrected an additional bug which could result in automated badge assignment to fail. This was limited to people paying using PayPal.

Identified & corrected an issue which could cause people not active on the forum to lose their supporter badges. Please e-mail [email protected] if you were affected by this.

Thanks for the feedback!

I’m not sure if that would make it easier to notice, but I’ll definitely bring this up internally.
 

This is something we’ll definitely be implementing, regardless of the aesthetics of our user interface. It’s just an example of work we haven’t quite gotten around to just yet.