Last Epoch

Last Epoch Dev Tracker




13 May

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Originally posted by Anexio

Regarding other platforms, will they all be able to play together, or is it separated to each platform?

We'll have cross-platform play in mind when developing but nothing to confirm here yet.

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Originally posted by [deleted]

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Oh, I see how what I said could have been interpreted that way. You cannot gear pets directly but the gear that you wear can include bonuses to pet health, damage, crit chance, dodge rating, defenses, and more. More interested pet-related gear coming soon too ;)

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Originally posted by YaniH7

Been playing the pre-Alpha demo and I'm loving it. Plan on backing very soon but I was just curious if there are any further plans for polearms and/or thrown weapons (specificially spears/javelins/etc) whether the plans are for weapons themselves or skills relating to them? I know that the Beastmaster currently has a couple of Polearm skills but is there anything further in the works? I would also like to say I'm very happy with how the game has handled melee weapons in relation to their skills.

We'll have many more base types added, including more polearms from what you're able to find in the demo. As far as throwing weapons, our lead developer has been lightly playing a Titan Quest update that introduced them and he's been raving about them so it's likely we'll see some throwing weapons introduced too. Stay tuned!

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Originally posted by illusiveman150

Any idea on how end game gear is looking like? In D3, sets are king. It's very rare in D3 to be running end game without sets. In D2, I feel most sets were just fine in end game and helped leveling in early/mid game (Sigons set, Arctic set, etc), but they were there to help you gear into better uniques and rune words. I don't want sets to be the must have of Last Epoch.

Set's will not overshadow very well rolled magic items(magic covers what you think of as rares in the Diablo series) or uniques. Diablo 2 did sets best in our opinion.

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Originally posted by carlbeck

Who is the coolest 4yo girl you've met in the last 24 hours?

Elanor! (right?) We both like Peppa Pig - she's ok in my book. :)

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Originally posted by LoneStar64

Has this been asked, MP? Sorry if repeat been working a lot so I can support Last Epoch

Yes, Last Epoch will have multiplayer and associated systems!

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Originally posted by Helmera

Where did the time travel idea come from?

Also im working on my own project with C#. Any tips for game development?

Our time travel is deeply inspired by Chrono Trigger, an SNES RPG. If you haven't played it, I highly recommend it.

  • Always ask for critical feedback - people telling you that something is good doesn't help you!
  • Schedule at least an hour a day to work on your project so you actually complete it.
  • Beware of scope creep.

12 May

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Originally posted by Kedgannn

Druids! DRUIDS! DRUIDS!

I set it before and I shall say it again will my Wolfies! be beast of destruction or simply crowds dying instantly.

PS: Your fellow Dog Lover

So the big difference between Beastmaster and Necromancer is that a Beastmaster cares about his pets. As a Beastmaster you will not want to let any of your pets die as it will have an impact on your situation. They will be more durable than a necromancer's skeletons as long as you don't completely ignore the proper gear and passives. We plan to continue to improve the Beastmasters toolkit and you'll really start to see the synergistic abilities with bear taunts, enrages when a companion dies, the ability to flank, etc.

TLDR; Beasts of destruction confirmed.

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Originally posted by Zaekath

Is the game meant to be designed around creating a single version of a particular class (D3) or will there be permanent allocations which would incentive players to play the same class multiple times in order to try different builds for that class? (PoE, D2)?

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.

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Originally posted by iApplepet

When you finish the PC version, will there be plans for the Nintendo Switch/Xbox One/PS4 consoles?

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 :)

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Originally posted by Majjhika

Will there be quest-like challenges similar to races, but for individual prizes with less competitive pressure? I've been playing Eternium which gets quite repetitive at the end game, so the main thing that brings me back to it are the events with collection or defeat goals and bonuses. I think it would be cool to include other kinds of questing to look for hidden easter eggs in Last Epoch. My kids and I just started listening to Ready Player One on Audible and my daughter commented how much she loves this kind of challenge.

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.

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Originally posted by JerleGamer

Does this mean EHG frown on opie opie builds like COC/Mjolnir/wander builds in POE and hammerdins in D2?

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.

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Originally posted by UrBoyJC

  1. What are the team's plans on frequency of patches?
  2. What is your opinion on smaller, more frequent patches versus larger patches?

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.

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Originally posted by JerleGamer

Hi Judd, this sounds very similar to the POE experience. I think someone mentioned in the LE Devblog about POE's party play which is that POE appears to be a single player game with multiplayer as an afterthought. D3 and POE are online only ARPGs so even single players are compelled to partipate in the online community somewhat. But with LE offering offline play, it appears there are little incentives for playing online? (PS: I understand leaderboards and such are mentioned, but other key attractions for online such as multiplay and trading appears limited, I am not sure the former is sufficient to incentivise players to go online?)

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.

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Originally posted by Veldara

Any plans on adding rifle/pistol weapons for my favorite class the Marksman?

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

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Originally posted by genesisFuz

nice! and i assume the game price will also be $19.99 or $24.99?

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.


06 May

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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.

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30 Apr

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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...

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Controller support is our first stretch goal for Kickstarter :)


23 Apr

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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