Why did you end up going with the term "Season" instead of "Cycle"? The game is about Time, I thought "Cycle 2, Cycle 3, Cycle 4..." had a nice thematic ring to it, and would actually fit into the lore of the End of Time. I imagine because Season is more generic and easily identifiable?

Because our content is released to both Legacy and Cycle, Online and Offline, there is a distinction between the "Cycle" game mode, which is a fresh start typically coinciding with the release of a major content addition, and the Season, which is (now) the term for the new major content release. This separation would make less sense if new content was exclusive to the fresh start environment, as it is in some other games.

We already started discussions during the event of how we can incorporate content similar to Loyalists within the game as a standard feature. The Loyalist Undead weren't designed to be a core part of the game as is (to every echo, in the quantity that they were). As a limited time event feature, they offered a lot of power, and were outside of the standard game balance for difficulty to be extra exciting, however that doesn't make as much sense in standard game balance. Keeping extensive power creep for longer makes it that much harder to eventually pull.

We already have some plans for something similar to return, which we'll be talking about with other Season 2 news once we start diving into details.

Haha, for sure! We wanted to mention that we have more systems coming, but not quite ready to share the details on them. Keep an eye out for when we start posting more detailed information about Season 2!

Part of the nature of an event, the event only lasts for a time! We're happy to hear you enjoyed the event and the Loyalists, I know I did as well!

The Undead Loyalists were part of the Imperial Uprising event. It's likely the mechanic will make a return at some point. For more information on the end of the event, check out the wrap-up post here: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/the-immortal-uprising-end-of-event-wrap-up/74245

Hello Travelers,

We are currently planning some server maintenance taking place Tomorrow, 10/9/2024 at 9:00 CT (14:00 UTC) . During this time, we will be making a number of backend service changes as part of our ongoing efforts to improve transition times and overall online performance. We do not anticipate any disruption in game services. However, if at any point you notice a change or disruption in the ability to play, please let us know immediately.

Thank you all, and we will see you in Eterra!

We have just released a small hotfix reverting the stash tab optimization changes from 1.1.7.2 due to inventory graphical issues. We will continue investigating this to get a new fix out as soon as possible.

We just released a new hotfix to resolve this issue. We will be continuing to investigate stash optimization to get a new fix out ASAP.

We're currently working on getting a hotfix out ASAP for this issue.

Using character name instead of account name display in-game means it's much more confusing to figure out who is who in general chat, or grouping with people. Particularly for players that jump characters a lot, or don't use uniform character naming like "EHG_Kain_ShieldBash". There's certainly arguments to be made for both sides, but we decided to use account names as the representing name to make for more consistent social experiences with other players, and get to know other players.

That's correct, yes.