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Welcome Travelers to our May Development Update for Last Epoch. It has been a little while since our last post, so oh boy, do we have a lot to share with you today. We are going to be sharing our progress on several big initiatives we’ve been working on, including multiplayer, visual and combat polish, and performance. We are also excited to announce that today marks the first day of our closed community testing for Multiplayer in Last Epoch.

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Thank you for the great feedback! We’re certainly looking at these very things behind the scenes ourselves and reviewing them, but having this kind of feedback from the community as well is fantastic! While others may not agree, I personally see this feedback as a win from the event perspective since it shows that at least part of the community (yourselves) did enjoy the core idea, and had investment into it to the extent of making this kind of feedback.

This community designed unique event has been a bit of an experiment in this kind of thing. We’re not aware of an event like this having happened before, particularly with this much creative control given in the event. Overall, we’re very happy with the level of community involvement, and the results of it, but like any time you do something for the first time, there’s certainly aspects that could be improved upon. Once the event concludes, I might write a post discussing this, however we’re certainly analyzing the same kinds...

For clarification: The unique effect is a community member’s suggestion, and it being a “flagbearer’s spear” is an interpretation of how the unique effect works - it’s not coming from our unique design team - as we might normally mention the intention behind the design had we designed it. The art is something from our team, which is based on The Lost Refuge being a combination of many Eterran cultures creating makeshift weapons as a last stand against the void.

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the fifth week of the Community Designed Unique event!

Last week we posted the poll for what the item’s Unique Effect would be. For this poll, the community came up with some really exciting ideas. I saw a lot of people talking about theorycrafting and different potential routes each of the unique effects could take really showing just how great these unique effects were.

As the poll came to a close, it was decided that the unique effect will be:

Volcanic Orb is converted to Void damage
+Directly Casting Volcanic Orb grants a stack of Corrupted Heraldry
+Chance to gain a stack of Corrupted Heraldry when hit by Volcanic Orb Shrapnel
+Gain X% movement speed, X% increased mana regen, and +X spell void damage per stack of Corrupted Heraldry
+All stacks of Corrupted Heraldry are lost upon using a movement skill

This unique effect has some very interesting prospects a number of commu...

Hello Travelers,

Every Friday at 3:00pm CDT we host a dev stream with Mike, one of our game designers, as an opportunity to catch up with our community, help answer questions, and just be part of the community ourselves. Each month, we pick a new charity for the weekly dev streams. All income from Subscriptions, Donations, and Bits are donated to the charity. Back in March we started raising funds for UNICEF’s Ukraine children relief fund. Alongside setting this charity for the stream, we also set forth a promise to match the communities donations. When April rolled around, and we hadn’t met our goal, we decided to extend this fundraiser through April, as well as continuing the match promise.

With this fundraiser through both March and April the community raised a total of $1,525.42 through the stream in subscriptions, bits, and donations. With other direct contributions, as well as our promise to match these donations (and a bit of rounding up), Eleventh Hour Games wi...

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by “release the game”? Last Epoch is currently fully playable. We’re working on remaining features as hard as we can, and they will be released as soon as they’re able to be - we’re not just holding onto core game features for some timeline. So my question here, is what to you would it mean to “release” that isn’t already available?

Your current characters are offline characters, and the current plan is for you to retain those offline characters and continue to play them now and in the future offline. We will not do any sort of character wipe unless we have absolutely no choice - We understand players have put a lot of time a...

When we have any sort of unique ideas we have to process, they have to go through our senior game designers to a.) ensure they ‘can’ be made to work in the game world, and b.) they make sense to exist within the game world. The problem with submitting “a full unique” as a suggestion, is that it almost certainly couldn’t be implemented. When we create Supporter Uniques, it usually takes a couple of weeks of back and forth and internal iterations and tests to result in a unique to be implemented. That’s for one item.

However, we did to an extent have this. Throughout all previous posts, users have been able to submit unique effects for this poll. Other community members then voted for top options by ‘liking’ those suggestions (leaving a heart). All of these options in this poll are unique effects submitted by community members, which we then went over with our design team and tweaked to a “base” implementable form. We’ve left the implicit and other affixes to our desig...

When we were reviewing the submissions for the unique effects, we certainly discussed if we wanted to add additional options of our own that were more generic since the community submissions were more limited by particular skills. However for a few reasons, one of which was the integrity of it being a “Community Designed Unique”, we decided to only put forth suggestions submitted by community members. However we will continue to internally design more unique items which have stronger cross-class potential.

That particular unique effect would convert both Firebrand, and Fireball to void, chance to cast Fireball on Firebrand hit, and provide Fireball a chance to pierce

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the fourth round of voting for the Community Designed Unique event!

Last Week we polled for the Community’s decision regarding the item theme. It turned out to be an extremely close race. While they were all great thematic options for the Unique item, two options were constantly fighting for the top spot, often tied, other times one would pull ahead by a single percentage, then the places would reverse. Eventually, in the final hours, one choice emerged the victor.

In one corner was the theme of “Tri-Elemental”. Sporting one of the core themes of the Mage class itself, Tri-Elemental would focus around, this particular class theme as the item theme. There were a lot of great ideas for what kind of unique effects we might see out of a tri-elemental weapon: True displays of why the Elders of the College are so revered for their mastery of this art.

In the other corner, was The Lost Refuge (also known as Rat City). The Lost Refuge rep...

Doing the necessary, and critical math I would never dare. Great job! I’ll just trust your numbers are correct. Though it does leave me to wonder how much the odds would change if the Sentinel had a shield of bees?

I just happened to see this post and wanted to quickly mention: While it can absolutely be a great idea to have posts to discuss certain ideas to provide them to the pool - when we review for community suggestions to include in following polls we’re only looking at replies to the main threads. So once you have an idea you’re confident in - make sure to make it a reply to those threads so we will see it for consideration!

This could manifest in many ways, it depends on what aspect we’re referring to. Some ideas of how this could manifest for design:

• low-tech/makeshift weaponry (referring to the last stand effort)
• infringement of corruption/the void (referring to how they were losing the fight)
• abnormally defensive (eg. large guards) (referring to them holding out)
• combination of different Eterran cultures (referring to how humanity from across Eterra took refuge here)
• unstable (referring to the desperation of their situation)

The Lost Refuge was one of the first retreats of humanity as The Void encroached upon Eterra. During the campaign you encounter this area long after it has fallen to the void, however it has a backstory of one being an underground city under siege by the void, and banding together for a final stand. You can read a journal during the quest that outlines some of the final days of the Lost Refuge. At the quest turn-in, you have the option to lie, and state that it was the last refugees wishes for their refuge to be called “Rat City”. So its inclusion is not referring to its current state as a void overrun area, but its history as one of the last bastions of humanity.

Sounds like we might have another Immortal Emperor in the making here…