ekimarcher

I'm sorry that we aren't making a game that you are interested in.

I feel no shame for this design decision.

I mean, you don't have to google this to figure it out though. Googling it is the fastest way to learn it but that's only half of the mastery. Putting that information into action is the primary step in the mastery of the mechanic.

Yea, you're good. I'm just about to step into a meeting but I don't think it's a better control scheme for the game. I think it gives you the opportunity to do maneuvers that would otherwise be impossible.

As a kid extreme example, take resident evil 1 vs 4. 4 has the "better" controls. But REmake would have been way worse if they had "upgraded" the controls.

For most players it's dangerous and good to not stand in. Some advanced strategies can be employed when you learn advanced information. I think this is the definition of easy to learn, hard to master.

Go ahead, I don't think it proves what you want it to prove though.

All I can really say is that we're working on it.

I really hope they fix specific ground dot effects ignoring ward and damaging health. Its been an issue for awhile now like in that arena with the two necrotic circles or the necrotic dragon boss.

This isn't actually a bug, that's just how that ability works. It deals percent current hp damage so it can never actually kill you.

If it makes you feel any better I used a calculator after your post to make sure.

The primary method of control for the game links your targeting and movement positions to the same point, your mouse cursor. If we include WASD movement then you can move left and shoot right at the same time. Now you might just be thinking, "yea, that's what I want". It's a not insignificant advantage. Suddenly the way you have to play is with WASD movement if you want to be competitive. This is a deal breaker for us.

Ok so no WASD movement but we still have the feedback that clicking too much for movement is a problem. So to combat this, we've given 2 alternate movement control options.

Force Move: you can bind a key to the new move action. This is a keyboard button that is the same as clicking your mouse at a location. So it's the same thing as normal movement but it doesn't need a click.

Controller Support: alternatively you can just use a controller. No clicking required at all.

Now, one last thing, you're possibly wondering why we allow moving ...

What is 7+7+7+5+4?

Also what Kain said to get to 33.

Each affix can exist as tier 1-7 (7 being the best).

An item is often described as the sum of its tiers.

Tier 5 is the highest craftable tier. Each item can have 4 affixes by default.

T20 generally means 4xT5.

This is the easy benchmark of a "finished" simple item.

Once you get deeper into the end game, you frequently have exalted items, those with a purple, T6 or T7 affix. You'll also start to seal affixes onto items, thus using a "secret" 5th affix slot. This can get items up to a higher net tier. T25 is very high. It is almost impossible to get to T30.

Currently we use Forum for things that generally use full sentences. We then use Cinzel for shorter descriptions and titles. It's the all caps font in game.

The new Last Epoch font will be replacing Cinzel everywhere.

Also, this was the first time I've been an extremely tiny part of the design process for a new font and it was surprisingly cool to watch. We contracted some really accomplished font designers to make it and I really like it a lot.

I'm sorry to say that we recently debated adding this in a game design meeting. We are intentionally not adding WASD movement to Last Epoch at this time.

We still appreciate getting feedback from players who do and don't want to see this added to the game. It will not be a 1.0 feature.

Please keep your replies constructive everyone.

Edit: please don't downvote the replies if you disagree with them.

With any live service game that has been in early access for as long as we have, the 1.0 distinction is fairly arbitrary. It really just marks the point where we are happy to present it to the world as a product up to our standards. Even when the campaign is "finished", the story telling won't.

We've run a few surveys and read a metric !@#$ ton of feedback and feel that the feature set and timing we are going to release 1.0 with will be the best for the game. It won't be perfect for everyone but we think it's going to be awesome.

Please see the announcement post from this morning for the most up to date information of what we are working on.

I could be wrong but I don't think we have said another story chapter is coming at 1.0 for a really long time now. If you know of an official post saying something else then I'm probably just wrong.

I do see a lot of posts that state wrong information with confidence to the point that it seems like it must be true. I try to set those straight but even a misleading topic title can be enough to seed that false information.

Edit: I also don't think we've said it would be full campaign for a few years now.

Well, lots of the little details are still unrevealed but the main things are item factions, warlock and falconer.

You can see lots of info in the dev update that went out this morning.

One thing to note is that the no new campaign chapters are coming at 1.0. The campaign will be completed across future updates.

It's both. You can't trade items with an item faction requirement. CoF and MG requirements to equip both prevent the item from being traded.

Because you wouldn't be able to post any of the items you found while in CoF.

Edit: I re-read what you posted here and your last one too and I think you might want to read the FAQ at the bottom of the initial Item Factions announcement post.

I think we might have slight terminology mix up. The only way to get favour for a faction is to represent that faction and play the game. That's like the core requirement of how the whole faction system works. You "put on a tabard" (not literally) and go represent that faction out in the world. Your deeds for that faction are recognized by that faction with favour. You can then use that favour to get stuff from that faction.

You can't get favour for MG while representing CoF. I feel like this should be intuitive but worth being clear on just in case.

The system is designed so that most people will play as one or the other almost exclusively but if you decide that the grass is greener, you can switch. We are intentionally not incentivizing switching. I'm sure there will be exceptions where some people do switch back and forth but for the most part, it's pick the playstyle you like more. We aren't trying to give you 2 tools to use, we're trying to give you 1 of 2 tool...