moxjet200

Early 2000s - completely obsessed with D2, probably 15k hours Late 2000s - painful ARPG drought but WoW filled the void Early 2010s - PoE 8k hours, highly anticipating grim dawn, Umbra (Wolcen) felt like it was never going to release, D3 hugely disappointing at release (personal opinion) Mid 2010s - marvel heroes ~6k hours, Grim Dawn ~5k hours

By late 2010s I had seen all the greatness and flaws of these games and wanted to combine and push the best aspects of all of them in a single package and decided to form a little team of after hours ARPG-addicts to design Last Epoch. Now we’ve grown from an after hours team of ~8 from Reddit to over 75 full time and nearing our 1.0 release, tidying up thousands of things across the game and it all feels very surreal. Greatest genre in the history of games and thrilled to be contributing to it.

Agree that better tutorialization and discoverability of the loot filter in-game would be beneficial. We have plans for moving it outside of the gameplay settings area where it’s often times overlooked and not prominent enough

We’re certainly focusing heavily on this right now. We have many people dedicated solely to addressing bugs and polish up till 1.0 and have even brought in two additional developers to focus on chewing through the bug list! I expect our bug fix section in the 0.9.2 patch notes to be massive.

Have it queued to talk about these in an upcoming design meeting

Getting back to you on this! We discussed this in our design meeting today and the team agreed that what you’re pointing out is a real issue that we want to solve and the issue is two-part: the disappointment when a unique with LP has a worse than hoped for outcome with a large time investment but also the slower than ideal continued item progression very late game which puts so much emphasis on these moments. We’re looking to solve this with item factions giving an increased rate of item progression late game in their respective bonuses. We decided that we don’t want to have a crafting material that reverts a legendary craft but rather provide ways to have more chances to obtain these types of crafts more quickly. We suspect that item factions and our plans around them will help this tremendously, though if we see that this doesn’t help in the way that we’re hoping we will continue to iterate.

Thank you for raising the topic, it turned into a good discussion with the team...

Sorry you feel that way. I’ll say that we have a ton of planned updates and content that we’ll be releasing in the upcoming months and years and perhaps you’ll enjoy the game better in the future. If you have any specific feedback on what you feel is making the game not up to your liking we may be able to act on it

Love the visual mock-up! This would be a very powerful material - I’ll put it in the same discussion thread on our internal channels

Your logic is sound. I’ll take this to our design team to discuss. Thanks for taking the time to write this

Come give it a shot! I suspect you’ll like it. I built my team out of people who deeply love this genre to combine and push the bar on the best aspects that have existed. Many people are getting hundreds or even thousands of hours of gameplay from their purchase already. We have an incredible amount more planned and for the community to be excited about in the next couple years.

• Judd, game director/CEO

Happy to hear you’re enjoying it and we appreciate you taking the time to say this. I’ll screenshot and share with my team this morning - I’m sure it’ll give everyone a boost. Cheers!

Congratulations to you and your significant other!

Disciplines needed to update this consist of a combination of level design, tech art, and UI designers, which are still pretty limited. Those same disciplines have been on things like performance, necessary UI updates, and reworking outdated chapter and end game content. There will still be plenty of work on things post 1.0, though we are hoping to find time for this before. We actually have a branch with a different map outline design that shows some promise but that’s only a portion of it. We’ll get there!

Haha very rare to see! And yes, 4x T7 is possible.

We’re very aware of this. We intend to tackle in from both reducing brightness in some zones and changing the overlay map outline visuals. It hasn’t reached the top of the priority list but it’s certainly talked about a lot internally and tracked as an upcoming sprint task

They’re great!

We’re working on them right now but they’re not in game yet!

So, I feel compelled to share a story looking at your setup. It looks like you may be a security officer of some sort due to the camera screens - when I was 12-14 playing Diablo 2 non stop, staying up way way too late because I was entirely obsessed, I gamed frequently late night with an overnight security guard. Sometimes we’d have to pause our bloody foothills or Baal runs because something showed up on his camera monitors. Those were some of my favorite times and were very formative in my obsession for Diablo-likes and played a big role in why Epoch exists.

Anyway, glad you’re enjoying the game!

Glad you think so - we do too. There’s a lot to look forward and much planned for post 1.0!

I vote yes.

We’re knocking out those bugs as fast as possible and have big plans for end game additions! Thanks for the recommendation, Nepodobni. Glad you’re enjoying it and welcome to the community, WildAd