You’re not the only one that experiencing some performance issues, especially in certain areas or around certain effects/events. Plenty of optimization efforts still in the works and rolling out each patch. What you’re describing seems more severe than most though so there may be some software/hardware incompatibility lurking on the machine you’re playing on. Hopefully the updates we have coming down the pipe resolve it for you though - keep a look out for patches!
No, it doesn't change your DPS at all. It just allows you to apply the DoT less frequently, or stack up more DoT effects at a time. It will keep doing the same amount of damage every time it ticks, but it will tick for a longer period of time.
As an example, let's say you have a DoT that does 100 DPS and lasts 5 seconds, for a total of 500 damage. If you give it +100% DoT duration, it does 100 DPS and lasts 10 seconds, dealing a total of 1000 damage. The stat is good for DoTs that can be applied multiple times, as increasing the duration of each DoT will allow more of them to be stacked at once.
Thanks for helping the community u/federalX, that is the right answer :)
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Read moreIt’s a good idea. If it’s not in our backlog of things to add in the future I’ll go ahead and add it. Thanks for the suggestion @quitesatisfied
Hey @Vatinas, very glad to hear you and your friends are enjoying the game! We believe that amassing a very high stack of common shards is not 100% ideal either and there are a number of ideas circulating internally on changes that may benefit the crafting system while addressing this. I don’t have anything to share yet because I’d hate to say “this is what we’re doing” and then change course, but just know that we are aware and agree with your sentiment.
Hey everyone, thanks for the continued great suggestions. One piece of functionality I’m very excited to share with you all in 0.8.2 is the ability to pick up items without moving the virtual cursor over them. This is being changed to smart area detection and you’ll be able to cycle through items on the ground by pressing up or down on the d-pad. We’ve put plenty of testing and love in to this functionality which helps moment to moment gameplay quite a bit. I’ll continue to poke around for feedback on this after it’s released in the late May (082) patch.
I can see how that can be confusing. What I can do is have the team add a better ALT (more info) description underneath it to clarify.
Perhaps a chat command like /summon_loot, with a minute (or two or five)cooldown, that just drags all loot from location under character?
That's an interesting idea for sure. I'll bring this up with the dev team in our next meeting. Thanks for the suggestion
nice personal response to their issue!
btw you tag and notify users with a u/ instead of an @.
Thanks for the tip, u/wheresmattynow! Long time lurker making more posts these days :)
Hey all, yes sorry that this happens sometimes! It’s on our radar and while we don’t have a silver bullet for it yet this upcoming patch we are increasing the pickup range which should help in a lot of cases. @justoutoftime I’m sorry - this image literally pains my soul haha. We’ll fix it!
Dev mentioned on one of their recent livestreams they may add sounds to the loot filter similar to the way you can choose colors for drops. However, they won't allow people to add their own sounds
This is correct. Thank you, Muso!
Essentially the game is not server authoritative yet and someone has discovered that they can cheat/exploit this and are exposing it. We have a few social systems like the ladder that we have to monitor a bit more closely for this reason for the mean time. Multiplayer release will come with most logic existing on the server instead of the client and change the majority of what that post is referring to - and should alleviate their concerns. Sarno removed their post because it’s against our ToS to cheat and having more people obtain info on how to do this just causes more manual work for us before these systems are brought to server authority.
I can see how that person would be concerned if none of this was changing for multiplayer, but it is. The way we’ve developed it will allow us to support offline single player as well in the long run.
Good luck!
Hey Morbo, very happy to hear Last Epoch is making the genre more appealing to you!
We’re aware that the inability to do this is not ideal and it’s in our log of things to tackle. We have some good stuff coming for Druid in a couple patches and hopefully we can improve this functionality with that release.
Those outliers are putting a major fire under us to ensure this is shored up as quickly as possible and until then we're rotating the dev team to monitor chat.
That's a damn shame.
Kind of on the topic of social stuff though, do you guys have any concrete plans on guilds and guild functionality? I mean, just a guild chat would be amazing (and might alleviate the problems in global chats somewhat).
Concrete plans for them, not at the moment. If it’s a common request after multiplayer is launched or we come up with a cool guild system idea I wouldn’t rule it out though
Not bad, sir! Not bad at all :)
We're working on it! I know we say this at a high level quite often which isn't always the most satisfying answer. Our main goals this last week were to make scene transitioning, which requires spinning up additional remote servers, more optimal. This basically boils down to... "load faster!!". We've brought in some very talented engineers over the last year that are ensuring we're in good standing on the technical side of things.
As far as when... all we can say is when it's ready. I can promise that we're working very diligently with many engineers on it. Thanks for your patience - we're very excited to get it right and bring it to everyone.
We have some great controller improvements coming in 0.8.3 actually! One being the proximity based item pickups which is feeling very nice. I'm particularly excited about this because I play with a controller 90% of the time due to some pretty intense RSI myself.
Gamepad didn't get much love the last couple patches because our main developer that was working on those features moved into multiplayer development tasks which took priority. We've since then moved another developer into those tasks and we're picking them back up again. Good stuff on its way!
this morning there were people openly abusing the lack of chat moderation by posting extremely racist comments that seemed to be one-uping each other to see how far they could go before they got banned.
The in game reports needs to happen soon! Thanks!
When we catch people doing things that are blatantly trying to harm the game experience for others at this magnitude they are being game banned. Fortunately, the vast majority of players have been fostering good community discussion. Those outliers are putting a major fire under us to ensure this is shored up as quickly as possible and until then we're rotating the dev team to monitor chat. Thanks for bearing with us
Yea, I agree that our dialogue window needs a little refresh. A lot of work being done with UI this patch and up to 1.0
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