Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Last Epoch
Beta 0.8.1h Release and Patch Notes
Changes
Implemented a workaround for Steam users who had recently purchased Last Epoch and have subsequently had difficulty registering Last Epoch accounts in-game.
If you were affected by this, please use the ‘create an account ᐅ’ prompt beneath the log in fields to register a new account which will be linked to your Steam account.
If you continue to be affected, please try registering an account on our website, and then logging into the game using the account credentials for that account.
Beta 0.8.1g Release and Patch Notes
Changes
Fixed a bug where on kill effects would proc if the player brought themselves below 0 health.
Improved the font for certain characters in chat.
Known Issues
Chat messages sometimes appear twice. This is a server-side issue and we plan to deploy a fix very soon.
Beta 0.8.1f Release and Patch Notes
Social Features
Social Features (including account linking, chat, cosmetic pets and the ladder) are now re-enabled.
Greatly optimized chat performance. We will continue to monitor this.
Fixed a bug causing a “Your account is in use on another device” notification to be displayed at incorrect times.
Last Epoch Accounts
Now that social features are once again available, a Last Epoch account is required to play the game, just as it had been prior to the release of Patch 0.8.1e on Saturday. This account will also be necessary for multiplayer when Patch 0.9 has been released.
The water orbs from Ucenui's Sphere deal 50% more damage.
Added lore text for the following uniques that were added in 0.8.1:
Bhuldar's Wrath
Call of the Tundra
Faith of the Frozen
Gaspar's Will
Gaspar's Acuity
Gaspar's Insight
Herkir's Vessel
Horns of Uhkeiros
Logi's Hunger
Reign of Winter
Bug Fixes
Monolith of Fate
Fixed a bug which could prevent the Empowered versions of each timeline from being unlocked. This fix applies to both new and old characters.
Return to the Empowerment Altar in the middle of the 3 level 90 timelines and click on it to unlock the Empowered Timelines.
User Interface
Fixed a bug where the chat window would not show new messages in some situations.
Fixed a bug where the Forge button in the crafting window would become unusable in some situations.
Fixed a bug where clicking Cancel while creating a new character with Hardcore enabled would cause the Hardcore tickbox to become inverted (i.e. a checkmark means it is disabled).
Removed some false positives from the chat filter.
Zizaran's Unique Item Design Collaboration
Tomorrow a few of our devs will be joining Zizaran to design a unique item!
Unique Item Design Collaborations are available in our Ardent Creator supporter pack. They entail someone deciding details such as the theme of an item, what the item does, and its name & flavor text. Members of our team will work with you to get your item ready for inclusion in a future update.
Our support team often answers questions about design collaborations, so tomorrow a few of us will be joining Zizaran on Twitch so that anyone curious can learn more about the process. Designing unique items is always a lot of fun, so we're really looking forward to it and we hope to see you there!
Catch us at noon CT / 5 PM GMT!
Upcoming Graphical Improvements for Skills
We're working on making skills in Last Epoch look better!
There are many aspects to making skills look impactful, exciting, and "real". One of these is the use of lighting to cause skills to be reflected on nearby surfaces. This is something that we have historically shied away from, primarily due to performance concerns.
Our ongoing optimization work now allows us to begin the process of updating the visual effects used by our skills to contain a number of lights. Both skills available to players and skills used by enemies will be updated in this way where it makes sense for them to use lighting.
Steam won't allow us to embed the videos, but we've prepared a few examples on our official forum.
As we've previously hinted, Patch 0.8.2 will focus heavily on endgame content. Today we're excited to unveil our most complex boss to-date! The Shade of Orobyss is a particularly unpredictable nemesis that appears in a number of distinct forms with differing abilities.
The revamped and expanded Monolith of Fate contains many additional types of Echo, with new rewards awaiting those brave enough to venture inside them. New objectives, new bosses, new types of content, and new meta progression are all coming in this massive update.
In a future post we will detail the changes coming to the Monolith. At its heart is the mysterious Shade of Orobyss, a mysterious entity whose appearance heralds the destruction of an entire Timeline. We'll warn you of some of its most potent abilities ahead of time - but be warned, for one cannot rid the Monolith of the Shade any more than they can stop the sun from rising.
As you journey through the updated Monolith of Fate, the Shade of Orobyss will be drawn ever closer to you. Eventually, either you will find the Shade... or it shall find you.
We’ve been working on an explosive addition to the Acolyte’s toolkit! We’re super excited to be showing you Volatile Zombie, a new summoning spell she will acquire in Patch 0.8.2. Below you can find the tooltip, skill art, and a selection of some of the nodes on its specialization tree.
NOTE: This skill is still in development, so we’ve omitted most numbers from the below tooltips.
Summon Volatile Zombie
The tooltip for Summon Volatile Zombie, Alt text included.
The skill art for Summon Volatile Zombie.
Nodes on Summon Volatile Zombies' Specialization Tree
We're working on the Druid class! While much of this work is being done by our development team, the artists are pitching in with all-new models being created for both Werebear Form and Spriggan Form. These will be accompanied by new animations and visual effects, bringing these up to more modern standards such as those enjoyed by the Rogue class.
A Model Sheet for Werebear Form, featuring material references.
Werebear Form is being made to look like a larger, sturdier, and more realistic shapeshifted form (to the extent that shapeshifting can be made to look "realistic"). It will also be a significantly more detailed, higher quality model. Spriggan Form is being made to still look like a spriggan, but one that is being approximated by the spell cast by a human - it has a more human-looking face, and greenery resembling hair and a beard. Hostile spriggans are also getting visually updated, and their new model will look notably different from the one being used by Primalists.
A Model Sheet for Spriggan Form, featuring material references.
Acolyte fans... you haven't been forgotten. ːsteamhappyː
