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Trailer: https://youtu.be/IA4auxVRQYw There's a demo you can download too I guess: https://goo.gl/uDHM51 (pulled from their Kickstarter) So on April 30th, this game launches on Steam as a BETA. It’s been in alpha for a long while and has a ton of promise. Since beta launches today, I will make this OP short enough to hit the high points at least. What is this game? This is a hack n slash ARPG that literally borrows many of the good (and arguably some rough parts) from Diablo, Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, Guild Wars 1 and Rift. You watch the trailer above and you’ll see the elements specifically that jump out. It’s a loot game. It’s a dungeon crawler. It’s just what you can expect from the games I mentioned above. I want to talk about this game with goons and play with goons Discord: It’s in the ARPG channel and there’s a bot that posts daily news there. Mute and hide what you don’t care about : https://discord.gg/WmhJZ4NeNk Being it’s a loot/build game, yeah, there will be plenty to talk about and theorycraft. What makes this one different? 15 Mastery Classes: Big Passive Tree: Then you can expand it out a little more: Some of the active skills: But the real kicker: Look at this crazy poo poo. 110 Skill Trees with some RIDICULOUSLY deep customization. There’s like, 2 dozen ways to do skeleton summons or something crazy like that. It’s pretty insane. I’ll see in the beta just how many different ways there really are but just know, it’s pretty princess dress up hardcore on the skills. You got poison skeles, explodey skeles, tank skeles, the list goes on. Your character inventory: OK, but what about trading? So I’m just lifting this straight off the site: quote:Trading End Game Stuff Lifting this directly from the devs: quote:End Game Systems What’s the status of this game! So, it’s in early access and the price is steep at $35. It will be cheaper when it launches in April 2020. Yes. Beta will last a full year. This thread is here to let you know about this game more so than to say “jump in now!!!” We will know if it’s truly worthy in a couple weeks after we get some big playtime in. However, if you got the money to blow, you can get it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/899770/Last_Epoch/ Also, no multiplayer yet! That is coming very soon after this beta launch they said. With no ETA technically, who knows what soon means. The Plan for Multiplayer with this game quote:There will be online and offline: We know that many people really want to either play offline or online and not having your preferred play mode available could make a game unplayable. We want you to be able to play the way you want and with the people you want. We are building Last Epoch with cooperative and competitive online multiplayer, offline single, and LAN support. Form a party of up to five players online to take down the biggest baddest monsters in the timeline or face the terrors alone. The online experience will be crafted to prevent cheating of all sorts. What's to Come for PRICE?! The planned pay model for Last Epoch upon release is for the game to be free to all players until level 20 with restrictions on player interaction in order to deter spamming. To advance beyond level 20, players may spend $14.99 ($10 if you go through Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lastepoch/last-epoch) to unlock the rest of the game's content and full social features. These restrictions on free players will go a long way to deter spam and botting accounts, which will help keep the game’s community and economy healthy. This one-time payment will be all that a player will have to spend to have the complete Last Epoch experience and be on the same footing as other players. The only form of real money microtransactions Last Epoch will ever have are cosmetic, the currency for such is even named Cosmetic Points (CP) to emphasize this point. They will continually add in new exciting armor skins, skill effects, companion pets, and whatever else dreamt up that can make your character visually more awesome and unique. No experience speed items, stat boost items, character boosts, or any other source of player power will be purchasable with real money. They do not believe in pay-to-win models. Item Customization As you play the game you will find consumables that add a bit of the specified stat to an equippable armor piece, jewelry piece, or weapon. Said equippable gear has a meter that starts at 100% and as you use consumables to add stats to your gear, this meter drains. Every attempt to add stats to an item is a percent chance to succeed, and every successful upgrade drains a portion of the meter. Eventually you fail the success chance, or hit 0%, and the item locks forever. Screenshots!!!!! Literally, Diablo: Let’s see how this thing turns out! ICR fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Feb 21, 2022 |
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Reserved for builds, patch notes, etc. Patch Notes: https://forum.lastepochgame.com/t/beta-0-7-patch-notes/12334 quote:The wait is almost over! Beta will be live at ICR fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Apr 30, 2019 |
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ndub posted:There is an important system that was not mentioned in the op: item customization. As you play the game you will find consumables that add a bit of the specified stat to an equippable armor piece, jewelry piece, or weapon. Said equippable gear has a meter that starts at 100% and as you use consumables to add stats to your gear, this meter drains. Every attempt to add stats to an item is a percent chance to succeed, and every successful upgrade drains a portion of the meter. Eventually you fail the success chance, or hit 0%, and the item locks forever. Gonna snag this and make the addition. Thanks for this. Good stuff in here.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 16:57 |
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Mordja posted:I played the KS demo a while back and it just didn't play that well, I thought. Combat felt stiff and janky but hey, it was very early. But looking at that trailer, it kind of doesn't looks like anything's changed there...The fights just looks stilted to me. I dunno, hope I'm wrong or they polish it during EA because I love games with way too many classes I'll never play. Fingers crossed then! I'm a sucker for a loot game period, so here's to hoping. Appreciate the comment though about this. Also, here's what's new in this beta for any alpha players: quote:What's New in Beta?
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 17:07 |
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WebDO posted:RIP this game, whatever it is. With Marvel Heroes ICR waited for the console port to kill the game. With Anthem, he murdered it on release. Now apparently a beta isn't safe. I'm on my redemption story im trying to be like Theon!!!!!
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 18:01 |
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Got a 4 hour delay on launch. Cursed!!!!
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 18:10 |
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And the game is officially out and live. Check twitch for some streams and follow along. We’ll post some takes and see how this thing is!
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 22:24 |
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It’s pretty cool. Listen, it’s got major polish to go and a LOOOONG way to go but it’s worth keeping on your radar, whether you buy in now, later or don’t buy in at all.
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# ¿ May 1, 2019 22:14 |
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New patch is up https://forum.lastepochgame.com/t/beta-0-7-0b-patch-notes/13079 quote:Our first patch to Beta is live! To update on Standalone, close the game and run the Launcher. For Steam, you may have to close Steam (by right clicking on the taskbar and selecting “exit steam”) before the update is visible.
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# ¿ May 2, 2019 17:07 |
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This game just released their biggest update yet. Definitely a game to watch. Great devs and awesome gameplay!!
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2020 04:56 |
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:Is this game online multiplayer yet? Not yet. Next phase on the roadmap is multiplayer.
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2020 20:41 |
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The Ol Spicy Keychain posted:This actually looks pretty badass. Going to buy it though not sure if I'll get into it right away. Might just wait for 1.0 to come out before playing. Thanks OP It’s one of the few bright spots, I feel, in early access. This is a game I don’t see flopping like a Wolcen. The big updates lately continue to shine on the game and real talk, it’s pretty loving awesome. I know my goon pals who really love these types of games are all in on this ones trajectory. I do need to give a big OP update and I’ll do that really soon as the game has gotten even better over time. The roadmap is about 60% done from what I see.
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2020 20:50 |
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victrix posted:I've been watching this game for awhile and it looks solid, but I'm really reluctant to jump in before 1.0 We are all waiting on the multiplayer patch. The development has been phenomenal and this has tremendous potential. It’s already really good and it’s missing half its features. They have delivered on everything so far though and using Early Access the right way.
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2021 18:04 |
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Masonity posted:Zizaran has just done a video on this, and it looks incredibly not bad. Like a definite in between PoE leagues filler game at least. Has the ICR curse been lifted? I think I'll be diving in this weekend. Well I re-cursed by taking the Magic Legends thread. But for real, this IS the game to watch. It’s fire. Devs have been outstanding with the community and the development has been on target and very modern. I don’t know many people who come and lambast this game and it’s only in Early Access. Very excited to see where this is come Fall and Winter.
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Vorik posted:I bought this game last year because of your thread and I've been patiently waiting until 1.0. This dev team has been constantly pushing out updates and moving through the milestones that they set. They are certainly not like so many other early access devs who disappear or barely work on the game after the initial EA release. Cool deal Vorik! Agreed on all that. It’s been a really pleasant surprise. They do an update blog like, twice a week and I just love the vision. I think it’ll all see its day and it’s exciting. I’m PUMPED for multiplayer too.
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