Last Epoch

Game bugged out on me in Hardcore.

I dodged into some weird terrain, got stuck, got unstuck. Afterward I could visually walk around but the NPC's started attacking me where I got stuck even when I was somewhere else and I couldn't use any skills or health pots.

NPC's got me to 40% HP before I manually exited the game. I come back and I'm not Hardcore anymore. You're trying your luck in Hardcore fyi

Oh no.

I'm having fun. Really love the loot system and filters. Such an amazing QOL feature. Most ARPGs have identified the greatness of dropped ID'd loot. All but one.

Loving the new seasons. I didn't play much of season 1, but I really like all the loot I'm getting from champs and the nemesis stuff. It is kind of coming to a point where you have to take a solid build or you will get beat up on by the end of the campaign if you plan to keep going into endgame stuff. Go to maxroll pretty much pick any build and start from there. From what I've been seeing in the streams, the updated uber boss is basically not going to be killable by the vast majority of players.

This game is pushing ALL the right buttons for me. The correct Synapses are firing, and the Dopamine is flowing.
Sat down and played 13hrs straight yesterday, and was annoyed that I needed to get up and feed myself... wtf!

Game is performing flawlessly, maxed settings (5900x/7900XTX/3840x1600 UW). Frame-time graph is a flat line, not a hint of hitching, stuttering or lag.
Might have something to do with my 14ms ping, but combat response and audio feels immediate and crunchy, enemies get stunned, pushed around, shocked etc. and react as expected.

I'm just not seeing the "jank". It may not be as razor sharp as D4's multi-million dollar engine, but this is the best Unity game I've played by far.
Looks fantastic, though some environmental art/textures can look a little too soft/pretty initially. Easily fixed with some Re-shade CAS and Curves tweaking, (did the same thing to D3, D4, and PoE2) and now it looks pretty much perfect to my eyes. Really hope they hit a massive home run with this release, because I'm having a blast!

Enough chit-chat, over and out.

I played for a few minutes. Seemed okay. I need to watch a video or investigate into the actual game like skill points and skills and what to do with them or how to spend them. I played for maybe 5 minutes the first time a long time ago. Warpath spin attack is a lot better than what I used before. Spin, kill, evade and regain mana. I'm sure it willl suck later.

Kirun said:

PoE 1 had its day, but that game has turned so insanely "zoomer" to me that I just don't find it fun anymore. It's just a spazfest, clearing screens like some meth-infused teeny-bopper, hoping you don't blow up to some random one-shot.

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Kirun said:

It's also the fact that PoE1 hasn't received a real content update in almost a year that's souring me on it a bit too.

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What kind of woman logic is this? On the one hand PoE 1 is past-its-prime, unfun zoomy teenybopper gameplay, but on the other hand you are salty that it hasn't gotten a real update in a while?

Are we ARPG lovers just masochists in disguise.

Yes, the answer is yes.

If they want to abandon PoE 1 that's fine with me. I prefer PoE 1 but it's their game. But the last year they have been all over the road with we will update both, oh we have to postpone the launch of 2. Oh and by the way no more updates to 1 cause it was way more than one groupd could handle. I'm not a coder at all but seems like they bit off more than they could chew. Maybe should have just said we're moving to 2, 1 will still be open but is on the back burner while we get thins going. That would have been nice. I said it before, I miss the stupid long Chris Wilson manifestos about how they fucked up and wouldn't do it again.

Springbok said:

It’s really good end game, but suffers from mana issues for lik 25 lvls. If you suffer through that, the reward is worth it when it comes online.

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I gotta watch a beginner video on how skill points and stuff work. I have more unspent skill points than I really have stuff to spend it on. Everything I did was just click and see if something works.

I played when it came out and I am much much more tanky than I was then. I never died and just mowed over everything. For all I know I have it on the super dumb difficulty level.

Hekotat said:

I'm not putting in 30 hours just to get to the "fun" part.

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To your point they should let you ramp the risk vs reward faster some how

Getting up to 500 corruption took a while

anyone using spinning hammers? I am suppose to use that till lvl70 and spec into something else. am 62 now and feeling lazy...wondering if i can just stock to hammers

You can play hammers way in to the endgame, even with it being nerfed a few times here or there.

Just remember most of your damage is from the divine judgment procs, not the hammers themselves, and you really need to keep an eye out for the relics that provide more proc chance for judgment

So my thoughts so far. Im slow going, so not even out of the campaign yet.

went marksman for heartseeker. have not gotten it yet.
marksman is really strong, makes me wonder why it was not super popular before. I mean just annihilating things with pierce.

I don't really notice any visual upgrades from before. they said there were.. but looks the same to me...
slightly less floaty.. but not sure if thats just marksman/bow, or wasd.
I think the "floaty" here is animations and visual impact. not actual net code or controls.

wasd is good. not perfect, as you can't really use Left click well. like, interact/pickup/and click to move is linked. if you remap left click to a skill.. you can't use it to pick things up..
you'd need to set a seperate button to pick shit up. which is balls.
having a 5 button mouse is kind of a godsend. without mouse 4/5 for the thumb wasd is rough here.

noticed a few nice campaign streamlines. 1. didnt need to do BOTH sides of the eterra bridge. 2.lost library, opens a portal up, not making you leave and manually travel to another time.

champions are a nice addition. easy mode on the marksman, but seem like they could be nice challenges.



Obviously this isn't Path of exile. without the passive tree it just doesn't have all the theorycrafting. all the skills have their synergies built it. their might be multiple ways to build skills, but they are still predesigned.

Ya my homebrew Void Knight is crushing. Had some mana issues to keep an eye on through the campaign but am now slowly respeccing mana nodes here and there for more damage. Not going to look at any kind of build guide until I start hitting the wall.

Borzak said:

If they want to abandon PoE 1 that's fine with me. I prefer PoE 1 but it's their game. But the last year they have been all over the road with we will update both, oh we have to postpone the launch of 2. Oh and by the way no more updates to 1 cause it was way more than one groupd could handle. I'm not a coder at all but seems like they bit off more than they could chew. Maybe should have just said we're moving to 2, 1 will still be open but is on the back burner while we get thins going. That would have been nice. I said it before, I miss the stupid long Chris Wilson manifestos about how they fucked up and wouldn't do it again.

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The last interview they said they want PoE1 to keep getting content. They even said that they want to port the PoE2 model rigs to PoE1 to make it way easier to make new skills and shit for it. But that was a "long time plan" so who knows when that will be.

Watching a video to figure out how to spend skill points. I lvl and get them but all the skills on the S tree are locked out. So I just accumulate more points and never upgrade a skill. I guess I'll keep leveling and see if there is a certain amount you get to unlock spending.

And yes it's one of those things nobody has the problem so it is never shown in a video lol.

Edit - got it figured out. I started a new character and it worked like I thought it would and how I did it long ago.

Having fun so far at a really low level with my just add stuff build. I feel like I'm steam rolling everything compared to low lvl PoE 1 where at low lvl you can easily fuck around and find out.