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.