Last Epoch devs bungle game launch of 1.0

Last Epoch is an ARPG for those who lack the PhD needed for PoE but don't want to play the Blizzard's kindergarten simulator D4.

Unfortunately the Developers EHG made some people that have never experienced a shit tier PoE launch big mad this week when they released the full 1.0 game on Tuesday and had massive server instability until yesterday.

Here are some of the common complaints:

  • General server shit storm. Load times between zones were upward of 5 minutes at one point. Inability to access online mode was common.

  • Characters disappearing from both online and offline play modes, which was temporary but caused massive sneed.

  • There was some bizarre "referral" program where you referred people in game to get a Bee pet. So as expected every post in global chat and reddit were people asking for referrals. Finally they just gave bee pets to everyone.

And this resulted in a general shitflinging on both the official groomercord and reddit between people simping for the unironic version of the "tiny indie studio" meme and others reporting EHG to the Hague for warcrimes.

Also several other hilarious bugs like HC characters dying during load:

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In general the slap fighting has been hilarious:

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For anyone wondering the game is pretty good and I believe servers, at least in the US are stable now JK tried now and load times are touch and go. The endgame is a bit light compared to maps in PoE but I suspect it'll have the same content creep over the new seasons.

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Sorry what was the game ?

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Full Straggot Annihilation

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I would like to have s*x with Tifa while Aeris watches.

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Not Barret watch ?

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No.

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Characters disappearing from both online and offline play

Imagine specifically avoiding online play just to get your char deleted anyways. :mjlol:

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How does this even happen?

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It was happening in the online launch mode of the game but with offline characters, so I think it was a client side issue.

The characters didn't disappear permanently it was just gone for like 10 minutes occasionally while the servers were getting fricked.

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Your single player character disappeared whenever the servers were offline

:#mjlol:

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Had some issues with the servers yesterday, I just logged off and done something else like a normal human. Servers seem good today. Eat shit you nerds and touch grass sometime.

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Yeah last night was fine, today is a little touch and go but they are at max load I believe based on queue.

The funniest shit as always was people saying they took off work for the launch. Then instead of playing offline they just bitched all day Tuesday.

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I played a bit offline to test a new class :marseyshrug: and when online came back I created something else. I don't get how people get so upset by server issues, even AAA games are a nightmare lanch day, just wait a few days lol

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Poe took maybe 3 hours to fix the ultimatum shitstorm, last epoch took 3 days. :marseyshrug:

PhD needed for PoE

You can beat poe with 85iq

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You can beat poe with 85iq

In fact, you cannot beat poe if your IQ is above 85.

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Take only damage and health nodes require 10k iq.

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I'm honestly getting a little jaded with how cracked I feel layered defense needs to be in PoE, but I guess it depends on content you want to do.

I ran the Mahuxotl's Machination immortal build this league and just kind of got bored after a while.

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Yeah all of my builds the last few leagues have either tons of ehp or recoup tech and they're all capped chaos res.

I used to farm shaper and sirus with a 1500hp autobomber :marseytabletired2:

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If you're capping Chaos Res I hope you can fit Divine Flesh into your builds, it's a relatively low investment effective increase to ele max res if you don't require any other Timeless Keystones, and synergizes well with the Mastery passive that grants 10% phys taken as chaos. I ran it with Doppelganger Guise (Sane).

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I got two of my friends to buy this game, so I was kinda embarrassed when the servers didn't work. Least we were finally able to play together last night.

Pretty fun tbh

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I don't personally care that they fricked this up for the first week, because I have a life and got to go touch grass (got to see a man nearly die this Friday, and got a cool hat) instead of playing when the servers were worthless.

EHG are still frickups and their "small indie" simps are pathetic. EHG are going to have to learn how to polish shit up or else they'll never win back the "1.0" (kek, it doesn't even have a complete excuse plot campaign yet) buyers who got burned by the server failure.

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Wait, it has no complete campaign?

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I think EHG saw what PoE and Grim Dawn got away with in their "1.0"s, and ran with that.

Unfortunately, because the devs are Redditors, they cargo culted it: in PoE, you got to kill Dominus - the guy who exiled your char to Australia - by the time they declared "1.0," so your char can be said to have achieved "victory". In Grim Dawn, the Aetherials are more of a doomsday plot device than a confrontable foe, so the main campaign switching to being about fighting Chthon cultists (spooky meaty evil guys instead of Aetherial spooky glowing green crystal ghosts), while awkward, did leave the "1.0" game with some feeling of resolution: "the Aetherials are still here, but at least we stopped a doomsday cult from getting the world eaten by a different Elder God!"

Last Epoch just has a snake fursona send you to the more depressing version of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe (the endgame endless grind hub zone) before you get a chance to kill Furry chicken Hitler (the guy who puts the entire game into motion).

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Sounds like a mess, at least PoE is F2P so some leeway is possible.

Another one for the "Wait for 60% sale" bin.

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Dude I cant even remember the plots to PoE or grim dawn. If you're playing ARPGs for "the story" keep yourself safe.

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I'm sorry you operate on such a low mental capacity that you can only remember significant events, and thus implicitly conflate "remembering" the story with "caring" about it

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Projection lmao I skipped all the dialogue and cutscenes

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on a serious :marseysnoomask: note the game has gone throutgh very suprising progress :marseymicrosoftpride: and its great :marseyclapping: seeing it succeed like this ive been playing it and following formany years now it feels :marseyvapecrying: good to be vindicated like this

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Gonna be tough waiting for PoE2.

In Chris we trust.

And frick paying for online only games.

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This one does have an offline only mode that worked perfectly fine the entire time. The offline characters disappearing was for the "Offline Character" version of the online launch. It's rather odd and only happened once I believe.

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I like the balancing around having only five buttons. Most poe builds just blast one skill for hours but you still have to bind 40 utility spells

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:#marseyoldfashioned:

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I love last epoch but it just isnt as good as poe tbh.

The endgame just doesnt have enough depth.

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Yeah it's more comparable to early PoE than PoE now.

I think if they add more "league" content in the future it could build up the endgame like PoE did.

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I played through the weekend launch. Overall, I think the server issues were overblown. There was a few odd map transitions that didn't work, but gameplay was smooth. It definitely wasn't unplayable level like some of the reviews are claiming.

What builds are you guys going for?

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