Hi Fenrils, we appreciate the feedback! I agree on a number of these points.

- We are continuing to work on tutorialization and improving the description of skills, passives, items, stats, etc. We still have additions like tooltip DPS planned, we just went through an exercise of updating node tooltips for skill trees, we have an in-game mechanics guide planned, and are always looking for ways to improve this area of the game beyond what we have scoped. I would like to ask if you've been holding alt on tooltips that you dont believe provide enough info? We have more to add there for sure but there are a lot of accessible in-depth additional explanations.

- Your feedback on chests dropping too much and being consistently placed while enemies drop less in comparison is something I'll bring up and potentially get a quick iteration on. I agree chests shouldn't always spawn in the same position

- As far as the environment goes there are some things I believe will help substantially ...

mexcatolico

All I want is for this game to have the performance and inventory issues fixed. I would be more than content to put more time into it if these two were fixed

Inventory and all interconnecting systems have been reworked for 075 which is coming soon. Sorry that it was janky for such a long time - the inventory is a much larger and more complex system than most people realize. We do have some good performance updates this patch as well including fixes to a stutter that a lot of players were experiencing, improved garbage collection, and pooling of a number of skill VFX objects but its still an iterative process. We have a lot more to do on the performance front but we've hired an additional very experienced developer to focus solely on those improvements a few patch cycles ago.

ekimarcher

Hey, thanks for taking the time to write up this awesome feedback. I'm a Senior Developer on Last Epoch. Short version, I'm happy to say that our priorities line up very well. Almost every day I work on and talk to other people who are working on performance. We release performance fixes and updates in every patch. This upcoming one will be no exception. We've got more fixes coming down the pipe for the one after that too. Every frame counts and we literally cheer for each one.

Each zone transition's interaction size is set manually and some of them might be a little big. When holding down the mouse button, the game is actually simulating clicks over and over. As soon as you click on an exit, it activates so that when you get close, it makes you leave. This ends up with it feeling like it auto transitions sometimes. It's funny, I haven't heard this feedback in a very long time but this is the 3rd time I've heard it in about a week so I'll go back in there and see if we can make it feel better.

Have you ever played Civilization? We're building a Epochepedia style game guide that will be in game to help explain things to new players who are confused and also detail out specifics for advanced players who want to min/max. (less protections and penetration are the same thing, one just applies as a debuff to enemies and one applies as a buff to you.)

Advanced tooltips and tooltip dps are in the works. Our skill system is extremely modular. Right down to individual behaviors. This lets us quickly build-a-skill on the fly as you're using it so we don't have to save fireball in 100 different combinations. Because this happens at runtime, it's very difficult (not impossible) to have the tooltip reflect exactly what is going to happen. It's on the list for sure.

Pathing has problems, we're on it!

Time rift portal minimap icons changing after completion is a great idea that I don't think we had on our radar yet. It is now.

TLDR: great feedback, we're working on (I think) all of what you mentioned we need.

Game director here - First off, welcome to the community, Loate. Thank you for taking the time to provide the feedback and very glad you're enjoying Epoch. Just echoing Mike that we agree with all of what you've written here, most of our leadership has read this post, and we'll be working to bring these improvements to the game during beta.

Very happy to hear our performance related efforts here are having some results! We're far from finished with performance related updates though. The team actually hired someone specifically to tackle these a couple months ago and he's been doing a stellar job.

If there are specific areas, monsters, skills or other things that allow you guys to reliably reproduce a drop in frame rate please let us know. Finding them is more than half the battle.

Thanks, Schovan.

It's a major design goal of ours to keep the different Eras feeling distinct from one another so you will continue to see a lot of diversity in the zones you experience in Last Epoch. Even moreso going forward as we are still gaining speed on developing environmental assets, mastering our post processing stack, upgrading the quality of graphics and VFX, etc. If you like diversity and pretty scenery 0.7.4 will not disappoint!

Very happy to hear that you're enjoying the game, Maadao :)

jokomul

Will there be a way to disable the profanity filter client-side when the game releases? I typically disable mine whenever the option is available in multiplayer games. I like to know exactly what vulgar things my friends are calling me

Yes, there will be.

We found a filter that another large company used which contains thousands of words that we're having to reduce over time as we find ones that aren't appropriate to sensor. If you can imagine, as an indie team it doesnt make a lot of sense to put someone on creating a list of words from scratch as there are bigger fish to fry, haha! Plus I don't think anyone needs to hear some of the terms put into these filters.

Your example for instance shouldn't exist and I've gone ahead and removed that now so it shouldn't be filtered in the next patch release. Thanks, Pkirish!

ShinyBallzz

Here is the link i hope you understand what i meant https://vimeo.com/353686095

Hey Shiny, this is very helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to record that. I'll be showing and discussing this video in our next dev meeting and hopefully we can have a fix for this soon.

Hey Shiny, can you pinpoint what is is causing it to feel this way? Is it actually jittering when you walk some place or do you see FPS decreases when doing certain things or in certain areas? I'd be very interested to hear and get the team working on it asap.