Hello Travelers of Eterra! My name is Mitchell and I’m the lead on unique item design. I’ve also designed the crafting system and generally worked on a bit of everything in our code. One of my favorite parts of RPGs (ARPGs in particular) is figuring out how unique items can interact with other systems, so creating unique items that have interesting interactions with the systems of Last Epoch is something I’ve really focused on.The goal of unique items is to give players more interesting c...

This release is a big one! Lots of visual updates have the demo looking better than ever, our unique Passive Grid system has been implemented, along with a level overhaul and lots of bug fixes and improvements!ChangesVisuals Added post-processing: lighting levels, ambient occlusion, bloom, color grading Added in Sergey's new enemy health bar and skill panel Different zones now have different loading screen splashes Added tutorial tooltips to the skill and passive screens, like the o...

Note: This topic is very old. While many of the sentiments remain the same, the information is out of date.The primary reason to have dialogue in a game is to tell a story. Video games use a lot more than just dialogue to tell stories. I'm going to talk a little bit about how we present dialogue to the players in order to tell a story.Dialogue systems in games typically get broken down into two main categories, branching and non-branching dialogue. Non-branching dialogue is typically ...

ChangesUI Changed the camera so the player is slightly further up the screen, which should improve visibility while working downwards The respawn screen now shows which ability and enemy you were killed by The skill selection screen now shows locked abilities with their level requirements Ability tooltips now display the ability's tagsItems Added seven new unique items Added new item affixes Tenacity: Resuistance to stuns. Spawns on most items Increased Health: Suffix that c...

We're excited to announce that the Kickstarter date is now set and the Last Epoch team is full steam ahead. We would very much appreciate your help in spreading the word and your backing when our Kickstarter launches. Thank you all for your amazing support!

ChangesUI Added a new inventory panel Added a new crafting panel Updated quests panel to new style Added a basic overlay map, toggled with the tab key Minimap shape can be toggled with the [ key Added tooltips to crafting panel Added tooltip descriptions for non-equipment items Changed locations of levels on the world map Updated tooltips for armorItems Added support for unique items as well as the first unique, Decayed Skull Item affixes can now be restricted to parti...

ChangesCrafting Implemented basic crafting Shattering stones and shards implemented Items can be shattered into shards Shards can be added to items Items can fracture when shards are added Read our wiki for an explanation: lastepoch.gamepedia.com/Crafting Added an entirely new action bar! (UI at the bottom left) Skill charges display as dots on the action bar instead of numbers on the skill icon Added new item tooltips, with support for comparing an item to what is curren...