Alpha Feature Priority Poll

[GeoGalvanic]

Background: A while back there were some conversations on the discord on what format LE should solicit feedback (in particular, polling). I mentioned this as a decent example of polls and some people seemed intersted in what the results were. As such I thought it’d be a good one to test out the polling features of this new forum . I don’t believe that feedback here should necessarily be taken into consideration on the design process, although I do believe the results may be interesting.

The Question: In order of preference, what do you believe are the most important features to implement and flesh out before the start of beta? Choose the largest number for your highest priority and descend incrementally with lower priorities. (Priority one = 15, Priority four = 12, Last priority = 0)

The Options:

• Skills and Passive Trees (Quality and Quantity)
• Character Visual Identity (Armor models, animation, etc)
• Story Content (Complete Chapters, Dialogue, Quests and Characters)
• Graphics Optimization
• Online Multiplayer Co-op
• Economy (Crafting, Trading, Drop Rates)
• Game Balance (Classes feel distinct, no choices for gear/class/skills/playstyle feel forced)
• Multiplayer PvP
• Replayable End-Game content
• Quality of life and user interface improvements
• World Building (Environment, terrain, enemies, lore history)
• Stat Visibility (Minion stats, damage numbers for skills, ranges for items, enemy stats, status displays)
• Cosmetics
• Rules, Moderation Tools and Customer Support
• Cycles System (Seasons/Leagues)
• Player interaction (Towns, chat, guilds)

Skills and Passive Trees

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Character Visual Identity

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Story Content

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Graphics Optimization

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Online Multiplayer Co-op

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Economy

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Game Balance

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Multiplayer PvP

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Replayable End-Game content

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Quality of life and user interface improvements

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

World Building

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Stat Visibility

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Cosmetics

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Rules, Moderation Tools and Customer Support

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Cycles System

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Player interaction

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15

Feel free to reply with what you voted, why you voted, and/or feedback on the poll.
Thank you!

[Jerle]

Done! Interesting poll

[Voltarius]

Done! Seems like Skills and Passives is winning by a long shot

For me Skills/Passives, Graphics Optimizations, and QoL changes were top 3. Keep up the good work!

[00_Critical]

This was a good idea

[Thecla]

It would be nice to get the Rogue and all the Mastery Classes up and running.

[Sarno]

@Thecla

It would be nice to get the Rogue and all the Mastery Classes up and running.

While we are working on the Rogue, we’d like to improve the classes already implemented first.

[GeoGalvanic]

These are the current average preferences amongst those who’ve voted, in order of most preferred to least.

1. Skills and Passives - 13.08
2. Replayable End-game- 10.83
3. Stat Visibility- 8.42
4. Graphics Optimization- 8.08
5. Story Content- 7.92
6. Player Interaction- 7.75
7. QoL and UI- 7.73
8. World Building- 7.17
9. Game Balance- 7.08
10. Support/Moderation- 6.08
11. Economy- 6
12. Online Co-op- 5.75
13. Visual Identity - 5.17
14. Cosmetics- 3.92
15. PvP - 2.92
16. Cycles- 2.75
    Note: The demographics of this poll are not very demonstrative of the game’s players/supporters, so take all of the numbers with a grain of salt.

[GeoGalvanic]

Personally my top 3 preferences were:

1. Online Co-op
2. Story Content
3. Stat Visibility

My bottom three were:
3. QoL and UI
2. Economy

1. Cycles

[Arborus]

Top 3:
Skills/Passives-15
Endgame-14
Economy-13

Bottom 3:
Visual Identity-2
Story Content-1
PvP-0

[Baltax]

Interesting poll ! Actually missclicked the first one, put 0 to skills/passives haha
To me most important features are :

• Graphic optimization (not really touched by that but important to make people play the game)
• Skill/passives
• UI is really important
• End game content to keep players on the alpha to always have enough feedbacks to improve the game

[hichi]

Nice poll indeed

Since others have stated their top 3, I’ll mention mine:

*Story
*Skills
*Endgame

Lowest Priority:
[All of these are linked to online multiplayer)
*PvP
*Multiplayer Co-op (I’m more interested in offline)
*Economy

[GeoGalvanic]

A few responses were added since last week, here’s an updated rankings list:

1. Skills and Passives - 12.71
2. Replayable End-game- 11.65
3. Graphics Optimization- 9.71
4. Stat Visibility- 9.29
5. QoL and UI- 9.19
6. Game Balance- 8.88
7. Player Interaction- 8.71
8. World Building- 7.94
9. Story Content- 7.28
10. Economy- 7.24
11. Online Co-op- 7.18
12. Support/Moderation- 6.94
13. Visual Identity - 6.12
14. Cosmetics- 5.71
15. Cycles- 3.88
16. PvP - 2.76

[guggelhupf]

for me Skills and Passives are the most important features closed followed by Online Co-op because together is all better. there are some realy good single player hack’n’slay out there, but i only look 1-2 times a month into it because i dont see the point in grinding for myself alone. even a leaderbord isnt in my interest.

World Building, Story Content and PVP are the thing ive little to zero interest in. PVP is wrong in the whole genre imho and a story / world dont make a good hack’n’slay. its the gameplay wich will decidie if a game is good or not. it could have the best story ever, but if the gameplay is shit, nobody will ever play it

greetings

[Tyroser]

Nice pool, voting !

[Medieval]

I am glad to have been able to participate to that poll, thank you very much.

For me, the priority is definitely something along the line(s) of ‘Diablo 1 & 2’. Twenty Years later, Diablo 1 is still a game I enjoy re-playing over and over again. I believe that there are key components to achieve this and that’s what Last Epoch should (and is) aiming for.

My vote(s) went along with this opinion!

[Syncfx]

I agree with most of the ranking but I really do hope optimization is really well done for the beta. Don’t know if it’s a Unity problem but Rust really annoyed me with its performance to this day even.

I feel if people aren’t getting at least 60fps during intense combat people might shy away knowing Unity’s history.

[Reki]

For me its: Endgame, Skills and Passives and Economy but Customer Support is up there and PvP at the bottom

[Christs]

Falconer/rogue class and ranged weapons.

[GeoGalvanic]

Responses have nearly double since the last time I calculated them all, so I figured it was worth doing another check in on the results

1. Skills and Passives - 12.91 (+ 0.2)
2. Replayable End-game- 12.28 (+0.63)
3. Game Balance- 10.38 (+1.5)
4. Stat Visibility- 10.04 (+0.75)
5. QoL and UI- 10.02 (+0.83)
6. Graphics Optimization- 9.88 (+0.17)
7. Economy- 8.9 (+1.66)
8. Story Content- 8.51 (+1.23)
9. Player Interaction- 8.51 (-0.2)
10. World Building- 7.88 (-0.06)
11. Online Co-op- 7.86 (+0.68)
12. Visual Identity - 7.2 (+1.08)
13. Support/Moderation- 7.08 (+0.14)
14. Cycles- 5.6 (+1.82)
15. Cosmetics- 4.78 (-0.93)
16. PvP - 3.22 (+0.46)

The relative difference since the last post is shown in parenthesis.