New Player Feedback

Hello,

Just want to start out by saying that I am enjoying Last Epoch a lot and want to thank EHG for a good game. I added LE to my Steam Library on June 28th and have probably played it about every day since. A few key things I have enjoyed about it so far is:

  • Minion control is particularly good for an ARPG, the minion command buttons is a nice feature that most other ARPG games neglect
  • Item filtering is easy to use, I have sufficient technical knowledge to edit the files directly, but the interface for doing it in game hasn’t made me want to dig into text editing the filter yet.
  • For the end-game content I have experienced (I am only level 90), it is more engaging than other ARPGs I have played.
  • Works excellently without modifications on Linux Mint using Steam.

I wanted to start out with some the things that will probably keep me playing LE for awhile, and when I do take a break, will likely have me pick it back up again. Though, as a new player I may have some perspectives that may be helpful, and atleast I want to start a discussion on before I forget.

  • WASD Movement - keyboard movement is for me atleast, very enjoyable. I play an OOPS All Minions Necro build and just walking around is enough to do what I need to do. However, it completely breaks sometimes. At random times, I can’t really discern any particular zone, type of zone, or event that triggers it to break, but it does just stop working correctly sometimes. I’ll be walking and suddenly my character will stop moving, but will still show the walking animation like they ought to be moving. I may be able to move in a different direction, but attempting to go back in that direction will prevent walking. I can use evade or a transport spell to move in the given broken direction, which is odd. I can usually “fix” the problem by toggling back to cursor-moving and then back to WASD movement.

  • Something that would go well with WASD movement is an interact key. For reference, an interact key similar to WoW’s would be awesome. I would imagine walking up to a chest, a showing item nameplate, exiled mage cage, or etc. and performing the interact that a left click would perform would make my reaction time and convenience much greater. This would help because of my next item, or well the next item kinda explains the reason for this desire.

  • Scalable or customizable cursor - I am a somewhat middle-aged old man now, and my eyesight is getting worse. I also happen to have an ultra-wide monitor, so I tend to loose my cursor. The UI as a whole is scalable, but the cursor size is not. I would also love to make it the color of it customizable to some color that really stands out. The goldish color of the cursor is hard to see sometimes above all the fire and glitz of some areas of the game. Being able to scale and modify the cursor would be a huge accessibility feature.

  • UI scaling - it is fine. It is fine, acceptable, maybe even adequate, but it could be better. Some of the elements of the UI are off center on my screen’s resolution. It doesn’t impact my ability to play, it just isn’t as polished as it could be.

  • Movable UI Elements - I would like the option to move the spell bar close to the center of the screen, instead of being anchored to the bottom. I really only have one CD to track, Summon Volatile Zombies, but if I pick up a more CD spec or class, I could see wanting to keep my eyes closer to my character rather than the periphery area that the spell bar is at. As a minion master though, having some way to track my minion count towards to center of the screen would be great. Possibly the minion count bar movable, or add a counter to the proposed movable spell bar.

  • Block all MTX elements - This will be a hard pill to swallow, but I would like the ability to block all MTX elements. Nobody will ever succeed in getting me to perform a microtransaction. Sure, have it on by default for new players, but for someone who will never buy any horse armor, advertising it to me only annoys me. In the 10-20ish years that microtransactions have existed, I have never made one. I will never make one. They just aren’t a good value to me, and I don’t have have a compulsion to pay to play doll dress-up with my characters. As I said earlier, I am middle-aged and I remember when you bought a game, got a copy of it that couldn’t be revoked, and that was the whole game, cosmetics and all. Again, telling me to visit the in-game store only irritates me, it will never succeed into making me into a sucker. Allow me to know what will and won’t work for me, and allow me to turn off all MTX interactions.

Thank you for Last Epoch, it has been fun so far.

First of all, welcome to LE and glad that you’re having fun.

This is most likely caused by some coding in the map that’s triggering WASD as if it were an obstacle. This used to happen a lot with channeled movement skills. It’s much better now, but there are still issues like this.
I’m guessing if you were using one, like shield rush, it would have stopped there as well.

The best thing you can do in these cases is to use the in-game bug report tool (assuming you’re playing online). It sends the game data along with your issue and it will help the devs fix it much faster.

Very requested, not possible to do because of Unity limitations.
You can increase the size of the cursor with windows settings and it will translate into cursor size in LE as well.
For changing the cursor itself (colour, render, etc) you can use Yolomouse. You can buy it on steam or get it for free from their github. Devs allow the use of this because of this exact limitation.

If Unity ever allows this to happen, they will put it in the game (but it’s been requested for years and they (Unity) haven’t yet, so don’t get your hopes up).

Same as with WASD, you should use the in-game bug report tool. It sends a screenshot, so you can send it and detail what the issue is, what is misaligned, etc, so they an try to fix that.

LE isn’t very heavy on cooldowns. But it’s still a good suggestion. Probably not easy to implement either, but devs check the forums, so at least it will be on their radar.

Also very requested. No official stance on this yet, but they are aware of the player requests.

I just want to say that I do understand your point of view (I’m also old and rarely buy MTX), but MTX isn’t just playing dress-up. Many times it’s simply a way to further support devs.
I’ve only ever done that in PoE and in LE because I believe the devs deserve the extra support.

Also, you used to buy the whole game (and there are still many games that work like that), but the game didn’t evolve continuously over time like LE or PoE does, with new content every 3-4 months. Making new content 3 or 4 times a year and also keeping servers afloat isn’t as easy.
Also, EHG has said that they will never release any paid expansion in the future. You paid the box price, every new update until 10 years or however many it lasts you will still get for free. So MTX is a way to support that.

Anyway, you seem to have played WoW, so you didn’t spend money on MTX but you spent it on a monthly subscription (which is something I would never do).

I’m not criticizing you (I kinda reread it and realized it might sound as an attack when that’s not what I intended). I’m just trying to point out that different games can use different development or growth models and they don’t have to be right or wrong.

And that you can buy MTX not for the MTX itself but simply to support a studio for a game that you love.

i will highlight that games that are supported by additional purchases such as mtx tho it is something i hated, but i learned to embrace it as it keeps games alive for way longer.

i think of it as buying the devs a beer and asking them to give me new stuff to do in the game i love.