Currently in Early Access the action-RPG with a jolt of added time travel, Last Epoch, recently had a massive content update and it's sounding great.
Some of what's new includes a whole new story chapter, that features an encounter with a third deity of the world of Eterra: Lagon, the god of storms and the moon—sounds pretty wild. There's also an in-game guide, you can get additional stash storage because there's so much damn loot, multiple new skills, lots of new sound effects, new animations for the Mage class, an updated UI and the list goes on. It's such a big update that going over everything that's changed would be a little ridiculous. It's almost like a whole new game.
You can see their video overview here:
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Another improvement is the game size. They managed to reduce it down by a good ~30GB so it's much smaller to install and update now too.
Eleventh Hour Games had some trouble with middleware in the Linux version, so the patch was delayed but all platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows) are now up to date on the same version. There's been lots of smaller updates that have been released since to clear up some lingering balance issues and bugs. In regards to the delay, they're not the only developer who had issues lately as it seems FMOD in Unity broke things for a while which has now been sorted.
As a little tip for you, if run it with Vulkan and you should get better performance. With this launch command on Steam (Right click -> Properties -> Set launch options):
-force-vulkan
It gave me almost double the performance and graphically caused no issues. Nice to see the Unity game engine Vulkan rendering has come along so far.
You can buy Last Epoch on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: GuestI tried the single dash command for Vulkan and also got the crash. Double dash made no crash
I confirm this is a single dash. The double dash just start the game in OpenGL, you will notice it with MangoHud.
Vulkan doesn't work properly with my RX 5600 XT. The game instantly crash at login screen with RADV, it work with AMDVLK but it's much slower than OpenGL and the game crash randomly within 5 min.
ripper81358 Jun 19, 2020
1. Upgraded to the latest stable MESA Driver Release 20.1.1
2. Entered the following startoption for the game:
-force-vulkan -gfx-enable-gfx-jobs 0
In addition to that ACO can be enabled. The startoption is as follows:
RADV_PERFTEST=aco %command% -force-vulkan -gfx-enable-gfx-jobs 0
This solves the gamecrash with the RADV Vulkandriver. Using vulkan without ACO enabled removes the textureflickering when ambient occlusion is set above very low. Performance seems to be the same as with OpenGL and the stuttering presists. With ACO enabled the game runs smoother and the occasionally stuttering is gone. However using ACO introduces new weird graphical glitches on my system that appear from time to time.
For now it would be the best if the developers could get the OpenGL Renderer to a point where it delivers a solid and stutterfree performance and ambient occlusion could be enabled without causing textureflickering. Hopefully the developers will have a look at the problems with the AMDGPU+MESA drivers. Vulkansupport might be something that can be added later.
Last edited by ripper81358 on 20 June 2020 at 11:51 am UTC
Kuduzkehpan Jun 14, 2021
Quoting: OdmelynThe switch to enable vulkan is wrong in the article, it is actually --force-vulkan (two dashes). I was crashing as well until I figured this out. I was also experiencing frame drops (on a quite beefy system too) until I enabled vulkan and now it's completely smooth.
Source be with you my friend... i was dying while i try to force vulkan with my hammer on my linuxBox
and the game is already suck me in. i feel i play poe d3 torchlight all together
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