Move over Diablo 4 and Path of Exile as Last Epoch 1.0 is here

I absolutely adore Last Epoch. I've played it to the endgame several times throughout its EA, and now I'm excited to try some new classes, and do the SSF gameplay mode with offline access. This game hits a really nice balance in between the boring simplicity of Diablo and the absurd complexity of POE. For any fans of the genre, this is a must-buy.

I dunno. I bought it, I am playing it, it is fun but... I am still returning to D4.
Graphic of LE is sorta childish, comics like. The story so far is "meh".
Gameplay good though...

Time to reinstall. I played it recently but I had some strange performance issues. FPS dropped around 30 on my PC sometimes, and just stayed there. I had much more solid performance on steam deck.

I'm pretty happy with this game at 1.0. I want to show particular appreciation for the dedicated offline mode, it's glorious. Screw you blizzard.

I'm pretty happy with this game at 1.0. I want to show particular appreciation for the dedicated offline mode, it's glorious. Screw you blizzard.

how did you get full offline mode to work? I've been trying this morning, but every time I try to play, when I click "enter game" it just dumps me back to the main menu.

I'm pretty happy with this game at 1.0. I want to show particular appreciation for the dedicated offline mode, it's glorious. Screw you blizzard.

how did you get full offline mode to work? I've been trying this morning, but every time I try to play, when I click "enter game" it just dumps me back to the main menu.

For me on the main menu there's a clear button to go into offline play.

Great news, they finally fixed the character section! Characters aren't transparent anymore!

I'm pretty happy with this game at 1.0. I want to show particular appreciation for the dedicated offline mode, it's glorious. Screw you blizzard.

how did you get full offline mode to work? I've been trying this morning, but every time I try to play, when I click "enter game" it just dumps me back to the main menu.

For me on the main menu there's a clear button to go into offline play.

Yeah, I guess the game just needs more time and patches. I have that button too, but it doesn't do anything. Every time I press play, it just dumps me back to the main menu. Tried a potential fix from the steam discussions, didn't work, and tried a full uninstall / reinstall, also didn't work. I'll just give it more time. Been waiting years! A few more days won't hurt.

Also doesn't help that the "offline" modes are super confusing. There's an online-offline, and then an offline-offline.

I haven't experienced any bugs or technical issues at all on 1.0, though I'm forcing it to use the windows version. I haven't tried the linux version on 1.0 yet, but historically it had been incredibly buggy. (I already had it installed and set to proton experimental, so I didn't change anything.)

It felt like a case of a game nominally having native linux support but the developer not actually being prepared to support it. Might try out native linux later to see if things have improved more recently.

For me on the main menu there's a clear button to go into offline play.

I also have a clear Offline button ingame on the main menu screen, however, there should be a menu inside Steam Properties window, to go Offline. If you Force Proton, it is there. If you go native, it is not.

Also, without -force-vulkan, the map has no background, and it’s almost game breaking as the minimap is so usefull IMO, plus the main map to teleport everywhere.

With -force-vulkan, map is fixed, but the skill passive icons have no background.

Still playable, but annoying to see Linux version is half baked again (before, the character creation screen was broken, with no textures).

Kubuntu? That's news to me Weren't you using Fedora?

No issues with the native Linux version so far and yes, I am enjoying it :).

You have the Offline option in Steam ? I don’t, only if i switch and force Proton.

Or you have the Offline on the main screen once ingame ? Then it’s different from Windows offline option access.

The offline modes are extremely confusing, here's my understanding of the 3 different game modes the game currently has:

1) online-online - this is basically the same as any normal online game mode. You can do a global chat, team up with friends, trade, join the merchant guild, etc... Must be connected to good internet and select a good game server with low ping (doesn't exist right now, all servers are on fire due to player demand)

2) online-offline - extremely confusing mode by the devs. If you are in the main menu, and see a server selection with ping, and a "submit bug report" button on the bottom left, you will also see a "play offline" button on this screen. THIS IS NOT OFFLINE. You are still connected to game servers, you can still chat in the global chat, you must still have a solid internet connection, BUT you cannot join up with other players in-game, and you cannot join the merchant guild, stuff like that. In my opinion, the devs just need to totally remove this entire gameplay mode. I *think* the only reason this exists is so that "offline" players can do globat chat. Ask questions, get advice on builds, help on crafting, stuff like that. The confusion of these modes isn't worth that IMO.

3) offline-offline - this is ONLY accessible by launching the game from the steam "play game" button and then via the popup there choosing "fully offline" or by going into the game preferences, and choosing this "fully offline" mode from the drop down menu for launch options. This does not connect to any servers, there is no chat, no internet requirement, nothing at all. This is the normal offline mode everyone expects, but most don't even know exists. You will know you are in this mode if there is no server listing, and no "submit bug report" button on the main menu.

Originally, post the 1.0 launch, my game was bugged and I could not get option 3 from above to work. With the help of the steam community, I found the glitch was the steam cloud saves. I disabled that and cleared all local game files and it works wonderfully.

They are doing super fast updates to the game now, so those modes above could change in the future (I hope they do) ... but at least for now that's how I understand them to work.


Last edited by R Daneel Olivaw on 23 February 2024 at 6:51 pm UTC

Please be aware that this game is an absolute mess on the Steamdeck currently and you will not be able to have a good experience (any experience really). The Controller Support isn't really there yet and the game crashes quite often and will sometimes even lock up the deck. The 'Unsupported' tag is absolutely warranted.

I have bought this game back in 2018 so what is one year more for me, but if you're on a Deck and considering to buy it now, it suggest you wait for the first sale after Valve have given it its stamp of approval.

This game is a bad joke on linux regardless of the fact that it has been released as Version 1.0 now. At least on an AMD GPU (RX 6700 XT with MESA 24.0.1) at 1080p it is unplayable. Minimap and Overlaymap are broken. Performance is horrible with stuttering regardless of the overall qualitysettings. UI effects like loading indicator on the loadingscreen are absent.

I know the game works better on Nvidia GPU'S but the steamstorepage mentions support for AMD GPU'S. I wonder if this game was tested on AMD GPU's at all before release. Perhaps they tested it with the proprietary OpenGL Driver. However with MESA Drivers this is not enjoyable right now.


Last edited by ripper81358 on 25 February 2024 at 1:07 pm UTC

Still buggy as hell in offline mode... does loose items, crafting materials, gold on every game exit.

I've now leveled to 70 in offline mode and had none of those things. Working wonderfully to me, and still loving playing it every single day. I have lost no items, materials, or gold.