The developer of Steam hit Last Epoch has addressed the inflow of detrimental opinions that got here in after the motion RPG’s bumpy launch.
Last Epoch is among the most-played video games on Steam, however its long-standing Early Entry person evaluate ranking of ‘principally optimistic’ plummeted to ‘combined’ in current opinions after the sport launched in 1.0 type with a raft of points that prevented individuals from taking part in. On-line connectivity was so dangerous that Eleventh Hour Video games introduced plans to give gamers an in-game reward as compensation.
Now, in a put up on Steam, Eleventh Hour Video games founder and sport director Judd Cobler expressed his shock and delight at hitting 265,000 gamers on-line at one time over the weekend, the thirty ninth highest concurrent person depend recorded on Steam ever.
“We recognize you all bearing with us because the load initially gave us hassle for on-line gameplay, however we’re completely satisfied to say that we’re holding principally regular above 200,000 gamers in-game and have made enhancements every day within the backend infrastructure to assist the demand,” Cobler mentioned. “We’ll proceed to monitor and tackle any points that crop up.”
Nonetheless, Last Epoch’s ‘combined’ person evaluate ranking stays, a minimum of for now, and clearly it’s induced some concern throughout the sport’s group and Eleventh Hour Video games itself, a lot in order that Cobler moved to calm the participant base, declaring: “Last Epoch is right here to keep.”
“Whereas we’re persevering with to obtain excessive reward in regards to the sport itself, Steam opinions and sentiment took a heavy hit due to the preliminary turbulence of on-line companies at launch,” Cobler mentioned. “We’re dedicated to regaining that belief by making enhancements to our backend infrastructure for this quantity of load and offering an amazing expertise for on-line play.
“We take time to learn your opinions and suggestions on Steam, socials, and our discussion board and take swift motion to enhance the areas that we see gamers are dissatisfied with. We all know that seeing our Steam opinions decrease than they’ve ever been is regarding to gamers who’re trying ahead to the way forward for Last Epoch, however we would like to guarantee you that the crew has all the time been dedicated to making a sport you may take pleasure in and count on updates from for years to come. We’ve seen that keenness mirrored again at us in the neighborhood this previous week, and it has bolstered our resolve to that objective even additional.
“Last Epoch is right here to keep.”
To that finish, Cobler outlined future content material plans, together with the upcoming patch, 1.1. There’s a heavy emphasis on increasing end-game content material now Last Epoch has launched out of early entry. “For future patches we now have plans to broaden the monolith, convey nice new itemization choices, add extra boss content material, class and steadiness updates, marketing campaign content material, and so on,” Cobler revealed.
“For 1.1 particularly we’ll be specializing in bringing some ‘pinnacle’ content material, or very onerous fights that provides you with challenges to aspire to. We’ll be sharing extra on this and extra of what’s to are available in 1.1 within the not too distant future.”
Elsewhere, Cobler reaffirmed plans to launch Last Epoch on console “sooner or later”, and so enhancements it’s making to the present gamepad assist will profit the sport long-term.
IGN’s Last Epoch evaluate returned an 8/10. “Push previous its one-note marketing campaign and Last Epoch is a formidable, time-bending motion RPG that mixes wealthy customization with fashionable motion,” we mentioned.
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