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
0voters
Character Visual Identity
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Story Content
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Graphics Optimization
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Online Multiplayer Co-op
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Economy
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Game Balance
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Multiplayer PvP
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Replayable End-Game content
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Quality of life and user interface improvements
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
World Building
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Stat Visibility
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Cosmetics
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Rules, Moderation Tools and Customer Support
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Cycles System
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Player interaction
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
0voters
Feel free to reply with what you voted, why you voted, and/or feedback on the poll.
Thank you!
These are the current average preferences amongst those who’ve voted, in order of most preferred to least.
Skills and Passives - 13.08
Replayable End-game- 10.83
Stat Visibility- 8.42
Graphics Optimization- 8.08
Story Content- 7.92
Player Interaction- 7.75
QoL and UI- 7.73
World Building- 7.17
Game Balance- 7.08
Support/Moderation- 6.08
Economy- 6
Online Co-op- 5.75
Visual Identity - 5.17
Cosmetics- 3.92
PvP - 2.92
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.
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
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.
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.
. 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.