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As I previously mentioned, I hated Diablo IV because of its scaling difficulty. That’s when as you level up, the monsters also level up. So it’s meaningless to become stronger, because what’s the point? I hated that game mechanic, that I gave up on the game.
To get my Diablo-style fix, I am re-playing Path of Exile, with a new character, playing in anticipation of Path of Exile 2… which is set to release sometime in 2024.
I got level 30 in the first PoE game and, I’m not going to lie, it’s getting boring. I’m only in act 2, but it’s more or less the same gameplay … and I feel like I messed up on shaping my character. There really isn’t an easy (and cheap) way of respecting my character… so I might just give up (or perhaps restart a game with a new character build).
Since I’ve somewhat given up on PoE, I decided to check out another Diablo-style game called Last Epoch. This game is in early access, but it’ll be officially released in February 21, 2024. I thought, sure, why not buy into the early access, so I’ve been testing out the game before it launches.
First of all, I hate the name. What the heck is an Epoch? I didn’t like the name and had a hard time remembering what it was called.
Anyway, there’s a lot of bugs in the early build I was playing. It’s expected to be buggy, but holy crap, this game is about to be released in a month and from what I experienced, it has a long way to go.
For example, clicking on the “X” to close the inventory screen does not work. You just have to click “I” to close the inventory. In fact, any clicking is not accurate. If you fire an arrow, you would think it should follow your mouse - but it doesn’t. It shoots at 45 degrees or whatever the game wants to target. Sometime it’ll hit its mark, but most of the time (especially if you’re close to the enemy), the game does not hit the monsters at all! The targeting is absolutely terrible. At least using a bow.
I wasn’t very impressed with the graphics, that is until I realized by default, it is set to run at a very poor setting. Like window mode with V-Sync turned off and other niceties turned off. I suppose the developers just wants the game to run on very low spec PCs, but as a result, the game did not look good when you first start the game.
Other annoying features: throughout the game you find building materials. Instead of automatically putting it in your crafting table, the material will take up your valuable inventory! To put the items in your crafting table, you have to click on the button that will move it to the crafting table. Why couldn’t it just automatically go there on its own?
The game isn’t as complicated as PoE, but it’s certainly more challenging than Diablo IV. Sometime I think the way Last Epoch slowly rolling out special abilities, it felt like I shouldn’t put all my points in the early features. Also, if you accidentally click on something you can’t undo the allocation!!! It’s like, “oh well, I guess you’re now stuck with that dumb special ability that you’ll never use…” It’s like these developers don’t play their games, or if they do, they know exactly what they want and don’t make mistakes.
Again, we’re still technically in “early access”, so I would wait until they iron out all the bugs.
Update: I’ve now put in about 30 hours into the game, and playing with two characters: rogue/archer and knight/paladin. I haven’t touched on the other characters yet. It’s pretty fun so far. My rogue is about level 60 and my knight has hit the 50 mark. I haven’t beaten the game, but I feel that I’m very close.
They’ve fixed the “X” inventory bug, and I’m assuming are constantly tweaking the game. Hopefully, by the time the game is officially released that I can recommend it. I believe it’ll be a free-to-play, or at least will cost very little. If the price is free, then, I highly recommend it. I think it’s better than Diablo IV… at least it’s fun and challenging sometimes.
I don’t know how they are going to do on launch day, but I’ve read that the online portion of the game is not good. I’ve seen that it takes a few minutes (if at all) to get into the online game. However, the best part of the game is that you can play offline! And that’s what I’ve been doing, just playing solo. I wish Blizzard would allow people to play Diablo IV offline too.
To get my Diablo-style fix, I am re-playing Path of Exile, with a new character, playing in anticipation of Path of Exile 2… which is set to release sometime in 2024.
I got level 30 in the first PoE game and, I’m not going to lie, it’s getting boring. I’m only in act 2, but it’s more or less the same gameplay … and I feel like I messed up on shaping my character. There really isn’t an easy (and cheap) way of respecting my character… so I might just give up (or perhaps restart a game with a new character build).
Since I’ve somewhat given up on PoE, I decided to check out another Diablo-style game called Last Epoch. This game is in early access, but it’ll be officially released in February 21, 2024. I thought, sure, why not buy into the early access, so I’ve been testing out the game before it launches.
First of all, I hate the name. What the heck is an Epoch? I didn’t like the name and had a hard time remembering what it was called.
Anyway, there’s a lot of bugs in the early build I was playing. It’s expected to be buggy, but holy crap, this game is about to be released in a month and from what I experienced, it has a long way to go.
For example, clicking on the “X” to close the inventory screen does not work. You just have to click “I” to close the inventory. In fact, any clicking is not accurate. If you fire an arrow, you would think it should follow your mouse - but it doesn’t. It shoots at 45 degrees or whatever the game wants to target. Sometime it’ll hit its mark, but most of the time (especially if you’re close to the enemy), the game does not hit the monsters at all! The targeting is absolutely terrible. At least using a bow.
I wasn’t very impressed with the graphics, that is until I realized by default, it is set to run at a very poor setting. Like window mode with V-Sync turned off and other niceties turned off. I suppose the developers just wants the game to run on very low spec PCs, but as a result, the game did not look good when you first start the game.
Other annoying features: throughout the game you find building materials. Instead of automatically putting it in your crafting table, the material will take up your valuable inventory! To put the items in your crafting table, you have to click on the button that will move it to the crafting table. Why couldn’t it just automatically go there on its own?
The game isn’t as complicated as PoE, but it’s certainly more challenging than Diablo IV. Sometime I think the way Last Epoch slowly rolling out special abilities, it felt like I shouldn’t put all my points in the early features. Also, if you accidentally click on something you can’t undo the allocation!!! It’s like, “oh well, I guess you’re now stuck with that dumb special ability that you’ll never use…” It’s like these developers don’t play their games, or if they do, they know exactly what they want and don’t make mistakes.
Again, we’re still technically in “early access”, so I would wait until they iron out all the bugs.
Update: I’ve now put in about 30 hours into the game, and playing with two characters: rogue/archer and knight/paladin. I haven’t touched on the other characters yet. It’s pretty fun so far. My rogue is about level 60 and my knight has hit the 50 mark. I haven’t beaten the game, but I feel that I’m very close.
They’ve fixed the “X” inventory bug, and I’m assuming are constantly tweaking the game. Hopefully, by the time the game is officially released that I can recommend it. I believe it’ll be a free-to-play, or at least will cost very little. If the price is free, then, I highly recommend it. I think it’s better than Diablo IV… at least it’s fun and challenging sometimes.
I don’t know how they are going to do on launch day, but I’ve read that the online portion of the game is not good. I’ve seen that it takes a few minutes (if at all) to get into the online game. However, the best part of the game is that you can play offline! And that’s what I’ve been doing, just playing solo. I wish Blizzard would allow people to play Diablo IV offline too.
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An Epoch is a geologic period of time. These geologic periods of time are named based on important events that occurred in Earth's history.
The order from largest to smallest.; Eon -> Era -> Period -> Epoch
This means that an Eon is the largest section of time, while Epoch is the smallest. In a similar way I could say.
Month -> Week -> Day -> Hour each one represents a section of much smaller time.
Example: The Jurassic Period. Anyone can guess why this is period is important in Earth's timeline. Dinosaurs!
The Jurassic period is made up of 3 epochs, also the Jurassic is a part of the much larger Era the Mesozoic which is the era that Dinosaurs ruled Earth.
Given the plot of the game and how we move through the past and future the name starts to make more sense.
Hope that helps.
-A Geologist that is also a gamer.
Posted by: Geo | 01/29/2024 at 07:03 AM