sorry I missed it @Timotheus , been a while I know...
Somehow I got always caught up by something else,
and whenever I thought about launching Last Epoch, I thought:
" nah, I don't want to loose old chars / feel like it had been a waste of time if they get wiped / moved to legacy on release..
instead,
I'm gonna launch it when it launches.. "
Which was like two days ago, on Feb 21 !
Finally, Last Epoch is now on version 1.0 , officially out of early access !!
Hype started to grow shortly before launch the last few days/weeks,
Not sure how many newcomers or how many old players are returning for final launch,
but in total Last Epoch almost peaked 200k concurrent players online within the first 2 days after launch,
it's been a rough ride for the devs too I guess, this many players were hitting servers pretty hard, and now the devs are working hard too,
trying to find solutions / implementing hotfixes in order to handle & stabilize servers..
It looks it's slowly becoming better, but still not there yet regarding some sort of "all-clear" signal.
it already got review bombed within "hours" , mostly because it's online server issues which is a shame (I expected / was afraid something like this was going to happen...
some people are just too impatient, tend to overreact and have zero tolerance/imagination,
and maybe they also missed the fact that Last Epoch has now a "fully offline" mode (and that one always worked since launch so far^^),
which is something other people are also often asking for - eg. D4 has none, so thats a big plus on the Last Epoch side...
but actually it's now weekend over here,
and I just logged in tonight, I was able to create a char and start playing online without any major issues so far:
no disconnects, no crashes, smooth fps.. just chat seems to be disabled/non functional for global channel eg, but we found out that the /help channel is working and people can text into / read each others msgs in there...
PS: I rolled a Falconer for launch, not only because it's new, but also because like pets & minions.. but you probably knew already ;)
PPS: help !! I'm a total noob, havent played Last Epoch for months, and I never played it much even before that, as said I decided to wait for release,
so right now I'm just randomly clicking the screen and hitting buttons,
sometimes I even noticed it makes my char hit stuff, and if I manage to repeat it,
bad monsters die.. if not, my char does sounds pretty fair.