Last Epoch Gears Up for a Huge Multiplayer Beta Patch Ahead of Launch

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Last Epoch fans, get ready to jump back into the action! Eleventh Hour Games has been hard at work on their latest update, Convergence, and it's set to drop on March 9th. But that's not all — the team has been releasing daily blog posts detailing all the exciting new features that will be included in this massive update.

Eleventh Hour Games is so excited about this update that they're releasing daily blog posts detailing all of the new features until the release. In the latest blog post, which is the fifth in the series, the team talks about the optimization and performance changes that they have made. The developers have been hard at work, and they've identified areas where they can improve performance. They've been collecting data, identifying sources of performance issues, and tracking them down to fix them. They're also working on guidelines to ensure that all future content is as optimized as possible on the first release.

While they can't promise that every single performance issue will be fixed in the upcoming patch, the team believes they're on the right path to give players the Last Epoch experience they deserve. Today’s blog post also went into very thorough detail on the types of visual optimizations players can expect. It’s a massive read, but well worth it if you want information on exactly how Eleventh Hour will increase performance, visuals, and framerates.

In yesterday’s fourth blog post Eleventh Hour teased the Convergence update’s enemies and armor additions. With patch 0.9, the developers have updated and replaced many of the enemies in the game with entirely new models. They've focused on some of the earliest enemies you'll encounter in the game, giving them completely new models, animations, attack