Final Epoch left early entry on February 21, leading to a sudden inflow of gamers trying out the complete launch. What number of gamers? On the day Final Epoch formally launched, SteamDB recorded a peak of over 152,000 concurrent gamers. At some point later, the determine has grown to greater than 176,000 gamers, and it’s not even a weekend.

With so many avid gamers clamoring to play on-line, the Diablo-like’s servers have been stretched to their limits. I attempted to play co-op with a buddy on launch day, and whereas we had been capable of play collectively, we positively felt the servers straining underneath the load. It took a few tries to type a celebration. The precise gameplay felt nice, however transitioning to new areas was usually a crapshoot. Scene transitions would generally take minutes, if not day trip fully.

This seems to have been a standard expertise. Eleventh Hour Video games has a actual time replace thread the place they’re documenting their efforts to deal with the problems. They’ve carried out some bandwidth will increase and seem like preventing valiantly to maintain up with demand.

Within the meantime, Eleventh Hour Video games has introduced a free beauty reward to thank gamers for his or her help and persistence. Everybody who owns Final Epoch whereas the server points are ongoing will obtain an Autumnal Wrap again back-slot merchandise. They haven’t despatched these out but, however gamers ought to obtain them robotically once they do.

For now, if you wish to play Final Epoch on-line, your finest guess is to try to play throughout non-peak hours. I used to be capable of have a reasonably profitable co-op expertise after I revisited the sport later within the day.

Alternatively, you’ll be able to wait a number of days till the state of affairs stabilizes for Final Epoch. Both participant numbers will settle after the launch weekend, or Eleventh Hour Video games will give you an answer to maintain this many on-line gamers.

Final Epoch offline mode

It ought to be famous that there is a totally offline mode in Final Epoch. You’ll be able to allow this on Steam by proper clicking the title in your library, deciding on Properties, and deciding on Play Full Offline within the drop down menu for Launch Choices.

You received’t be capable to use on-line options like enjoying or chatting with others, however you’ll be able to a minimum of get pleasure from Final Epoch by yourself till the server points have died down.

Whether or not you select to play offline or hunker down and await issues to get higher, there’s hope for Final Epoch but!