Cycle Refresh, Imperial Uprising Event and 1.2 Timeline Update

Eleventh Hour Games just released a new announcement covering the upcoming Imperial Uprising Event, the Cycle Refresh, and an updated timeline for Patch 1.2. This announcement details changes coming with the Imperial Uprising Event and offers a poll where players can submit feedback regarding how the Cycle Refresh will be handled. Eleventh Hour Games also uses this opportunity to give an updated timeline for the release of Patch 1.2 and some of their thoughts and plans regarding its development and release. See below for our key takeaways and the official announcement.

Key Takeaways

• Patch 1.2 Release Timeline - Eleventh Hour Games has decided to adjust the development priorities and timelines for Patch 1.2, opting to expand 1.2 to include features initially planned for Patch 1.3. They aim to include many key feedback points from the community, including expanded end-game content, better onboarding for new players, dungeon improvements, continued performance optimizations, and more balance and variety. Patch 1.2's release date has been moved back to Q1 of 2025 to ensure they can include all of these features.
• Cycle Refresh Event Updates - The Imperial Uprising Event launches on September 19th, including updates such as Favor and Reputation gain bonuses, Gold and Random Unique drop rate bonuses, new Shrine types, Loot Lizards, Dungeon QoL improvements, Stash Tab Affinity System, improvements to the Merchant's Guild Search, and more.
• Cycle Refresh Feedback Poll—Eleventh Hour Games is holding a poll for the next 48 hours in which players can submit feedback on the upcoming Cycle Refresh Event.

Announcement from Eleventh Hour Games

Greetings Travelers,

Over the last week, we have been reading and discussing your feedback about our announced plans for the Event Cycle launching on September 19th and Last Epoch’s next large update targets. We want to continue this discussion with you today and get your feedback directly.

We are holding a Poll for the next 48 hours regarding our Cycle Event and will act in accordance to your input. We think the details of this post are important for making an informed decision, but we want to make sure that the poll doesn’t get lost in the mix.

Poll Link: Cycle Refresh Feedback

1.2 Announcement

As always, we are working closely with community feedback to identify the best path forward for future updates to Last Epoch, and it’s clear that the community is eager for key improvements: expanded end-game content, better onboarding for new players, dungeon improvements, continued performance optimizations, and, of course, more balance and variety.

With this in mind, and after closely monitoring the ARPG landscape for later this year, we’ve decided to adjust our development priorities and timelines. Instead of focusing on some of the originally planned content for patch 1.2, we will prioritize delivering on the key improvements listed above. To achieve this, we’ll be moving much of the content originally planned for patch 1.3 into patch 1.2 and deliver a large, rescoped patch in Q1 of 2025. We acknowledge that the irregular Cycle duration is not ideal and aim for more consistent Cycle cadence going forward. However, we believe that prioritizing these high-demand updates will provide more value than adhering to a strict schedule at this stage.

That said, we are going to get some great updates out to you earlier with the upcoming 1.1 Event, and we believe a Cycle reset coinciding with this release may be favorable to the playerbase.

The Imperial Uprising Event

On September 19th, we are releasing some exciting updates that (based on the feedback we received from the poll) may or may not include a fresh start to the standard environment.

To remind you of some of the updates coming next week:

• Event Modifiers
  • NEW: Favor Gain Bonus (Community Requested)
  • Reputation Gain Bonus
  • Gold Drop Rate Bonus
  • Random Unique Drop Rate Bonus
  • Additional Undead Enemy Spawns in Monoliths
• 20+ New Shrine types
• Addition of Loot Lizards
• Dungeon Quality of Life (”QoL”) Updates
• Stash Tab Affinity System
• Merchants Guild Search Improvements
• Undead Enemy Updates
• And More

We’ll be sharing more details of the content coming in the Cycle Event - The Imperial Uprising this Friday the 13th.

We would love to hear from you regarding our upcoming Event Cycle plans, and our original announcement of doing a cycle refresh by participating in this community poll: Cycle Refresh Feedback

Thanks again for your support of Last Epoch, for taking the time to give your feedback, and for helping make the game the best it can be. Keep an eye out for some additional polls and surveys coming soon so your voice can be heard for future developments. Our team is excited and working more efficiently and better than ever to get the next big updates for Last Epoch in your hands.

- Judd Cobler
Game Director, Last Epoch

We're Still Cooking

The Last Epoch Team at Maxroll has been busy exploring everything Cycle 2 has to offer. Be sure to keep an eye out for new guides and other updates as we continue to find awesome new things to share.

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Written by: VisionGL

Reviewed by: Tenkiei