multiplayer wipe?

[My Killer Shack]

Just started playing again and heard that the next patch will have a multiplayer wipe included, when is the patch? I dont see much point in starting right now if ill need to create a new MP char soon regardless

[andrew.thiele]

All current characters are offline characters, saved locally at this location on your PC:
C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\LocalLow\Eleventh Hour Games\Last Epoch\Saves

We know that these offline saves will not be wiped, which are all currently created characters. So any progress you make now during early access will still exist when the game launches and will be available to play in the offline mode of the game.

However, these offline characters will not be transferred to the server-authoritative multiplayer when it arrives with patch 0.9 on March 9th, for security reasons. All players will thus be starting anew in the online mode (multiplayer). All multiplayer character save files will be stored on servers rather than your local machine.

Originally posted by EHG_Developer:

The characters that you have now are offline characters and aren't playable online. So while we aren't deleting those characters, they aren't going to be usable online. Also once 1.0 starts a new cycle will start with it so most people will start over anyways.

Source: LE Discord Link[discord.com]

Originally posted by EHG_Developer:

We aren't planning on deleting characters. However, currently all saves are offline so they can't be trusted and transferred to the multiplayer environment. This means that everyone will have to start fresh when multiplayer goes live. We are also planning on doing cycles, much like PoE leagues or D3 seasons. The first of which will start on day 1 of launch. This will also be an effective "wipe". We do plan on having a "standard league" where characters from past cycles will still be playable.

Source: LE Discord Link[discord.com]

As for our future multiplayer beta saves (characters made in the online mode of patch 0.9 and beyond) the current plan, barring any unforeseen issues, is to bring these into a "standard cycle" at 1.0 (launch), as Mike Weicker, a senior developer at EHG, states in this dev stream on November 18, 2022 (from 36:25 to 38:18 of the video).

Originally posted by EHG_Developer:

Our current plan is any Beta online characters would remain in a "standard cycle" if you would. We are not planning any wipes.

Source: LE Discord Link[discord.com]

Originally posted by EHG_Developer:

We're not planning for any sort of wipes in betas. Offline characters will remain available offline, 0.9.0 multiplayer beta characters would remain in a standard cycle/league though 1.0 is the current plan.

Our first league should be starting with, or shortly after 1.0 is our current plan. 0.9.0 will also be the multiplayer "beta" - meaning it has all current features online, but is not the fully tailored multiplayer experience we expect to have for 1.0.

Source: LE Discord Link[discord.com]

[Chays]

lol , i want every 3 month an wipe..... why you play these games? you dont want start new again and again?

i think this typ of game is not your thing.

[My Killer Shack]

Originally posted by Chays:

lol , i want every 3 month an wipe..... why you play these games? you dont want start new again and again?

i think this typ of game is not your thing.

if only reading comprehension was something you had...

I literally JUST started playing again so I dont see ny reason to start playing 2 days before a wipe.

Dont worry though... someday youll be able to read

[Kotli]

Originally posted by My Killer Shack:

Originally posted by Chays:

lol , i want every 3 month an wipe..... why you play these games? you dont want start new again and again?

i think this typ of game is not your thing.

if only reading comprehension was something you had...

I literally JUST started playing again so I dont see ny reason to start playing 2 days before a wipe.

Dont worry though... someday youll be able to read

There be no wipe and never will be. The current characters are offline only characters, multiplayer characters will be server side and there be season/leader and non-season/ladder characters like in Diablo 2.

[Cyber Cat 😺]

Thanks for the long detailed post, Andrew! So if I understand this correctly, when I create multiple online multiplayer characters tomorrow at noon ET (when the multiplayer 0.9 patch releases) and put tons of hours into them... come 1.0 release patch they will NOT be wiped?

[Secret]

Originally posted by Cyber Cat 😺:

Thanks for the long detailed post, Andrew! So if I understand this correctly, when I create multiple online multiplayer characters tomorrow at noon ET (when the multiplayer 0.9 patch releases) and put tons of hours into them... come 1.0 release patch they will NOT be wiped?

theyll just be moved to the "useless" pile. they are trying to create a distinction between wiped and useless and there isnt one. a new league will start and everything you did before it will be useless in that league.

a bigger reason not to play is half the classes are gimped because they havent added the remaining masteries yet.

so yea you still have access to the useless characters, but you cant use them in relevant content or get items from their storage or anything like that.

[andrew.thiele]

Originally posted by Cyber Cat 😺:

Thanks for the long detailed post, Andrew! So if I understand this correctly, when I create multiple online multiplayer characters tomorrow at noon ET (when the multiplayer 0.9 patch releases) and put tons of hours into them... come 1.0 release patch they will NOT be wiped?

That is the plan. At 1.0 multiplayer characters (those created in the online mode) during patch 0.9 and beyond will be placed into a "standard cycle" and a new cycle will begin for those that want to start fresh.

Can plans change, sure, so I can't guarantee this is exactly what will happen. But, barring any unforeseen issues, you should still be able to play all your previously created online characters at 1.0 in the standard cycle.

[Cyber Cat 😺]

Thank you, Secret & Andrew.