Last Epoch Season 5 Bugs and Hotfixes: What Is Actually Fixed

Season 5 launched on Patch 1.5 on October 1, 2026, and three builds have shipped since: Hotfix 1.5.0.1, Patch 1.5.1 and Hotfix 1.5.1.1, the last at 04:41 UTC on October 3. Nearly everything that broke in the first 48 hours is fixed; five reports from launch week still have no patch entry and no developer reply, and DLSS has no official answer at all.

Season 5 bug status, dated

Three changelog entries worth reading

Hotfix 1.5.0.1 fixed two things, both of which blocked play: Turkish language settings stopped login working, and the Blood Crystal reward menu vanished "sometimes before the player selects a reward." Its Steam announcement is timestamped October 2, 02:46 UTC while the forum thread went up the evening of October 1, hence both dates in circulation. The fix is about the language setting, not your region — players in Turkey and the Middle East were still failing to log in a day later.

Official source: Last Epoch Hotfix 1.5.0.1 Notes (Eleventh Hour Games).

Patch 1.5.1's headline is that Legacy and Offline characters can now challenge Pinnacle Morditas, so a Season 4 character you wrote off can attempt the Demigod's Ascendance run. Two Circle of Fortune corrections matter numerically: Lens of Tyranny now gives a flat 2x charge rate instead of an inconsistent ~1.5x, and drains banked Favor at 10% of your earn rate for 2.1x; the Rank 3 bonus no longer creates a regular idol off an Omen idol drop. See Item factions in Season 5. Hotfix 1.5.1.1's RoM entries are the ones farmers feel: gauntlets now spawn enough monsters to finish, and rewards from the Portents of Blood node on your Weaver Tree no longer arrive already ruined.

The open reports as of October 3

Four threads cover the five open rows above.

Campaign crystals spawn where no enemies remain. The original report: "at least 60% of all the events I encountered were midway through the map leaving barely any enemies," while in Monoliths the same events sit next to the Echo start. Two replies agree, one estimating about 90% of theirs ended when they crossed into the next zone. Neither later build touches placement.

Rage of Morditas rewards cannot be gifted without Resonances. The report is about co-op: good items cannot be gifted to a party member even in the same zone. The thread draws the line — Nemesis, Rift Beast, Exiled Mage and Omen Window drops are giftable there without Resonances, only the Blood Crystal panel is not. See co-op and invites.

True Offline is broken two ways. The quest panel reads 5/5 Bloodrage shards, but clicking the crystal reads 0 and no reward can be taken. Town portals do nothing, in campaign, in the Monolith, on season and Legacy characters, and a second player reports the identical pair. Patch 1.5 moved full offline access to the landing page, and the thread still argues over whether what they now have is real offline mode — see Online vs Offline vs Legacy.

Chromatic aberration in the Blood Crystal event. One post, no reply: the effect "makes half the screen more difficult to see," and the ask is a toggle rather than a removal.

Every one of these reports is a player post dated October 1 or 2. None has a patch entry or a developer reply, so treat them as unconfirmed until a build names them.

The launch outage, and the race that will not restart

On October 1 the game director posted an apology: server issues made the game "difficult to play, or completely unplayable" for many at launch, called it "our failure," and confirmed the First Blood Race will not be restarted, because that "would require taking the game offline and performing an experimental mass data migration." Full text in Mike's apology for the Season 5 outage.

No official answer: DLSS

The 31-reply thread "Will we get dlss? S5 FPS drop?" has no reply from a staff or admin account — we checked every post's role flag. The closest thing to an official statement is a player relaying a stream: Mike "said that the new Unity version they upgraded to allows for this and that they're working on adding it. No details on when that might be, though." Reading all three patch-note bodies — 1.5, 1.5.1 and the 1.5.1.1 hotfix — turned up no DLSS, FSR or frame-generation entry in any of them. As of Hotfix 1.5.1.1: no DLSS change, no announced date. If your frame rate collapsed after the update, FPS drops and stuttering has what works today.

Is it a bug, or did you do it wrong?

FAQ

Is Season 5 stable yet? As of Hotfix 1.5.1.1 the launch-day crashes, freezes and stuck panels are fixed. Five reports remain, all cosmetic, offline-mode or quality-of-life.

Will the First Blood race restart? No — the October 1 statement calls a restart too risky.

Is DLSS coming in Season 5? No date given, and no DLSS entry in the 1.5, 1.5.1 or 1.5.1.1 notes.

How current is this page? Everything reflects Hotfix 1.5.1.1, the build live on October 3, 2026. The next patch will move rows in the table.

Related Guides

• Last Epoch FPS Drops and Stuttering — what works while DLSS is missing.
• Last Epoch Online vs Offline vs Legacy — what 1.5 changed about True Offline.
• Last Epoch Rage of Morditas: How to Farm It Right — the encounter behind half these reports.
• Last Epoch Co-op: Party Size, Scaling, and Invites — why gifting panel rewards needs Resonances.
• Last Epoch Controller Not Working? — the other half of the 1.5.1 gamepad fixes.