TORCHLIGHT 3 MULTIPLAYER PS4
TORCHLIGHT 3 MULTIPLAYER SERIES

You have a rag-tag bunch of heroes to choose from: the ranged and summon-focused Sharpshooter, the balancer of light and dark magics Dusk Mage, the mechanical master of destruction the Forged, or Railmaster who can lay waste to enemies with their Train of Carnage. Torchlight III takes place after the events of Torchlight II, naturally. Yet even though it has changed, I can still say it’s a pretty decent game.

TORCHLIGHT 3 MULTIPLAYER SERIES

I was excited to play this entry in the series since it was originally known as Torchlight Frontiers and had a whole different take on the game. I’ve played the previous iterations, even reviewed Torchlight II.

TORCHLIGHT 3 MULTIPLAYER PS4

Console ports are expected shortly after PS4 and Xbox One were always planned, but maybe Switch is in the mix too after Torchlight II was ported to Nintendo’s system last fall.Torchlight III is a top-down action RPG published by Perfect World and developed by Echtra Games.

Torchlight III will be sold on Steam, and it’s tentatively set to launch sometime this summer at an unspecified price. It’s now a “premium” paid-for game, and all in-game microtransactions are being removed. Most crucially, Torchlight III is no longer free-to-play. Progression will be retooled to be more aligned with the previous Torchlight games. Because of this change, Torchlight III can now be played either online or offline.Īlso of note, leveling no longer revolved around combined item score, which served as a solution for scaling players to the level of the people they were playing with. It’s no longer MMO-like, as most combat zones are private areas where cooperative parties can fight alongside each other the only public zones/social spaces are towns. Echtra mentions that Torchlight III now follows a linear act-based structure. Based on this and extensive feedback from our alpha testers, we decided it was time to take the game back to its roots and model it after the classic Torchlight games that ARPG fans have come to love.”Īlongside the rebranding, Torchlight III seemingly drops nearly all the experimentation that Frontiers dabbled in. Torchlight Frontiers has been renamed Torchlight III, making it the official third main-line game in the series.Įchtra CEO Max Schaefer says “ During development, you often discover what type of product a game was meant to be and we found Torchlight Frontiers was meant to be a true successor to Torchlight I and II. After years of development and alpha testing, developer Echtra Games has reverted back to what fans expected all along. Frontiers would pursue new angles like a free-to-play model, an MMO-like structure, and leveling that focused on aggregate gear and item stats rather than the character.Īll of that was not meant to be.

The third Torchlight still leaned into its Diablo-like action RPG sensibilities, but it also marked a departure of sorts from what people expected from another sequel. Torchlight Frontiers took on an unconventional name because it was an unconventional take on the Torchlight series. ‘The true sequel it was always meant to be’

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