Outdoors players can expect a day and night cycle as well as dynamic weather effects, which we experienced as rain while playing, Instances will be available in all the zones.
The second is the Outlander, a hybrid ranged-attack and dark-magic user with both a rifle and a magic glaive used like a boomerang and excellent against groups of enemies.įans who got tired of the spiral staircase feel of the level design in Torchlight will be pleased to hear that the game will now expand out of the catacombs, offering a central quest hub, a starting zone, and four new areas in a mixture of indoor and outdoor settings. The first, the Railman, is an explorer gentleman with a penchant for big, heavy weapons and melee combat. In their place, four new archetypes are being introduced, two of which were playable at Gamescom 2010. Bringing the Torchlight franchise to the massively multiplayer online stage also hasn’t been ruled out, and while they're currently focusing their energy on bringing this product to players, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the studio turn on persistency and up-sell players to a free-to-play business model in the future.Ī total rework of the character system means that the classes from the first game will not be making a return appearance, meaning there will not be an option to import previous characters from the original game. While presently there are no plans for the inclusion of player-versus-player combat, they are actively looking at the option to include duels against friends. The team believes the latter is best with two to four players for an online game of this nature. Torchlight II feeds directly on the community feedback from the first game and overhauls combat and the user interface and adds a much requested feature in multiplayer. The fact that a sequel is on the way is of little surprise, but the speed with which developer Runic Games is bringing it to market is.
While the game wasn’t built to the same scale as the Diablo series it emulates so lovingly, the experience was both accessible and entertaining, sending you back into the depths of the earth for one more quest, or another chance on the enchanter lucky-dip. When Torchlight was released last year as a digital download at a bargain-basement price, fans of the dungeon crawling and hack-and-slash genres showered it with praise.
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