Hopefully, this isn’t a bad omen for the multiplayer server. Torchlight III has been out almost two weeks and it seems like the last several nights no one has been in Trevail Point, the initial main hub, during “peak hours”.

Like I said annoyances but nothing that kept me from playing and enjoying.

Overall the game is stable other than I saw one crash after the latest patch was installed and I still have a “stuck” tutorial quest on my quest tracker. Why 2018 Was One of the Best Years in Gaming History. There were some cases where it appeared I was okay but none of the action buttons did anything, I eventually was disconnected. Torchlight 3 developer and Echtra Games CEO Max Schaefer talks to Game Rant about how its new patch will be the studios swan song on T元. When going into sleep mode, even accidentally you end up getting disconnected from the server. Other annoyances include not being able to pause or sleep during multiplayer mode. The bigger issue is there are occassional frame rate drops in busy areas, especially when using things like the electrode relic and firing off several lightning storms. The first being when going into your inventory screen the gear icons tend to paint slow. There are some scant performance issues that we’ll caulk up to the Switch being a new console platform and categorize as things that the development team can hopefully address with patches. I played entirely in multiplayer mode so some of these items I touch on “might” not be concerns in a single-layer environment. Since there is no way to temporarily hide this it tends to block out quest dialogue. This causes its details dialogue to always pop-up. Welcome to our Quick Hit review of Torchlight III for the Nintendo Switch! That’s What He Said!Īnother personal annoyance is that when turning in quests, the reward dialog’s “cursor” always has focus on a reward item. Being that I’ve played on PC, and enjoy the Nintendo Switch, I was asked to do a comparison of the two versions. My fellow reviewers Xevrin (Kevin) and Chris Bowman have already done a thorough review of the Steam PC version.

I’ve personally followed Torchlight III‘s development since it was announced and played the PC version since Closed Alpha. I use the term “or” because currently you create and play an avatar in either the connected multiplayer server OR in an unconnected single-player environment. In the end, Torchlight III ended up being a multiplayer or single-player game. These guys I got to know through my heavy support of our beloved Marvel Heroes Omega (R.I.P.). Towards the middle-end of the development cycle, Echtra Games even hired some ARPG experts in the form of ex-Gazillion developers. It was originally slated to be an MMO but deep into the development cycle, that decision was dialed back. The game started out as a successor in the Torchlight game franchise series as Torchlight Frontiers. Echtra Games‘ action RPG (ARPG) Torchlight III, though newly released, has had a bit of a torrid history.

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