#TORCHLIGHT 3 FORT SERIES#

#TORCHLIGHT 3 FORT SERIES#

At first glance, Contracts look like battle passes from free-to-play battle royale games - a series of unlockable goodies.

One odd holdover from the original freemium design are Contracts. Relic skills are a welcome addition, as otherwise each character only has two skill trees and 14 skills, as well as a series of unlockable passive skills called Legendarium. Fully charging one of the meters adds powerful buffs when casting an oppositely aligned spell, motivating the Dusk Mage to strategically swap between both sets of skills.Įquipped relics level alongside the player, adding an entire third skill tree with several different flavors and themes, such as poison, bleed, and electricity, allowing each character to further customize their characters. Using dark spells, like teleportation or summoning shadowy spears, charges the light meter, and vice-versa for light spells. The Dusk Mage is the only class that uses a traditional mana system to power their dark and light spells, along with two meters representing their dark and light spell trees. I initially chose the Dusk Mage with their neat augmented magic arm, though it turns out that’s just a weapon anyone can technically wield. Torchlight III features four classes that are slightly customizable with a few hair, face, and color options. But underneath it all, it is still a really fun game with unique classes, big boss fights, and enjoyable dungeon crawls. The result is an awkward layering of MMO-style zones and systems and an early access period that’s very much a work in progress. Fans balked at the freemium change, and during closed beta, Frontiers was rebranded as Torchlight III, sans microtransactions. Torchlight III began life as Torchlight Frontiers, a free-to-play MMO action RPG. From the ashes of the original Torchlight studio rises Echtra Games and a long-awaited Torchlight III, now on Steam Early Access. The colorful Torchlight series has aged gracefully amidst a deluge of Diablo clones in the traditional hack-and-slash action-RPG genre.

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