Torchlight - Runic Games

[dusematic]

Bought it.  Smooth and polished. Very clean visuals at max settings.  Finding it a little too easy on Hard difficulty as a dual wielding melee guy.  Overall it's the best Diablo clone I've ever played and I will definitely beat it.

[Malakili]

Bought it.  Smooth and polished. Very clean visuals at max settings.  Finding it a little too easy on Hard difficulty as a dual wielding melee guy.  Overall it's the best Diablo clone I've ever played and I will definitely beat it.

If you play through with all the classes, try very hard on your other characters, I find that it makes the game more fun.  Also, I don't know what level you are so far, but the game ramps up in difficulty around level 18-20, as stuff starts hitting pretty hard.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Level 25 now...I've just been running the vendor bought maps non stop, I don't know why but I almost find the senseless slaughtering of evil minions more fun than the story. I'm playing on very hard and a bow-vanq is ridiculously easy but the game is actually a lot of fun.

[Malakili]

Level 25 now...I've just been running the vendor bought maps non stop, I don't know why but I almost find the senseless slaughtering of evil minions more fun than the story. I'm playing on very hard and a bow-vanq is ridiculously easy but the game is actually a lot of fun.

The story is really just a thinly veiled excuse for the slaughter of evil minions anyway, and most of the time you can ignore it.  Still, I like the random maps as well, I dunno why.

[Fabricated]

"This game is currently not available"
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"This game is currently not available"

Fuck you Steam. Why?

[Prospero]

Did you restart steam? Sometimes it craps itself and a quick restart usually fixes it. That or go offline

[dusematic]

Bought it.  Smooth and polished. Very clean visuals at max settings.  Finding it a little too easy on Hard difficulty as a dual wielding melee guy.  Overall it's the best Diablo clone I've ever played and I will definitely beat it.

If you play through with all the classes, try very hard on your other characters, I find that it makes the game more fun.  Also, I don't know what level you are so far, but the game ramps up in difficulty around level 18-20, as stuff starts hitting pretty hard.

Level 23.  My guy is just too diesel for anything to fuck with it.

[Kageh]

Hard gets noticeably more difficult in the last dungeon world once you start getting swarmed by stuff spamming elemental attacks (dungeon level 25+?). Are you fighting the poison cloud trees already? Those were the first really bothersome mob I encountered on my meleer on hard.

Wish I could be arsed to go back to my very hard alch, but I'm currently stuck in about 5 or 6 other games with so little time.

[Azaroth]

Lazy what?

[dusematic]

i'll probably start a game with an alchemist on very hard soon.

[rattran]

$5 on Steam today only.

There is now no excuse not to own it.

[Threash]

Fuck i just paid 10 yesterday.  How is this different than Fate btw, so far it seems like basically the same exact game.

[Lakov_Sanite]

The only thing that keeps this from being truly awesome for me is lack of key mapping.  As a left handed mouse user the keybaord layout needs to be overhauled in most games I play and this one is no exception.

[Ragnoros]

The only thing that keeps this from being truly awesome for me is lack of key mapping.  As a left handed mouse user the keybaord layout needs to be overhauled in most games I play and this one is no exception.

http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1314&start=0

Runic owes me a nickel.

[Aez]

You should all try Very Hard Hardcore.  Nothing like losing a lvl 32 character
It's around the same time investment as a civ 4 game.  Losing your character at lvl 32 feel like getting owned in the industrial age in civ.  You just lost a huge time investment but you can't wait to give it an other go.

[Lucas]

DAMN IT...Usually I'm not a fan of this hack n' slash stuff, but Torchlight is addictive: two hours ago I planned a nice, varied evening session with a little Dragon Age here, some Mirror's Edge there, maybe a match of Football Manager 2010...And here I am still playing Torchlight two hours later :P

[Lakov_Sanite]

The only thing that keeps this from being truly awesome for me is lack of key mapping.  As a left handed mouse user the keybaord layout needs to be overhauled in most games I play and this one is no exception.

http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1314&start=0

Runic owes me a nickel.

Thanks! Now I might actually play a character with a more diverse skillset. Really though and I know torchlight was never a huge budget game I think lack of keymapping is a big mistake.  Were this on any other game I'd have just uninstalled in frustration, not worth fighting an uphill battle with my keys.

[Aez]

Finally!



Made it with this guy: Aez the lvl 44 Alchemist

[Pennilenko]

Finally!



Made it with this guy: Aez the lvl 44 Alchemist

How did you get that awesome pet?
 

Also what mods is everybody using. It would be cool to have a list of everyone's favorite mods.

[Aez]

I have no mods because I wanted to finish a "pure" game.  I'm like that. 

For the pet, I used a big electric eel. It turn your pet into a electric elemental for 1 hour.  It helped a lot for Ordrak.

[dusematic]

I beat the game on hard at around level 30.  Haven't been back since.  The loot/art wasn't interesting enough to keep me going into the forever dungeon or to start a new character.

[SurfD]

Some of the "Gold" weapons (cant remember what they call them in game, uniques?) are insane.

I lucked into getting "The Legendary Crushgroove Blade" (a 2 handed, FASTEST attack speed, polearm) at an early level on my melee dude.  This thing destroys face.  I have used the same weapon since i could equip it (like, level 10 or something) and am still pretty much 2 shotting all normal things with it at nearly level 30.  Has something like a 600 DPS value on it (affected in large part by it's innate +100 damage done modifier).  Socket in a pair of good Skulls on it, for crazy life drain, + have a piece of armor with a + mana per hit modifier, and you just mow through things like no tomorrow.

Out of curiosity, when do you guys stop at trying to add extra enchants to stuff?  I have had a couple of REALLY nice pieces get wiped clean by that bastard cause i tried to add an extra enchant to it with around a 10% chance to reset it.

[schild]

Screenshot with the crushgroove blade plox.

[SurfD]

FUUUUUUUCK

i am SOOO glad i got a second one of those.  I risked the dice again, and tried to add an enchant to the one i was currently using, and wiped it (which, by the way, makes it 100% useless) (had a +4% attack speed modifier, 34 armor degraded per hit, and a +poison damage modifier.  Luckily, i have a second, in it's "raw form" which looks like this:



Turns out, ALLL of the damage on that thing is considered enchantments, fucking enchanter wiped it and it became a 0 dps weapon....with 2 sockets (base version only has 1)

[Fabricated]

What the hell does "Fishing Luck" do specifically? Speed up fishing? Make higher level fish show up more? I found a Unique necklace called "The Fisherman's Friend" that gives +10 Fishing Luck and 5% to minion HP/Damage/Speed.

[Malakili]

What the hell does "Fishing Luck" do specifically? Speed up fishing? Make higher level fish show up more? I found a Unique necklace called "The Fisherman's Friend" that gives +10 Fishing Luck and 5% to minion HP/Damage/Speed.

Fishing luck improves the quality of fish you get.  Think of it as magic find, but for fishies.

[Musashi]

Oh.

[Ratman_tf]

After coming down from Mass Effect 2, I just started a Normal-Hardcore game. I don't think I have the stones for the harder difficulties, but wanted to do /something/ different than just Normal.

Does hardcore on it's own give any better rewards than non-hardcore?

[Malakili]

Does hardcore on it's own give any better rewards than non-hardcore?

Nope.  Aside from being a badass because you're playing on hardcore.

[Fabricated]

My caster alchemist is in need of poison resist in a major way. I dunno what's up but the instant I entered the black palace, the poison bolt casting cat-things can literally one-shot me unless I dodge every single cast or hit them with ember lance the instant I spot them.

Ember lance is so goddamn satisfying.

[Ratman_tf]

Ok. Now for a non-hardcore game so I can blink while playing. 

[Ratman_tf]

I'm confused and a little scared.

[dusematic]

jauntiness lol

[stu]

Emotional Damage? I'm guessing the weapon is female only.

[Malakili]

Arise!

Torchlight sells 1/2 million copies.

http://kotaku.com/5541338/torchlight-sells-half-a-million

I figured this is worth bumping the thread for, not just because its interesting that the game seems to have done well, but also because we tend to have lots of discussions about lower budget projects with realistic expectations.  Torchlight seems to have become the prototypical success for this type of game, and I hope to see more of it.  Granted, not every developer has the experience Runic does.