XD Games has revealed the launch date for its single-player, cross-play, cross-progression PC and mobile RPG, Torchlight: Infinite. Players will be able to check out a huge launch update starting May 9th. The update includes a new hero, the “Cube of Rapacity,” updated features, quality-of-life updates, and bug fixes.
Developers released a new trailer to showcase the new season and all the gameplay goodness that will be available beginning May 9th.
Developers are keen to grow the T:I community and have said that the v1.0 launch is the perfect time for new players while maintaining numerous challenges for veterans as well.
Escapist Bing will be joining the roster of playable Heroes. He brings “serious boom” to the playable character roster thanks to her use of bombs to keep them on their toes.
Also coming in the launch day update is the Cube of Rapacity, a new mechanic that adds a risk-reward feature. Cubes can be looted from special creatures called Desire Incarnations. When opened, these special cubes have a chance to drop rare artifacts called Divinity Slates. These are effectively puzzle pieces that, when fit together with others of the same type, create a pattern. Compete Divinity Slate patterns to earn rewards. Though, as expected, there is a caveat: Greedy Hunters can be punished. What that means exactly remains unknown.
Other features include
- Crafting Overhaul – This major rework will allow Hunters to start crafting gear sooner and upgrade more frequently with the new Prototype Production and Targeted Processing systems.
- New “Guild” feature – Hunters can create and join guilds, communicate with friends, and obtain rewards from guild events.
- Hero builds made easier – A rookie build recommendation feature will help new Hunters learn the mechanics of the game faster and to make it easier to put together powerful hero builds.
- Higher damage limit – With a change to the number of digits in underlying calculations, the single-hit damage limit can now exceed 2.1 billion!
- Pactspirit improvements – Save your favorite Pactspirit configurations and conveniently switch them on-the-fly.
- Bragging rights – View your performance stats and share battle reports with other players after completing a stage.
- Void Rifts – These will now appear on maps – enter a Void Rift to face intense battles and win big rewards.
- New Trade House functionality – It is now possible to search for repeated affixes in the advanced search. The search conditions of advanced searches will also be retained after leaving the Trade House.
- Steam Early Access – It has also been optimized for Steam Deck.
Check out the Torchlight: Inifinite official site to learn more.
