Everyone has a fighting chance
Echtra Games has announced that the third closed alpha event for Torchlight Frontiers will take place on March 5th and thousands of new players will be added in the weeks between then and now. Those who took part in Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 are automatically included in the upcoming event. Perhaps most importantly, participants will be able to write about and stream their impressions thanks to the lifting of the NDA.
The Torchlight Frontiers site has been updated with a new developer diary that outlines a new feature called Wardrobes. As the name implies, “players need a place to store and swap entire sets of equipment when adventuring on the Frontier”. The decision to add a wardrobe system to the game came from feedback from testers during Alpha 1 and Alpha 2. Rather than just a cosmetic storage, however, it is more utilitarian in that players can create and store “the right tools for the job”.
Today’s Torchlight Frontiers live stream with the team will be centered squarely on how vital community feedback is to the development process of the game. The team will be discussing how feedback from the first two closed alpha events drove changes in the current build and how those changes will be present when the next alpha event kicks off.
During alpha test events in late 2018, Torchlight Frontiers players expressed concern with the horizontal progression system. The development team has listened to in order to make adjustments going forward. Previously, when a player earned Skill Points, the choice had to be made whether to buy combat skills or to upgrade weapon and armor levels. However, this went over poorly and adjustments have been made to smooth out the process.
As with any alpha event, Torchlight Frontiers players have had a lot to say about what they felt and experienced during the testing opportunity. The game’s official site has a new post from the dev team about the key takeaways from the feedback they have received.
Torchlight Frontiers is heading into its second round of alpha testing throughout the coming weekend. Developers are also keen to have as many alpha testers log into the game as possible to, as they put it, “WRECK OUR SERVERS!” The event will take place on Friday, December 7th at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. “Melt them down to their very cores until nothing remains but blistered silicon.”
The Torchlight Frontiers site has been updated with the news that the second round of closed alpha testing will be kicking off on December 7th. The dev team also reports that the November 16th test was literally a “smashing success”, with testers finding tons of bugs and providing the team with valuable feedback. “We got to experience the game side-by-side with players, in-world and live on our Discord in a way we never have before,” the post reads.
The Torchlight Frontiers site has been updated with the news that the second round of closed alpha testing will be kicking off on December 7th. The dev team also reports that the November 16th test was literally a “smashing success”, with testers finding tons of bugs and providing the team with valuable feedback. “We got to experience the game side-by-side with players, in-world and live on our Discord in a way we never have before,” the post reads.
The Torchlight Frontiers site has been updated with a lengthy post from Echtra’s Max Schaefer to lay out the company’s philosophy about the free to play experience and how it relates to the forthcoming game. Most notably, Schaefer writes that the “community is the most important thing to us, and your happiness is critical to our success”. He adds, however, that an “awesome world requires revenue”, but that they are confident in the choices they are making to achieve both goals.
Torchlight Frontiers is one of those games that has captivated a lot of fans’ imaginations and have we got GREAT news today: Alpha testing is going to kick off on Friday, November 16th! The announcement came by way of the game’s official site on the ArcGames platform.