Torchlight Frontiers Closed Alpha 3 Live, Update Notes

Back in February, the developers over at Echtra Games announced the third closed alpha test for their multiplayer hack ‘n’ slash action-RPG Torchlight Frontiers. The alpha is now live, and if everything goes according to plan, the servers should stay up until the game’s full release. This post on the game’s website shares the latest changelog along with a few words from Frontiers’ lead producer Tyler Thompson. Have a look:

“Late last year, Closed Alpha 1 & 2 taught us a great deal about Torchlight Frontiers. Although it was only a couple days focused on server testing, players still gave us a ton of feedback about the game. We listened. We changed the designs. We made some big changes and a bunch of small tweaks. Fundamental systems for how a character progresses in the game have been significantly changed for Closed Alpha 3: characters have Frontier levels, harvested resources don’t impact skill progression and items got a massive tuning pass. Thank you to all of the testers who helped us out!

The months between Closed Alpha 2 & 3 have given us an opportunity to respond to feedback, add new content, make new systems and squash hordes of bugs. Although this patch list describes a large chunk of changes, it actually represents a minor fraction of the work that we’ve been doing. We have big projects that we just aren’t ready to talk about.

Closed Alpha 3 marks a massive transition for Torchlight Frontiers. We’ve lifted the NDA – streaming will happen. One last character wipe, and then no more character wipes – we really and truly aim for that to be true. The game will be up 24/7 from now on. Players can reach the far corners of the content instead of just the first couple areas. We are excited to have players living in the game and telling us about the awesome and the ugly.

Alpha 3 begins our full journey together to make this into a great game. It’s going to be a fun ride. Thanks for joining us.”

~ Tyler Thompson (Project Lead)