Torchlight: Infinite's latest season preview is now live
XD Games is excited to reveal all the new content and changes coming to Torchlight: Infinite in the game’s upcoming season, SS14 Tartarus, which begins on Thursday, 15 October.
This latest season introduces the Tartarus game mode, wherein players will be tasked with managing a prison in the Netherrealm. This new mode features three different phases, beginning with players tracking down and defeating escaped prisoners in order to collect their nameplates.
Then, players take charge of a circular prison with 16 available cells. There, they’ll be able to house inmates and arrange strategic fights between prisoners or against fearsome beasts - elephants, lions, wolves, and rats - to hone their skills.
After 20 turns of building, players move to the final phase and the resulting roster of inmates become enemies and bosses for players to face in a new combat challenge that plays out across three prison levels and six levels of difficulty, earning rewards corresponding to the quality and quantity of enemies defeated.
SS14 also introduces a new Hero Trait: Spacetime Witness Youga. This introduces a new playstyle for the character built around maintaining a continuous spellcasting cycle.
Spacetime Witness Youga’s Clockwork Core that can cast Entanglement skills automatically, while his critical strikes can reduce his ability cooldowns.
Plus, this new Hero Trait offers three distinct development paths - Spacetime Dictator, Spacetime Conqueror, and Spacetime Dominator - and players have the freedom to shape their own Spacetime build by choosing either to combine elements from each path, or to specialise fully into one.
Spacetime Dictator focuses on projectiles and time manipulation, Spacetime Conqueror instead focuses on movement and linked damage from Time-Rift Traversal, while the Spacetime Dominator path focuses on building up spell enhancements via Spacetime Overload.
SS14 is also set to introduce a new progression system to Torchlight: Infinite. When SS14 Tartarus launches, players will be able to recruit followers from the wolf, rat, lion, and elephant tribes with a new resource called Letters of Introduction.
Followers allow players another level of build customisation and offer Active and Support Skills such as buffs, protection or debuff support. Players who conquer higher Netherrealm difficulty tiers will in turn unlock access to higher-tier followers.
For a complete breakdown of everything that’s coming to Torchlight: Infinite in the next season, including new skills, character cosmetics, audio and visual improvements, and new Pactspirits, watch today’s SS14 Season Preview or head over to the Torchlight: Infinite website.