Torchlight Frontiers Livestream Summary: 2/14/2019

What’s this? A Torchlight Frontiers Livestream Summary? That’s right! Alpha 3 begins on March 5th, and we’ve summarized the highlights on the live stream here for you. For more details, visit https://www.torchlightfrontiers.com/en/news-article/11087043

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VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/380596117

• Hobbs and SoFech gave us a tour of some new features
• Alpha 3 – wipe (should be last one)
• March 5th – 24/7 live alpha (still invite only!)
• You MAY STREAM/Screenshot/share!
• NO MORE NDA!
• Newly updated Fort UI
  • UI now breaks down objects by category instead of a single massive list
  • Forts now come with a basic set of objects (see https://www.thegharstation.com/2019/02/11/torchlight-frontiers-dev-chatter-forts/)
• Updated Mapworks from Alpha 1/2
  • New maps that you can craft
    • Goldrush (extra gold)
    • Supply run (extra gear. Stream showcase +50% bonus gear luck)
    • Skillful (challenging map with extra skill points. Stream showcased +50% skillpoint drop luck)
    • Escalated (challenging map with higher than normal gear. Stream showcased +1 item level)
      
  • Can now choose the frontier to go to
    • Sets you to your current frontier level for the selected Frontier
• New Currency tab
• Pet will sell for you (Was in Alpha 1/2, but good to remember!)
• Pet equipment slots!
  • Collar + 2 “dogtag” slots
• New consumables tab
• Demonstrated a skillful map in Mapworks
• Mapworks will get additional UI elements such as a progress bar and frontier leveling when alpha goes live
• Frontier levels will be implemented
  • This will determine your max gear level for frontier specific gear
  • No more need to use skill points to increase your gear level for a frontier
  • Details: https://www.torchlightfrontiers.com/en/news-article/11067473
• New buffs over the skillbar
• Expert to learn more about “What makes Yapper Yapper”
• Wardrobe Statues
  • Details: https://www.torchlightfrontiers.com/en/news-article/11071923
• Demo’d the improved and expanded Hyvid Frontier
• Additional Alpha 3 features include a new Starter experience (which they did not showcase on stream, it’s a surprise) and an improved waypoint system.