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New interview with Max Schaefer goes over the gameplay, pets, and player houseing

https://www.mmorpg.com/torchlight-frontiers/interviews/max-schaefer-on-housing-pets-progression-and-more-1000012964

This bit on player housing i thought was pretty interesting:

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That’s right, as we stated before, Torchlight Frontiers has a housing system that Echtra is calling Forts...
"A cool thing we do is take your forts and put them in the world randomly for other players to see. And they can come up to your fort and say ‘He’s got an enchanting vendor, I can use him just like an enchanting vendor in the town, and I will pay a fee to get my item enchanted.’ And if it’s your fort, you get the fee.”

In short, Max wants to make sure that players are “incentivised to make a cool fort with lots of utilities, not just for yourself but for other players too.”

Oh man that gameplay looks like a lot of fun. 

I'm fully on the hype trains. CHOO CHOOOOO!

On 8/9/2018 at 7:20 AM, osxmatt said:

IGN sat down to chat with Max Schaefer, CEO of Echtra Games...

 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/09/torchlight-frontiers-to-double-down-on-pets-co-op-play

Oh shit! I knew Max Schaefer had left Runic a couple of years ago to start up a new studio.

With Runic only working on Hob, I assumed Torchlight was dead at that point.

Really interesting to see Max now working on Torchlight at a new studio. 

Now that I know Max is involved, I'm considerable more hyped. 

Rockstar and CDPR are obvious choices.

I'd like to give an honorable mention to: Insomniac
Sunset Overdrive was one of the most fun open world games I've ever played. And Spider-Man looks to be an amazing open world as well.

Awesome news. I'd love to see a remaster come out.

4 hours ago, misfit410 said:

They are still so fixated on making Linux happen, it's just not going to happen.

I'm glad it exists and I'm glad I know how to use it, but it's not a pleasure to use.

I agree with this.

I kinda feel like Linux needs a complete usability overhaul.

Make it dead simple for the average joe to use.

If at any point I have to type in a command to do something, it's still not simple enough.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Streaming services are never going to overcome input lag unless they can get really fancy with figuring out how to sync things.

Last year I would have agreed with this statement.

But with how amazing recent streaming services like Parsec seem to perform, I think input lag is now a non-issue.