Or you make a game and put a password on it to make it private to your friends. Which means that you just click 'connect' and either join one of the public games that shows up. I don't know what system Torchlight will use, but since we live in the era of the Cloud, they will probably host their own servers (or buy hosting). You just need to know the hotkeys for: chat and party (sometimes you're automatically partied anyway). MP is no different to SP for Diablo-clones. I would love to play Torchlight 2 with you MP. (I guess I also probably need to buy a microphone.) I imagine that games nowadays are designed to make this easy to do, but would anybody care to fill me in on anything that I might need to know, tech-wise? (Also, I've never played a multiplayer game any kind with participants who weren't in the same room with me.) I asked my friend how the MP would work, and most of what he said was fairly incomprehensible. I have never played a multiplayer PC game. Secondarily, this is going to expose how much of a fuddy-duddy I am, but. So, consider this your Torchlight 2 discussion location. As a good Forum citizen, then, it falls to me to start it.

I looked for a thread here for informational purposes and didn't find one. I haven't been following this all that much, but Torchlight was fun enough for what it is, and a friend is urging me to pick up the sequel for multiplayer purposes. (edit) But if it's dedicated server service, then I'd imagine it's not much different than something like easy/simple to use) Edited Septemby Lad圜rimson It would cause horrible lag between players at times (usually the host is fine but players who join would feel lagged), if connections weren't the same/distance great/pc differences etc.

I didn't like it at all during the Diablo2 days, however. But I dunno.client-side stuff has probably improved a lot these days. I don't like switching back and forth every day or couple days - I lose too much focus.Īs to MP. Unlike some people, I can only obsess on one game at a time.

However, since they didn't release it until much later than I first expected, it's going to be put on hold until after the first obsessive playing of Borderlands 2 has passed. The only thing for me is that the character classes in TL2 don't initially appeal much, but that could change once I play them. It sounds like they made improvements (don't care about the MP) and it's cheap. That said, with the disappointment of Diablo3, I'll probably give it a go. I did like its Diablo vibe, the 'endless dungeon' concept for late-stage mucking around, and I like the pets (heh) but for some reason didn't like the dungeon design or the combat UI in TL1, even tho it wasn't too different from Fate. I liked Fate (the precursor, I guess, to Torchlight) but I was only so-so about TL1.

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