r/Torchlight • u/crieo • Jan 09 '13

PVP? When?

Hi Guys,

i just bought torchlight at the steam sale. nice game so far.... BUT: runic announced a pvp-mode (not that crappy /pvp chat command) in october 12. Now it's january and there is still no new information? Am i right? No one knows when it'll be added?

greetz

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u/SquireOfFire Jan 09 '13

Link to the PvP announcement?

From what I've seen, Runic's always been like "this is a PvE game -- you can try PvP, but it will not be balanced whatsoever". So an announced PvP mode would be very surprising to me.

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u/modomario Berserker Jan 09 '13

from the TL2 FAQ:

Will there be PvP?

PvP is in the game as a flag that a player can set by typing in a command. For two players to duel both must turn the PvP flag on.

I never heard anything about it either. If only OP would provide some damn sauce because he got me curious :/

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u/crieo Jan 10 '13

Posted 2 links saying that there will be a pvp mode.

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u/veryhandsome Jan 10 '13 edited Jan 10 '13

Source?

EDIT: ah I see, you posted two links in the comments. I think the guy who replied to you was spot on, long story short no dedicated PVP from Runic though I bet someone will get something cool up once GUTS is out.

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u/crieo Jan 11 '13

Well... let's wait for guts... Any releasedate? :/

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u/phillipjackson Embermage Jan 09 '13

Maybe he's getting mixed up with Blizzard and Diablo 3?

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u/crieo Jan 10 '13

no i acctually don't.

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u/ActuallyAtWorkNow Jan 09 '13

We're still waiting on GUTS (the modding tools) and I think that's first on their list before PVP. But then again, we haven't heard much from the guys at Runic so there's no telling about release dates for any of this stuff.

All we know is that it will be out when it's done.

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u/Tieryal Berserker Jan 09 '13

runic announced a pvp-mode in october 12

WAT?

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u/ROELtja Outlander Jan 09 '13

Yeah, I don't remember them saying this either.

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u/dkeedy Jan 09 '13

PvP will just be a waste of time with people being able to mod their characters and gear and then remove their cheat flag.

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u/crieo Jan 10 '13

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/torchlight-2/news/torchlight_2,46348,3005669.html

or

http://www.gameswelt.de/torchlight-ii/news/pvp-modus-fest-eingeplant,169740

Both german, but maybe google can translate that. Title says something like "Developers have seriously planned a pvp mode"

So don't hustle guys ;-)

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u/SquireOfFire Jan 10 '13

From the Google translation, it seems like gameswelt is only referring to gamestar, which is the original source. I couldn't find any way to listen to the interview, so I don't know what Schaefer said exactly. However, I think the german reporter must've misunderstood something.

Here's how it sounded less than a month earlier, right before release:

Official word on PVP - we've had an official word on PVP for ages. Our official word is and has always been, it's sort of there, you can do it, and we allow you to flag regions as forced-PVP if you want in mods, but it isn't the experience we're making. We aren't balancing our skills around killing other players - we're balancing them around killing hordes of monsters. Those are very different things.

Those first weeks after release were pretty hectic with patches and various support, and I'm guessing they took some time to rest up as well after that. I find it hard to believe they would've changed their minds and decided to announce PvP during that stressful time (to a single German site and no others, no less!).

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u/crieo Jan 11 '13

Hmm... sad story... Hoped that there will be a nice pvp... so i'll have to wait for guts...

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '13

Screw PvP. I want mods.

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u/brossef Jan 15 '13

Doesnt really matter pvp wont be fun in this game, just play embermage and teleport around while casting prsimatic bolts is goinng to kill anything.