Don't bother with this game on OG Xbox or any old PC, PS4

It's impossible to progress when the frame rate drops to zero and when you catch up you're already dead.

I was getting wiped out by fire damage so I worked for the fire resist gear, lifebound it to 65%, and I was back melting mobs until I died to a severe drop trying to find the last web to open. Over and over, I even slowed down too and killed mobs slowly as I moved and once little mobs spawn with elite packs you can't avoid doing too much damage on screen to keep the frame rate from dropping and huge spikes where I just spam the potion button hoping I survived through the drops, but there's a cooldown on potions that 1: you're limited to 20 and 2: costs gold, so why would there be a cooldown on potions if thes3 two factors are in play? I should be able to spam all 20 if I wanted to and the order of potions, 3 types, get randomized on drops so some heal over time if I ran out of the major heal potion I would need to cycle back mid game if I picked up more or deal with HOT randomly and die anyways when I need a major heal. Stupid game puts only one button to heal and you cant cycle thru it unless you go to your inventory.

I might revisit when they patch it and eventually update it, but I don't have much hope for this game, off to find a better game...

Posted Mar 27, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

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fLekkZ•

No need to downvote the OP, he is not wrong. The performance on Xbox, Switch and PS4 is really bad. No need to hide this fact. Campaign is okayish (few drops) but endgame with multiple abilitys coming togehter results in FPS in the low 20's on a PS4 Pro.

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Dude, even on PC gamepass the game is a wreck when i co op with buddy. Seriously its frame drop city, made me lose a hardcore forged on first playthrough due to insta death after jumping thru portal. Thankfully was only level 40.
Remade softcore hero (still on ridic. mode) and replayed, currently on floor 84 w/ decked out forged; but now that I have perma bloodseeker relic + full Legend, its as if the game can't handle the amount of DPS ticks + full screen animations the build can churn out. Seriously its a wreck-- If I didn't have perma bloodseekers on with 100k base defense, it probably wouldn't be easy to stay alive due to the amount of frame skips.

Now contemplating on not bothering to see how far I can get just because the game is so unrefined and QOL implementations are clearly not there.
Observations:
Contracts are literally useless end game. Only good for respectables+essence bundles...
Gold never gets easier to find and is a PITA to pickup. Feels like every mob only drops 1g.
Mapworks portals are useless.
Divide modifier doesn't work at all.
Can't tell if Berserker/Nimble modifiers actually do anything either.
Can't tell when gear actually makes me that much stronger because damage counters get flooded to a point where it bugs out.
Multiple dungeon floors missing quest required cache's/clickables that force you to re-load the instance.
Final mini-boss chests empty.
No clear range of expectations from enchantment workbench.. No idea of knowing if an enchant is on top end or lower end of a roll.
Bug where dungeon portals stack on top of each other in co-op... only way to enter is by tp direct to party member after they get in.

Sigh list goes on. Dont even call this Torchlight seriously.. Its trash.

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Psycoyellow•

Yes i had the items form chest ‘ diseapear’ they just flew up and never came back you saw a white line going up and no items :/ its more like a wildfire instead of a torchlight

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maddbeast•

Switch endgame is pretty much unplayable. I'm on the 15th quest and its like playing a slide show and I end up dying frequently without getting very much UI help until after I'm already dead.

I honestly don't know how this got past QA, I wish I would have just bought it on PC.

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havik09•

Get ready for the fan boys to down vote you to oblivion. I said the same thing a few months ago and they all came to defend this absolute shit of a game. I understand that I should expect my OG xbox one to not run some games as well as newer versions but I can play a game like witch 3 , red dead redemption 2 , and many more NO problem but a simple game like this became unplayable after like act 3 or so.

What did they suggest ? Buy a new Xbox, or play a class with less animations. WTF ki d of solutions are those. The game runs like trash and it's not my Xbox fault. I'm glad it was free on game pass pr I'd have asked for my money back.

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Curpidgeon•

What platform were you playing on?

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piratz86•

Never really had issues on ps4

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dusk353•

I am just not having fun with this game. The trophies are garbage. Thunderstruck is awfully designed. I've run Grand Hall and Cliffs of Ore 15x and still don't have it. Without tracking, who knows how many more I need. I am dreading the million mob trophy.

On top of it all, it crashes every few hours. Loads of bugs like being unable to pick up respec items. This game is just not great.

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