![]() In Immortal Throne, players will be able to acquire arcane formulae which serve as a type of recipe to create an artifact. The other important function enchanters have is that they will allow players to create powerful pieces of equipment called artifacts which I will explain. The first is that they will be able to separate relics from items and the player will have to choose which they wish to keep because the other will be destroyed. Mike Verrette: An enchanter is a new type of NPC that has several functions. Shack: What is an Enchanter? What can they do for the player? They are not exclusive to the Immortal Throne levels. Caravans were added to all the major cities so players restarting the campaign from the beginning to try out the dream mastery will have access to the caravans. By using the transfer tab in the caravan window it will be possible to start the game with one character, deposit a piece of equipment with the caravan, exit the game and then reenter with a different character, and then retrieve that item. The second function of the caravan is to allow players to transfer items to their other characters. Additional storage space can be purchased, but it is not unlimited. The first is to provide players with an inventory stash. Caravans are NPCs that serve two main functions. Mike Verrette: Immortal Throne will introduce caravans to the ancient world. What will Immortal Throne introduce in the way of allowing players to carry/store more awesome loot? Shack: As with any loot-based game, storage space was an issue for many players in Titan Quest. ![]() ![]() With its combination of direct damage skills, crowd control skills, trances and the Nightmare pet, it holds its own as a great primary skill mastery and contains a wide variety of support skills that make it a viable second mastery for both caster and melee style characters. This mastery is unique in that it contains skills that alter time and the space around the character. Mike Verrette: The Dream Mastery was added in Immortal Throne which will give players access to nine new character class combinations. Shack: What new Masteries have been added? From the gameplay side we tried to approach the level design from a different perspective - where we focused more on using elevated gameplay spaces and took full advantage of the three dimensional qualities of the editor and the engine. We wanted a world that had its own architecture, foliage, geology, etc. Instead we wanted to create an alternate reality where the undead thrived and lived out their eternal days. We wanted something that didn't fit into the stereotypical fire and brimstone imagery that people commonly associate with the underworld. The team spent a long time developing the look and feel of Hades. ![]() Once there, players will ally themselves with some of the greatest heroes Greece has ever known in an attempt to gain access to Hades Palace and determine the source of the demonic army. Those lucky players that manage to gain access to the underworld will need to find passage across the river of Styx, navigate the plains of Judgment where they will eventually be tested to see if they are worthy to gain entrance to the fields of Elysium. Mike Verrette: Immortal Throne starts off in the Mediterranean where the player will visit places like the war torn city of Rhodes and travel to the grove of the great sorceress Medea in search of the entrance to Hades itself. Shack: Tell us about the new environments we'll be exploring in Immortal Throne. As the player journeys through Hades he will be advancing through wave after wave of the new horde in an attempt to find the source of the advancing army. In Immortal Throne, players will be tasked with seeking entrance to the underworld and discovering the source of a demonic army that is threatening the land of the living. Just when you thought you have saved the world from infinite peril, infinite peril arrives again. Mike Verrette: The story in Immortal Throne will pick up almost immediately where the original Titan Quest left off. Shack: Without giving away the ending to the original game, what is the story line for the Immortal Throne expansion? What will the expansion set improve upon from the original? What will it add? I spoke with Mike Verrette, the game's producer, to find out. Next week, Iron Lore will launch Immortal Throne, the official expansion pack to their mythology-themed dungeon crawler. Beautiful environment detail a wide selection of unique class types through the game's Mastery system and more loot than you could shake a soulstone at were just some of the game's finer selling points. While many action RPGs strive to be something different than a Diablo clone, Titan Quest was comfortable admitting that it was very similar to Blizzard's still-popular game, but that it had made improvements in areas players had been shouting about for years. Last summer's Titan Quest from Iron Lore proved to be a pleasant surprise.
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