After “working extremely hard to iron out the bugs our community and media reported,” developer inXile has released Torment: Tides of Numenera update 1.02 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, which fixes bugs and improves performance.
You can see the highlights of update 1.02, as well as the full list of performance and stability changes, below:
Highlights
- Fixed a large number of freezes that would happen in various states.
- Numerous performance optimizations.
- Addendum text should now be appearing on item descriptions. Many dozens of items now have more details depending on your lore skills and other factors!
- Fixed an issue that was preventing party members from bantering. Party members should now be much more talkative!
- Updated a number of crisis sequences to rebalance a number of enemies. In some situations, it will make combat proceed more quickly with combats that were sluggish.
- Numerous fixes and improvements to movement grid, pathing, and AI. This should prevent issues where the game would hang as combat could get stuck in numerous situations.
- Several quest and conversation fixes.
- Inspiring Presence and other looping sound effects have been reduced or removed.
Performance & Stability
- Scene-specific performance optimizations for a majority of game scenes, particularly throughout Sagus Cliffs.
- Numerous cleanups and optimizations to movement grid, pathfinding, and AI calculations.
- Improved performance on several visual effects.
- Reduction of garbage generation to reduce associated frame drops from garbage collection.
- Significant reduction of garbage generation during controller movement.
- Various game cameras are now disabled when fullscreen UI is present. This should improve framerate in Inventory, Character Creation, and other screens.
- Performance improvements and optimizations to NPC animators.
The full list of patch notes is available over here (beware of spoilers). A download size for 1.02 wasn’t given, but the first patch was 8GB.
In the above video, Creative Lead Colin McComb says the team is going to improve Torment even further.
[Source: Torment]
Top 10 RPG Distractions
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Top 10 Distractions in RPGs
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10. Shopping
As you typically progress through RPGs, the different towns you unlock have completely new inventory in stock. Sometimes you can find items in dungeons via exploration, but sometimes crucial items can only be purchased. Shopping in of itself isn't as much of a distraction until you're trying to remember where that one shop was that had that thing you really need. However, you have to admit that one of your first steps when you reach a new town is to check out their wares.
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9. Mining
Mining isn't in too many RPGs, but when it's there, it will take over your time in a way you never thought possible. Take Mass Effect 2, for example. I know I spent more time mining planets to depletion than doing any other side quest. If there was a planet out there to be mined, I was going to mine it. I spent so much money on mining probes it was ridiculous. I regret nothing.
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8. Fishing
Fishing is either the worst mini-game ever shoe-horned in to a RPG, or it's the most addictive. It's crazy how it's never somewhere in the middle. I have a friend who has literally bought games just because she heard the fishing was fun. Nintendo is often the king of incorporating fishing into their RPGs for various reasons, but several PlayStation RPGs also include fishing, such as the recent Star Ocean Integrity and Faithlessness and the upcoming Final Fantasy XV. In FFXV, the fishing does more than level up Noctis' proficiency for the task, it also gives Ignis new ideas for recipes.
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7. Alchemy
Alchemy is typically a feature in western RPGs, such as The Witcher 3, Kingdoms of Amalur: Recknoning, and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Getting hardcore into alchemy is often optional, but there's something about putting together your own potions on the fly instead of buying them that is often more appealing. When I upgraded my herbology specialty in Dragon Age: Origins, I nearly did a victory dance that I could mix high level potions out on the field. Which brings me to #6...
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6. Harvesting/Gathering
Harvesting or gathering herbs was my downfall in The Witcher 3. It was nearly my downfall in Dragon Age Inquisition. It's already a huge distraction in Star Ocean Integrity and Faithlessness. I know that I'm supposed to go that way to fight the mini-boss, but there's a green light shining over here. There could be something I need to create a potion or trade with a merchant or simply eat! I can't ignore it, not when it's right there staring at me. Sure, I might have 500 elfroot on my person, but I don't have a problem.
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5. Crafting
Why bother with all that gathering and mining? It's so you can craft things later! It's often cheaper to craft your own gear instead of buying them at stores, and sometimes crafting is the only way to get certain gear or improve it. It's easy to spend so many hours crafting gear so you can craft other, better gear. People love crafting in games so much, Notch made a fortune from creating a game solely about crafting.
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4. Treasure Huntng
There's no decent RPG out there without treasure boxes to open. How many times have you completely diverted your path because you saw a glimmer of a treasure chest out of the corner of your eye? Or retread dungeons looking for any chests you might have missed? Those chests could contain that one material you need for crafting, or a rare accessory that you can't find anywhere else. How could you not go looking for all of them?
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3. Exploring
You can't find those treasure chests, rare herbs, rare materials, or rare enemies to kill for their rare materials without exploring. When an RPG has an overworld map blacked out with regions you haven't discovered, you just have explore them and see what riches they contain. Exploring is how you get s**t done in RPGs, whether it's with grinding or our #2 on the list.
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2. Farming for Items
Item farming was almost the number 1 distraction on our list. I know for a fact I spend more time seeking items from enemy drops and harvesting for potential crafting than I do playing the main campaign. Can't tell you how many times I'll find a recipe for an item and then run through a certain area over and over and over until I get the item drops I need. Finding all the items needed to open Whimsyshire in Diablo III was particularly time consuming. Fairly certain I took more time farming for those than I did playing the game all the way to level 60.
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1. Side Quests
Side quests are by far the most distracting elements in RPGs. Sometimes a side quest will be pertinent to the overall campaign, but more often than not, the side quest is a complete waste of time other than getting some XP and perhaps a rare item for crafting. It starts off simple enough. You'll stroll into town, meet a guy with a harmless fetch quest, spend three hours doing said quest, and then forget why you came to town in the first place. The struggle is real with side quests, as well as the struggle to not do them.
