14 DAY TRIAL // Torchlight III, just like its predecessors, shapes up to be a great game. If you're just as hyped as we are about Echtra Games' upcoming titles, you'll be excited to know that a new hero class is joining Torchlight III's roster, the Sharpshooter.
Unveiled earlier today, the Sharpshooter is the fourth hero class for Torchlight III, joining the previously announced hero classes including the magical Dusk Mage, mechanized Forge, and locomotive-conducting Railmaster.
Whereas the other three hero classes feel kind of unique, the Sharpshooter does exactly what the name suggests: it absolutely destroys enemies from way afar. The folks at Echtra Games revealed that the new class combines careful precision skills with ranged weapons and magical trinkets to strike.
So it's not just weapons that make the Sharpshooter deadly, but also all sorts of magic it can gear up with to help augment the class' deadly abilities. At the moment, the new Sharpshooter hero class is currently featured in the Closed Alpha for Torchlight III on Steam, but it will be available to players worldwide when the game officially launches on PC later this year.
For those who'd like to know a bit more about the new class, it's worth mentioning that the Sharpshooter is armed with a signature bow, which can fire off a barrage of shots to destroy enemies from a distance.
But a weapon would not be enough to successfully take on challenging enemies, so the Sharpshooter will need to carefully choose and level up the skills needed to complement the powerful bow. As such, developers announced that a series of dirty tricks and the ability to regenerate precious ammo are at the core of the Sharpshooter's abilities.
Torchlight III is scheduled for release on PC later this year and apart from the four unique hero classes (Dusk Mage, Forged, Railmaster and Sharpshooter) introduced until now, players will have a plethora of new and familiar combat pets to help them fight their way to fame and glory.
