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Game News Torment Kickstarter Update #53: Beta Released

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Tags: Chris Keenan; Colin McComb; InXile Entertainment; Torment: Tides of Numenera

Shortly after the IGN demonstration yesterday, Brian Fargo announced that the Torment: Tides of Numenera beta was going to be released to eligible backers today. And well, now it has. The new Kickstarter update has the details, along with a description of the three companions players will meet in the beta. I'll quote that part here:



Aligern

Aligern is one of the first companions the Last Castoff will meet. He's a snappish, world-weary nano who doesn't suffer fools or waste time on matters he considers trivial. Despite this rough exterior, Aligern has a deep moral core, and his innate sense of right and wrong guides every decision – and he's not shy about letting others know when they've stepped out of line.

Aligern wears a long, dark coat and rugged traveling boots that have worn countless miles under their soles. As a nano, he's got extensive experience with the numenera. He wears a lattice of moving tattoos across his forearms that shift and weave around each other, which he can use to attack his enemies or to defend himself against attacks. Unlike some other nanos, he's not afraid to get his hands bloody, wading into melee combining useful esoteries with his trusty mace.

Callistege

As the Last Castoff wakes to consciousness, Callistege is there, watching, calculating. She's an associate of the Order of Truth, and she holds the accruement of knowledge as one of the paramount pursuits. She is known to be amoral, calculating, and manipulative, and she has cultivated a reputation for incisive brutality. Those who know her do not cross her, and some have suggested that this is precisely the outcome she was aiming to achieve. She is morally flexible in her pursuit of hidden truth.

And she does seem to have found secrets better left hidden. She is multi-dimensional... literally. Echoes of her flicker in and out of reality around her. Each of these "sisters" wears her signature elaborate dress, mirroring her actions, deviating in ways both subtle and obvious. In battle, she fights with a mix of nano abilities and ranged attacks, and is able to use her sisters to "teleport" herself from place to place to avoid taking damage.

Callistege's response to the Last Castoff is more outwardly sympathetic, encouraging the Last Castoff to experience and learn from the world... but those who know her would suspect her all the more because of this. What are her motives?

Tybir

Tybir is a glad-handing and garrulous old mercenary, quick with a joke and an offer to buy the next round. He has stories to tell, having served as both soldier and gallowglass, and he's frequently the life of the party. He's always looking for fresh opportunities for profit, fame, and fun... not necessarily in that order.

Tybir wears the practical clothes of a soldier, but in garish colors – a long leather coat, baggy pants, open shirt and belted equipment, all with a casual flair. He's handsome, and many have found him charming, but now that he's older, more dissipated, and thicker around the waist, his charm seems to be slipping away from him. He favors the simpler tools of a soldier in combat, but he's never far from using a dirty trick or insult to even the odds.

With the Last Castoff, Tybir is friendly, outgoing, and eager to please. This might have something to do with the imminent execution of Tybir's most recent associate...
The Torment beta is now available to eligible backers on the Rewards page at the game's backer portal, with a free Pat Rothfuss comic as an added bonus. I wonder how many of them will really dive into it. This is one hell of a game to spoil, after all.
 

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going blind with this. No way i will play beta or any other kind of version before release.
 
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Why do you guys always have to turn everything into an issue of SJW?

It's not. It's a fucking game, with fucking characters. They look different from eachother and fits the story.

Has nothing to do with SJW.
 

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So can you bang any of those people or is no romance still a sound marketing tactic for kickstarter?

It was in 2013. They said no sex during the Kickstarter. Doesn't fit the game's theme. There might be other romance, though.
 
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Gazzillion billion years into the perpetually post-apocalyptic hyperfuture people (and transdimensional non-entities) have probably replaced intercourse with some bizzare mix of aura-photography and superdeep drilling involving outlandish gizmos that penetrate your essence at every point in time and space and leave your body in shambles as your mind wanders off on its unhinged Malkavian journey. Sticking something into any orifice would be seen as such an outlandish and primitive concept you'd probably get stoned to death for suggesting it.
 

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Eddie

Eddie is a glad-handing and garrulous old comedian, quick with a joke and an offer to buy the next round. He has stories to tell, having served as both actor and standup comedian, and he's frequently the life of the party. He's always looking for fresh opportunities for profit, fame, and fun... not necessarily in that order.

Eddie wears the practical clothes of an actor, but in garish colors – a long leather coat, baggy pants, open shirt and belted equipment, all with a casual flair. He's handsome, and many have found him charming, but now that he's older, more dissipated, and thicker around the waist, his career seems to be slipping away from him. He favors the simpler tools of a comedian in a stand-up act, but he's never far from using a dirty trick or insult to win back the crowd.
 

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Party members are not incloosive enough, if anything. Where are all the wyrmkin-kin transdimensional cyborg jellyfish, I ask?
 

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