Hi everyone,
Today we have some great news for the Torment community, as well as those of you who have been looking to pick it up!
First up, we are pleased to announce the release of the Servant of the Tides update! This brings Oom - a brand-new companion with its own unique questline - plus some additional features including the Voluminous Codex, game balance updates, and more! This isn’t a paid DLC - all Torment owners get the new content and improvements for free!

First up, we are pleased to announce the release of the Servant of the Tides update! This brings Oom - a brand-new companion with its own unique questline - plus some additional features including the Voluminous Codex, game balance updates, and more! This isn’t a paid DLC - all Torment owners get the new content and improvements for free!

To celebrate, we are also doing our first-ever Steam sale! If you want to jump into Torment for the first time, you can grab the game from May 16th to 18th for 25% off!
Highlights
- New Companion: Oom. Oom is a new stretch goal character who you will discover on your journey through the Ninth World. Oom features its own companion quest, "Servant of the Tides", its own unique abilities for use in combat and exploration, and interactions with various characters throughout the game.
- Added the Voluminous Codex. This new stretch goal feature unlocks lore and character entries as you explore the game world.
- Added a new user interface element to the Inventory Screen which makes it easier to view companion attitudes toward the Last Castoff.
Added a new user interface element to the Common Panel which better messages the Last Castoff's current Legacy.
- Players can now advance to Tier 5 and Tier 6, allowing players to spend their Experience Points more in the later game. This also allows the Last Castoff to gain abilities from other character types.
- Various balance improvements to Crisis gameplay throughout the game.
Various balance improvements to exploration gameplay, especially in the later stages of the game.
- Added zoom in/out key binding to the Options Menu. This allows players without mouse wheels to remap the zoom functions.
- Cypher Sickness initialization is now delayed until after Equipment initialization. This should prevent issues where loading a save file where equipment was preventing a cypher explosion would cause input to freeze up (fix may not be retroactive).
- Remove all non-gameplay Fettles from companions when they're removed from the party. This should prevent certain freezes from occurring.
- Numerous small UI fixes.
- Numerous small quest fixes.
For the full patch notes, please
check this page.
A quick notice: Our strong recommendation is to start a brand-new playthrough to experience these improvements, as the new content is best experienced from the start of the game (and Oom must be added to the party during Sagus Cliffs). If you are immersing yourself into Torment for the first time, you don’t have anything to worry about there.
We hope you enjoy the new companion, Oom, as well as the new features. In the meantime, we’ll be keeping an eye out for your feedback on the Steam forums.
Thanks,
inXile Entertainment
[ 2017-05-16 17:01:30 CET ] [ Original post ]