

This makes the T100HA thinner at the hinge and easier to detach. Similar to the T300 Chi I reviewed earlier, the T100HA tablet is attached to the keyboard using strong magnets. The glass display can get really reflective under bright sunlight, unfortunately, so it might be a good idea to apply a matte screen protector. Thanks to the generous bezel space, I can hold the tablet comfortably without touching the display. My palm is also prone to touching the touchpad, which I can easily disable with Fn-F9.

ASUS has to remove some of the keys that I get too used to, like Page Up/Down, Home and End buttons. Personally, I would prefer a larger laptop for better viewing experience, and a larger keyboard for better typing experience. The screen resolution of 1280×800 is sufficient for the size. With a combined weight of 1.05kg, the back of the tablet is made of aluminum, while the keyboard is built of plastic. The T100HA is still a 10.1-incher for the portability that consumers desire. The design and outlook does not differ much from the earlier T100 series, but with enhancements in line with current computing technology.

(Want to smelt 25 units of iron? Wait 90 seconds.) That is the sort of system you'd expect to find in a predatory mobile game, and somehow, it's migrated over to a numbered Torchlight sequel.ASUS, the pioneer of transformable laptops, has an updated Transformer Book T100 model codenamed T100HA. For instance, I installed a smelting pit that allowed me to turn my raw ore into refined metal bars, but it's guarded behind an entirely unnecessary timer. Furthermore, there is a personal fort that you use as the basecamp for all your characters, but some of its systems seem downright incongruous with the game Torchlight 3 claims to be. There are no oddballs to befriend on the road, or eccentric tasks to pick up off the bounty boards, and that leaves the game feeling hollow. I enter that dungeon, kill a boss, and go back to town to learn that I have a new quest that will grant access to the next named region. The story progression is laughably linear I pick up a quest in town, it asks me to find a dungeon somewhere in a named region. Publisher Perfect World Entertainment changed course earlier this year, making the game a "premium" full-priced piece of software, but the bones of its scrapped identity are everywhere. If you scroll back into the archives, you'll learn that Torchlight 3 (then called Torchlight Frontiers) was announced as a free-to-play product. But I spent most of my time as a "Duskmage," who is saddled with a complicated magic system where you're constantly synergizing spells from both the "light" and "dark" schools, offering a surprisingly high skill ceiling for an ARPG that's always prioritized newcomers to the genre.īut unfortunately, the fundamental soundness of Torchlight 3's combat lacks the infrastructure to support it. You can be a "Railmaster," a barbarian engineer who's followed around by a literal train, which can be augmented with different speciality cars that unload hell on anyone in your way.

That attitude is carried over to Torchlight 3's class choices, which throw the D&D rulebook out the window. The world of Novastraia radiates with a rich, playful aesthetic the swirling riptides of the ocean, the rugged pastures of the outer forests, and the gleefully overworked Halloween trim of the graveyards do a great job at grounding the player in this frivolous, folkloric fantasyland. Instead, Torchlight gets by on the elements that have always been the franchise's strengths. There are a few cutscenes and audio recordings to find throughout the main quest, but specifics about the existential threat on the horizon are scarce. Torchlight 3 takes place a century after the events of Torchlight 2, but the narrative is almost entirely ancillary to the core gameplay experience.
