Independent Finnish developer Frozenbyte has recently announced that its third entry in the Trine series has already proven to be quite a success, selling three times faster when compared to the launch of either the original Trine or Trine 2.
“Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power has sold over three times better than Trine 1 or Trine 2 did in their pre-order launches. From our over eight million sold Trine games, Steam has sold over three million copies, and we are super-excited to see Steam once again exceed our expectations,” says Lauri Hyvärinen, CEO of Frozenbyte.
To celebrate, Frozenbyte has released a new Challenge level (screenshots, above and below), a week in advance, in addition to a whole lot of fixes, which you can check out, below.
“People have been very positive, overall, about the Early Access, and the sales have been great, so we decided to release a bit of new content already this weekend, to celebrate this – an additional Challenge level for the Thief called ‘A Brush with Death’. Along with the update are, of course, a lot of optimizations, tweaks and fixes,” says Kai Tuovinen, Marketing Manager.
Content updates
- A new Challenge Level “A Brush with Death” (Zoya)
Technical
- Added some optimizations
- Fixed crash issues when using RESUME GAME
- Fixed crash issues right after loading screen
- Fixed crash in “Amusement Park” level
- Fixed few other rare crash issues
Rendering
- Fixed some graphical popping (unfortunately doesn’t fix the major flickering issues)
Gameplay
- Tweaked player wall-jump logic
- Tweaked Thief bow shooting logic
- Tweaked Wizard levitation logic
Levels
- Added more gameplay items into “Amusement Park” level
- Fixed lots of gameplay issues in all levels
Cinematics
- Tweaked and polished various in-game cut-scenes (animations etc.)
Audio
- Added lots of new audio effects to various levels and gameplay elements
GUI
- Fixed cursor in configure controls menu
- Tweaked character info HUD fade out logic
Online multiplayer
- Added text chat support (key bind: T)
- Added work around to missing audio (Voice Chat is disabled by default) (please delete file: %appdata%/Trine3/options.txt)
- Fixed some Thief grappling hook net sync issues
- Fixed some AI net sync issues
- Fixed some Wall-buster boss net sync issues
The next, major update is expected to arrive sometime in May.
Analog Addiction has recently had the chance of exploring the Early Access version of Trine 3, and came out quite impressed, stating that it “will surpass its predecessors, in every possible way.“
