Patch notes for version 1.13.X.12

MISC
*Fixed Engineer armor set that was showing up as white geometry

PERFORMANCE
*Additional UI performance improvements
*Additional rendering performance improvements
*Precacheing of skills, missiles, and particles to reduce the appearance of stutters the first time those assets are viewed on some machines

STABILITY
*Fixed a crash that could occur with a dying pet that proc'ed on save restoration

SKILLS
*Fixed some issues with Stormclaw bolt chaining
*Blazing Pillar will no longer give enemies the ability to burn you!
*Shockbolts and Shocking Orb can now build charge
*Fixed several non-working augment affixes
*On-Death Procs properly cool down if required (Fixes several issues where a proc ceases functioning after a period of time)
*Blade Pact and Stone Pact last for listed time

ITEMS
*Lore item set now has a tangle ability, instead of a nonfunctional acidrain proc
*Several affixes that work based on unit proximity can work in parallel, when they could not before

GAMEPLAY
*Fixed several issues where procs could be precluded from activation
*Set bonuses based on nearby monster count work properly
*Some more multiplayer XP distribution fixes related to player/killer delta
*Can't turn alignment on something that attaches to its master
*When a left-click skill is bound, skills won't track a second mouse click if you click and click-away again (keeps you from pointing the wrong direction sometimes)
*Player block cap set to 75 instead of 50
*Elemental armor reduction can't reduce armor below zero
*Champions all have 100% charm resistance
*Siege Turrets have 100% charm resistance


LEVEL SCRIPTING
*Can't prematurely activate Vyrax tower warp with teleportation
*Various minor level fixes
*Various visual updates to the Three Sisters' Lair
*Some snow effects were not properly tagged as 'weather' so would not disable when weather was turned off
*Tutaran trap fixes
*Alchemist can no longer be 'started' on his third stage by rerolling, going to the next level waypoint, and back up.

heya people,

for all those that weren't on the group's chat with Matt and Jamus before the game's release(and also for the ones that were there), here is the Q&A with them, now featured at RGF:

http://www.runicgamesfansite.com/content/1459-q-w-runic-s-jamus-thayn.html

Thanks alot for Simply Ray, Roflbot and [J7] Harwin_6 | Reborn for their efforts in editing this Q&A!

In addition, thanks alot for Frostyninja, for posting it on RGF! :)

Here's the release notes:
http://pastebin.com/nxsiGsTE

Non-Torchlight 2 announcement, but I thought it might interest some people here.

if you want to try out the Loadout 3rd person shooter, now you can(as long as you'll be fast enough to get a key, that is!):

http://www.alienwarearena.com/giveaway/loadout-closed-beta-key-giveaway/

for more info, you can check TB's WTF video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CCPEf8_t1M

good luck and have fun :)

Link: http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=35698

Full instructions copied, in case of runic's site being down:

If you get in a state where your character is corrupted or not loading at the main menu, we store backups of these!
Here are the instructions for RESTORING your backed-up character in the event that it is somehow destroyed or munged up-


For Steam versions go to -

Documents/My Games/Runic Games/Torchlight 2/Save/\76561197971213642

For Non-Steam versions go to -
Documents/My Games/Runic Games/Torchlight 2/Save/

See your player file there? The file should begin with their name, and a long sequence of characters called a GUID.

It should look something like this -
SANTA_{29D2CA6E-309D-4A89-8026-005186CABBB9}.SVB

There should ALSO be a restore file - it should look like this -

santa_{29d2ca6e-309d-4a89-8026-005186cabbb9}.restore

Before you do ANYTHING ELSE!

COPY EVERYTHING OUT OF THIS FOLDER AND SAVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE! We don't want any accidents!

Now, take the 'broken' SVB file out of the save folder and stick it somewhere else.

Rename the extension on the .restore file so that it is SVB (just like the save file was before)

Run the game again, and your character should be safe and sound.