Entitled “Beast Buddies”, this update which will be deployed on July 16th and expands on the pet system (which has always been an integral part of the Torchlight franchise). Pets in the alpha have been currently limited to the one you select during character creation. This update will now make pets (randomly generated) available when defeating a boss. When finding one of these caged pets, the player will have several options (making it your pet, sending it to the new pet shelter in your fort, or releasing it).
These pets will also have 4 skill slots (these skills will be RNG based as well meaning that there will be a grind element to find a pet with the skills that you are looking for). Skills fall into Auras (only one can be active), Buffs and Combat (these two are automatically triggered).
Myself, I haven’t really logged back in since Update 5 (where I mention some of my issues) and thus haven’t tried out the revamps made for Update 6 (which I also completely missed news wise). This is still a game that I’m hopeful about where it can be properly shaped by the designers. I just don’t know if the frontier progression aspect is the correct path.
