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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:So I’m an idiot but I bought ultimate on ps5 and probably gonna buy standard again on pc to play with friends on weekends You keep all the bonus stuff. The only thing that doesn't transfer is early access.
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Jun 2, 2023 11:00
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:So I’m an idiot but I bought ultimate on ps5 and probably gonna buy standard again on pc to play with friends on weekends Isn't there crossplatform coop play?
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Jun 2, 2023 11:06
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Ehud posted:I can't believe I haven't had a single server issue yet. Not really a surprise to me, WoW hasn't had any launch problems for many moons and they made enough adjustments during open beta. KajiTheMelonMan posted:I know it's a big tall skill tree with lots of choices... Is it, though? WarEternal fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Jun 2, 2023 11:12
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This is running fantastic on the steam deck the only “issue” I’m having with it is that it doesn’t seem to reconnect if you put the Deck to sleep at all. Not a big deal overall since launching the game doesn’t take that long but otherwise it’s perfect.
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Jun 2, 2023 11:16
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A couple of the reviews have mentioned that the game feels a bit over-designed, by which I think they mean very slick and streamlined, but to the point where it starts to lose some personality or sense of achievement. Is that a criticism any of you early-access guys would agree with? I'm still undecided on whether to buy the game.
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Jun 2, 2023 11:18
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If you're on the fence, I'd wait a couple of weeks to see if the endgame is worth playing. Unless you only care about playing through the story. Diablo 3's terrible state took longer than a day to become apparent.
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Jun 2, 2023 11:27
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Zephro posted:A couple of the reviews have mentioned that the game feels a bit over-designed, by which I think they mean very slick and streamlined, but to the point where it starts to lose some personality or sense of achievement. Is that a criticism any of you early-access guys would agree with? I'm still undecided on whether to buy the game. I didn’t really read much about this game until earlier this week so going in very fresh. Spent about 2 hours and so far it just feels very much like polished modern Diablo game. Still plenty of personality. If you want to play Diablo again you should buy the game.
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Jun 2, 2023 11:32
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Have fun everyone. Enjoy the game. I will see you all in there in a few weeks when everyone is maxed out and done 100 hours of game play.
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Jun 2, 2023 11:34
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Sekenr posted:Isn't there crossplatform coop play? yes, there is.
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Jun 2, 2023 11:43
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I said come in! posted:Here I was thinking I was almost done minus the side content that needs to be done. The story really goes no where though and everyone is very stupid. I am looking forward to never have to touch that part ever again. It seems slightly worse than D2 and slightly better than D3, so we're about right where we expected it to be.
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Jun 2, 2023 11:48
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Mr Scumbag posted:If you're on the fence, I'd wait a couple of weeks to see if the endgame is worth playing. Unless you only care about playing through the story. Thankfully the campaign has been fun. Not "do it more than once" fun, but fun.
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Zephro posted:A couple of the reviews have mentioned that the game feels a bit over-designed, by which I think they mean very slick and streamlined, but to the point where it starts to lose some personality or sense of achievement. Is that a criticism any of you early-access guys would agree with? I'm still undecided on whether to buy the game. The real take of this is "it's not Diablo 2." It's not, it's a different game, it's fun and if you like Diablo games or ARPGs you will likely get your money's worth.
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IG-88 posted:So wait a second, none of the ultimate extras are out yet?? The ultimate edition adds a battle pass skip and an emote. The battle pass isn’t out yet. I didn’t actually check on the emote. I said come in! posted:Here I was thinking I was almost done minus the side content that needs to be done. The story really goes no where though and everyone is very stupid. I am looking forward to never have to touch that part ever again. I’m really confused about this complaint. Diablo’s writing has always had a third-grade chic feel. What did you expect? Anyway here’s the definitive review: if you like Diablo, but want to play a new Diablo it’s great. If you don’t there’s nothing here that’s gonna change your mind.
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Zephro posted:A couple of the reviews have mentioned that the game feels a bit over-designed, by which I think they mean very slick and streamlined, but to the point where it starts to lose some personality or sense of achievement. Is that a criticism any of you early-access guys would agree with? I'm still undecided on whether to buy the game. It's just a AAA Diablo that will likely get tweaked to ensure balance for PvP, which only Lost Ark can really claim to do in the genre, which is definitely an over-designed game. I wouldn't worry about it as something to make you shy away.
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I am 12 hours in, level 33, and this is the smoothest Blizzard day 1 I've ever seen for any always online thing they've ever done. They even seem to have fixed the connection failure when trying to go East out of Kyovashad. I was cautiously optimistic but now I'm just kinda impressed (because the bar was very low).
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Yeah, my few hours last night on PC (a summer night, I am 37 years old, the year is 2023) was pretty much without issue - solid 100fps, occasional dips around other players which I'm assuming is a netcode thing. No queues or connection drops. The game itself feels a lot of fun to play. I've never really been into the min/maxing aspect, so I'm sure my werebear druid boy isn't perfect, but gently caress if it isn't fun to slam the floor and make mooks explode. Diablo 3 obviously eventually got into a good state, but always felt lacking in feel for me. This recaptures the more gothic feel of Diablo 1 / 2. Interested to read it plays well on the Steam Deck - I just assumed the Blizzard launcher would be a blocker there, will have to have a look.
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I'm pretty confused by the Rogue's Innervation passive. "Lucky hit: Up to a 10% chance to gain 8 energy" So do I have a 10% chance to gain 8 energy or is it based off my Lucky Hit chance... so if my lucky hit chance is 2.5% and 10% of that means it's pretty much completely useless. It doesn't show up on my stat screen so kind of hard to know. I just binge played about 10 hours and feeling kind of mixed. I think I'm in the feels better than D3 but nothing will ever come close to D2 camp. I'm not going to lie though, it feels bad to me with the scaling zones. A skeleton at level 1 is going to feel the same as a skeleton at level 28. It's like I'm getting all this gear, but it just keeps me on par with everything and I don't feel like I'm getting more powerful.
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Lucky hit is what it says it does - 10% chance for 8 energy - except this is multiplied by the lucky hit chance of your skill (which might be something like 30%) - acting like a proc coefficient. You can add to your lucky hit coefficient in other ways.
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katkillad2 posted:I just binge played about 10 hours and feeling kind of mixed. I think I'm in the feels better than D3 but nothing will ever come close to D2 camp. I'm not going to lie though, it feels bad to me with the scaling zones. A skeleton at level 1 is going to feel the same as a skeleton at level 28. It's like I'm getting all this gear, but it just keeps me on par with everything and I don't feel like I'm getting more powerful. I struggle with this with every game that fully scales. You only ever feel “on par” but mostly just feel “behind” a lot. Sometimes you get lucky and feel “awesome” but it’ll only be for a level or two until the scaling curve catches back up. Reserving judgment until endgame because a full build is probably much better than the piecemeal stuff you have while leveling, but I really just have trouble enjoying games that fully scale with you.
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Ehud posted:I can't believe I haven't had a single server issue yet. I had two instances where the game froze on me last night, but it wasn't that bad. Once was when I talked to the jeweler, the other was one random time I town portaled back to kyovashad. Had to alt f4 but it seemed like I could hear game sound.
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Pryce posted:I struggle with this with every game that fully scales. You only ever feel “on par” but mostly just feel “behind” a lot. Sometimes you get lucky and feel “awesome” but it’ll only be for a level or two until the scaling curve catches back up. Yeah the thing about the scaling is that… it doesn’t matter. Yeah everything feels same-y as you level up… but Diablo isn’t exactly about leveling up. Once you get max level the paragon and nightmare dungeons and the endgame begins and that will always range from blowing past everything in minutes to holy poo poo I’m getting 1 shot by an imp. Leveling as you go through the campaign is how they drip feed all your skills and enchantments and get you through all the checkmarks of what your character can do. I wouldn’t stress about scaling at all.
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Blizzard for the love of god let me drag the UI down to the bottom of the scree and hide the big letters!!!!
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Friendly reminder to always drink elixirs for 5% bonus XP.
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Astryl posted:Friendly reminder to always drink elixirs for 5% bonus XP. lol I got my elixir and haven’t used it yet Lots of new mechanics to learn. I’m an old man, I’m confused!
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Yeah the thing about the scaling is that… it doesn’t matter. Yeah everything feels same-y as you level up… but Diablo isn’t exactly about leveling up. Once you get max level the paragon and nightmare dungeons and the endgame begins and that will always range from blowing past everything in minutes to holy poo poo I’m getting 1 shot by an imp. Leveling as you go through the campaign is how they drip feed all your skills and enchantments and get you through all the checkmarks of what your character can do. At the same time you're going to be spending a lot of time leveling up so making it feel kind of blah isn't a great move. That being said, it's probably necessary. The scaling is just a more granular extention of popping up a difficulty level as quickly as you can to maximize your gains. More the problem I have with it right now is that I'm trying to figure out what class I want to stick with and it's hard to tell when I never "get ahead" to see the real potential. Especially for what I'm rolling now, Necromancer, where you're looking at your skeletons and going "are you guys really going to hold up long term".
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The benefit of the scaling is that you can make use of the whole game all the time, as opposed to there being a narrow band of "just right" areas of the game that you are forced into along the levelling path. As long as the nightmare dungeons push the scaling gap as they are meant to I'm fine with it.
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My normal Diablo crew loved it. We've played D1 through to D2R, the only low point being D3 which really did get a good tune up eventually but failed to hold us long term. D2R got us all back in. We'd just finished our Hell run when D4 arrived. Totally smooth launch and other than a few small gripes so far this is a good Diablo.
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Zones scaling to me is great in practice. I can do any main or side quest, any dungeon, any time. They put enough work into stat and gear progression that I’m still getting dopamine zaps as I progress and tinker, so the net result is just more freedom. I’m impressed!
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I said come in! posted:Game is not at all ready to be released, but its still fun, just buggy as gently caress. I've experienced a single bug in 12 hours
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I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting the launch to be as smooth as it was (for me — I'm aware playstation had some issues). Logged in early with no queue, never got DC'd once, didn't even have weird loading issues in zones. KajiTheMelonMan posted:For all it's prettyness, whoever designed the Skill window really does need to be shot. I agree with this post though. I went to search for a passive only to find out that I basically had to search by skill "tags" which wasn't helpful. I hope they iterate on the search function because right now it's pretty lame. And the actual skill tree itself seems like, both overly zoomed in (I guess because it's in its own small window and I'm used to poe's fullscreen tree) but also with just too much empty space? It feels annoying to navigate. Maybe it works better on controller, which it seems like it was designed for, but I feel like there must be way better ways of presenting it than what they went for.
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Ferrin posted:I tried to search your clan but it doesn't show up in the results. Yeah, I just made it public. Welcome back!
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Didn't expect many problems with the game since the beta access periods kept improving things. It's been smooth sailing other than the inability to skip cutscenes. Only managed to get a lightning druid to about 10 or so last night but I'm really looking forward to digging in as soon as I have more time.
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Played a couple hours last night and had a great time. Played about 30 minutes as rogue before switching over to necro and what a blast just shooting bone spears and exploding corpses. At work now though wishing I was still playing it  What’s the consensus on world tier levels? Is it starting at 2?
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They seriously need to redo group play quest progression to have one person be able to progress the quest for everyone, if not globally then for everyone in the act. It's a loving nightmare to make sure everyone stays in synced because if someone gets out of sync then they can happily continue on doing all the things and seeing all the cutscenes but getting none of the credit. I had hoped they would have fixed this from the beta but they didn't. Other than that and some hitching here and there it was smooth sailing, except for all the clan stuff I was talking about earlier, but at least there they fixed the bug that crashes your game every time you accept someone into the clan.
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Zephro posted:A couple of the reviews have mentioned that the game feels a bit over-designed, by which I think they mean very slick and streamlined, but to the point where it starts to lose some personality or sense of achievement. Is that a criticism any of you early-access guys would agree with? I'm still undecided on whether to buy the game. yea from my experience with the beta i'd probably agree. the level scaling, boring skills and loot, fairly similar monsters/encounters kinda makes it feel samey, but i didn't play that much. it's not horrible or anything, and the blizzard animation/art polish goes a long way so it still might be worth playing? if you had to get one big release this month, i'd probably go for street fighter tho
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There may be scaling but I've still run into enemies that were way higher level than I was that absolutely kicked my rear end so it's not like there's no challenge or hard to kill mobs to contend with. It's made grouping with friends so much easier too.
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If you get that weird pc big where you can’t skip cut scenes just alt tab out and back in and that fixes it for some reason.
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