Diablo IV SEASON 3: never outdamage your wife

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Paying2Lurk: Sep 15, 2023; I'd take a bullet
for a bud any day.

flashman posted:

Yes by there's 15 minutes straight of chasing a camel around

It's like 5 minutes, tops, and you do it once in a 30-40 hour campaign.

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 08:25

flashman: Dec 16, 2003

I do have the patience of a 5 year old for unenjoyable activities in my video games

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GoGoGadgetChris: Mar 18, 2010; i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

I'm not gonna fault anyone for disliking the campaign, but... this is in the context of a new player running the campaign vs skipping and getting into a seasonal character right off the rip

It's a good idea to do the campaign for many practical reasons, but more than anything because if you don't like the campaign on your very first time playing the game, you are not going to like Seasonal Mode at all either

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flashman: Dec 16, 2003

Nah killing loads of monsters is great listening to some old geezer while he strolls outside and then you click on two interactable items to get the next line of dialogue? That stinks

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Substandard: Oct 16, 2007; 3rd street for life

I'm thinking about jumping back in now that it's on gamepass and I maybe can convince some of my friends to play. Is there anything I need to know about the "state of the game" if I haven't played since season 1?

We're kind of mid season in season 3 it looks like so I assume I'll have plenty of time to do anything I would want to do if I start a seasonal guy now. I'll probably start trying to do some new character and then go back to flurry / rapid fire Rogue again assuming it's still at least kind of viable.

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Stux: Nov 17, 2006

flashman posted:

I do have the patience of a 5 year old for unenjoyable activities in my video games

you play dota so i dont believe this for a second

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Paying2Lurk: Sep 15, 2023; I'd take a bullet
for a bud any day.

Stux posted:

you play dota so i dont believe this for a second

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flashman: Dec 16, 2003

I don't believe that you can't imagine a dota player acting like a five year old

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Stux: Nov 17, 2006

lol. we have fun here :cheers:

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Mustached Demon: Nov 12, 2016

My only real complaint with the story is the huge gaping story hole in Caldeum and why Duriel just shows up.

# ? Mar 28, 2024 21:36

GoGoGadgetChris: Mar 18, 2010; i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

he came through a big gaping hole

# ? Mar 28, 2024 22:00

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

If you can't immerse for 10 minutes in a "we're traveling a dangerous area carefully" storytelling moment then yeah that's on you.

It's accidental brilliance that they just threw Duriel in to SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER you, it's his brand. They really should've sprung for Andariel and Duriel VAs though. The real gap is Act 4 being about five minutes long, cutting any build up we had for Taissa and then just sending us back for the boss fight. That's probably when we would've gone to the unused entire 1/5th of the world, lol.

# ? Mar 28, 2024 22:33

Mustached Demon: Nov 12, 2016

Doomykins posted:

If you can't immerse for 10 minutes in a "we're traveling a dangerous area carefully" storytelling moment then yeah that's on you.

It's accidental brilliance that they just threw Duriel in to SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER you, it's his brand. They really should've sprung for Andariel and Duriel VAs though. The real gap is Act 4 being about five minutes long, cutting any build up we had for Taissa and then just sending us back for the boss fight. That's probably when we would've gone to the unused entire 1/5th of the world, lol.

Well yeah I get he just sort of shows up to throw down. That's his thing and it landed well: oh poo poo it's duriel.

Could have used an NPC or someone after going "wait who showed up? You loving smushed the bug lord himself to get here?! Shits about to go down if he's here."

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euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

flashman posted:

They're good I watched them on YouTube

Yeah fair enough

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euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Druid bear shout (roar) build could be really good . They way they formatted the notes tho makes me feel like I�m having a stroke

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Tonetta: Jul 9, 2013; look mother look at ME MOTHER MOTHER I AM A HOMESTIXK NOW

**methodically removes and eats own clothes*

I don't think there's ever been a time in my life where someone has told me about how awesome the escort mission was in their video game.

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euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Last epoch does escorts kind of well Because the escort like .. uses skills and kills monsters

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Tonetta: Jul 9, 2013; look mother look at ME MOTHER MOTHER I AM A HOMESTIXK NOW

**methodically removes and eats own clothes*

I'd argue that it was "done well" because the npc is invulnerable and follows you at your pace, and you can just ignore the mechanics of the npc entirely

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euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Yeah that�s a better analysis

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Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

Tonetta posted:

I don't think there's ever been a time in my life where someone has told me about how awesome the escort mission was in their video game.

Never played Resident Evil 4? :clint:

heh got 'em

But seriously, it's not impossible. Bioshock 2 was technically a few good ones too. The camel escort is also kinda cool because if you're going through the campaign blind there's a good chance your gear might suck a bit and the fights are actually dangerous so the relief of the camel refreshing your potions is well paced.

It's a cool foreboding approach to a den of evil.

# ? Mar 28, 2024 23:12

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Doomykins posted:

Bioshock 2 was technically a few good ones too.

One of the things I did like about Infinite was how the first time you get in a fight and Elizabeth is there, it straight up puts text on the screen telling you not to worry about her and she can look after herself.

Far cry from Lance fuckin' Vance.

# ? Mar 28, 2024 23:28

bio347: Oct 29, 2012

Mustached Demon posted:

Well yeah I get he just sort of shows up to throw down. That's his thing and it landed well: oh poo poo it's duriel.

Could have used an NPC or someone after going "wait who showed up? You loving smushed the bug lord himself to get here?! Shits about to go down if he's here."

There's a bit of a lampshade on it, though it happens well before. I think it's kinda fun, personally, though I agree a little acknowledgement after the fact would be nice.

Earlier on, Lorath says something about how Elias has all the tools to summon a Lesser Evil, probably Duriel or Andariel. And then you continue on and all the Andariel stuff happens, so if you noted the previous comment you would kinda assume that that's concluded. And then surprise motherfucker! he actually summoned both.

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flashman: Dec 16, 2003

Oh ya Elias the dude you had to kill a million times another highlight

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Tonetta: Jul 9, 2013; look mother look at ME MOTHER MOTHER I AM A HOMESTIXK NOW

**methodically removes and eats own clothes*

at least it's not tomb lord

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Bisse: Jun 26, 2005

Substandard posted:

I'm thinking about jumping back in now that it's on gamepass and I maybe can convince some of my friends to play. Is there anything I need to know about the "state of the game" if I haven't played since season 1?

We're kind of mid season in season 3 it looks like so I assume I'll have plenty of time to do anything I would want to do if I start a seasonal guy now. I'll probably start trying to do some new character and then go back to flurry / rapid fire Rogue again assuming it's still at least kind of viable.

It is largely the same, there is a huge patch coming mid-may with many of the improvements people have been asking for and a large item rework and the what looks like some actual good endgame content. If you wanna excite yo bros consider waiting for S4.

# ? Mar 29, 2024 11:24

chird: Sep 26, 2004

I've been put off by excessive rubber banding. Would have thought that'd be fixed by now. Maybe it's at my end or just the strain of gamepass descending on the game, but, boo.

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harrygomm: Oct 19, 2004; can u run n jump?

if you're talking in the kind of zone transition situations, that happens even in the most isolated situations and, at least for me, every time i join a world boss or legion event even without other players present

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victrix: Oct 30, 2007

you can turn off cross play to alleviate some network strain

I don't recall running into it in the last few seasons but I'm guessing game pass is adding a ton of people to the world, especially along the early campaign path

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harrygomm: Oct 19, 2004; can u run n jump?

i still regularly experience it while playing on a wired console, crossplay off, HC during off hours, when there are 0 people online in the 'social' tab. it also happens on my steam deck in the same circumstances. Hawezar i find to be particularly bad for whatever reason.

it's been a complaint in various forms since launch. i assume at this point it's a known, WONTFIX along with the various sidequest bugs (don't ever drop quest starter items!), achievement bugs, etc.

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Paying2Lurk: Sep 15, 2023; I'd take a bullet
for a bud any day.

Yeah, it's just part of being an online game. D3 has it, PoE has it. D2 has it when playing online games, etc.

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Lammasu: May 8, 2019; lawful Good Monster

I tried this on game pass and I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. Is there a goon guild I can join?

# ? Mar 30, 2024 04:26

AAAAA! Real Muenster: Jul 12, 2008; My QB is also named Bort

Lammasu posted:

I tried this on game pass and I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. Is there a goon guild I can join?

Guilds dont do anything and not a ton of goons are playing.

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Bisse: Jun 26, 2005

I have a guild with 3 friends but its just a way to group up easier basically and does nothing more than that.

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~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Paying2Lurk posted:

Yeah, it's just part of being an online game. D3 has it, PoE has it. D2 has it when playing online games, etc.

D3 can have network lag but it definitely doesn't have the awful rubberbanding around zone transitions like DIV does.

# ? Mar 30, 2024 08:57

Oenis: Mar 15, 2012

Haven't really felt the pull for the first few seasons, but the upcoming changes, especially for itemization and the codex, all sound very good. I might give this another whirl.

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flashman: Dec 16, 2003

Anyone who isn't coming back for season 4 with a real zoom level to try is just a hater with no substance

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An Actual Princess: Dec 23, 2006

i never once noticed or cared about the zoom level in d4. jealous?

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hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

yeah never bothered me either

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Kaddish: Feb 7, 2002

I'll be coming back for season 4 for sure. Never even touched season 3, been sucked into Last Epoch. I miss couch play, which D4 nails - and they're making controller even better.

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Mr Scumbag: Jun 6, 2007; You're a fucking cocksucker, Jonathan

Reading this thread for as long as I have, you all seem like an abused spouse.

"Maybe it will be different this time"

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