**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[Dumac]

Blizzard never gives me any damn betas

 

[tydas]

OK..then played for a bit and well..I'll just say this..going from skyrim to this game is well...disappointing to say the least...Blizzard may be on the way down...

 

[gorcorps]

Not really a fan of what I saw. Was the game incredibly jittery for anybody else? Every time some broke or died the game skipped a couple frames. Very annoying.

 

[Aikouka]

Not really a fan of what I saw. Was the game incredibly jittery for anybody else? Every time some broke or died the game skipped a couple frames. Very annoying.

That's because it wasn't done downloading yet. The game doesn't play well until it is.

 

[gorcorps]

That's because it wasn't done downloading yet. The game doesn't play well until it is.

It said it was 100% and I left my computer on all night and day. If I start it up again it just boots the game right up, no download manager or anything. What else can I do? Is it downloading data while I'm playing the game? I doubt it. If the game doesn't play properly, why would I want to play it until it's finished? Download the whole damn thing and then let me play it.

Regardless... if they can't even get a simple download manager to function properly I don't have much faith in their bug control. I've had less issues with Origin.

 

[TidusZ]

Regardless... if they can't even get a simple download manager to function properly I don't have much faith in their bug control. I've had less issues with Origin.

Did you seriously just compare battle.net/blizzard with EA/origin? And did you seriously just imply that Origin is better? Who are you???

Also, the issue your talking about is in the known bugs:
The game client will lag slightly when it is loading new assets for the first time. This is not Battle.net lag, but your game trying to load assets that it has already loaded.

And it was already confirmed a month ago or more that it is fixed in the in-house full version of the game.




Seriously you compared EA to blizzard. You should be really ashamed and probably just delete your post man.

 

[JSt0rm]

They let you play the game before it was finished downloading

I'll leave this here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

 

[skace]

Did Tydas just compare skyrim to diablo3? Anyone here want to compare planetside to call of duty?

Oh... and I didn't get into the beta... and i won't let you know how it is...

 

[PrayForDeath]

Too much hate in this thread. I played the demo for about an hour, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Planning to finish it on every class, then jump into public games and try that out. I wasn't planning on buying this, but now I changed my mind.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Too much hate in this thread. I played the demo for about an hour, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Planning to finish it on every class, then jump into public games and try that out. I wasn't planning on buying this, but now I changed my mind.

unless they've added new content, i really dont care to kill leoric another 1000 times

waiting for the full version

 

[JackSpadesSI]

Is there any hope we see this game released before June 30th of this year?!

 

[ibex333]

So I got TWO invites on both my Blizz accounts yesterday... What are the odds of that?

And dont believe any of that BS about how it matters if you have Starcraft 2 on your acc.... I had it on one acc and the other didnt have it and both got invited. Also blizz doesnt discriminate on the basis of your PCs hardware performance since I had identical hardware setups on both accs.

My impressions:

Pros:

Pretty good graphics.
Some destructable environments.
Some very cool skills
No more worrying about id/tp scrolls
Barb is a f-ing BEAST.
Demon Hunter is not as lame as I thought he would be. In fact he is pretty cool.
Overall a quite nice game. Better than I expected.
LORE = great idea


Cons:

1) Personalized/instanced item drops. WTF?! I want to ninja ur shit n00b!!! I grab it with my tele sorc or my charge pally before you can blink ur eye!
Damn.. I still get all tense before Leoric pops, cause I'm getting myself ready to grab the loot, when I realize it drops for each guy separeately and I sigh every time...
2)Witch Doctor is kinda lame... I mean.. yea.. He is cool.. But lets face it.. He is kinda lame, because his skills are not too powerful.
3)By far my biggest complaint is how all skills are now dependant on weapons. WTF?!?!?!?! So as if Diablo wasnt enough about items, now they decided to take it to a whole new level?!
4)No more hoarding skill points, no more truly unique builds... (unless all that will change with runes?)
5)Barb... Again... Instead of bringing back the warrior...

Is there any hope we see this game released before June 30th of this year?!

Nope, none whatsoever. I'd bet money on it. It may come out in July/August though.

played for about a hour last night.

I wont comment on the character development or any of that as i was level 3 and havent gotten into all you can do.

However the lack of camera controls jumped out at me instantly. In sacred 2 you had full camera control and it was great. The textures do seem lower res to me and not much ability to tweak. The animation of the magic user also seemed a bit odd to me. I feel sacred 2 had better graphics?

Again I wont judge it off what I did so far but those are my first impressions.

Dont even mention Sacred 2. It was complete and utter garbage of a game. Sacred 1 was good. But the 2nd one was horrible. But yes, I agree about camera. Blizzard is just refusing to bring some of the modern game elements into it's games. It was the case with SCII and it's the case with DIII. I would love the ability to incrementally zoom with my mouse scroll wheel and rotate the camera.

 

[Anubis]

It said it was 100% and I left my computer on all night and day. If I start it up again it just boots the game right up, no download manager or anything. What else can I do? Is it downloading data while I'm playing the game? I doubt it. If the game doesn't play properly, why would I want to play it until it's finished? Download the whole damn thing and then let me play it.

Regardless... if they can't even get a simple download manager to function properly I don't have much faith in their bug control. I've had less issues with Origin.

try turning off V Sync (if on) in both the game and your vid card options and dissable tripple buffering

that fixed the stuttering for me months ago when i saw it, also if you run SLI/ Crossfire dissable that it may help

 

[Anubis]

Stuff
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Witch Doc weak? i havent played him since the last few beta updates but he was fing OP as hell before, haunt just did stupid amounts of damage, its pretty much all you had to use, that and the fire bats just destroyed things

 

[JackSpadesSI]

Nope, none whatsoever. I'd bet money on it. It may come out in July/August though.

So when this game was announced it was over FOUR YEARS away from release?!

 

[Red Storm]

So when this game was announced it was over FOUR YEARS away from release?!

Dragon Age took four and a half years from announcement to release.

 

[Texashiker]

As far as I am concerned, the character selection is uber lame.

Removing the paladin and amazon? Two of my favorite characters from DII, gone.

At the very least bring the Rogue back from the original diablo.

 

[KidNiki1]

woot!! got my invite on wednesday!! i never played any of the other diablo games so i dont have much to compare as far as that goes. as far as general game playing, seems pretty cool so far.

 

[obidamnkenobi]

damn, forgot that I got an invite to this the other day, ops. Maybe I'll try it out over the weekend.

Which is the most interesting class to try? I played both D1 and D2 fair bit, but I'm not that interested in D3 frankly. Feel like my tastes have moved away from what it was when I was a teenager.. But hey, maybe the beta will change my mind!

 

[tydas]

Did Tydas just compare skyrim to diablo3? Anyone here want to compare planetside to call of duty?

Oh... and I didn't get into the beta... and i won't let you know how it is...

Yes, I did...i'm comparing PC games...plus..you can play skyrim in third person

 

[gorcorps]

Did you seriously just compare battle.net/blizzard with EA/origin? And did you seriously just imply that Origin is better? Who are you???

Also, the issue your talking about is in the known bugs:
The game client will lag slightly when it is loading new assets for the first time. This is not Battle.net lag, but your game trying to load assets that it has already loaded.

And it was already confirmed a month ago or more that it is fixed in the in-house full version of the game.


Seriously you compared EA to blizzard. You should be really ashamed and probably just delete your post man.

Why do you insist on misrepresenting what I posted? I compared download managers, not companies. This has nothing to do with EA and Blizzard, it's Origin vs. D3 download manager. The D3 download manager wasn't displaying real time download stats, had to be restarted twice by myself to keep connection going and show the correct download percentage, then finally didn't even download enough data it seems to make the game smooth even though it said 100%. That's what people make it sound like anyway.

I didn't have to do any of that with Origin. The game downloaded fine when I left my computer alone. I don't have to restart the manager to finish it, and when the game said 100% the game was actually playable. I don't care what you think about the games or the companies... in the comparison of Origin vs. the D3 download manager only I'd pick Origin every time given my experience with both. I don't like Origin but it still works better than this shitty beta roll out.

 

[gorcorps]

try turning off V Sync (if on) in both the game and your vid card options and dissable tripple buffering

that fixed the stuttering for me months ago when i saw it, also if you run SLI/ Crossfire dissable that it may help

Thanks. I don't have SLI but I'll try messing with V Sync later tonight.

 

[CottonRabbit]

One complaint that hasn't been brought up here is the lack of socialization. SC2 is pretty terrible about it with only a gimped chat system, and D3 doesn't even have that yet. If anything, an RPG needs much better socialization options than and RTS. It's funny that Blizz forces everyone to play multiplayer and then makes a completely impersonal online experience (no lobby chat, no named games, no in game trading, ect).

 

[chorb]

One complaint that hasn't been brought up here is the lack of socialization. SC2 is pretty terrible about it with only a gimped chat system, and D3 doesn't even have that yet. If anything, an RPG needs much better socialization options than and RTS. It's funny that Blizz forces everyone to play multiplayer and then makes a completely impersonal online experience (no lobby chat, no named games, no in game trading, ect).

There is in game trading. right click on the person's icon and it brings up a whole list of options, trade being one of them.

the chat lobby is part of Battle.net, not the game client. While I would expect there to be some sort of lobby at launch, it's to be seen if it will be as user friendly and fun as D2 lobbies.

 

[jsedlak]

FYI on the Stuttering Issues

There was a reported issue/bug regarding how the game loads and manages assets which causes some stuttering issues. The bug was fixed internally but hasn't made it (AFAIK) to the beta.

More info:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/p28wq/something_about_the_beta_that_worries_me/
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3530363699#18