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Diablo 3 Beta [Beta withdrawal underway!]

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chris-013 said:
virtualdub + xvid codec is a good start.
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Am I not better off doing an h.264 encode?

KKRT00 said:
If You use blip.tv, You can give us direct link to video. The only limit there is 1gb per file.
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The main limitation here is going to be my upstream. I have a pathetic 1mbps upstream (yay Canada!), so I'll have to rely on client-side encode to YouTube.

Also, I will try my best to get a 60fps video out there (though I doubt I can host that on YouTube). I have my own private host, so if I can actually manage to record 1080p @ 60fps (or even 1280*720, if I can't manage 1080p), I will get that up asap!
 
TheExodu5 said:
Am I not better off doing an h.264 encode?

The main limitation here is going to be my upstream. I have a pathetic 1mbps upstream (yay Canada!), so I'll have to rely on client-side encode to YouTube.
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You dont need to post direct feed there, You can encode it with h.264 and then upload like on Youtube, its even better because You can use ftp client to upload movies onto blip.tv account.

Its just better than YT, because it doesnt encode additionally on server side.

Check this
http://blip.tv/file/get/Kkrt00-avatar_794.avi
 
KKRT00 said:
You dont need to post direct feed there, You can encode it with h.264 and then upload like on Youtube, its even better because You can use ftp client to upload movies onto blip.tv account.

Its just better than YT, because it doesnt encode additionally on server side.

Check this
http://blip.tv/file/get/Kkrt00-avatar_794.avi
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Thanks for the info! Hopefully it fits my needs. I wonder if it'll let me do a 60fps encode...
 
Artadius said:
Except that there is no PvP in the game world, only in arenas. No way to declare hostile like in D2.
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So will it be impossible to have some 1v1 or ffa battles with my friends? That was the fun part about PvP in diablo 2 for me...
 
Trickster said:
So will it be impossible to have some 1v1 or ffa battles with my friends? That was the fun part about PvP in diablo 2 for me...
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They might have private arenas for that purpose, or at least unranked arenas.
 
That's kind of lame. Why not at least have a game mode where it's a survival world and you can get attacked anytime outside of town?

Then again I should have expected PVP to be watered-down considering this is Blizzard we are talking about.
 
Hexadecimalt said:
That's kind of lame. Why not at least have a game mode where it's a survival world and you can get attacked anytime outside of town?
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You never know, they might add that option but Diablo has always been more about co-op than PvP. Diablo 2 PvP sucked when you have hacked players running around. If D3 keeps everything clean, then they should have some Hardcore PvP servers. :D
 
Hexadecimalt said:
That's kind of lame. Why not at least have a game mode where it's a survival world and you can get attacked anytime outside of town?

Then again I should have expected PVP to be watered-down considering this is Blizzard we are talking about.
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Because the only purpose that serves is to grief?
 
Hexadecimalt said:
That's kind of lame. Why not at least have a game mode where it's a survival world and you can get attacked anytime outside of town?

Then again I should have expected PVP to be watered-down considering this is Blizzard we are talking about.
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The fun of Diablo 1 and 2 PVP came from the fact that danger was everywhere. A player could kill you or monsters could while you run around dodging their attacks like a madman. Blizzard really is missing the essence of what Diablo PVP is. Arena battles seem so boring.
 
Maybe they could add the option when you hit lvl 60 that Hardcore Mode means PvP active. Die, loose character. If you want PvP, no being a pussy. If you want friendly battles, go play in the Arena.
 
Deadstar said:
The fun of Diablo 1 and 2 PVP came from the fact that danger was everywhere. A player could kill you or monsters could while you run around dodging their attacks like a madman. Blizzard really is missing the essence of what Diablo PVP is. Arena battles seem so boring.
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It was only fun when the people who were attacking you were around your strength level. I'd say that was maybe 20% of the time during the golden era and 1% of the time afterwards. It was unfair and imo, only hurt the game. There are many reasons for why it was unfair though.
 
UnluckyKate said:
Ok, so I tried to log into my Battle.net but as I'm currently (and for 6 month) in Korea, it's all in korea. Should I go through a proxy ?
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Can't you just change your language and region somewhere at the bottom of the site?
Edit: It's at the bottom on the right side, a world map symbol.
 
Kalnos said:
password game --> profit
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No thanks, I like sometimes being able to just jump in random games or have random folks jump into mine (kinda like Dead Island works right now). Passworded games being the only way to prevent it is not the best solution.

The best solution is for them to allow you the option to enable PvP at game creation or not and allow folks looking for games to search for PvP enabled games or not. I should not ever have PvP enabled without my prior consent as a player, even if I'm not the host.
 
Kalnos said:
password game --> profit
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Requiring people to password their games to avoid griefing completely destroys any sense of community and goes completely against what multiplayer Diablo 3 is supposed to be about.
 
Valnen said:
Requiring people to password their games to avoid griefing completely destroys any sense of community and goes completely against what multiplayer Diablo 3 is supposed to be about.
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Well, according to some of the videos around, you can have it open for friends only, so that cuts down the chance of randoms joining. Unless you want that of course. :D
 
Artadius said:
No thanks, I like sometimes being able to just jump in random games or have random folks jump into mine (kinda like Dead Island works right now). Passworded games being the only way to prevent it is not the best solution.

The best solution is for them to allow you the option to enable PvP at game creation or not and allow folks looking for games to search for PvP enabled games or not. I should not ever have PvP enabled without my prior consent as a player, even if I'm not the host.
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Requiring people to password their games to avoid griefing completely destroys any sense of community and goes completely against what multiplayer Diablo 3 is supposed to be about.
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Calm down, no one has said anything about making pvp mandatory or enabled without player consent. Like I posted earlier, it'd just be nice if there was game mode non-carebears could enable that allows you to play in a dangerous and challenging world where pvp was wild and open. But yeah, it goes against the spirit of Diablo 3 because you guys are being babies about just the mention of a pvp world.
 
Hexadecimalt said:
Calm down, no one has said anything about making pvp mandatory or enabled without player consent. Like I posted earlier, it'd just be nice if there was game mode non-carebears could enable that allows you to play in a dangerous and challenging world where pvp was wild and open. But yeah, it goes against the spirit of Diablo 3 because you guys are being babies about just the mention of a pvp world.
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Yep.

Why does it seem like monsters are so scattered? I haven't seen any big clusters of 30+ mobs yet :(.
 
Kalnos said:
Yep.

Why does it seem like monsters are so scattered? I haven't seen any big clusters of 30+ mobs yet :(.
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I saw some recent footage where someone bumped into a group of about 20+ zombies.

I expect they are saving the big groups for 4 players on the higher difficulties.
 
Raide said:
I saw some recent footage where someone bumped into a group of about 20+ zombies.

I expect they are saving the big groups for 4 players on the higher difficulties.
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Yeah, just seems lame though considering how fast everything is dying.
 
UnblessedSoul said:
Is the whole beta going to be just a bit of act 1? or will they be expanding it
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I hope they expand it... Testing the auction house is probably going to be important thing for a beta and the pvp arenas, while not as important, will probably also want to be tested eventually.

bounchfx said:
just finished it with Witch Doctor... SO fun. can't wait to do it again with Barb then Wizard then Demon Hunter then Monk again
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Hows WD gear like? There was a stream linked earlier where you really didn't have much in the way of crafted gear. There was class specific stuff for every class but WD.
 
Kalnos said:
Yeah, just seems lame though considering how fast everything is dying.
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I don't see the monsters scaling either, so by the time people cap the beta at 13, plus all the skills, everything dies so quickly. Again, we have only seen 1/3 of the first act. I just want them to show of some footage of Inferno. :D
 
Kalnos said:
Yep.

Why does it seem like monsters are so scattered? I haven't seen any big clusters of 30+ mobs yet :(.
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The beta is 1/4th of Act 1 or so. We're talking about Den of Evil level here with maybe Tristram being the end point.
 
Tacitus_ said:
The beta is 1/4th of Act 1 or so. We're talking about Den of Evil level here with maybe Tristram being the end point.
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I'm aware, and there were a few notable packs of 30+ fallen in the Stony Field in D2, even on normal. I just wanted to see some footage of dense monster groups, is all.
 
Dartastic said:
Why oh why must my mid 2009 MBP run this like ass.... =(
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Turn off shadows and it'll run the beta fine. Shadows are borked a bit in the current build so they take a lot of performance.
 
Kalnos said:
I'm aware, and there were a few notable packs of 30+ fallen in the Stony Field in D2, even on normal. I just wanted to see some footage of dense monster groups, is all.
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There was some live footage of an event where the player had to survive for 60 seconds against a horde of undead. It looked amazing, so I wouldn't worry about it at all. I'm sure you'll see this more on the higher difficulties.
 
Kalnos said:
I'm aware, and there were a few notable packs of 30+ fallen in the Stony Field in D2, even on normal. I just wanted to see some footage of dense monster groups, is all.
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Mobs quadruple when you're in a 4 player party. Besides, this is the first part of Act 1, and it's currently balanced on the easy side.
 
Oh, wow, so they really don't have an NDA in place for this. I could post some shots if you guys want, though I assume someone probably already did that for you guys.
 
Kalnos said:
I'm aware, and there were a few notable packs of 30+ fallen in the Stony Field in D2, even on normal. I just wanted to see some footage of dense monster groups, is all.
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I don't recall that on norm, I'm making another char here soon so I'll double check but the biggest pack I ever saw was mayb 8-10 around Rakanishu? on occasional spawns you might be lucky enough to get a unique mob to spawn near enough Rakanishu to get both packs together, but that didn't happen very often on normal.
 
squidyj said:
I don't recall that on norm, I'm making another char here soon so I'll double check but the biggest pack I ever saw was mayb 8-10 around Rakanishu? on occasional spawns you might be lucky enough to get a unique mob to spawn near enough Rakanishu to get both packs together, but that didn't happen very often on normal.
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There definitely is a 35-40 pack at Bishibosh
 
Hexadecimalt said:
Calm down, no one has said anything about making pvp mandatory or enabled without player consent. Like I posted earlier, it'd just be nice if there was game mode non-carebears could enable that allows you to play in a dangerous and challenging world where pvp was wild and open. But yeah, it goes against the spirit of Diablo 3 because you guys are being babies about just the mention of a pvp world.
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Calm down? I don't think I was anything but calm in my reply... and in fact think I layed out an acceptable solution to allowing folks to have pvp gameplay. Your knee-jerk reaction and the fact that you're calling me a carebear and a baby is pretty short sighted. It'd be like me just assuming you're a griefer. Are you?

If you can't handle mature discussion on the topic. Welp.
 
Just got my beta F&F invite! I said I did earlier but that was confirmation of my bnet account being added to the queue for emails. Just checked my email right now and got the invite, so ... cya in like 6 months GAF.
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alphaNoid said:
Just got my beta F&F invite! I said I did earlier but that was confirmation of my bnet account being added to the queue for emails. Just checked my email right now and got the invite, so ... cya in like 6 months GAF.
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