Diablo 3 Beta [Beta withdrawal underway!]

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Corky said:
Your tag is even more devious than Warios :I
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Tell me about it... with my shitty mobile internet, my page doesn't load screenshots (and avatars) so I got really shocked when I saw that he just posted and got banned... then I saw his user name lol
 
Yoshichan said:
I still love you though, 2.5% homo ♥ !

See, this is the (amazing) shit I'm talking about! I'm currently so hyped it's not even funny, I'd love it if anyone else would share some of their half embarrassing, half ridiculously awesome D1/2 stories they've had!
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Alright, don't know whether this is what you're looking for, but here's my open love letter to Diablo (which I wrote last year at the 10yr anniversary):

It's hard to put into words actually. It started with Diablo 1, which I first played in the summer of '96 and then more extensively later that year when my parents got me my own version for Christmas. I fucking loved it so much, even though my 486 ran it at a literal snail's pace. The soundtrack (Tristram's theme in particular) will always be burnt into my brain. Additionally, albums I've bought during that period (like Placebo's debut album, or Live's 'Secret Samadhi') will forever be connected to playing Diablo. I was 12 when it was released and it was the best game I had ever played and I played a lot of games. The first encounter with the butcher was terrifying, discovering an entire new tile set in those caverns was awesome, finding your first unique item, the Valor quest. I loved all of it.

No surprise then that I went crazy when Diablo II was announced. I was literally obsessed, constantly talking about it on forums, gathering every scrap of information there was to find. I even printed out all that stuff, to read it over and over again. There was like a weekly piece by gamesradar where one of the editors gave a really colorful impression of his experiences with the beta. Which was a blast to read. Yeah it was a long wait, being hyped up so intensely for 2 years took its toll. I've probably never been hyped more for a game since Diablo II and I guess I never will again.

Then the game finally went gold in june 2000, which couldn't have been a better time. I just finished my fourth year of highschool (I was 16 then I think) which was an ordeal. So being able to play the game of my dreams in a summer with oceans of time was like paradise compared to the shit year I just had.

The game didn't dissapoint either, even considering my unbelievable levels of hype, the game managed to deliver, and then some. God damn, from the beauty of that character select screen, to the awesome first act, the kick-ass music in the second act, to the atmosphere enhancing cutscenes, Diablo II had it all. I think that's what I love most about the Diablo games, their feel and vibe is just so unique. It's an awesome world to be in. World of Warcraft's orcs and elves just aren't the same. Diablo is something special. I'm kind of worried they will not be able to recreate it with Diablo III, considering Matt Uelmen's departure from Blizzard, but we will see.

Anyway, I've played a lot of Diablo II over the past decade. As a game, it's pretty much perfect, so much content and the actual gameplay is immensely satisfying. Though I haven't reached level 99 or got some of the crazy rune-words that are out there, I have no doubt there are very few people who love Diablo 1 and 2 more than I do. Whenever I think of them, the period I played them in, my crazy hype leading up to DII's release, I just get this almost constricting blast of nostalgia.

Like I said, it's hard to put into words, but for me Diablo is more than just a game. It's an enduring work of art with a very special feel and I will always remember it fondly.
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Beautiful read man ♥
 
Just a gut feeling, but judging from the state of the beta, I don't think the game is going to hit this year. The game does not feel nearly as finished/polished as SC2 did when it went to beta.
 
TheExodu5 said:
Just a gut feeling, but judging from the state of the beta, I don't think the game is going to hit this year. The game does not feel nearly as finished/polished as SC2 did when it went to beta.
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Hmm..ok, can I ask why it doesn't feel as polished? bugs?
 
TheExodu5 said:
Just a gut feeling, but judging from the state of the beta, I don't think the game is going to hit this year. The game does not feel nearly as finished/polished as SC2 did when it went to beta.
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Fuck man. Crushing my dreams here. I want them to take their time, but I'm really getting my hopes up to have this come winter break =/

But if I can ask, what specifically leads you to believe that? SC2 had a 4.5 month beta and they were doing heavy lifting on the balancing and multiplayer game design that whole time. You don't think a 3 to 3.5 month beta (early September to mid December) would be enough?
 
It's not just balance that's missing. Menu options are missing, one menu in particular is completely blank, error messages are simple codes, auction house can't be sorted. On top of that, It feels like some things haven't really been tested at all, such as multiplayer town portals (there's no way to just open up a portal without going to town), and the ability to skill swap at any time.

That being said, a lot of these things might be superficial and fixable in a matter of days. It just doesn't feel as polished as the SC2 beta did.
 
TheExodu5 said:
It's not just balance that's missing. Menu options are missing, one menu in particular is completely blank, error messages are simple codes, auction house can't be sorted. On top of that, It feels like some things haven't really been tested at all, such as multiplayer town portals (there's no way to just open up a portal without going to town), and the ability to skill swap at any time.

That being said, a lot of these things might be superficial and fixable in a matter of days. It just doesn't feel as polished as the SC2 beta did.
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why would you need to open a portal if you aren't going to town? People can port to your location using your banner.
 
pieatorium said:
why would you need to open a portal if you aren't going to town? People can port to your location using your banner.
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I had no idea. ;_;

Door2Dawn said:
Bugs in beta? I never thought of that.
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Oh, the state of the beta is just fine. Everything is still incredibly polished. I'm simply comparing this to other Blizzard betas. Like I said, this is more of a gut feeling than anything.
 
TheExodu5 said:
Just a gut feeling, but judging from the state of the beta, I don't think the game is going to hit this year. The game does not feel nearly as finished/polished as SC2 did when it went to beta.
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Were you part of the F&F beta for SC2 as well?
 
TheExodu5 said:
I had no idea. ;_;



Oh, the state of the beta is just fine. Everything is still incredibly polished. I'm simply comparing this to other Blizzard betas. Like I said, this is more of a gut feeling than anything.
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I wish I was in to get a better feel but I'm addicted to watching youtube and streams of the beta heh, other than the DH looking comparaatively weaksauce the only real bugs I've seen are a couple of missing mob names and lore soundbites and a few bad pathing issues for bookcases and chests. Same sort of stuff would pop up in wow beta's and on the test realms for patches now and then.
 
Yoshichan said:
I was actually about to edit my original post, explaining how I feel about this compared to Diablo II. As a game, I truly do feel that it's got just as much potential as LoD. Here's the tricky part that's been bothering me though... D3 will not be affected by nostalgia in a long, long time. We need to remind ourselves that part of what made D2 so good to us was the fact that most of us were very young back then, and we played 12+ hours a day with our friends. Amazing shit like that is extremely hard to replicate for some of us (most of this is due to lack of time).

I'm positive that D3 will turn out just as you plan on making it. Spend time with it, gather up some friends, play it like you used to back in the days. Because I sure as fucking hell will relive the same stuff I did in D2 back in the days.
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I've been playing super speed run mode D II and enjoying it. It is a drastic change of pace from most games today.

I'll probably head hardcore into D III and see how I can keep up, then play casually.

*Can has beta access pls

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TheExodu5 said:
I had no idea. ;_;



Oh, the state of the beta is just fine. Everything is still incredibly polished. I'm simply comparing this to other Blizzard betas. Like I said, this is more of a gut feeling than anything.
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I would love a chance to confirm this myself ;_;
 
So I downloaded and finished Starcraft 2 Starter Edition and kinda want to buy the full game even though I don't play rts games, but this hooked me...
If I can play it on my laptop somewhat medium in 1080p fullscreen windowed(lying on bed, 40"TV), then I am not afraid anymore if I can play D3 on high with maybe, the exception of higher shadows.
This all may seem like I am brown nosing Blizzard for beta but hey, what would we, hyped lunatics, who are watching every stream that is playing wouldn't do right.

Also, this is crazy and they are torturing us so much. I never was like this before. TY and FU you Blizzard
 
The AH could use some work, but they just introduced it to the beta so I expect there's more coming on that front. Aside from that I would say pretty much everything is ready for launch.
 
red731 said:
So I downloaded and finished Starcraft 2 Starter Edition and kinda want to buy the full game even though I don't play rts games, but this hooked me...
If I can play it on my laptop somewhat medium in 1080p fullscreen windowed(lying on bed, 40"TV), then I am not afraid anymore if I can play D3 on high with maybe, the exception of higher shadows.
This all may seem like I am brown nosing Blizzard but hey, what would we, hyped lunatics, who are watching every stream that is playing wouldn't do right.

Also, this is crazy and they are torturing us so much. I never was like this before. TY and FU you Blizzard
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How much did you play (I'm not really sure what Starter Edition includes)? Pretty much all games that hit late end (i.e. has a lot of units/buildings) get massive FPS hits. Some of the UMS are also like that. I can't comment how D3 would be like though.

Edit: Also, I'm part of the December release date group. Believe!
 
Starcraft 2 doesn't scale well to 4v4 matches. 3v3 are borderline for me in the late game, but mostly tolerable. 2v2 and 1v1 are smooth throughout. So "running on Medium", you won't really find out the full extent of that with just the Starter Edition (which only includes 1v1 and 2v2 IIRC).

But, Diablo is a lot more "controlled". I imagine this might be one reason they are going for 4 players max. Already in some of the streams, two level 13 players using flashy skills can get kinda chaotic to see what's going on.
 
MooMoo said:
How much did you play (I'm not really sure what Starter Edition includes)? Pretty much all games that hit late end (i.e. has a lot of units/buildings) get massive FPS hits. Some of the UMS are also like that. I can't comment how D3 would be like though.
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Just until the fifts campaign mission, but both games are very differenet in what will they need. So I am pretty sure I will be fine. I watched many SC2 streams with commentary from SC HD and I know how hectic it could get when playing.
In that case I would lower res to something 16:9 but lower than 1080, fullscreen and not windowed and set other settings according to how many fps I would get.

FieryBalrog said:
But, Diablo is a lot more "controlled". I imagine this might be one reason they are going for 4 players max. Already in some of the streams, two level 13 players using flashy skills can get kinda chaotic to see what's going on.
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Yeah, that is why I am not afraid of not being able to play the game smoothly on whatever settings. As I saw, the lighthing and realtime shadow casting will be the most performance "limiting", so just turning shadows down could be fine.
 
TheExodu5 said:
Just a gut feeling, but judging from the state of the beta, I don't think the game is going to hit this year. The game does not feel nearly as finished/polished as SC2 did when it went to beta.
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Cant say i really agree or disagree. It is very true that there are quite a few cosmetic things that have not been done just because i get the feeling that they were unimportant to the beta experience and blizzard just hasn't gotten around to it.

Whether they will or not by the end of the year... who knows your guess may be correct.

What i can say is that the game it self plays so solidly that i see no reason why it cant come out this year. In the hours ive put in every section of map is seamless and sculpted out of fine marble.

The fact that there is just no way in the beta for me to experience harder difficulty or pvp kind of kills my only complaint of class balance and overall easiness. Just no way to test if my complaints are legit in this small section of play.

I ran into NOTHING at all that made me think this wasn't a full game (weak menus aside). But then again i know blizzard and you just might be right :/
 
Wolfwood0 said:
The fact that there is just no way in the beta for me to experience harder difficulty or pvp kind of kills my only complaint of class balance and overall easiness. Just no way to test if my complaints are legit in this small section of play.
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They aren't neglecting to test it. They are just testing it in-house =\
 
One thing that concerns me is that how many bugs they have found in beta. It's a good thing that they are found but that's only 1/3 of Act 1, how the rest of the game will do?
 
MrKnives said:
One thing that concerns me is that how many bugs they have found in beta. It's a good thing that they are found but that's only 1/3 of Act 1, how the rest of the game will do?
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They'll have to do it the same way they debugged the SC2 single player and any game not named WoW.
 
Wolfwood0 said:
The fact that there is just no way in the beta for me to experience harder difficulty or pvp kind of kills my only complaint of class balance and overall easiness. Just no way to test if my complaints are legit in this small section of play.
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I remember Blizzard mentioning that PvP will not be balanced, at least not in the way WoW is i.e. Arenas in DIII are supposed to be fun, not competitive.
 
TheExodu5 said:
It's not just balance that's missing. Menu options are missing, one menu in particular is completely blank, error messages are simple codes, auction house can't be sorted. On top of that, It feels like some things haven't really been tested at all, such as multiplayer town portals (there's no way to just open up a portal without going to town), and the ability to skill swap at any time.

That being said, a lot of these things might be superficial and fixable in a matter of days. It just doesn't feel as polished as the SC2 beta did.
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You don't remember how much SC2 changed during its beta. The GUI alone went through numerous iterations.
 
Castor Krieg said:
I remember Blizzard mentioning that PvP will not be balanced, at least not in the way WoW is i.e. Arenas in DIII are supposed to be fun, not competitive.
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I think im talking more about synergy. I personally think its pretty impossible to make classes balanced in the eyes of a player, but i would like to see how the classes play in a competitive environment.
 
Just got into the beta yesterday and I am loving it so far. So many quality of life improvements over Diablo 2. I know this game is just going to eat my time up when it comes out. I finished the beta in about 2 and a half hours and immediately afterwards installed Diablo 2 to keep getting my fix.
 
1up said:
Just got into the beta yesterday and I am loving it so far. So many quality of life improvements over Diablo 2. I know this game is just going to eat my time up when it comes out. I finished the beta in about 2 and a half hours and immediately afterwards installed Diablo 2 to keep getting my fix.
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Why not grind the beta with all the characters and find things to report to blizzard. We who don't have the beta are getting our fix with D2. People in beta shouldn't.

Edit: Typo
 
MrKnives said:
Why not grind the beta with all the characters and find things to report to blizzard! We who don't have the beta are getting are fix with D2. People in beta shouldn't.
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I know I would play the beta 25/8
 
I made a spreadsheet with people in F&F so we can play together.

Request access and you can add yourself to the list.
 
Another week...

No smelly Dota 2 beta
No ugly BF3 beta
No stupid D3 beta...


sigh
 
Patience people :)!
 
Corky said:
What is this patience you speak of? :(
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XD With the internet I have, I can't open YT links but reading the title was enough!
 
Corky said:
Sitting, trying to learn Tristram theme on guitar...

:(
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I feed on this kind of dedication! Can you even start imagining how amazing shit will turn up once we start playing together?! (PvE in all its glory but please tell me you're going to PvP too!)
red731 said:
Bought Starcraft 2...

What are you doing Blizzard...
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There's nothing wrong with that, it's probably one of the best games this generation. Especially some of its community! (SCII Community GAF fo' life ♥)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=435469&page=232
 
Yoshichan said:
I feed on this kind of dedication! Can you even start imagining how amazing shit will turn up once we start playing together?! (PvE in all its glory but please tell me you're going to PvP too!)
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My WD will stand by your side in those arenas.
 
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