Diablo 3 Beta [Beta withdrawal underway!]

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Belgorim said:
And even if it is just a small part, at least running around with your character for yourself and testing the engine yourself will be worth it. I doubt the wait for the full game will be harder with beta-access :)
Testing how well it runs on my PC will be a huge factor for me, since my CPU is below minimum requirements and my video card is on the low end of what can run the game. I'll be doing things like trying to gather as many onscreen enemies as possible and using the flashiest spells to tax my PC as much as possible.

I too was flagged Friday, so it will be interesting to see when we're invited. I'm up for gaf co-op runs once I've done a couple solo runs too, which should also be a nice test of my PC.
 
Valnen said:
Testing how well it runs on my PC will be a huge factor for me, since my CPU is below minimum requirements and my video card is on the low end of what can run the game. I'll be doing things like trying to gather as many onscreen enemies as possible and using the flashiest spells to tax my PC as much as possible.

I too was flagged Friday, so it will be interesting to see when we're invited. I'm up for gaf co-op runs once I've done a couple solo runs too, which should also be a nice test of my PC.

I was flagged Friday also :)

I also want to test my MacBook. I just got it recently so its pretty good, but I want to try running it on the 27 inch Apple LED display and see how it looks/runs! I wonder if I will be able to install it on my PC also. Test two birds with one stone.... or something.
 
I need to run some more tests someday to figure out that weird CPU usage I was experiencing a few weeks ago. As a recap:

First run, vsync on. Ridiculously high CPU usage considering I'm running a 2500K @ 4.4GHz
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Second run, wsync off. Why did the usage go down so much, even though I'm rendering more frames?
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Third run, vsync off, SLI off. It's like the game isn't even using any CPU. What?
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Very, very puzzling CPU usage patterns.
 
Corky got in Thursday... So I'll place my hopes on tomorrow...

It's strange - although I know I'm getting in rather soon I still count the days - D3 is like crack even before I have it in my hands - good sign for release :-D
 
WarMacheen said:
Blizzard...let me in, Bioware has forsaken me
hahah

Take heart, this is the first time in 10 years I haven't gotten into a beta for something I was really interested in, and I'm interested in 3 games atm, two being this and TOR.
 
On a q9550/4GB/1GB 460 GTX OC, I get slowdown in multiplayer games. No stutter, but actual slowdown. Not sure if it's due to lag or what.

Other than that, the game very much feels like Diablo. I went through it with a female monk, who was decent fun, but a bit lacking in flair when it came to animations. Maybe the male characters are the way to go here.

I was also really surprised at the small amount of content available to play, but it's better this way. Don't wanna spoil the game.
 
Oi guys, don't blame Corky... it's clearly the worst timing in the world to be getting the D3-beta. Dark Souls is ruining everybody.
 
Well, if they are busy with blizzcon or working on a new beta-patch they might wait with the next wave for it to finish. So there might not even be a wave sent this week :(
 
Yoshichan said:
Oi guys, don't blame Corky... it's clearly the worst timing in the world to be getting the D3-beta. Dark Souls is ruining everybody.

I know mate, I've played 7 hours of DS every day since I got it on friday, and I have a third of the game left omg!!!
 
SteveWD40 said:
I hope so, or "within a week" was flim flam :(
To be honest I'm perfectly content knowing I'm flagged, whether I get in this week, or the next, or the next. I'm just happy knowing I'm in the next wave.
 
Valnen said:
To be honest I'm perfectly content knowing I'm flagged, whether I get in this week, or the next, or the next. I'm just happy knowing I'm in the next wave.

Maybe today! *hits F5 over and over again*
 
Damn, my contact at Blizzard submitted my email for their "next round of beta invites" two weeks or more ago and still nothing.

I guess having gotten into the WotLK, Cat, and SC2 beta the very day they started closed beta had made me too comfortable.
 
bengraven said:
Damn, my contact at Blizzard submitted my email for their "next round of beta invites" two weeks or more ago and still nothing.

I guess having gotten into the WotLK, Cat, and SC2 beta the very day they started closed beta had made me too comfortable.
Ouch! I guess some of us will be waiting for awhile.
 
Valnen said:
Ouch! I guess some of us will be waiting for awhile.

I just heard from a friend who said I'm in and I'll be let in "when they open the books" so I'm assuming I'm set for whenever they pull the switch. Thankfully I already have the client installed.
 
bengraven said:
I just heard from a friend who said I'm in and I'll be let in "when they open the books" so I'm assuming I'm set for whenever they pull the switch. Thankfully I already have the client installed.
Hrm. They must be holding out for something.

I too have the client installed and am just waiting for the license to show up. I may install it on other computers while I wait >.>.
 
Valnen said:
Hrm. They must be holding out for something.

I too have the client installed and am just waiting for the license to show up. I may install it on other computers while I wait >.>.

How did you get the client?
 
Blizzard needs to hurry up with their Beta Invites. Come November there will be too many "Retail" games to play to waste any major time on a Beta.
 
bengraven said:
I just heard from a friend who said I'm in and I'll be let in "when they open the books" so I'm assuming I'm set for whenever they pull the switch. Thankfully I already have the client installed.

Hope those of us smiled upon by a kind soul are in that book ;)
 
Valnen said:
I hear you there.

There's nothing more I'd like to do today than to play Diablo 3 constantly.

Yeah I could do with something to fill up the upcoming weekend, I'm skint until payday.
 
Has anybody gotten in since last Friday? I haven't seen any new people get in. Or at least they don't post here if they did.
 
Salz01 said:
Has anybody gotten in since last Friday? I haven't seen any new people get in. Or at least they don't post here if they did.
Well, there does not seem to be any information anywhere of anyone getting in since then. Not a 100% proof of noone getting in, but we would probably know if someone did get in.

Maybe the speculation of nothing before blizzcon is actually true. We will see... Or they are just planning on syncing the next wave up with the facebook contest thingy on monday.
 
I think there are 2 options here ......

1) They have so many issues they don't want to invite new people
2) They forgot.

I am leaning towards 2

*hits F5*
 
ParityBit said:
I think there are 2 options here ......

1) They have so many issues they don't want to invite new people
2) They forgot.

I am leaning towards 2

*hits F5*

Or they have enough testers to test the systems they want to test.

They'll eventually move into stress testing or introduce some new system and not have enough testers.
 
the beta has hardly any content now...
i played a total of 5 hours since i got my account, you guys aren't missing anything
 
Lucis said:
the beta has hardly any content now...
i played a total of 5 hours since i got my account, you guys aren't missing anything

It has more content than I have now, and 5 more hours spent playing that content. It's always easy to say that when you do not have it. I would love to play 5 hours of D3.
 
Lucis said:
the beta has hardly any content now...
i played a total of 5 hours since i got my account, you guys aren't missing anything

I would find a lot more content than 5 hours from it and I want to test the performance
 
Lucis said:
the beta has hardly any content now...
i played a total of 5 hours since i got my account, you guys aren't missing anything
Oh, I'm missing something alright. There is no way that the diablo 3 beta would give me less gameplay time than any console game I bought the last two years, so I'm not worried about it only being a small part of act1 :)

At this point I'm realy doubting there will be another wave this week! :(
 
Belgorim said:
Oh, I'm missing something alright. There is no way that the diablo 3 beta would give me less gameplay time than any console game I bought the last two years, so I'm not worried about it only being a small part of act1 :)

At this point I'm realy doubting there will be another wave this week! :(

Another? There never was a first!
 
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