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Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition |OT| Loot has never looked this good before!
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Does that actually work? Interesting...
mocolostrocolos
Member
IIRC, it did with other games like Dead Nation.
OmegaDL50
Member
From what I've read on the Blizzard forums, the Nemesis feature doesn't apply for Hardcore.
The premise of the Nemesis creatures is if you defeat them items are shared between the person who kill it and the last person who was killed by the Nemesis. In the case of Hardcore however this does not apply because for a Hardcore character, Death is permanent.
Conkerkid11
Member
Shit, it looks like someone wanted to ruin my plans today and fixed this. New Zealand now gets the game the same time as everybody else. Anybody wanna try a different region? Lol
Duallusion
Member
Was that you, Bamelin? >:I
Conkerkid11
Member
Welp, who spoiled the beans
Conkerkid11
Member
Bamelin did. Didn't expect it to be fixed before launch though. There may or may not be a workaround.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Good to know, haha
Alcoholikaust
Member
if anyone from NZ/anyone with the game who is transferring characters can tell us exactly what carries over that would be great
is it just items/stash/gold?
are some of the challenges carried over? I know none of the trophyys carry over-but some of the challenges are time consuming. haha.
edit:NZ that blows.
is it just items/stash/gold?
are some of the challenges carried over? I know none of the trophyys carry over-but some of the challenges are time consuming. haha.
edit:NZ that blows.
Conkerkid11
Member
Was gonna say New Zealand starts in about an hour and a half. Then I remembered that guy with both a physical copy of this and Metro. So incredibly jealous.
Edit: It's worth noting the change they made is that they changed the US preorder to "Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (English)", whereas the NZ version doesn't include the language in the title. So NZ still gets it early, it's just that they now have a different version than the US does, so it can correctly identify which version releases when. I'm about to find out how a digital preorder is cancelled when no payment information is attached to an account.
Is there a way to disable the social features on the consoles?
I'll still receive mail and nemesis mobs if I select offline mode in game, right?
Basically I have a shitload of friends I don't know that well and I don't want them to send over cheated items (I'm really OCD about playing legit), I just want to play solo and couch coop with my wife undisturbed.
I'll still receive mail and nemesis mobs if I select offline mode in game, right?
Basically I have a shitload of friends I don't know that well and I don't want them to send over cheated items (I'm really OCD about playing legit), I just want to play solo and couch coop with my wife undisturbed.
You don't have to accept any mail.
Alcoholikaust
Member
yea play offline it's possible . I'm a social mute myself. (mostly play mp games without talking) because of my wife and baby-so I can relate.
According to the NZ webstore they just pushed the date back for New Zealand, now says available in 1 day.
A kick to the nuts to whoever snitched to Sony. :angry:
Conkerkid11
Member
I just watched this fix go into place as the NZ version was installing. Flipping back from Netflix to the dashboard again displayed the correct unlock time.
This sucks.
Guess I can go to sleep now.
I IMPULSE BOUGHT FOR NOTHING
Sucks to us in Australia and NZ who can actually buy it legit too. Not that I would (or did).
Duallusion
Member
I hate using mics too and I never know if I'll come across rude, useless or just plain boring without them so I avoid MP altogether, mostly. Wish I could give mute-friendly people like you on my friends list a special tag
Conkerkid11
Member
Doctor Hades
Member
I got my Xbox One copy from Simply Games here in the UK on Saturday so I've been pretty much playing it all weekend and even for an hour this morning before work! To say it's addictive is a gross understatement; it's insanely so, and that's coming from someone who had already put 150+ hours into the original PC version of Diablo III and the Reaper of Souls expansion. I think I must have put in around 30+ hours just from two days of playtime and that's across four characters (all between level 15 and 27).
The game is utterly sublime on the XBO and I love that I now have direct control of my character with a controller and that there is an easy-to-use dodge feature, that is extremely useful. Also, this game now runs smoothly at 1080p and 60 FPS for about 99.6% of the time, without any of the irritating juddering that the PC version suffers from (to lesser or greater degrees depending on the latency of the connection, as it uses online DRM which the console do not have). There are some framerate hiccups from time to time but they're minor; the blue spinning hammer attack that my level 27 Crusader was using seems to cause a noticeable drop in the framerate when I use it and in the spider cave in Act I (just before the Highlands area) there is a part of the level where the framerate tanks and the controls feel a bit laggy, even when there are no enemies oncreen (likely a bug)! Overall though, the game runs fantastic and looks gorgeous (no one does finer artwork than Blizzard IMO). Loading times are not existent after the initial load with teleporting between areas being instant (after the pre-set animation, obviously)!
I noticed the actual combat sound-effects are very loud, completely overpowering all the other audio and becomes very annoying, very quickly on the default 80% volume so I had to drop mine down to 30% (everything else is set to 80-100% for comparison!). Also, do NOT play this game on Normal as it is way, way too easy and you should at least go for Hard, which is more what I would call Medium difficulty and I am no gaming expert. The only reason to play it on Normal is if you want a quick and easy way to unlock Adventure mode. Expert, the next level up from Hard, is actually more enjoyable than Hard and not too challenging (you WILL die at times though!). It has lots more enemies and 150% the XP, etc., of Normal so if you want a more tense and entertaining game then Expert is the difficulty level to go for IMO.
I actually prefer this game to the PC version because of the controller support and dodge ability which may the game more immersive. The interface is obviously not as easy to use as on the PC but to be fair to Blizzard they have done an exceptional job of adapting it to the controller and it only took me ten minutes to get used to it.
The game is utterly sublime on the XBO and I love that I now have direct control of my character with a controller and that there is an easy-to-use dodge feature, that is extremely useful. Also, this game now runs smoothly at 1080p and 60 FPS for about 99.6% of the time, without any of the irritating juddering that the PC version suffers from (to lesser or greater degrees depending on the latency of the connection, as it uses online DRM which the console do not have). There are some framerate hiccups from time to time but they're minor; the blue spinning hammer attack that my level 27 Crusader was using seems to cause a noticeable drop in the framerate when I use it and in the spider cave in Act I (just before the Highlands area) there is a part of the level where the framerate tanks and the controls feel a bit laggy, even when there are no enemies oncreen (likely a bug)! Overall though, the game runs fantastic and looks gorgeous (no one does finer artwork than Blizzard IMO). Loading times are not existent after the initial load with teleporting between areas being instant (after the pre-set animation, obviously)!
I noticed the actual combat sound-effects are very loud, completely overpowering all the other audio and becomes very annoying, very quickly on the default 80% volume so I had to drop mine down to 30% (everything else is set to 80-100% for comparison!). Also, do NOT play this game on Normal as it is way, way too easy and you should at least go for Hard, which is more what I would call Medium difficulty and I am no gaming expert. The only reason to play it on Normal is if you want a quick and easy way to unlock Adventure mode. Expert, the next level up from Hard, is actually more enjoyable than Hard and not too challenging (you WILL die at times though!). It has lots more enemies and 150% the XP, etc., of Normal so if you want a more tense and entertaining game then Expert is the difficulty level to go for IMO.
I actually prefer this game to the PC version because of the controller support and dodge ability which may the game more immersive. The interface is obviously not as easy to use as on the PC but to be fair to Blizzard they have done an exceptional job of adapting it to the controller and it only took me ten minutes to get used to it.
Alcoholikaust
Member
I hate using mics too and I never know if I'll come across rude, useless or just plain boring without them so I avoid MP altogether, mostly. Wish I could give mute-friendly people like you on my friends list a special tag
add me homie-same name I use here
mocolostrocolos
Member
I'm a non-speaker too.
This is also worth noting though.
I have no idea what's going on.
Which store did you buy it from?
ValeYard
Member
This is also worth noting though.
I have no idea what's going on.
Me neither, my download started from the EU store and I have two versions showing also.
Thx for the impressions!
Could your sound issues be related to the September Preview FW? If so, did todays bugfix update help/change it?
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
So jealous seeing people playing this on PS Live! One more day...
MagicWithEarvin
Member
I don't talk much, either, but I do have a mic and don't mind chatting here and there. This game doesn't seem like the type where you really need to coordinate, just romp through areas and loot. Send text through party chat if anything.
Duallusion
Member
Think I already did a couple of days ago in that Diablo exchange thread!
Yay, I'm not such a weirdo after all. There's still hope for my MP Diablo, Destiny, Driveclub etc. endeavours.
Conkerkid11
Member
I played the crap out of Diablo 3 PC immediately after vanilla and RoS launch, but shortly lost interest because of the grind. I'm more interested in this because I've got more friends on PSN than BattleNet, and the couch co-op is definitely a plus.
Reaper of Souls is considered an add-on, and is downloaded seperately I believe. Probably gonna end up being one icon.
On PS4 it's not an addon.
Doctor Hades
Member
I wasn't aware of any issue with the sound on my XBO to be honest until I played Diablo. This is the first game I've played on it where I noticed the sound-effects volume was way too loud. Even 40-50% volume is too loud but on 30% it sounds fine. I have my Sony amp set at a volume of 20 (out of 40) using the DTS 5.1 output via optical out.
I may try switching to DD 5.1 to see if that is better balanced? The problem with Diablo III is that there is a lot of combat and the sounds can be very repetitive so if they're too loud then that can very quickly get annoying, not just for you but also anyone else in the house!
Bananajama
Banned
She's shipped!
Come on postman!
If it doesn't arrive I'm going to use it as an excuse to just watch Guardians of the Galaxy again to cheer me up
Come on postman!
If it doesn't arrive I'm going to use it as an excuse to just watch Guardians of the Galaxy again to cheer me up
OmegaDL50
Member
There is going to be two versions because one of them is the base game pack the secondary RoS is the language version for a specific region.
Nothing about being an add-on, The pre-order bonus being the exception to this though.
Unlike the PC version which RoS is an expansion. It's a full package for the console versions.
Doctor Hades
Member
One thing that puzzles me is that the XBO game install is 30.2 GB and the Day One patch, which upgrades the resolution from 900p to native 1080p, is 210 MB, bringing the total size of the game to 30.5 GB according to My Games and Apps. I thought the XBO version was supposed to be 16 GB? Why it is even 30+ GB anyway when the PC version that I have is around half that size?
MomoPufflet
Member
Can you plug in a keyboard and type to communicate in game (PS4)? Not saying I want to but I'm curious.
Liberty4all
Banned
I doubt it was me, SCEA is still in bed.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
For party chat, yeah. Don't think there's an in-game text chat option.
OmegaDL50
Member
Do you live in the EU.
Apparently Blizzard packed the language packs for each individual language version of the game into the entire game archive, instead of the language file being it's own thing.
This is why the PS4 version on PSN also was falsely reported as 60GB or so because it's counting all of the language packs plus each executable tied to it.
I live in the US so my PS4 copy says it's using 29GB as well but when I go into the Data management utility, yet when I was downloading it last night, it was a 5GB file followed by a 16GB file which adding them together would be 21GB However disc space wise it says it's using 29GB. I don't know how Blizzard packed the console versions but the numbers aren't adding up.
Strange.
Are you in the FW preview program? If so, did you download todays update?
Packed vs. unpacked maybe?
OmegaDL50
Member
Well compression could very well explain it.
I wouldn't make an issue of this but PS4 games use up so much space. I tend to be mindful of how much of a chunk of the HDD each game takes up.
When I come back from my trip in a few days, first thing I'm gonna do is buy that 2TB HDD upgrade I had my eye on. Then I won't be bothered with this issue anymore.
Karl af Duktig
Member
This morning I was greeted with a message on the PS4 that it has begun downloading the game.
Phat Michael
Banned
Cheers for the feedback - sounds awesome. 2 hours till i can play.
How long did it take the game to update and install for you after you put the disc in?
Did you export any characters from the PS3/X360 version?