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[Aja]

Booted ofc. 69 minutes to login now. Well well. It's beta waiting time!

 

[jshackles]

Also disconnected, but this is pretty dope. I'll definitely jump back in later today.

 

[Hot5pur]

65 minutes to queue up now.
That's really painful. Did they severely underestimate server capacity?
Still happy I got to try it. Looking forward to jumping on a bit later if I can. Seems it might be quite popular.

 

[nightmare-slain]

Personally, while I understand we are all excited to play it, at the end of the day it is a network test (sorry, open beta) and if you think it's bad, wait until next weekend when the floodgates truly open.

and when launch comes you can forget about playing on day 1, day 2, or day 3.

 

[Beastclaw Raider]

Personally, while I understand we are all excited to play it, at the end of the day it is a network test (sorry, open beta) and if you think it's bad, wait until next weekend when the floodgates truly open.

Yeah well imagine the real launch...

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

and when launch comes you can forget about playing on day 1, day 2, or day 3.

Aha, spotted the Blizzard Launch Experience veteran /wink.

 

[cormack12]

Yeah I was expecting DC so skipped all cutscenes to play

 

[Evil Calvin]

Queue is 1 hour for me on Xbox right now. I'll play later tonight lol...

I'm sure the queue will be shorter on a Friday night rather than the day /s

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Going to play Halo and some Solasta later but will log in at 11pm GMT to see how the queue looks. I can suffer with no sleep just for one night I guess!

 

[Krathoon]

The game runs great on my GTX 1080. So, they did a good job.

I hit level 4 and got booted.

 

[Luipadre]

This will be the launch experience aswell so better prepare for it. Im not mad i just want to continue because it already feels so damn good

 

[nightmare-slain]

Aha, spotted the Blizzard Launch Experience veteran /wink.

i actually never played Diablo 3 at launch just knew it was a shitty launch with server issues. i never played Diablo 3 until the PS3 launch which was about 17-18 months after PC.

 

[Krathoon]

I am playing a Sorcerer called Krathoon.

 

[Boneless]

It’s basically D2 updated. Much slower paced. I like the aesthetic. Little disappointed in the combat so far; feels a little ‘floaty’ but obviously very early days.

I felt the opposite, combat of the barb feels weighty, which is good. Feels a lot better dan D3.

I am still in the game but I cannot start it as it gives an error.

 

[acidagfc]

I keep restarting the game on ps5, queue gets longer and longer, up to 95m now.

See you tomorrow game. Maybe, lol.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Personally, while I understand we are all excited to play it, at the end of the day it is a network test (sorry, open beta) and if you think it's bad, wait until next weekend when the floodgates truly open.

True....but it's not like they don't know what they need (D3)....and maybe prepare for the beta?

 

[AV]

Meathead the barbarian got booted and now it's a 100 min login queue. Average Blizz beta experience.

 

[cormack12]

I am playing a Sorcerer called Krathoon.

My rogue is called trollop

 

[Gudji]

The game runs great on my GTX 1080. So, they did a good job.

I hit level 4 and got booted.

How many fps and what settings?

 

[Radioskugga]

Disconnected too and a queue of 65 min now.

 

[Codeblew]

Got to level 3 on my sorcerer but then got kicked for some reason. Now an hour queue (PS5). Luckily I can just let that run in the other room while I fuck around on the computer.

 

[SyberWolf]

87 minutes

 

[ANDS]

Good lord. They didn't even last an hour. At least I got to see the cinematics and character creator; really impressed with the visual aesthetics. Definitely not at all as whimsical as D3 was and even more mature looking than Immortal.

 

[Hot5pur]

People should seriously check out Wolcen (on PC though), it's similar in quality to this (potentially better animation/combat wise). Might help with the wait...

 

[Krathoon]

I guess they are scaling the servers or something.

 

[Sanepar]

It is colored like diablo 3?

 

[nightmare-slain]

True....but it's not like they don't know what they need (D3)....and maybe prepare for the beta?

Yeah there isn't really an excuse for this. Plenty of games manage to have beta tests without any major issues. Blizzard should have put a fuck load servers on ready for this. They would have a good idea of how many people could enter with codes redeemed and preorders placed.

Either they are incompetent or they are doing this to add some drama so more people talk about it and want to try the game.

 

[Little Mac]

Got booted after making a barb. Playing on a Series S. Curious about the graphics. Haven't seen in game yet. Queued ... 11 mins left.

Barb is named Yeti.

 

[DavidGzz]

It is colored like diablo 3?

Not even close.

 

[nightmare-slain]

It is colored like diablo 3?

It is inspired more by Diablo 2 so a lot darker and "grittier". It's not as colourful or "cartoony" as Diablo 3. I mean, you'd know that if you done a quick search.

 

[ANDS]

It is colored like diablo 3?

It's the difference between 1960's Batman and 2022's The Batman. Like night and day in terms of aesthetic approach to the graphics.

 

[TheMan]

For those who ordered through KFC app, how did you get your code and how long did it take?

Edit: hold up what am I missing

 

[Hendrick's]

 

[Ogbert]

I felt the opposite, combat of the barb feels weighty, which is good. Feels a lot better dan D3.

I am still in the game but I cannot start it as it gives an error.

Yes, barb is much better; especially the lunge attack.

I also got about 15 mins in on a sorcerer, which was more ‘floaty’, but to be fair it always is.

 

[nightmare-slain]

I might just go play Diablo 2 for now and pretend I'm playing 4

 

[cormack12]

I guess they are scaling the servers or something.

Yeah probably removing 50% of them

 

[Krathoon]

This is kinda stupid. Surely they have enough servers.

 

[Yoshichan]

hahahaha

oh blizzard ♥

 

[Azzurri]

You can thank streamers for these queues .

 

[Spyxos]

I have been trying to log in for 1 hour now.... Why did I ever think that this time would be different.

 

[drotahorror]

Blizzard gon blizz

 

[Beastclaw Raider]

I have been trying to log in for 1 hour now.... Why did I ever think that this time would be different.

We have stockholm syndrome with Blizzard. Everytime we tell ourselves, they should of figured it by now, it'll be okay

But nope, here we are, thrown against the wall yet again

 

[DryvBy]

It's a beta for fucks sake

So? What kind of stupid reply is this? The beta isn't going to remove dropping gear. You can drop it but your friends can't pick it up, even common loot.

 

[nikos]

Wish the game had WASD movement. Absolutely can't stand click to move and don't like playing games on controller.

What makes controller even worse is not being able to aim with the right stick. Makes no sense.

 

[Evil Calvin]

I have been trying to log in for 1 hour now.... Why did I ever think that this time would be different.

I mean....they had 10+ years to prepare for this moment....

 

[Macattk15]

Why does the game in the battle.net launcher say "This game cannot be played yet." when I hover over the play button? Didn't it go "live" at noon EST? I know there are issues ...

edit : DISREGARD. Had to open and close battle.net twice to make it go away.

 

[Luipadre]

Stuttering was bad but hopefully its network related

 

[Ogbert]

This incompetence from Blizzard is just boring now.

I know it’s a stress test, but what were they expecting?

 

[BWJinxing]

30 mins have passed and now...

 

[thebigmanjosh]

Decided to jump in real quick in between meetings to create a character and mess around: "Queued for login-108 minute left"