All good demons go to... um... sequel? - Diablo 3 Announced

Shellfishguy · 2012-04-18T04:55:29.000Z

Finished up the Skeleton King with my DH last night, in the course of the 9 levels it took, I used a bow, hand crossbow and regular two handed crossbow. There are plenty of options, but yes it will likely depend on what you loot/craft/buy.

razarok · 2012-04-18T05:00:03.000Z

According to neogaf everyone with a Battle.net account can play the Diablo 3 beta now!

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Diablo 3 beta open to everyone with Battle.net account [Up: Possibly closed...

If you are downloading a non-US client, you have to select "US" as server in the options menu, because the EU server option does not seem to work. EDIT: Already posted. ^^

John_Reynolds · 2012-04-18T05:17:18.000Z

Does the demon hunter still make gun sounds when firing bows/xbows? I messed with the beta via a friend’s account last Nov/Dec and that broke immersion so fast for me it wasn’t funny.

Shellfishguy · 2012-04-18T05:19:35.000Z

Gun sounds? Not with any weapons I’ve used.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-04-18T05:25:54.000Z

razarok:

According to neogaf everyone with a Battle.net account can play the Diablo 3 beta now!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=37057041&posted=1#post37057041

Before anyone gets their hopes up, I don’t believe this is true.

The major fan sites aren’t talking about it, and I just logged in with a second battle.net account I have access to that does not have beta access, and it still does not.

Giaddon · 2012-04-18T05:29:34.000Z

Apparently NO ONE can log into the beta right now.

Tony_M · 2012-04-18T05:38:10.000Z

So am I the only one who considers betas to essentially be spoilers, and therefore avoided?

Murbella · 2012-04-18T06:02:33.000Z

Tony M:

So am I the only one who considers betas to essentially be spoilers, and therefore avoided?

Can you really spoil the story of a diablo game?

Giaddon · 2012-04-18T06:05:25.000Z

Yeah… Spoilers in what sense? Mechanical?

lordkosc · 2012-04-18T06:19:10.000Z

Well going by what I experienced in the beta, the only real spoiler was the blacksmiths wife.

Its not like they gave away the final boss battle or tons of story in the beta.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-04-18T06:27:05.000Z

Yeah, and in fact the beta content is a chopped up Act 1 - it won’t even flow like that in retail, the Skeleton King actually appears much later in the act for example. As I understand it.

Tony_M · 2012-04-18T07:14:13.000Z

Fair point, I must agree on some level, because I’m happy to watch videos of Diablo whereas I avoid watching anything on more story based games once I’ve decided to buy them (eg Deus Ex, Bioshock Infinite etc).

I guess I just don’t see the appeal of playing for a bit then stopping and waiting for the rest. In the same way I prefer to watch a series of TV at my own pace rather than wait a week between episodes. So maybe spoiler is the wrong word. I just mean you only get to experience something for the first time once, so it may as well be under ideal conditions.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-04-18T07:33:58.000Z

You’ll only get to experience the beta once, also. Especially considering how different the retail game will be to the beta game.

JFrazer · 2012-04-18T08:49:12.000Z

To be fair, for the majority of folks this really isn’t a beta. It’s a pre-release demo that was called a beta because things were still in flux. You’re playing the first act to a max of level 13, which means you’re not able to truly “test” ability balance, weapon balance, boss tuning, etc… all the things that a beta are usually for.

Dave_Markell · 2012-04-18T09:23:14.000Z

JFrazer:

To be fair, for the majority of folks this really isn’t a beta. It’s a pre-release demo that was called a beta because things were still in flux. You’re playing the first act to a max of level 13, which means you’re not able to truly “test” ability balance, weapon balance, boss tuning, etc… all the things that a beta are usually for.

Very true–I’ve made similar comments myself previously in this thread. Only from a server load perspective is D3 actually a “beta test”.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-04-18T09:42:57.000Z

True, though I think the beta is also testing things like achievements and some of the early systems like crafting. I’m sure there has been lots of feedback in this beta for them to pull from too, though I don’t know as though we’ll ever find out what specifically. I doubt we’d have had 17 patches (!) if Blizzard didn’t find value in the beta as a beta, as opposed to thinking of it only as a demo.

Telefrog · 2012-04-18T10:35:42.000Z

I’m pretty sure Blizzard pulled a ton of useful data from the beta. Everything from how long someone looked at their inventory to route patterns that emerged as a jillion people traversed the same town square.

lordkosc · 2012-04-18T11:43:21.000Z

I hope I wasn’t the only one to destroy all the tree stumps, each time I tried a new character. I wonder if there are beta stats for that? :p

KevinC · 2012-04-18T11:45:59.000Z

lordkosc:

I hope I wasn’t the only one to destroy all the tree stumps, each time I tried a new character. I wonder if there are beta stats for that? :p

Click the gem to see the stats!

Murbella · 2012-04-18T17:45:15.000Z

JFrazer:

To be fair, for the majority of folks this really isn’t a beta. It’s a pre-release demo that was called a beta because things were still in flux. You’re playing the first act to a max of level 13, which means you’re not able to truly “test” ability balance, weapon balance, boss tuning, etc… all the things that a beta are usually for.

To 99% of gamers that is a beta. Gamers have been trained by mmorpgs that a beta is basically a demo of the game. This is doubly true for games that are unlikely to have actual demos.