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

[curst]

Wow. At least I killed the skeleton king. Or at least I hope the game ‘registered’ that, yes, I killed the skeleton king before I was unceremoniously dumped to the main menu.

Playing as a barbarian so far has been great fun - good to see them implement physics so that strong hits send enemies soaring. Very satisfying, something every game like this needs.

But I’m really undecided about the whole massively-singleplayer-lagfest part of things. To be fair I didn’t see much lag until maybe 15 minutes before the goddamned plane crashed into the mountain!!! but it was getting a bit distracting. Here’s hoping they iron out all the issues very soon.

[RepoMan]

This morning I was all, yeah, this is normal post-launch urgent bug fixing. No big deal.

But when I saw everyone simultaneously report that their game hard locked and they had to shut it down… Well, sir, that is a brand spanking new failure mode. We never saw the beta test crash like this, AFAIK.

That means they hit some kind of major new systemic failure, and they are off their roadmap altogether. I am soooooo glad I am not them right now. Fixing major downtime bugs you’ve never seen before, with millions waiting and hating more by the second… It’s the worst situation in the industry, except for when your software actually injures someone.

That said, it is definitely no excuse, and they are going to get dinged pretty badly for this. Especially interesting is the question, how many MORE service killers are there? If this one got through, it means they don’t fully understand their architecture. Could be tomorrow before things are back, and I wouldn’t be starting any hardcore characters until they’ve had no unannounced downtime for a full month.

[Quaro]

I wish you could just start on Nightmare. For all the fiddling I do with skills and gear on normal, it’s pretty much impossible to die so it feels pointless. Then I could experience the game for the first time at a skill level that kept the adrenaline pumping.

[StGabe]

I wish you could just start on Nightmare. For all the fiddling I do with skills and gear on normal, it’s pretty much impossible to die so it feels pointless. Then I could experience the game for the first time at a skill level that kept the adrenaline pumping.

It doesn’t really work that way. Also what class are you? Most classes are squishy enough to die in normal. I feel like it’s tuned pretty well. I’m pretty good at this sort of thing (playing and gearing) and I’ve still died 3 times (nearing the end of act 2).

[Quaro]

I have died a couple of times when I just looked away from the screen but it only set me back about 20 seconds. What happens when you die solo?

[StGabe]

I have died a couple of times when I just looked away from the screen but it only set me back about 20 seconds. What happens when you die solo?

You go back to your most recent check point.

[RepoMan]

Aaand, @BlizzardCS says down until 11:45 pm PDT. Of course they will probably take longer. Good night, Gracie, no game for me tonight. At least I’ll get sleep.

[rowe33]

Glad they had that stress test to make sure their always on plan would pan out…no thanks, Blizzard, didn’t really want to play it tonight after years of waiting.

[MrPerson]

bnet got yanked down pretty suddenly about 10min ago. A bit disappointing, as when I was back at the character select screen I could see that a bit of progress had been wiped out (wasn’t even the same level anymore). Ah well… if normal only takes 15hours casually, might as well drag it out somehow!

I had the same issue, being knocked down from level 13 to 12.

[ridge]

Someone send me a scroll of resurrection. I want to troll the D3 forum, hahah.

[Quaro]

I may be spoiled by Torchlight 2 beta which lets you start on quite a hard difficulty.

I love the feeling of scavenging for every little edge I can get. I know I’ll get that later is D3 but it’s nice when you can do that while also exploring the world and seeing everything for the first time too.

[Angrycoder]

Someone send me a scroll of resurrection. I want to troll the D3 forum, hahah.

Dude, you aren’t good at this.

[Becoming]

I may be spoiled by Torchlight 2 beta which lets you start on quite a hard difficulty.

I love the feeling of scavenging for every little edge I can get. I know I’ll get that later is D3 but it’s nice when you can do that while also exploring the world and seeing everything for the first time too.

Amen!

As much as I enjoyed my time tonight with a few friends, I actually died a few times in the Torchlight 2 beta before level 10.

In Diablo 3, I was pulling mobs to the group while the other two were dicking with their inventory with zero fear and obliterating everything without any fear of dying.
It was still great, but a shuffle more towards the razors edge would be welcome.

[maxle]

I wish you could just start on Nightmare. For all the fiddling I do with skills and gear on normal, it’s pretty much impossible to die so it feels pointless. Then I could experience the game for the first time at a skill level that kept the adrenaline pumping.

Have you been grouping? Monster are much more dangerous with three or four players.

[mtkafka]

Have you been grouping? Monster are much more dangerous with three or four players.

Yeah, I noticed grouping with two others the monsters definitely ramp up. Anyway, normal is normal for a reason. They want people to at least finish the game and see most of the content (areas and character abilities).

I wanted to add, I really like how there are little details that make the game cool. Like the physics and knockback effects, the tidbits of conversation between your character and the hirelings. Stuff like this I haven’t seen much in an action rpg. really awesome.

[TheRock]

Amen!

As much as I enjoyed my time tonight with a few friends, I actually died a few times in the Torchlight 2 beta before level 10.

In Diablo 3, I was pulling mobs to the group while the other two were dicking with their inventory with zero fear and obliterating everything without any fear of dying.
It was still great, but a shuffle more towards the razors edge would be welcome.

Hardcore

[Phred]

Well, let’s be honest, you can probably run the Diablo1 host server on a tin can.

So, no one has a guest pass for this hobo here? ;_;

Actually all battle.net was for Diablo 1 was a matchmaker. All hosting was done on the player’s computer.

Even then the first week was hell as their network collapsed under the load. Anyone want to start a pool on what game Blizzard releases that finally get’s this network server stuff right?

[Quaro]

I don’t think they should re balance normal – everyone should able to finish the game.

I’d just like to ‘skip’ normal and start on Nightmare instead.

[RichVR]

Yeah, I noticed grouping with two others the monsters definitely ramp up. Anyway, normal is normal for a reason. They want people to at least finish the game and see most of the content (areas and character abilities).

I wanted to add, I really like how there are little details that make the game cool. Like the physics and knockback effects, the tidbits of conversation between your character and the hirelings. Stuff like this I haven’t seen much in an action rpg. really awesome.

I’ve been playing a DH on the European server. I love the way her arrows blow curtains and knock piles of books over. As well there is some destructible scenery that surprised me. I also caught what I think is a joke. The tables are piled with little red and blue bottles. Also when you break a bookshelf a bunch of red and blue wrapped scrolls fall out.

It really does look great.

[JMR]

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