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

Balasarius · 2012-05-16T18:08:38.000Z

Holy shit a fucking server queue for a single player game.

/epicfacepalm

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-05-16T18:10:03.000Z

stusser:

That was complete bullshit. Inferno should be hard, absolutely, but an eight minute long fight? Long and hard are not synonymous (oblig. that’s what she said). In a diablo game? C’mon, man. That boss had waaayyyy too much health.

That’s the difficulty level beyond what Diablo 2 even had, they want the end game to last more than 24 hours.

aeneas · 2012-05-16T18:14:17.000Z

any tips for defeating the act 2 boss without spoilering?

stusser · 2012-05-16T18:21:32.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

That’s the difficulty level beyond what Diablo 2 even had, they want the end game to last more than 24 hours.

No kidding. You missed the point. Hard is fine, long is not.

RichVR · 2012-05-16T18:29:48.000Z

Remember the long trip to the Cathedral in D2? All those spike shooters? Where was the portal to return again? Seriously, I remember it as being a long return.

Mr_Zero · 2012-05-16T18:31:03.000Z

How’s a loot game supposed to build challenge, if not by giving the enemies a shitload of HP?

Quaro · 2012-05-16T18:31:22.000Z

All the Inferno streamers skip all the mobs and teleport to the bosses. They may have been expecting people to have better gear by the time they get there (and grind for the auction house etc.) Most of the bosses can be done with perfect reflexes and they rely on that to avoid damage instead.

There’s no penalty for death and you don’t need to clear rooms before advancing. Dodge till you get to boss room, then as long as one person stays alive you just keep reviving and chipping away for as long as it takes.

Nephrinn · 2012-05-16T18:31:34.000Z

What the hell blizz, server restart?? Inexcusable!

mystery · 2012-05-16T18:34:03.000Z

Oof, was just getting started on Nightmare difficulty when they kicked everyone out. sigh

stusser · 2012-05-16T18:34:23.000Z

Mr. Zero:

How’s a loot game supposed to build challenge, if not by giving the enemies a shitload of HP?

Is that a serious question? You make the bosses hit harder and give them additional abilities.

Watch that inferno skeleton king kill video. It’s over 8 minutes long, and minute 2 is identical to minute 7. It’s the same fight. Once players demonstrate they can do it for 2 or 3 minutes, that should be good enough.

Balasarius · 2012-05-16T18:34:38.000Z

Got back in, played for a few mins, booted, and now and endless stream of nonsensical numerical errors.

Dave_Markell · 2012-05-16T18:35:05.000Z

Here’s your reason, Balasarius:

Diablo III in the Americas is currently undergoing scheduled rolling restarts to implement performance improvements. We expect downtime to be minimal, lasting for approximately 15 minutes. Please note that during this time you may be disconnected from Battle.net, experience issues logging in, or be unable to use some in-game features. Thank you for your patience.

Byrdman · 2012-05-16T18:35:36.000Z

Any ETA on when the servers will be back up?

Oops, answered already. Thanks.

charmtrap · 2012-05-16T18:36:13.000Z

Byrdman:

Any ETA on when the servers will be back up?

Well…15 minutes.

TheRock · 2012-05-16T18:37:04.000Z

Most every game I ever play like this, I play on one difficulty and then that’s it for that game…I hate replaying.

BUT, with this, playing on higher difficulty and then playing on Hardcore is the way they intended. I cannot imaging playing 15-20 hours and then that’s it. I play wargames and strategy games and military FPS’s for dozens and dozens of hours…i will play this for dozens of hours with each class and all the higher difficulties…very happy I am playing this even though I never liked D1 or D2. I look at it more like a strategy game, especially in hardcore.

TheRock · 2012-05-16T18:38:23.000Z

Got on last night after a looooong day…server down…got on now after setting the kid up with his computer…server down.

Whining and moaning…nope…have years to play…will be fine!

Mr_Zero · 2012-05-16T18:41:03.000Z

stusser:

Is that a serious question? You make the bosses hit harder and give them additional abilities.

Watch that inferno skeleton king kill video. It’s over 8 minutes long, and minute 2 is identical to minute 7. It’s the same fight. Once players demonstrate they can do it for 2 or 3 minutes, that should be good enough.

MMOs like World of Warcraft and Diablo 3 are all about the items; player skill is minimized. Blizzard doesn’t need to give you challenge, because most of the players don’t want it. They want to click on stuff and “feel like a badass.” Shorter fights would be better, no doubt. That’s not the game you bought.

DeepT · 2012-05-16T18:42:18.000Z

I did find a slightly quicker method for seeing if the server is up ( no more error 37 ) if you have a slightly complex password to type in. You can enter anything for a password and if it is still down, you will get the error 37 rather than a bad username / password.

markv · 2012-05-16T18:44:07.000Z

Cut and paste works in the password box, so just use that. CTRL-V for those that don’t use keyboard shortcuts much.

Also I’m hating Blizzard right now because I want to get back to playing my Barbarian. So much awesome smashing shit with it.

Quaro · 2012-05-16T18:45:54.000Z

stusser:

Is that a serious question? You make the bosses hit harder and give them additional abilities.

Watch that inferno skeleton king kill video. It’s over 8 minutes long, and minute 2 is identical to minute 7. It’s the same fight. Once players demonstrate they can do it for 2 or 3 minutes, that should be good enough.

Yeah, it doesn’t look like the bosses get new abilities or anything. They should give each boss a preset trait combo to make for really interesting challenges in Inferno.