No Spoilers Official Diablo IV Discussion

[Videer]

Duriel fucked my shit up big time back in the day because of the loading time. I’d enter the tomb of Tal Rasha and then it would take like 45 seconds to load, and I’d always die in that time. Our family PC i was playing on was purchased around Christmas 1998 and it was pretty good at the time. It ran games like Quake 2 and Half-life like a dream, but I guess it must have been lacking in the ram department because trying to load Duriel was just a nightmare. I’d always have to get by with the help of cooperators. Usually it was the same buddy of mine that would have to do the heavy lifting for Duriel as he had a newer PC with more ram that could load the game faster. I still remember his PC specs and mine:

mine:
Pentium II - 350mhz
64* mb of ram
Nvidia Riva TNT

His:
Pentium III - 500 MHz
128 mb of ram
3dfx Voodoo 3

*I could be wrong about how much ram we had, it could have only been 32mb at first and that my dad only allowed me to add more ram to bring it up to 64mb later. I have a vague recollection of that happening, and if so I can’t really remember whether that was before or after Diablo II came out.

Hah. Had the same problem but I could survive it by just trying to spam pots while it was loading.

 

[Hyperglide]

You forgot the little ankle biter stygian dolls in act 3. Fuck those lil shits.

 

[rob mafia]

You forgot the little ankle biter stygian dolls in act 3. Fuck those lil shits.

@Gref covered that!

and funny enough, that was my 5th choice but figured duriel was obligatory.

and yeah, fuck the flayer jungle. rushing through act 3 start to kurast was the part of the game i hated most.

 

[Rastas]

How MMOish is it? I was reading a review yesterday that was calling it MMO-lite. Like you can run into other players out in the wild, world bosses etc.

 

[Dizzy]

How MMOish is it? I was reading a review yesterday that was calling it MMO-lite. Like you can run into other players out in the wild, world bosses etc.

I didn’t come across anything that forced an interaction. There are players running around and you can help each other, I saw some people grouping for a boss, there’s a world chat. I guess you could categorize it as “MMO-lite” but I progressed just fine on my own.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Duriel fucked my shit up big time back in the day because of the loading time. I’d enter the tomb of Tal Rasha and then it would take like 45 seconds to load, and I’d always die in that time. Our family PC i was playing on was purchased around Christmas 1998 and it was pretty good at the time. It ran games like Quake 2 and Half-life like a dream, but I guess it must have been lacking in the ram department because trying to load Duriel was just a nightmare. I’d always have to get by with the help of cooperators. Usually it was the same buddy of mine that would have to do the heavy lifting for Duriel as he had a newer PC with more ram that could load the game faster. I still remember his PC specs and mine:

mine:
Pentium II - 350mhz
64* mb of ram
Nvidia Riva TNT

His:
Pentium III - 500 MHz
128 mb of ram
3dfx Voodoo 3

*I could be wrong about how much ram we had, it could have only been 32mb at first and that my dad only allowed me to add more ram to bring it up to 64mb later. I have a vague recollection of that happening, and if so I can’t really remember whether that was before or after Diablo II came out.

i remember right before the end of the 90's when i switched from a pentium 100 mhz to a 533 mhz celeron with a 32 mb riva tnt 2 ultra graphics card. that pc was a BEAST! went from 8 megabytes of ram to 128! and a 1.2 gigabyte hard drive to a 16 gb drive. eventually swapped that tnt 2 ultra for a geforce 4. i went from a 28.8K modem to a 56K! and then broadband internet finally arrived a few years later so i wouldnt have to wait a whole hour anymore just to download a single mp3 off of napster.

happy times! cd burners were so expensive around then that i would go to Staples and use one of their high end computers on store display that had a cd burner in it, just to download mp3s and then burn the songs onto cd-r's. they were all hooked up to "high speed" internet and everything. i'd just be standing around the store for like half an hour waiting for the cd to burn and none of the employees ever gave me shit for it either.. after a while the cd burners became alot more affordable so i broke down and bought one and i eventually recouped all of my money back just by burning cd's for my buddies and shit. yeah those were the days.

 

[Blayt7hh]

How MMOish is it? I was reading a review yesterday that was calling it MMO-lite. Like you can run into other players out in the wild, world bosses etc.

Not very mmo at all. I never even talked to anyone. Honestly not sure why they did that since it doesn’t feel like it adds to the game in any way. Maybe in the later game they have some mega bosses that might be fun to group for, but that’s speculating.

I did a few of the events mostly on my own. A couple times someone ran up and helped me finish them, which is fine because you both get your own xp and loot. But honestly, I thought it was kind of annoying when they’d jump in and help mid way when I was having fun managing it on my own. Especially annoying since those were like the only parts that I remember feeling any challenge. Maybe everyone doesn’t feel that way but I did.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

You forgot the little ankle biter stygian dolls in act 3. Fuck those lil shits.

yeah those explodey dolls are probably the worst. ive still yet to be slain by uber diablo, but those explodey stygian dolls can fuck my shit up. especially when they get cursed with fanaticism, might and extra strong. every time im just running around and teleport into a mob of those things it always gives my heart a jump. its been a while since i RIP'd, but every time i die its always to those fucking homewreckers.

 

[Sycho Sid]

 

[method115]

Good I was kind of afraid to even attempt to play this with my 3080.

 

[WhiteMousse]

Good I was kind of afraid to even attempt to play this with my 3080.

Outstanding!!

 

[WhiteMousse]

NICE

 

[Sycho Sid]

Glad to hear, things are dropping like candy

 

[lordsai]

Glad to hear, things are dropping like candy

I think it was pretty obvious that the drop rates were higher because It's beta and they wanted everyone to experience legendary items. They definitely won't be dropping like candy in the full game

 

[Sycho Sid]

I think it was pretty obvious that the drop rates were higher because It's beta and they wanted everyone to experience legendary items. They definitely won't be dropping like candy in the full game

I agree, still like confirmation though

They need to work on balance though, because you needed legendary gear just to progress at a decent difficulty

 

[Videer]

How MMOish is it? I was reading a review yesterday that was calling it MMO-lite. Like you can run into other players out in the wild, world bosses etc.

Only interactions with other players that are needed are for world bosses that drop crafting materials not dropped anywhere else.

I think it was pretty obvious that the drop rates were higher because It's beta and they wanted everyone to experience legendary items. They definitely won't be dropping like candy in the full game

My baba never got the whirlwind affixes in ~70 levels, I cried with clunky ass thorns rend while others just whirled away
Took forever to find ancestral 2x hydra too.

 

[The Clinch]

Queue times for Diablo is a damn joke.

Shit errored when I was trying to sign in.. Back to the queue.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I don’t understand why they always have these server queue problems for Blizzard games but not Call of Duty. They’re under the same parent company so what gives?

 

[gentlemanjack]

I got to create my character before I got stuck staring at him waiting to enter the game. Queue isn’t too bad right now.

I hope the actual launch goes better for those who get it right away.

 

[SwamiLeoni]

Niiiiiiiice

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