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Post by dfunked on Jun 3, 2023 12:12:30 GMT
Nah, it's only on battle.net on PC I believe.
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Post by gamecat on Jun 3, 2023 12:27:30 GMT
Na you need to buy it twice, though there is cross progression if you do.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Jun 3, 2023 12:27:42 GMT
Thought so. Guessing you're all playing because of the early access. When is the pleb version unlocked?
Wonder what the servers will be like then.
The closed beta ran like asshole on my laptop but I'm seeing comments that they've improved it for release. Kinda itching to get it and see what it runs like, I like to flip between play on the big pc and the laptop.
Anybody else running it on a potato?
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 3, 2023 12:29:46 GMT
Plebs get the game in just over two days.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 3, 2023 13:15:44 GMT
There's something screwy with the load times on this. Even small areas are taking multiple minutes to load.
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Post by Derblington on Jun 3, 2023 13:17:51 GMT
Yeah, server stability has been fantastic so far. I haven't seen any queues and the longest that I've heard of have been three minutes. Seems to be one of those rare successful launches for an online game. Suppose that could all change on Monday when more people pile in, though. I had a little bit of rubber banding lag yesterday lunchtime, but it's been rock solid apart from that. Bear in mind it hasn’t actually launched yet. I’d be amazed if things don’t fall over a bit on Tuesday in terms of wait times but hopeful that they aren’t too bad.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jun 3, 2023 13:32:51 GMT
First impressions are pretty positive so far. Enjoying it more than 3, it feels like it just flows a bit better.
The UI is a bit of mystery you have to unpick, but my Necro with her rabid gang of skeletons, popping off corpse bombs everywhere, is a winner.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 4, 2023 7:19:32 GMT
MolarAm🔵 which platform are you playing on? Absolutely fine for me on my PC and steam deck. I would've expected current gen consoles to be equally nippy. Last gen or anything with a HDD I'd imagine would be pretty painful.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 4, 2023 7:23:55 GMT
And yeah, I'm loving it so far. Up to level 36 and a chunk of the way into act II. I miss having D3's pets to pick up random shit, and some of my complaints from the beta are still valid (nowhere near enough waypoints in act I and samey dungeons). Aside from that though it's everything I wanted. Just got the standard version on Xbox as well so that I can have some couch action later in the week.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 4, 2023 7:44:11 GMT
MolarAm🔵 which platform are you playing on? Absolutely fine for me on my PC and steam deck. I would've expected current gen consoles to be equally nippy. Last gen or anything with a HDD I'd imagine would be pretty painful. I'm on PC, so I don't know what's going on there. It was fine during the beta test!
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Post by neems on Jun 4, 2023 9:55:15 GMT
I have my ultimate druid passive, which gives me a 20% chance to cast an equivalent storm skill when I cast an earth skill and vice versa. When it kicks off...
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Post by Phattso on Jun 4, 2023 10:35:28 GMT
MolarAm🔵 which platform are you playing on? Absolutely fine for me on my PC and steam deck. I would've expected current gen consoles to be equally nippy. Last gen or anything with a HDD I'd imagine would be pretty painful. I'm on PC, so I don't know what's going on there. It was fine during the beta test! Anecdotally, the Series X loads a bit faster than the beta. I wonder if they’ve utilised direct storage more effectively, and windows drivers aren’t quite up to snuff?
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Post by Danno on Jun 4, 2023 10:40:26 GMT
Wankers all of you. Wankers. Fucking WANKERS.
Pre-ordered.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 4, 2023 12:27:04 GMT
I have my ultimate druid passive, which gives me a 20% chance to cast an equivalent storm skill when I cast an earth skill and vice versa. When it kicks off... Nice, I only just unlocked all my little animal friends, but I'm looking forward to getting all that stuff too.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 4, 2023 12:28:38 GMT
One thing I'm not a huge fan of is the level scaling. I guess it's a casualty of the change to open world, but everything feels too samey when you can just go to any place and it's the same level.
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Post by gamecat on Jun 4, 2023 12:38:40 GMT
Yea it's weird when you go back the the starting area and things take longer to die than they did at lvl 1. The levelling is a bit odd full stop, WT2 is complete bait, things die so much slower, the xp boost doesn't cover it and I think the drop rate is bugged so it's the same as WT1 currently. There is also a strange level spike at 36 for some reason. My biggest quibble with it so far is the UI. It's a bit tortuous on console, you are forever using a combination of bumpers, d-pad, and select, and my brain hasn't learned which one is which yet. Also, not getting access to a horse till act 4 seems a bit stupid.. there's a lot of running in this game.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 4, 2023 12:51:34 GMT
I think I might have accidentally salvaged a useful aspect for druid
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Post by zagibu on Jun 4, 2023 18:51:53 GMT
I have my ultimate druid passive, which gives me a 20% chance to cast an equivalent storm skill when I cast an earth skill and vice versa. When it kicks off... So, it's basically a spiky 20% damage boost.
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Post by Phattso on Jun 4, 2023 18:53:12 GMT
Haven’t had too much time to play, but I’m almost back to where I was in the Beta. Felt much faster this time through. Necro is just a wall of death. Love it.
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Post by Danno on Jun 4, 2023 20:30:29 GMT
I have my ultimate druid passive, which gives me a 20% chance to cast an equivalent storm skill when I cast an earth skill and vice versa. When it kicks off... So, it's basically a spiky 20% damage boost. But dopamine-crippled gamer-brain says GIVE ME PROCS
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 4, 2023 23:51:11 GMT
I think I might have accidentally salvaged a useful aspect for druid Update: the power was still saved in the codex, thank god. I'm a bit hazy on how all that works. Is the codex basically the cube from D3? Where you can take a legendary power from something and just chuck it on something else?
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Post by robthehermit on Jun 5, 2023 0:12:25 GMT
PSA
Just in case anyone doesn't know this. There is a setting in gameplay options to enable advanced tooltip comparison. Makes comparing items much easier.
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Post by Warrender on Jun 5, 2023 1:50:47 GMT
I think I might have accidentally salvaged a useful aspect for druid Update: the power was still saved in the codex, thank god. I'm a bit hazy on how all that works. Is the codex basically the cube from D3? Where you can take a legendary power from something and just chuck it on something else? Codex legendary aspects can only be unlocked by finishing a dungeon. Once unlocked, they can be used account-wide as many times as you wish. Only drawbacks are that the aspects will always be the minimum roll and not every legendary aspect can be found in a dungeon. You can even browse the Codex collection tab and if you find an uncollected aspect that sounds cool, you can click on it to pin the dungeon on your map.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 5, 2023 2:10:00 GMT
So can you find higher-rolled versions on equipment out in the wild? I haven't had any legendary equipment drop yet, so I assume that's the kind of thing that will have powers on it.
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Post by neems on Jun 5, 2023 8:38:59 GMT
So can you find higher-rolled versions on equipment out in the wild? I haven't had any legendary equipment drop yet, so I assume that's the kind of thing that will have powers on it. I have a druid aspect that boosts damage on core skills by 5% for every hit with a basic skill, but I found a legendary weapon with the exact same ability at 10% per hit.
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Post by Phattso on Jun 5, 2023 9:39:09 GMT
The gear so far has been a little lacklustre - only Level 21 though, so barely scratched the surface. Can barely see my toon anyway, but also the looks of the gear seem a bit indistinct. It's absolute catnip for me anyways, I've been bouncing out of bed early to get an hour or so in every morning.
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Post by Hanimalle on Jun 5, 2023 13:08:16 GMT
I haven't had time to play as much as I wanted to since I've been working during the whole weekend and I've been busy this morning but I fully intend to spend as much time as possible in Diablo IV this afternoon and evening. I have a feeling it will be much more difficult to connect starting tomorrow when the Plebeians will start assaulting the servers.
I did play just enough to notice two things :
1) World Tier 2 is a little too grindy for my tastes. 2) You can't zoom out very far which is a bit of a shame in my opinion.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 5, 2023 13:46:05 GMT
I found a legendary ring!
It's not very good for my class!
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Post by dfunked on Jun 5, 2023 14:24:44 GMT
Presume you mean it's got strength etc for a sorcerer? You could always extract the aspect from it if that part is useful, then infuse it onto a yellow item that works for your character. Spent most of the day playing it and the spare room is now 24 degrees thanks to my PC... Icky! Hanimalle - yeah, especially around level 30 or so it became too much for me and I just dropped it to WT1 until I've finished the story and hit 50.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 5, 2023 14:28:42 GMT
Nah, it's got a thing that gives me primary resource whenever I heal. But I don't currently use my primary resource for anything (I'm mostly using pets), so that is not useful to me.
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