Diablo III

Sean · **Posted:** September, 8, 2011 - 7:50am

F&F Beta has officially started. People are already datamining shit.

Diablofans has all the Diablo-related info you could ever want.

If i don't get a beta invite, i will cry. i LOVE the Diablo franchise.

Sean · **Posted:** September, 8, 2011 - 7:55am

Annnnd right after i post, i see the first F&F Beta Patch has been released:

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Diablo III Beta Patch 2 - v0.3.0.7318

User Interface
The UI for character skills has been greatly improved.

Bug Fixes
General
Breaking News will now properly display when launching the game client.
The victory text for completing the Diablo III beta will now only appear after the Skeleton King’s death animation has fully completed.

Classes
Monk
Fixed an issue with Dashing Strike where casting it would sometimes cause the character to become stuck performing the ability repeatedly, at no resource cost.
Fixed an issue that allowed characters to receive the Divine Protection buff without having an Alabaster Runestone socketed in Mantra of Evasion.

Wizard
Helm icons will now properly display for both male and female characters.

Acts
Act 1
New Tristam
Fixed an issue where the southern gate out of New Tristam would not be open for all characters on the quest "The Fire From the Sky: Talk to Leah Inside the Inn."
Fixed an issue that did not properly remove a character’s waypoints and checkpoints when restarting the beta after killing the Skeleton King while on the quest "Reign of the Black King."

Leoric's Passage
Players will no longer receive error messages when cancelling out of the cutscene for the quest "The Legacy of Cain: Save Deckard Cain."

Chancellor's Tomb
The portal in the Chancellor's Tomb returning you to the Defiled Crypt is now correctly labeled.

The Hidden Cellar
Leah has received adequate weapons training and will now properly fire arrows from her bow during this scene, rather than from her feet.

Russell Casse · **Posted:** September, 8, 2011 - 11:58am

Nice. I doubt I'll have time to play this but it still looks pretty cool.

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

I'm not in the beta but I got a chance to play it last night. Everyone is complaining about the style, but it's fuckin awesome, what really gets me is the sounds. Everything sounds so ominous, really good OST.

Russell Casse · **Posted:** September, 8, 2011 - 4:33pm

Diablo always had awesome music. Surprisingly, my wife was actually really into Diablo 2.

When does the next installment of Starcraft 2 come out?

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

Russell Casse wrote:

Diablo always had awesome music. Surprisingly, my wife was actually really into Diablo 2.

When does the next installment of Starcraft 2 come out?

I'd guess at least another year or 2, Some friends and I have a tradition to marathon diablo 2 every year, takes bout 25 hours 6 years strong!

Blizzcon isn't too far away

Sean · **Posted:** September, 8, 2011 - 9:22pm

still one of my favorite LAN party games to just plow through. I really can't wait until DIII is out.

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

I'll plow through it with you, i'll plow through it allll night looong.

Sean · **Posted:** September, 9, 2011 - 7:24am

One of my WOW guildies, one of my RealID friends, and one of my co-workers got beta invites. FUCK.

Russell Casse · **Posted:** September, 9, 2011 - 12:31pm

Do you have to register for it or does it give them out if you've already registered a Blizzard game?

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

just go to your battle.net account and then there's a place under settings for "beta options"

Russell Casse · **Posted:** September, 9, 2011 - 3:30pm

Yeah, looks like it's already activated. I need to have them rescan my computer though because the PC specs it has on file is out of date.

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

Blizzard announced that there'll be 6 releases over the next 3 years
So probably
3 WoW expansions
Diablo 3
Diablo 3 expansion?
Heart of the swarm

Or there'll be like 4 warcraft patches and starcraft/diablo

Russell Casse · **Posted:** September, 12, 2011 - 4:00pm

One can hope that 2 of those are the remaining installments of Starcraft 2. They should be finished with the Protoss campaign in 3 years right?

Sean · **Posted:** September, 20, 2011 - 8:34pm

BETA INVITEEEEE!!!!!!

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

Sean wrote:

BETA INVITEEEEE!!!!!!

Fuck you.

Sean · **Posted:** September, 20, 2011 - 10:43pm

It's really fucking short right now. I played through Act I as a demon hunter, took maybe 20 min in a co-op game. Got approximately 8 levels through act 1. It feels really small, and it's pretty obvious that some areas are gated off, but will be accessible later. Also found a decent spot to grind to level 10 in successive games; a repeatable quest.

So far, so good.

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

You going to purchase? I've probably beaten D2 8 or so times.

Also how are the graphics? by that i mean the feel of the game, does it feel like a diablo game?

Russell Casse · **Posted:** September, 20, 2011 - 11:50pm

I just watched Day9's play through part 1. It seems pretty Diabloish to me. Looks pretty awesome.

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

Man, It's too much watching all these guys who have beta codes :(

Sean · **Posted:** September, 21, 2011 - 1:50am

William Smith wrote:

You going to purchase? I've probably beaten D2 8 or so times.

Also how are the graphics? by that i mean the feel of the game, does it feel like a diablo game?

OMG yes i'm going to buy it. I played diablo II for hours and hours and hourshourshours. I have three legit copies of D2 and LOD. Probably the game i put the most time into before WoW.

yes, i'd say it's VERY diablo-ish. It's also really really pretty. There are some interesting environmental things you can do, in terms of terrain destruction. Should also add that only act I has been implemented so far.

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

Sean wrote:

William Smith wrote:

You going to purchase? I've probably beaten D2 8 or so times.

Also how are the graphics? by that i mean the feel of the game, does it feel like a diablo game?

OMG yes i'm going to buy it. I played diablo II for hours and hours and hourshourshours. I have three legit copies of D2 and LOD. Probably the game i put the most time into before WoW.

yes, i'd say it's VERY diablo-ish. It's also really really pretty. There are some interesting environmental things you can do, in terms of terrain destruction. Should also add that only act I has been implemented so far.

haha yeah i'm in the same boat, I always used to lose the CD keys, guess the next time i buy it i can just put it on battle.net

I guess i'm more pumped for this than a new starcraft/warcraft because I really have no idea what it's going to be like, especially storyline wise, how's Diablo coming back? Is tyrial still kicking? will baal make a an appearance :(

Sean · **Posted:** September, 22, 2011 - 8:34am

Well. after playing with the Demon Hunter, last night i played through with the Barbarian. And one thing is painfully obvious: Either the barb is ridiculously overpowered, or the Demon Hunter hits like a wet noodle. I think it's the latter.

I wanted to talk about the new resource system, but that's a post in and of itself.

Also played around with the in-game auction house. People have already had (a couple) legendary items drop. I'm looking forward to making some real-life cash through that feature.

Really want to try the Monk and [whatever they're calling the caster class] out. Not too psyched about the Witch Doctor.

Heroic Ragnaros is eating up all my gaming time right now, so once we down that shit, i'll have more DIII time.

William Smith · **Joined:** June, 17, 2007 - 10:18pm **Posts:** 3227

Confirmed for early 2012, hopefully january or feb

Sean · **Posted:** October, 10, 2011 - 9:41pm

I'm back on this again. Probably going to give the monk a try tonight.

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