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brian9824 wrote:

They thought of you with the date chosen, 6/6/23

(2x3) =

They expect you to buy that many copies now.

They're showing this statue on the live stream right now and gdamn does it look amazing ... https://gear.blizzard.com/products/diabst0001-diab...

So tempting.

That $600 statue is awesome looking but dang I can think of a ton of things if rather spend that much money on...

Greedy AF. I really wanted this till I saw the price.

https://gear.blizzard.com/products/diabav0001-diab...

Beta this weekend!

I bought my chicken sandwich.

Heh i'll be playing the beta but if anyone happens to order KFC and gets a code they don't need I got a friend who isn't pre-ordering until he can try the beta

FYI - Beta is available for pre-install

Sadly no Necro or druid available until next week so ill be doing a Sorc this week and necro next week

Such a shame blizzard is insistent on their lame launcher. This would be an amazing game to have on the steam deck

Sweet ... went to login, 90 min queue, fun!

Yeah hopefully by the time im home from work things are stabilized

2 hours later ... got to watch the opening movie (AWESOME!) then the game crashed.

Now back to another 90 minute wait.

G'DAMNIT!

On the plus side you can watch the opening movie twice...

How, in 2023, are we still not prepared for this kind of stuff? Jesus christ, now it's a 2+ hour queue to get in.

What a joke.

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I got in, it took about half as long as it said it would. Still obnoxious, this is literally all Blizzard does now, online services. This is a joke nearly three decades in.

Anyways. Getting really weird performance issues on PC, at 1440p it'll go from 125fps rock solid down to 33fps with constant frame hitching forever. 1080p is more playable but instead it will literally just spike and hitch nonstop instead. So your "average" is over 100fps but you're hitching so much it's hard to enjoy. This is a 6600, certainly has enough beef to play the game but obviously they didn't give a crap about optimizing for AMD and AMD hasn't come up with drivers for it yet. Interested to see how the 6700XT does when it comes in tomorrow, I'm still expecting problems.

I only rock a laptop 3070, and getting some random stutter issues. My cousin is on a 4080, he's getting similar. I guess kinda expected for a beta ...

Level 12, it's growing on me. I was hoping for more D2 influence, but it feels like a D3.5 honestly.

Man, have been playing for a solid 2 hours straight ... left a random dungeon, locked up. Now back to the queue, gahhh!

Hit level 20, enjoying this more than I did D3 ... so far.

Am I mistaken, or is there no chest to store crap in?

I played about 30 minutes of sorcerer, seemed fun. Gonna give necro a try next weekend

MrBean wrote:

I saw a stash on the map in the upper part of the first town.

MrBean wrote:

In general it reminds me of PoE, but the open world crap reminds me a lot of Lost Ark. Not super flattering but it is what it is

We tried to kill the world boss, it did not go well, got it down to about 1/2 health. Then again we were all under leveled and under geared

I waited for 15 mins after world boss spawn time and bailed, clearly he was stuck in the queue.

What time did if finally pop?

I was going to skip the Beta but I'll give it a shot this afternoon.

Finished the beta with a Sorc, had a great time overall. Had a hard time following the story ...

Gonna play with Barb for a bit before the beta ends.

MrBean wrote:

How does the gameplay compare to 2 and 3?

Shane12m wrote:

Much more like 3 than 2 ... unfortunately. It works, and it works well.

It's been years since I played D3 (and I played a ton of it), but D2R was more recent, and will always be my (and many others) favorite.

Stayed up till 2am to do the world boss since I screwed up last one (was an hour early based on original times I found, whoops).

Was fun! Sadly, none of the legendary drops were upgrades.

I foresee lots of hours spent on this come retail.

The queue times got much shorter, but I wasn't able to play for any meaningful amount of time. The game disconnected after the first cutscene, then instantly, then after a minute of killing Wargs.

I'll try again when I can. The character creator is nice, though a bit limited.

Renaissance2K wrote:

Are you on PC or console? The last two days so far have been more or less flawless on PC for me.

Overall, feel for this is a mix of PoE and Diablo 3 with a touch of ...that Amazon ARPG I forgot the name of already. It's not bad but I'm not running out to spend $70 on it either. It can wait for a sale, which is not really a very flattering thing for me to say about a new Blizzard game, but it is par for the course lately so whatever.

I'm on PC.

Read that if you get to level 20 during the beta you get a few rewards in the Game when it comes out one being the Wolf Pack.

Groo wrote:

Oh nice. Thought there was just a title. After finish everything with Sorc, second toon is super fast to level (largely from skipping story).

Rogue is pretty badass. Didn't realize it was a mix between Amazon and Assassin.

Rogue was okay, doesn't really feel like you can dish out as much damage as you need to (I'm on Difficulty 2 Hardcore, I found Butcher and I ran my ASS off. There was a 0% chance I was gonna even get him to drop pots, I've never gone mid dungeon to entrance like that in my life, and he was on my ass all the way to the door, I was two hits from losing a level 14 character). I liked Whirlwind Barb tho!

Barb felt pretty weak (at least through the early levels). I really enjoyed the rogue as well!

Sorcerer is broken as fudge. It's not even close, that's gonna get tuned down before launch. One right click pretty much shreds an entire pack of mobs, a boss that took me like two and a half minutes on my barb took under a minute on the sorcerer

Sorcerer has always been pretty OP in this series.

Let me elaborate a bit: Sorcerer is OP at level 3. The other classes fall off immediately and are half as effective as one right mouse button press from Sorcerer. Literally went from a 2.5 minute fight with Barb to under 50 seconds on Sorcerer, it was kinda gross. I played the crap out of D2/D3, never went from normal to ultra easy in two levels before. Huge power spike. The other classes need to pick it up.

I love Diablo games, so I avoided the beta and planned to go in blind when it comes out. Apparently, I was supposed to have access with my Best Buy pre-order, and they couldn’t provide it, so they sent me a $10 gift card to make up for it. That couldn’t have worked out better!

I wanted to go in blind too. But... but... but... puppy backpack...