Post by trog @ 08:25pm 28/06/08 | 156 Comments
Update: the official site is now up!
Screenshots are available locally and we'll have the trailers up soon, as soon as Blizzard's el cheapo downloader decides to kick in.
Update #2: The trailers are now available locally! There's a cinematic trailer, an artwork trailer, and a gameplay trailer.
Here's the feature list from the official site:
* Explore a fully-realized Sanctuary – the living, breathing gothic fantasy world of Diablo III rendered in gorgeous 3D.Check out the official FAQ for more details.
* Battle the unholy forces of the Burning Hells with all-new character classes like the otherworldly Witch Doctor, or with re-imagined warriors from Diablo’s past: such as the fierce Barbarian.
* Rain Hell on your enemies wielding the interactive environment as a weapon: lay cunning traps, turn destructible objects against your foes, and use environmental obstacles to your advantage - all powered by the Havoc physics system.
* Experience the intensity of multiplayer Diablo III over an all-new, wickedly-enhanced Battle.net platform with numerous enhancements to make connecting with your friends easier – and cooperative gameplay more fun.
Update #3: the gameplay trailer is now also available.
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Posted 08:36pm 28/6/08
apparently a big thing is the interaction with the environment, looks like a lot of it is destroyable.
now they are showing the witch docter, similar to necro, posions, scary pets, fear stuff. plus there are female versions of all the characters.
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Posted 08:34pm 28/6/08
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Posted 08:54pm 28/6/08
Or at least it hasn't been announced to have a subscription model, yet!
Posted 08:54pm 28/6/08
Posted 09:00pm 28/6/08
Posted 09:01pm 28/6/08
Although, I did enjoy both Diablo's.
However I use to play them with my Brother, as we no longer live in the same house I dont think it will be the same solo.
Posted 09:02pm 28/6/08
Posted 09:23pm 28/6/08
hope you're getting paid :)
Posted 09:29pm 28/6/08
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Posted 09:50pm 28/6/08
I think i may have creamed my pants.
Posted 09:54pm 28/6/08
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19701
Posted 10:17pm 28/6/08
ps. Diablo 2 1.12a released about a week ago has no-cd built in
last edited by Obes at 22:17:49 28/Jun/08
Posted 10:09pm 28/6/08
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Posted 10:43pm 28/6/08
go out, buy diablo 2, and join the online sensation before we all murder you
Posted 10:57pm 28/6/08
It's b.net so you can pretty much guarantee it's not going to be monthly pay
Posted 11:01pm 28/6/08
as well as this, potions are gone, they are using a hotbar with ur skills on it. not much explained on it, but its gonna reduce downtime. apparently the monsters drop health too.
its gonna have some pvp competitive system too, but they arent touching on that yet.
Posted 11:05pm 28/6/08
(sigh)
Posted 11:08pm 28/6/08
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Posted 11:50pm 28/6/08
The artwork in those screenies looks f*****g awesome. Cant wait!
Posted 12:04am 29/6/08
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Posted 01:01am 29/6/08
Edit: Link reads as 569 MB, is it still being uploaded? Or a diff version of the file?
last edited by icewyrm at 01:01:58 29/Jun/08
Posted 01:11am 29/6/08
Posted 01:18am 29/6/08
Posted 02:18am 29/6/08
Even with the raw torrent through any BT client will show - 1000s of peers at 0% and no seed.
Posted 02:35am 29/6/08
Posted 03:43am 29/6/08
cant wait to play it.
and remember blizzard is relising starcraft2 this year. :)
Posted 04:13am 29/6/08
Should be sweet, though the whole bait and switch they pulled with their teaser is pretty dodgy.
Posted 07:24am 29/6/08
Posted 07:46am 29/6/08
I will buy D3 purely because it's single player goodness will rock, it's impossible for this game to let me down.
I just want typical Diablo s***... cool level design, haeps of monsters (MINUS THOSE F*****G "FALLENS"), awesome weapons and spells... and lots of clicking.
Posted 07:55am 29/6/08
i was also hoping that blizzard migh come out with something new and refreshing.
either way ill probably buy it and enjoy it.
Posted 09:14am 29/6/08
Makes me wanna install D2 now..
Posted 10:48am 29/6/08
I'm not saying that Diablo 3 will be bad, it's just not my style of game and I'm sure the people who enjoyed the first two will be like pigs in s*** playing this one. In fact, I'll probably play and enjoy SC2 because I like RTS games but I was hoping that, what must be the most financially secure games developer in the world wouldn't stick to the safe practice of rehashing old stuff. I want to be able to get excited about something new for once, unnecessary sequels are killing the movie industry and I think in the long run the same will be said for games.
Posted 11:03am 29/6/08
D2 was an awesome improvement over D1 even though the changes were very slight.
If they do the same with D3, I couldn't be happier. Give me a new story, flashy new visuals, tweak the gameplay and some sweet new classes/weapons/spells... I'm sold.
Posted 11:59am 29/6/08
Only downer is the graphics have a wow feel to it..
Posted 12:13pm 29/6/08
5'd... hahahah gold
Posted 12:34pm 29/6/08
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Posted 02:20pm 29/6/08
i cannot wait!@$!%
Posted 02:48pm 29/6/08
Do yourself a favour & play through DII mate - you'll love it & set yourself up for this one...
Posted 02:55pm 29/6/08
I loved D1 & D2+LOD but for some reason D3 didn't make me all sqiugy and funny in the pants like I thought it would. I just can't quite put my finger on it but when watching the vids and reading up on it, I just don't feel that much excitement for D3 to want to rush out and get it as soon as it's available.
Posted 03:02pm 29/6/08
Posted 03:14pm 29/6/08
Nothing beats setting up TP's and stocking your potions only to end up running in circles to avoid getting killed.
Diablo bosses have never dissapointed.
Posted 03:27pm 29/6/08
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Posted 05:00pm 29/6/08
What? I must test this.
Edit: Just tried it, worked fine after I installed the 1.12a patch. Did you already try that?
last edited by icewyrm at 17:00:04 29/Jun/08
Posted 05:06pm 29/6/08
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Posted 05:21pm 29/6/08
gotta try and find my LoD cd aswell..
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Posted 05:33pm 29/6/08
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F*****g Ey!
Posted 08:06pm 29/6/08
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Posted 10:44pm 29/6/08
I still remember when I'd play D2 at our clans CS LAN's during the quiet times and you and methz would give me s*** for it.... Then yas got into it and wouldn't stop playing:P
Posted 01:21am 30/6/08
BUT: i missed storylines, i missed setting up a lan with 4-6 people with everyone able to actually play together as friends, even if it was their first time or were finished on hell.
So, i'm looking forward to it, it looks... not exactly 'pretty' yet, but certainly nice compared to the 800x600 d2 engine, and it certainly looks like skills arent a b**** to use..
i can see this taking up hundreds of hours, but if its successfull, it will probably take thousands :)
Posted 07:43am 30/6/08
imo Thanksgiving 09 at the very earliest, but it will probably get pushed back.
Posted 09:01am 30/6/08
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Posted 11:34am 30/6/08
I thought that's what tghe commandline -opengl did ?
Posted 11:50am 30/6/08
I can see now all the 12 year olds thinking its cool to run around stealing them all when they're on 95% health while you're getting the s*** beaten out of you and you actually need it.
Posted 11:53am 30/6/08
Posted 12:47pm 30/6/08
Well if it was still in the final release and people made a big enough fuss about it maybe Blizzard would patch the game to keep corpses on screen?
Either that or someone could make a little mod to do that, although it wouldn't really work for multiplayer unless Blizzard did it in an official patch.
Posted 01:08pm 30/6/08
lets hope the gameplay is as good as that
Posted 01:16pm 30/6/08
Posted 02:09pm 30/6/08
that = diablo2?
Posted 02:24pm 30/6/08
f*** yes, looks awesome
Posted 02:49pm 30/6/08
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Posted 03:12pm 30/6/08
but if they fix that, put in some good co-op, then we will have a very fun game on our hands...
Posted 03:17pm 30/6/08
does ausgamers have a 2 file simultaneous download limit, because i was grabbing the first two when I tried to access this one?
Posted 03:26pm 30/6/08
Posted 03:28pm 30/6/08
On closed BattleNet, I never came across any hacking, which was awesome.
Posted 03:30pm 30/6/08
well... two connection limit technically
Posted 03:39pm 30/6/08
Posted 03:46pm 30/6/08
That's what took Diablo 2 from awesome to f*****g brilliant in multiplayer, increasing the challenge.
Posted 03:47pm 30/6/08
Posted 03:53pm 30/6/08
yeah open battle net ofcourse you're going to get hax, i never came across any on closed battle net
last edited by paveway at 15:53:10 30/Jun/08
Posted 04:44pm 30/6/08
hydra + tp ftw :-p
Posted 04:45pm 30/6/08
it might be fixed now, but that was why i did stay away from dII
Posted 05:08pm 30/6/08
Posted 05:14pm 30/6/08
True story: I played Diablo 2 exactly once for a total of no more than 20 minutes or so before I went back to playing Quake.
Posted 05:15pm 30/6/08
^ so im guessing trog didn't like d2????~
Posted 06:17pm 30/6/08
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Posted 06:19pm 30/6/08
no u idiot, he completed the entire game in 20minutes, dont u know who TROG IS!
Posted 07:19pm 30/6/08
it does not matter who steps on them, it will regenerate everyones health. was confirmed in the dev panel and on a few websites with interviews.
you can still use potions, but the health bubbles just mean there is more incentive to be in the thick of the action, and not to go to town for potions as much
Posted 07:21pm 30/6/08
Posted 07:28pm 30/6/08
The "improvements" actually look better.
Less like WoW and more evil = win.
Posted 08:22pm 30/6/08
The offical 1.12a patch has no cd built in (just copy the video and music mpqs). They also issued a ladder reset.
The RRM "Red Rune Mod" and RWM "RuneWords" Mod esential adds the BattleNet Runewords recipes to single player and non battlenet multiplayer. Both along with instuctions can be found here. (It says its 1.11, but 1.11 and 1.12 are very very similar)
But given how old it was I found it strangely sluggish in its feel.
First, Always play in multiplayer even if its only just you (aparently single player limits you, Something to do with how it "thinks").
Secondly the direct3D implementation is pathetic.
You can disable it by starting with the -w commandline (window mode) or by playing in directdraw (but it reduces the pretties).
Then I found GLIDE3-to-OpenGL-Wrapper Version 1.4b ... Pretty awesome.
For several reasons.
Firstly direct3D in diablo2 smashes the real framerate. This fixes that (lame that a wrapper to openGL does better then direct3D calls)
Glide is as "pretty" as direct3D (DirectDraw cuts features)
Also because it will actually scale it to your current resolution (because in certain situations nvidia fixed ratio scaling seems to balls up.
For my 8800gtx, 8800gt and my laptop with a 7300 go.
All I did was copy the glide wrapped to my d2 directory, then configured 3 screens.
Settings
Renderer
Extensions
YMMV etc etc etc
also
You had long since stopped playing Quake by the time Diablo 2 came along ... unless you crazily are trying to refer to a supposed "sequel" to the purity that was Quake
last edited by Obes at 20:22:31 30/Jun/08
Posted 08:34pm 30/6/08
edit: That wrapper is great Obes, cheers.
last edited by dais at 20:34:34 30/Jun/08
Posted 08:23pm 30/6/08
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Posted 08:38pm 30/6/08
fixed it for ya :D
Posted 11:48pm 30/6/08
D2 on lan is quite fun.. hardcore rules etc.. Much roffles
Posted 11:52pm 30/6/08
but after diablo2 starts getting a bit dry u can try this out if u want:
its called ironcore:
basically at a lan or wateva, everyone starts different characters, no on is allowed to ally, and no one is allowed to return to town. its quiet fun, but usually gets bogged down at boss fights. pking is encouraged.
Posted 12:37am 01/7/08
Another tip - if you're running D2 under Vista with a glide wrapper, you'll need to disable Vista Aero Glass. In other words, change your theme to Vista Basic and things will work..
Posted 05:21am 01/7/08
Posted 06:22am 01/7/08
Loved the death of the barbarian in the gameplay video. :)
Posted 07:16am 01/7/08
Also thanks for those tips on D2 Obes .. might give them a go tonight!
Posted 08:36am 01/7/08
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Posted 09:42am 01/7/08
I'm a bit like others here. I enjoyed diablo but never played it straight through. The destructible walls etc look pretty neat.
F*** it must be fun working at blizzard. 'Hey guys, were going to release a new game and its 100% positive to sell truck loads, make us even more popular and appeal to 95% of the gaming community''. Not many developers have such confidence in their products.
Posted 12:38pm 01/7/08
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more diablo 3 gameplay video less gay fat c*** life stories ><
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Posted 03:17pm 03/7/08
Diablo 2 on windows can only dfisplay in 640*480 or 800*600, that's the way it's designed. All the wrapper does is wrap glide to openGL.
Well that ... and
If you tick super sample it actually renders it in a viewport 4 times the size then resize it to 800 * 600 then it resamples it back to your current desktop res.
eg. for me that's 1680 * 1050.
nVidia drivers seem to not scale properly if the max refresh at 800*600 is higher then the max refresh at the native res (like the missus's monitor).
ps. Boba said it made his system run like ass.
For me,
And that's true on my 8800gtx and 7300go and the fiancee's 8600gts.
Posted 03:30pm 03/7/08
Posted 05:51pm 03/7/08
and i think i lost all my D2 chars..oh noes!!
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Posted 02:50pm 04/7/08
800x600 on the crt is just so .. jaggy. Scaled up to 1680x1050 lcd is less jaggy but quite blurry-seeming.
I'm interested in the Obes scaling thing. I would like to know more.
Posted 07:55pm 05/7/08
Works a treat - the D2 dx code must be complete balls to work so badly on modern hardware!
Edit: Also you can get around the Aero problem without needing to manually reset it by choosing 'disable desktop composition' in the compatibility features of the shortcut.
last edited by Hogfather at 19:55:39 05/Jul/08
Posted 11:04pm 05/7/08
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Cheers for that :)
Posted 11:34am 09/7/08
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Posted 01:15am 12/7/08
Anyway, u c**** got me back into it, started yesterday on uswest. Level 52 meteorb sorc.
Fun fun
Posted 09:30am 12/7/08
i'm on us west aswell
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Posted 06:42am 14/7/08
figured I'd finally try and finish the damn pandemonium quest chain
Posted 07:41am 14/7/08
account name is paveway
Posted 01:31pm 16/7/08
started a week ago. 85 sorc ;D
Posted 01:34pm 16/7/08
Posted 01:37pm 16/7/08
/f list - shows your friends
/f remove XYZ - removes friend
/f msg i'm gay - tells everybody who is online on your friends list that, y'know.
Posted 07:24am 24/7/08