Sammelthread Diablo 3

mitcharts · Apr 19, 2012

Spekulation, solange nicht bekannt ist, was wirklich in dem Käseblatt PCGH steht. Ich _vermute_, dass sie sich auf eben diesen Buff beziehen, aber mal wieder nur Blödsinn schreiben.

Und ich habe nichts ähnlich lautendes auf anderen Seiten gelesen.

Shadowchaser · Apr 19, 2012

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Spekulation, solange nicht bekannt ist, was wirklich in dem Käseblatt PCGH steht.
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Dein ewiges niedermachen der PCGH geht mir aufn Sack.

Vorarbeiter · Apr 20, 2012

Open Beta dieses Wochenende!!

mitcharts · Apr 20, 2012

@shadow
Ewig? Wenn dir das so vorkommt, bitte.

Es ist aber nunmal so, dass vor allem der Großteil der Nachrichten zu Spielen einen recht hohen Qualitätsmangel haben. Entweder gibt's teilweise falsche Informationen (weil falsch übersetzt o.ä.), die Nachrichten sind zu alt, es wird mit 'nem Ein- oder Zweizeiler nur auf den Originalartikel bei PCG hingewiesen usw.

PCGH ist ja hauptsächlich ein Magazin/eine Webseite für Hardware. "Schuster bleib bei deinen Leisten" sag ich da nur.

@Vorarbeiter
Hast du nochmal nachgeschaut, was da wirklich steht bzw. auf welche Quelle sie sich berufen?
(Magazin oder online?)

Vorarbeiter · Apr 20, 2012

@mitcharts hier nochmal die offizielle seite zum video Diablo® III Open Beta Weekend - Diablo III

mitcharts · Apr 20, 2012

@Vorarbeiter
Ach entschuldige ... ich meinte wegen den Bossruns.

Vorarbeiter · Apr 20, 2012

achso öhm... irgendwo auf pcgh - da war bestimmt auch nochmal n link zu blizzard aber ich bin jetzt zu faul das rauszusuchen

mitcharts · Apr 20, 2012

Dann mach ich es halt ... -.-

Diablo 3: Blizzard gibt Infos zur Droprate höherwertiger Gegenstände

Ebenso soll die Droprate bei Bossen auf der normalen Schwierigkeitsstufe beim First-Kill neben einigen blauen Gegenständen auch zwei gelbe enthalten. Dabei soll einer immer zur aktuellen Klasse passen, der zweite wird zufällig ausgewählt. Je öfter der Boss allerdings getötet wird, desto geringer ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, wieder hochwertige Items zu finden. Ganz auf Null sinke sie aber nie.
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Hier der Originaltext:

The possibility of a boss (or anything, really) dropping magic gear or rare gear when you kill him remains intact on kills subsequent to your first. The probability may change, but it does not change to a probibility of zero.

To be clear: On your first kill of a boss in normal difficulty, you are guaranteed a random rare and a class rare, as well as some blues and other stuff. All other kills on all difficulties result in standard drop probabilities. You have a decent chance of getting a rare or two every time you kill a boss.
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1 Negative and 1 Positive of the beta. - Forums - Diablo III

Ja, die Droprate wird pro Lauf gesenkt ... aber, er geht dabei nur auf den Schwierigkeitsgrad "Normal" ein. Ob sich das bei den anderen ändert, hab ich selbst nirgends im Thread gelesen.

Wie es letztendlich in der Vollversion sein wird, wird sich zeigen, wenn diese veröffentlicht wurde.

ProView · Apr 24, 2012

Customization
Bashiok had a long conversation, once again, on the topic of customization of characters in Diablo III.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

I've tried to reply to a couple threads, and it seems like there's just a desire to argue about it. I don't get a lot of sense that people want to really understand why, just that they played up to level 13, saw that the game is not Diablo II, and are upset about that. I'm not really sure how to have a conversation about it when there's just bad feelings and no one asking questions or wanting to learn more.

I can say "Wait until you have the entire game and its systems before passing judgment on the first few guided levels." but that doesn't go very far. People have seen skill trees before, they know what they are, and a diversion away from them is jarring. People like clicking a + button to spend attribute points, any systems attempting to make that more interesting or engaging is met with skepticism. I get it. It's tough to really understand how this is all going to play out together. I just constantly wish people took an approach of wanting to understand something before deeming it bad or wrong. Not to get preachy, but it's a nature that certainly extends beyond video games.

One thing I'm sure of, and why I don't find much interest in entering the argument, is that it'll all change after the game is released and people can see the full game and its design for what it is. It makes me sad seeing someone put off the game entirely because they want that + button, and anything but that is wrong, but ... ashamedly I also am at a loss of how to counter that way of thinking.

The demo was not well put together. It was insulting, mundane, and demonstrated so very little that people couldn't walk away with anything more than aspirations that the full game will be better, and that's what you're saying. "We know what we are doing, have faith."
Experience tells a story that you are trying to fight against. The demo did not reflect 100% positively on a game that I'm sure will be amazing.

Well, first off I'll disagree with you, and the thousands of thank yous and excited voices I've personally received and seen throughout the internet after having played this weekend would too.

That aside, I think that's decent feedback and I agree that being able to offer more of the game would certainly help people get a better feel for the game and its systems. Unfortunately right after the SK fight some pretty major plot development happens, and we simply aren't willing to compromise the enjoyment and discovery people will have on launch day by extending the 'barrier' of the beta.

So I guess it's a trade off of not showing enough of the game, or showing too much, and we went with the prior. We think it's ultimately the better decision.

bashiok...come on...I know you're trying to defend your game, but I think a lot of people would be satisfied if you just admitted that you are dumbing things down for the masses. It's a completely reasonable thing to do; you guys are doing it in WoW, it's obviously the direction you guys have decided to go with things, but nobody at Blizzard will just admit it. just come out and say that at some time WoW was not casual-friendly and that everything was becoming too complex both for Blizzard and for players, and that you guys have decided to simplify things for everyone. I think a lot of people don't like that there is no real, difficult decision making, because you can't really ever make a mistake. You can make all your soft-core characters the very first day and never have to make another toon again even if you play the game for 20 years. That's good for some people, but obviously a lot of seasoned gamers wont like that.
Yeah, I guess that's the mentality I just can't understand. WoW players should be especially aware that skill tress provided them no choice. You had your build, and then you'd have a few 'left over points' that you could spend anywhere, and you could spend them anywhere because they didn't matter. What mattered was the way you spent down the tree, and there was really one one or two right ways to do that per spec. I can't understand how anyone could logically look at that situation and say "I have a lot of choices!" unless the answer is they have no idea how to play the game and actually are making a bunch of choices, which are the wrong ones, and building horrible characters.

Diablo II was the exact same way. If you're not spending into synergies and boosting up a skill or two to max, you're probably doing it wrong.

How, in the wide wide world of sports, is having potentially hundreds of viable skills and the ability to only choose 6 of them, which means billions of possible build combinations, worse than a skill tree where you have one or two correct decisions?

There's only one logical answer to this, and that is people want to be locked into their decisions for better or worse because they feel that gives value to their choices. They are smart for picking the right answer and building a better or more interesting character. That is absolutely a noble concept, but we fundamentally just don't agree that people need to be locked into something for their choices to be smart or meaningful. How does a 15g respec make your choices instantly more palatable? You're suddenly a character building genius because the guy next to you has to pay 15g to copy you? Come on.

With billions of possible builds you will absolutely be doing something different than the guy next to you, and you making the skills you want to use work for you and be viable is a great achievement, because out of billions of possible builds how many do you think will actually work?

It's interesting to me that someone would value the permanence of their choices over being able to actually make choices at all.

Although I agree with you, I am curious about something: How has build diversity "performed" in internal testing? Do people tend to gravitate towards certain skills/builds, or is there actually a large amount of diversity in play?
There's a large amount of diversity, and some of that is afforded by overlap in skills. With ~150 skills per class they of course aren't all going to unique in their function, which allows for overlap and customization in build choice. In addition, we find that gear as well as just play experience will influence someone's build as they go. Someone might pick up an item with a +skill mod, and decide to swap around their build to benefit from the item. If they enjoy it they'll start building out a set that really feeds that new build. In addition to the Nephalem Valor buff which penalizes changing builds mid-game, there's a large amount of item and skill investment in perfecting a build that lends itself to sticking with it. I know people have a concept that players are just going to be swapping around their builds all the time, and that's certainly true as things are unlocking, but at high levels there's enough investment in a build that it just doesn't really happen.

I've said this elsewhere recently, but the designers knew they were on the right track for diversity and balance when people would come up to them and say "This skill is absolutely overpowered and required to play this class" and right behind them would be another person saying the exact same thing about another skill. There are absolutely skills that are very tempting, but different skills appeal to different people, and our intent (and what we believe we've achieved) is the ability for someone to choose a build that appeals to them and to make it work. A lot of personal taste, play style, experience, and even just aesthetics play more into build choices than people usually expect. And that's insanely exciting from both a design and player perspective.

You put out a system that moves you along and does not give you a SINGLE choice in the matter
Hrm. Oh, you mean until level 13? Well we specifically unlock very few abilities to start, but pretty quickly we have to be dumping handfuls on you every level. With as many skills and passives as there are it very quickly ramps up where every level you're getting four or five new things to try out, in addition to everything before it. There's no shortage of choice. I agree the choices are unlocked in a pre-determined way, but so are skill trees.

Seriously, why is elective mode hidden? It's causing a lot of unnecessary frustration, confusion and complaints.
Well I wouldn't say it's hidden, and we have a loading screen tip that calls it out. We honestly didn't want to continue adding things to the skill UI, and as a more advanced option it felt right for it to be found or learned about through 'tribal knowledge', as it were. We intend for the game to be played at first with the current set up, and if someone wants to try a more advanced option they can turn on Elective.

Why are you confused? They have to have some sort of stopping point in a beta. The SK boss happened to be a perfect stopping point. Bashiok stated that following the SK, there were events in the plot that they didn't want to reveal.
No, Grug thinks the beginning of the game is boring. I don't really have anything to say about it except that we disagree. I guess I'd add that many people tend to think other people know what they know, or have been following the game, or understand all of the game mechanics, etc.

For someone that's been following the game closely, and furthermore is in the beta, yeah I bet up to the SK is old news by now. That's not the case for everyone that will pick up the game, obviously.

D2 was the same way but worse. You got skill at level 1 6 and 12 for the first 13 levels and to get all the skills from the trees, you pretty much did not level any of the skills making them kind of weak (though not totally useless yet).
D3 you get skills at nearly every level, some rune variations by the time you get to level 13, and you know they are all useful to use if you want to.
Hah! I thought of that exact same thing last night. I started to plot out skill unlocks vs D2 but just didn't think it'd do any good (plus I got lazy). It'd be cool to have that in a chart, though. Number of options for active abilities at each level for D2 vs D3. There's just no contest in the amount of choice you have level to level.

Well it's late. I've read a lot of the discussion but I'm not sure I have much more to add at this point (or the steam to add it). I do want to thank everyone, regardless of how you feel, for investing the time to discussing the game. I understand none of us would be here if we didn't care, and for that I appreciate the energy you're putting in to wanting Diablo III to be the best game it can be.

Have a good night. Stay civil.

Ignores passive skills and runes
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I should have expected someone to try to twist it. Runes are themselves the class skills. You can't ignore them for an honest comparison, sorry.

I honestly wasn't trying to make it look like Diablo 3 was worse off.
If anything, I kept mentioning that Diablo 3's Barbarian has just as many skills as the Diablo 2 Barbarian before runes ever come into play, AND the rate of acquisition is much better spread out AND the lack of commitment encourages experimentation.

Sorry, then. I honestly just wanted to see the proper comparison with all the variants.
Also for reference you finish Normal right around level 30, Nightmare at 50, and Hell at 60.

By whose standards is it "Bad" , Yours? , well guess what, YOUR opinion on how I build my character have exactly 0 impact on my enjoyment of a game, and by taking away my freedom to make a mistake you basically sit us down and tell us "no no no, we don't have faith that you can enjoy this GAME without us holding your hand"
It's wrong, and it is insulting.
Woah, let's step back because that's not what I meant. You have total freedom of choice in Diablo III, and that includes making mistakes. You'll have a great time playing the game how you want to play it, and having the ability to make a bad choice, figure out what the problem is, and work to correct it. You're going to have a blast with it.

My point was directed at those saying skill trees are a superior system, and in the case of both Diablo II and World of Warcraft they've been proven to be very fundamentally flawed in a few significant ways. If you never looked up a guide to see how to build the best character, that's awesome, but many people who really want 'the best' character don't play through trial and error (unless they're the frontline theorycrafters actually doing the math).

I think Diablo III will be the perfect game for you. You'll be able to experiment, you'll have billions of possible skill combinations to try out, and as you make bad decisions it's not going to be automatically clear what the problem is. There's plenty of critical thinking to try to find a viable build, but it doesn't come at the punishment of making you level a new character.

Seriously guys, now Im really curious. What the hell were you trying to do in D2 if you werent seeing which builds could make it to 99?
Entertainment. Play a game, have some fun, waste some time. Playing video games isn't serious business for everyone.

Very nice List of Barbarian Skill Progression in D2 and D3 (click to see)
This is awesome. Thank you.

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Also nach dem Gespräch komme ich nicht umhin, meine Meinung bzgl. des Skill-Systems nochmal zu überdenken. Denn so unrecht hat er nicht.
In Diablo 2 gab es für jeden Char nur wenige wirklich effektive Builds, nach denen man geskillt hat, genau genommen hatte dort fast jeder den gleichen Char. Auch der Vergleich lvl 30 in Diablo 2 und lvl 30 in Diablo 3 zeigt auf, dass man in D3 wesentlich mehr Skills früher zur Auswahl hat und nicht erst durch Bäume freischalten muss.

Vorarbeiter · Apr 26, 2012

es wird wohl bei mediamarkt und saturn mitternachtsverkäufe geben - hat einer nen plan wo ich schauen kann ob mein markt da auch mitmacht?? direkt auf mediamarkt.de und nach der auswahl meines marktes konnte ich keine informationen dazu finden

Chelrid · Apr 26, 2012

beim letzten WoW Mitternachtsverkauf habe ich einfach den entsprechenden Markt über die Webseite per Kontaktformular angeschrieben und nachgefragt.

BadGirl · Apr 26, 2012

Vorarbeiter said: ↑

es wird wohl bei mediamarkt und saturn mitternachtsverkäufe geben - hat einer nen plan wo ich schauen kann ob mein markt da auch mitmacht?? direkt auf mediamarkt.de und nach der auswahl meines marktes konnte ich keine informationen dazu finden
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Hab mal jemanden gefragt der bei Saturn arbeitet (Für Media Markt gilt das gleiche)

Es ist Markt abhängig und jeder Marktleiter kann entscheiden ob er das möchte oder nicht. Somit müsstest du anfragen ob der Markt bei dir das macht

Vorarbeiter · Apr 27, 2012

ok danke Euch!

Shadowchaser · Apr 27, 2012

Mitternachtskauf halte ich für übertrieben. Habe jetzt lange genug gewartet, da kann ich auch noch 2-3 Tage länger warten.

Aber wer will...

Chelrid · Apr 27, 2012

Ist doch lustig. Da sieht man mal was für Gestalten alles D3 // WoW // SC2 spielen.
Ich hab bisher 2 Mitternachtsverkäufe von WoW mitgemacht.

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