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Diablo 3: Eternal Collection (Nintendo Switch Release) |OT| Stay a while, and listen...
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In the game's early going, you generally have a resource generator (Basic attack), a resource spender (More powerful attack which eats your resources) and then your other skills are likely going to be mobility/defensive utility or extra damage spells that are nice for single or area damage. As you make your way through the game and progress into the end game, you'll get gear that expands upon individual skills or create new, significant synergies that usually require some effort on the player's part to maintain those effects, which end up defining end game builds.
For example, my Necromancer's currently built towards stuns because he has a ring which gives him a 100% damage buff on slowed enemies, and triples that if enemies have more impactful crowd control on them. Some spells freeze enemies in place which will give me that bonus. I then also have legendaries that make one of my pet create corpses (A special Necromancer resource) which are then consumed by Corpse Explosion, which itself freezes and deals a massive bursts of damage because of another legendary that has a stacking damage buff for rapid corpse explosions, but I still have to maintain a curse (A debuff) on at least one enemy at any given time to maintain a huge damage mitigation buff so I don't die almost immediately.
It's neat, there's logic to what's going on at high level play especially when you start pushing the limits of your character and you need to start paying way more attention to enemy positioning, buffs and how you use your skills to not get blown up.
I played in handheld last night with full brightness and I geuss it did look a bit like that?
Haven't tried dock yet. But I'll do that tonight.
Local co-op works smooth as butter so far. Menu stuff is a bit annoying but also serves as good beer/bathroom breaks or just stuff to do while other people aren't around. Think I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of local play
It's totally a Musou game. Diablo 3 is. D1 and D2 aren't but D3 no doubt. Exploding dozens upon dozens of enemies on the screen in the flashiest way possible is so fundamental to both that it's impossible to deny the overlap. :) Of course the game structure diverges from there but ...Doablo is now pretty much a Musou game indeed. :D
Guys, the OP has an FAQ section that addresses this in detail.
people put work into these so you don't have to go and ask these questions
i dunno man. musou doesnt have such a skill tree system that allows to create completely different characters even if its the same class. this has been watered down in d3 for sure but overall its characters are much more customizable.
Can you point out where Diablo 3 turned into a Musou game? Is it the existence of a Massacre bonus for chaining kills?
I know that you mentioned that it diverges from there but I kind of want to point out that this is something folks get wrong about Musou games. The gameplay loop isn't mowing down 100's of folks, that'd get pretty stale.
It's about doing that in tandem with managing multiple objectives & goals, holding keeps and making sure your army & health bars don't get depleted, usually with strict timing. Mowing down folks is the engine to get to this, but that's what a musou does.
Diablo 3 has you mowing down folks but the objectives are usually just... kill that person or kill x amount of enemies. The gameplay loop discovered is the addiction to finding better loot so you can try tons of new ways to synergize skills/equipment.
Hadn't seen late(r)-game D2 in a long time. Forgot about the mass explodiness of it. Lump them together then :D
It's not a serious comparison, just a fun one :D
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Is nintnedo fucking serious with this I need a WiFi signal to check to see if it's ok for me to play this game right now?
If you preloaded it, yeah, of course. Otherwise how would your Switch know the game has released?
Well yeah. How else would they check if its past the unlock time without risk of someone just gaming it by changing the clock?
The system has to do something to check it is actually the release day, and that can't be just checking the internal clock. This is how all the systems handle preloads. You can't find any wifi to connect to?
But how is your Switch to know it's release day without connecting to the internet? Changing the date/time would be exploited by people so no it's not dumb.
It makes perfect sense and is the only reasonable way to do it.
Had to hop off the train between stops to get a connection. Finally on and back in Tristram. Game feels good so far
The only thing that sucks for a fourth time buyer is playing through the story once again. Besides that the crusader is on a rampagw purifying the lands and smashing in demon skulls.
If this is your first time playing destroy everything, I just got a orange level rarity at level 7 for demolishing a table.
If this is your first time playing destroy everything, I just got a orange level rarity at level 7 for demolishing a table.
Don't bother then. You can just go straight into Adventure Mode.
I'm new to this game completely.
So my Witch Doctor is equipped with a dagger to start (now a bow which seems to take up both hands). These weapons are symbolic and just for stats/buffs right? Right now I changed my A button from poison dart to a bottle of spiders, the stats from this bow I'm holding are what my A button attack (bottle of spiders) is doing?
Also, between Bottle of Spiders and Poison Dart....I can only pick one or the other for A button, correct? I can't use both?
So my Witch Doctor is equipped with a dagger to start (now a bow which seems to take up both hands). These weapons are symbolic and just for stats/buffs right? Right now I changed my A button from poison dart to a bottle of spiders, the stats from this bow I'm holding are what my A button attack (bottle of spiders) is doing?
Also, between Bottle of Spiders and Poison Dart....I can only pick one or the other for A button, correct? I can't use both?
You will be able to use both later on once you level up some more and unlock the other face buttons.
Hit Start, go to gameplay and select elective mode to have more freedom of what you can equip later on.
Never played a Witch doctor, but you never want to equip something that may remove abilities. For example I just equipped a two handed melee weapon on a level 7 crusader and found myself with out my shield abilities. Switched back to a one handed melee and shield immediately afterwards.
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I haven't played the game but I'm gonna buy it soon, so just curious, is that only when you're playing with the joy cons detached? Surely you don't have to do that with the pro controller/controller grip or the console in handheld mode right?
Yeah only when detached, to compensate for fewer buttons and inputs available.
People on Reddit reporting that you need an NSO family subscription for two people to play online on the same Switch.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/9ti6bs/diablo_3_on_switch_requires_family_online/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/9ti6bs/diablo_3_on_switch_requires_family_online/
I don't remember the answer to this, but is the a downside to this? I did it with all subsequent characters on PC, but I had already cleared the story at launch.
you guys are making it very hard to not leave work early today to pick it up at best buy. Already preordered the Treasure goblin last night. Wish I would have taken the day to just lay in bed and play all day...enjoy!
I really like this port. Played handheld only till now.
But the battery seems to drain pretty quick while playing this.
But the battery seems to drain pretty quick while playing this.
It's the same for any online game that supports more than 1 player on Switch (that doesn't allow Guests).
The comments suggest otherwise -- see Mario Kart and Rocket League.
Mario Kart co-op online doesn't use two profiles. It uses a main profile and then a guest.
"It's completely different because the other players aren't making use of distinct local profiles with their own progression and such stored completely separately. But that's core to Diablo 3. Each player's characters are stored in that player's profile / saves. The same basic kind of "anonymous guest" can't sensibly be used."
"It's completely different because the other players aren't making use of distinct local profiles with their own progression and such stored completely separately. But that's core to Diablo 3. Each player's characters are stored in that player's profile / saves. The same basic kind of "anonymous guest" can't sensibly be used."
MK uses a guest profile for that which doesn't save any progression.
I can't believe how good this is! Handheld Diablo, in native res and 60fps. I never played the console versions before so playing on a controller is a brand new experience. Luckily the controls are really intuitive and pretty comfy compared to the mouse. Really impressed.
I'm not home and this is exactly what I did. It's not rocket science and that check isn't a huge download or anything.
Edit: really nice to see there's a proper profile for each player. I was complaining about this in the Pokemon thread the other day.