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Diablo IV announced
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Same here, I got all excited till they said in the panel it wasn't coming anytime soon. What a huge turnoff. And coming out in 2022 with 5 classes? They need all the classes from D2 by then.
Ive come to realize that the Diablo universe really deserves what they get. Theyres always some assholes resummoning these same demons. Just let them win and stop all the madness
He said Skils and Itemization, not the game itself... And he's not wrong. The items are literally placeholder currently from Diablo 3, the only difference is runes.
Skills are still apparently tier based and can be swapped in and out like Diablo 3 as opposed to putting skill points into them and being unable to respec without punishment.
Recording of the guy playing Druid
Love that there are now detailed ingame cinematics involving the player character. The way some dramatic moments in Diablo 3 were handled felt really outdated
Love that there are now detailed ingame cinematics involving the player character. The way some dramatic moments in Diablo 3 were handled felt really outdated
On the one hand, there is absolute fuck ton that I like here. The iteration & distillation of D2's skills into separate skills & talents in D4 is solid ( this was done to create a separation between skills that were activatable and passives). I absolutely adore the art-style. Theres a clip of 2 wolves walking alongside the druid and the lighting and animation look nearly identical to the pre-rendered wolves from D2.
On the flip-side, I wish they didn't announce this just yet. I'm honestly just burned by long waits prior to release. I vastly prefer quick turn around times between announcement to launch. Hearing that even they aren't even trying to pretend this is anywhere close to launch deflates my hype. I haven't played a Blizzard game in a long time and with the exception of this, even with all that was announced today, I had no intention of playing any for the foreseeable future.
The wait just makes me want to swear them off all together.
On the flip-side, I wish they didn't announce this just yet. I'm honestly just burned by long waits prior to release. I vastly prefer quick turn around times between announcement to launch. Hearing that even they aren't even trying to pretend this is anywhere close to launch deflates my hype. I haven't played a Blizzard game in a long time and with the exception of this, even with all that was announced today, I had no intention of playing any for the foreseeable future.
The wait just makes me want to swear them off all together.
Chris Wilson (PoE lead dev) comments on Diablo IV
A body can only contain so much hype...
For context, they're revealing their huge 4.0 version of Path of Exile at Exilecon in 2 weeks, developed to compete with Diablo IV.
A body can only contain so much hype...
For context, they're revealing their huge 4.0 version of Path of Exile at Exilecon in 2 weeks, developed to compete with Diablo IV.
I honestly think they didn't have much choice to announce it now after last year's Diablo Immortal fiasco.
Based on what little we know so far it seems like this:
Skills: A variety of active abilities broken up across multiple categories that you put points into as you level to increase their effectiveness. These are slotted into your skill bar for use during combat.
Talents: Pretty much a simplified passive skill system, except every passive have multiple ranks, and a certain number of ranks are required to move down the talent tree.
Runewords: I assume these work like runes do in Diablo 2. Every rune has a passive bonus associated with it. If you group certain runes together in sockets they form words that give greater bonuses than individual runes do. Specific rune words do different things and vary in power based on the runes used to create them.
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There are high quality screenshots on gamersyde https://www.gamersyde.com/news_diablo_iv_formally_announced-21297_en.html
Looks more like Diablo 2 now. I'm OK with that change.
Yeah, I'm saying they are not similar, at all.
Itemization with runes and not relying on sets like D3 is already enough to both to be not similar at all... and that's what we know so far.
This Image is awesome. Thx for sharing.Here's a higher res version -
BeautifulHere's a higher res version -
Disgusting and beautiful
This is what Diablo needs, some top tier voice acting, 3 had good talent, but the script was too comic book like
"I AM SO GOOD, I ASTOUND MYSELF"
"HOW TASTES YOUR FEAR NEPHALEM"
plz no more of that, the D4 cinematic is what Diablo should be.
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I can't imagine what sort of person I'd be if I could look the other way for a video game in a crowded genre from a company part its prime. Support human rights. Free Hong Kong. Fuck blizzard.
Wolfcryer has some video on his Twitch from earlier in the day. His own hands on gameplay:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/502597635
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/502597635
There are high quality screenshots on gamersyde https://www.gamersyde.com/news_diablo_iv_formally_announced-21297_en.html
Amazing, damn.
It's probably fiscal year 2021 which i believe would start April 2021 and would line up with when they released D3. That's years away technically, but in reality 18 months from now is not out of the question.
Yeah its complete trash
its just d2 with runes and im guessing the horadric. definitely obsolete
nothing more than d2 in 2020
